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  1. Re:References to Bush are utterly irrelevant on Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward? · · Score: 1
    Embryotic stem cells don't come from aborted fetuses, they come from fertility clinics.

    At any rate, if an embryo were human life, every bit as valuable as our own, and killing them were legal (as it is now), I can see how a lot of people would have qualms about havesting aborted fetuses for "scrap parts."

    Donating your organs is done by your consent. And, presumably, either you died by natural causes or an investigation to bring the responsible party to justice has begun.

    Anyways, this issue has nothing to do with abortion.

  2. Re:I love the combination... on 4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ummm...what do you think Gentoo is? A *BSD distribution?

    At any rate, this is supposed to be a server. This thing could handle lots of SQL transactions, send and receive mail, serve webpages, and even, as you might have guessed, compile stuff. All of these can be done on any distribution.

  3. Re:Philosophical caveat on Translation Software That Learns by Reading · · Score: 1

    I see that you're trying to cheat on your taxes. Would you like me to help?

  4. Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say. on Ubisoft Developing Next America's Army Game · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Who wrote that webpage? Although the images are disturbing, I don't feel like I can trust it. It frequently draws conclusions, and name-calls soldiers.

    Don't the insurgents make children fight, anyways? Could the soldiers be talking about killing armed children?

    Where does the author even get the quotes? To me, it's entirely possible that those soldiers are made up. I see no documentation or anything.

    All the pictures of beat up children are from the cluster bombs--I think the author wants to confuse them and make it look like soldiers are running around leveling legions of children. Even if the quotes from the soldiers were real, I wouldn't be convinced of that by this article.

    I'm not pro-war or anything, either.

  5. Re:FP and the Sites Down! on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Thank you, Triumph. Your humor is a light unto my path wherever you, err, poop on.

  6. Re:About TiVo on Can TiVo be Saved? · · Score: 1, Interesting
    The problem as I see it is that TiVo doesn't seem to provide anything that a geek with a Linux box couldn't. Hence, it isn't really "guarded" against competition.

    Granted, TiVo has a much lower price point than, say, a small EPIA. But, for example, until July 1st, HDTV capture cards are available. And you can take a Linux PVR and do all sorts of neat stuff with it--add a RAID array, share the files over samba, etc.

  7. Re:The cheapest solution... on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 1
    On their website, it looks like you have to buy a higher-end service to get the static ip. They also give you stuff you don't need like web hosting and e-maill addresses.

    Are you saying they'd negotiate?

  8. Re:The cheapest solution... on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They also don't block any ports, so you could run an email server on your own machine if you like.

    Does speakeasy give a static ip or lease them out via dhcp?

    A *lot* of mail servers reject mail sent from dynamic hosts.

  9. Re:I am not an enterprise admin... on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1
    Thanks for your response.

    It's a real pain to set up a working MTA with AV and spam filtering. Nice to know you won't have to do it again.

  10. Re:And it shows... on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1
    *sigh* It's obvious that I haven't had much dealings with most non-techie exchange-using types, but first of all it would seem to me that it would be easy enough to put the e-mail integration in a calendar application--just use the generic 'mail' command.

    But I'll concede that exchange has created and firmed this association to the point where the level of integration required is more than even the level of integration that a word processor and a spreadsheet need.

  11. Re:The funniest part of this technology on Havok Team Profiled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please. Those highways were intelligently designed.

  12. Re:And it shows... on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not saying that the functionality cannot be integrated. I'm saying that the services do not need to be tightly coupled and made into one to acheive that integration.

  13. Re:I am not an enterprise admin... on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1
    They're just using CalDav IIRC.

    Besides, if you take out the calendar thing, you could just use, say, qmail and openldap.

  14. I am not an enterprise admin... on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But if I were setting up an IT infrastructure at a 200+ computer office, I'd want to keep e-mail and calendars separate. I know it's probably just me, but I like having a separate calendar program.

  15. Re:Other Benchmarking on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: 1

    Doh! Please no one correct me, please no one correct me...

  16. Re:Other Benchmarking on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: 1

    You should have used malloc--in Linux, you malloc till you run out of memory, Linux starts killing processos to free it up.

  17. Re:Still don't get it? on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 1

    I think the Telecommunications Act would be a good piece of evidence for him to start with.

  18. Re:Mostly stability on X.Org 6.8.2 is Out · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they only do double-sided boards, so BGA is out, unless you get your hands on an adapter daughter board (which usually run for > $500).

  19. Re:Console games... on Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA · · Score: 1
    s/puritanical/tasteful.

    Otherwise, I agree.

  20. Re:Bloat on GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine · · Score: 1

    What would be nice is a Gnome, HIG-compliant wrapper around xterm.

  21. Re:One falls, others rise on BitTorrent Community After SuprNova Shutdown · · Score: 1

    It's actually more like walking into safeway, purchasing an orange, taking the seeds, growing your own in your backyard, and giving those oranges away.

  22. Re:Cool name. on FBI E-Mail Server Breached · · Score: 1
    Only if you're Catholic.

    Ok...that was bad. Sorry.

  23. Mods... on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 3, Funny
    Please mod down any posts that mention Duke Nukem: Forever.

    Except this one, of course.

  24. Re:ST needs a hiatus on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1
    I agree. I actually liked *gasp* season three, despite the obvious 9-11 references. I thought the cast (partictularly Archer and Trip) got out of their cookie cutter molds, and started making real decisions.

    Season four has been great.

    If I could afford upn (it's not even on basic cable) then I would watch it legally.

    Now that the show is cancelled I actually feel lame about watching them via bittorrent.

    What would be cool is if UPN released torrents with the commercials in.

    Hey, that could be a new tv distribution medium ('cept no tv).

  25. Re:I installed Ubuntu on my Dad's computer on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Have you tried installing ubuntu?