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  1. Re:"Mostly Worthless" on Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but LA is so geographically spread out that that adds a minimum of an hour to any commute.

    In addition, I said that they assume that everyone wants to go downtown, not wants to go through downtown. About 90% of the transit in LA is inbound in the mornings and outbound in the evening. The problem is that LA has about 7 or 8 "centers", not just downtown.

  2. Re:Just the public? on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    You too?

    My mother-in-law continually asks me questions about how to get AOL to do something. I keep telling her that I have no idea, because I don't know AOL, and that she should try the 800 number (mwahahaha).

  3. Re:I don't buy it on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wouldn't place all the blame on Microsoft, they're only responsible for a single jargon word..."Operating System"

    Really? Then how come I have a textbook called "An Introduction to Operating Systems" (emphasis mine), with a copyright of 1977, way before MS sold any operating system?

  4. Re:"Mostly Worthless" on Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget · · Score: 1

    Or a city like Los Angeles, where what public transport there is, is worthless. (TPTB have decided, in their infinite wisdom, that everybody wants to go downtown, which is bogus).

  5. Re:federal vs. state. on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    It is an option for the viewer, and that's the problem.

  6. Re:RIAA Creates music? on Freenet Creator Debates RIAA · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but the artists are not the ones running around suing people

    Well, other than Lars Ulrich, of course

  7. Re:Literally? on Freenet Creator Debates RIAA · · Score: 1

    If I were a storeowner, I can keep an eye, literally, on all my merchandise

    You must have some really messed up eyesight. How do you deal with all those eyes lying around?


    That's his anti-theft mechanism. Nobody wants to touch those gross squishy eyes that he has all over... Of course, it tends to cut down on his sales, too...

  8. Re:Simple on Space Blog · · Score: 1

    Uh, IIRC, that's Newton's Third Law, not conservation of momentum.

  9. Re:Crimes of Nixon and Clinton on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    Whitewater and Vince Foster also come to mind. Yeah, never proven, but not really investigated either.

    Whitewater was never really investigated? Then what the hell did Kenneth Starr spend $44 million on?

  10. Re:federal vs. state. on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    There's an option to turn on a separator between the text and .sig

    it looks like this:

    -- .sig here

  11. Re:Except that there are no rights to privacy on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    You mean 'the constitutional right to privacy is not enumerated.

    The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution:

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  12. Re:You call this a capitalist society? on U.S. Faults Microsoft Licensing Compliance · · Score: 1

    I'd invest in companies involved in space launch capability. Heavily. :-) With one caveat: I get to go, too ;-)

    Read Heinlein's short stories The Man Who Sold the Moon and then read his short Requiem to see what happens to the major backer of private spaceflight.

  13. Re:Expressways on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 1

    The only danger, I suppose, is if a strip breaks then the speed-differential between it and then next one could be massive.

    Yep. That happened, too... The strikers shut down the 100mph road. Somebody stumbled from the shutdown 100mph road onto the 95mph road and got turned into roadkill.

  14. Re:The Roads Must Roll on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean every week, not every year?

  15. Re:Ink is too expensive on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 1

    speaking of which, does anyone know where I can get my old LJIIP fixed?

  16. They will pass on the savings. on HP To Sell PCs With Mandrake 9.1 · · Score: 1

    According to The Register, the MDK version will sell for $349, about $80 less than the XP version.

  17. Re:Whose Bill? on Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California · · Score: 1
    Except that:
    An Assembly committee has rejected a consumer-backed bill that would ban unsolicited e-mail ads but approved a rival measure supported by Microsoft and other computer industry companies.


    So according to TFA and to the summary, billg isn't Anti-Spam Bill.
  18. Re:A real keyboard on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Wimp! The Sinclair ZX-81 had a much better embedded keyboard!

    Let's see... 1983, $40 at K-Mart. Plus another $40 for the 16K RAM upgrade.

  19. Re:Who else misses the old IBM keyboards? on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    The original IBM 101 (predecessor to the M). It came with the IBM PC-AT 339. I loved that keyboard!

  20. Re:Using spam as slang on Hormel Sues Over SpamArrest Name · · Score: 1

    RTFA. Hormel is suing because Spam Arrest is trying to trademark their name.

  21. Re:Typical on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and if you look at the pic, he's chunked up quite a bit, hasn't he?

  22. Re:Exchange exchange for unix on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements? · · Score: 1

    One of the few suites that I ever thought Microsoft did well was Exchange. Administering it may be a 'mare judging by the contractor rates offered to administer it, but that's neither here nor there.

    No, that is *definitely* here and there. We would like the scheduling/contact/email integration that Exchange has, but can't afford the zillions needed to buy a W2K/W2K3 server and Exchange server licences, not to mention the dedicated head to administer said servers.

  23. Re:Bullet-proof on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    I thought that McBride was insane -- totally reckless or totally corrupt. But now, I'm starting to think the man is just stupid

    Hanlon's razor -- "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

  24. Re:Bottom Line on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    Chris Sontag said that Microsoft could be a future target; the agreement between MS and SCO is only for a few libraries.

    Dear Mr. Sontag,

    I would like to remind you that WE OWNORZ JOO! We paid $750 Million for you to be our puppet, and we expect you to behave accordingly. Comments such as the above are counterproductive, and are not in your best interest. If you'd like, I could have my good friends Guido and Vinny come over and "explain" things to you.

    Sincerely,

    Steve Balmer

    POLITICALLY CORRECT DISCLAIMER: No offense to anyone of Italian descent was intended by this post.

  25. What is McBride smoking? on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    He says he thinks IBM is desperate to buy SCO ... but that SCO isn't interested in being acquired.

    Where does McBride live? IN SOVIET RUSSIA??? Either that, or he's on crack.