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  1. Re:AWOL on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1

    the difference being that Clinton didn't fight because he was morally opposed to the war, and Bush didn't fight because he felt serving his country was beneath him.

    Bullshit Bush and Clinton didn't fight because they didn't want to risk thier asses. They didn't want to die.

    I am almost as opposed to hearing Clinton and moral in the same sentence, as I would be if he used Bush and moral in the same sentence.

  2. Re:Outlook... on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you are entirely wrong in your suggestion that honeypots are irresponsible. Honeypots provide a way to track and monitor the latest exploits and hackers. In fact if a hacker uses a honeypot in his activites he is much more likely to be tracked and caught because he hacked a logged and monitored machine.

  3. More SCO news..... on 14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO has announced they sueing Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.. "SCO owns all rights to bullshit from the state of UTAH. Cold fusion therefore meets our criteria for deritive works." Chris Sontag, VP of SCO..

  4. Re:DOS? or DoS? on SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders · · Score: 1

    Actually, Microsoft, Gates Allen and a couple of students wrote a port of basic for the Altair 8800 in the hotel room in Albuquerque. They bought what became Dos from the Seattle computer company for $75,000 in 1980 I believe...

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?

  5. Re:I'll keep my robovacuum on Roomba Competitor Slightly Lacking · · Score: 2, Funny

    mine also does dishes(prewash), and disguises itself as a throw rug when not in use. Sometimes, during program misbahavior, it takes out the garbage.

  6. Re:IBM does this to Thinkpads on How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain · · Score: 1

    My Thinkpad came with a regular Windows 2000 cd. Mine is a T21 maybe they've changed since then.

  7. Re:Will Scott Evil Shop There? on United Nuclear · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Re:check your assumptions.... on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 1

    I do apologize I had not intention to bring down economics or psychology, or imply that either are not a science. However I only meant to illustrate that they are different than physical sciences. I only meant to illustrate in laymen's terms that economics is not absolute, saying economics states this or that, is wrong.

    As for Kahneman's work, I have read up on it, he does not completely toss Adam Smith's evaluation of man as rational actor, but does present a new path of behavioral economics and utility theory. Personally I think he tries to hard to bridge disciplines. Thorstein Veblen would say that that economics must be separate from reality, psychology and application. I did not want to get in argument about the merits of traditional utility theory but only to clearify what an economist is saying when he explain the classical economic view of man.

    As for Mathematical Psychology, I am unfamilier with it. I must say in concept modeling and predicting human behavior is ambitous. Economic models small pieces of a system that is much easier to quantify, and doesn't do it all that well. It goes to show that even if we come upon a Grand Unified Theory which explains the behavior of every particle in the universe, their will still be plenty of science to do.

    Thanks for the reply, and have fun with neural network study. Personally I build industrial machines now, but my economic training does allow me to look at business decisions in intersting ways.

  9. Re:I get WiFi now for free on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually my keys place is work related. And no I don't feel like a greedy opulent sack of shit. I make a good income doing something that helps people. It has nothing to do with IT. I co-founded a company, worked a hundred hours a week for a long time and went deeply into debt to get where I am, and I would have done it for free. Finally gated communities are not unusual in Florida.

  10. Re:Interesting concept. on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 1

    Consider kazaa on one single shared server that everone can remote desktop into to download, then everyone has instant access to what the others have downloaded. Now when someone finds a cool game everyone else can get interested in and you have an instant wlan party. Suddenly its more convinient to download tv shows then recording them.

    Yes and you can tell the Judge that it sounded like a good idea at the time, just trying to bring the neighborhood together.

  11. Re:I get WiFi now for free on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a wide open network here, as do two other people on my street. Personally I have enough trouble making wifi stretch across my house, I do have a rather large place. Anyway I also live in gated community so wardrivers would be booted by security pretty quickly.

    By the way I also have a place in Marathon on the Florida keys, I found a company there that uses 2.4ghz to broadcast 2.4ghz thoughout the island. It even works on boats. It is tdma not wifi though. Service is pretty good, 512k up 2mbit down for $30 a month, slight latency. Unfortunately they use NAT so you don't get a routable IP. DigitalSail is the name the company incase anyone wants to know.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it?

  12. Re:check your assumptions.... on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 1

    I am not an Economist, but I do have degree in economics. Econ does not assume that all people make rational, only that collectively people act rationally in aquizition and distribution of scarce resources. Hence people are going to act in self-interest which in economic terms translates to rational. Secondly economic's is not a science like physics or chemistry, there are no theorems or knowns, it is a social science like political science or psycology. Only it differs from them in that uses mathmatics to support theory and model it rather than just observational study. Hence Economics is the only discipline which tries to understand human behavior though mathatical model.
    By the way, there is no economic "orthodoxy" beyond the basics of supply and demand, Econ forks pretty strongly into different camps. You have Keynesians, classical, Malthusian and those are just the ones that have been around long enough to have a neo slapped in front of them and get some reformulations. In the dot-com boom you had a group of "New" economists who postulated the end of the business cycle entirely and predicted limitless growth. I have no idea what camp your brother-in-law is in, but there is no concensus among economists.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrrito so hot that he himself could no eat it?

