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  1. Re:australia doesn't matter. on How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You? · · Score: 1

    "Remember, if it weren't for the USA and the USSR most of the world would be speaking either German or Japanese today. "

    Instead, most of the world is speaking english, and corporations hire the death squads. Such an improvement on the imperial japanese system.
    (*Cough* Exxon, Coca Cola, we're looking at you)

  2. Re:By that logic I bought an expensive key... on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1

    You're not buying the keys to the house, you're buying the deed, the piece of paper that says you have certain legal rights to the property.

    I imagine that sheet of paper is much more $/oz than a key >)

  3. Re:Goats on Venus? on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, the pencil/pen thing is bullshit. Using pencils was problematic, because the weightless graphite dust fux0red instrumentation. After the U.S. developed those ever-so-nifty pens, both sides used them.

  4. Re:I skipped school!!!!!!! on So Did the Hordes Really Skip out for Episode 2? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, she looks good in the movie, but it's all cosmetics. In real life (and other photos ;) ) her *ahem* assets aren't all of that and the bag of chips they appear to be.

  5. Re:Sounds like you're trying to fit a square block on 802.11b Cards for Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the Zaurus would be a good choice. Compaq supports linux on the iPaq, and the iPaq is where things are really going these days. The zaurus is bulky and unlikely to succeed in a big way. Better to choose a supported platform. Especially since the iPaq is going to have (iPaq only) 144 kbps both ways worldwide(hah) internet for 40$ a month in the near future. DSL is dead >:)

  6. Re:What about sega? on How Microsoft Tried To Buy Nintendo · · Score: 1

    Actually, the PSX was crap, even by the standards of the day.
    Brand loyalty didn't help Nintendo.
    Noone can control "diversity of the software". Because it was successful, it had a great deal of software. Chicken and egg ;)

  7. Re:I have the way out! on Cross-platform Password Management? · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. Those points were deliberately poorly made.

  8. Two words: Scrabble dictionary. on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    Pull out a scrabble dictionary, start with the six letter words, move on from there. Just don't use the ones that you hate. Leave a mark so that no name is used twice.

  9. Re:The answer's up in the sky on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    So far as I know, the Moon's name is Luna, just as Earth's name is actually Terra.

  10. Re:No proprietary unices left on x86 on No Solaris 9 for x86 · · Score: 1

    Actually, WinXP is more like MS Plus! for NT5. It's hardly different from 2kSP2

  11. Why do we need another unusable closed source OS? on LindowsOS Marches On · · Score: 1

    This product is doomed to failure; It sucks as much as windows, but has no advantages.+

  12. Re:Upgrades on Trojan Coffee Room Machine Returns · · Score: 1

    http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Coffee.html The linux coffee howto. Hook up a five-dollar home-made circuit to a parallel port and boom, linux-powered coffee-maker. I never could figure out why this would be useful, but now I see the light. Automatic coffee was never enough. In combination with a net-camera or a light sensor and thermometer, one can have remote-controlled network coffeemaker.

  13. Re:SliMP3 is *almost* right. on Slashback: Ford, Buccaneers, Hardware · · Score: 1

    First, almost by definition, you can't have "cheap" receiving units... they would be 'receivers' i.e. amplifiers. They start at about eighty bucks. Second, if you got the part numbers from radio shack, you could order enough connectors at a decent price to make any MP3 player or stereo feed through your ethernet wires with home-made adaptors. Wouldn't even bet that hard to feed into the line-in on the computer. I don't think impedance is as important for stereo wire as speaker wire, but a resistor in parallel would fix that anyway. Anyhow, it's a lot cheaper than bizarre specialized devices.