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  1. Re:Scary Stuff - Child rearing on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 2, Informative

    But there are some up sides too!
    Like...?

    diaper changes in your 80's.

  2. Re:Heh on Keyboards are Havens for Super Bugs · · Score: 1

    Teaching basic handwashing wouldn't hurt either. I was my hands before and after usign a keyboard, after bathroom trips, after eatting, and whenever I just feel the need.

    IANAP(sychiatrist) but this sounds like a clear cut case of Obsessive-Compulisive disorder.

  3. Re:I'm downloading the petition now. on Anti-DMCA Petition in Canadian Parliament · · Score: 2, Funny

    By that argument, it was also the British who fought for independance.

    And they sure did kick their own asses!

  4. Re:Well, it's difficult to answer that on Mars Rovers Get Extra 18 Months · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the guy who wrote that page was laid off with the voyager cuts.

  5. Re:acces to souce. on GPL 3 Forking Risks Discussed · · Score: 1

    The fact that the software is on the device means they have given you a binary. (does the device recompile the software everytime it boots or something?) GPL doesn't say you get source when you get "access" to the binaries, you get the source when you get the binaries.

  6. Re:I hope they let us turn it off. on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    I'm on dial-up at home

    Considering that prefetching happens while you are currently reading a page and presumably not using your bandwidth, users get better performance from their dialup than when prefetching isn't working. Think about it...

  7. Re:heh... on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 4, Funny

    But 7 percent said their first reaction is the hit the computer, Johnson said, a step that's rarely productive.

    That implies that sometimes it *is* productive? If there is any chance whatsoever of me getting my deleted files back (1 in a billion?) I'll hit the computer everytime!

  8. Re:compile on! on Gentoo 2005.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I do have a gig and a half of memory in the system. But that said, the make.conf that I started with had that as an example, and I went with the default, only changing the CPU type. That said, I have changed from O3 to O2 in my make.conf, that easy. =)

  9. Re:compile on! on Gentoo 2005.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not let the maintainer do it, and save yourself the time and trouble? It's a much more efficient setup.

    2 words: USE flags. USE flags affect the ./configure script to enable or disable features. Have a program that likes to be compiled against GPM, but you are never at a console or your machine doesn't have a mouse? -gpm in the use flags and your software will never compile in support for gpm. There are dozens of examples, and while optimizations in gcc don't do much, library support *IS* useful for both keeping out what you don't want/need and for making sure you have what you do want and need.

    For the record: My USE flags are:

    USE="-3dfx 3dnow X acpi aim apache2 -apm arts bash-completion bzlib cdr cdparanoia -cjk crypt dvd dvdread -emacs -emacs-w3 encode ftp -gnome java kde mbox -maildir mime mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ogg oggvorbis oscar perl png qt samba ssl vcd -voodoo3 -xinerama xmms sse"

    And my cflags are: -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe. As you can see, my USE flags are much more specific than my CFLAGS. Have you ever tried portage? It is the reason I switched to gentoo in the first place.

  10. Re:Can't use it inside on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    Presumably you would have a phone plugged into a different jack in the house for your inside calls.

  11. Re:Market Adjustment on Pay-Per-View Downloads of TV Shows? · · Score: 1

    You do know that you can set your Tivo season pass to start a few minutes early? Its in the season pass options.

    Yes, that works great when you want to record one show from 7:00-8:00 and then lost (starting 3 minutes early) from 7:57-8:03

    Oh wait, thats not possible.

  12. Re:Violation of Smokers' Rights on Online Cigarette Customers Get Bill from State · · Score: 2, Funny

    they dont cause cancer, they reduce the immune systems ability to fight it off.

    Getting shot in the head doesn't kill you, it reduces your body's ability to keep your brains inside your skull.

  13. Re:Bomb em! on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 2

    It's a heavy metal, and heavy metals are horribly bad for you. Think lead or mercury poisoning. Even if DU is safe radioactively, heavy metals screw with your body just by virtue of being a heavy metal. They used to use tungsten instead of depleted uranium, and thats a heavy metal too.

