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  1. Re:Forgotten? on The Dot Com Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    Hey, kiss my ass pal, the Cowgirls only beat us twice. :)

  2. Re:NAT firewall boxes help immensely on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1

    That's probably true, but let's say my network has nothing you should ever see... but I want my network to be able to get out. I don't need my workstation to have a public IP address, ever.

    Is there a better solution than NAT? Why would IPv6 be such a great thing? I mean, imagining back to the world when every machine was addressable directly is fun, but might not be what people desire any more...

  3. Re:What TiVo needs to do. on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    Except integrate with my DirecTV.

    Actually, what I'd like to see is a way to send the DTV signals to a receiver, then route the output of that through a machine I could then connect to from any room in the house. The DTV "$5 per TV" bullshit is annoying...

  4. Re:NAT firewall boxes help immensely on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1

    Can you explain why NAT is "really lame"? I'm genuinely curious. It occurs to me that hiding everything behind a NAT firewall is a pretty good solution, all things considered.

  5. More CSS Support on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's not the greatest dream of all, but keep improving CSS support in Gecko. Push to support as much as possible, even the little weird buts that most people don't care about.

    I don't like seeing "Mostly CSS2 compliant" even if it is about the best out there.

  6. Re:A feature I'd like to see... on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Mod this one up! A way to force HTML to break so that there's never a horizontal scrollbar.

  7. Re:Just like plasmas... on Are Nanotube Monitors In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    One wonders who the fuck would take the time and effort to go back through and off-topic that post. Nothing like trying to squash conversation, you dumb fucks.

  8. Re:Just like plasmas... on Are Nanotube Monitors In Your Future? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interesting thought, but not quite right.

    I absolutely make a profit on the house. I bought my first townhouse putting down about 10k, and I just told it, getting 89k put into my bank account, and that's after a number of rather hefty repairs. If that's not a profit, you better get into an economics class, quick.

    I can (a) move into a bigger house because I'll have lots more equity, each dollar of which buys 5 dollars of home value, because one only needs 20% down to avoid PMI and higher rates, and (b) usually afford more because I'm young and still salary-increasing.

    As for it being greedy capitalist crap, don't be retarded (or socialist). The prices on houses are only increasing because there's someone out there willing to pay that price. If someone wants to offer pay me $370k for my 2200 sq ft townhouse, it would be stupid for me to say, "No, I only want $150k"...

  9. Re:Just like plasmas... on Are Nanotube Monitors In Your Future? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And if you live around DC, it works fine.

    And if you're smart and you get the equity loan, then you can reduce your tax load a little.

    It's all a little silly to me, but my house has appreciated over 100k and I haven't even moved in yet...

  10. Re:Wont work on Hewlett-Packard To Offer Linux-based Media Hub · · Score: 1

    Your setup intrigues me, so I'm replying for two reasons: 1, can you provide a link to learning more about how to set this stuff up, and 2, so I can come back through my own comments someday to look this up and google what you're talking about.

    The diskless bit is most interesting, I think.

  11. Re:Wow, an edit war on Wiki. Be still my heart. on Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    One wonders why you'd ever expect Wikipedia to be an "end point" to research rather than a beginning... or who claimed Wikipedia would ever be such a thing.

    For what it is - A starting point to research - it's an incredible tool.

    Anyone who uses the 'net, hits one source and stops, believing it to be absolute truth, is a fool (see Pierre Salinger).

  12. Re:First things on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone reasonable would laugh at you. However, the market dictates what gets built: Most people just don't care enough about the construction of their home to pay for it... since the builder can easily sell the 600k cardboard homes without "going the extra mile", so to speak, why wouldn't they?

    Your point might be, "Well, the builder SHOULD care." To which I reply, they do, they build better homes for more money, or in different locations. There is no monopoly on housing.

  13. Re:In case it's Slashdotted... on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    Now THAT is some funny shit! (pun intended)

  14. Re:On NBC Monday Night on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    Nope. Nice try telling me what I saw. Robert Bozell even put the "skull cap" on, which was blue, and looked remarkably like a shower cap.

    He did manage to move the "cursor", and most certainly had nothing implanted anywhere.

  15. On NBC Monday Night on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    Robert Bozell did this story Monday night on NBC. I don't usually mock /., but come on, once it's been on network news, it's a little late.

    Then again, how many /.ers watch NBC news regularly?

    It looked amazing to me. It looked rather like early pong games, the user just learned how to move the small dot onto the large one. Nothing real precise, but imagine 30 years from now...

  16. Re:The system works!!! on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1

    Come on now, I'm down here in Springfield now... we don't get SNOW here!!

    Well, not any that really counts anyway. :)

  17. Re:The system works!!! on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1

    Are you in Buffalo, by chance? :)

    NOAA data is excellent, I'll agree with that... Only having pulled tons of it for nationwide map display, and of course I'd love to just have a nice GIS layer of every piece, but what's there is sweet enough.

  18. Re:In other news on Energia Reveals New Russian Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Little known fact: The place where Russia makes its laws is actually called the Remlin.

    KDE just got there first and named it. Unfortunately, the Gnome team chose to design a car instead.

    (for the english-impaired: Gremlin)

  19. Re:Gandalf -v- Saruman??? on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Here you are, telling people what can and cannot work in a movie, and you still can't spell the villain's name correctly. Criminy.

  20. Re:Irony on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    Insight and then explanation. Thanks a lot! Good luck with the raving masses, though...

  21. Re:What orbit? on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: 1

    High resolution, aiming capability on geosync satellites....

    It'll be some time before China has the expertise to do that kind of thing, methinks. Me could be wrong, of course. :)

    If I were a bettin' man, I'd put my chips on the idea they'll be watching a lot more than their own domain. (Yes, that means "spying" even if everyone in the world knows the satellites are there)

  22. Re:What I wish Gentoo had on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 1

    Okay, another thing I wish Gentoo had: Info like this in a Wiki or something. :)

    Thanks!

  23. Re:What I wish Gentoo had on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 1

    The "problem" with this is when you do an emerge world and 30 packages go zipping by. Maybe you didn't realize a few would be installed, and now you have no idea.

    Of course, you can dump all that output into a file, but if you forget... tough noogies.

  24. Re:Say what you may on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Firefox is now the most nicest browser out their."

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhh my eyes!!

    "most nicest"?? "their"?? The pain! Make it stop!

  25. Re:By Weirdness, Taco means on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't be stupid.

    Even if Bush shut down all economic activity in the US and wiped out all CO2 producing machinery, it would have made exactly NO DIFFERENCE.

    I can't believe you're blaming Bush for hurricanes now. That's just intellectually pathetic.