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  1. Re:Tempting.... on Why Use GTK+? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but what's wrong with http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/

    Especially with such helpful definitions like this one:

    http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkTree Model.html#GtkTreePath

    Tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?

  2. Soon... on Writing Genetic Code · · Score: 1

    Soon we will be hiding in old malls, with infected humans running around saying "Brains...."

    (Someone had to say it)

  3. Re:And evolution is? on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I will believe in any other explanation if you can show me the exact proof with an established timeline.

    And, if you cannot show me, without any discrepencies, the evolution of the PC you used to post your message, then I will believe that it was created by giant space monkeys. These are the same giant space monkeys that created you 3:37 PM yesterday, with the belief that the world was created in 4004 BC by a hairy fairy with his magic wand.

    I will believe in any other explanation if you can show me the exact proof with an established timeline. It must cover every single component used in your computer, and you must also prove that none of the information was faked by the giant space monkeys.

  4. Re:Incredible on Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars · · Score: 1

    But the Beagle isn't dressing up like women and hiding in caves.

  5. Re:Location is not very good on Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars · · Score: 1

    Nah, they will just use their Mac's to program the probe to upload a virus into our computers, causing them all to fail at a critical time.

    Can I be the first to congradulate our martian overseers?

  6. Big Billy is Watching You on Microsoft Tries To Charm EU With Future Visions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long until they add a feedback implant? Remotely "zap" someone when they to something you don't approve of. Fat husband goes into a Dunkin Donuts ... Zap! ... boyfriend goes into a porn shop ... ZAP! ... someone boots linux instead of Windows(tm)(C) ... ZZZZAAAAAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!!.

    With the historic Microsoft security, you know someone will 0WN the whole thing within a week, applying continuous DOS Zaps.

  7. Re:Whats left? on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 1

    or has the species only recently evolved?

    Evolved, or escaped? This could just be someones exotic pet that just got away. Would explain why nobody has seen it before.

    Then again, maybe it's an alien zombie, looking for BRAINS!

  8. Re:Wow. on Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation · · Score: 1

    Or look at the phone bill.

  9. 2nd chance to buy one on Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap · · Score: 1

    It recalled millions of CDs recorded by 52 artists, including Van Zant, Celine Dion, and Neil Diamond.

    Watch for the recalled CD's in the bargan racks in the near future. You know that's where they will end up.

  10. Final Version? on Red Hat Begins Testing Core 5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    and the final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite.

    Did I miss some news? Have they actually stopped development of Open Office?

  11. Re:Throw your Microsoft boxes into Boston Harbor! on The Demise of IP? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are we going to (hopefully) see thousands of people throwing boxes of Microsoft products into the harbor?

    Will that cool them enough to keep them from crashing?

  12. Re:Slow Film on Living Photos Use Bacteria as Pixels · · Score: 1

    Now, imagine using it to make porn. Are you up to it?

  13. Re:OMG!!! on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 1

    But does it have Klingon subtitles? It's not the good one if it doesn't have those subtitles! You cannot truly understand the oneness of it if you can't read it in the original Klingon!

  14. Imagin that... on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 1

    You start writing a letter, clippy pops up and says:

    "I see you are trying to create a spreadsheet, but have you tried the latest herbal v1agra?"

    or

    "I see you are trying to write a loan application, but Dr. Mbuanga Gwundaga of Nigeria is looking for a partner of your caliber to transfer $60,000,000 (sixty million) dollars of government overcharges collected by his late father, the director of the clerical development department, who was killed in an industrial shredder accident involving a gerbel and three rubber bands, ...

  15. Re:How Do I Mod Down An Article? on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    The reason for distilled water should be obvious. Take plain tap water and boil it away on you stove. Notice the crud left over in the bottom of your pan. Now, imagine that crud coating your H2O -> H2 electrolysis gear.

    You can distill it before putting it in the supply tank, or put additional equipment to deal with the crud under the hood. How much more weight/complicated gear (i.e. something else to break down) do you want to add to the truck?