  14. How long? on Online Cigarette Customers Get Bill from State · · Score: 5, Funny

    how long until state treasuries across the country subpoena Amazon.com or other big online retailers to collect unpaid sales taxes?

    18 months. You heard it here.

  15. Re:bah on Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site · · Score: 1

    I do believe you missed the point of his post.

  16. Re:Rubbish. Are you kidding me? on Will New Apps Keep TiVo Afloat? · · Score: 1

    wow, I previewed that 3 times and still had errors. instead of "For Replay it's 2 buttons" it should be "Like Replay, it's 2 buttons"

  17. Re:Rubbish. Are you kidding me? on Will New Apps Keep TiVo Afloat? · · Score: 1

    you can no longer back up to the beginning of a program from the middle (ReplayTV: 0 JUMP) because the button to jump from segment to segment gets re-used as 30-second skip.

    Easy to jump those segments with the 30 second skip set. For Replay it's 2 buttons, just press Fast Forward or Rewind then the 30 second skip button. Will skip forwards or backwards to the next segment.

  18. Re:Next Two? on NASA Prepares for Space Rescues · · Score: 1

    It's all an odds game. Currently, the chances of a shuttle problem is ~50:1 against. The statistical chance of two 50:1 occurances happening directly one after the other are rather low. (Not impossible, but certainly low enough to have reasonable assurance that the second will succeed.)

  19. Re:bad dog, no biscuit on CCC Mods Rent-a-Bike To Allow Free Rides · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about I take 1/10th of your paycheck every week, no big deal right? You may call yourself "`victim'" in that case, eh? Idiot.

    While I agree this is theft of service and morally wrong, you are incorrect in your assessment that it's taking 1/10 of the companie's paycheck for this service.

    #1: The bikes still functioned the same for regular riders, they could call up and get the information to rent the bike.

    #2: There is no way that all of the people riding the modified bikes did so by using the hack. Only the people in the CCC know the code to do so.

  20. Re:Years away on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the challenges facing today's nuclear reactors, they have long dreamed of harnessing the same energy source that powers the sun.

    Uh...Solar power anyone?


    The sun powers solar power, Fusion powers the sun.

  21. Re:just so you know.... on Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego · · Score: 1

    When the boss sees it, he'll help you build a Lego Pinkslip. (Do they come in pink?)

    I know you were trying to be funny, but the Lego desk was actually promised in the guy's Employment contract. It was the "boss" who purchased the desk.

  22. Re:TiVo could simply change their software a bit.. on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1

    PS You now have a free timeslot there. LAX met the chopping axe a couple of weeks ago.

    D'oh, the wife really enjoyed that show. (I thought it was pretty good too.) We'll prolly continue to download the Lost episodes though, because my wife also likes Jack and Bobby. (starts at 9:00)

  23. Re:TiVo could simply change their software a bit.. on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1

    Actually on my TiVo box I can specify if I want to start recording a show X-number of minutes early or late and if I want it to run long, etc. So maybe you're running an old box or maybe you don't know how to use your TiVo ;)

    Or maybe you have a magic TiVo box that none of the rest of the world does. TiVo allows you to start recording early, or stop recording late, but you can't start recording late/stop recording early.

    I.E. You can make the TiVo record longer the the show is, but you can't make it record shorter than the show is, unless you set the show to record with a manual start/stop time. (Which is dumb for those 1 minute over shows)

    Right now I download my episodes of Lost online, because they were running a minute over and screwing up the shows that came after them. I record LAX in that timeslot instead.

  24. Re:My Car Gets Forty Rod to the Hogsgead on Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 2, Funny

    > What has so much data?

    /dev/zero ;P ?


    Yeah, but that compresses pretty easy.

  25. Re:No surprise... on AOL Dumping Some Broadband · · Score: 1

    Want Advice? Call your credit card company and tell them.

    AWESOME Advice. But please explain how this helps when there is no credit card involved? The very first line of his post says it's on his landline phone bill.