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  1. Deleting music files? on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    I just deleted Windows so I would have more space for stuff like that!

  2. Good. on Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now SCO can sue the company that sold them UNIX.

  3. Re: grammar on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    Nice analysis. I prefer just to point out what a militia really is. The true definition of militia is anyone able to serve in the military.

    Here is the exact US Law definition of a miltia:

    Title 10 USC, Chapter 13, Section 311, part a
    "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."

  4. Re:Shady? on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    While the papers did get the censorship on them lifted nearly immediately over free speech concerns, Ellsberg only got off because a certain part of the government (executive branch) got involved in a way they shouldn't have. Something to do with illegally raiding the office of Ellsberg's former psychologist among them. In fact it was the same group that got busted in Watergate.

  5. Re:Non-Free Needs Its Own Organization on Debian Can Now Amend Social Contract, DFSG · · Score: 1
    If the user is using the non-free repository

    Sounds like a good use for the VRMS package.
  6. Re:hard to adjust. on Worm Lifespan Extended To Five to Six Times Normal · · Score: 1
    What age would you retire at? and who would pay your pension for *say* the next 200 years?The burden on society to look after the super-aged would be almost intolerable, workers would be taxed at incredible rates to provide.

    Social Security is already under strain, it wouldn't even takes this to make that fail.
    Perhaps that is for the better though,

    At the other end of the scale, you'd have kids running round at 25 years old, still not mature enough to be left alone, puberty would take a decade at least, would there be enough acne cream to go round

    Well the article never says anything about the growth rates of these organisms being changed by the drugs.

    They'd probably have to do this test on a different animal before they could determine that.
  7. Re:Multiple cores? on AMD to debut multi-core CPUs in 2005 · · Score: 1
    The chips that will be speed kings will be the ones that can afford huge fast caches.


    Like say, the Alpha?
  8. Re:Props! on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I aliased the giant "HELP" key to logout :)
    And the "any" key (the one without the label to "xlock"

  9. Re:For those too lazy to RTFA on Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or you know completely disabling the gaping security hole that is autorun/autoplay.

  10. Re:Linux fashion. on Software Fashion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are only viewing the Desktop side of Linux, from the server side state of the art isn't always good and when Debian says stable, they really do mean it. Unlike Red Hat which shipped GCC 2.96 and called it stable. Mandrake shipping with a kernel that wasn't even released yet. The list goes on.

    The Debian package format is not deprecated, when I first started using it APT was far superior to RPM, although RPM has gained ground since then.

    If you don't want "ancient" packages upgrade to testing or unstable, they are actually quite stable.

    Gentoo is actually really good if you want that last bit of performance out of your system and are willing to take the effort.

  11. The big question is on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What if Verisign ignores this just like they ignored everything else? They are in a position to seariously mess up the DNS system.

  12. Re:weirdo on 20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not one person in a million has the vision to have thought up the GPL
    So there are 1,000 of him in China? We're screwed!
  13. Re:Computer Trooper? on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    A user was found with downloaded music today on their computer, they were tried this afternoon, and execution begins tonight.

    This is your RIAA controlled world.

    Would you like to know more?


    Remember, service guarantees citizenship!
  14. Re:do search bots follow addresses to there? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 1

    I believe there is a robots.txt file on the server blocking bots. Obviously not all bots obey those.

  15. Re:Is VoIP Unique to the Internet? on House Passes Internet Tax Ban · · Score: 1

    It will nullifying Minnesota's law, plain and simple.

  16. Re:3D GUIs? on 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize · · Score: 2, Informative

    SGI's FSN it only works on IRIX machines though.

    A buggy Linux variant: FSV

  17. Re:Sum summarum on VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos · · Score: 1
    I for one Hail our new capitalist Overlords!

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

  18. Re:One word: on Will Classic Games Disappear Forever? · · Score: 1

    One of mine rolls over at 1,999 and the other at 9,999

  19. Re:One word: on Will Classic Games Disappear Forever? · · Score: 1

    I got two older pinball machines, I love the big electro-mechanical dinos. Back from when 1000 points was a great score.

  20. Re:Better Yet... on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    You can sue the US government. Groups like the ACLU do it all the time. Certain people in the process of doing their jobs are immune, but the federal government can be sued.

  21. Re:Bad study on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 1
    I wonder, did they consider experience with Windows 9x as _no_ experience with Windows XP?

    I was thinking the same thing and not just 9x, any prior version of Windows.
  22. Re:Yes, but... on Still More Sex.com · · Score: 1

    Registrant:
    Kremen, Gary (SEX452-DOM)

    Yep it was

  23. Re:coffee on Programming Warm Ups? · · Score: 2, Funny

    sssshhhhh

    I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

  24. Re:Pay up or get Code Red on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1
    So like, Pay up or get Code Red (green, blue, whatever's next)?

    Livewire ;)
  25. Re:skewed statistics. on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these include those manually initiated blue screens I cause on people's computers.

    CrashOnCtrlScroll