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  1. Re:What good are all the computers in the world... on Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On Your PC · · Score: 1

    it is a wonderful means to push political agendas on the populace by deluded misfits who would otherwise have no access to mainstream society

  2. Re:unix owners = influential in software developme on SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD · · Score: 1

    haha, they didn't buy the Unix source code, they bought the right to license it to third parties & pay Novell 95% of the royalties.

  3. Re:What the fuck is FUD? on SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bugs Bunny's nemesis

  4. Re:Jane... on GGF and Grid Security · · Score: 1

    oh, you mean like the various MS worms?

  5. Re:It'd be better under 2.6 on Linux Filesystems Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    I would think most serious file servers are using 2.4.x kernels; I'm not touching 2.6 for another half a year for server use, though I'll have it on my laptop in a month

  6. Re:Enough to scare the bejeezes out of any Grizzly on Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    I've seen a truck that a grizzly have torn the doors off of like they were so much tinfoil. I really don't think they're be scared.....

  7. business reality on Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    hah! you mean eBay should be like the FAILED business models of UBid, etc. which carried the cost of storage & transactions itself? No, eBay would not survive; it is a forum for auctions, and the buyer & seller are responsible for their own ethics. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

  8. Re:The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 1

    you mean, there's no one in this world who's such a deranged whacko he would blow himself up to hurt or kill other people?

  9. Re:That's not a very efficient nuclear weapon on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 1

    efficiency of a weapon in terms of mass /energy yield? what nonsense. How about a metric of cost to obtain and deploy one versus number of people killed/maimed or value of real estate destroyed? That's the only meaningful efficiency measurement of any weapon.

  10. Re:Hey here's a semi-on-topic question on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    That's not paper, that's vellum (from animal skin). you might get a few hundred years out of the right kind of paper.

  11. Re:The CDs are not the problem on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    It endures, but no one knows how to read it. There's a moral there somewhere....

  12. Re:Cue the Futurama quotes on What Sex is Your Robot? · · Score: 1

    "I don't want anyone thinking we're robosexuals" -Bender to Fry

  13. Re:The obvious solution on Missing Matter... Still Missing · · Score: 1

    yup, the 3 tv generation have learned all of lifes problems can be solved by technology in 60 minutes less commercial interruptions & station identification.

  14. Re:Why the double standard? on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    uh, because #1 is real and #2 is wishful thinking?

  15. Re:They'll be gone when I get there on Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    oh, I'm sure it could go 50 to 100 years just like a modern crappy wood framed house.....

  16. Re:Online headstone? on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    for a short time, anyway, until your domain registration, colocation fee, hosting fee or dsl fee doesn't get paid or the disk crap out. Better to burn some cd-r or make some archival prints on occasion and pass them out to friends and relatives who like them

  17. Re:Very strange on MSNBC Looks At Patent Abusers' Victims · · Score: 4, Informative

    very strange indeed since many of us were doing electronic purchases and donations on BBS systems with our 1200 baud modems a tad bit earlier than 1993

  18. Re:DIdn't see this one yet:... on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    Soon Open Unix and Unixware will be available there!

  19. Re:Hate to be a spoilsport but... on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    my friendly neighborhood bookstore is *owned* by Amazon, you insensitive clod! (www.borders.com)

  20. Re:just a few more days till SUSE 9.1 on Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Switched from RedHat 8.0 to SuSE 9.0 for my main home server & also my laptop. Great stuff, all my devices work (DVD, burner, wireless, USB for camera & keychain disk) and it's fine for doing my Ruby, Perl & C/C++ development.

  21. Re:Atlantis? Bah! on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh great, I read that aloud & woke Him up. I sure hope He doesn't eat my hea ajs;dlkjfa;lkjfsa;ldjkfsasfkjd; 220 CONNECTION TIMED OUT

  22. Re:Is computation discrete? on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 1

    bound systems have quantitized energy levels; what if the universe is unbounded, and we avoid conjugate pairs in our choice of measurements?

  23. Re:And the advantage Linux has over BSD... on Painlessly Update FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    the problems I had was when power interrupted, 90% of the time Reiser is ok but about one time out of ten the filesystem gets hosed beyond repair. SGI's XFS filesystem is journalling but always in consistent state (great for SAN breakaway mirror too); I'll be testing that soon

  24. Re:Doctoring the Ark? on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    That's just steps 1-5. Then sell pieces of the Ark on eBay until someone notices enough gopher wood has been sold to build 10 arks (much like Roman Catholics have bought enough pieces of the cross over the last 1500 years to build a four track railroad from Chicago to New Orleans)

  25. Re:And the advantage Linux has over BSD... on Painlessly Update FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    There's more to quality than kernel performance. I've had the 2 popular Linux filesystems (reiserFS and ext3) puke on me at various times because the disk isn't always in a consistent state as it is with FFS (which also raises issues with complex SAN operations). Until Linux gets a decent mature nonproprietary filesystem my servers will run BSD.