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  1. Coming soon to a bumper near you: on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    "You can't hug a child with directed energy arms"

  2. Re:Is it just me... on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    You can't hug a child with nuclear arms.

  3. Change of alphanumeric scheme on Linux Kernel 3.0? · · Score: 1

    I agree that Linux is pretty 1337, but what happened to versions 4, B, before they go to version 3?

  4. PEER TO PEER != MUSIC SWAPPING on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Criminilty, folks!,

    Peer to peer is an application layer network "topology," that is, a description of connectedness.

    It is NOT A SYNONYM FOR NAPSTER.

  5. Re:Why this won't work on an OSS project. on Would an Ad-Sponsored OS/Desktop Work for OSS? · · Score: 1
    Is there any compelling reason for UniCode identifiers?

    Stroustrup wrote an april fool paper on some future directions of C++ in which he said that unicode would allow all variables and names to be single pictogram characters, so you could have lines like

    [Telephone].[Receiver]();

  6. Re:I've noticed quite a bit of packet loss on UDP - Packet Loss in Real Life? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought you said package loss

  7. Re:Mabye it means he will make C++ better on C++ Inventor Changing Jobs · · Score: 1

    Uh, I think the Lambda library is in Boost these days. (Too lazy to link.)

  8. Re:Wow! on C++ Inventor Changing Jobs · · Score: 1

    That's Awesome. I'll be Bjarne can install ypchsh for you in a jiffy.

  9. Re:Single point of failure on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1
    One group I worked in also required you donate some chocolate to a central "fund" available to all the engineers when you broke the build. A fun way of encouraging people to compile against clean sources before checking in.

    Sounds more like a way to encourage the team to hire more inept programmers.

  10. Re:Single point of failure on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Runtime errors don't stop 5000 team members.

    Sure they do, if the team is running NT.

  11. Re:Scratching ... on Digital DJ Turntable · · Score: 1
    There are significant changes in volume, and increases in teh amount of noise. And, if you move the record really slow you get a strange sorta softened crunch noise which is very different than the 'normal' sound you get from a slowed down audio stream..

    All of which should be easily mimicked by a DSP. The changes in "teh" volume, noise, and "crunch" are physical characteristics of the needle suspension. Last I checked, physics, math, and digital processing work pretty well together.

  12. Re:Things change on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Comparing the information highway to the steam engine highway is innacurite. Besides, each situation deserves to be judged individually, something our law makers should be aware of. Simply preserving precedent ensures we will never throw off the shackles of the past.

    Wow. You have an incredibly "innacurite" (sic) view of how law works. We use all available existing judgments to find the most appropriate categorization for each new situation (like qsort(3)). More often than not, questions arising from a new situation are resolved by fitting that situation in somewhere between a 50-year old decision and a 100-year old decision.

    Oooh, "shackles of the past," as if we should all read that and immediately recognize that there is some huge injustice that needs to be removed. Try motivating your disgust a bit more with actual arguments and come back later.

  13. Thanks but no thanks... on Tom's Guide to Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    I prefer the Lesser B.C.T.P. Version 2 (or any later version, at my discretion).

  14. Redundant mods are getting.... redundant on Tom's Guide to Water Cooling · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WTF is up with all the redundant mods in this thread? Is this the velvet-glove bitchslap, Taco?

  15. Re:A Recommendation to Submitters on IMSAI Series Two · · Score: 1

    Need I remind you that his User# is lower than yours, Daddy?

  16. Re:Linux on Macs Are Cheaper than PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    [root@maltose root]# vmware-config.pl
    Making sure VMware's services are stopped.

    Stopping VMware services:
    Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]
    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ]
    DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ]
    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ]
    Virtual ethernet [ OK ]

    Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

    None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do
    you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need
    to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

    What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
    kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

    The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.7-10custom) does not match your
    running kernel (version 2.4.7-10). Consequently, even if the compilation of the
    module was successful, the module would not load into the running kernel.

    What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
    kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

  17. Re:Biiiiotch on Australia's First Commercial Fixed Wireless Network · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been reading /. with Konqueror for some time now, and never understood this particular device. Then I had the misfortune of hosing my kernel and being without my LInux box for a day. I had to use Win2k/IE for my /. fix.

    Now I see the unmistakeable beauty that is page widening.

  18. Yes/No on large endeavors on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1
    • Can we go to the moon?
    • Can we win World War IV?
    • Is Windows obsolete?

    Any of these are billion dollar per bit pieces of information.

  19. Inspirational password! on Slashback: Gopherectomy, Portacinema, Disunity · · Score: 2, Funny

    "djupedal" has proved inspirational. I've been looking for a new Slashdot ID....