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  1. Re:Is it against "hackers"? Or against self defens on Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect · · Score: 1

    I mean, it could be a coincidence that those things appear at the same time.

    Honi soit qui mal y pense.

  2. Actually... (was: Re:You fools, don't you get it?) on Groklaw No Front for IBM · · Score: 1

    ... I believe, PAMELA JONES is an anagram for J AM A SOLE PEN.

  3. Re:200 mile high club? on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    > This raises the question...has anyone actually ever had sex in space?

    Nope, and for obvious reasons:
    a) zero gravity can induce nausea
    b) astronauts perspire a LOT
    c) in space, you experience lower blood pressure, which means reduced blood flow to you-know-where

    And don't forget the lack of privacy as well as zero gravity not really being conducive to passionate (ok, ok) love-making... Unless you take a couple of rubber/elastic bands with you, I guess. But try to explain THAT to your superiors...

  4. Re:Not the first indication of Europeans in China. on DNA to Test Theory of Roman Village in China · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by the emphasis on the word direct here. How could you be an indirect descendent of someone?

    Of course. Maybe I should have put the emphasis on 'was' instead.

    As far as I remember, the scientists were just looking for clues about the origins and where stunned when they realized that the girl was actually related to a 2,000 year old mummy they found (more or less) by accident.

  5. Re:Not the first indication of Europeans in China. on DNA to Test Theory of Roman Village in China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True. I remember watching a documentation on ancient Greek stories and myths about the Amazons (no, not the company).

    While trying to hunt down the Amazons origins, they visited some nomads somewhere in China (or Mongolia, can't remember where exactly) and took DNA samples of a blonde 10 or 12 year old girl with distinct Caucasian features -- although her mother had none of these whatsoever.

    Lo and behold, her DNA (and her mothers!) was identical to DNA samples taken from an Amazon mummy of something like a warrior-priestess found in what is nowadays Ukraine.

    Meaning, the girl was a direct descendant of that woman who lived around 2,000 years ago.

  6. Re:GNUstep on Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder -- however, theming is possible, though not really propagated.

  7. Re:GNUstep on Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    You remember correctly, and it's already there: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/tools/pbxbuild/ trunk/

  8. Re:Why the incesant need to convert english to met on King Kong Lived? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe, just maybe, because the majority of people in the world do use metric?

  9. Re:check out that portrait on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 0

    Yes, but there IS a difference between citing (and indicating that you DO cite) and selling the idea (of someone else) as your own. Kopernikus did the latter.

  10. Re:check out that portrait on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 2, Informative

    He did a lot of research in order to present the theory.

    That is only half of the truth. He actually was kind of a copy cat, citing from Sphaera mundi (among others) written by Johannes de Sacrobosco, and presenting the ideas as his own.

    One of the effects of his theft-of-thoughts is the unfortunately still common opinion that people during the so-called Dark Ages believed that Earth was flat -- they did not (the notable exception being Kosmas Indikopleustes, Laktantius and Severianus of Gabala).

  11. Re:Thats one ugly interface on GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE? · · Score: 1

    Camaelon also looks really ugly.

    Of course it does, because Camaelon is "just" a theme engine. You're supposed to install a theme and actually use it, otherwise Camaelon will default to the original NeXT'ish look.

    So, use a theme that pleases you, just as you (in general) do using any other desktop environment.

  12. Re:Gorm Videos Demonstrations on GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE? · · Score: 1

    If they(you) want to get this product moving, they need pretty colours and components.

    If you do not like the NeXT'ish look and feel that GNUstep defaults to, you're free to use themes.

  13. Re:Cern on Remembering Netscape and The Birth of the Web · · Score: 1

    The original browser (already including a built-in editor), written by Tim on a NeXT, had a real stupid name: WorldWideWeb.app ;-)

    It was later renamed to Nexus.app.

  14. Re:First against the wall on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    They should be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

    Who exactly are you refering to?

  15. Re:reasons? on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 1

    he obviously isn't a unix user.

    Uhm, you DO of course know that he's the overlord err head of OpenBSD, right?

  16. Re:The top 10 (in descending order): on Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity · · Score: 1

    Looks like SOMEONE needs to get a life...

  17. Re:So everythings a moon now? on Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's next? Calling the sun something stupid like "Sol"?

    Just in case you're not being sarcastic, as our Solar System's planets are actually named after Roman gods, the name for our Sun would be Sol just as Earth is actually called Terra.

    For a list of names, see this compilation.

  18. Re:BSD/Linux? on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    mDNSResponder has been part of FreeBSD Ports since March 03, 2004.

    GNUstep has had (inofficial) support of Rendezvous (as it was known back then) since quite some time before the above mentioned date.

  19. Re:spothlight...dashobard...who cares?? on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would 99.9% of the global population want to know what time is in other part of the world?

    Some may be too lazy to "calculate" the time difference. And others simply do not know how.

    I for one do have business partners all over the world and not only am I too lazy to do the math and but also too cheap to buy a couple of clocks, one for each time zone.

  20. Re:let's get this joke out of the way early on Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified · · Score: 4, Funny

    RFC1149 was updated by RFC2549 in 1999.

  21. poor command of the english language? on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the visual information that came out of her camera, I'll gladly forgive her occasionaly poor command of the english language.

    Very nice of you. But I figure her English is better than your Russian.

  22. Back in school... on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    ... our teacher in 'religious education' was also a writer on books and abstracts on religion of some renown (Arnulf Zitelmann, for those who care).

    I clearly remember him saying several times: "Well, you know, I can take the Bible, close my eyes, pick any 100 pages, and use them to write a book on Science Fiction.
    I could also use it to write a Porn movie script.
    "

  23. Not just AIM... on Microsoft Eyeing AOL? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    America Online has the right to buy a $22m chunk of Google, according to a filing by parent Time Warner.

  24. Re:And this is modded up because? on FreeBSD 5.2 Review · · Score: 1

    I was actually surprised when Eug said a gui app crash brought the whole system down. That doesn't usually happen.

    Based on that statement I assume you did read her article. But did you read it, and I quote:

    After hitting a few random buttons on its window to make it stop, FreeBSD would just crash and the machine would reboot.

    Try that on any other OS and see what happens...

  25. Re:What kind of crack are they smoking? on FreeBSD 5.2 Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    10,000 apps, but I'll bet cash the majority are command-line utilities, not desktop applications.

    Wrong, see http://www.freshports.org/categories.php