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  1. Re:Wait. on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1
  2. Civil Disobedience on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 2, Insightful


    But you can only call it "Civil Disobedience" if you're willing to face the consequences of your act (and not try to weasel out of it).

  3. Re:How can it? on Is the CAN-SPAM Act Working? · · Score: 1

    Damn skippy. It's working. It means that the spammers CAN-SPAM us into oblivion! What do they mean it isn't working?

  4. Re:new name on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 1

    But then you'd be sued by Mannix and his lovely secretary!

  5. Re:I say, play it safe. on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 1

    My cat owns the trademark on that. She typed it while walking across my keyboard.

  6. BHM on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 1


    How about BHM, short for butt-headed magician. Of course, then Apple would sue them.

  7. Re:Blackholes and Time Travel on Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart · · Score: 1

    should last about as long as a snowflake in hell

    So, that would be a really long time? According to Dante, the Ninth level of Hell is frozen.

  8. Re:Not civil disobedience on RIAA Files 531 More Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    1. Geeks, through some miracle, all agree to boycott RIAA labels.
    2. RIAA notices that profits are down!
    3. RIAA Buys more bad laws -- "See, we're losing more money to those Evil Content Pirates(tm)".

    [and for those who really need it...]
    4. Profit!

  9. Re:The one I used on Practical C++ · · Score: 1

    Pohl is still around? Damn... He was teaching basic intro programming back in '82!

  10. Re:There is no Constitutional right to privacy on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 1

    What part of Article I are you referring to?

    Article I enumerates the powers of Congress. If it's not listed there, then according to Amendment X, Congress doesn't have that power.

    Amendment I lists some explicit rights. Amendment IX states that those rights are not the only ones that the People inherently have.

    How does Am9 or Am10 "repeal Article 1"?

  11. Re:Russians make the best rockets on Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the original Atlas was man-rated. (Mercury-Atlas, anyone?).

  12. Re:There is no Constitutional right to privacy on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "interpretation"?

    Please give your interpretation of the meaning of the 9th and 10th.

  13. Re:Hoped for a better name on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 1

    Or to take a page from Apple's playbook, Lin-BHC (Lin-Butt-Headed-Corporation)

  14. Re:Not that this matters... on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 1

    Or, they could make RMS happy...

    FireGNU and ThunderGNU

  15. Re:Rename the ISS on Space Station Slowly Falling Apart? · · Score: 1

    How about "Ice Station Zebra", or "Red Zone Earth Orbit"?

    Or, best of all... "Manos: The Space Station of Fate".

  16. Re:OT: Fighting Dell on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    It was a nice Indian gentleman to whom I spoke.

  17. Re:MA tax forms aren't that hard to auto-generate. on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1

    In CA, you need to attach a copy of your 1040 to your 540 (CA tax form), even if you file paper.

  18. OT: Fighting Dell on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know.... It's just dealing with people who can't go off script that's annoying.

    Thanks for the encouragement.

    -- red floyd

  19. Re:Wow. Amazing. Not. on Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet · · Score: 1

    You don't recall correctly.

    The moon is tidelocked, it has a rotation period of roughly 29 days (equal to it's period of revolution). Lunar night is roughly 2 weeks (that's when that part of the moon is facing away from the sun).

  20. Re:Since you mentioned Dell on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Dell's diags don't really work that well.

    If you can use the device manufacturer's diags, that's better.

  21. Re:Sandra on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Of course, manufacturer's diagnostics don't necessarily work either.

    I have a Dell 2400 (bought for the kids). The on-board ethernet (Broadcom 440) was giving me a problem. The Win32 based Broadcom-specific diagnostic suite told me the ethernet memory buffer wa s failing. Dell needed a diagnostic code from their standard diagnostics. However, all their ResourceCD diagnostic tested was the EEPROM, which tested out fine. I'm still fighting with them over the RMA.

    Oh, and by dropping in a $15 Realtek card, I demonstrated (to my satisfaction, at least) that all the network problems I was seeing were due to the failure of the onboard ethernet.

    Upshot: even the vaunted manufacturer provided diags aren't that hot (though the Broadcom BACS worked nicely).

  22. Re:Another one bites the dust on Cingular Wins bid for AT&T Wireless · · Score: 1

    In Los Angeles, T-Mobile piggybacks on Cingular's network.

  23. Re:Your name? on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    I used to work with a guy named "Dick Bender".

  24. Re:Privacy vs protection on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 1

    And one of the hijackers got notification that his visa was approved 6 months after 9/11. Your argument is specious.

  25. Re:There is no Constitutional right to privacy on US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy · · Score: 1

    AMENDMENT XXVIII:
    Section 1. The fourth and ninth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed.


    The sad thing is that I can see Ashcroft creaming in his pants to get this one. Though, Ashcroft's version would read:

    AMENDMENT XXVIII:
    Section 1. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, and tenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed.