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  1. Re:DOS on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually not a bad idea.
    Except that you're likely to hate the filesystem choices available.

  2. Not hard on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You could go with a straight BusyBox, or add a slightly more robust text editor to the enviornment.
    Then compile that into your initramfs, and just don't bother to do a switch_root to a real file system. As long as you've got the hardware and filesystem drivers compiled into the kernel, life is good.
    See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ for more details.
    This use-case is one where I would not recommend emacs.

  3. Re:TEMPEST... on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1
  4. Re:TEMPEST... on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1

    Who sticks out their neck scores the most riffs.

  5. Re:TEMPEST... on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's an atomic clock. Prenty of time.
    Then again, you never know which heartbeat shall be the last, so why fret, unless you're a guitar?

  6. Let's examine why: on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/Reid_keeps_the_swamp_brimming.html

    Reid keeps the swamp brimming
    By Examiner Newspapers
    Examiner Staff Writer 9/18/08
    As the stock market plunged nearly 1,000 points in two days this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was preoccupied with protecting billions of dollars worth of earmarks contained in a separate, unpublished committee report that got a one-sentence reference in a giant $612 billion defense bill. Reid engineered the 61-to-32 vote to limit debate on the bill, thus barring consideration of an amendment offered by Sen. Jim DeMint. The South Carolina Republicanâ(TM)s amendment would have deleted the reference to the committee report so that it would have to be considered separately. By leaving the language in the bill, the lawmakers were able to carry out one of their favorite maneuvers: Incorporating committee reports into omnibus bills so they can give billions of tax dollars to their cronies without recorded votes on specific spending measures. This is the same Harry Reid who with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised to "drain the swamp" of Republican corruption if voters would return the Democrats to the majority.

    Dennis Miller's remarks on that "ashen pie-hole" are still fresh, more than a year later.
    The US needs a feedback loop whereby other states can be told: "someone else, please" regarding their ballots.

  7. Re:TEMPEST... on US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can simply avoid falling into the vector graphics pit in the first place, the TEMPEST attacks are trivially avoided.

  8. Re:That's great! on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Python3000 will, like, totally kick SquirrelFish2048 in its furry scales.

  9. Re:Bar graphs... on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the axis label mentions execution time.
    Isn't less more?
    Or is more the new less?
    Or Les the Nessman?
    This junction is PN complete.

  10. On the topic of old tools on Don't Count Cobol Out · · Score: 1

    Trying out a script in Expect.
    Delightful.
    You see where tidier tools have stolen market share from TCL.

  11. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 2

    No, perhaps the same, but no more. Humans on both sides, after all.

  12. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 1

    Just enjoying the hypocrisy of the close-minded.

  13. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 0

    Some churches are actually about intellectual freedom, though that statement too may contradict an orthodoxy.

  14. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Alas, it also becomes an orthodoxy.
    In the hands of some, it becomes a club.
    Those who do not toe the line will be beaten.

  15. Re:Wait .... on Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where's the punch line?

    I think the punchline is that the media and the researchers are so compromised that coming to a relatively uncorrupted conclusion now requires significant time and deep pockets.

  16. Re:Does that mean it can run on BIOdiesel? on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Doubt that. My wife's diesel Golf has such significantly better mileage as to blow your argument right out of the traffic jam.

  17. Re:Ideas are cheap on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 1

    Excellent work.

  18. Re:Does that mean it can run on BIOdiesel? on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1
    Sig:

    I fear the long running US epidemic of anti-intellectualism will result in a McCain-Palin victory.

    OK

    Everybody knows that speed zones (i.e. traps) are designed for revenue enhancement, not safety.

    So, the "epidemic of anti-intellectualism" has apparently long since conquered traffic regulation, or am I missing something?

  19. Re:Does that mean it can run on BIOdiesel? on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Less profit margin for Big Oil?

  20. Re:Predictable, Really. on CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac · · Score: 1, Insightful

    free as in beer
    but not free as in speech

    What of free from fear
    Of corporate over-reach?

  21. Re:Innovation on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    Bridges for all my friends!

  22. Re:Ideas are cheap on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 1

    The last phrase about time and chance. GP is all nervous about the details, parent calls him out for a coward, and Solomon answers like a Nike ad: Just do it.

  23. If you knew your Illuminatus Trilogy on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'd be aware that Bugs Bunny is God,
    and the Earth is shaped like a carrot.
    Now begone with your novel speculations, knave.

  24. Re:Ideas are cheap on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I returned, and saw under the sun, that
    the race is not to the swift, nor
    the battle to the strong, neither yet
    bread to the wise, nor yet
    riches to men of understanding, nor yet
    favour to men of skill;
    but time and chance happeneth to them all.
    http://biblebrowser.com/ecclesiastes/9-11.htm

  25. Re:FP on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the face of the overwhelming popularity of dysfunctional programming?
    Oh, you maverick, you.