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  1. Re:Wow, thats crazy on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know that I personally always keep a fire going, and leaves nearby, so I can send smoke signals as a backup in case all these newfangled "electronic" devices fail.

  2. Re:good for them on Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth · · Score: 1

    Geeks can reproduce, but generally only with other geeks. This used to be pretty bad since basically all the geeks were male. However, geek couples have the same 50/50 ratio of sons to daughters, and over time it has been shown that geek daughters tend to remain geeks. That's why it's now much easier to find geek girls than it was in the past.

    While geek girls are often able to find mates in the non-geek population if they so desire, they have over time increasingly preferred geek guys. As a result, the population as a whole is expected to speciate within 75 years (homo smartus).

  3. Re:Is this going to help? on Yahoo! Mail Now Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam · · Score: 1

    This comment doesn't apply to the subject at hand, which is Domain Keys. With Domain Keys, Yahoo might reject a message sent from a zombie mail server, but only if it's a spoofed message. It won't affect the user's ability to send mail normally.

  4. Re:so, what did he say? on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    No, that would only make the gas more expensive. ("tyres" is British, and I'm not)

  5. Re:so, what did he say? on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    That sounds good.

    My car rolls on tires. If we replace the word "tire" with the word "badger" the problem is obvious. No wonder I use so much gas.

  6. Re:The sequel to Licensing 6? on Downhillbattle.org Bounty For P2P Gaim Plug-in · · Score: 1

    It's possible to do this with free tools; check out ntfsresize. It would be much easier if you found a distro that could do ntfsresize automatically for you during the installation, so you might want to look for that. I couldn't tell you which one that would be as it's been years since I've done any Linux installation other than Debian on bare metal.

  7. Re:Disgusting on Windows Source Code Seller Arrested · · Score: 1

    That's one of the official engrossed copies of the Magna Carta, as I recall, not the original document. It's in the National Archives for historical value, but of course it's not part of US law.

  8. Re:Ah yes, the Guardian on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny, Webster's says "a substance that through its chemical action usually kills, injures, or impairs an organism."

    Would you like to find me a reference in published literature for using "poison" for a substance that does not usually kill, injure, or impair?

  9. Re:New Slogan on Intel Puts WiFi Back Into Next Gen Chipsets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know I won't buy a CPU unless the ALU is a separate component. I hate to replace a whole CPU just because it blew its multiply circuit.

    Everything on the motherboard is not so great, but as technologies become more stable they tend to migrate there. If I'm just building a business PC and I don't need stellar graphics I'm just fine with integrated video. If I don't have any special networking needs I'm happy with integrated Ethernet.

    I remember when your IDE interface was a card, and your serial port was on a card, and your sound was on a card... that wasn't so great, either.

  10. Re:Ah yes, the Guardian on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think anybody would call alcohol a poison unless they were trying for propaganda. Certainly it can cause damage, but the truth is that it is "poisonous in excessive doses", sort of like Vitamin A. Especially since certain alcoholic beverages have been shown to be helpful in moderation.

    So what I mean is, it would not be mere bias if I said "we should ban alcohol because it is poisonous" -- that is not the truth. A glass of wine now and then is simply not bad for you at all; the science is there.

    Bias would be if my publication said "we should ban alcohol because there were X alcohol-related deaths last year" without mentioning what happened last time we banned alcohol, etc. That would be truth, though incomplete and biased.

    I do feel that people should be less flexible with regard to what is true and what is not. Everybody knows that there is bias and that everybody is biased, but that cannot be an excuse for lies.

  11. Re:Ah yes, the Guardian on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, that is LYING. I have a dictionary, you know. The thing is, the word "poison" happens to mean something. If you use that word to refer to something that kills one in five billion but otherwise has no ill effects, you are not telling the truth at all.

  12. Re:Hah! on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot can't be described as rendering "properly" on any browser. Its HTML is a mess of hacks that flagrantly violates any standard which you care to use. The browsers that aim for standards compliance are going to have a hard time processing the FrontPage-caliber code that constitutes Slashdot.

