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  1. Re:Gyroscopic effect? on Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No worse than letting your foot off the gas a little in the corner with a rear-engine rear wheel drive car...

    Not done it in a 911 of any vintage, but in a 356 it gets kinda interesting for a few seconds ...

  2. Re:But what about the spirit? on Feds Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking · · Score: 1

    Tracers and incendiary are easy to get and not restricted on a federal level. Some states restrict them due to fire hazzards.

    You can get grenades too, pay your $5 destructive device tax per item and then buy 'em. C4 is also available, just jump thru the hoops.

  3. Re:Half of the story. on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    Had the same issue in the programming classes I took here at the comm. college

    Everyone wanted to be in my group because I had lots of prior programming experience.

    Solved it by writing all the code, obfuscating some of it, using crappy 1 letter variable names, throwing in a bunch of code that was never actually used, and not commenting any of it.

    Turned it in to the instructor as a group, told her I wrote the code, and she should grade my group members based on their commenting of it

    Worked well...

  4. Re:But what about the spirit? on Feds Push For Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking · · Score: 1

    user@darkstar:~$ links -dump http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html | grep "the people"
    or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
    the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
    construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
    or to the people.

    Why is it that one of these "the peoples" isn't considered to be The People?

    The 2nd is there to provide an absolute last ditch attempt at preserving the freedom of The People. The English trying to limit the arms posessions of the colonists was one of the final sparks needed to start the revolutionary war. And yes, The People have revolted, as recently as 1946 (over voting issues - see the Battle of Athens, Tenn)

  5. Re:First and Last solution? on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    Wonder how this would apply to military or others who make an oath to defend the consitution from all enemies - foreign and domestic?

  6. Start with software on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Start with some of the Free software - stellarium and such. That way you can work in the classroom, in the day time, and since it is Free they can take it home as well.

    As for what to view at night, well, the sky is hte limit. Use the software to help ID what you are seeing, use the software to find things that would be cool to see (Orions Nebula, Mars, Jupiter, etc.)

  7. Re:4.14GHz? on IBM Releases Power7 Processor · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Honda Sabre has a V4 in it.

    And I'd bet that the majority of 4 cylinder motors out there are boxter style (Porsche 356/912, VW Typ I and III).

  8. Re:Unforgivable! on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 1

    Jerry Miculek and the other IPSC weenies all use equipment for the edge. Used to shoot IPSC in the early 90s - what I carried/shot was more like what you'd find in IDPA these days, the hard core IPSC guys had $3k 1911s, holsters that were barely there, etc.

  9. what i'd like in an IDE on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    What I would like for an IDE is something similar to VB, where you can actually run the PHP, set break points, watch variable values, etc.

    Since that doesn't exist as far as I know, I guess I will keep running a local instance of apache, php, mysql, etc. and throwing in lots of extra print("\n\n") statements

  10. Re:OSS CAD? on FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? · · Score: 1

    Or spend that $$ improving and fixing one of hte F/OSS ones...

  11. Re:Wait hold on mugger... on Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon · · Score: 1

    I don't let my kids play with guns period. No toy guns, etc.

    I explain that guns are real and have the ability to kill and destroy - they are not toys.

    Of course, I take 'em shooting once every few weeks anyway....

  12. Re:T-Mobile on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 1

    I'd go with two devices as well.. Get a net device of some sort (Nokia 770,800,810 or one of the new super small notebooks) to act as your pocket computer, and get a phone to be a phone. For the phone itself, find a carrier that has good signal where you tend to be (home, work, road between, favorite bar, etc) and a voice+data+text plan that will allow you to tether your net device and use the phone to act as your gateway/router to the world.

    Also, can you can buy some killer phone where you are (out of US) so you can use it on whatever provider you want here (or at least "this one or that one" - not just a single player game)?

  13. Re:Scroll Lock on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    How else will I get the picture of my kids to have green glowing eyes?

  14. Re:Especially if they are training developers on Managing Young Sys Admins At Oregon State Open Source Lab · · Score: 2, Informative

    A course titled "Unix Administration" is a 4000 level course offered as part of the CSE program at UF. What it covers I don't know (and won't for a few years) but there is at least *one* admin course taught at *one* university for comp sci/engineering folks...

    Looking forward to taking it too, since I teach a Linux Admin course here at the community college I work at...

  15. Re:Curse You Purchased Politicians on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Thru the magic of inter-library loan, it very well could be. Certainly not a one of a kind print or something truly rare, but if you live in a small town with a 5k book library, then yeah, they can get you LOTS of things from much larger libraries. May take a few weeks though...

  16. Re:Bring back copyright renewal on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    So how are you going to upload that 25 foot by 8 foot mural? Or make a copy of it to submit, to prevent someone else from taking hi res photos and creating posters, etc?

  17. Re:Immoral is what it is on What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    You should probably not be voting for any incumbents anyway, so this is good..

  18. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or have a snow-sensor and kick on a small heating device...

    Sure, you are using more N-R-G by creating the heat to do it with so the technology is less green, but even this southern non-snow savvy guy realizes that using *some* N-R-G during a few months of the year to de-ice/melt/whatever is better than creating waste heat with inefficient lighting 24/7/365

    Besides, what is the "green" cost of a car accident where oil, gas, battery acid, etc. may be spilled, as well as emergency vehicles cranking up and running to the scene, etc?

  19. Re:How do you think it works in the EU ? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    On top of this, I have a mailing/physical address that is associated with a city and zip code. But I live in an un-incorporated area - not in the city limits. So if I were to buy something from Amazon et. al., would I have to pay the city sales tax, or just the state and county?

  20. Re:Pretty simple, really on Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist? · · Score: 2

    Oh, a variation on blinkenlights?

            ACHTUNG!
            ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
            DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
            IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
            ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

    Some more stuff to not trip the lameness filter, I hope...

  21. Re:It's the anti-apple on CherryPal's $99 "Odd Lots" Netbook · · Score: 1

    Actually, apt-get on one box.

    Then do

    dpkg --get-selections > my-packages

    Copy the my-packages file to the new machine. Then do

    dpkg --set-selections my-packages

    Then run dselect and choose the option that installs selected packages.

    *if* you happen to be on the same architecture, you can copy the deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives to the target machine too, or make it available via a network share, and save on re-downloading them.

  22. Re:I'm Confused on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    Also groups like this have an overall budget, but it is split into portions- purchase of physical goods, purchases of services, and payroll money. Which is why a local university is fighting with the budget guys to stop paying $300k a year for licenensing their learning management system/course delivery system, adopt a F/OSS solution, and spend an extra $200k per year on a couple of developers to make customizations, etc. Sure it looks like an overall savings of $100k per year, but the $200k people money comes from a different pool than the $300k license money...

  23. perhaps... on Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps Linux users would feel better if Microsoft was actually hosting the downloads, etc? Maybe pay for a token part time developer?

  24. Re:Nice big on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    You just made several of my coworker's day with that tidbit... we suffer from instructors using sharpies on our classroom whiteboards "on accident". Hopefully this will be a fix that works.

    Got any cures for the idiots who don't think about there being a whiteboard and draw in dry erase on plain white walls?

  25. Nice big on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nice big whiteboard w/ several color markers. Grid it out into colums/rows if needed using blue painters masking tape.