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  1. Re:FORTUNATELY FOR US... on 1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another Explodes · · Score: -1, Troll

    So you're in favour of:
    * Unilateralism.
    * Religion mixed up with politics. (I'd rather be shaking a nitric acid/glycerin mix, much less explosive).
    * Taxcuts for the rich.
    * Letting women die because of pregnancy complications (aka screw abortion).
    * etc, etc, ...

    Let's face it: Bush is a plain idiot. He didn't run any company well in the past, and he ran the US in the same manner.

    Or is there still another end of the spectrum? You see, I have some real problems understanding why people would vote for that piece of shit. Sometimes I even think he's going for worst president ever, because he had no chance of becoming the best one.

  2. Hey everyone, I just deleted 23 E-mails! on Deleting E-mail Could Get You In Trouble · · Score: 1

    ..but then again, I like to live dangerously..

  3. Re:Library content on Kansas AG Rejects Settlement Discs · · Score: 1

    I think it is ok for someone entrusted with the power the rule that it is inappropriate in a place where my child may be, if I do get a child in the future.

    I have a better idea. Why not make an adult section in the library? It can also contain books about how to improve your sex-life etc. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? I just hate these "because we want to protect the children"-reasons, it always gets too emotional (read: mass hysteria) without getting one deep, rational thought.

    Anyway, arguing that people in power should be allowed to select what you get to read is not only stupid, it's also quite dangerous. (unless you are in power, in that case I understand you completely).

  4. In other news.. on Disney Suggests Mandating DRM On All Media · · Score: 1

    .. DRM is now officially a buzzword.

  5. Paradox.. on Mandelbrot Suggests A Hunt For Financial Patterns · · Score: 1

    Doesn't knowing the pattern change the pattern? So this chaotic funtion is to have a fixed point?

  6. Re:Reminds me of... on Human Powered Helicopter · · Score: 1

    .. one of his inventions (liquid strength).. ...Now widely known as EPO...

  7. Re:Not only that... on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that is his sun is travelling through my milky way.

  8. Re:If it weren't for my daughter... on ESA To Study Human Hibernation · · Score: 3, Funny

    So here's the plan, grasshoppa: You find out what restaurant delivers pizza's to ESA, you get yourself a delivery job there and wait for a delivery for "I.C. Weener".

  9. From the article.. (ok, a link in the article). on Can GNU Ever Be Unix? · · Score: 1

    The simple fact is that throughout all of this both SCO Group and IBM do have certified products, are licensed to and do use the UNIX trademark in association with certified products with the correct attribution.

    You can help us to remind the industry of the ownership of the UNIX trademark and ensure that its proper use as a neutral indicator of certification for the benefit of customers of UNIX systems.

    To help, is very simple, all you have to do is to publish the following attribution.

    "UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries."


    Consider it done.

  10. Re:I once posted to Slashdot from on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1

    Is she THAT ugly?

  11. Re:Nothing for SCO to fret about... on BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't consider your investor threatening to sue you a healthy situation. SCO is a big old machine that's at the end of it life; everything is shaking, and soon it will just fall apart.

  12. Re:The most anoying usability-quirk in gnome.. on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it's like driving on the left/right side of the road. It's so banal you would expect no problem in reaching a standard. Yet in both cases it is proven wrong.

    For driving I can accept historical reasons, but Gnome is much younger than the 'OK goes to the left'-consensus.

  13. The most anoying usability-quirk in gnome.. on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They put buttons in the 'wrong' order.. Normally it's Ok/Cancel, with Gnome it's Cancel/OK!

    Aaaarg!

  14. Messup on Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm · · Score: 1

    Chip readout: 'delivery boy'.

    Nooooooooooooooo!

  15. Re:Great... on Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm · · Score: 1

    Don't get yourself tired.. use a chainsaw!

  16. Re:Low expectations? on ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense System · · Score: 1

    I hate it when that happens! ;)

    The point was that Beagle2 crashed into Mars... ESA now uses 'crashing technolgy'....

    I admit, it sounded funnier when I wrote it down.. 8-)

  17. Re:Low expectations? on ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense System · · Score: 1

    If they REALLY had a sense of houmour, they would add "using proven Beatle2 technology".

    (Thereby applying "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" to a beatle)

  18. Re:Clue Stick on Pushing Wi-Fi's Limits: Problems and Solutions · · Score: 1

    I didn't think the frequency is a resonance frequency. There's a whole band of frequencies that gets absorbed by water, there's nothing special about 2.45GHz. (that's why radio communications are so difficult from a sub).

    I bet I can cook you with a 1GHz signal.

  19. Not surprising.. on The Software Politics Of 2004's Presidential Race · · Score: 1

    During the last elections over here, I first checked the party's standpoints on free software and software patents. Not that I decided to vote for them because of that, I was already planning to do so, but if their opinion was "Our computers run on Microsoft Word and it is a very good operating system" or something like that, no chance they would have gotten my vote. It turned out they were the only party to propose free software use and they supported protests against software patents. Sweeet.

    I think I'm not the only one checking those things out before elections.

  20. Embarrassing moment.. on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1
    /etc#ls /tmp
    ...
    (hmm.. must clean up..)
    /etc#rm -rf *
    (erm.. erm.. Noooooooooooooooo!)
    Since then, I have never logged in as root before my second cup of coffee.
  21. No surprise.. on Seagate Accuses Cornice of Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it even possible to design a harddisk these days without ingringing on one of the major player's patents?

    Is that the future that awaits programmers with those software patents?

  22. Re:This isn't obvious on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    NON-OBVIOUS for the user, maybe?

  23. Re:Problem in one word: on NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    If you ship 2 motor bikes to a remote planet you will only have 2 motor bikes, but if you ship two horses... .. you'll get inbreeding.

  24. hint on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 1

    The nesting continues.. At a certain momnet they dont get indented further but wen you view that message, the sibblings are indented ok.. (for the next few levels). or you can check it with 'parent'.

  25. Re:Personally, I thought differently... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    I have always been voting Libertarian president (or several indi's in my youth) esp. since my state is not a swing state. But I think this year it will be close here and I will probably have to vote for Kerry.

    I forgive you ;).

    If I get it right (sorry if I'm not, there's a whole ocean between us), you have a 'winner takes it all' principle. Imagine 10 candidates, and one gets 11% of the votes, another 9%, and the rest 10%, could you get a president that is supported by 11% of the population? What you are missing is multiple rounds, where the last round is between 2 candidates so you can choose safely without fear of 'losing' your vote. More importantly, that way the president will have to get the support of more than 50% of the voters, instead of 'the most'.