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  1. Re:Learning Curve on Tux Can Even Milk Cows! · · Score: 2, Informative
    Obviously, you've never been to a dairy farm. Milk production engorges the udder, actually causing discomfort to the cow. Milking relieves this discomfort. The more the cows are milked, the more milk is produced. Since the cows voluntarily get milked up to six times a day, this will most likely increase output, and actually driving the cost of milk down.

    Now, this only works in the theoretical world of Free Market. In the good old farm-subsidy, price-control, minimum-price-cap US of A, this will lead to the excess milk product being made into more government cheese.

  2. Re:Proprietary technology? on Microsoft In Legal Battle Over Halo 2 Packaging · · Score: 1

    And that's why you're not supposed to think while reading Slashdot.

  3. Re:Set it up for a sale... on Novell Under Pressure From Investors · · Score: 2, Funny
    Or alternative, Novell to flounder as they loose sight of any strategic direction while they look for a market exit.

    Well, if I'm gonna take Novell, I'll have to talk to the home owners association about parking spaces for those jets. And I've got room here for maybe a few dozen netware engineers. The rest will have to go in storage.

  4. Re:Finally! on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fill the box with urine and there's a check with your name on it at the National Endowment of the Arts.

  5. Re:Does that mean on Google's Blog Search · · Score: 1

    Kind of like looking up Java classes and seeing 30 sites duplicating the Sun API spec (layout and all).

  6. Re:LOL VACANCIES LOL on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1

    Me Too!

  7. Re:google earth for Mac? on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1
    You'll get your OSX version as soon as us Linux users get a version.

    And, knowing Google, they're sure to have a port in works.

  8. Re:Long time justice on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1

    And Justice Stevens voted in favor of using Eminent Domain for no more of a purpose than raising tax revenue (Kelo v. New London), along with the liberal left of the court while Rehnquist voted with the conservative right against such uses.

  9. Re:Flash sucks anyway on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah! Screw Java, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS and HTML! If I can't read it with Emacs/Vi/NotePad, it's worthless!

  10. Re:Living off the air on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, but parents are less likely to force their friends in as company executives.

    But venture capitalists won't do your laundry or yell downstairs at 3am to turn off the computer and go to bed.

  11. Re:The ambulance from the show was found... on Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing? · · Score: 1
    Considering that the prop looks to be a modified and painted fuselage from a Russian Mi-24 Hind helicopter, it's highly likely.

    The yard this was found is about an hour drive from me, and I'm tempted to go pay homage to a honest to god Firefly prop.

  12. Re:Living off the air on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 1
    The alternative is to fund everything out of pocket. If you have no financial resources, well then you're just another talented designer working at McDonalds.

    Or living with parents that are hoping to get a little monetary benefit at the other end. At least, that's how it's working for me.

  13. Re:What can be done with it? on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd love to see a Q3 port of Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior.

  14. Re:Don't speed on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 1

    So, that's the answer. Make the government maintaining the camera network cost more than they gain in ticket revenue. Claim mis-calibrated cameras, faulty cameras, fraudulent picture hashes, and if all else fails, baseball bats and paintball guns.

  15. 33% discount?? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 2, Insightful
    For a textbook that I can't resell to the bookstore, keep around for reference (I still refer to a few of my CompSci and Physics books), a 33% discount is crap.

    And how long until the electronic version is the ONLY version available? A few years?

    The best thing my compSci program did was standardize on regular computer texts (O'Reilly) that will be reused for years (or until the next update) rather than already outdated overpriced textbooks. Llama, Camel, UML in a Nutshell, Java Definitive, Interface Design and others still are used on an almost daily basis. Meanwhile, the $120 C textbook collects dust on the bottom shelf.

  16. Re:How long? on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should have purchased that cloud insurance. You just know those clouds are planning something.

  17. Re:Yeah, but I bet they're trying to make somethin on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    They're just waiting for their shipment of lemon-scented napkins.

  18. Re:Hotels on Where Can I Find Linux Porters? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the 5 series would be a serious perk. But all that fighting in oil would seriously ruin my complexion.

  19. Re:Here's what I'd do... on Time Syncing Through a Firewall Without NTP? · · Score: 1
    Then either the firewall is crap, somebody lost the manual, or the firewall manager is a frigging idiot.

    Based on my IT experiences, my guess is all of the above.

  20. Re:Could substitute -freenode #perl for this on Learning Perl, 4th Ed. · · Score: 1
    Ease?? Hell yeah.

    Elegance?? Are we talking about the same language? I can't wait to see Perl6.0, just to see Larry take another stab at OO Perl.

  21. Re:It's True! on Google Moon Debuts · · Score: 1
    Charo?

    Chachi?

  22. Re:Not really my thing, but... on How Episode IV Should Have Ended · · Score: 1
    As long as you don't mind that the message is from a bunch of granola-eating hippies.

    Sorry, but organic food is fine as a niche market. Hell, I buy organic milk all the time. But using pesticides and genetically engineered foods to increase the size of harvest per acre is the only way to feed an ever-increasing population.

  23. Re:WARNING!! on How Episode IV Should Have Ended · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but at least Win users can still decompress gzipped tarballs.

  24. Re:Maybe there's a Mistake on Public Domain from Outer Space · · Score: 1
    Sorry, Manos: The Hand of Fate does top them all. Even mistied, it's painful. Un-touched, it'll make your eyeballs bleed.

    And I proudly own an original 16mm print of it.

  25. Re:Galactica 1980 on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if they have the bikes. Can't have Galactica 1980 without the bikes.