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  1. Re:RIAA on Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi · · Score: 1

    They also allocate 512KB more bandwidth to your link while other people are using it
    i.e. they artificialy limit you to 512KB less than your link could do, and use this for other people.
  2. Re:5uck m4 ph47 p1p3 on Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi · · Score: 1

    Irritating Europhobic Danes.

    How much is that in real money then?

    Hey! How do you get the cute link without the [google.com] shit?

  3. Re:Thunderbird is awesome on Windows on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Uh, "delete, then purge" is the way IMAP works. Fake "trash" folders on IMAP is horribly painful.

  4. Re:what about US atrocities? on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    theres a little police action happening in a small oil-rich country in the middle east that has been shown to have been predicated on fabrication and hubris, clearly against all international law, and has left anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000^W 1,200,000 dead
    There, fixed that up for you.
  5. Re:Yes, you're being silly on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    Their government may suck right now, but their culture is extremely deep and rich.
    And can you name a period when their government didn't suck?
  6. Re:Oh yes you can. on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    And in India, lawyers don't have the prestige that they have here
    Ah yes, low esteem for Indian lawyers. Ghandi was a lawyer, Motilala Nehru was a lawyer, Jawaharlal Nehru was a lawyer, Pratibha Patil was a lawyer, why even Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan was a lawyer.

    Looks like you can't get anywhere in India without being a lawyer.
  7. Re:Because a majority of US citizens are poor? on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1
    While I agree with most of your comment, one part of it is, frankly, delusional:

    because we had the best technology ranging from automobiles[...]
    You obviously have some of the best drugs, do you have any idea where I could get some?
  8. Re:misleading... on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    Simply, I see no reason why an FTP or SFTP server needs to be tied to the filesystem at all. Why are FTP permissions associated with the files; they should be associated with the FTP server! (In a config file, say). And why does an FTP user need to be a 'nix user, anyway?
    It doesn't.

    It's pretty easy using perl's Net::FTPServer to make a ftp site where users aren't Unix users, directories aren't Unix directories and files aren't Unix files.

    There are doubtless other ways of doing it, but that's the way I've done it in the past.

  9. Re:Simple question on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    Iran has said they want a nuclear weapon
    Cite? The only source I've seen for this is GWB. All statements I've found from Iranians say the don't want a nuclear weapon.
  10. Re:Congratulations! on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    I don't understand - replacing our nice nukes by solar would, as you say, increase the CO2 output. So why do it? Because you're scared of "nuclear waste"?

    What would be a good use for solar would be to reduce our reliance on gas - currently still the cheapest way of heating (home & water).

  11. Re:Does Nuclear Energy Really Make Economic Sense? on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    The big problem with CANDU is that it is a great way of making bombs. Un-enriched Uranium in, Plutonium out, only chemical seperation needed.

  12. Re:Germany ran one for 20 years without problems.. on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    Pebble Bed reactors are a lot simpler than other types of reactor. There's far less to go wrong than the type of reactor in the article.
    And of course one of the (2?) build did in fact go wrong.

    (Well, a pebble got stuck, then broken trying to unstick it).

    And those idiot Germans shut the plant down. Wimps.

  13. Re:The Solution seems to be... on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    The issue with steampowered turbines is that the steam that comes out of the turbine is not very hot (under 45C). That makes it very hard to use the heat/energy that is bound in the steam.
    Steam. Under 45C. Are you sure?
  14. Re:Why not a good old electric train on tracks on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 1

    Ah but this isn't Germany. This is Bavaria.

  15. Re:What is terrorism? on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    E.g. for Muslims all of us kafir are by definition combatants (an oversimplification, but it will do for the moment), and so who are we to decide that their attack on the WTC was terrorism? Not as they (or this group of them) score people.
    You must know some strange Muslims, all of the ones I know consider 11/9 as a terrorist attack.

    In that period of total war, civilians producing in the economy were considered to be combatants.
    So what the attacker "considers" is a get-out-of-atrocity-free card?

    In any case attacking "ball-bearing factories" - I.E. attacks on military or dual use infrastructure were defensible, but attacks on civilians - "thousand bomber raids", Dresden, Tokyo &c were pure terrorism - they were even justified as that at the time - "breaking the will to fight".
  16. Re:Cell? on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't? Where else was it released?

  17. Re:Makes me laugh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    AOL.

  18. Re:What is terrorism? on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    but the bombing raids against civilian infrastructure was
    Were dammit.
  19. Re:What is terrorism? on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    Terrorism is the use of violence, frequently against ostensible third parties, to coerce a political action out of a target.
    Too loose. By this definition Britains declaration war on Nazi Germany was terrorism.

    Terrorism is the use of violence against noncombatants to coerce a political action out of a target.

    So the war against Germany wasn't terrorism, but the bombing raids against civilian infrastructure was.
  20. Re:"Nothing for you to see here" indeed... on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    Several years ago I tried making a linux to windows cross compiler and failed.
    # apt-get install mingw32
  21. Re:Someone has been brainswashed on AMD Announces Triple-Core Phenom Processors · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, they're using rotational symmetry, not reflection.

    Your data gets turned through 120 degrees as it moves from core to core, irritating, but better than having it come out sdrawkcab as sometimes happens with dual core processors.

  22. Re:Just ran the installer on Debian win32-loader Goes Official · · Score: 1

    Please report this as a bug to microsoft.

  23. Re: Huh? on Debian win32-loader Goes Official · · Score: 1

    Actualy, if you watch the ogg carefuly you'll see that to make the movie they're running Xp under Debian, using qemu I'd guess.

    So you can run arbitrary windows executables from your Linux desktop - you just have to run the whole of windows as well. :-)

  24. Re:How many frenchmen does it take to defend paris on French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought I had a few thousand of 'em buried in my back garden. http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/page/affichelieu.php?idLang=en&idLieu=2412

  25. Re:Who are the stormbot people? on Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor · · Score: 1

    None, because the people behind storm are probably the same people behind the polonium injection.