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  1. Re:With open source the same problem exists on The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility · · Score: 1

    If they did, nobody would upgrade, just as you say after WinXP SP2, we'll have to see what happens with Vista.

  2. Re:Linux fall very short on backwards compatiblity on The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Oh come on let's get serious, that is not a Linux problem it's an application problem; and even then it might not be that big of a deal. The application developers knowing that they need a specific version of glibc instead they linked to the most current and got burned, chances are you can copy the glibc version needed onto a new machine, let say you put it in /usr/local/lib and the app will be fine with it and the distro will not over write during updates because its in local. I'm not a programmer so check out the man pages for ld and ldcongfig and for heaven's sake experiment in a sandbox not a production machine

  3. Re:Mines on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if you're losing the war, you'll do anything at all to get ahead
    Well there is the real problem, the land mine gets used by desperate armies fight there to a loss. When we use the mines, the G8 type countries, putting one out involves a shit-pile of paper work and most often keeping personel on site to physically observe the mine field. A lot of times, an area will be marked as mined, a couple hundred holes dug and then maybe 3 or 4 mines place at the edge. Then when we leave all the mines hgave to be recovered, hense the paperwork. A lot of times we see mines being used aren't in warfare but in genocide.

  4. Re:Seems a great place to post yer code! on Microsoft Debuts MySpace-Like IT Site · · Score: 1

    When I read it I knew tha's what they were trying to say, just like when I heard what John Kerry said I knew what he was trying to say, but the fact is it's not what they are trying to say that counts, it's what they do say. What does show through is an attitude, on slashdot, the crew's attitude is that they are just like a printer, they're not really making the "magazine" we are, all they are doing is printing, if I stick in some code or an opinion, I'm publishing it and it's my responsibility to under stand all of the implications just like any other publisher, and slashdot is just the printer. Microsoft on the other hand must think of themselves as the publishers, otherwise such a restrictions on liciensing wouldn't occure to them.

  5. Re:Passive solar heating... on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 1

    First properly designed is not quite what I have, but the house is only 20 years old so it's proper by contemporary standards rather than today's. I've toyed with similar ideas with the drapes and I've wondered about putting a thermostat upstairs to move risen hot air back downstairs.

  6. Re:Passive solar heating... on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 3, Informative

    You'd be amazed what can be done without proper design. Last year after the natural gas price spike, my wife went on a nut and turned the heat down to 55 for the winter. I'll admit it was a bit chilly at times and sweaters or sweatshirts became our casual dress around the house but by just opening and closing drape at the opportune times, we could keep the house above 65 during the day, above 62 during the evenings. We found it was more comfortable to shower with the bathroom door closed.

  7. other concentrators may be more practical on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 1

    I understand the attraction to a direct-to electricity approach has such as low to no maintenance; but it just seems to me that other approaches such as solar boilers and sterling generators are going to have an edge for quite some while. The ability to throw some more sunlight at the target can overcome many mechanical inefficiencies, I think this is like computer upgrades, sometimes you just have to go for it because there will never be an optimal time

  8. humans, the other pork on Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We're a lot closer to swine than most would imagine, pigskin has been used for xenografts for human burn victims and of course pig heart valves have been implanted into people. Rumor even has it that we taste about the same, ever heard the saying, "humans, the other pork" or the term long-pig?

  9. The Pump-n-Dumps are a problem, on What's With All This Spam? · · Score: 1

    Otherwise I'd be more than willing to scan the spam for the links to the beneficiaries websites and just block them or even turn chummer loose on them; but with pump-n-dumps their is no clear beneficiary.

