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  1. Re: Troll! on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 0

    BSD is a great unix.

  2. P3's & P4's are not RISC on PPC G5 On The Way -- And Fast · · Score: 0

    Intel is only doing a mixed RISC/CISC chip for their next generation.

    P3 & P4 have 132 CISC instructions.

  3. They changed my lineup 2 months ago� on Cartoon Network Dropping Gundam and Bebop? · · Score: 0

    To the singapore/malaysia/thailand lineup instead of the australian feed we had.
    Now everything runs 5 hours later and we've lost Pinky & the Brain and lot more cool shows.

  4. Re:MacOS X Version on Fast, Open Alternative to Java · · Score: 0

    If you've got OS X, you should have the system's developer tools anyway.
    They do Obj C & OpenGL just fine.

  5. Re:Sort of disgusting to mention... on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Umm, I gave a crap yesterday...

    Anyway, it's the true story of microwaves....

  6. Re:Canada on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 0

    Umm, no.
    Canada, the USA, the UK, NZ and the land of OZ are all partners in echelon.

    No crypto is safe unless you get it from outside an echelon country.

    (Note: I've got a quantum crypto hidden somewhere on the net just in case...)

  7. Re:Pratchett right all along on Better Networking Through Nature · · Score: 0

    HEX in the discworld and the way my TSP app works too!

  8. Re:Sort of disgusting to mention... on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Wrong! It was a canadian soldier who discovered the microwave oven effect during ww2...
    He was patroling near an atlantic transmitter in canada and received close to a million watts of RF

    They found him rather warm and crispy.

  9. Re:brings new meaning to old cliches... on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Nevermind, the poor and homeless will pick up the dead birds.

    I guess there is such a thing as a free lunch...

    I want to get a catapult and fling a bag of manure into the turbine...

  10. Re:Perfect for Texas on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    If you want 3, you'd need to make a triangle...
    And you'd also need a left/right wind tunnel...

    So the wind could go in the direction it was going without a stalemate.

  11. Re:Efficiency of 1 large fan vs many small fans on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    yes, far more opportunity to shred pidgeons to bits!

  12. Re:Position for Hire: on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    KFC for the homeless anyone?

  13. Re:Dead on arrival on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    yeah, but think what the homeless will say when they can het KFC for free?

  14. Re:Effect on Local Climate on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    This won't do much.
    Wellington, where I live reaches 40kmph winds on a calm day. 200 kpmph on a windy day.
    Cars don't need much more energy to drive in very windy conditions. (unless it's a mini)

    finally, you'd find a big lump of mince meat...

  15. Re:Great idea for WTC rebuild! on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    yes, truely magnificent!
    The turbines have special features!

    They slice up pidgeons!
    They roast pidgeons in the hot air exhaust!

    They even shred jets into little pieces of metal confetti!

  16. Re:Great idea, but... on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Given that this is going to have extra reinforcing to make sure something like a jet can't knock this down, I'm sure the insulation will be thick enough.

  17. Re:Wind turbines in seismic areas? on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    I live in wellington, new zealand. (the capital)
    The main CBD, government area and shops are on a few faultlines.
    However, new zealand is the best nation for earthquake proof buildings.
    Our national museum was built on reclaimed land on our harbour. I've seen some good ways of reinforcing mud and sand until it's harder than concrete.

  18. Re:what about energy from heat rising? on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Yes, take all the spare heat and put it through the turbines...
    Now we can supply the homeless with ready roasted pidgeons.

    It's KFC for free in NYC!

  19. Re:World Trade Center on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Yes, WTC 2.0 now features a built in Jet shredder!

  20. Re:pigeon elimination system? on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    It'll put KFC out of business...

    However, homeless people will enjoy the free food.

  21. Re:Sort of disgusting to mention... on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    It's too slow for that to happen, unless you have a kamikaze bird.

    Can you imagine having the front half of a 747 jet suddenly land in front of your windscreen?

  22. Re:Noise and Density on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    I goto the wellington city wind turbine on new years eve and get drunk, throw bottles at the top and then sleep in front of it.

    The noise is a minimal humm...
    No louder than your sister's vibrator...

  23. Does this look like something I've seen? on Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine · · Score: 0

    Hmm, 2 really large buildings joined together.
    Do they remind you of the World Trade Center?

    Anyway, they look cool and would be very good at helping clear the air in a large polluted city...

  24. Re:This will be interesting.. on Looking At The New Linux Trojan · · Score: 0

    Install assistant only runs at first startup.
    Have since formated and installed systems 9.21 & 10.4

    I use manual config for IP address.
    You must have dynamic IP for your cable/DSL modem.

    It works, but netscape 6.1 x is slightly slower.
    At least I got Apache going well.
    It even supports french and german browsers, so I'm going to do some translating.

  25. Re:Only outlaws will have encryption.. blah blah b on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 0

    I'm currently writing several quantum crypto algorithms and I'm no in the USA.

    I believe that the slight possibility that criminals will use strong crypto is less an evil than big brother's thought police going through all email.