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  1. Re:Called if for Obama on Prediction Markets and the 2008 Electoral Map · · Score: 1

    I can't really see why anybody is against gay marriage. I'm all for it! It makes the straight men to straight women ratio just that liiiiitle bit more favourable for me.
    Lesbians on the other hand - should be outlawed. Up the gays. Down with the lesbians. That's pretty much how they **do** do it.
  2. Re:Good Grief! on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 1

    Well, that's a fair reason, I suppose.
    However - why shouldn't he get a little PR for supplying Slashdot with stories?
    After all, we'd be moaning in hours if there weren't any stories posted.

  3. Re:Good Grief! on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 1

    Let me spell it out for you, I'll ignore your strawman about me not liking him 'because he's french', I don't know what prompted you to say that, it lowers the discussion level: I wasn't trying to troll - I just couldn't think of any other reasons off the top of my head.
    However, I must say that I don't spend a lot of time analysing the balance of quality of stories to the chance of them being accepted, so I'll have to defer to your superiour knowledge in this area :)
    I just look at the stories, and see if I like them. I happen to be a Radio Ham, so this one is of interest to me.
  4. Re:Good Grief! on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see any problem with Roland's postings. Do you not like him because he is French, or some other banal reason?
    Submit your own super-interesting stories if you have better ones.

  5. However, if you're a Ham.... on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However, amateur radio people such as myself rub their hands with glee, as a reflective ionosphere means good DX :)
    I check the "Space dials" regularly, and can't wait for them to be in the red! 73s.

  6. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    OK. CO2 is more efficient at absorbing IR than NO, or O2. I'll take your word for it.
    How does that prove anything? That fact isn't linked to anything. In fact, even if you can prove that man-made CO2 is causing the warming, it's an irrelevant fact. "Lead is heavier than grass - it's physics, bitch!" is the same sort of irrelevant fact.

  7. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    You might as well believe that the Colorado Rockies won the 2007 world series while your at it, While my at it? Oh, "you're"...

    I have no idea what the Colorado Rockies are, or the 2007 World Series (which is suspect to be something that very few countries in the world take part in).
  8. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... that just happens to coincide with us digging up sequestered carbon and burning it by the megaton, Correlation, meet causation.
  9. Re:U5? on Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:In other news... on Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime · · Score: 1

    Sleeper Trains FTW. Gah. Narrow minded American, much?
    Do you know what oceans and seas are?
    Sure, I'd think about catching a train from the UK to Buenos Aires if there was one that got there in under a day.
  11. Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but... on Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets · · Score: 1

    Don't run that! I ran it, and it deleted my po.. documents and media, and installed a backdoor!

  12. Re:Amazing how short sighted ppl are on The Phoenix Has Landed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just think! If you had an account, you'd have 5 Karma points now. That'd give you something interesting to talk about no, rather than boring the people down the pub with nuclear powered rocket this, space travel, that, and aliens on Mars the other. :)

  13. Re:The smartphone dilemma on Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IMHO this ban is protection from asshole bosses who think they own you 24/7/365. This seems to be less common in the UK (where this park is).
    My boss has only once in 7 years rung me up out of hours, and he told me that he was very sorry, as it could be taken as harassment.
  14. Re:Fun airport prank on Super-Sensitive Spray-On Explosive Detector · · Score: 1

    Eau de. It means "Water of" in French.

    An ode is something very different. Although I'm sure there are lots of odes to cocaine.

  15. Re:Perfect steps... on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Solitaire is some sort of distributed key cracking mechanism? :)

  16. Re:Skype? on F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to get Skype working through a firewall that does access control as opposed to....?
  17. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1

    Try renaming all files that match a regular expression *[a-m]*, for example in directories 2 levels down from your current directory.

  18. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1
    So we're talking about avoiding using the CLI, and you come up with the answer of

    I, personally, would write a small C#.NET program or PowerShell script for it You've missed the point somewhat. That's like saying "In order to avoid violence, I will slaughter all those that are aggressive."
  19. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem with Linux is that you have to "know" which one of the 20,000 programs in your package manager does what you need done. Part of the problem with Windows is that you have to "know" which one of the 20,000 programs you can download from the internet does what you need done.
  20. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1

    ipv6 install
    ipconfig /flushdns
    tracert foo.com

  21. Re:Why would they expect Gates Foundation funding? on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What, does England have so much history that it doesn't see the value of protecting a historic site that's from something as new as the last century? We do have an awful lot of history. Near where I grew up is a 13th century castle, and a little further a copy of the Magna Carta from 1215. The town itself was founded in 888. Yes, without a 1 in front. Throw in lots of roman stuff, and things I've never even been told of, and yeah, something from 1945 might not be thought to be really that *wow*.
  22. Re:Out of curiosity... on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    What is this "world", of which you speak? Mexico and Canada, right?

  23. Re:Out of curiosity... on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    I switch to linux every month or so. But I get fed up. I feel sorry for you. Perhaps you don't have enough tenacity to stick at things, and work through problems. I see problems as challenges, and I can't get to sleep easily until I've fixed them.
  24. Re:In other news on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 1

    Can't upgrade them, or delete them. It's illegal to try and poke things into their memory too. Like pencils. Or spoons.

  25. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    A stop-gap solution is to turn off sshd, until you can get the keys regenerated. Or if Debian SSHd is compiled with tcpwrappers:
    echo sshd: ALL >> /etc/hosts.deny
    echo sshd: your.home.ip.address >> /etc/hosts.allow