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  1. Re:Alternatively... on Slashback: Wireless, Gasoline, Prevarication · · Score: 2
    If I was to engineer such a fraud, (which I wouldn't) I would mismeasure full speed outflows. ie. Mismeasure on the standard consumer use case of sticking hose in tank, pulling the trigger to the max, and putting the catch on while going off to wash the windows.

    What I would measure accurately is the trickle, trickle, trickle case where someone is trying to get an exact quantity like X gallons for measurement purposes.

  2. Barbie, McDonalds, etc. etc. on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 3, Funny

    You let your daughter go the Barbie site? Shudder Yeurgh. The poor girl, she'll grow up all twisted.

  3. EVERYBODY HAS A WINDOW THAT OPENS! on Building a Better Office · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Nothing compares to the sheer simplicity and utility of that.

    I speak with the authority of one who once had such a thing, and now cannot even see a window.

  4. XMLTerm, can't revisit much more than that!:-) on Terminal Emulators Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://xmlterm.sourceforge.net/ About XMLterm XMLterm is both a command line "terminal", like an Xterm, and also a web page, like the one displayed by your browser. XMLterm adds powerful hypertext and graphical capabilities to the Xterm-like terminal interface through its use of the extensible markup language (XML), which is a generic specification for markup languages like HTML. XMLterm is implemented using the open source Mozilla browser components.

  5. Wrong Topic. Should be "It's funny, laugh" on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please reassign to correct topic.

  6. Re:Handtops on Are PDAs Simply Finished? · · Score: 1
    I went to my first computer conference at the New York Hilton about 20 years ago. When somebody there predicted the market for microprocessors would eventually be in the millions, someone else said, Where are they all going to go? It's not like you need a computer in every doorknob! Years later, I went back to the same hotel. I noticed the room keys had been replaced by electronic cards you slide into slots in the doors. There was a computer in every doorknob. Danny Hillis

    And every embedded device and doorknob has a lousy cruddy interface.

    The true future for PDA's is to be a decent universal interface for every embedded device around it.

  7. Re:Chernobyl on Slashback: Fairness, Radioactivity, Recovery · · Score: 1
    That report you point to is from a "Radiation is Good For You" NGO made up of nuke industry supporters.

    Try... Health: Long-term effects - Overview

    Basically lots and lots of money is involved so everyone is lying fit to bust while the poor sods in between die.

  8. Re:Elena's website on Slashback: Fairness, Radioactivity, Recovery · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar" because somebody is going to get their ass kicked in for letting her through.

    Her story has changed, no suprised, because some ugly bugger in authority is out to get the poor sod who let her through. No doubt she is shocked by the interest the whole thing created, and now is trying to protect that person.

    Elena is a _very_ brave lady to go biking through hell, and even braver to take on the mindless butt covering bureaucrats that created hell.

  9. Re:Chernobyl on Slashback: Fairness, Radioactivity, Recovery · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So some official, representative of the goverment that created the mess in the first place says she didn't. So suddenly you disbelieve her.

    I mean when these "Authorities" were "Communists", you all knew they were congenital liars. Now the same "authorities" are no longer "communists", but something a lot closer to Robber barons, you suddenly believe them!?! They the same bastards.

    We talking about a country where everybody has a amply well founded fear of authority. So an authority goes and asks her, "Did you ride you bike alone through Chernobyl?" Answer: "No, no, of course not."

  10. Soon now.... on Amateur Rocket Reaches Space · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Could be good for VIP protection on Military Develops Liquid Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Imagine the tabloid/fox headlines. "Prez has Green Goo instead of Blood! Our Prez is an Illegal Alien!"

  12. Re:Winux isnt the future on Lindows Agreeing to Change Name · · Score: 1

    LinuxDistributionWithANameThatDoesntRemindAnyoneOf BigUglyBullies

  13. Re:mis-diagnosis on Cyberchondria · · Score: 1
    So in 10 minutes, with his mind on this afternoon's golf game, ye average health professional troubleshoots (with a 100% success rate) the most complex robotic system on the planet.

    Man! We could really use some programmers like that! Pity none exist.

    Listen to him, speak to him, but always double check the blighters by looking on the 'net. And not just at one site. Always ask yourself whether listening to the Doctor or reading the 'net "Who benefits?" "What is this guy's existential position, what's he trying to prove?"

    Whose life is it anyway? Who has been living with the condition for days maybe years?

    Sure you can get intern's disease in a bad way looking at the 'net, but if you have been reading the 'net you're aware of that possibility and know to cross-check.

  14. Who cares, Google is clean and simple. on Google v. Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Have a look at the Google home page and look at www.msn.com

    One is clean, simple.

    The other is packed, messy, covered in ad's, and preformatted for 800x600.

  15. Re:Did Google hit the social network bulls-eye? on Slashback: Zip, Language, Opportunism · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As Groucho Marx said, "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member."

