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  1. we are already behind on Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT Worker? · · Score: 1

    Start learning Hindi or Gujarati.

  2. Re:Fallacy of Equivocation on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 1
    It is not fine for Aunt Tillie types.

    Computers are not for Aunt Tillie. She should stick to churning butter and sewing her own clothes, like her other Amish neighbours.

  3. Re:Another application for space-based lasers on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Air Force should watch Real Genius too.

  4. the AP story and the Seattle P-I story on A Setback For Microsoft In Lindows Trademark Case · · Score: 1
    Of course, in Microsoft's home turf, the story has a different spin.

    Try reading this Seattle P-I article written by Todd Bishop.

    You linked a follow-up article direct from the AP wire.

  5. Re:template on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1
    I used to (before 1995) subscribe to the Times just for the crossword puzzle. But when they jacked up the rates, forget that. . .

    But now I enjoy reading Bill Virgin's column at the P-I. (Maybe he and Cringely are half-brothers.)

  6. Re:Intregrated solution? on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1
    If only Novell offers NDS at a decent price (and we could put it on a Linux system to run directory services for the whole company). . .

    The important thing will be pricing NDS as a stand-alone product without cannibalising Netware sales.

  7. Re:finally! on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Scenario 5: everything else

  8. Re:Interesting Story for the Seattle PI to Break.. on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Please don't tell me you actually read the classifieds.

    Those are published mainly as cage liners for people with pet birds or hamsters.

  9. Re:Interesting Story for the Seattle PI to Break.. on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So, why is Byron Acohido, the author of those stories about the 737 rudder problems now working for USA Today (the newspaper for people who can't read)?

  10. Re:Two Words on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1
    It's really [just] the waste that worries me.

    Why not use integral fast reactors to reduce nuclear waste?

    If we burn the long half-life isotopes as nuclear fuel, and leave short half-life isotopes that decay quickly, we can seriously reduce

    the amount of nuclear waste

    the time that waste needs to be stored.

  11. yeah, IBM made Linux grow on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you take IBM out of the equation, Linux would not be growing up, it would not be SMP-enabled, it would not be multi processing, scaling up to hundreds of servers. It is IBM that is enabling that.

    Yeah. That was fake SMP before IBM came along. Beowulf was all IBM too, right?

    McBride must be some Linux history expert, or something.

  12. sounds about right on E-Voting Glitch: 19,000 Voters, 144,000 Votes · · Score: 1
    In the last election, I cast about 20 votes (and skipped three choices, but did not write-in). There were many issues on the ballot for me to decide.

    My guess is that the 23% of voters who actually voted here each cast around 20 votes.

    Hopefully, no one cast more than one ballot.

  13. fargin' war on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1
    I thought the world was going to end when the Red Sox played the Cubs in the World Series this year. Nope. Phew! We got a reprieve.

    Now I read this. Maybe the end is at hand.

    Well, if M$ does take-over Google, there goes the neighbourhood. Anyone want to create a new search engine for the masses? Then we can all say, This is fargin' war!

  14. Re:Me first on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1
    What happened to first amendment rights?

    Nothing. Let Gator take it to a judge. Our speech in the United States is protected by the first amendment (with some exceptions defined by the courts).

    We can call their software anything we want. Let's call it evilware.

  15. plum pudding no more on Happy Birthday, Atom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good thing atoms were invented.
    Before that, everything was made of plum pudding!

  16. Re:Progress on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    Watch out Adobe! You are on the list.

  17. Re:Rich get richer, poor get children on Tech Rich Get Richer · · Score: 1

    Paul Allen owns the Portland Trailblazers (NBA) and the Seattle Seahawks (NFL).

  18. Re:Compiling on Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    Uh, maybe you need to experience a real organism--with a woman.

  19. Re:slashdot this one, i dare you on Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    Hell, I worked there when it was still called PNL and William R. (Bill) Wiley was the Director, before the EMSL was conceived.

  20. Re:I remember when.. on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    UC Berkeley is a public university.

  21. Re:Something to think about: on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    No, he really meant amount. We just count up the kilograms. . .

  22. robots replace 5-year-olds, film at 11 on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool, they are making 5-year-olds obsolete.

  23. Re:What a crock on Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Where is the invasion of privacy if the Secret Service know a homeless person collected food from this shelter on Monday AND got soup from a different shelter cross town on Wednesday?

    Right there. Did you miss it? The Secret Service has no reason to be getting this type of information, since it has nothing to do with its mission. Most government agencies would have no justification for getting these data.

  24. Re:Too much crack! on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 1
    A monarchy is still the best game in town.

    Things are good when you have a benevolent ruler.

    If the ruler becomes corrupt or tyrannical, only one person needs to be deposed.

  25. all geeks love beer! on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    Visit every brewery you can.