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  1. Good track record != increased truth value on Oil Isn't from Dinosaurs & Other Iconoclasms · · Score: 1
    The part about Gold's track record being cited as a barometer as to whether or not his latest idea is true disturbs me. This kind of reasoning has gone on, IMHO, entirely too long. Whether it's Gold's latest idea, Tesla's crackpot ideas, or Pauling's irrational devotion to Vitamin C, there is a tendency in today's society to "relax the rules" for a theory by someone who's had another theory that's been proven correct. Face it, whether or not someone's been right on other topics in the past has no bearing on whether they are right on THIS topic this time, and it's a sad reflection on those who use such criteria to determine the truth value of a given theory.

  2. Re:Way to go, Microsoft! on Windows 2000 to provoke domain game · · Score: 1

    If you need a GUI to do productive work, I feel sorry for you. I rarely use the GUI functions of windoze, and even then I use them only when a CLI solution doesn't readily exist. Point and click is for dry firing your gun, not for using your computer.

  3. SB1428 on New Cyberlaws · · Score: 1

    As for SB1428 (the drug paraphernalia one), anyone have any good links while it's still grandfathered in? Remember, they can't pass an ex post facto law, so get those links on now, kiddies

  4. Re:This journalist is a comlete dickwad on SGI to drop Irix for Linux · · Score: 1

    I'd hope that this journalist makes it sound like a fact, since it wasn announced over a year ago that the MIPS line was no longer being manufactured and IRIX wasn't being supported any more. Face it, it IS a fact

  5. Re:what version of unix is this? on Free Multias (Pay Shipping Only) · · Score: 1

    utmp -a

  6. Re:Other Who Members? on Townshend to Complete "Lifehouse" · · Score: 1

    Of course, EVERYBODY knows that the Who was a Trio--
    Daltrey, Townshend, and Moon--Entwhistle was just there for the ride,
    and PIGS FLY! John Entwhistle was just as much a member of the
    Who as Daltrey, Moon, and Townshend and deserves more credit than
    THIS group seems to give him. In fact, I'd say that Townshend wouldn't have been
    recognized as a genius without Entwhistle making him look good.

  7. Re:Reply's on 420 Gigabyte Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    And of course, you do, despite the fact you can't differentiate between a plural and a possessive...

  8. Re:uhh.. on Ask Slashdot: Cyber Patrol Censorship? · · Score: 1

    Rather interestingly, the only one of those that has
    a legal requirement for notification is the Electrical one. So,
    if you don't ask, how are you going to know? THEY
    certainly won't tell you if they don't have to--why
    would they make their product LESS desirable?

  9. Re:ACTIVE Amd support on Intel to Cut Pentium III Prices · · Score: 1

    Linux already has a K7 enhanced gcc either in the works or actually usable, so go for it--just remember that there's some of us that still use '486s (AMD 80486DX70, if you must know) so don't kill off the non-K7 compiles totally :)

  10. Re:bah, crackpot on Intel to Cut Pentium III Prices · · Score: 1

    What is more convenient about a register space that cannot be written to? The GUID [sp] (actually the GUID is a Microsoft ID that includes the PIII embedded serial along with about a half-dozen other identifiers) has no effect on programmers, because the GUID-enabling process is mostly aimed at large companies that don't allow programmers the rights to their code anyway.

  11. Re:The Best! on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Authoring Tool is the Best? · · Score: 1

    Been there done that--it ain't hard with pico. Got over it when I realized that content != pretty picures and neatly formatted text. If you got content, the data pretty much suggest their own format; if you don't, it doesn't matter what pretty pictures or neat formatting you add.

  12. Keep the logo, Rob. Put it up with the Digital one on Silicon Graphics rebrands itself as 'SGI' · · Score: 1

    yeah, but SGI went into the toilet when they went to NT boxen based on intec chips--MIPS/IRIX and the old logo forever!!!!!