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  1. Re:A couple of answers... on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    as a person "in the business" could you give the 3x5 version of who is eligible to give blood?
    I figure Healthy not taking any meds not over/underweight [+- range??] adult not inside the lockout period [2 months??] but this is the kind of thing you can't guess

    sitting here as an overweight O- with a mildy infected leg

  2. Re:Bacterial names on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    and it also solves the problem of deciding which language to use (latin is a "dead" language so its stable and everybody with a PHD [subtype medical/biological] knows latin
    or can look its up).

  3. Re:O negative, eh? on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    when you only have 0.25 liters of blood total (/. reader have about 5 liters) you don't have all that much to loose.

    this is one of those things that Think Of The Children is very much justified

  4. Re:It is based on Kubuntu, not on Ubuntu on Ulteo, The New 'World's Easiest Linux' · · Score: 1

    one of the big hooks for ulteo is that the upgrade ap functions automatically (download and install the alpha it will become the beta which will become the release which)

    me im sticking with Mandriva (soon to be 2007.1)

  5. Re:It's fairly simple... on Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court · · Score: 1

    a few things to consider

    1 rental movies should be watermarked or otherwise indentifiable
    2 a good number of the rental version are butchered and or are the basic version (you get the movie you might get all of the "extras" but..)
    3 if you have a warrant served on your Media Server you should be able BY DEFINITION be able to match a physical disc with each virtual Disc or be able to prove that the vDisc was purchased as a download so if you have 2000 VDiscs you should be able to point to ~83 shelf feet of actual media (minus vDisc only images)

    truthfully if we want the *iaa to play according to Gentlemens Rules then we should also

  6. Re:Payback's a bitch on Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court · · Score: 1

    tell a parent that they can buy a "magic box" that will play every single kids movie they have (oh and btw you get to upload the dvd one time and you can lock up the disc)
    and the kids can do all the "work" after the dvd is "uploaded".

    Heck John Q Public will want one for Johnny junior (and sally).
    never underestimate the power of 4 solid hours of "the Song that never ends" or Barney or blues clues or or ...

    or for the folks without "dependent clauses" think of it TeraBytes of PRON or being able to do StarWars Saga and Lord of the rings and Back to the future and Terminator and... back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back !

  7. Re:Makes sense on MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light · · Score: 1

    Clearly doesn't follow. It's like saying, "If arsenic can cause death, then arsenic should be able to cure death."

    umm you shot your little toe off with that statement since proper dosage and need is what you have to consider

    a heck of a lot of older drugs are bits of plants/things that in dose X per POBW cures (condition) but dose NX is fatal
    drink a cup of willow bark tea and cure a headache drink a half barrel of Willow bark tea and you could be coughing up your stomach --raw aspirin is in WBT
    Belladona is another one half a leaf and you keep your ticker going half the plant and its Buh BYE time

    a lot of drug production is making the dif between therapeutic dose and LD50 very very wide (and not needing to use 8 tons of plant to make 4 bottles of drug)

  8. Re:I'm so excited! on Linux Preinstalled Dell Available Soon · · Score: 1

    what would be news is if the ad stuffed in the racks at the dell kiosks had a page of Linux systems.

    Note if that happens and continues for say 3 months SELL MSFT

    from chatting with the folks at one Kiosk they might actually sell them if they had the "shiny" to do so.

  9. Re:True meaning of :"retroactively" on FSF Releases Third Draft of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License[[, or (at your option) any later version.]]"

    the issue is IF the [[ ]] portion is included Then yes when GPLv3 comes out all copies upgrade to v3 automatically
    so we have 3 possible outcomes
    1 the [[ ]] section is included -- the effective license becomes GPL v3
    2 the next version comes out and changes the wording to the new GPL v3 version (change log entry license updated to gpl v 3 ...)
    3 the [[ ]] section is not present -- license remains gpl 2 (most commonly with a date stamp)

  10. Re:Benchmarks, anyone? on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 1

    the biggest trick is Boot time/ ram/flash overlay (think "ready boost" after chugging LD25 levels of caffeine) so if it has 4 gigs of ram and 128 gigs of flash
    it effectively has 132 gigs of RAM.

