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  1. Re:How long... on Rice Contracted to Provide NASA's Quantum Wire · · Score: 1

    Shh! Don't give the audiophiles any idea.

  2. Re:But what about the 1337 Gentoo users? on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1

    I have a friend at work who wants to install Linux and since I use Gentoo, he's going to try it. I printed him a copy of the user guide and stressed to follow it. It really is a fine FM.

  3. Re:American Grafiti, Episode 1) the Diaper years on George Lucas Struggles to Reinvent Himself · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, it'd would be called The Andy Griffith Show.

  4. Re:He'll be disappointed... on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 1

    Ya know, I thought about mentioning something about him having to travel to the east coast, but I just didn't think it would be worth it since that was a given. I guess I was wrong.

  5. Re:He'll be disappointed... on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, Gov. Schwarzenegger will be there pushing him back in the water telling him the borders are closed.

  6. Re:What does he have on you, Bill? on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1

    How would that work? Most of the things I listed depend on being somehow "linked" with another person.

  7. *chuckle* on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see my Gentoo box sweating now all nervous for the night I get a little drunk and decide to see how this gcc 4 thing works out. heh heh heh.

  8. Re:What does he have on you, Bill? on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh let's see. The right to inheritance, the right to visit and make descisions for your spouse in the hospital, the right to file your taxes as a married couple, certain states have married only property rights with regards to real estate. Gay and lesbian people who want to get married know the list of rights and privledges much better than I do (a straight divorced guy), but I'm sure there's many more.

  9. And God saw that it was wet. on Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid · · Score: 1

    Then the universe evaporated. Or uh . .. .something like that.

  10. Re:Every dark cloud has it's silver lining... on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Unless it hits Hartford CT. :-( Then the damage TO the insurance companies may be to great.

  11. Re:perhaps a cultural difference? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're a little off. The British use 'billions' where an American would use 'trillion.' The British use things like 'thousand-million.'
    For both British and American counters a 'couple' thousand multiplied by $50,000 would be roughly one-hundred-million dollars depending on how strict or loose the person was being with a 'couple.'

  12. Re:Dead presidents? on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Well, I have to admit I was thinking of the $100, but even $10 is ten time more then the usual bill bandied about a place like that.

  13. Zion found? on Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    AT what point do we punch through into a giant loading dock only to be shot at by hundreds of "free people" who unlike the rest of us are NOT plugged into the Matrix?

  14. Re:Damn.. on Court Denies Smucker's PB&J Patent · · Score: 1

    You can't patent the BLT, but you might be able to patent a particular way of making a BLT like bacon on both sides with the lettuce and tomato between. If Smuckers can patent the method of putting peanut butter on both halves to keep the jelly from seeping through the bread . . . A technique I've used for years.

  15. Re:You think that's bad.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 2, Funny

    They get really impressed if you start handing out that currancy that doesn't have a dead president on it.

  16. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    The Sacagawea coin was made to not only be the same size and weight as the Susan B Anthony dollar, it was made of a special allow that has the same conductivity as the old Susan B. This way any machine that could take an old dollar coin can take the new with no modification.
    I have yet to see one that can take the Eisenhower dollar coin that I carry around with me though.

  17. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    We get dollar coins back in change from the vending machines where I work. Plug in a five for a candy bar, my change is four dollar coins (some Susan B, but usually Sacajawea), a quarter and a nickel.

  18. Re:Oxyhydroxide? on Next Gen Oxyride Batteries Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Looks more like Hydrogen Dioxide. If such a thing were possible.

  19. Re:Schoolgirls of Mars on Japan's 20-Year Plan for Space · · Score: 1

    Japanese schoolgirls wear the little sailor outfits. It's the American Catholic school girls in the plaid skirts. Um . . . . not that I really pay attention to that sort of thing or anything.
    Hey! How about that NCAA final!?!

  20. Re:Academy good; Kirk, Spock bad on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 1

    So kind of a Taps, in space? Could be worse.

  21. Re:QUICK! on Culprit of Leaked Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 1

    One important ingrediant is missing. Time Lords are British. Batman and Jack Ryan are American if I'm not mistaken.
    I mean an American couldn't be a Time Lord, they'd have to be a Time Overseer, or Time Supervisor, maybe Time Commissioner. . .

  22. Re:Tough read ... on Culprit of Leaked Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 1

    That last rendition is of course the classic William Shatner school of acting version.

  23. Re:QUICK! on Culprit of Leaked Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because when he meets himself he usually IS a different character.
    I can't believe that so few people have caught on that James Bond must also be a Time Lord.

  24. Re:find a new line of work... on Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker · · Score: 1

    Maybe he could work with FSF or OSDN or some other group that by it's very nature doesn't keep secrets?
    Just a thought.

  25. Re:A Bad Idea. on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    Besides what everyone else has suggested. You're shell is probably bash, so you can just open a terminal and type "fire" then hit tab twice to see all the options that begin with "fire." Then it's a simple matter of finishing the command. just typing firefox probably would have worked. The other choice would be "firefox-bin" Then you could have done a search to learn how to create a launcher for firefox in your desktop of choice.
    In BASH the tab key is my best friend.