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  1. Cats on Amateur Lightwave Tricks · · Score: 1

    Yep, light's great for communicating with cats. That, and hitting low passing clouds... Glad that's cleared up.

  2. Since when... on Proposed Law To Open Code ... In Cars · · Score: 1

    was redneck a derogatory term... My cousin who happens to be into cars happens to also fancy himself a redneck. He says that since he doesn't drink alcohol, he takes a root beer with him to job interviews.

  3. Date on QuickTime To Get Boost From "More Accurate" Statistics · · Score: 1

    I set the year to 2060 and QT crashed...and crashed.

  4. Danger? on Wireless Network or Weird Al? · · Score: 1

    What, you mean this is a bad thing

    Look,people you'll still be able to watch your favorite shows when personal wireless replaces broadcast, you'll just be doing it differently and perhaps on demand without having to wait for it to be on and set up your video recorder.
    You'll just have to know which server to connect your media player to.

  5. Get rid of the ad on QuickTime To Get Boost From "More Accurate" Statistics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now if only they'd get rid of the ad that pops up for QuickTime Pro almost everytime it launches.

  6. American English... on Scotland: Aliens' Official Favorite Destination · · Score: 0

    American aready ends in -an so a man doesn't get added. I'm talking American English here. In American English, people of Occidental countries end in -an and Oriental Countries end in -ese with a few excepions where Oriental countries also end in -an. How the m gets in sometimes is a mystery.
    China = Chinese or sometimes Chinaman
    Japan = Japanese (never japans)
    Singapore = Singaporian.
    Hong Kong = Hong Kongian
    Scotland = Scotsman (Why not Scottishman or Scotlandman, I don't know)
    England=Englishman
    Wales = Welshman
    Canada = Canadian
    Australia = Australian

    You just think that Americans speak the same language as you.
    It just wouldn't do to tell the Japanese to call Americans Americans instead of Amerikajin or Scots Scots instead of Sukotojin (did I get that right) so why bother with Americans?

  7. Maybe it's because there really is a reason.... on Scotland: Aliens' Official Favorite Destination · · Score: 1

    the United States calles the system it uses the English system and not the Imperial system. They really are two different systems.

  8. Not exactly on Scotland: Aliens' Official Favorite Destination · · Score: 1

    More like calling a Californian a Texan.

  9. Sons Of Liberty on CBDTPA == TCPA Enablement Act? · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's going to be time for another tea party.

  10. The Big Question on UK: Watch Out For The Return Of ITAR · · Score: 1

    Where would they move abroad to... probably not the U.S. or should that be definitely?

  11. Complaints, anyone? on Bringing Echelon In From the Cold · · Score: 1

    It's kind of hard to complain when you're dead. The greatest trick the devil pulled was to make people belive he doesn't exist. The second greatest may well have been to discredit those who believe he exists.

  12. All of us... on Bringing Echelon In From the Cold · · Score: 1

    should be watching. Be very careful.

  13. Flamebait! on Blocking Instant Messengers? · · Score: 1

    I was only trying to help the author understand that he was mistaken. When people can't accept a little kindness gracefully, its gonna be all over for humanity.

  14. Really? Irresponsible? on Blocking Instant Messengers? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It seems irresponsible of Yahoo to leave, what appears to me, no choice but to block their entire domain in this situation.

    Insert economic dissertation here. Make it contain something about free markets, sellers providing goods that buyers don't have to buy and if the sellers don't want to sell a product that a group of buyers want, there is no compulsion for them to do so.

  15. How or does it... on ``NetBSD Live!'' Boots Directly Into KDE2 · · Score: 1

    handle virtual memory?

  16. Systems Code? on Building A J2EE App with Linux · · Score: 1

    Is this a sign to anyone that programs are having to include too much code at a deeper level of implementation than they have to? A Hello World program for a PC gets complicated when it has to include code for the OS that it runs on.

  17. I like Dvorak on Dvorak: Discontinue the Mac · · Score: 1

    I read/watch a lot of his stuff since like 1990...At any rate, he isn't half as clueless as O'Reily (of Factor not weblogs which I still cant place). Anyone else see a resemblance? btw The article is a good overview on parts of Mac history, for those of you wondering whether to bother reading the article. Also Dvorak is not suggesting that Apple close shop, but start fresh.

  18. Wetware does not exclude digital on New Technique Makes Most Gene Patents Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    So what if it's biological, DNA is made up of four discrete signals: A,T,C,G, and discrete signals are the basis for digital systems.

  19. Why a Merger By U.S. Takeover on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: 1

    The main reason I'm suggesting the merger be done by the U.S is because it doesn't seem likely that it will be done by mutual consent, and recent events seem to favor that manner if a merger were to be done at all. I am reminded of a post somewhere suggesting that the U.S. rejoin the British Empire.

  20. Flamebait, really? on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does wanting the best for humanity really make my post flamebait?

  21. Compilers and Parsing... on Parsing Algorithms and Resources? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Compilers and parsing seem to go hand-in-hand. With that in mind, here's a link to Jack Crenshaw's How to Build a Compiler

  22. Some of my perspective... on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: 1

    My previous post would have done better with the subject 'Is evolution gunning for me?'. Too bad I didn't think of it before I posted. The reaction to my earlier post got me to thinking that the poster thought I was racist. That is far from the truth. I am merely acting from the belief that a united humanity acting within a united Earth sphere, with a government acting in its interests will achieve more for itself that it would divided. Based on the evedence provided in my earlier posts and with the further evidence that many Mexicans think that part of the United States belongs to them anyways, as well as the fact that many Mexicans want to contribute to the United States economy, it seems like it might be a ripe time for the integration of the two.

  23. Re:Hmm... on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: 1

    What have I done that would cause me to be phased out by evolution?

  24. Oops on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: 1

    When I first read that I thought it just said Mexico, not New Mexico... but it does say that Mexico is paying for some of it...

    Anyhow...

  25. Hmm... on NYT on the Very Large Array · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe the U.S. should put an end to the illegal immigration from Mexico and the Mexican Army crossing the border and annex Mexico. The U.S. is already training their Army