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  1. Re:Better than NVIDIA's proprietary hardware??? on Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" · · Score: 1

    Are you on medication?
    If so, you may ask your doctor to change the dosage, if not, perhaps you should be.

  2. Re:Privacy of Courts on NZ Judge Bans Online Publishing of Accuseds' Names · · Score: 1

    Around here we've had a voluntary intermediate solution for a long time: the media withold name and recognizable pictures of the accused during trial.
    The problem is that in big cases the foreign press will happily publish the details anyway.

  3. Re:Better than NVIDIA's proprietary hardware??? on Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" · · Score: 1

    As I've used this particular system only linux for about 7 years with various distro's, I am well aware of the configuration issues. This bug has been filed months ago.
    The Current workaround: don't update X11 until Nvidia updates their proprietary GLX library for the legacy drivers. This nicely illustrates the problem with closed source drivers.
    There will come a time -not chosen by you, but by the manufacturer- when the hardware you bought will stop functioning correctly.

  4. Re:Better than NVIDIA's proprietary hardware on Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" · · Score: 1

    Don't upgrade X.org or you'll be out of luck. But then, I don't think there is a distro with 2.4 kernels that even uses that fork.

  5. Re:Better than NVIDIA's proprietary hardware on Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry, but I did exactly that, and got bitten recently: NVidia's drivers for old graphics cards lag behind more and more. I can no longer update one of my systems because the ABI version for their GLX doesn't get updated.
    The fix would be trivial (just recompile the current version), but Nvidia clearly would rather sell me a new card.

  6. Re:"Compromised?" on Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised · · Score: 1

    ...At least in theory.
    Your theory fails on its first test because of the little detail that only RHEL appears to have been compromised and not Fedora.

  7. Re:Magpies are evil. on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    a goth in a leather trenchcoat stumbling, waving his arms
    I guess the crows thought you were either competition or a potential mate. Why did you dress up like a big black bird anyway?

  8. Re:Flamewar! on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    What's so strange about that? I hack ppm and eps files for printing, previewing or to modify some colors. Vi is perfectly suited for that.

  9. Re:"I love the phont, but..." on What's the Problem With iPhone 3G Reception? · · Score: 1

    My guess: It is psychological process related to the stockholm syndrome and cognitive dissonance reduction.
    The corrollary: If I paid that much for something I hate; I must be really stupid. So I cannot hate it...

  10. Re:Amusing on Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses · · Score: 1

    If you think the constitution was intended to protect the state from its citizens the choice must be difficult.
    For the rest of us there really is no problem.

  11. Re:70% of Americans on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the experiment does not warrant that conclusion. We can only say that 70% is not yet proven to be blithering idiots by virtue of this poll.

  12. Re:American Express... on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    , but at what cost?
    Hmmm, just post the names and numbers here and we'll compute the cost for you.

  13. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    Yes, everybody knows that. We're all waiting for the next sucker born to offload the shares on.

  14. Re:Predicting mutations? on Software To Improve AIDS Survival? · · Score: 1

    Virco is originally a Belgian company. Their research on HIV mutants in the 1990's was done near the university of Antwerp, and later a short drive down the road in Mechelen. This is the EU competing with the EU.

  15. Re:Predicting mutations? on Software To Improve AIDS Survival? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's in fact so useful that this method is already available to doctors commercially.
    But wasting EU subsidies on reinventing a fully functional wheel is probably better than wasting it on something disfunctional.

  16. Re:Search based interface? on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    Using grep is scheduled for Web 4.0, when the clicking crowd finally discovers why that flat typewriter without paper is attached to their PC.

  17. Re:Not Offtopic on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes there is. If he wins you don't get McCain for four years.

  18. Re:Clear is bullshit on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are aware that keeping salaries a secret is not in the interest of the employees?
    Perhaps your 'dipshit manager' is the only honest person in accounting...

  19. Re:This won't have an effect in Belgium on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The really amazing thing is that Australians have such a huge oil surplus they're letting perfectly fine fuel rot away in a dump.

  20. Re:Where's the money? on Red Hat Bets Big On Cloud Target · · Score: 1

    You work for a chair manufacturer?

  21. Re:Perhaps they should photograph around on Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist · · Score: 1

    You order those from the opposition. Back in the 80's the best aerial photography of Greece was from Turkey...

  22. Re:Colin Powell on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 1

    Yes, only less honest

  23. Re:So welcome them in.. on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One of the many you mean, nothing hurts like the truth...

  24. Re:So welcome them in.. on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I disagree. If the long time schoolyard bully suddenly starts playing nice you know he's on probation, and it's time to provoke him to the bloody limit to get him expelled permanently.

  25. Re:Somebody get hold of Pratchett on Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 1

    Here's your brain specialist:
    My brain hurts