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  1. Re:Question on Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today · · Score: 1

    It would appear that the first use of the word boycott would have been the last if it hadn't been successful.
    see for instance this dictonary

  2. Re:April Fool's on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    Things inheritent in pysical laws are patentable
    they patently aren't, but the the patent office does not have enough staff to check on prior art, or physical reality, or on anything other than the bill they send

  3. Re:So an Itanium GHz is worth less that a P4 GHz? on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 1

    Yep, Itanium MHz beat everything else (including x86, AMD, Sparc, MIPS and PPC) on the molecular mechanics code we're running.
    It's a close second to PPC on the QM code.
    (As an aside, for this code: PIV/Xeon MHz aren't worth the ink they're printed with on the die)

  4. Re:Developer tools on Microsoft Extends Product Lifecycle · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't have been a problem if you had the sources of the tools.

    I've explained this to quite a number of PHB's around here, and it's starting to stick.
    For critical apps above OS-level the rule is: We don't run it if we cannot write/buy/download all of the code, in ascii. I'm old enough to have seen dozens of software and hardware 'giants' come and go, and I advise strongly against making your business dependent on the survival of anything as fickle as an IT company.

  5. Re:Swap space not needed.... on Is Swap Necessary? · · Score: 1

    You *have* to make a limit somewhere, you can't make, for instance, addresses an infinite number of bits

    But that's exactly the point, not only is infinite impossible, but any finite value larger than that chosen had become a head-ache.
    By the backward design of the memory space (the maximum possible address =1Meg, and we count backwards to zero) make simple expansion of the 20 used bits on the potentially 32 bits address bus impossible.
    At the time memory size growth in all computers was progessing at the same rate as now. The stupidity of this design choice is of a stalinistic magnitude. Many thousands of good people wasted years of their lives in untold suffering (that is, programming for DOS) repairing the damage done.

  6. Re:The good old days.... on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: 1

    Nope, it contains less than a decent cup of coffee, (and a lot less than my indecent triple ristrettos) check out : this table

  7. Re:Biological attacks on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 1

    By performing a preemptive biological attack on any suspect entity.
    Hadn't you picked up on that pattern yet?

  8. Re:Meanwhile, in France... on Germany to Vote Against Software Patents in the EU · · Score: 3, Informative

    In that year the French were occupied by Germany.
    The U.S. didn't enter into that war until 1941.
    Until the end 1943 the official U.S. policy was to appease the Vichy German puppet regime.
    It was only Churchill that managed to get the U.S. to reluctantly support the free French.

  9. Re:Looking forward to the fallout... on Microsoft Reward Leads to Arrest of Sasser Suspect · · Score: 1

    Then next thing you know the FBI is knocking on your door asking to look at your computer
    It appears you missed the part where the USA reoccupy Germany in your scenario.

  10. Re:Bah on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 1

    Perhaps from the original paper on the Hf experiments?

    I count one air-force, one lockheed-martin and one small defense contractor in the author list.
    But you're right, perhaps the US military is diversifying into the electricty market.

  11. Re:People are just irrational on Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters · · Score: 1

    smoking kills more people every day in the USA
    I take it you mean the USA is not being hysterial about smoking?
    Perhaps where you are...

  12. Re:And for those who don't know on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    Not a good analogy, if I check that link I'd say
    Fuchs was consistently pro-communist and acted on his convictions.

  13. Just wondering. on Sun Mulling GPL for Solaris · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would this inculde Re-GPLing the part they licensed from SCO?

  14. Re:Article is Wrong on Lenses on Beyond Megapixels - Part II · · Score: 1

    You're right, but I think the author meant that the sensor only covers the central region of the image (which normally shows less imaging errors)

  15. Re:Open Source future on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    my grandmother is dead, you insensitive clot

  16. Re:Can we please stop saying MS has a monopoly? on Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some judges may beg to differ.

    http://news.com.com/2100-1040-232565.html?legacy =c net&tag=st.ne.1002.tgif%3fst.ne.fd.gif.b

  17. LD 50 value of caffeine on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 1

    LD 50 is
    127/137 mg/kg in male/female mice
    230/249 mg/kg in male/female hamsters
    355/247 mg/kg in male/female rats
    246/244 mg/kg in male/female rabbits.

    No data for humans but given a typical value
    of 100 mg of caffeine per mug and comparable
    metabolism you will need about 3 mugs of
    coffee for every kg of body weight.

    That would be about 450 mugs for yer average /.er

  18. Re:A point that isn't made in the artical on Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    You won't be,
    We're running four of those with Redhat 9 and fedora and with wildcat 6210 graphics as comp-chem workstations.
    I don't think they're very slow at all...

  19. Re:Or better yet, enter these commands for fun... on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    That is of course assuming you run tcsh and not bash...

  20. Coincidence? on Bush's Space Panel Seeks Public Input · · Score: 1

    I think not

    This morning I spotted two ladies with keyboard-vacuumcleaners, display wipes, and telephone sanitizing spray in my office...
    (although at first I thought they were dusting for prints, they claim they were doing field training in a harsh environment for an upcoming major job)

  21. Re:What happened? on Lego to Stop Producing Mindstorms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, how many parent think, "Little Jimmy should have a programmable set of Lego!"

    I did,
    It's probably the least pointless gift Jimmy got last year.
    (But then, his dad reads slashdot, so what chance of a life has he got anyway)

  22. Re:Nope (but close) on History of a Famous Star Wars Scream · · Score: 1

    It's the same, they only renamed it to stop the RIAA from dragging the whole country to court.

    disinformation is your only defense

  23. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    It was a joke.
    You cross '70% of statistics are made up' with 'the other side are evil and stupid' propaganda and add some familiar names from the news.
    I quite liked the result.

  24. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't worry, more than 70% of the US population is convinced they're the same person anyway...

  25. Re:Shame it requires earthquakes on Viewing Inside the Earth · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dropping a few thousand nukes in a nice pattern will also work.
    And no, solid rock is fine for wave propagation (even better as it will transmit both P and S waves).