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  1. tasksel on Debian 2.2 Reviewed, Interview on Embedded Debian · · Score: 1

    Ahhh a stable 2.2 -- I can finally move off that snapshot from March.
    I really wish they wouldn't make tasksel the default choice for package selection. Often when you just want to remove a single item in a package, it will ask if you want to remove the entire task, which may not be what you desire or intend.

  2. XRay pic of a "middle mass" black hole on Plans To Peer At A Black Hole's Event Horizon · · Score: 2
    By coincidence, the astronomy picture of the day from nasa happens to be a black hole. The article has some nice links on general theory behind them as well.

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  3. CGI and content (c), not layout on Copyrights on Web Interfaces · · Score: 1
    If they lifted the text of the entire site, then linux.com might have a reason to be po'd.

    Otherwise, get yerself another table cause that one doesnt have a leg to stand on.

    Come on -- can one newspaper sue another just because they both use big type for headlines, and put their text in columns?

    cripes.

    As for 'give credit for using slashcode' etc, duhh, the source code to the back end which generates the html sent to the browser may be protected or released however you like -- I can still emulate the style by coding it by hand or writing my own damn back-end software.

  4. "content" and cgi protected -- tags not on Copyrights on Web Interfaces · · Score: 1
    If they lifted the text of the entire site, then linux.com might have a reason to be po'd.

    Otherwise, get yerself another table cause that one doesnt have a leg to stand on.

    Come on -- can one newspaper sue another just because they both use big type for headlines, and put their text in columns?

    -- EAT AT JOES! cripes.

    As for 'give credit for using slashcode' etc, duhh, the source code to the back end which generates the html sent to the browser may be protected or released however you like -- I can still emulate the style by coding it by hand or writing my own damn back-end software.

  5. Re:Biased! on 3rd Annual ICFP Programming Contest Announced · · Score: 1
    We have no hesitation in recommending Cilk as "the programming language of choice for discriminating hackers,"

    Objective CAML is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers.

    So their tastes are fickle as well as biased.

    Ummm... you might want to read the list of prizes, which offers as part of 1st prize:

    Peer recognition: Finally, the contest judges agree to state at least once during the presentation of the awards that the winning team's programming language is "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers."
  6. Re:Sounds interesting, but no real rush on Helicopter In Space · · Score: 1
    I hope moderators will obliterate the ecofreaks whining about a plutonium power source

    One does not need to be an 'ecofreak' to see the need for responsible and cautious exploration of possible emergent life. Where might we be today, had someone accidentally crash landed a few hundred kg of plutonium into the earth when life here was beginning? It is essential that we do our best not to disrupt the proccess of the formation of life(!) in our clumsy attempts to observe and understand it.