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  1. It's not important on Finland Drops EUCD For Now · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's important is what happens in the USA. And I say that as a Canadian.

  2. The West has been outsourcing for years on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1

    And the USA has never been stronger.

    That's because we in the West recognize economic truths and acknowledge them, biting the bullet unlike, say, Japan, who pretend nothing is wrong until the whole house of cards collapses for, what 15 years now? and Russia who - well, never mind Russia.

  3. What we NEED is on Distributed Internet Backup System · · Score: 1

    affordable jukeboxes.

    People should be able to burn DVDs and have a keg-refrigerator sized juke box with a few hundred of these in it hooked up as a near-line SCSI device.

    You CAN get these but the cheap ones are 25 grand.

    Anyone know why they're so expensive? I'd love a non-volitile terabyte or two.

  4. Same old song and dance on Infinite Games? · · Score: 1

    People do not want to make their own stories. They want superior stories written by people who are better writers than they are.

    This won't work.

  5. What every geek getting married needs on Favor Ideas for a Geeky Wedding? · · Score: 1

    'Sorry you're losing you're virginity' cards.

  6. Never mind that on P2P Content Delivery for Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can you hide your IP?

    That's the only thing that matters!

  7. He left out a certain chapter on How to be a Programmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 'Thrown Out Like an Old Sock' chapter.

  8. Ok what they need now on Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 · · Score: 0

    Is a nice movie camera with a 20 GB HD instead of the 1.2 or whatever it was mentioned the other day.

  9. This is completely wrong on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 1

    The whole POINT of cigarettes is nicotine. It's a legal, socially acceptable way to ingest a powerful narcotic, like with Big Macs and MSG.

    What they SHOULD do is genetically engineer it for nicotine with no carcinogens.

  10. it's genetic... on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    Any bets the calibre of those PVC pipes is 88mm ?

  11. Great on War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon we'll see this message on the hacker IRC channels

    'Wh00h D00d! 1 5c0red 4 84TT7E5H19 !"

  12. Re:It's nice on Immortal Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That might be the case. I once had a BBS utility out there in the bad world but I never released the source code as it, frankly, embarrassed me.

  13. Man this was in WIRED weeks ago on Immortal Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have always gotten my story submissions rejected. I must remember to suggest ancient stuff.

  14. Re:Don't bother. on 3D Libraries for a Budding Game Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Yes Torque is the whole package. Character animation, indoor outdoor, AND a network server.

    Amazing value for a $100 USD.

  15. Uh no... on SBC Patents Links, Dynamic Pages · · Score: 1, Insightful

    SBC *is* a villain for doing this, a big fat hairy villain.

    Patenting the fundamentals of the net is like patenting the alphabet then charging every writer in the world to use it.

    It's a scam and it may take awhile, but SBC is going to go down.

  16. Well the reason on Ain't It Cool Announces Game Site · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That AIC forum blows is that they haven't implemented a /. like moderation system.

    All the First Post L337 d00dz messages don't sink like a stone like they do here.

  17. Two things on Superbowl XXXVII · · Score: 1

    1 - They say great D's win big games and it looks like they were right.

    2 - We should have a good Grey Cup this year. invite my American friends to watch the 3-down football championship this year. Since they alternate good/bad games with the Super Bowl, it should be a great game this year.

  18. Re:Moller...bwahahahahaha on Buy a Moller SkyCar Prototype on eBay · · Score: 1

    This ok?

  19. Re:Moller...bwahahahahaha on Buy a Moller SkyCar Prototype on eBay · · Score: 1

    BSFC definition at

    http://www.westechperformance.com/pages/Tech_Lib ra ry/Understanding/bsfc.html

  20. Another neat trick on Mission: Infiltrate the P2P Network · · Score: 1

    is to post movies that are over 702 MB long, thus making them impossible to save to a cdr.

  21. Re:The best? on The Long-Awaited MOO! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow - a first post that isn't completely moronic!

    You're right about TW by the way - and L.O.R.D. - THAT was a BBS door!

  22. Re:RADAR: an interesting fact on Tuxedo Park · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was taught in the militia in Canada that the carrots thing for night vision was taught to the public and British Airmen knowing full well some would be captured and tell the Germans.

    The TRUTH was they used red lights in the cockpit. They do not ruin night vision and the powers that be did not need the Germans adapting it.

    I remember my mom feeding me carrots as a kid, telling me it would improve my night vision.

    After we were taught this in the Canadian militia, we all got to strip and assemble the regiment's rifle.

  23. Re:This is a great performance test on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 0

    Thanks man. I'm printing the RFC out now. I get a lot of messages that don't teach me anything.

  24. This is a great performance test on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we get to see how PostgreSQL handles those 98 % of wasted inquiries from DNS servers that don't know .elvis is not a TLD.

  25. This is pathetic and typical of the UNIX community on 98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary · · Score: 0, Troll

    who are not half as smart as they like to think they are.

    SURELY in any application that deals with a ton of data, a maelstrom with which they can hardly keep up, the *first thing you do* is filter out every single possible malformed and nonsensical processing item so you don't have to process it.

    And what you DON'T do is kick anything that doesn't make sense upstairs. What were they thinking?

    And THIS - the fact that a DNS server - A DNS SERVER! - doesn't know that .elvis does not exist is CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT. How hard is it to put the little text list file in every DNS server?

    WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING????

    Mod me down, take your best shot. JEEZ those Unix snots burn me up.