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  1. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    The Christian belief that Jesus was a messenger from God, rather than an aspect of God, is the Arian heresy.

  2. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1

    The mystery of the Christian faith that is the doctine of the Trinity holds that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one being and are consubstantial.

  3. Re:Terminology on Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only · · Score: 1

    Quite correct - the OS is far more than the kernel: it's the community. That grew round Linux not the FSF, which is why I hate some self-important wannabes shoving "gnu" infront of everything. Linux without gnu would have another compiler and still be running the BSD libc and tools. Gnu without linux would still be in deserved obscurity, completely unhurd of.

  4. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter which way I vote; the only choices are politicians.

  5. Re:Yeah, I know on Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    I am the right height for my weight, gender and age; (though sadly not for my species).

  6. Re:Does it matter? on Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding · · Score: 1

    Seconded - this was my experience with SuSE too, around v5.0->7.0

  7. All-day carry alarm. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    Well, there's always this. Looks a bit insensitive, though.

  8. Re:Peace of Mind on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    There's also the Libelium arduino shield geiger counter.

  9. Re:Define professionals? on Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals? · · Score: 1

    On the Mac, the green button zooms the window to be big enough to see everything that's inside the window, and if you click it again it just returns to the size it was before.

    No, it doesn't. Open finder in a directory with lots of files, click the button, the window gets *smaller*. W.T.F???

  10. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    very stodgiest of oldsters = the boss

  11. Re:Intrusive, Probably Illegal, and a waste of Mon on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    Since 9/11, duh!

  12. "let services start on a trigger" on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So windows is finally getting inetd?

  13. Re:Her Defense Was Pretty Good Too on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    Amen!

  14. Re:Its the war on Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' · · Score: 1

    Grunge? Rap?? Hippie rock??? No, the rot started with the waltz.

  15. Re:Measles is no big deal? Bullshit. on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    And post on /.

  16. Re:This is a sad day for the tech world on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    If the vast majority wants new products that work in ten years time there had better be nerd playgrounds around right now.

  17. Re:Awesome on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    You can't run a cargo ship off solar.

    You can run a cargo ship off wind, though.

  18. Re:Isn't religion an epidemic itself ? on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    Hitler's army marched under belt buckles saying "God is with us" ("Got mit uns") Oh, and Stalin trained to be a priest.

  19. Re:Article is wrong about Christianity on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

  20. Re:CNC on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    Yep!

  21. Re:For a revolutionary workers party! on Debt Deal Reached · · Score: 1

    The banks paid it back with funds borrowed from other government programs.

  22. Re:Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 1

    I can see the Tea Party as hobbits - Lotho Sackville-Baggins, for example.

  23. Re:Refuse Permission? on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    Valid point, if they were at war or considered war to ever be possible. There, fixed that for you.

  24. Re:Refuse Permission? on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    The wind direction and speed at an airfield determines which landing strips are useable and what types of aircraft can use it. For this reason the weather forecasts and prevailing wind data were British Official Secrets WWII and on.

  25. Re:Turd? Sounds like fertilizer to me. on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    Imagine a car. The steel's from Nippon Steel, the glass is from Triplex and Kaplan Glass, the electrics are from Lucas, the wiring's from Ormiston and the plug's are from Champion. So it's a Nippon-Triplex/Kaplan-Lucas-Ormiston-Champion car, right? Wrong. It's a Ford. They got the bits from different places and assembled them into a coherent whole. So 95% wasn't made by Ford. Without Ford it was just a pile of raw material scattered all over the place. Now, the FSF supplied some of the components for Linux. If the FSF doesn't like that, well then, don't use the GPL. Easy. Or make a coherent system themselves. (Well, look'e here - do I smell a Hurd???) But demanding recognition for the creation of others - have the FSF merged with the RIAA while I wasn't looking? Linux without the FSF would still be on the Sun libc and would use lcc or the like. The FSF without Linux? Well, there'd be more mindshare for BSD, that's for sure. So congratulations on the release of a true GNU system. Finally. A decade (or 2) late and several dollars short. But who cares? I've never run a GNU system before, so that will be and interesting experience. I wonder how that compares to Linux systems, which I've been running happily for years.