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  1. Re:Article doesn't mention gene jumping on Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya · · Score: 2

    The really sad thing is that the President gaurenteed that this sort of thing could never happen and that the corn can't reproduce on its own and cannot escape it's isolation. Sucks to be them methinks. See for your self.

  2. Re:When will you people learn? on BMG Stops Producing CDs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, they only win if we buy their CDs. Laws by themselves don't make them money.

    Until the RIAA gets a law passed that they get a cut of all electronic devices because they are cutting into their revenue stream. Then they'll be around forever.

  3. Re:Revolution.... Mosix on IBM Wants CPU Time To Be A Metered Utility · · Score: 2

    I think IBM is proposing both the low-cost, low-reliability server rooms as well as using the desktop PC when more power is needed. Companies like ILM already do this. They have a main rendering farm, but under heavy loads they'll use the underutilized machines on the network to hand off some of the work to. It's not really duplication since the machines on the desks would be needed anyway, the just come in handy when the server farm has way, way too much to do and/or too little time to do it in.

  4. Re:Kernel bloat ? on Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5 · · Score: 2

    They gzip'ed. It's about 128mb after a gnuzip and untar.

  5. Re:I've Seen Server Rooms that were Really Dangero on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 1

    Backup tapes are NEVER more important than your life.

    But they are important enough to keep in another location so the backups and the primary aren't lost in one "Act of God".

  6. Re:Trust on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1

    They want to get paid for sharing the data, not share it with Microsoft for free.

  7. Re:My impression on MMORPG Economies Explored in Depth · · Score: 1

    This all ran smoothly, much like a real world economy of small nation might run. But then came factors that real world economists do not have to fret much over, factors that only exist in the virtual world. The most significant was that people started cheating. Specifically, a considerable amount of people found clever ways to mass produce gold by the tens of millions.

    I hate to break it to you but people cheat all the time in the real world. There is not much one can do about it. There's counterfiting, fraud, burgular, Pymramid schemes, etc, etc, etc.

    James

  8. Re:graphical installer is not the way to go on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, you and I rely on it for booting, when it loads many megabytes of stuff into memory. Why not use it more during the install? The BIOS obviously knows how to talk to my boot device, otherwise I couldn't have booted from it.

    It can't do more. At this point it's now completed all it can do. Bios is dumb.

  9. Re:graphical installer is not the way to go on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    USB installs, completely a pain because your reliant on the BIOS to boot from a USB drive. A sketch propistion at best. And I fail to understand the RAM install thingy at all. You want the BIOS to load a disk into RAM and then proceed to boot off of it? I have yet to see a bios do this. I have seen Linux boot, load a RAM disk, then proceed to run. But remeber BIOS is so dumb, most operating systems just ignore it and re-implement they're own operations. Remeber BIOS was invented to make DOS and CP/M as platform independant as possible. Don't trust it to do anything else.

  10. Re:Lets face facts on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    1) Alien
    2) again, Alien
    3) If you want to be on the bleeding edge, then maybe debian isn't for you.

  11. Re:Finishing Episode III in time on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 2

    On second thought that would of been a bad idea. Jar Jar would have a major role in all three films instead of just the first one.

  12. Re:No Certainties.. on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    No, the reason is more people who own macs want to run x86 software then the other way around.

  13. Re:No Certainties.. on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    Emulators were invented for just this reason. Remeber when Apple went from 68000 to PPC? All the old software still worked, because there was a 68000 emulator around.

  14. Re:I have a disability... on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    The purpose is to keep the costs down by only creating one keypad for all the machines to use. Saves money and since it hurts no one the braille stay on the machines.

  15. Re:I have a disability... on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    Death folks can view the web

    I never knew that the undead were big web surfers. All along I've been ignoring this segment of the population. Time to re-engineer all my web-sites.

  16. Re:Was Cipro public sector? on Patents Choking Off Medical Research · · Score: 2

    It was patented, but it's now in a gray area. It was targeted as the one antibiotic that can help with Anthrax so the Federal Government forced some interesting rules on Bryer to see that it is made more available and at a much cheaper price. Funny thing is that most antibiotics do a decent job with Anthrax, not just Cipro.

  17. Re:Not actually Parkes on SETI to Upgrade Software, Telescope · · Score: 2, Informative

    The both recieved transmissions from the first moon landing, but the dish at Huneysuckle Creek was not the right size to receive television pictures all that well. The first pictures were from Goldstone in California and Honeysuckle Creek, (switching between the two to find the best picture) but after Parkes came into view seven minutes into the broadcast, all the pictures came from Parkes.

  18. Re:Yeah, but isn't bluetooth insecure? on USB On-the-Go Go Go Go · · Score: 1

    Just buy sheilded USB cables if your that worried about it.

  19. Re:Conspiracy Theories to end?? on Worldwide Focus On Going To The Moon · · Score: 2

    Unfortuantly Hubble is completely blind if it looks at the Sun, the Earth, or the Moon. There is way, way to much light coming in. Everything is just a blur. Besides even if your so called plan would work, I doubt any of the conspericy theorist would care. They'd just say those pictures are doctored as well. Nothing can satify their delusions.

  20. Re:Time value of money... on Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source" · · Score: 1

    Dude, you've got bigger problems at your company if all your employees are monkeys instead of humans. I'd consetrate on hiring humans before I'd retain a bunch of apes.

  21. Re:Blizzard will pay. on Blizzard Announces New Starcraft Game · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can SC2 be delayed? There is currently just an idea to make one, no plan, no timeline nothing. How can you be late for something when there is no date to be late from? I also don't think Blizzard is actually doing much with this game. It seems (based on the number of FPS that Blizzard has created) that their partner, Nihilistic, is doing most of the work. So you don't get a sequal as soon as you like. Suffer.

  22. Re:You couldn't get me in a Russian space ship. on Drink Pepsi, Go to Space? · · Score: 2

    Check again. There's been one death with Soyuz 1 and 3 very grussom deaths with Soyuz 3 (the craft depreasured in the very upper altitudes, the comsonauts with ripped apart by the preasure drop). This is not counting the 50 or so who died when a rocket for the Soyuz blew up on the launching pad during refueling. The USSR had many, many more failures then the US. They just didn't publicize them and went on as if nothing happened.

  23. Re:Cool on XFS merged in Linux 2.5 · · Score: 1

    Really, what are you talking about? Have you even been to SGI's XFS site? Stop saying you can't use XFS on 2.4.19, because I'm using it right now.

  24. Re:I'm no mathematician, on Cryptogram: AES Broken? · · Score: 1

    Except the process involves reducing the number of cycles needed to be thrown at the problem. It reduces a problem with 2^192 stages to a problem with 1^100 stages. This results in reducing the time it takes to break the key by probably a few millions of years. It'll still take a long time (again probably millions of years). The whole system still won't help you though if you have no idea what your looking for.

  25. Re:A site that discriminates against mozilla users on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing · · Score: 1

    It'll be a slow change to mozilla since even if the new version of AOL runs Mozilla, the older versions will still be around and kicking for a long, long time.