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  1. Re:Quote from a simpson's comic on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    That's the problem with faith, you can't have faith "with thought". Faith means that you discard logic and thought, and just believe something because someone or something else told you to. Inserting thought into the picture is impossible.

  2. huh? on Fiasco Microkernel Version 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can you call it Linux, if it doesn't use the Linux kernel? Wouldn't it just be Another GNUish System?

  3. Re:You must have SOME deductibles. on Tax Tips For Small Folks? · · Score: 1

    Not from a C-Corp. C-corps are seperate legal entities.

  4. Re:You must have SOME deductibles. on Tax Tips For Small Folks? · · Score: 1

    He isn't a sole proprietor that would file on Schedule C, he said he was a C corp. You know, Somecompany Inc, etc... Totally different ball game.

  5. Re:A (hopefully) good idea on Building ATA RAID and SMP Support into Slackware 9 · · Score: 1

    Just make the make [menu|x]config smarter by adding some metacategories that automatically turn a set of things on, and you are set. I think they are working on rewriting the config stuff for 2.6 anyway, so it may already be this smart.

  6. Re:Notes Feature on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    FWIW, the page looks fine on Opera 6.11 when you Identify as MSIE 5

  7. Re:Five original future inventions on World's First Encyclopedia of Future Inventions · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but how do you plan on harnessing it? it's akin to trying to run a windmill by shooting it with a machine gun that shoots bullets going mach 100. Not saying it's impossible, but I think it's going to be more difficult than you imply.

  8. Re:Slashdot logic.. on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 1

    It appears he was moving the site anyway, so indeed, just bad timing. The google cache of the page says something like "I'm moving the site to new hosting this week, because my hosting service is putting pop-ups on my page".

  9. Re:Slashdot logic.. on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently the site isn't slashdotted. Even in the Mysterious Future, the index page was missing. Either they heard they were going to be slashdotted and took it down, or it was just very bad timing.

    Another argument for having some sort of instant feedback to the editors on the red articles, if a link is broken on a story like this, what's the point of even running the story?

  10. Re:Government Increased My Spam on Spam Research Six Month Report · · Score: 1

    On any sort of paper form like that, if they ask for email, I never give it. I ordered checks from Current, which is a kinda spammy looking company, but they have cheap checks. I just put that I didn't have an email address.

  11. Re:Please, don't be so ignorant on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying, this disease doesn't seem very bad. Not much worse than any of the particularly bad flu strains that hit every few years. When people say things like "We should shoot them if they leave their houses", it's an overreaction based on fear, not on logic.

  12. Re:Please, don't be so ignorant on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 1

    These people are carrying a highly contageous, deadly, virus.

    Why don't we ship all the people infected with AIDS off to some island then? Some other guy said it was OK to shoot people that might put other people at risk for getting a deadly disease. When's the next big AIDs killing rally?

  13. Re:AI vs. AS on Everything you Want to Know About the Turing Test · · Score: 2

    more I learn about computer hardware the more I realize that it will not happen on my PC.

    Yeah, anyone who knows about computer hardware knows that sentience can never be achieved with tiny electrical impulses shooting around inside an object in response to external inputs.

  14. Re:jvm on Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue · · Score: 1

    Why would a configuration tool need java? I've used dozens of web based administration tools and none have needed java.

  15. Re:Why not demand money back or else on Tempers Flare Over Ill-Tempered Sword Remarks · · Score: 2, Informative

    The truth can still be extortion, but only under narrow circumstances.

    Extortion usually requires the threat of a criminal act. As long as the speech is not libellous, then it is legal. Even if it was libellous, it would have to be subject to criminal libel laws, not just civil ones. Of course this varies from state to state, talk to a lawyer if you want legal advice.

    http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e073.htm
    EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18

    Blackmail and extortion laws are generally written very carefully, they do not apply to most of your run-of-the-mill situations.

  16. Re:Linux port ? on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    Openoffice is 1,666 times larger than visicalc. Amazing eh, considering it really doesn't do anything all that complex.

  17. Re:yes I've 28k HD space but RAM requirements? on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have expanded memory right? I hope you didn't waste money on XMS RAM, that stuff is a dead end technology. EMS is the way of the future.

  18. .cx doesn't care on Anonymous Domain Registration for Protecting Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Works for the goatse people. .cx is pretty well known for not requiring real contact info.

  19. Mod parent up on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    kthx

  20. Re:Cheap solution for VIA on End of Intel-Pin-Compatible CPUs? · · Score: 1

    You are on the right track. Adding extra wire adds capacitance and inductance, which increases signal settling time.

  21. Re:I shame Star Wars every change I get on Pushing the Envelope For Matrix Reloaded SFX · · Score: 1

    I suppose you had to actually see the movies in the theatre the first time around to genuinely respect it. I am guessing you weren't even born at that point.

    I was born in 1979, I saw one in the theater during it's first run IIRC. I was pretty young at the time, however. If it makes you feel any better, I really like THX-1138.

  22. Re:I shame Star Wars every change I get on Pushing the Envelope For Matrix Reloaded SFX · · Score: 1

    Such assumptions. I've never seen any of the new Star Wars "prequels", and yet I also think Star Wars is overrated trash. A soap opera in space, nothing more.

  23. Re:Via C3 on End of Intel-Pin-Compatible CPUs? · · Score: 1

    The 386SX could take a 387 coprocessor that was not a full replacement of the processor, IIRC.

  24. Re:Cheap solution for VIA on End of Intel-Pin-Compatible CPUs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't know how reliable that would be. At higher speeds, things like lead length are critical, not to mention the added resistance of two pressure connection, resistance is pretty critical when your logic levels are only a couple volts.

  25. Re:fr1st ps0t #2 on End of Intel-Pin-Compatible CPUs? · · Score: 1

    yeah, but once you factor in that C3 1ghz is about the same speed as a PII in the 300Mhz range or so, it's not so great for speed. It is low power though.