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  1. Re:Another way to do it... on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    and it was delivered deadpan too

  2. Re:It could work... on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    Remember the Speak and Spell from back in the 80's?

    emulator:

    http://homepage.mac.com/jakesmith/speaknspell/inde x.html

  3. Re:Another way to do it... on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    nutz@lilith foo $ ls puke
    ls: puke: No such file or directory
    nutz@lilith foo $ LC_ALL="es_ES@euro" ls puke
    ls: puke: No existe el fichero o el directorio
    nutz@lilith foo $

  4. taking advantage of the already-transferred data on Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp · · Score: 1

    Like the pics you can't save when right-click is disabled?

  5. Re:How'd they get the funding? on New and Improved SETI · · Score: 1

    You surely wouldn't play if your family was hungry and unsheltered. That money could be better spent elsewhere.

    The fundemental problem with feeding the poor is that they end up having even more babies and then you require even more food to feed them. This would be OK if the Earth wasn't basically an island in space meaning it's not infinite. This means when you do things that boost the population you just defer the suffering and death to a future generation which will be even larger than this one and that implies more suffering and death than if you were to let people starve today.

    If you think birth control and education is the answer, where the track record of success? I'd love to see evidence that this is working to make the human population fit sustanedly on this planet.

    more

  6. Re:Five miles high on Energy from High-Altitude Kites · · Score: 1

    Do we have carbon-fiber cable yet?
    If we do it probably comes from here: http://www.zyvex.com/

  7. Re:GPL? on Games Knoppix · · Score: 1

    There may be ways around it. Consider that NTFS is supported on Knoppix by running the MicroSoft NTFS drivers off of a Windows filesystem.

  8. Abbas and Stoke on The King William's College 2004 Quiz · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that a 70's concert?

  9. Re:66.250.450.10 - www.demonoid.com on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    Would that still be contempt of court? It's clear they want to go from a civil to criminal case by saying "please hold onto your evidence" to a bunch of kids who will delete it causing contempt of court. But if they claim they obeyed the letter of the request does that weaking the chance it will be effective?

  10. Re:Color me surprised... on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    The fact that they ran trackers and posted links doesn't help them.

  11. 66.250.450.10 - www.demonoid.com on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where can I get an IP address like that? :)

  12. Re:GNUNet on EFF Promotes Freenet-like System Tor · · Score: 1

    What about E.N.T.R.O.P.Y. for that matter? A new field like this needs as many different approaches as possible. We are in "throw against the wall and see what sticks" mode now.

  13. Re:Yeah but, on NetBSD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    pictures of Lily...

  14. Re:Plus there was a built-in governor on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Be a little more paranoid--it might do you some good. :)

  15. Plus there was a built-in governor on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The August 14, 2003 blackout on the U.S. East coast was due to a heat wave that caused the electrical system to be overloaded by too many air conditioners. Once that hit there was a drop in hydrocarbon emmisions fast.

  16. Publicity on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    If anything they got Lycos in the news :)

  17. Re:Ceramic vs. Paper on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1

    we are not in a battle against entropy here pal, we are in a battle against waste build up.

    With enough energy we could bury the waste miles deep or shoot it into space.

    We don't have that kind of energy. Have you seen this? http://peakoil.org/

  18. Re:Future on Microsoft Dropping Itanium Support For Clusters · · Score: 1

    Plus HP ported OpenVMS to Itanic. Talk about the kiss of death. ;)

  19. Re:That tears it! on Would You Drink This Water? · · Score: 1

    water is an alcohol

  20. Re:finance.slashdot.org on Google Reports Increased Profits · · Score: 1

    Prove that the Bush administration was a terrorist plot to destroy the US economy.

    Easy to do, there's evidence everywhere.

  21. Re:Finally... on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    Or have you stopped using it and moved on?

  22. Re:Try this instead: on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    Actually it's not such a crazy idea to run an emulator of the the same architecture as the host CPU. People run bochs x86 on real x86 for a number of reasons like running two different OSes at once, testing installation procedures, etc.

  23. Re:Finally... on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    Now that Konq can use gecko as a replacement for the KHTML engine is Safari using it too?

  24. now I'll have to donate to the EFF again on Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe · · Score: 1

    Sigh, I remember watching this film:

    http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ (There audio plus a transcript of the interview that inspired it available.)

    I remember some guy in it saying how hard it would be to have a war over oil because all it takes is five pound of plastic explosive and a camel to blow up an oil rig.

    Now I'm thinking how hard it is to fight for our freedoms. It seems to take so little for the U.S. Gubment to do something really atrocious like this. All it takes is a couple of guys with airplane tickets and a few phone calls.

  25. urination on Scientists Define Murphy's Law · · Score: 1

    urgency = depends
    complexity = low
    importance = high
    skill = low
    frequency = high
    aggravation = low

    ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

    ((depends + low + high) x (10 - low))/20 x low x 1/(1-sin(high/10))