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  1. Re:Machine translation? on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    It's an idea, like the police "Ten-Four" system.. Although I wonder how long it would take to train the soldiers, and how efficient it would be when they have to look up the codes while being under enemy fire. Then again, typing some gibberish, and waiting for your friends to decipher the (most probably misspelled) mensaje is by far more difficult.

  2. Re:Gamma World on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 0

    Wow, yet another ignorant proud 'Merkin. Tell me, does that mean the Chernobyl wasn't a terrible catastrophe (to paraphrase you, "gees, it's only children getting cancer."). Besides, they were commie children, not sweet American kids, so they don't count, right?

    Gathering from your website, I'm guessing you live in a closed world, you probably only read magazines/websites that agree with your viewpoint and dismiss everything else (for example this comment of mine) as bullshit (leftist/liberal bullshit?).

    Yay for George W. Bush, where science that disagrees with his viewpoint get censored! (liberal source, but ey, no freaking conservative site is going to cover that fucking news!).

    To continue this fucking rant, what the fuck was that Bush using Sept. 11 in his campaign video? Remember that day, he fucking chickened out and hid in airbases around the country, compare that to Rudy Giuliani who I remember seeing in the news - he was a few feet away from dust from the towers with only a handkerchief to cover his nose and mouth. Bush a hero, my fucking ass.

  3. Re:Mikes computer on Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO · · Score: 1

    P-IV 3.06 GHz, 2 x 120 GB SATA, 6.1 Speakers... does he really get the latest high end machine delivered to his house (and use it) or is that page just an ad so that Dell fanboys buy the same thing?

    But damn, he's got me jealous for one.

  4. Re:Will testing fix on Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project · · Score: 1

    Argh, what an ugly UI that is, it's so f-ing XP, and it takes 5-6 clicks to get to where you want, asking you dumb questions along the way, and no (as far as I can see) overview of the whole control center system, how do you change something else when you're done with the, say, Fonts setting?

  5. Re:WETA on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1

    Bill Murray looked really disappointed not to have won it. I wonder what he shouted out to Billy Crystal when Billy joked afterwards, "Bill, don't go, please stay."

  6. Re:pedastrians obey Laws? on NYC Crosswalk Buttons are Inoperative · · Score: 1

    I think I started this trend where I live.. before I started jaywalking this one intersection (there are very few in my "habitat", the city centre is a pedestrian zone), no one would do it. But once I started doing it, noticing that when a tram was about to cross, the cars have to wait for it. So I started jaywalking. A few months later, I came up to this intersection and noticed there were one or two jaywalkers. I think I've introduced the meme... a bad meme. Oh no, I'm eeevil.

  7. Re:why? on Toward a New Kind of Linux Distribution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you know of any Gentoo precompiled binaries repositories? The binaries that come with the 1.4 Live-CD are now all outdated, and looking in Google only brings some binaries...

    Wait, I just looked again, and it looks like there's one server that supplies binaries for the different CPUs... sweet.

  8. Re:Geolocation isn't perfect on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if they don't? Who ends up breaking the law? The poor website visitor, because he's being an accessory to a crime of sorts? Funny stuff, click a wrong link and the black-clothed SWAT team busts your door open and swarm into your room with guns locked and loaded...

  9. Re:Photoshop's multi-monitor support on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just looked in PS7, it has an option to save workspace, does that save the pallete locations as well? If yes, you can probably define two workspaces, one for single-monitor, and one for dual-monitor..

    Otherwise, it's ugly but maybe you can just save and backup the settings from the settings directory? (in D:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings )

  10. Re:NOOOOO!!! on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Comanche 4's Gameplay was pretty lame anyway, if you restart the mission, the enemies are right there where they were before.. no randomness.

  11. Re:Misleading on SCO Licenses Now Available · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On another point, shouldn't this be the time the kernel hackers (or their lawyers) start suing SCO, because SCO is claiming -- without evidence -- that they own (parts of) the kernel?

    I'm sorry for Linus, he's said he doesn't want to get involved with the scum.

