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  1. Re:Notice: it's just the non-Microsoft parts on Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist · · Score: 1

    "You used /usr/include/abby-normal/stdio.h?!"

  2. 350 Mp? on CFH Telescope Gets New Wide-field Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Man, imagine the quality of that for just shooting things on the ground.

  3. Another solution on Anonymous Domain Registration for Protecting Privacy? · · Score: 1
    1) Rent a post office box
    2) come up with a pseudonym
    3) ...
    4) um... profit?

    Seriously, if it's important enough to you to receive dead tree material related to your domain or otherwise establish an address for a domain, come up with some pseudonym and stick a PO box address in there.

  4. Re:Unfortunately... on Legacy-Free PCs · · Score: 1

    Two words: MIDI interface.

  5. Never something with "manager" in the title on A Title To Replace "Systems Administrator"? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While "manager" denotes job security, it also implies cluelessness.

  6. Re:Mmm... on Anti-Radiation Drug · · Score: 1

    Let's take it one step further, Bisifiniti: if this drug were carcinogenic and required radiation treatment, would the radiation treatment be ineffective due to the drug?

  7. What about... on Anti-Radiation Drug · · Score: 1

    How about we test this drug on some of these hardcore prisoner death-row types in places like Riker's Island and San Quentin?

  8. RTFM, of course! on Gardening for Geeks? · · Score: 2, Informative
    There are many books and magazines on gardening. Aside from a few varying techniques, they will generally have the same kind of advice on how to plant certain items, along with when, where, sunlight, soils, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

    Along with this, keep in mind that seeds will also have instructions on how to plant. Naturally, this is a little beyond simply dropping your seeds in dirt and doing the slashdot three-step (1 - plant and water, 2 - ???, 3 - profit!).

    If you're concerned about mineral content of the soil, your local city office might have assay information. The books will also show you how to deal with this.

    Rotate your soil bases, especially if you are doing this yearly. You know how production farms will let a field rest for a year after using it a few years? It's to prevent depleting the soil. Barring this, be prepared to replenish the soil with commercial fertilizers or cattle manure.

    (To wit, cattle manure is not straight fecal matter from bovines, it's decomposed cattle waste. Broadly speaking, manure is anything that fertilizes the soil when worked in - including commercial fertilizers if you want to reach. Decomposed cattle waste is fairly common, though.)

    Lastly (and speaking of manure), one thing my father did back in the early 80s was get some straight up manure-based soil (like what some people put on their lawns to fertilize). It smells horrible, but your crops will taste fine, and they will also be extremely healthy - but again, be prepared to replenish after a period or your crops will start losing .

  9. He also has a post office box on Spammers, Privacy, Anti-Spam, and Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    MIM PO BOX 19803 BALTIMORE MD 21225-0303 Carrier Route B006 if anyone needs it to add to their own bulk mail runs.

  10. Devil's Advocate, sort of on Spammers, Privacy, Anti-Spam, and Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    IANA[LJ].

    What our friend Francis Uy did was pretty evil. Got his hands on public information connected with a spammer, made it further public, and suddenly the spammer's house was bombarded with snail mail.

    But consider the the other side of the picture, the plaintiff's end of things. Mr. Moore makes his information publically available (or it was otherwise there). He does something on the internet that is up there with making child pr0n available. And he has the cajones to think we will not do something nasty to him?

    That, my friends, is what you call "chutzpah". (Pronounce it "khoot's paw", with the "kh" sound as if you were going to expectorate.)

  11. Time cube on Australian High Court Hears Some Weird Science · · Score: 1

    The guy who authored this page reminds me of some people I've seen on OCTA's route 43(PDF WARNING) on a full moon.

  12. Do you really have to have this answered? on Specialized, Open Source Databases? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Asking for this beast is like asking for a version of M$ Excel (or, to be fair, Gnumeric) that is specifically designed toward balancing a company's books.

    A database is a database. There is no "specialized" database for any purpose, with the possible exception of design for platform (IE, DB/2 for AS400) - you build the structures in the DB program and go. It's what makes apps and engines like MySQL really cool.

