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  1. Re:It is almost completely natural phenomena on Billions Face Risks From Climate Change · · Score: 1, Interesting

    plants are sensitive to temperature and water availability, and also cleanse co2 from the atmosphere.

    Interesting choice of words. CO2 is not a pollutant, so it should not be verbed as "cleanse".

    so now we have a new force creating co2 and eliminating foliage, human industrialization, and surprise, the global temperature is rising, but this time the co2 is continuing to rise, where do you think the global temperature is going to go as we make the greenhouse blanket thicker

    Yes mankind is producing more CO2, but still it's insignificant compared to other natural sources such as volcanoes and vegetative decay. Your views on our industrialization, and the slightly increasing temperature is a loose correlation. The planet is warming up a bit because of increased solar flux, and not man-made CO2. That's what the data says.

    Other fun facts:
    water is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (by A LOT)
    the ocean releases a lot of dissolved CO2 when it gets warmed up! so as solar flux increases, the atmospheric CO2 goes up a bit. atmospheric CO2 is not doing the warming.

  2. Re:$1.50 a mile? WTF on Nanotech Battery Claims to Solve Electric Car Woes · · Score: 1

    No the heat is from the engine coolant, as most people that have had a heater core explode under thier dash can attest to. The fact is that most energy in a combustion engine is wasted as heat and is removed throught the coolant/radiator. The cabin heater is just a small hose off the cooling system which uses a small radiator under the dash.

  3. Re:Enforcement != laws on Your House Is About To Be Photographed · · Score: 1

    He said we couldn't take pictures anywhere near here, and told us that it was a security violation, and that he'd call the cops. He got real close to me. We left quickly.

    Why leave? Ask him to call the cops, and wait for them.
    It's the pacified attitude showing fear of unnecessary authority that has allowed your country to erode its constitutional freedoms.

    Go back and do it again, post a blog.

  4. Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then on Apple to Charge for Boot Camp? · · Score: 1

    NT4 used to run on PPC. Microsoft killed that one. SP3 I think was the last.

  5. Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then on Apple to Charge for Boot Camp? · · Score: 4, Informative

    That, and the live partitioning without destroying data that's currently on the drive, which I've never seen before (though I haven't dabbled in the Linuxes in a while).

    # FIPS
    # GNU Parted
    # Partition Magic (bought out by Symantec and discontinued)
    # Paragon Partition Manager
    # Acronis Disk Director Suite

    Some of these have been out for quite a long time.

  6. No problem on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't oppose this at all, however, first they have to refund the millions they have stolen by way of the blank media tax. As soon as I see some real money back that those motherfuckers stole from me when I bought backup media for my servers, we can talk about copyright reform.

    I am waiting to hear back from you.

  7. Re:What's law breaking about this? on MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except we in Canada have the right to download copyrighted media. By paying the blank media tax on all recordable media, we are granted license to fill said media with movies and music that we didn't buy: that's where that extra tax has been going, the Canadian Private Copying Collective.

    http://www.cpcc.ca/english/index.htm

    Click the link, see how happy that canuck is for paying tax on something he might not even use for piracy? Paying a tax on backup media is fun!

  8. Re:deep freeze on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    Why do the kids' computers, during a class, have internet access at all?
    Any content you need them to see can be hosted on a local server. Nothing but porn and malware lives online, and has no
    place in the classroom. Maybe you should review the syllabus.

  9. Re:Story time! on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 1

    Why should we, the customers, police thier software licensing problems?

    WGA, activation, SPP, all that shit should be completely transparent to the user, they should NEVER have to deal with it or even see it. Just like the DRM stories in the last week or so, Microsoft has already lost because they have passed the buck onto the PAYING CUSTOMER.

    I hope this pushes more people off using new Microsoft software.

  10. Re:Not quite.... on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    Global warming doesn't exist
    The earth is flat
    Microsoft Vista is out and universally loved by all
    The check is in the mail


    Climate change is real, and is normal for any planet with an atmosphere. Everything else is money-making hooplah.
    Due to the wonders of local linearity, zooming in on the surface of any sphere makes it look flat.
    Vista beta is out, and while it looks neat, nobody seems to love it.
    I actually did get one of my mail in rebate checks! Albeit 8 months later.

  11. Re:Solution: A $5 Sign? on NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything you describe would be OK in Old America. Now in New America, since you jackasses voted Bush in, the Constitution is about as valuable as a used piece of toilet paper, since using the 911 attacks that he orchestrated to justify deleting the citizens' rights to _everything_.

    Terrorist this, NSA spying that, the United States is the scariest place on Earth.

