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  1. porno version of the Little Mermaid? on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    Uhh, you got a bittorrent link?

  2. Screw Orion, try a gas core nuclear rocket on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    GCNR is much nicer, most of the thrust, far less fallout, no big pusher plates needed.

    We just have to convince the stupid greenies that a nuclear powered rocket is less dangerous than Kerosene-lox.

  3. Re:Gravity's Rainbow on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 1

    I've read it several times, probably my favorite Pynchon. I'm even enshrined in a book about the Pynchon mailing list.

  4. Cisco Press, 1999 is calling on Cisco Networking Simplified · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They want their simplistic puff books about the internet back.

    Really, how many freaking introduction to networking books do you need, this is like chapter one of any networking book today? I remember going through most of this in the beginning of my Netware 3.1 tutorials.

  5. sonic means mean speed of particles on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, a supersonic velocity means the space probe is moving faster than the mean speed of the errant hydrogen atoms.

    Subsonic means it's moving slower than the mean speed of the atoms, and a wave can propagate ahead of it.

    In this case, the velocity of the particles from the sun slows down when they encounter interstellar particles.

  6. Well Jack, as Mohemmad once said on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1, Troll

    when his disciples were anointing his turban with expensive olive oil and they wondered why they shouldn't spend that money on the poor, instead of turban oil, "the poor will always be with us."

    I'm sure if you met most of those hungry, homeless sorts, you'd find them to be mentally ill people who refuse to take their medidine. Now, 30 years ago, they could be forced to take their medicine, but since those touchy feely sorts got into power, they said it's against human rights to force them to take medicine. So now, they prefer to remain undrugged and homeless. Their choice.

    As far as YMCA dwellers, they're all gay, every one, I think the Village People proved that.

    I think we need to dump more and more money into the space program, so we can make Mars colonies and only allows brainy guys and lots of girls with big tits and nice asses to emigrate, and leave the nutsos and homos back on Earth. Are you in?

  7. You my friend, are on the "FRIENDS" ladder on Tridgell and Samba Recognized · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    unless you grow a big pair, and start treating women they way they secretly crave to be treated (ie, the man is the dominating one, not a pussy whipped sensitive friend), you're going to stay on the friend ladder.

    I suggest you google for the Ladder Theory.

  8. Those Aussies love their outlaws on Tridgell and Samba Recognized · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The country started as a dumping ground for criminals and ne're-do-wells from England, the biggest Australian movie star got his fame as a V-8 driving ex-cop loner with a sawed off shotgun, and now someone who is illegally reverse engineering Microsoft propietary network protocols is their IT man of the year!

  9. Linux fits well with India on Linux Gaining Ground In India · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can have a unique distro for each of their animal headed, multi-armed gods.

  10. There are chemicals to help introverts on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find a few quarts of ale energize me, and make me the most charming geek in the world.

  11. Did SCO get to k5? on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I noticed none of the K5 links work, did SCO get to them? This is pretty creepy.

  12. I make lots of money freelancing on Part Two: Technical Self-Employment For All · · Score: 0, Funny

    I have a PEARL script that downloads porn from my newsreader, then I use mkisofs and cdrrecord to put onto CDs, which I sell to horny junior high kids without broadband, $5 a CD.

    Thanks Open Source!

  13. Re:First calculators, anyone? on New High-End HP Calculator? · · Score: 1

    I had an old one with a red LED, but I have no idea what it was.

  14. Wow! You are the one. Now, just sue Neitsche, on In The Beginning & The Keys of Egypt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Keirkegaard, Satre and Camus for IP infringement, at least for a start.

  15. Considering how much they pay CIA personell on Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait for a few middle east specialists to start skewing data to make their bets pay off.

    "Woot! Car Bomb in Riyadh! That pays 100-1, guess I shouldn't have sat on that report about Saudi terrorists."

  16. Geocaching is a too dangerous in the city on Geocaching Crackdown? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really think most cities should band geocaching within their city limits all together, just to protect themselves against terrorist acts.