  11. Re:Huh on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 1

    Issued by LLoyds OF London and comes with a 3 pack of hitmen (to "recover" the laptop if stolen and "instruct" the person that stole it)

  12. Audit trail on Communicating Persuasively, Email or Face-to-Face? · · Score: 1

    email is best to document a conversation

  13. WorkBrain Not good Danger do not use on Software for Managing Timesheets? · · Score: 1


    WorkBrain on Vista would most likely be as fun as having a DOJ and IRS audit at the same time

  14. Re:at least they got radio deregulation right on DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA · · Score: 1

    We have the best government Money can buy (v jnag n ershaq)

  15. Re:Who? on Doctor Who Series Four Is A Go · · Score: 1

    just find "first" and then thats where Who will be (when is another)

  16. Re:If you ever wondered what this case was about on IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing · · Score: 1

    and the big lessons are

    1 DO NOT SUE the core of the open source movement

    2 do not hack off a paralegal (with a Blog)

    3 Don't become an interesting problem

  17. Re:Danger... on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    explode no but if you happen to get in its way your results range from "owie" to "toe tag" (can you say COD was Blunt Force Trauma)

  18. Re:Natural Maturation? on How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT? · · Score: 1

    the trick between "safe" and "clever" code is what results you need

    1 DO NOT FAIL ---- in the real world not happening for any code under 20 years of age
    2 fail however ----- dangerous code
    3 Fail in known ways ----- install error handling code and recover as needed

  19. Re:Natural Maturation? on How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT? · · Score: 1

    creativity also helps when you walk off the stack of FAQs to a problem that "doesn't happen"

    like oh a multiple subnet situation where an ap keeps falling over on one subnet but works in another (public /private subnets)

    DRUM ROLL PLEASE

    check the gateway device ----- not the obvious solution

  20. Re:Posted notice? on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    BTW, did you see that Archive.org has a robots.txt which prevents spidering by legit web spiders?

    -----
    and for very good reasons
    1 the info is by definition redundant/outdated (6 months is the minimum age of the data)
    2 they have PETABYTES of data (fyi 1 petabyte = 1 048 576 gigabytes)
    3 they want to be able to do a drop data quickly (somebody puts a robots.txt up or rings the info address with a drop data request)

  21. Re:Posted notice? on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    i can see 3 veryish quick ways to exclude robots from her site
    1 a robots.txt file dropped into each html folder on her site
    2 put the tag META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" in the template for her site
    3 in this case drop a note to info at archive.org telling them she does not want to be spidered

    the response for all spiders should be to drop all of her data from their indexes (there goes any money she spent on SEO)

  22. Re:Strange headline on The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326 · · Score: 1

    im not going to go into the whole saga on this but
    http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200507182 04313749&query=ritchie

    This is a declaration by BRIAN W. KERNIGHAN who
    1 Co wrote one of the standard bocks on C
    2 worked on the team that create UNIX
    3 (just picking another from the list at rhandom) a member of the National Academy of Engineering ("NAE"), to which I was elected in 2002, and I am currently a member of the NAE Peer Committee for the Computing Science and Engineering section.

    TSCOG has no case FULL STOP

  23. Re:I Am NOT Addicted to Meth on Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Careful now when you feed
    On others for your need
    you may find your lesson
    Provided by Drs Smith & Wesson

    so whats the closest SlashDupe?

  24. Re:Latency? on SkyQube Squared Shakes Up International Calling · · Score: 1

    umm there is this thing called "the Speed Of Light" also network switching may cause a bit of a problem

    (for most situations this is trival/subtrivial but...)

  25. Re:Yeah--No Kidding! on Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing · · Score: 1

    and the real funnzie is if they find something Not covered under my warrant they have to have the existing warrant expanded (or a Nth warrant) to make the evidence legal to use. example

    they serve a No Knock warrant for "meth and related material" and they during a search find a Nuke lab they would need to get a new warrant (or expansion) to cover the WMD stuff (so they call both a judge and the bomb squad)