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  1. Re:Who to believe? on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    You yourself quoted the original sentence properly before:

    The response to this has been that these scientists are motivated by partisan considerations and are trying to create a political issue.

    The original poster was not claiming that there was partisan motivation, and is therefore under no obligation to prove something that he did not assert. He claimed that the response stated that there was partisan motivation. This is true, as can be verified by, um... reading the response?

  2. Re:Stuff on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    Try it yourself. apt-get and have fun.

  3. Re:Who to believe? on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    I believe his scientific basis was reading the slashdot headline... although he may have actually read the article, too.

    Generally, finding scientific proof that someone is saying something isn't much harder than going to news.google.com, in the worst case. Let me know if you need help.

  4. Re:what's the problem eBay? on Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow. That's, uh, not good. Ya see, your registrar doesn't own it in the first place, so they can't transfer ownership to you...

  5. Re:Nothing special in the drivers. on FTC Dismisses Complaint Against Rambus · · Score: 1

    Speaking as one who has two smaller sticks, I agree.. having one larger stick would do wonders for my social life, and probably get me out of this damn medical textbook too.

  6. Re:Dammit! on SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    I repost previous +5's in later SCO stories. If caught, I claim they were mine or an unauthorized derivative but I never actually show proof.

    Excuse me, but that was my post! Plagiarism!

  7. Re:Does AMD have anything to compete with Centrino on AMD Back in the Black · · Score: 1

    i think you just inspired the next ad campaign for mobile athlon's. "It flies, but not for as long as the plane you're on."

  8. Re:Immortality on Space Burial · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right... and there's no way to work around this, huh? For someone with a user id under 700k, you ain't so bright.

  9. Re:Cemeteries are landfills on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    Disrespectful to whom, exactly? Or if you prefer, to what?

  10. Re:Only so much carbon... on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    I think he's calling me fat... I'm above average!

  11. Re:Why ? on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 1

    And of course, TextEdit.app, free with every mac, can read and write Office files just fine.

  12. Re:How can you search for unique numbers? on Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers · · Score: 1

    Why not just grep your dictionary file?

  13. Re:irrelevant on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    A jury will think exactly what the most authoritative-sounding person tells them to think, just like always. Your legal guilt is 100% divorced from your actual actions. Do what you want with your life; you're fucked (if you're poor) or you're fine (if you're rich) regardless.

  14. Re:Windows developers do not read GPL source on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    The only argument I've ever heard against using 'i' is that it's harder to search for. Certainly, the intent is incredibly clear. For searching, just tokenize the source and search that... perfectly easy to search for i, or j, or even 1 or 0, with no false positives. There are more programs out there that do this than that check e-mail, I suspect. If your tools are restricting your ability to name variables, the problem is with your tools, not your naming.

  15. Re:Windows developers do not read GPL source on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just tokenize the source and search that... perfectly easy to search for i, or j, or even 1 or 0, with no false positives. There are more programs out there that do this than that check e-mail, I suspect.

  16. Re:I got confused... on WineConf 2004 Wrapup · · Score: 1

    Freeze distillation can be done, and it kills certain flavors a lot less than normal distillation... but it really is distillation, it's no longer a 'natural' wine. It's also a pain in the ass for little result; you can get to 40% if you try really really hard, but you'll be throwing away half of the good stuff. If you want a few percent more, get a better yeast. If you want a significant difference, distill properly.

  17. Re:Ooo! on New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections · · Score: 3, Funny

    iAgree.

  18. Re:I got confused... on WineConf 2004 Wrapup · · Score: 2, Informative

    16.8% is absolutely not a hard limit. Yes, most champagne yeasts poop out around 16%... but then, most ale yeasts give up before 12%. With a slow fermentation and a good yeast, a mead can easily hit 18%... and rice wines (which have lower initial sugar concentration, it's really a much more complex process) can hit 20%, 22% with skill.

  19. Re:Or... on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 1

    5% is a harder number to understand. This is a presentation for managers; 10% is what these people tip.

  20. Re:Clippy in the dressing room... on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not a leg, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Thank You! on Tetris - From Russia With Love · · Score: 4, Funny

    It takes guts to say, on slashdot, that your mom got hocked.

    Regardless of what it means.

  22. Re:use big screen to show off! on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 1

    Or, uh, RAM.

    But who has that?

  23. Re:Or... on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 1

    Or 200, and tell them you're using 10% of the line's capacity. Clearly the presentation is for people who have no idea what bandwidth is, so why not?

  24. Re:Channel 11 on WiFi Interference Problems in Urban Environments? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why the heck was this modded funny? Why don't I ever get crack with my mod points?

  25. Re:shouldn't it be apple's on Safari Code Benefiting Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    kontributions to the iOpen iSource kommunity?