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  1. Re:Where to begin? on Building a Better Office · · Score: 1

    > let the directors and VPs, who are never in their offices anyway, have the cubes

    Walking down the hallway getting coffee in the morning and hearing What do you mean -- the funding was withdrawn? -- precious...

  2. Re:Powerful incentives on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be used to kill as well as heal

    That's why prescription drugs are heavily regulated, you cannot take drugs prescribed to somebody else, etc.

  3. Phoebe vs. Wild 2 on Cassini-Huygens Reaches Phoebe · · Score: 1

    Comet Wild 2 picture looks much alike Phoebe
    Is it just me or is there some scientific significance (Phoebe is a captured comet etc.)

  4. Re:The New Soldier on Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright Stories · · Score: 1

    The point is that being a Republican, I don't trust the mud-slinging department of the Republican party, and would like to check the source myself.

  5. The New Soldier on Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright Stories · · Score: 2, Funny

    by John Kerry, out of print, used ones are between $420 and $1200 on Amazon.com...

  6. Who is OEM? on NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open · · Score: 1

    So z-com designed the software. Did they design the board? If they did, then Netgear box is just a rebadged z-com.

    Would it be more correct to describe Netgear as OEM, and z-com as designers?

  7. Re:Why? on ESA Completes Important Step Toward Vega Launcher · · Score: 1

    I prefer to compare apples to apples -- there were studies for heavier Saturn V configurations.

    I'm pretty sure heavier configuration Energia hardware does not exist.

  8. Re:RTFP (Read the Fucking Patent) on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    > That being said, does anyone have any specific prior art to overturn this with?

    Copied from my Handera EasyLaunch hack info screen:

    EasyLaunch 0.15
    Freeware
    Copyright (c) 2000-2001
    All rights reserved
    Hynek Syrovatka
    www.mujweb.cz/www/hysy

    The hack hooks up launching applications to hardware Palm buttons -- and recognizes press-and-hold.

    No double-click though.

  9. Re:Why? on ESA Completes Important Step Toward Vega Launcher · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > Russian Energia can lift considerably more than Saturn

    Energia: 80000 kg to LEO (May 15, 1987)
    Saturn: 115900 kg to LEO (May 14, 1973)

  10. Re:Price will come down. on 12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    > 19 megapixel camera appears that requires about a gig or so per photo

    Hmm... 431 bits/bixel... That's on heck of color resolution...

  11. Re:It'll happen anyway on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I guess dinosaur Bruce Willis failed at his mission...

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dinosaur_d ea th_040526.html

  12. Re:That movie looks so awful on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Everybody has heard about Independence Day -- so it will draw people to the movie.

    What I find surprising is that nobody mentions that Roland Emmerich directed The Patriot -- probably because incompatible audiences of The Patriot and Day After Tomorrow...

    The country is split, isn't it?

  13. Re:Uh oh, We've got to the explaining to do... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Looks like business oportunity to me!

    Dual.. no.. triple.. quadruple... original copy recording machine!

  14. Re:Hypocritical griping? Physician, heal thyself on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    > He's a terrorist, not a general

    He has the ambition and may become one, given time.

    > beastiality

    Wow. I was talking about marriage of convenience.

  15. Re:Hypocritical griping? Physician, heal thyself on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Let me translate it into English.

    > So, you're for a police state,

    Means: Don't surrender to Bin Laden.

    > intolerance,

    Means: No, you can not marry your cat.

    > and racism?

    Means: you still can investigate minorities.

  16. Reminds me of on Bob Muglia on Longhorn Server, Linux and Blackcomb · · Score: 1

    http://www.min.net/~douglas/msl98.jpg

  17. Lemme guess... on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    which will remain nameless

    thx-1138.org, anyone?

  18. Re:Fuck you America on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    > Who would do such a thing, you ask? Complete and utter losers.

    Hello, my name is dmitriy, and I am complete and utter loser.

    I received one-week Nielsen radio package and used it to promote my political views.

  19. Re:Hypocritical griping? Physician, heal thyself on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 0, Troll

    And why precisely should I trust ACLU?

    With their "Action Alerts" like this:

    Patriot Act: Urge Congress to Reject Ashcroft's Veto Threat

    Marriage Amendment: Oppose Writing Intolerance into the Constitution

    Urge Congress to Stop Racial Profiling

    their political views fall squarely on one side of the aisle.

  20. Re:Is there anyone left... on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Caesar Didn't Say It; Shakespeare Didn't Write It

  21. Re:Likely to commit an act of terrorism? on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    I would rather Federal Government stay out of individual freedom altogether.

  22. one of the main sources of terrorist income on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Selling Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange databases?

  23. Free Trade Software Foundation on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 1

    Free Trade Software Foudation?! What's this?
    How often can you see this kind of sloppiness in court documents?

  24. Re:In Russian on Non-English Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    In the old days, there were no personal computers in school -- man were man, women were women and computers were MINSK-22 saved from the scrap heap.

    I never used Rapira or Robik either -- but reading Kvant was fun.

    Which reminds me -- there were real Russian-based computer languages used in development!!!

    Assembler for BESM-6

    High-level "assembler" for Elbrus

    AKI "Avtokod Inzhener" for MINSK-22

    BTW, ES1030 is a clone of IBM/360, so no VAX OS would run on it (and there were Russian clones of VAX, but I don't think they were in the ES series -- PDP clones were in SM series)

  25. Re:I can prove Linux didn't come from Linus! on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 1

    Soviets stole AT&T Unix, used hybrid nordic programmers to improve it with stealth soviet cold-war technology

    Hmm... Is it supposed to be funny?
    Back in there, I had full source code of Ultrix at my fingertips. I bet AT&T version was floating somewhere.
    Also, Russians definitely have some Nordic ancestors (Varangians, Rurik, Novgorod, 862 A.D.), so hybridization took about 11 centuries.
    Also, there were "improved" versions of UNIX, that were able to run on incredibly unreliable hardware.

    Which means the above quote is actually true...
    In Soviet Russia.