    While the dweebish geocachers might think it's all good clean fun, a way to show off their disposable income with a high tech gewgaw and exchange some swag for other swag, terrorists are finding web pages full of GPS coordinates in the midst of populated cities.

    Do we really want to see a poor man's cruise missile strike Central Park, loaded with Anthrax or Sarin? How many Americans are going to have to die because some insane Muslim hooked up a GPS to to the autopilot of a Beechcraft and loaded it with Iraqi made chemical and biologican Weapons of Mass Destruction?

    Now, you know and I know that anything that gets those flabby, pasty white geeks away from their computers for a few hours is a good thing, but they should find an outdoor hobby that doesn't compromise the security of American's cities.

  17. I blame the bloodthirsty media on Game Originality: Any Left? · · Score: -1, Interesting

    for making twitch games so popular, though it isn't really their fault, it's the fault of the military-industrial complex which needs foot soldiers for it's empire building endeavors, and who owns and controls the Media, cf. GE owning NBC.

    Face America, if you want to keep driving gas guzzling SUVs, and keep heating 5000 square foot McMansions, you need a cheap source of fossil fuel, and it's a heck of a lot easier to get that with soldier's whose first reaction is a head shot, than with people who want to work out a solution like Sim City, or other, novel games.

    One need only look to Germany, a country which severe first hand experience with warfare and violence too see what a knowledgeable populace can do about violent games. Violent games in Germany are kept behind counters and can only be bought with ID, a person in Germany would face more social dismay for buying a voilent, Nazi glorifying game like Wolfenstein or 1941 than they would for buying Schiesse-videos.

  18. Would 36 gig do it? on Game of Life in Postscript · · Score: 1

    and Solaris 8 on a SunFire 800? Now, that's a high end printer.

  19. Sort of an object tree on Game of Life in Postscript · · Score: 1

    You start with a document outline, then the first few objects number the pages, each one built with text and image objects.

    At the end you have a map of the various objects, it's a pain in the ass to read, but at least Adobe lets you download the reference manual for free.

    Some of the commands and concepts are similar to PostScript, and some of the commands are 2-3 character version of the 8 character PS commands.

  20. As Moore's law slows, the Japanese will rule PCs on Oddball PC Cases From Japan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a good glimpse into the future of the PC world, for the market leader in trendy commodity electronics is the Japanese.

    As Moore's law begins to slow, and the difference between a 2 gHz Duron and a 4 gHz Duron become imperceptible to most normal people ( a few socially challenged gamers and overclockers aside), people will no longer flock to domestic manufacturers known for high performance boxes like IBM, Dell and Gateway, but will instead look for a box that will last them 3 years, and go with thier domestic decorating scheme.

    It's not too late for American PC manufactuers to stop focusing on CPU's and hard drives and start making PC's that can occupy a place of honor in the house, next to the flatscreen TV. Not everyone wants their house to look like an ISP.

  21. Sexual favors are free on Favor Ideas for a Geeky Wedding? · · Score: 1

    and would be highly appreciated by most geeks.

    Maybe you can invite lots of desperate elementary education coeds and serve lots of alcohol!

  22. How much product must I commit to on Ask a LinuxWorld Exhibitor · · Score: -1, Troll

    before I can get a booth babe to come back to my hotel room? Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands?

  23. What, you're newspaper isn't full of Linux ads? on Maine School & Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Paying 60k and full benefits for inexperienced Linux admins in a Fortune 50 company? Mine is, maybe you want to move to my city, Fantasyburg!

  24. No thanks RIAA on RIAA Settlement: Possible Consumer Payback · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather rationalize my mp3 theft by saying CD prices are too high.

  25. Penn State, not Penn, Timothy on Pasta Outperforms Computers For Earthquake Modeling · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Penn is short for the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia for rich people too dumb to get into Princeton, Yale, Harvard of Cornell, and famous for being the alma mater of those whinging crybabies of Thirtysomething.

    Penn State is a cheap state school in the middle of Pennsylvania famous for alcohol overconsumption and Joe Paterno.