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  1. A slight problem on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    James T. Kirk hasn't been born yet.

  2. Re:Soilent oil? on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    Why not produce fuel from 'people waste'?

    We already do to some degree. Sewage treatment plants use large tanks called digesters that when bacteria is added, it produces methane gas. The methane then is stored in tanks that run large engines in the facility that do a number of things, such as pumping sewage, pumping grey water, and stirring the sewage. After the sewage has broken down as much as possible, the water is drained and treated. The solid matter is sold as industrial fertilizer. (For use in farms that do not produce food for human consumption, such as hay, and grain for livestock usage.)

  3. Re:Its all a big scam on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    I tried that once, my vehicle stalled at "8 miles till empty"

  4. Sure! on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 0

    Just give them all the documents in LaTeX format. Or some other format that only hard-core people use.

  5. Re:Fedora Core 2 wins the vote of this Debianite on Fedora Core 2 Review · · Score: 0

    Apt?!? That's so 90's. I only like emerge!

  6. Re:I can see myself using this on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    It says that no matter what the speed of the underlying system. I did some OpenSSL benchmarks on a few different systems and they all came up the same scores. (Exactly the same) I think this will change as the emulator matures.

  7. Re:Good news... on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    Darmok at Tenagra! Shaka! When the walls fell! Did you notice that the alien in that episode was the captain of the ship that Khan captured in the Wrath of Khan? He must get around.

  8. Re:DVD-ROM on Upgrade Your DVD Writer to Double Layer -- Maybe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually I have an expensive dvd player that I got back when nobody had one. It even has component out and a built in 5.1 decoder. No progressive scan though, it wasn't around yet.

  9. Re:DVD-ROM on Upgrade Your DVD Writer to Double Layer -- Maybe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dual layer is when your dvd player has a slight pause where the screen freezes. That is when it is changing layers.

  10. Re:Back me up on "backing up" on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1

    What you're saying is there is nothing you have to circumvent in order to backup your book. If there was, they'd probably make all books use black text on navy blue backgrounds so make it harder to xerox. Old video game manuals used to use this trick so that you couldn't copy the pages that they used for their copy protection (i.e. type in the 5th word on the 10th page, 3rd paragraph)

  11. Re:pragmatism and policy on Slashback: XPiracy, Panel, Gentoo · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be that hard to make it work anyway, just extract the files from SP2 and replace the older ones in the system by overwriting them.

  12. LOTR and Zelda on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    So they hired Legolas to play Link now? The resemblence is uncanny.

  13. Re:Performance information on PowerPC Architecture Emulator Unleashed · · Score: 1

    I just rebenchmarked under a 1ghz Pentium III under Linux and got the *same* exact score. It is almost like the emulator is running at a hard coded speed.

  14. Performance information on PowerPC Architecture Emulator Unleashed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here is a screenshot of me running an OpenSSL benchmark on the emulated Macintosh:
    Open SSL benchmark

    And a screen shot of the PCI information:
    PCI info

    These tests were run on a Pentium III 500 under XP Pro. You can recrate the test on your system by running openssl speed rsa dsa md5 and compare the results to a real pc or mac running linux.

  15. Arabic support on The First-Ever Installfest in Egypt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hows the Arabic support in Linux? Last I heard, virtually non-existant.

  16. They all hate julian on Spammer Sues SpamCop · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of spam that has hidden insults about Julian Haight. One was something like "Julian Haight sucks (insert male reproductive organ)"

  17. Re:Nice on Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot · · Score: 1

    Oops, slight mistake. I meant 24,000 years.

  18. Nice on Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot · · Score: 2, Funny

    A tourist attraction with a half-life of 3.2 billion years. Now that's hot :)

  19. Gone on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    emerge sync && emerge --unmerge drobbins

  20. Re:you mean BIG? on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 0, Redundant

    419 is the name of the type of scam not the number of spams. 419 scams are the ones that go something like. "Greetings and blessings upon you as I propose a mutually beneficial business transaction to you. I am Dr. Mobobe Ugame former oil minister for Nigeristan. Due to the recent assasination of our supreme overlord there is billions of dollars in foreign funds that could be accessed if only we had a foreign bank to move the funds to. I am prepared to give you 20% of the total if you can send me $5,000 USD to cover the transaction fees" etc.

  21. Re:Plane in the lower left corner on Towards Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 1

    Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. I googled just to be sure. It was the paint job, it was camoflaged and he couldn't see it!

  22. Re:Hmm, e-bay on Video Projector for Home Theater? · · Score: 1

    The $13,000 JVC projectors that I've used automatically warn before the light needs to be changed and then shut off when you go past the usage limit. You can reset them but it is dangerous because the lights can explode. These lights were encased in a metal module, but I wouldn't have risked it. It was pretty obvious when lights were getting old, they would get a yellow tint. The bulbs were about $700 each but the projectors were sure nice!

  23. Re:The good technology always dies on Delorean Time Machine Replica Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    All these anectdotes (sp?) are mentioning wet roads. Doc Brown power braked the car and just stayed in one spot spinning the tires.

  24. Lead or Lead? on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Most new boards are lead free. All the parts use BGA chips so there are no leads sticking out of them. :)

  25. Re:The good technology always dies on Delorean Time Machine Replica Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    The movie version must have had an upgraded engine. Several times throughout the movie you can hear the gurgle of a larger engine, such as when Marty parks the car behind the billboard in 1955. Also, would a 130hp engine be able to sit there and spin the tires like that? Yeah I know... movie magic.