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  1. Borg? on Bing Translator Adds Klingon · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dunno... somehow Borg seems more appropriate for a Microsoft product. :-)

  2. Re:no love for mutt? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    Or, you can run mutt/alpine on your local machine, talking IMAP to your mail server (just like Thunderbird or another GUI mail client would).

  3. Re:Firefox on Linus Torvalds Says Linux 4.0 Could Be Out In Three Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm installing KDE version 1066 tonight. It comes with William the Konqueror.

  4. Re:Version control on Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? · · Score: 1

    You can solve the last 2 problems by working with csv (comma-separated-values) files. Just about any spreadsheet app (Excel, OpenOffice, Gnumeric) can edit them, and you can even edit them in a text editor if need be. As text, they'll diff easily, so you can merge, etc. in your VC of choice.

  5. Re:I'm confused... on NASA'S Orion Arrives At Kennedy, Work Underway For First Launch · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's Constellation that was defunded (with the Ares I and Ares V rockets). A replacement rocket (the Space Launch System) was funded instead.

  6. Re:Skype on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    Everywhere I look I see businesses using Cisco, Tandberg and Polycom video conferencing and that means real H323 protocols and software. Of which there is NOTHING for linux.

    Have you tried Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting)?

  7. Re:How long? on FOX To Host New Cosmos · · Score: 3, Funny

    And Venus will be a paradise planet according to them, because CO2 couldn't possible cause it to be hotter than Mercury. :-)

  8. Re:Would somebody declare a War on Supidity? on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 2
  9. Re:Too little too late on Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hope your plane doesn't crash from all those flying Christians getting sucked into the jet engines.

  10. Re:Enjoy. on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    That drunk guy asleep at the park bench - We don't know his name or damn would he get our vote.

    I think you mean Alvin Greene.

  11. Re:Fantasy is now king on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.

    You're right... It certainly is fiction, but nothing to do with science.

  12. Re:Neat on Nautilus-X: the Space Station With Rockets · · Score: 1

    I suppose given some windows and some pantless astronauts it could be. :-)

  13. Re:Neat on Nautilus-X: the Space Station With Rockets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do realize that despite the resemblance, this thing is not actually a Space Station. It's a space vehicle designed for interplanetary travel.

  14. Re:Most important launch in decades on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 4, Informative

    ATK's Rockets that are used for shuttle launches are called "Reusable Solid Rocket Motors"

    Kind of an oxymoron there considering they are lost into the ocean and gone forever - reusable?

    See this page for pictures of NASA ships doing the impossible: towing recovered solid rocket boosters back to Kennedy Space Center.

  15. Re:First Priority on NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars · · Score: 0

    What a bunch of losers! NASA is spending my tax dollars on crap that relies on M$ Silverlight.

  16. Re:If we could only get the gov't out of the way.. on Lawmakers Voice Support For NASA Moon Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was no money in the internet either until the 1990s. I guess building it before then was a waste of time and money.

    And who was developing the Internet until the 1990's? The government. Specifically, DARPA and NSF. And a bunch of universities, probably funded by government grants.

  17. Re:$500M/80K = how much? on Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds like Rosa Martinez might be getting back more than $870/mo worth. Even going all the way back to 1996, that's an average of about $40,000/mo per person.

    What are you smoking? $500 million, divided by 80,000 people is an average of $6250 per person, total. Assuming they were all getting $870 per month, they were being paid for an average of a little over 7 months.

  18. Re:The 2nd edition will use an unsigned byte count on The Geek Atlas · · Score: 1

    They must already be using an "unsigned byte" (or some larger integer)... 10000000b is -128 if you were using a signed byte.

  19. Re:OpenBSD? on NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams · · Score: 1

    but isn't it all about the userspace, which is pretty much the same?

    In general, you're correct. Apache (on, say, NetBSD)is generally as secure as Apache (on Linux). However, OpenBSD has reviewed a lot of the ported applications, and so Apache (on OpenBSD) should be better than other versions of Apache. That review may be done by other operating systems (e.g. the RedHat/Fedora version of Apache, if you get the RPM), but OpenBSD is famous for it.

  20. Re:Screwed? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    I suspect neither of those would be desirable if you consider yourself a Web Intelligent Designer. :-)

  21. Re:Sounds like a great industrial espionage device on $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available · · Score: 1

    If he's running ArpWatch he'll get an email each time an "unfamiliar" (i.e. new) MAC address is seen.

  22. Re:In other news... on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, SMTP (e-mail) uses TCP (almost always port 25). Perhaps you mean SNMP (network management)? A typical home router doesn't normally use SNMP, but more expensive ones (Cisco, etc.) do.

  23. Re:Definitely not twice... on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    No, if a program requests 12GB, and your machine doesn't have that much (RAM + swap) space available, the allocation will fail. If the program is smart and checks the allocation return value, it will tell you it's unable to do whatever it was trying to do. If it isn't smart, it'll likely try to access the space pointed to by NULL, and crash.

  24. Synchronous? on Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections · · Score: 4, Informative

    What the heck is synchronous about these connections? Don't you mean symmetric?

  25. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    be sure to keep a backup copy

    These days, we call that a version control system.