  10. Re:Eugenics on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    LOL too bad you didn't get FP!

  11. Re:dangerous thinking and unwarranted IMHO on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1
    While most will consider this heresy but the fact is
    1. we don't know that we are smarter than the Neanderthals
    2. we don't know that the Neanderthals a separate species
    3. we don't know why we survived and they didn't

    A million years from now, will anthropologists finding that the African Nergos decimated by AIDS Famine and war, and the rest assimilated into the other races assume that Homo Sapiens was smarter, better adapted species than the Homo Negrus?
  12. Re:Why no counter requests? on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that Larry G. would love to bill the plaintiff $300.00 an hour to do forensic analysis to the defendant's hard-drives on the 20-30 computers he probably owns.

  13. Re:Uhhh... on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    if the spam was still in his folder at hotmail, yahoo ect, all he have to do is boot up knopix and access them problem solved; I'd even save copies as html and as source of the viewed page burnt to a cd to include.

  14. t's about billable hours on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't you guys know anything about SMTP e-mail headers?
    of course we do and so does everyone involved except the judge and maybe the defendant, but that's not what it's about. It's about billable hours and if the lawyer/computer forensics expert (Larry G Johnson) gets to poke around a computer hard-disk for a couple hours, he's $600.00 richer and his client (the alleged spammer) is $600.00 poorer and the plaintiff is wondering if the $500.00 he might win is worth the feeling of being so violated.

  15. Linux will be cracked on Dvorak On Microsoft/Novell Deal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linux eventually will be cracked
    Pssst! Hey Guys, seems you missed the memo, all of that stuff is available in CVS or SVN anonymously! You don't need to crack anything, it's all there, you don't even need a Password. We actually want you to use it, we'll even let you help us make it better for everyone if you want.

  16. Re:Meta-flamebait on Dvorak On Microsoft/Novell Deal · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the perfect "shim" be wine, at least for windows applications?

  17. Re:Let me answer your question with this statement on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    I think the election has pretty much demonstrated that people are ready for a change, and the real change they want is to quit feeling like a tug-toy between two pitbulls.

  18. Re:Vitally Important on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 1

    The great thing about this is it's distilled water, there's no salt in it, therefore it can also be used for irrigation with out turn the ground into a salted out sterile waste-land in a couple decades.

  19. Re:Good. on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    miss-spelling are underlined with a red squiggly line in fields I looked in about:config and didn't see a way to change the color.

  20. Re:Before coming to a knee jerk conclusion read th on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert in the field, but the way I understand it is we really don't know why a stem cell develops into a subsequent cell morphology rather than an other, but it's not purely genetic via nuclear DNA. That's why animal protein contaminates are bad, they may alter the cellular developement.

  21. Re:No. on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    As long as no animals were used in testing the product, people probably would not care. Our state actually has a law that require the animal pounds to regularly tune up the engines used to generate the carbon monoxide to euthanize unwanted animals, but operate the engines with full choke !

  22. Re:Agree on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in Chicago even dead people vote, now that's dedication to serving democracy!

  23. Re:Let me answer your question with this statement on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    Firstly if the candidate isn't incumbent to the position, than anything you do know about him/her is going to quickly fall victim to the realities of political wheeling and dealing; secondly if he is an incumbent, your only likely to know a carefully manicured position statement about him. Politicians generally put great effort in giving the most horrific bills the most touchy feel-good titles so they can bash their opponants for opposing them. The best one can really hope for is to get some eyeball to eyeball time and to tell the rascal in no uncertain terms, that he represents you, not the Democrats, or the Republicans or the unions or the business lobbies or any other group or PAC just you and if he ever forgets it, you will not, then you have to stick to it.

  24. Re:Oh come on! on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    China does do this research.

  25. Re:And The U.S. Loses Again on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    No the real problem is the way the ban in the US is worded, it strongly implies that a facility that conducts embryonic stem cell research not only can not use Federal funding for that research, but risk ALL Federal research funding; and the whole thing revolves around the definition of facility. Most of us don't have a problem with the Judeo-Islamic-Christian fundamentalists not wanting their tax monies used for something they consider immoral, but when the government withhold funds because of research to areas not involved in that research it's punitive and IMHO a violation of the separation of Church and State.