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  1. Re:Strange.. on Bacteria Powered Batteries · · Score: 1

    Because of the great fear of losing control when all of the oil will have
    been drilled, it sounds obvious that these billionaires are interested in
    investing in alternative power sources such as this one, so that they are certain they'll keep control of worldwide energy sales...

    Terrorism is just an artefact that has been added after "some" occidental countries decided to interefere with the local governments...

    Oh, and here I thought it was another of them thar ``alternative'' power sources. Thanks for clearing that up.
  2. Re:Is Linux a Machination of Satan? on First New Gaiman Sandman In 7 Years · · Score: 1

    FYI, Bill Gates supports contraception and abortion with his own money. That makes him even more evil than RMS.

  3. Re:Oh for chrissake on More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't be bothered to read the headlines? Right. Just what I expect from a M$ fan...

  4. Re:Final straw on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    Actually, what `promotion' work did the RIAA ever do? Wasn't that always the member labels' job?

    Btw.: ever notice it's just the RIAA pulling this anti-P2P crap? I mean, the labels themselves hardly ever get involved. I think that's because the labels don't have the RIAA's monopoly status, so if they acted individually they'd have to actually listen to their customers. Hell, they might even be forced to find a new niche in the Internet system.

  5. Re:Oh for chrissake on More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX · · Score: 1

    So scan the stories---or maybe just the headlines. It's not like (at least in this case) you can't tell from the friggin' headline whether anything has happened, after all.

  6. Re:As a guy... on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    You can't sit them in front of a box, any box, and ignore them.

    Wait a sec... you mean the ideal isn't for parents to forget their kids exist? Damn, I am so doing this wrong...
  7. Re:Final straw on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    Actually, I want the RIAA to go bankrupt---they're a noncompetitive cartel. Bring the market to the music industry, I say!

  8. Re:Warning: Reality Ahead on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    What? What does this have to do with any fundie? Try to stay on-topic, please.

  9. Re:What? on The Innovators' Ball · · Score: 1

    Windows 95 added no value over the Mac. Intel added value over the Mac, the IBM PC clones added value over the Mac, Windows' installed base and software developers added value, but Windoss 95 added no value whatsoever.

  10. Re:Your sig on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    How many partitions do you have? I have 4, but I have no problem sorting them out so I only need one for documents (programs go on the other three).

    Of course, if you had a real problem---a real need to put documents on multiple hard drives---on Linux you could always mount your other partitions on subdirectories of ~.

  11. Re:I'm all for freedom but... on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. I'm all for free enterprise, but what makes free enterprise work is the Coase Theorem---and that depends on the inviolability of contract rights. If AOL agrees to provide web hosting under certain terms, they have to abide by those terms.

  12. Re:HEH. on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll squeeze themselves completely out of the net, and leave it a friendly place for the rest of us.

    Hey, a geek can dream, can't he?

  13. Re:AOL blows on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    YES! No maybe they'll block them from Usenet, and we'll see a S/N ratio rise for once!

  14. Re:Your sig on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    If "My Documents" is inspired by Linux, then Linux is the root of all evil.

    What's your beef with My Documents? (I'm a Plan 9 fanatic, not Windows, btw.)
  15. Re:Wait a minute on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    I see what you're saying here, but how I see this is like having security doors on the outside of the apartment building. Everyone who lives there has a key, but anyone who doesn't live there shouldn't just be able to walk in.

    Except that, in that case, I can come in with the permission of one of the attendants. AOL won't let you into their user area from livejournal even if you are coming from another site by the same person as the owner of the user page you're trying to access. It's like an apartment owner putting in a security lock, and then not even giving his tenants keys.
  16. Re:F12 on AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal · · Score: 1

    They're their own little net, but unfortunately they get to bother the rest of us anyway...

  17. Re:Limiting sequence... on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    The fact that the behaviour of a limiting sequence doesn't determine a particular behaviour of a limit is really interesting! But does it apply to limiting eveything over 0?

    What do you mean by ``limiting everything over 0''? What sequence or class of sequences are you limiting? Clearly, a decreasing sequence of strictly positive values can limit to 0.
  18. Re:Quick! Hang him! on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations for taking an intended joke seriously. You fill me with awe, you veritable joy pendant, you.

  19. Re:Is that 1.999 repeating? on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    What? Goedel himself knew full well there were (are) consistent axiom systems---he frickin' proved the consistency of arithmetic!

  20. Re:Is that 1.999 repeating? on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    the sum of (9*(10^-x)) for x from 1 to y will always be 1-(10^-y). Even for very large values of y, (10^-y) will never *equal* zero.

    Repeat after me: the limit of a sequence needn't be an element of that sequence.
  21. Re:NO! NO? NO?! on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    1/10 = 0? no

    1/90909 = 0? no

    1//(10^infinity) = 0? no

    BEEP! Logic error! The behavior of a limit cannot in general be determined from the behavior of a limiting sequence. (After all, 1/3 is the limit of a sequence of numbers expressable as finite decimals and sqrt 2 is the limit of a sequence of rational numbers.) Don't feel bad though, I swear to God Hawking makes the same mistake in A Short History of Time
  22. Re:Quick! Hang him! on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    Create a file named --help, then try to delete it.


    > --help
    rm -- --help

    You're welcome.
  23. Re:Is it just me? on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 1

    More likely, a strip about SCO would have to be actually funny, and they don't want to ruin their streak.

  24. Re:First long, thoughful post. on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    SCO is not the one that put its copyrighted System 5 source code into the GPL.

    Please tell me SCO didn't say that! Surely they know how to spell the name of the OS they claim to own!
  25. Re:First long, thoughful post. on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    The difference is that other companies have donated their copyrighted material, and they did so knowingly, and they're free to do that.

    Waaait a second. I thought SCO's major argument was that IBM had taken their code developed (or shown to SCO :) during project Monterey and put it in Linux. Does SCO recognize their right to do that or not?