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  1. Re:Confusing creationists on Einstein's Theory Improved? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh, don't mind me, I'm just pointing out that, to my understanding, either the God was a hypocrite or you can interpret His word to mean what you choose.

    Just my 2p.

    J.

  2. Re:Confusing creationists on Einstein's Theory Improved? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm referring to God's rather explicit instructions to kill the Canaanites, which came immediately after the commandments. Can't blame that one on humans - it's there in the Bible, as God's word.

    Justin.

  3. Re:Wine Source Code Patching on Google Windows Apps Coming To Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    AFAIK, the entire API of wine is provided in the WineLib headers, which means that windows source can be statically compiled against it (assuming all the APIs you want are there which is mostly true now).

    Usually however, people don't have the windows source, so the runtime implementations are used and the calls become dynamic. There's the same code behind of course.

    There should be a Wine expert along shortly to point out the gross over-simplification in what I've just said ;-)

    Justin.

  4. Re:Commodore Pet. on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1
    Two variables, no comma, two prompts. I remember it as if it were yesterday, not 1977 ;-)

    Justin.

  5. Re:Confusing creationists on Einstein's Theory Improved? · · Score: 1

    I've heard the same... the problem is that as soon as you allow people to interpret, you get people who say shooting termination clinic staff doesn't count, 'because it was justice not murder'.

    Justin.

  6. Re:Confusing creationists on Einstein's Theory Improved? · · Score: 3, Funny

    God's Law? ;-)

    Mind you, it confuses me... "Thou shalt not kill... Now go over that hill there and kill everyone you find"

    J.

  7. Re:Non slashdotter's response... on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 1

    I certainly am - that use of pavement, bloke etc a bit of a giveaway I'd've thought ;-)

    J.

  8. Re:Faux-Spam on Circumventing CAN-SPAM · · Score: 1

    You seem to feel that politics is not a form of commerce...?

    Justin.

  9. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong on Polite Cell Phones · · Score: 1
    If you're hungry, eat. If you're tired, sleep. If you have to go... you know... go.

    Do not get these in the wrong order... napping in your pizza is one thing, but...

    Justin.

  10. Re:Inside my pocket on Polite Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Always did... mostly as bait though ;-)

  11. Re:Non slashdotter's response... on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 1

    I'm not young enough myself to just bounce back, so at the time it was pretty damn unpleasant. He knocked me about pretty badly. I have always thought that verbal attacks should get verbal responses.

    It is funny looking back, now that I realise why he got so mad. Wouldn't stop me sticking a stick through his spokes if I saw him again though.

    J.

  12. Commodore Pet. on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1
    Five inch screen atop a huge box made of funny angles. Aaah.

    I remember meaning to type 'input football' (get a variable entry from the user and store it using the name football), but typing 'input foot ball' by mistake and getting prompted for two variables!

    That was the moment I 'got it' - this box would remember, perfectly, as much stuff as I needed and manipulated it. Holy cow! Never looked back ;-)

    Justin.

  13. Non slashdotter's response... on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Huh?"

    "What?"

    "Did you just call me a moron?"

    ;-)

    A fifty-something bloke once cycled at me on the pavement. I asked him "does your mother not let you ride on the road yet?" as he passed. He turned round, cycled back and hit me, for "saying something about my mother"! It took me an age to work out that he simply did not understand what I was getting at.

    I vote we all use emoticons, and then ban people without typing skills from the net. And the pavement.

    Justin.

  14. Re:Has Slashdot become crackpot central? on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 2, Funny

    (As a trained physicist I agree with your analysis, but as a slashdotter, I have to get a +5 funny)

    This means that, all I have to do to get accelerated to a significant proportion of c is to get someone else to sling something at me at over half the speed of light, with a high degree of accuracy.

    Now, who's going to volunteer to test that out?!

    Justin.

  15. Re:Allah Ackbar! on Netflix Throttling Heavy Renters · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I shit on your Jesus and piss on your God.
    Your mother sucks my prick and swallows my wad!"
    But free speech'll win
    Over arbitrary sin
    So fuck off and die arab clod.

  16. I'm with you. on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    I'm a contactor. I work about 50 minutes out of every hour, and goof off the rest, unless I'm 'in the zone', when I have no idea ;-)

    If I didn't, I'd soon not be able to work at all.

    This guy should get another job with a sane boss... and all his co-workers better get their heads up from this and start looking too.

    Justin.

  17. Be fair... on Undisturbed Tomb found in the Valley of the Kings · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're being overly harsh on the diggers.

    They found the shaft last year, after they had found and dug the workmen's huts, and they haven't entered the tomb, they've opened a small space in the blocked door and looked inside.

    But I only RTFA, what do I know.

    Justin.

  18. Re:How long have they been sitting on this? on Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're thinking of Trademarks. Patents don't work that way, but they damn well should.

    If a company knows it has a case - against anyone at all - and doesn't pursue it within a reasonable timescale, then that should be a defence for anyone and everyone else.

    (My 2p)

    Justin.

  19. At a guess it was... on Dealing with Corporate FUD About Linux? · · Score: 1
    ...one very poorly AIX box, presumably running the corporate FTP, File Server, Print Server, Intranet, etc etc.

    Ten cheap, lightweight Linux servers is a fair swap.

    J.

  20. Re:So what? on Microsoft's C++/CLI Spec Has an Identity Crisis · · Score: 1

    So long as they referred to it in every instance as C++/CLI, I don't think there'd be half the fuss, no.

    So long as we hadn't experienced monopoly-powered embrace and extend before, I don't think we'd be so worried.

    But they don't, and we have.

    Justin.

  21. Re:The quote that annoys me... on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1

    When the politicians start deliberately misusing words to muddy the water, you know they are up to something.

    Blair has started using this tactic over here too. He referred to "the civil liberty to walk down the street without being bombed".

    A lawyer like him should know exactly what a civil liberty is - it is the liberties with which the state will not interfere.

    ("First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers")

    An unamusing aside on govt lies here: a committee of MPs recently concluded that a cabinet minister had deliberately said something that he knew to be untrue to parliament. However, they also concluded that he had not lied. I have no idea how that works, unless it is a rather desperate whitewash.

    Justin.

  22. Re:Something I've always wondered... on U.S. Gov To Spider Internet · · Score: 1
    I suspect that about 49.5% of Americans know and understand and agree with you.

    Sadly, traditionally, the Republicans have been the gun-totin' party. So now, just when the election of the thief-in-chief neans that "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" finally applies, the guns are in the hands of the idiot 50.5% that voted Bush et al.

    Tell me God, why the fuck is Bill Hicks dead? We need him back, now.

    Go ahead, mod me troll/flamebait too.

    Justin.

  23. Re:This is simple on Motorola's Linux Phones Frustrate Developers · · Score: 1

    There aren't enought mod points for what you said, or enough guns to put it right.

    Justin.

  24. Re:Stop feeding the troll on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    Ta. Not being a farker, I didn't get the 'joke'.

    J.

  25. Re:I Work For NASA and Most of This is Patently Fa on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    Didn't you post something almost word-for-word identical in the last NASA story? Again, without any backup, links, or even specificity.

    I suspect you may be a bullshitter, just like those you are disparaging.

    Justin.