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  1. Re:Wrong on Daylight Savings and UNIX? · · Score: 1

    I thought debian uses anacron

  2. Re:Taming the Spam on Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet · · Score: 1

    somebody mod the parent up, this is a good question.

  3. Re:because ... they're made of wood? on Space Elevators: Low Cost Ticket to GEO? · · Score: 1

    no, but one was named yggdrasil :-)

    (I am spending my twenty seconds... ... ... ...)

  4. because ... they're made of wood? on Space Elevators: Low Cost Ticket to GEO? · · Score: 1

    Donald Moffitt has an execlent novel called Second Genesis in which interstellar starships are created from genetically engineered trees grown in orbit.

  5. Re:Infrared? Ummm... probably not. on Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother · · Score: 1

    nice sig :-) b5 rulz

  6. Re:Download ISOs here! on Lunar Linux 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much work it would require to hack it onto 1.2s... ie surely there are some files bigger than a single 1.44 so there must be a file splitting mechanism in effect. I bet it would be easy to script it.

  7. Re:Spell Checker & Presentation on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 1

    it is acceptable in certain contexts to use a trailing apostrophe as equivalent to an acute accent. Mariam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary allows all three spellings:

    Main Entry: résumé
    Variant(s): or resume or resumé /'re-z&-"mA, "re-z&-' also 'rA- or "rA-/

  8. Re:Don't lie... (Author comment) on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 1

    my uncle did it. He applied for a sales position, and he had no experience, so he completely fabricated his resume and experience and got hired as a sales position, and he worked there for 15+ years!

  9. Re:About Red Hat... on Slashback: Galeon, Forgent, Platformation · · Score: 1

    exactly! It is not in their best interest to do that, because then they are implicitly allowing a way to get just the static bits, eg one could ignore the advertising. It also makes libel cases against them hard to prosecute: (oh yeah, *prove* that we wrote/published that...)

  10. Re:There are no hidden messages on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 1

    there are no tyops either!

  11. There are no hidden messages on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 1

    in the source of this page

  12. Re:Not so new!! on More Strange Bose-Einstein Condensate Behavior · · Score: 1

    this was one of my favorite stories of his :-)

  13. Re:Question 1 of 2: Language of choice? on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    I bet at least some is in Python
    Check out google's job application page

  14. Re:question for Craig re: search languages on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    mod this guy up!!!!!

  15. Re:Nice Question on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    we need a higher cap than 5... how do you determine the top ranked 10 comments when there are more than 10 modded to 5?

  16. Niven's best on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 1

    in my opinion two of Larry Niven's best books were Lucifer's Hammer, (which is so much better than Armageddon or Deep Impact) and Ringworld (which was the first Larry Niven that I ever read, and I was hooked!) but I can't really imagine Holywood making a movie of that. Actually, I could imagine it, but I can't imagine that they could do it justice.

  17. the coolest one I've ever heard on Mashed-Up Music · · Score: 1

    any song off of Play by Moby, mixed with any speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (eg "I have a dream..."). The connection sounds perfect, as if it was meant to go together!

  18. Re:Just what I've always wanted. on Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    err, it is sort of... pink, actually :-)

  19. Re:SHIN on What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    but they should just print:
    Please enter your personal identifaction number:

    of course many people talk about ATM machines, PIN numbers, NIC cards, etc., but some words have come into being through back formation, such as lase (which is a verb)

  20. an existing implementation on Mobile IT Education? · · Score: 1

    The West Plains campus of Southwwest Missouri State University has a pretty nice
    mobile computer lab that you can take a look at the specs on.

  21. Re:Amazon donations? on A New Year's Idea: Pay For Some Freedom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yahoo is fairly reputable, and I don't think they have a surcharge... Never mind, they have transaction charge of 2.5% of the transaction amount plus $0.30

  22. Re:I wonder if... on A New Year's Idea: Pay For Some Freedom · · Score: 1

    Why do you think for a long time the only pictures of Linus that were floating around the net had him next to a big bottle of beer?

  23. Re:Prize idea! on /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2001 · · Score: 1

    I had a friend who kept burning up in lava. Then one time he got fire resistance. When he fell in the lava, he didn't burn up, but he couldn't get out and drowned!

  24. Re:What I did: on What Can You Do When Defrauded on eBay? · · Score: 1

    USAA is a very good organization.

  25. Re:Snailmail is dying? Sounds kinda like *BSD... n on Anthrax To Kill Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    Email does have reliable authentication, including OpenPGP and S/MIME. Postal mail has nothing but a postmark indicating which city/zip code the letter was sent from.

    As for how many people use OpenPGP, a rough estimate can be obtained from the number of keys known to the keyservers: Number of keys: 1,577,742 according to a report from August, 2001. Also, keep in mind that not everyone who uses pgp or gnupg submits their key to a keyserver.