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  1. Net Gains? on Eat Less - Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Would the increased use of pesticides used to control the exploding fruit fly population would negate any human life expectancy gain?

    Or...

    Would life just seem longer with all of the damn flies and constant hunger. :)
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  2. Conspiracy Theory on Do Penguins Topple When Planes Fly Over? · · Score: 1

    I use Linux. When Black Helicopters fly overhead I fall over backwards.

    Coincidence?

  3. Jacquard Loom OS on What Was The First Computer Operating System? · · Score: 1

    Since the first computer was the Jacquard Loom, wouldn't the first OS be the programmer creating the instruction cards?

  4. 3Com NBX100 on Cisco's IP Phones - Seven Digits And Cat5 · · Score: 3

    The 3Com IP phone system has been out for some time.

  5. Why Software Should Not Have Owners. on Metrowerks Putting Linux on Hold · · Score: 2

    Isn't this why the FSF came into being? Others have been burned in similar situations. The FSF lists the problems with non-free software:

    When a program has an owner, the users lose freedom to control part of their own lives.

  6. The Bizzare Subway Diet on The Hacker's Diet Revisited · · Score: 1

    A student at Indiana University lost 245lbs in less than a year by eating a daily diet which consisted of: two Subway sanwiches, a bag of baked Lays potato chips, and diet Mountain Dew.

    The article is here.

  7. Changes in 3.3.6 on XFree86 3.3.6 released · · Score: 5

    Freshmeat has a stale link. The 3.3.6 release notes are here.

  8. U.S. Consumer Banking Laws on Largest Online Credit Card Heist Ever? · · Score: 5
    In the U.S. the FDIC lists all of the relevant banking laws online. There are consumer protection laws that cover unauthorized charges.
    Here they are (in no particular order):
    1. Financial Institution Web Site Privacy Survey
    2. Know Your (Liability) Limits
    3. Information Systems & E-banking

    Of course "Under federal law, the most you'd owe for unauthorized charges to your credit card is $50 per card. You owe nothing if you report the problem before charges are made. " If I was a customer of this company I would call my bank and cancel my card ASAP.
  9. Where is the pager? on Microsoft Certified Professional Action Figures · · Score: 1

    No MS admin (hero or zero) is complete without a pager that is constantly beeping.

  10. Re:This is old hat for Geller on Uri Geller sues Nintendo's Pokemon · · Score: 1

    The Amazon reviews of James Randi's book are hysterical. Almost all of the negative reviews are written by "a reader from..." (AKA Anonymous Cowards.) The wording and phrases are remarkably similar from review to review. Could this be a mutation of the Slashdot Effect?

    Paul Hostetler

  11. Use your computer and your Johnson... on The Dismounted Soldier Problem · · Score: 1

    Your Johnson Kinetics Inc. http://www.johnsonkinetics.com physiokinetic suit.

    If the answer was easy, someone would have solved this already.

    Paul Hostetler

  12. GPL tested in court? on Corel Linux Beta License Violates GPL · · Score: 1

    Seems like this one could be headed for the courts. I wonder who backs ($$$) the GPL in such a case.

  13. Re:Yet another Appeal? on US Crypto Export Laws Ruled Unconsitutional · · Score: 2

    Presidential candidates ought to be out trumpeting this one as a win for business and free speech.

  14. Re:NT = less fun on Linus says Linux is fun · · Score: 1

    I should have added that the NT admins get more pages in an afternoon than I get every six months!

  15. Re:NT = less fun on Linus says Linux is fun · · Score: 1

    >...imagine admining NT -- getting paged at night two or three times a week 'cause IIS died, etc.

    I do Linux, AIX, HPUX, and Solaris admin at work. We have slightly more *nix boxes (~30) than NT boxes.

    I am the ONLY *nix admin to FOUR NT admins. I have been paged three times in the last six months and two of those pages were NT problems.