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  1. Re:Can give a boost even with same instruction set on OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (Yes, I have used Gentoo. For several years. I concluded at the end that the amount of work was greater than the benefit.)

    Me too. I love Gentoo, and think it's pretty much as close to my perfect distro as possible. Gentoo Hardened is brilliant.

    However, if you do what I do, and only update packages that have security issues, you'll find that suddenly one day, your profile has expired, and packages you need to bring it up to date have entered and left portage, meaning that you have to jump through hoops just to get Python working enough to update.

    Say anything about this, and you get the statement "Just do emerge world every night", which is stupid for a production server.

    I much prefer Gentoo to Ubuntu or Debian (and nothing to do with speed (claimed or otherwise)), but my current host? Ubuntu 9.04.

  2. Re:A Natural Progression Yet So Many Caveats on Dumbing Down Programming? · · Score: 1

    No devices where failure to perform according to specs and fail gracefully will land you in prison for between 2 and 15 years.

    I'm curious - what sort of device would that be?

  3. Re:Understandable on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also:

    Google is not the government, it is a private company with no legal or moral requirement to remove links to something that clearly offends some of its customers.

  4. Re:You mean 11,500 Euro on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    A better question is: why can't everyone do it the same way?

    When America starts using sane date formats, then we'll talk.

  5. Re:Is there plenty in Russia? on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 1

    No one petitioned a military judge to order his arrest.

    It's illegal to speak out against things?

  6. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I work for a very large bank, and IE 6 is the corporate standard. The banking platform is only designed to work with IE6. Some of the internal admin tools don't work with IE8.

  7. Re:missing the point on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    As others have said - the UK and Northern Europe.

  8. Re:Looks pretty shit on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    But this will be useful in some cases (3rd world education, your grandparents, etc) where all your need are webapps, like Gmail, Google Docs, etc

    Yeah, cos if it's one thing they have a lot of in 3rd world countries, it's cheap, reliable broadband.

  9. Re:missing the point on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    I live in Tornado Alley

    Don't you ever stop to think that perhaps living in areas known to be hit with natural disasters/extreme climates isn't the best idea?
    Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes.
    There's a reason that only penguins live naturally in the Antarctica.

  10. Re:The beating heart... on openSUSE 11.2 Released · · Score: 1

    When somebody on the internet claims 'their Linux i not working' I'd say the odds are good that they are running Ubuntu.

    Rewind 10 years, and s/Ubuntu/Redhat/g

  11. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1, Funny

    permanently probably

    [Citation needed]

  12. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know what's really happening? YOU'RE STARVING YOURSELF. Call it whatever the fuck you want, but this isn't a diet, it's just not eating.

    Yes, it's inducing your body's natural method of converting fat to energy. The food you do eat is carefully produced and calculated to give you just enough energy to get through the day while staying in ketosis. I read up thoroughly about it before going on it. Still, get angry, why don't you?

  13. Re:Red Green 3D on UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D · · Score: 1

    What/how much do you have to buy to qualify for a pair?
    Or can I just walk in, pick a pair up, and walk out?

  14. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 0

    Good point. When you've got 30 or 40 pounds to lose, 12 weeks of moderate exercise isn't going to cut it.

    Without sounding like an advert, try the Cambridge Diet. Kicks your body into ketosis, and the weight falls off. Really small amounts of food can kick you out of ketosis though, so you have to be very strict. I wrote about my experiences.

  15. Re:Google? No on Startup Claims Google Copied Web-Annotation Product · · Score: 2, Funny

    no one can keep track of what everyone else is doing

    Google manage it with us though? :)

  16. Re:A new name for this? on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    And as if on cue.... Kill Him!!

  17. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Eh? I earn good money, and pay a lot of taxes so that those who can't pay still have houses to live in, and healthcare.

  18. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    If you had an X-Ray for a broken arm ten years ago, and it has a fuzzy patch near your current tumor, well, the insurance companies have whole teams of people looking for just such meaningless data as an excuse to deny benefits.

    Wow! That's great! We should all adopt such a sensible system over here. It'd create lots of jobs too, for people employed to find these links. It's win/win!

  19. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Without question, its the factory worker who puts cars together. Have you seen the UAW health care plans?

    No, I haven't. I have no idea what health-care plans look like. I get ill, I go to my NHS GP. He/She if it's important will refer me to a specialist at a choice of local hospitals, or if I happen to be living in hotels across the other side of the country, a hospital near where I'm working.

    I can't see why ability to pay/earn should make you more or less worthy or deserving of treatment. It's just a complete no brainer. No-one should be left untreated because they can't afford it.

  20. Re:Given certain situations... on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    it costs me nothing

    Not strictly true (unless you're unemployed).
    But I'm an NHS fan too, so don't think I'm slating it.

  21. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 4, Funny

    /*
    * Old Testament
    * Class for suppressing ignorant people.
    * Implements AngryGod
    */
    @Deprecated
    public OldTestament implements AngryGod {
    .....

  22. Re:Can you believe this? on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 1

    Isn't it coprophilia? I am, however, DNAEITF. (definitely not an expert in this field).

  23. Re:Internet Reception? on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Some HF gear, and AMPRNet?

  24. Re:Maemo on Symbian Microkernel Finally Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Because you carry your phone with you all the time?

    Would you rather have a:, No picture of the sensational event that you came across unexpectedly, or b:, a mobile phone pic of it?
    My N95 has a Carl Zeiss lense, and a 5MP camera. Sure, it's not as good as my SLR, but the N95 is always carried with me.

  25. Re:Evolutive pressure? on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1
    Your signature is amusingly apt for this story:

    I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.