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  1. Re:Silly Norweigans! Bender's not a PC! on The Bender PC Case · · Score: 1

    Then there's the readme file for Werecar for Windows 98, which also raises many interesting and confusing issues.

  2. Re:Undefined abbreviation on CDDL Project Leader on the CDDL · · Score: 1

    that's good, they can define the term in the dupe story (elimination of dupes would be too much like actually functioning as an editor)

  3. Re:How does it handle in 60 MPH winds? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    how does a personal boat handle in 60MPH winds? how about a car on ice?

  4. Re:SAMs? on U.S. Military's Hackers · · Score: 1

    er, if you have specialist on site at an enemy SAM launch facility wouldn't it be somewhat more sensible easier to say, maybe, destroy the missiles or launch control or tracking system?

  5. Re:A 486 is "very old?" on Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers · · Score: 1

    I've found the BSD run much better (as in faster for running services) on microvax and HP Apollo, and even 386sx than Linux.

  6. Re:OT Flashback... on Dell Still Intel Only · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the funnier headline at the time was "Dude, you're getting a cell!

  7. Re:It would not be good for Dell's bottom line on Dell Still Intel Only · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this is the way very conservative business people talk as they set themselves up to lose to their competitors.

  8. Re:The fourth package's removal reason? on New Releases for Debian and SUSE · · Score: 1

    Debian polished? heck, it's petrified

  9. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 1

    the two biggest asian countries are building markets with each other and in autralia/new zealand, eastern europe, south america...maybe soon they won't care if the U.S. flops or not

  10. Re:General Relativity Called... on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: 1

    nah, that's just the speed of light in a vacuum you're thinking about. Light travels through anything else more slowly anyways, for example through glass it's about 66% of vacuum speed, or through germanium 25%.

  11. the very best part on New Mac System Specs · · Score: 1

    about this is that all the "mac lifestyle" folks will dump their obsolete gear to us eBay used-system bottomfeeders, as they find their l337 systems are no longer the coolest.

  12. Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1

    you assume the U.S of A is the only one that can or will build a moon base? Or even that being in debt to any degree will stop the U.S.A. from doing so if other countries are doing it?

  13. Re:Wrong wrong wrong on Linux Can't Kill Windows · · Score: 1

    heh, those "new api's" mean something written for XP or Longhorn won't run on Windows 2000 or NT 4 , and I can tell you as someone who works in the datacenters of BIG municipal and county governments that there's plenty of those older windows server boxes that won't be upgraded in the next 3 years. Meanwhile, in the corporate world, I work with mostly RedHat and some SuSE....mainstream enterprise software IS written that will run, is certified to run, on both of those, and for version RH 2.1 through 4, SuSE 8 to 9.x.

  14. Re:Outsourcing bites back on Offshored Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    you're assuming the country has an infrastructure for actually tracing/tracking someone

  15. Re:Own *REAL* Stuff on Offshored Identity Theft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hahah, good luck getting a even a mediocre job without showing some ID, and probably being subject to a credit check. So I'd agree with you that it would be great to live that way, except we don't have a free society in which to do it.

  16. Re:Chinese Hardware & Indian Software on China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India · · Score: 2, Funny

    incomprehensible manuals backed by unintelligable help desk support.

  17. Re:All it would take is just one Linux Virus / Tro on Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We already have military equipment running Windows. And this article isn't even about using the Linux kernel or a Linux distro, just an API on top of LynxOS. So what you said could be said about the military's use of any operating system x, what if someone develops a virus/trojan/exploit on x?

  18. Re:is linux guilty of murder now? on Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program · · Score: 2, Informative

    murder is just a legal term for killing not sanctioned by the government, so no murders will be done. Maybe some genocide and assassinations and such, but no murder.

    The Tuxinator; he'll never stop EVER, until you are dead!

  19. still annoying on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 2, Funny

    then we'd have to look at idiots moving their mouth in exaggerated motions....

  20. Re:the free pass (off-topic) on The State of Laptop Linux In 2005 · · Score: 0

    yes, we have insightful first posts that are on topic and well thought out and contribute to a higher quality of slashdot, rather than "first post beeee-yatch!" type of garbage. How Horrible!

  21. Re:Another model: only non-commercial use free on Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL · · Score: 1

    but most businesses don't really care about the source code one way or the other, what they want is support/updates and the security the company will be there tomorrow. Microsoft could open source the entire office suite tomorrow, and still they'd get their revenue stream for support/update from the corporate world.

  22. Re:Wonderful on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 1

    what about lasik surgery & corneal implants?

  23. Re:Do you have a source for the 120M transistors ? on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    yup, it's 120M, I counted the 360,230,120 sources, drains and gate connections in the photo and divided by 3

  24. Re:Privacy on U.S. Government Wants Detailed College Data · · Score: 1

    don't worry, you'd only get on that list if you studied something only perverts or commies or terrorists or godless traitors would find interesting. I trust you feel better now.

  25. Re:The news in 2034 on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 · · Score: 1

    another was heard to mutter, "we shouldn't have launched last year with Woody on them, what with the the new Debian releasing real soon now"