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  1. Re:Seymour Cray on Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC · · Score: 0

    No, it's a kibichicken.

  2. Re:Ion drive on Messenger Spacecraft Prepared for Mercury · · Score: 1
    speed of light is roughly 30,000,000 m/s.

    I believe you meant 300,000,000 m/s. Only off by an order of magnitude.

  3. Re:USB Printer Status on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IIRC, it was a message logged when a parallel port device raised the error line but didn't send an error code. The "On fire" was not a statement but a question, as in "lp0: Reports error but not out-of-paper, not paper jammed, not offline. On fire?"

  4. Re:sub roots on Solaris 10 to be Released Late in 2004 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This feature sounds like the privilege model from Trusted Solaris is being mainlined into the plain ol' Solaris tree. In which case, yes, someone is working to bring that into Linux. That's one of things SELinux is doing.

  5. Re:Atmoshperic Density on Fly Over Mars... in a Robotic Balloon · · Score: 1
    Hydrogen has the slight disadvantage however of being explosive. You'd hate to have the craft explode upon entry or even worse as it is leaving our atmosphere. All we need is another Hindenburg.

    Oh please, that's not even a real concern. A craft going to Mars has to carry a propellant like hydrazine or red fuming nitric acid to power mid-course correction thrusters. Compared to that a hydrogen tank is nothing. Plus, unlike hydrazine, hydrogen needs to be mixed with oxygen to combust, and crazily enough you're not going to find much oxygen on Mars or on the way there.

  6. Re:i was dumbstruck for a second on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 1

    It's visiable in that picture. It's the white pod under the near wing. The pic is too small to see much in the way of details though.

  7. Re:So... on The 2.7 Kernel: Back To The Future For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful
    but I think this is a case of "Don't attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity"

    Unfortunately the truly malicious are seldom stupid.

  8. Re:Yes, but... on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More importantly, that's a mine you no longer have to worry about...

  9. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ach, you kids and your "brains." When I started we had to do all our thinkin' with just a few neurons at the top of our spinal chords. And we liked it! We loved it!

    Brains? Luxury...

  10. Re:Use the money elsewhere?!? on Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, this is "Abuse". Sorry.

  11. Re:Hubble on Milky Way Gets Bigger · · Score: 4, Informative

    It actually doesn't matter all that much. Since there's no atmosphere there, you can still do a lot of optical observations during the lunar day. Only objects that appear near the sun would be off limits. The real advantage to the moon, though, would be for radio astronomy - the far side is quite well shielded from earth's radio noise.

  12. Re:When the duplicate story arrives... on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    No, no, no.. It will be 11, as in 'Our WinAmps go to 11.'

  13. Re:huh? on New Wi-Fi Distance Record Set In Utah · · Score: 1

    The slashdot posting converted the distance to metric miles.

  14. Re:I guess I am lucky... on Interview with Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat · · Score: 5, Informative
    some slightly more advanced notification would have been nice through the usual Red Hat channels.

    The EOL dates for 7.x were announced almost a year ago. People just noticed them again when the Fedora stuff was announced.

    What more were you expecting? A singing telegram? Carrier pigeon?
  15. Re:Sharks don't really sleep on Caffeine Level In Sea Causes Concern · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's only true of the primitive sharks, like the great white. More modern sharks like the leopard shark have gills that function fine at rest.

  16. Re:OT: Re:Why use PostgreSQL over MySQL? on PostgreSQL 7.4 Released · · Score: 1
    Which is to say that a string column that accepts NULL can have (wait for it...) null string ""

    No, you're missing the point. In a database, a NULL and a empty ("") string are two distinct concepts. In this case the complaint is that a column is declared NOT NULL (it cannot have NULL as a value) and no declared default value. If insert a row without providing a value for that column MySQL incorrectly converts your implicit NULL to an empty string. Every other real database will fail the insert because insert violates the data contraints of the table. That's the gotcha.

  17. Re:how do people come up with these laws? on 'Winston Smith' Speaks Out On MS Reader Convertor · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much how it goes, except you forgot the part where 'Bob' mentions how uncomfortable it is to sit on a wallet stuffed so full with bribe money from the various media concerns.

  18. Re:On Purpose? on Nokia Investigating Reported Cell Phone Explosions · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, what if there were an RFID tag in the battery and a reader in the phone. It could be embedded in the plastic shell and never be found even in disassembly.

    I'm that saying that's the case with Nokia, but it's a technical possibility, and there certainly enough companies out there snarky enough to do that.

  19. Re:Sitefinder rejects mail on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if it's changed, but when Sitefinder first went up the smtp daemon was bouncing the mail after accepting the entire message. You'd get a bounce but they (could) have a copy of the mail.

  20. Re:200 mS? on Software Tweak Makes Linux Boot In Under 200 ms · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, the "S" unit refers to the Imperial Second, which is defined as the interval of time between now... and now.

  21. Re:You mean FAT don't cut it no more? on The Design Of The Google File System · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you mean "WEEEEEEE.EEE." Or possibly "WEEEEEE~1.EEE."

  22. Re:its not western India on Meteorite Strikes Indian Village · · Score: 1
    the only living creature to be harmed by a meteor in recorded history was an Egyptian Dog

    Hmm, there's a couple million dinosaurs that would beg differ.

  23. Re:Maybe... on Planet-Gobbling Star · · Score: 1

    If that war involves throwing gas giants in to stars, I thinking we'd best lay low for a while. Maybe we can pick up some sweet artifacts after they anihilate each other, though.

  24. Re:Such a waste of time... on Verisign Typosquatter Explorer · · Score: 1

    I guess use a non-existant host in a real domain. That will still give you an NXDOMAIN response.

  25. Re:GOOD!! Red Hat, fix your RPMs!! on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the record, the Red Hat packages released today to appear to address the bug you're referring to.