  16. Re: Land mines in DMZs on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1

    Definitely South Korean.

  17. Debian just works. on Debian Fastest-Growing Distro, Says Netcraft · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "aptitude" every now and then goes off and upgrades lots and lots, and I think, "Oh shit, this has got to break".

    And it doesn't.

    It just goes on and on, never crashing, never getting it's knickers in a knot. Just an endless stream of prime software, at my finger tips, or at the beck of a quick apt-get. And the upgrades and patches, just happpen. The dependencies? It all just sort's itself out.

    I've been in this business for a very long time, and every time I look at the list of things that "aptitude" is going to upgrade today I chuckle and say, it going to break now.

    And it just doesn't!

    And I'm not even on the "stable" distribution!

  18. Re: Land mines in DMZs on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1
    Last time I spoke to a Korean, he said the main obstacle to reunification _was_ the objections of the US to reunification.

    ie. It's a empty argument, the US needs mines to keep the DMZ, the DMZ is there because the US want's the two Korea's separate. Why? A seperate South Korea must always be deep in US's pocket, a reunified Korea will be truly independent and choose other allies.

  19. Re:The obvious response on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1
    Oh come on! Those mines where laid by grunt foot soldiers (probably in the dark) without GPS's. You want to risk your life on there map reading?

    Hell! Even if they GPS's and were working in broad daylight I would trust them. The average soldier I have met is bored, nafi, and couldn't give a shit.

  20. Re:When are you murderers going to sign the Treaty on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1
    Very funny. Go for a long walk around Victoria Falls, well off the tourist paths.

    The Rhodesian war was so long ago most of the people there now weren't alive then.

    The mines are still there.

  21. Re:The USA still supports the use of landmines on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nope, that is the stated reason. The real reason is the yanks just love their cluster munitions. They feel they really have the edge on the world with them.

  22. Re:Spirit of Diana Spencer on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1
    Please sign the Peoples Treaty
    It is my strong belief that mines, which may be exploded by the presence or proximity of a person, are morally unacceptable. I fully support the convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, transfer and production on anti-personnel mines and on their destruction. Through their signature, governments promise to officially adopt and ratify the Ottawa Treaty and to comply with all of its terms. These include support for global demining work and assistance for mine victims. Through my signature on the People's treaty, I commit to working to ensure that governments keep these promises.
  23. When are you murderers going to sign the Treaty! on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As of 23 October 2003 the 1997 treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of antipersonnel landmines has been ratified or acceded to by 141 countries which are States Parties. Another 9 countries have signed but have not yet completed their ratification process, bringing the total number of countries supporting the treaty to 150. 44 Countries have not yet joined the treaty.

    1997 Mine Ban Treaty - NON SIGNATORIES

    This is the list of the 44 countries that have not signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty as of 23 October 2003.

    1. ARMENIA
    2. AZERBAIJAN
    3. BAHRAIN
    4. BHUTAN
    5. CHINA
    6. CUBA
    7. EGYPT
    8. ESTONIA
    9. FINLAND
    10. GEORGIA
    11. INDIA
    12. IRAN
    13. IRAQ
    14. ISRAEL
    15. KAZAKHSTAN
    16. KOREA, NORTH
    17. KOREA, SOUTH
    18. KUWAIT
    19. KYRGYZSTAN
    20. LAOS
    21. LATVIA
    22. LEBANON
    23. LIBYA
    24. MICRONESIA
    25. MONGOLIA
    26. MOROCCO
    27. MYANMAR (BURMA)
    28. NEPAL
    29. OMAN
    30. PAKISTAN
    31. PALAU
    32. PAPUA NEW GUINEA
    33. RUSSIA
    34. SAUDI ARABIA
    35. SINGAPORE
    36. SOMALIA
    37. SRI LANKA
    38. SYRIA
    39. TONGA
    40. TUVALU
    41. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
    42. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    43. UZBEKISTAN
    44. VIETNAM
    (Source International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  24. Re:Yours. on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1
    127.0.0.1

    But I think you will find we think very much a like. So just try out a few root passwords you know and you might be lucky...

  25. Re:where credit is due... on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo · · Score: 2, Informative
    waste is wasted.

    If you follow the links you get the droid speak...

    NOTICE OF UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE

    An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website on or about Wednesday May 28, 2003. The software was identified as "WASTE" (the "Software") and includes the files "waste-setup.exe", "waste-source.zip", "waste-source.tar.gz" and any additional files contained in these files.

    Nullsoft is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in the Software. The posting of the Software on this website was not authorized by Nullsoft.

    If you downloaded or otherwise obtained a copy of the Software, you acquired no lawful rights to the Software and must destroy any and all copies of the Software, including by deleting it from your computer. Any license that you may believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated.

    Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's copyright in the Software as well as a potential violation of other laws.

    Thank you.

    Nullsoft

    ie. The droids are trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. The fact that it "rox" and has been killed by the droid's speaks volumes.