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  1. Re:Quality. on The 3Com Saga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My problem with the LNE100TX cards is this: I have 3 of those cards sitting in a box, all marked "LNE100TX", they all have different chip sets. You think they could change the model number, but no that would be too easy. Instead, they put a version number in really tiny print on the bottom of the box.
    Thanks but no thanks.

  2. Re:A summary (and what I do) on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    ...just give them the damned stuff.

    Ya know, if people started shooting muggers, after a while there wouldn't be any more muggers/muggings.

  3. Re:Xandros on The Best Linux Distro for a New User? · · Score: 1

    ...and I've tried nearly every distro over the past 6 years.

    And your opinions from 6 years ago about a distro are still valid for that distro today?

    If there's one problem in the linux community, it's people who try 1 or 2 distros years ago, and blindly carry that opinion forward indefinately.

  4. Re:Ironically... on What's Being Done About Nuclear Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure, what exactly was your point? That we shouldn't be trucking this stuff around, or that individuals shouldn't have access to rifles that fire .50 Cal rounds ?

    If you believe the problem is the rifle, you are in for a big surprise. Preventing access to those rifles will stop nothing. Any group that is willing to hijack a truck full of nuclear waste is probably more than capable of assembling a small machine shop and building their own weapons.

    If I wanted to crack one of these waste caskets I'd build a small bore canon (maybe 2.5 inches) that fired a round (maybe 2 inches) in a nice sabot to really speed things up. One doesn't need fancy self loading canons, just a pile of 10 single shot canons strapped in the back of a pickup.

    But, maybe your point was just not to be trucking to stuff around in the first place.

  5. Re:so... on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 1

    "I have no recollection of those events..."
    "I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated"
    *cough*bullshit*cough*


    "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

    I think Joplin said it best : "It's all the same fucking shit man."

  6. Re:so... on Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no recollection of those events...

    Works for Presidents, should work for anybody.

  7. Re:Washington DC on New Science Museum - Now With Real Science! · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because never in the history of the world have invading marauders destroyed vast collections of knowledge.....

    tap... tap...
    Just once second...
    low whispering...

    Hmmm, it appears that maybe this has happened in the past, who knew!

  8. Re:Not here on Microsoft Clips Longhorn · · Score: 1

    In any event, you're wrong:

    All depends on where you're at, around these parts it's: cow, bull, and steer. They are three distinctly different things.

  9. Re:And the CDs... on Novell Announces SUSE Linux 9.1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and runs better.

    That's debatable.

  10. Re:The list of channels in play... on Viacom and DishNetwork Battle On Air Over Contract · · Score: 1

    I witnessed the message in all its glory on C-Band.

  11. Re:The clock is ticking on Mars Rover Rolls And Turns · · Score: 1

    If they went nuclear the tree huggers never would have let the launch happen. Remember, in the liberal world nuclear is bad.

    Plus it would have added considerably to the mass of the vehicle.

  12. Re:They'll only catch amateurs... on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 1

    If you're a criminal who has gotten to the point where the feds are interested in listening to your conversations, you've already made enough mistakes to screw yourself. The stupidity of most criminals is unbelievable.

  13. Re:Promises... on Where Are The Edges Of Today's Technology World? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gliding is just falling gracefully.

  14. Moderation on Where Are The Edges Of Today's Technology World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    As mentioned on Nova, my great-great-grandfather Amos Ives Root published the first eye witness account of the Wright Brothers flight almost 100 years ago.

    Score:-1 Buffing my own pole.

  15. Re:It's certainly a re-defining moment for Linux. on Linux Goes to Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that would be a Colonel panic.

  16. Re:The way to sell it on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    s/destroy/convert

  17. Re:And finally... on RIAA Tactical Legal Victory vs SBC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the simplest of terms it means that voting doesn't accomplish anything (The special interest groups have taken over congress). But, it's too early that if you stand up and start shooting congresscritters people will think you are nuts and assume the government is correct. Give it about 10 years, the balance will tip one way or the other.

  18. Re:And finally... on RIAA Tactical Legal Victory vs SBC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this sums up the situation very well:

    "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
    - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution

  19. Re:Wow the things that pass for insightful.... on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    The Federalist Papers disagree with you.

  20. Re:Wow the things that pass for insightful.... on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    Oh my god! Stupidity at it's best. In the context of the time "regulated" meant well disciplined. I.e. the ability to hit your target, the ability to show up when the invaders arrived. Regulated as used here does not mean well controlled. If you are going to argue these points you have a lot more reading to do.
    Jesus, if this is the shit they teach in civics today we are all screwed.

  21. Re:Irresponsible Idiots on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    I clearly said:
    I therefore think that guns should be regulated in much the same way that we don't allow any idiot to drive around with an 18 wheeler.


    Regulation leads to confiscation. I'd give examples but you would invoke Goodwins Law.

  22. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    And, last i knew, gun laws tended to be relativly consistent across entire states...
    Then you clearly do not know much about the issue. In many states the laws are open and free, while cities within those states are very restrictive. Examples of such are : New York, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, etc. So a state average of anything gun related doesn't show the whole picture.

  23. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    Not at all, my pro gun stance applies to all countries! I try not to disparge foreigners, unless your pushing the U.N. to try and persuade the USA to institute an anti-gun policy.

  24. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    This is actually part of my point. Maybe guns don't cause crime. Maybe packing people into high density cities with a bunch of polution and high tension lifestyles are the real cause of the problem. Don't blame the gun because you have a bunch of wackos who can't deal with life.

  25. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    You can't compare states. Part of the problem is that gun laws are not consistant across an entire state. By summarizing up to the state level you never get a clear picture of the different environments operating within the state.