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  1. Re:CATO on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 1

    And an inspiring story of a 40 year-old grandmother from the inner city who saved her money up from her fast food job and invested it all in Haliburton and now lives in Palm Beach in a 7 bedroom home.

  2. Re:Well... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1

    GNU/score and 7 years ago our forefathers brought forth ...etc...

  3. Re:Any language? on Google Code Jam 2003 Announced · · Score: 1

    Sure a language is a set. It's a set of all the possible strings (programs) in the language. Let A be the set of all C++ programs. Let B be the set of all C programs. A-B is the set of C++ programs that that are not C programs.

  4. Re:Not very interesting on Linux 2.6.0-test5, How To Incrementally Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem; I have a USB mouse and can't get past the mouse detection message. I experience it with 2.6.0-test4 and -test5, but not with 2.6.0-test3, so I'm sticking with that and trying to figure out the problem by comparing the two source trees...

  5. Re:Linux/390 resources on Managing Linux and Virtual Machines? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't go bringing Jabba the Hut into this...

  6. Re:I know what I'm talking about on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    WTF??? What Republican since 1970 has claimed that blacks are taking white people's jobs?

    maybe you should have said "since 1990"

  7. Re:This is the reason Unicode is so screwed up on Writing with Elvish Fonts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's a good buffer size for a UTF-8 encoded filename? That's why buffer overruns are so common these days.

    But why would you use a fixed-length buffer?? Use a unicode string class for crying out loud.

  8. Re:OEMs on How To 'Sell' Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I always wondered what the password was on those! I always go back to the PCs in the corner of the Sunnyvale Fry's and there are the "ThizLinux" PCs, always with the screensaver locked. I get the feeling the salespeople don't care enough to even unlock them. Sad, but I'll try "thiz" next time.

  9. Re:Let us flame it slowly then... on Essential .NET, Volume I · · Score: 1

    Surely you're not claiming that a language being a ratified standard is the same thing as its being portable.

  10. Re:alanis. on Isn't It Ironic? · · Score: 1

    I think your intentions have to enter into it for it to be ironic. Like if you were so determined that it wouldn't rain on your wedding, that you traveled all the way to Africa to have your wedding in the Sahara desert, and then it rained on the Sahara during your wedding, THEN it would be ironic.

  11. Re:Zynot has forked ... on Zynot Foundation Forks Gentoo · · Score: 0

    hehe!..mod parent up.

  12. Re:I am your robot God on Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water · · Score: 1

    mmm...Campbell's Lawyer Soup!

  13. Re:Lack of Applications on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    That's cool, thanks for the link. But still, the problems come up when you want to compile a newer gcc like 3.2.2...

  14. Re:Lack of Applications on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    Speaking of third-party application support, it would be great if they'd ship GNU stuff whenever possible; getting free software to run compile on solaris can be painful sometimes because of incompatibilities between the sun ld and g++.

    fix some of these bugs, sun!
    I know that their own C/C++ compiler is supposed to be great at optimizing on their hardware, but since many customers will choose to not pay for it and just use gcc, they should pre-install all the GNU tools and libraries.

  15. Re:All to run windows programs? on SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yeah but you get 5 seats. And for a fair comparison you should quote XP Professional as XP Pro has some stuff that XP Home doesn't (authenticating against an Active Directory or something, IIRC)

  16. Re:Huzzah! on Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff · · Score: 1

    in shakespeare, people say "sirrah" to someone they don't respect very much or who is below their own social caste.

  17. Re:forget the cars on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't call regulations that make you pick up your dog's poop to be a 20,000 meter view..depends on the size of your dog maybe :D

  18. Re:forget the cars on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, imagine a society where some committee sat down and decided that everyone should drive on the right side of the road. Or that red lights mean stop. Scary!

  19. Re:RMS isn't completely insane on Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea · · Score: 1

    what did you use to compile all this stuffs? gcc or what?

  20. Re:carbine? assault rifle? on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I meant the first (bullets per minute).
    Given what you said, maybe the best definition of an assault rifle is :

    a rifle intended to kill large numbers of people efficiently (as opposed to animals).

  21. Re:carbine? assault rifle? on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 1

    Ok, so if I understand correctly, a carbine is a rifle whose barrel is shorter than usual.

    An assault rifle is a rifle that shoots faster than usual.

    You can have an assault rifle that is a carbine (AK-47) or an assault rifle that is not a carbine (
    SVD).

  22. carbine? assault rifle? on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 1

    can someone tell me what these terms mean? thanks.

  23. Re:cheese on Bombing the Moon for Water · · Score: 1

    The moon is not made of green cheese. It is made of FREEDOM CHEESE!

  24. first.. on Bombing the Moon for Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    .....the US has to make up some stuff about how the moon has WMD, supports terrorism, and insinuate that it was somehow involved in 9/11.

  25. Re:NO, sorry on Debian GNU/Linux to Declare GNU GFDL non-Free? · · Score: 1

    "But why then do you encourage people to write Redhat's programs for free?"

    In what sense are they Redhat's?