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  1. Re:Hubble 2.0 - the design principle on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    Because these thing are extremely delicate and precise. Not something astronauts bumbling around in space suits in zero gravity and work on very well.

    If you recall... when it was launched a single spec of paint on the mirror caused images to be out of focus and they had to fit it with "glasses" to fix it. Thats the kind of precision that is needed.

  2. Re:Err... on Microsoft Defies EU Commission · · Score: 1

    You must not have heard. Everyone loves Windows. Nobody uses linux because its better.

  3. Re:Although they're calling this memory on HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material · · Score: 1

    Its not memory.... therefore we should call it read only MEMORY. DuH.

  4. Re:Author of Artical on Transmeta Founder Talks Chips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Surely you mean artical

  5. Re:Death of Ad-blockers? on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    advertising images are being loaded and refuse to show the content if so.

    Of course I mean detect whether the images are being blocked. Damn. I really oughta click that preview button ocassionally.

  6. Death of Ad-blockers? on Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call? · · Score: 1

    With Mozilla I could happy block ads and browse ad-free, Norton now makes this mainstream and will cause websites to sit up and take notice.

    Its not too hard to add a little bit of code that detects whether the advertising images are being loaded and refuse to show the content if so.

  7. Re:Inadequate version number. on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I suspect its based on Linux 2.4.... Linux 1.0 has been obsolete for quite some time now,

  8. Re:great... on UCB, USC To Build (And Hack) A Model Internet · · Score: 1

    Hell no. More likely grad students. In case you haven't heard of these creatures... grad students are a mechanism for turning coffee into graphs.

  9. Re:Not always so catchable... on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    1. Write a virus

    2. Find a windows code monkey.
    2. Break into his/her computer
    2. Upload virus, source code, exploit info etc.
    2. Wait for virus to spread
    2. Turn them in

    3. Profit!!!

  10. MOD PARENT DOWN on Legal US Music Downloads Beat CD Single Sales · · Score: 0

    ITs bad enough that people don't RTFA. Its absurd when they get modded insightful.

  11. Re:Why buy, when you can build? on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Seems fairly straightforward to me. What I learned was that the algorithm and indexing was not the problem but the processing power needed to spider the entire net efficiently.


    Wow really? Google must not be aware of this. For some strange reason they have over 60 PhDs on staff, when clearly all they need is legions of sysadmins to add more and more processing power.

  12. Re:"Pirated" RHL Enterprize CDs? on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    No you missed my point. I know that most of the stuff that goes into RHL is GPLed.

    But one could say, make the installer or the package manager proprietary. That way it would be so hard to copy all free stuff without the non-free stuff that it would be easier to just roll your own distro.

  13. Re:Viruses and playing God on The Issues of Nano-Safety · · Score: 1

    what do you do about large numbers of "dead" nanobots
    Ever heard of vaccum cleaners?

  14. Re:Just a small setback on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think its a BIG setback to linux in corporate environments. Anyone who is forced to make a switch now is going to think hard about whether its worth it or whether its better to just stick with Microsoft.

  15. "Pirated" RHL Enterprize CDs? on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whats to stop someone from passing around RHL Enterprize CDs? Surely the GPL allowes you to do that? Or is it so laced with proprietary stuff that stripping it out would be as hard as just creating a new distro?

    IANARU btw.

  16. Re:We can hope on The Issues of Nano-Safety · · Score: 1

    Dr. Eldarion should have seen this before posting. I saw the remains. Horrible simply horrible. So its official now. Nanotechnology definitely has safety issues.

  17. Re:Where were those G5 going?!? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    No! No! No! You're ruining it all! Tell me about the evil things. Tell me they tattoo serial numbers on your arm. They make you swear alleigance to windows. They make you burn effigies of Tux.

  18. Re:FBI uses AOL on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    RFTA... oh wait this is Slashdot. My bad. But... ...when she unwittingly spammed an off-duty FBI computer crime agent...

    The FBI probably doesn't use AOL. At least no reason to infer that they do from THIS article.

  19. Re:Isnt' this a good thing? on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    You can't enforce a license if it violates applicable law or the contitution. For example you can't have a license that requires you to be bound to slavery or hand over your first born child.

  20. Re:Probably not practical due to power consumption on Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV · · Score: -1, Troll

    Probably not practical due to power consumption

    Here in the United States we just invade oil rich countries if energy is ever a problem.

  21. Re:And 1 gram of Uranium = ... miles on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    So what are we waiting for then???

  22. Re:And 1 gram of Uranium = ... miles on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    1 gram of Uranium = ... miles
    A moot point... nuclear fuel is renewable. The problem is disposal of radioactive waste.

  23. Re:Whats he smoking? on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    No is misspelled "lusers"

  24. Whats he smoking? on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    ...s a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice ...
    Since when do Windoze users have choice???

  25. Re:$1 Trillion? on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 1

    How many of those 100 million people would download many books if they charged $1 for them?