  13. Re:Yeah! on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    You would indeed be all over it -- at least your pulverized remains would be all over everything in a bloody mess.

    But it would be fun.

  14. Parent is not a troll. on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 1

    I also saw such ads on my visit. This sort of info is important to those of us at work.

  15. Re:Only on /. way OT, but... on Two New TLD's Near Approval · · Score: 1

    Complaints about moderation are always offtopic. We've all heard it all before. It's old and we don't care -- metamod deals with the abusers well enough.

    Focus on the discussion. The silly numbers are just not that big of a deal.

  16. Re:Goddamit, put that damn myth to bed! on NASA Considering Early Retirement of Shuttle Program · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Absolutely and of course, let's not forget the Shuttle, with its 98% success rate. Can you say "not good enough"?

  17. end of the world on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Red Sox won the World Series under a total lunar eclipse. The leader of the moderate Palestinians is on his deathbed. The Israeli coalition government is about to fall apart over the Gaza withdrawal plan. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has a serious case of thyroid cancer. All this less than a week before one of the most contentious US Presidential elections in history.

    And now, Slashdot editors confuse copyright, trademark, and patent law all together at once, creating a sort of Grand Unified Theory of IP Confusion which was obviously the purpose of Slashdot.

    So yeah, the end of the world.

  18. Re:Who hasn't voted yet? on Verified Voting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah that's really good. Listen, I live in Texas, and the Texas state election site can't tell me where I'm supposed to vote or what precinct I'm in. Luckily I live in a county that's large enough to have a Web site (many in TX don't), but it's almost impossible to use that site to determine my precinct -- the first stage of map that you have to figure out only has bodies of water as landmarks. Also it absolutely is NOT printed on my voter registration card.

    Enough with the elitism -- all citizens should be voting as long as they have knowledge about the candidates. That includes people who can't read or write, people who can't drive, people who can't add, people who can't talk, and people who can't do any of those things.

  19. Re:HP/Compaq on It's 2004: What Are The Best Remote KVM Options? · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the license is for graphics mode. So if you set your Linux server to use text only (and definitely not the framebuffer device) you should be able to use it. Windows of course is right out.

  20. Re:Car annoyances on Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies · · Score: 1

    Hey now, for all you know, that Civic has a rear-wheel-drive mod.

    But in any case, don't tell them about it -- next thing you know we'd see downforce wings on the front of the car that took up an extra two lanes of the road.

  21. Re:Yeah on Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies · · Score: 1

    "Pregnancy for Dummies" is my personal favorite.

  22. Re:who did your fact check analysis? micheal? on FCC's Powell vs. Howard Stern on KGO-AM · · Score: 1

    Well, I for one looked at the FCC's Web site at:

    http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/

    As referenced in her post, and it says:

    The President designates one of the Commissioners to serve as Chairperson. Only three Commissioners may be members of the same political party.

    If the FCC's Web site isn't a legitimate source for information regarding the FCC, what is?

  23. Re:It's all SMTP's fault! on Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, the systems currently being discussed do NOT require the domain administrator to "bless" a mail server; rather, they ALLOW a domain administrator to create restrictions.

    If I'm Citigroup, I'd sure like to be able to place restrictions on mail coming from citigroup.com, because otherwise people might think a falsified communication is actually from their bank -- bad news. If I'm the owner of "alumni.almamata.edu" I probably don't care.

    Spam has zero, zilch, zip to do with any of this since a spammer can easily own a DNS record. The only goal of systems like SPF is to prevent fraud. Sometimes spammers commit fraud but SPF does nothing to address those who do not.

  24. Re:GUI design on Jef Raskin On The Mac · · Score: 1

    is that the same incremental search that's been in emacs since days of yore?

    Obviously that is nice for searching, but that's hardly a fundamental UI feature.

  25. Re:At least it is a step up on Spitzer Takes On Record Industry Payola · · Score: 1

    I already voted for Kerry in early voting. I'm 100% serious. I figure the best way to choose a president is the same as the best way to make decisions regarding the rest of government: be skeptical and look to minimize potential harm.