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  1. Re:Nu-uh on Mark Shuttleworth Tries To Lure OpenSUSE Devs · · Score: 1

    Those projects Linus turns down from the vanilla kernel often lead perfectly happy lives and are routinely patched in by assorted distros anyway
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    and besides don't some of the patches that Linus turns down later (after a few good training sessions and a few scratch bouts) get put in the kernel?

  2. Re:Who says that? on Can a Manager Be a Techie and Survive? · · Score: 1

    me i would think that "enough knowledge to be dangerous" + a good book on the current bullet points would be correct for a manager to do a Red October type job
    (every once in a while surface , sing a song and then disappear)

    Hint on bullet points of your folks "bullet points" if they are Black Talons back off

  3. Re:Marijuana is not a narcotic on China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life · · Score: 1

    easy way to solve the "weed" part of the drug problem

    1 allow folks to have enough plants to supply a well defined small group of clients (say 85% medical clients and 15% rec users)
    2 allow PharmCo to do research on how to make "better" weed and allow patents on the best 10% of the product (for natural life of the CxO group)
    (things like weaker but fast growing product low temp product super high tch product)
    3allow tobacco farmers to also have fields of Marijuana (i mean really they are already growing a highly addictive smoked product so WHY NOT i would think that the needs of both plants are close) (Joe Camel with dreds anyone?

  4. Re:is porn merely a Western invention? on China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life · · Score: 1

    the FM in question would be called The "Kama Sutra" some versions have pictures and "cool diagrams".

  5. Re:Missing something? on NIH Confirms Protocol To Reverse Type 1 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    But the Hippocratic oath says primum non nocere (first - do no harm), and we're bound by it.
    tunc of semen vires educo ----what our legal counsel reminds us of (machine translated please correct if you are a native Latin speaker)

  6. Re:Applications on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 1

    it involves something called the "noise floor" if you are in a large room (say a geek convention) and you needed to find a small child then you would need to cut past all of the geeks. if a "blank sky' has noise greater than "small bird" you wouldn't see said bird (in slashdot terms small birds are moderated to -3 and you are reading at 0)

  7. Re:Up to Date. on Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU · · Score: 1

    I would say that some C?O of Microsoft (US) needs to go to some courthouse and in blocks of 40million cast a saving throw for the fine (say 2d20 and he needs to make a throw of 32) after the throws are made then the fine is paid on the spot or the C?O gets to go to jail (no club fed stuff either).

  8. Re:This religion is just out of favor on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    just sit down with a good pastor and have him list the events that are in the bible that have a good measure of proof (a few from the list)

    1 some ancient kings (basically when a chapter/verse says that this guy (like king herod) there is proof that a guy by that name was a king of that area)
    2 entire cities (i think troy was only found in The Bible and a guy actually found it)
    3 general world events (the census from the beginning of the NT)

    plus a few historians did some writing and few have their notes/books most of the time if The Bible says X Y Z happened then the Bible is correct if there is a dispute

  9. Re:This religion is just out of favor on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    the real mind bender is to prove God does not exist you need to become Him (both all seeing and all knowing)

    science can only say that something has not been recorded not that something does not exist

    Some folks won't believe that The Ark does not exist until you hit them over the head with one of the planks.

  10. Re:This religion is just out of favor on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Okay so try the answers in genesis website and have some fun with the baptists (he rose again after three days and we do a lot of "free food" things)

  11. Re:This religion is just out of favor on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    science is the belief that given good enough instruments LIFE DOES IN FACT MAKE SENSE

    (psst buddy bad move you should have waited until after you took off your teacher hat before putting on the preacher hat)

  12. Re:and... on Microsoft Taking Heat For Patent Stance · · Score: 2, Funny

    i would think its more of a burn to ash kind of thing like when Blade runs his sword through a vampire (or any of his other silver weapons)

  13. Re:This is disingenuous Media spin on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    Even tommorrow they just announced that instead of the traditional half-day off before Thanksgiving they are having a full day and I'm not even sure why. The teachers in Detroit are worried about their jobs so they just pass almost any person that shows up to their class. If the bureaucracy is eliminated then the children will have a better chance of graduating and heading to college then dropping or barely graduating and going straight into the workforce.
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    just a hint FireFox 2.0 (or Firefox 1.5 with a spelling extension) would help a bit

  14. Re:Performance in High School on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    trying not to troll here but doesn't japan have its own high school dropout (of the ninth floor) problem or have they relaxed that some??

  15. Re:This is disingenuous Media spin on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that getting a (low power) stun gun/rod and simply buzzing a disruptive student (and rendering said student unconscious) will have less of an impact than
    doing what a normal teacher should do.

  16. Re:Fact and Fiction on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    i think the quote goes
          "Have the most honest of men write 6 lines and i will find in those six lines something to hang him for"

    What the law says literally

    What the law means

    What the law is used for
    are three different things (and sometimes very different things)

  17. HALO droppable satcom units anyone? on China Reinstates Wikipedia Ban · · Score: 1

    So how much work has been done on being able to send a combo of a satellite and wifi node out the door of a C130 and expect somebody to be able to (with the Chinglish manual) set this up?
    this would use the satellite dish to get a connect and then repeat the signal on a Wifi connection. (and yes i am hoping that a more permanent power source would be found)

    (or maybe it would be a case of what can brown do for you?)

  18. Re:Chemistry has always been dangerous. on Facing the Dangers of Nanotech · · Score: 1

    i would think that ingesting even 25 grams (micro is-10^6?) would send you on a trip to Vallahalla (or whatever is apropriate)

  19. Re:Seems within the law, for better or worse... on MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods · · Score: 1

    the trick is you would only use a copy not the original (think Forensics)

  20. Re:Double Edged Blade on MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods · · Score: 1

    okay so try this you buy a stack of dvds (and an ipod) hand both boxes to The Doctor he takes them into the TARDIS and visits the 13th centery while there he does the rip for you and then returns.

    WHY Does the timing make a difference? you buy a stack of dvds and the Ipod and a ripping service (assumes the DVDs are legit copies)

  21. Re:Umm on Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray Are DOA · · Score: 1

    okay substitute every episode of B5 or SG1 the point is having BIGNUM of movies in your pocket (think GenX.5 Ipod)

  22. Re:Wait a minute.. on Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up For Failure? · · Score: 1

    umm have you tried one of about a bazillion LIVE CD distros? if you want to land up with a installed system then you could do one of the distros that can be converted from live cd to standard Like oh Mandriva 2007 (it has an icon on the desktop to do the full install)

  23. Re:Wait a minute.. on Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up For Failure? · · Score: 1

    and there are cracks for Vista running around NOW

  24. Re:You have to consider... on Firefox 2.0 Wins Phishfight Against IE7 · · Score: 1

    and to prove this i quote from gnu .org (the last bug)
    It still wasn't perfect, As year followed year, And strangers would comment, "Is that guy still here?"

    He died at the console, Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, nine-edge first.

    And the last bug in sight, An ant passing by, Saluted his tombstone, And whispered, "Nice try.

  25. Re:It's failing because good IT people will avoid on Biggest IT Disaster Ever? · · Score: 1

    so did you count the managers in the redundent 1 out of 15? (hint a lot of times you will find that keeping the manager busy is a great way to get stuff done)