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  1. Re:caterpillar drive? on Oceanic Sounds of Last Year's Earthquake · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the confused, the quote came from The Hunt for Red October.

  2. oh yeah? on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1

    oh yeah? well... :-P

  3. Evolutionary *theory* on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 0

    Evolution and Intelligent Design are both theories and should equally be explained as such. To dismiss Intelligent Design as an impossibility is to deny the fact that goal of true science is learning and experimenting to find the truth. Rather than work toward true science, these evolutionists work to prove things which only further their ideology. I can't remember the quote, but one naturalist evolutionist was quoted as saying that even if Intelligent Design were proven to be correct, he could not accept it and would still work to disprove it. Such bias is much worse than fundamentalism! Evolutionists are not trying to lay all the evidence out and ask people to judge for themselves which is true, but they are shutting out another viewpoint to further their own.

    Now, if this was Microsoft...

  4. Re:Applications? on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    Therefore the need for 64-bit processing is driven more by the need for addressing more memory than by the need for faster processing of very big or very small numbers.

    dude, somebody wake him up at 3:14am on Jan 9, 2038 (GMT)!!

  5. Re:Okay now... on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    Without Administrator rights, Citrix Client will open, try to initiate a session, fail and then close without error.

    Are you talking about the protocol driver error? Yes, you have to install the Citrix ICA client (8.1.*) as an admin, but it can be run as any user.

    And on Linux, you can install it either as non-root or root, and run as non-root or root.

  6. Re:Moore's Law is Dying on Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is Dead · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Every cop car? on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lots of cop cars are already linked via wireless. They just don't use 802.x. The one's I've seen use wireless modems, which connect at a LOT lower frequency, and also have a greater range. I used to repair laptops used in this capacity, and I was given a little demo by an officer I know (no, I wasn't being hauled off in handcuffs). The radios combined with GPS make for a very efficient tracking system of cars, especially for dispatch.

  8. Re:Got a link? on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Curt Niccum's blog. He's a big Greek nerd that knows a ton about Bible translations. He has even worked on translating parts of the Dead Sea scrolls. Incredible guy.

  9. Re:If it's stable, it doesn't need to be updatedOf on Debian Leaders: We Need to Release More Often · · Score: 1

    Packages within Debian are compatable, but not always drop-in replacements.

    Some packages are split into smaller packages with the next version. You could have package X 2.6, which includes a lot of stuff, and then in version 3.0, X gets split into X-doc 3.0, libX 3.0, and X 3.0. Obviously, you can't use X 3.0 from testing and put it into stable, because it relies on libX 3.0, which is not in stable. You'd need to copy over libX 3.0 and X 3.0.

    If package Y 4.5 depends on package Z 4.5, again you'd need the same thing. You'd have to copy all the dependent packages down. And hope they work. Or look for a backport.

    I recently installed Debian Stable on a server with an Intel e1000 NIC in it. The kernel in the stable install didn't include support for my kernel. So I had to grab about 10 packages from testing, including a later kernel and all of it's dependent packages, before I could get networking support.

  10. Re:a little twist. on FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am pretty sure that once you are married what's his is hers and what's hers is his.

    No no no... You've obviously never been married. What's his is her's, and what's her's is her's.

  11. Re:Rimshot? on Intel Announces Laser Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    is the sound someone makes on a trap set (drums) after a punchline. sounds something like:

    bah-DUM-stch!!!

  12. All your... on Linux-Based Cat Feeder · · Score: 1

    All your bass are belong to us?

    =)

  13. Re:Let Google remove their listing entirely on French Court Orders Google to Stop Competing Ad Displays · · Score: 1

    Your search - Louis Vuitton - did not match any documents.
    No pages were found containing "Louis Vuitton".


    Internet user: oh no! Louis Vuitton has been wiped from the internets!

  14. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 2, Funny
    nonono, you've got it all wrong:
    find . -name "*m*" "*p*" "*a*" | mail spooks@mpaa.com -s "AARRRGGGGG!!"
  15. Re:player not free, but ... on Real Pays For Legal MP3 Playback On Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you won't find an MP3 player in Debain main

    You sir are wrong.

    Debian includes several MP3 players, but no MP3 *encoders*. To rip to MP3 on Debian, you must download the sources and compile the ripper yourself.

    I hope that this makes it into the Helix Player, which has RPMs (convertable to debs via alien).

  16. Hey sports fans on Jeff Bezos to Build Space Center · · Score: 1

    Van Horn, TX is also the home to John Madden's Haul of Fame at Chuy's Mexican Restaurant. Madden always hated to fly, so when he became a broadcaster, he drove to games in his Maddencruiser, hense the Haul of Fame.

  17. Of course... on Searching with Images instead of Words · · Score: 1

    ... you could always write a perl program to let people think they are controlling the city building's lights, when infact they're just controlling pictures in a database. ;-)

  18. *AA? on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    So setting this precedent is just PLAIN STUPID. How far will *AA go? Let's say this precedent had already been established... then they could go after Brian Cohen. They could hold him responsible for create an application "makes piracy possible, regardless of his benign intentions". This way the *AA could crush anything that they see as a potential threat

    I don't know about you, but I'm thinkin the FAA will be pretty ticked.

  19. Who is Guttman? on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 1

    Chapter 2 is called "Marriage and the Happily Ever After" and describes models for behavior in a relationship, including an analysis of how absurd the folk tale is that more sex occurs in the first year of marriage then in all subsequent years combined. Probably the most interesting work she talks about in this chapter are the models by Guttman et al. intended to analyze conversations between lovers to determine if the relationship is on the rocks. In this case the models they build are known to be highly accurate in predicting problems in the relationship.

    Maybe the writer meant John Gottman and his famous Love Lab?

  20. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't say there that they can't eat animals.

    You're technically correct, but He tells them what they can eat. He says every seed-bearing plant, except for the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  21. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    Traditionally, it's been understood that Moses wrote and/or compiled the Pentateuch. Coming well after Abraham, Moses would have understood YHWH.

  22. Re:Wow, an edit war on Wiki. Be still my heart. on Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    and then you could name the revisions after Toy Story characters!!

    (laugh. it's funny)

  23. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    I heard a theory that when the earth was formed, it included some amount of water for protection from UV rays, etc. During the flood, the water was released.

  24. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1
    • Asimov (and others) proposed that they didn't use ``junior'', so the first Methuselah named his son Methuselah, who named his son Methuselah, and so on for 900+ years. I haven't cared enough to look into it, but I'm told there are similar inconsistencies with this explanation.
    The Jews during Jesus' day did use the prefix "Bar" to signify "the son of.." Jesus' apostle Simon Peter, for example, was called Simon Barjonah in some translations, meaning the son of Jonah. Not a literal surname like today, but something to single out a particular person.
  25. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 4, Informative
    • ... Humans were *not* allowed to eat animals until after the flood...

      Reference, please? I haven't found that.

    Pre-flood

    Gen 2:15-17: "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

    Post-flood

    Gen 9:1-5: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man."