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  1. Re:So cows ARE worth a shitload! on Manure-Powered Generators On The Rise · · Score: 4, Funny

    My ancestors didn't fight for millions of years to get to the top of the food chain for me to be a vegetarian.

  2. Re:Imagine a ... on North America's Fastest Linux Cluster Constructed · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see your pineapple monkey and raise you a rabbit with a pancake on its head. (cache)

  3. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 1

    Logitech does not make them.

  4. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 1

    Most car manufacturers have proprietary radio mounts so even if you manage not to get the radio you are stuck jimmy rigging in a new one with some wal-mart mounting kit (example).

  5. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is the "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" and the "Microsoft charity licence" but exactly what kind act would you like to see from MS?

  6. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am sick of listening to people complain about everything MS does.

  7. Killing people the only way to "Innovate"? on Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alan invented Enigma, a machine to decode encrypted messages from the Germans. With all the inventions that come out of war it seems like some countries *cough* *cough* go to war mostly for the economy and the technological advancements spawned from it.
    In today's more diverse world and more global economy, it seems like ware is less and less good vs evil and more a difference of opinion. One has to wonder if global peace would hinder technological progress.

  8. Re:Here's an idea... on New Material for More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Are you wondering why? :)

  9. Re:First post? on Megway - New Competition For The Segway · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is down but Megway is a person, probably named Meagan giving a piggy back ride to some dude in a parody of Segway human transporter.

    Anyway, with the $4,500 price point for Segway and the fact that it only goes as fast as a decent bicycle, I am surprised there is not more of a market for motor assist bicycles.

    A bicycle adds the ability to coast with larger wheels, and removes the need to the machine use power balancing for you. People have a natural ability to balance, taxing the machine with doing this strikes me as inefficient.

  10. Re:Googled HTML on Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    Adobe really needs to create a seperate "lite" version of reader. That app does way more than I need it to do.

  11. Re:Groundless troll??? on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 1

    Actually reading his previous posts he is not a troll. Most of the people I have met that use Linux in real life make simmilar groundless claims. He is simply a Slashdot groupthink subscriber. Better yet someone modded his post "Interesting". I know I personally am enlightened by it.

  12. Re:he is also responsible for netsky on Phatbot Author Arrested In Germany · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can't you people get anything right? The Sasser author allegedly did Netsky.

  13. Re:The auther prolly used WinXP on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 1

    This a groundless troll, if MS had backdoors in XP that sent info back to MS, don't you think SOMEONE would have noticed this a packet capture by now? Sometimes I would rather try to reason with an AOL user than a Linux user.

  14. Re:Microsoft involvement [Re:they caught him...] on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am SURE reading their IIS logs is exactly how they caught the guy. We all know MS releases better information on their vulnerabilities than the security firms that report them. Put your tinfoil hat back on and unplug your computer for me, thanks.

  15. Don't you mean Alpha? on Excel Clone for Linux Now in Beta · · Score: 1
    I remember using the beta version of Excel. It was so usable I didn't bother to bother to install the final version of Office 2003 till after the beta expired.

    If they are just trying to get it to compile w/o errors, it is alpha.
    If it compiles, it's beta.
    If someone updates some of the documentation for it, it is a released version.

  16. Re:Boy was that weak on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    I say she is in cat 2 but not 1. Jessica Corbin is much hotter.

  17. Re:Yes we should all pay for this too on Microsoft Security Updates for Pirated Windows? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I already own a copy of XP pro I should not have to pay another $300 for another copy to upgrade my other XP home machine. Also if I am going to pay for a windows license when I buy a computer, I should get a copy of windows with it and not a "quick restore" disk.

  18. Re:Wow.... on The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism · · Score: 3, Funny

    He still posts articles here regularly, but nobody ever gets to seem them because they all have him filtered. It was worth my time to read his posts just to read all the +5 insightful comments slamming him. That man was Slashdot's verbal piñata.

  19. Re:Impossible! on The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism · · Score: 1

    Him Cringely and Steve Gibson! PS. that is GNU/RMS to you.

  20. Re:old news on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    I don't have to worry about CD rot, my CD-R's never last much longer than a month on my car anyway. Lucky for me I have all my stuff backed up the my PC. If my PC dies, then they are backed up the the internet :)

  21. Re:old news on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    And with a name like GeekZilla you could probably use a friend. Phillup, will you be GeekZilla friend?

  22. Re:My name is Bond on Emotional Bonding with Space Probes · · Score: 1

    Robot psychologists, machines with a gender, bonding with space probes. Chicks really don't dig scientists do they? It's sad that you get less chicks for winning a Nobel prize than you do being a lead singer of a garage band.

  23. Re:wow on Apple Patented by Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Sun has intrest in the moon. There is an interview with Scott McNealy here where he expresses his intrest for the aquisition.

  24. Re:It isn't even april.... on Apple Patented by Microsoft · · Score: 1
    I wonder if in the future famous people will obtain some type of copyright or patent on their on DNA that prevents people from cloning them.

    I think in the immediate future we will make better advancements in prosthetic organs, but moving forward we will see more replacements done with real organs. e.g for the right price we will grow you a new ear on the ass of a rat and then sew it on.

    This market opens up the door to some interesting things.

  25. Re:Easy! on How Should One Review a Distribution? · · Score: 1

    I really don't mind Gentoo's text based install for everything but disk partioning. I am too afraid to nuke my mwindows install with fdsik.