  16. Re:How does this help? on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    Because then you would need to get a perfect (expensive) seal on the storage tanks, fuel tanks, plumbing to the engine, etc., and continually maintain them to keep that seal. Else you'll lose all that hydrogen you put into the fuel very, very quickly. Hydrogen is very hard to store, due to its size. It can, and will, leak through a hole that a larger atom, like oxygen, can't fit through. Holes like those between the metal atoms of a storage tank.

    It also burns very well, which is something that desiel doesn't normally do. Adding something as flammable as hydrogen to it would make it much more dangerous to use.

    Also, what chemical reactions will be going on between the hydrogen and the diesel. Don't they use hydrogen to gel some types of oil?

  17. Too Early? on Best of What's New 2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seem to me that declaring the XBox360 as a "best of" is a little bit early, as not a single unit has yet been sold, afaik.

    If it turns out that it has any "minor" defect, like an exploding power supply that causes thousands of homes to burn down, then it will likely need to be dropped from this list.

    I wonder if such an occurance is covered by their EULA? (873. Explosions and/or fires, including those involving lethal casualties, caused by this device, or any other devices supplied by MicroSoft, are the responsibility of said purchaser. Said purchaser hereby absolves MicroSoft, and its affiliates, from any legal action.)

  18. Re:Why AC? on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    As long as you only want unregulated DC, don't care that you'll end up with a +/-50% voltage variance, one short anywhere in your house DC system can destroy every single electronic device in your house, and every one of the cheap devices pluggen into it are going to be pissing their clock pulses back into the cable.

    A regulated DC supply needs to know an approximate load range. Something designed to supply 5,000 Watts at 12V, isn't going to work well when the only thing plugged into it is a $3.00 .001 Watt calculator.

    The voltage supplied to each outlet can vary due to distance from the regulator, other nearby loads, capacitance in the wiring, etc. Look at the efforts that engineers have to go through on a single PC board to handle power problems (decoupling capaciters, etc.), and now duplicate the same effort throughout a house.

    The clock noise coming out of many devices are currently attenuated by the inductance in the transformers. Lose those, and you are going to have to replace them with something else. Probably a big inductor and a capaciter to act as a filter. ...

    By the way, high voltage DC isn't as efficient as high voltage AC for power lines. AC acts very different from DC in a transmission line. Efficient transformers are just one of the additional benefits.

  19. Re:But that's not the funny part. on SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information · · Score: 1

    You probably meant "cojones". "cajones" means "drawers" and does not make sense :/.

    I think it might. They have to wear those funny underwear with the extra hole in the back for their tail. If they put them on backwards, they would be walking funny.

  20. I'd like on SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like a Beowulf Cluster of Linux 2.7 systems!

    Somebody had to say it...

  21. Re:Stupid question about the gets() problem... on History's Worst Software Bugs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is inherently broken by design. You pass it a buffer of indeterminate size (selecting one large enough for your purposes), but you don't have any way of telling the function how big the buffer is. If you read more data than the buffer can handle, bad things happen.

    No, the size of the buffer cannot reliably be determined from inside the function. Not even if you make it a macro.

    Why do they retain it? Because dropping it would break a LOT of existing code. So they have been modifying the compilers to generate warning messages when it sees them.

  22. Re:Damned smartass historians. on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my desk. I know the d**n thing is here somewhere...

  23. This guy's going to need help. on Alleged Adware Purveyor Indicted · · Score: 1

    He's going to be sitting in courts for some time with nothing to do but listen to people bitch about him.

    I think we need to send him some reading material. Say, numerous catalog's to his home address. Give him something to read during court...

  24. Isn't this a ripoff? on USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an updated Sleeping Beauty.

    Wasn't Rip-Van-Winkle that slept for 30 years?

    Can he now collect on all printings of those stories?

  25. Congrats on British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's all send him email's of congratulation. 5,000,000 per ./ reader seems appropriate.

    Or maybe sign him up for a few catalogs.