    If you want a DB that is geared for bio-anthropology, fire up MySQL or PostGreSQL or insert your favorite engine here, build the structure for the DB you need to run, put a pretty face on it for the users, and kick back as it does the rest.

  13. If this is a problem... on Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 1
    If radio stations are indeed having a problem, perhaps DJ's could say things like, "Well, kids, I *would* be playing the latest schlock from O-Town, but suffice it to say the new copy protected CD's don't work on our gear."

    Enough of this and this should fling a significant amount of mud in the RIAA's eye.

  14. Re:Technical errors? on Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, I do concur - the path described is similar to the Whittier narrows fault, which runs through Chino Hills and Yorba Linda on its way to LA. Perhaps they're seeing offshoots of WN?

  15. Re:Horror storys! on Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I am sure some Televangelist can convince God to move the PHBT fault to your neck of the woods. =^_^=

  16. Professor Steamhead was right! on Steam Heat to High Speed Internet · · Score: 1
    The world CAN be saved by steam*!

    OK, fine, it's downtown Wilkes-Barre PA and they're using steam pipe as conduit. But still.

    * People who read Ninja High School, a dead-tree comic, will understand this immediately.

  17. Woohoo! on NARA Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Of all the things to be archived on the 'net, this is probably one of the best to find.

  18. Everything you know is wrong on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1
    Not being a parent, but having talked with many friends who are parents, I will give you the sage advice that I have found was unanimously agreed upon:

    Take every bit of advice about raising children you ever read in books and completely forget it.

    God forbid you neglect and abuse them, but the "parent method" books don't seem to work for a lot of parents (scheduling feedings around the mom?!) because kids aren't necessarily wired the way shrinks want them to be raised.

    Don't ever let somebody convince you that your child needs Ritalin. Ritalin is evil and will destroy your child.

    Try and do private school - or even better, home school.

    Lose the second income. Somebody needs to play "mom". Even better is do work from home if possible. Adam@home, anybody?

    And since we're on working at home, the kid will want you to know what s/he's into (you know that excited babbling that kidlings go into when they get inside from playing?), they want to know what you're doing. If you code in C, teach him C. If you speak TCP/IP, teach him zen and the art of Internet Protocol. Yes, it's a little old fashioned and traditional to pass the trade down to the next generation, but it's a good way to bond.

    Most importantly, love and cherish that child like they were an extension of you. Frankly, that's exactly what they are - half you and half her.

    Good luck and congratulations.

  19. Re:Where? on Forgent Networks Wins $25M from Sony for JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    Not yet they don't. Remember, technology will advance in leaps and bounds....

  20. Re:It would be nice if... on Biological Clock Found in Plants · · Score: 1

    Not really, because the use of said pill could beget a dependency on it. Great for chemical manufacturers, but what if you can't get your fix?

  21. Re:Micro-pon on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1
    Well, if Microsoft can send a tampon from LAX to O'Hare, they can call it aerodynamic.

    Wait, I better keep my mouth shut lest they get an idea....

  22. One thing to consider on Would Free Music Sell Cars? · · Score: 1

    It is not the hours of music that the marketing schmucks in the RIAA see, it is revenue based on an object - specifically, that which contains the content, be it CD, MD, LD, DVD, cassette tape, vinyl disk, or (God forbid) 8-track. Because an MP3 is so easy to transport, you can't establish revenues on that. And an MP3 player can be pulled off of. Give it time, the RIAA will collapse on its own weight. All they have to do is screw up on one tax return and the IRS will be on them like white on rice.

  23. My own statistics on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1
    If one goes to my page above and clicks on the "Anime Image Gallery" link or whatever I've called it, and then clicks on the Extreme Counter logo on the bottom, you will be faced with a shitload of statistics.

    Of note was the fact that while Google was in first place, MSN was in third place behind Yahoo.

    Take that for whatever it's worth.

  24. I see an amazing thing on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1
    There are people here who like Microsoft and hate Microsoft - and they both agree that a Micro$~1 purchase of Google would be a Very Bad Thing.

    Pray, is this one of the signs of The End?

  25. Re:Micro-pon on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    My wife dissents. She doesn't believe that "aerodynamic" is a term one can apply to feminine hygeine products.