  12. One Interesting Paragraph... on ZDNet Examines SCO Indemnity Options · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's worth stating that there are a couple of ways to actually avoid getting sued altogether. This may be a really good option if you work for an image-conscious company that avoids the legal limelight like the plague. One is to simply to pay SCO $699 per server for a perpetual license or $149 per server for an annual license. According to SCO's Stowell, "The license that we are offering to commercial end users of Linux is called the SCO Intellectual Property License. The end user is provided with a license that allows them to run SCO's intellectual property as it is found in Linux in binary form only. This license is meant to apply to any version of Linux (based on the 2.2 kernel and later) that is being run in a commercial environment."


    Argh, has the legality of SCO asking for that money even been established? Yeah sure I'll skip the corp-lawyers and take the advice of a fucking net-journalist and fork over the dough. Is it even to get SCO to accept the money?
  13. Re:bluetooth killer!!!! on An Introduction To Wireless USB (WUSB) · · Score: 1

    Argh, don't you have anything better to do? that's the third time you've said these three exact paragraphs! I'm getting a headache from all the Dejavu! Four times even! Get a fucking life mate!!!

  14. Re:Iris changes on Germany Begins Iris Scans at Frankfurt Airport · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I call Goldwin, or maybe not, besides, it's the great fucking USA who's turning to the 1984 fascist state. I'm an Asian living in Germany, and I'd rather be here than in USA.

  15. Re:Bad news on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 1

    Actually it's only about 3000 (about 2750 at WTC, plus the 2 other crashes), a horrible tragedy, but not as bad as 8000 deaths.

    Reading one the Google News links, it seems strange that deaths that they couldn't confirm got deleted, but I guess people go missing every day, and it would be half-assed to just add them to something that might not be related.

  16. Re:Funny World... on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 1

    How about throwing away $ 100 billion++ although there was no threat that Iraq had any WMD to use against the US? It got rid of Saddam, sure, but it could have been done a lot cheaper, and the rest of the money could've been used to create jobs and educate your dumb children (they're dumb because they're not getting the proper education). Alas, no, Bush isn't doing that. So don't be surprised when in a few years, all Americans are just fat and dumb, and all the jobs are going to India and China. A quick fix solution to that would be to bomb and colonize India, of course. Yay!

    And why did Bush bomb Iraq anyway? It's not oil for USA, but oil-drilling-contract-work for Halliburton, yeah let the country hemmorage money and funnel some of it into my pocket, I'd like to be president of a country where I can get away with that too!

  17. Funny World... on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    But the US is the new evil; its actions are unilateral and goes against the wishes of the international community and it's only making things worse for its citizen and the rest of the world.

    In the Soviet Russian point of view, USA is the baddie! Well I guess we're living in a joke now.

  18. Re:Winsock API Included. on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone probably can, but what are the chances Microsoft will take it? And since the source code isn't complete, you can't just re-compile IE and distribute your own version. :)

  19. Re:I'm reminded... on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 1

    Actually, the computer said "Hello Mr. (Japanese name), did you like the (some woman's clothing?) you got last time?", because the character had his eyes changed. :)

  20. Re:Theres a name for this.... on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fascinating to hear. Does installing Mandrake require knowledge of partition tables? I think so, so she does understand how that bit of logic works? Smart kid.

  21. Re:Search by date on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same thing to what MS was trying with it's SmartTags? I find the idea cool, of course I don't trust it because it's MS who's implementing it!

  22. One sentence that caught me... on How C# Was Made · · Score: 1

    "We have a wiki now on the internal web with the issues list, resolutions for them, and so on."

    So MS does use open source projects! In supporting the development of their own closed source product! Ha! Open Source wins!

  23. Re:Bah on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    I think the ueber-CS-student should understand how Turing machines work and by extension would be able to understand how an implementation of it, in the form of programability upto the lowest level) works.

  24. Re:Lets hope that the result is progress on Google v. Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Ouch, after reading a thread about Goatse that was located just before your comment, I read your sentence as:

    Goatse staff themselves have already shown much progress with little or no serious competition.

    Hahahaha.

  25. Re:text to voice on Three Blind Phreaks · · Score: 1

    They probably don't, because it would be a waste of time (assuming they can only read slower in comparison to people with perfect sight), so they probably spent their time more productively..