  13. Re:Umm Ethics? on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see no problem with charging the guy. As long as he can call on you to fix it if it goes down. Something a freebie can't do.

  14. Re:isn't the answer obvious? on Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked · · Score: 1

    We'll never know the question. Those strange apelike creatures broke the darn thing while drilling for oil.....

  15. Re:P3 faster then P4 at same clock speed? on Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    The P-pro was a great chip, especially with the 1mb cache. I remember back in 99 I think, I just got a new job or a small company. On my desk there was a old Gateway P-pro 200 with the 1mb cache. My boss decided to buy me a brand PIII-450. Truthfully the PPRO 200 blew the doors off the PIII. I also thought it was one of the most stable computers I ever had. Running NT 4.0. Wish it was a dually though.

    COuld Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?

  16. Re:Great! on Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It kicks my ass on a TI-82...

  17. Re:I don't know... on Roswell Declassified · · Score: 4, Funny

    but the truth is we got UNIX from the Roswell UFO

    So this means SCO doesn't have a case?

  18. Re:For payback on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 0, Troll

    While Sun is a strong Buyout candidate now, low stock price, high marketshare, and a strong product portfolio. I don't think IBM is a likely Buyer. IBM already has everthing Sun does, save Java which is an open standard anyway. I see a foreign server vendor stepping in, for instance Hitachi. Hitachi already licenses Sparc, doesn't have it own Nix, and is having a really a tough time selling on the US market. A Japanese or European vendor will be getting s lot more for their buck than IBM, they need Sun's name and Salesforce. IBM does not.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it.j

  19. Re:PPC 970 Powerbook on PPC 970 Powerbooks and Powermacs in Production? · · Score: 1, Informative

    IBM doesn't just make nice notebooks. It makes the nicest notebooks. I work in pretty harsh environments, industrial machine shops, construction sites, and my bathroom. My thinkpad T21 takes it all. Gotten dropped countless times, routinely encounters dirt and dust etc. IBM also make very nice high quality desktops, my NetVista X40, (looks like Darth Vader's Imac) is a fantastic machine. If you have the money you really can't go wrong with an IBM business machine. I used to like HP Kayak workstations, but the new ones have really dropped in quality.

    Could Jesus Microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it.

  20. Re:Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand on Low Profile Satellite TV Antennas for Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Oh, I get get it. Your such a geek you don't need to Shower

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it.

  21. Re:For people switching... on Dvorak: Linux too much like Windows · · Score: 2

    I have a Linux distro on my machine called JAMD or just another modified distro, based on RH 8.0. It has a KDE theme based that looks just like OSX including a nifty mozilla skin. Looks a lot better than windows frankly.

  22. Re:"they need your support" on Build Your Own Crusoe-Powered Computer · · Score: 2

    Transmeta financed thier own Linux distribution, Midori And contributed touchscreen, handwriting and power management functions in the Linux community. Likewise employing Linus and giving him time to still develop Linux is awfully nice.

  23. Linux Vs. Windows Ease of Use.... on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate to start a new thread on this, but I will. I will not compare ease of use between Linux and Windows in a desktop environment, (although those goddamn GPL violators Lindows are changing that) but I actually believe the Linux is much easier as server than windows. For instance setting up IIS requires mulling through several layers of menus, while apache only requires editing a short text which has simple instructions contained within. User priviledges are more complicated in windows, and don't do as good a job with program access rights as Linux, ie. more processes are going to have Admin/root access in windows than Linux. Hence Linux/Unix generally has by design inherently better security than windows. Backing up a Linux server is much simpler than windows as all than text config files can simply be backed up (along with whatever data your serving) rather than the whole system. Windows does allow the creation of a special recovery disk(ASR), but this complicated and often doesn't work. I digress, as I am running out of time. In a server environment editing text files can be much easier and faster than configuraring layers and layers of GUI configs.

    Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it.

  24. Re:Finally! A use for those silly, gold dollar coi on IBM Wants CPU Time To Be A Metered Utility · · Score: 2

    Not so, have you ever been to Montreal..

  25. Re:Whatever, I have a cell phone on Telcos Play Both Sides of Telemarketing War · · Score: 2

    Neat, didn't hear htat show. Anyway just trying to make the point that any telemarketer that has it's own PBX can hide it's identity easily..