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  1. Re:What a thoughtless waste... on One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL · · Score: 2, Funny
    Think about it, that's at least $400,000 dollars down the drain!

    Absolutely! It's better we just spend some time talking about it on /.

    BTW, this guy got tired of getting AOL CDs in the mail. What will getting a million of them do to him?

  2. Re:who/where on One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's in large, bold printon the main page of the website(http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/) No More AOL CDs! 1601 Navellier St. El Cerrito CA, 94530 U.S.A.

    Irony or Insanity: a guy who's sick of getting AOL CDs says, "send me a million of them!"

  3. Re:NET SEND spam on Windows/NetBIOS pop-up Spam: · · Score: 1
    A net message popped up telling us how to get college degrees for only $20, and PhDs for something like $50.

    Are you serious? I spent years in grad school!

  4. Re:100,000 on Building The Navy Intranet · · Score: 1
    Where, or how rather, do you come up with a number like 100,000 when you are talking about applications? That number seems impossibly high to me, no matter how long they have been using their network. Can anyone here even imagine 10,000 apps? On the other hand, how much of that 6.9Billion could be elimanated by using Linux on the desktops and servers?

    With RedHat 8, I think you can cut down that number of apps down to, at most, maybe 73,000, out-of-the-box.

  5. Re:I don't get it (well, now you will) on Building The Navy Intranet · · Score: 1
    It is overpopulation which necessitates the office make work program we have had for most of the twentieth century.

    Well, I guess _you're_ part of the problem, then. Want to help solve it?

  6. Heretofore Undisclosed Tidbit on There's a Hole in the Middle of It All · · Score: 1

    They _could_ make out the symbols "/." in a faint gray shade on this monster blackhole.

  7. Re:It is infinitely much easier... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    I hate you.

    LOL

  8. Re:Sound familiar? on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    The state department is currently going around the world strong-arming countries into agreeing not to deliver US citizens into the evil clutches of the court.

    I think "bribing" is more accurate than "strong-arming", although that would be used for those resistant to bribes.

  9. Re:Sound familiar? on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    Somehow I seem to have missed a Declaration of War by the U.S. Congress. Therefore the U.S. can not hold someone as an enemy combatant under the laws of war, because the U.S. is officially not at war.

    Shows that the US is a rogue lawless State. The Congress and the President just scoff at the Constitution, like it's some dead letter. If God is just, I am scared for the USA.

  10. Re:Sound familiar? on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    also, unlawful combatents have no right to communicate to the out side world, and while camp x-ray was not conforming, camp delta is.

    What exactly is an "unlawful combatant"?

  11. Re:Need a Website on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    don't even show up to vote

    Contrary to popular superstition, this is a legitimate option. You signal your refusal to accept _any_ of the given "choices" as deserving of your support. Why don't they put "none of the above is acceptable" on ballots? That could make things interesting.

  12. Re:Need a Website on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    Jusr remember that politicians are like diapers and need to be changed often for the same reason.

    Also: if "pro" is "for", and "con" is "against", then the opposite of progress is congress.

  13. Re:It is infinitely much easier... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 2, Insightful
    to trick someone who isn't free to believe he is, than it is to trick someone who is free into believing he isn't.

    Think about it.

    It reminds me of another saying: if you make someone think you are making them think, they'll love you. But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

    Think about it.

  14. Re:Nice concept on Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop · · Score: 2, Insightful
    With so many people around here being attracted by the smooth curves of Mac OS it's nice to see utilitarian ideals being put into practice.

    I like smooth curves (especially my wife's). I am not drawn to Spartan asceticism and the utilitarian "ideal".

  15. Re:loose versus lose on Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop · · Score: 1
    ...two words with different meanings cannot be spelled the same way, one of the meanings would have to go and that would be a loss to the language and our ability to express ourselves.

    Did you really mean, "that would be a loose to the language..." ? OK, it's getting bad here. But what do you expect of a mass of people educated by the government?

  16. Re:Language on Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia · · Score: 1
    Was that a joke? If so, it wasn't funny.

    Yeah, it was, but remember, this is /.!

  17. Re:Existing Journaling Systems? on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenBSD uses softupdates (still in development, need an fsck still). Right here. The linked papers are useful reads.

  18. Re:10 - 15% ?! on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1
    I predict that it will become faster with time.

    Yeah, things seem to move quicker around me as I get older. When you're young, the days are short and the years are long. When you're old, the days are long and the years are short. It _is_ Fall, I am feeling a bit melancholic...

  19. More $$ Extraction on More on DVD-Audio and SACD · · Score: 1
    The manufacturers cite the superior audio quality, and 3-dimensionality of the new formats' reproduction as the reasons for customers to embrace these formats.

    So many of us have listened to too much loud music, we'd never notice "better-than-CD quality".

  20. Re:Language on Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia · · Score: 2, Informative
    My assumption would be that this would make a great CS graduation project - and I'm being serious here. "Class, we're going to put dialect XYZ into the Linux code base. Now, how do we do this?"

    Easy. Just run the code through this.

  21. Re:Tell me you're kidding on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 1
    Okay, trained actors can sniff out trained actors. All my actor friends, even those that love Macs themselves, know without even a glimmer of a doubt, that most if not all of those "switchers" on the Mac commericials are fellow actors. Voice inflections, presence, all the little nuances that go into actor: they're all there. So, YES, they are actors. Perhaps they are acting out real testimonials, that can be debated, but they are actors.

    Isn't acting the art of not looking like you're acting? You're faking it so well? So if you look like you're acting, you're probably not an actor. OTOH, if you look natural, you may be real, or a good actor.

  22. Re:If you were Really HardCore on Which Coding Framework for Mac OS X ? · · Score: 1
    However, if you're working on a product to compete with mine, I can't help but agree that you should be using assembly for everything-- and to recommend that you create your own ui widgets while you're at it.

    C'mon, I was just joking. I could have said "Xlib", but I didn't want anyone to suffer a stroke.

  23. If you were Really HardCore on Which Coding Framework for Mac OS X ? · · Score: 1

    Assembly. Show us what you've got.

  24. Re:In Other news on Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected · · Score: 1
    80% of China's computer run windows

    You beat me to it. I was going to say (and will, in fact, proceed to say) that Windows is just a graphical shell on a boot virus, so 80% seems a bit low.

  25. Re:I dont understand how they could have missed th on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1
    the only thing I resent the Boomers for is eating up Social Security at an alarming rate.

    They (we, regrettably) haven't yet, but they (we) will. The most self-absorbed generation in US history is sure to drain the coffers, and whine all the way down.