  12. Re:Lucky Him on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ever consider slowing down? thats really fast.

  13. Re:Performance rating on Windows Vista 5342 Screenshots · · Score: 2, Funny

    If there are chemical reactions taking place inside your computer case, you should shut it off. Usually smoke, pops, or crackling electrical sounds indicate this condition.

    In this example, the limiting reagent is the number of flaky capacitors, or the amount of blue smoke that escapes from the cpu.

  14. Re:Yep. I'm biased on IBM iSeries or Windows server? · · Score: 1

    Plus I can pull up a configuration tool and, you know, it isn't...text. I can see what I'm doing and do it quickly and efficiently.

    How the hell was the information conveyed? Pictographs? What are these characters you are reading? Title bars and vendor branded borders are not a very good reason to abandon highly configurable command line based text tools. Many of which even work on the Windows platform.

  15. Re:One word on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's ironic that an individual excercising thier rights to privacy becomes the basis for probable cause to violate that privacy.

    Good time to be living in a freer country, don't you think?

  16. Re:Imagine if a trend started... on Fighting RIAA Without an Attorney · · Score: 1

    She could claim damages in the form of lost wages, attorneys fees, and defamation of character. She could even petition everyone ever named in an RIAA lawsuit/extortion to join her in a class action lawsuit. Class action lawsuits usually rake in some classy cash moneys.

  17. Re:quake 4 linux on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are other components to DirectX than 3D. DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectSound... the list goes on.

    All these same questions came out when Quake 2 was released.

  18. Re:That explains a lot on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Except that all the patches go through Linus. How many commits to Vista do you think Bill Gates or Balmer audit? Do they even know how to code any more?

    Linus rejects A LOT of patches and code, and is brutally honest with the author as to why it sucks. There's a book called something like "Management Secrets at Microsoft" or something close, it details the atmosphere around the development of NT4. At the end of the day, if the master repository didn't compile cleanly, everyone had to stay late until it did build. That's not very good QA. Of course this has happened more than once with Linux (greased turkey anyone?)

  19. email? on Spyware Maker Indicted on Hacking Charges · · Score: 1

    "She sent me a greeting card on the Internet through my e-mail and that's how she got into my computer," she said. "She had access to everything."

    How does reading plain text let someone into your computer?

  20. Re:Hey wait! on They Make Stuff? SCO's OpenServer 6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    SCO has highly suspect Linux kernel personality modules for thier closed source shitware.

    IBM should get that code audited in court for any stolen Linux IP.

  21. Re:Sheesh on They Make Stuff? SCO's OpenServer 6 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    A few open source projects explicitly dropped SCO unices support, describing SCO* as "deprecated".

  22. Re:Sensor error... on If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car · · Score: 1

    -274c is -1 kelvin: impossible temperature. Perhaps that is a failed sensor's way of reporting it is broken.

  23. How it should have gone down on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe it would not have turned out differently the following way, but at least you cost them more time and resources doing so:

    Before I found out I was being sued, they(lawyers) called me up to let me know they were doing an investigation. To be perfectly honest, the individuals who contacted me were polite and respectful. When I asked them if they were suing me, they let me know that if I cooperate, that Apple has a history of being a generous company.

    I answered all the questions they asked regarding how I got the torrent, how long I had seeded it for etc. I was honest and as helpful as I possibly could be.


    Wrong. Lawyers are not your friend. Their job is to help prosecute you.

    We were given 'Door #1': "If you don't co-operate we'll sue you". We replied and upon replying received 'Door #2': "We understand it's P2P, but if you don't co-operate we'll sue you" or 'Door #3': "We are all adults here, cooperate and we assure you we won't sue all your users but we can't tell you what might happen to the uploaders".

    How about the front door? You don't have to answer anybody's questions for any reason. In order for you to "co-operate" they need 2 other things:
    1. An officer of the law holding a warrant
    2. Your lawyer present.

    This is a classic case of citizens giving up thier rights guaranteed under the Constitution. Even the Canadian has rights on foreign American soil. These guys just gave up all those rights, did the Apple lawyers and police officers jobs for them, and now they are getting sued!

  24. Re:"...how fast we respond" on Intel to Spend $2B To Stay In The Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So.. they can make more chips faster, that is, the same more expensive slower Intel chips.

    How is having more stock sooner of chips nobody wants going to give them dominance?

  25. Re:Bandwidth problem?..... download slow on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    I tried installing with Windows 2000 sp4, with .net 1.1 installed, and it barfed, saying Windows XP is REQUIRED.