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  1. Expensive on Carnegie Mellon Resists FBI Tapping Requirement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, for $450 a students you could buy each student a computer for that.

  2. Re: Design of the human eye on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    Ah, the beauty of original sin. What did the poor dog do not to be able to see in color? Which translation of the bible are you using? The King James version, which seems to be the most popular among creationists, some would say was to attempt to gain forgiveness for his taste in young boys. Evolution is the acknowledgement that the world changes. And in doing effects every living thing, they must adapt or die. Darwin was a well known and respected Christian and that is why he is buried in some of the most sacred ground in England. So it ironic how you think to believe in evolution is to ignore a god. He proposed the idea of Natural Selection not evolution. Everyone before him could see that animals evolved just they were looking for the mechanism. To believe in Intelligent Design to believe in an angry god. One who doesn't care about individuals as it slowly destroys life everywhere.

  3. Yeah Republicans on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Fiscal responsibility, states rights, smaller government... Wait I am confused...

  4. Windows install in 2hrs on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 1

    I find this a little hard to believe. I implemented the unattended package from sourceforge and the fastest I could get windows to install was something like 30 to 45 minutes. This is not including software and patches. It also took me a week to setup all the bootable media, software repositories, and my learning curve. A custom system would take longer if it was done right. You have to defrag the thing twice after the install, thats another good half hour. I have been running linux on my desktop at home for three years and not reinstalled the OS since the first install. I even screwed up the file system and recovered it. This install is so messed up but it keeps going even through my learning and breaking new things. I would run windows about six months this way and have to reinstall it because it would slow down so much. I run debian unstable and have learned a lot about linux by trial and error and a lot of the mistakes are still evident but the system runs none the less. The only time I ever had linux reboot or hard freeze was because of a faulty network card. Currently the onboard IDE controller is going out linux complains a lot but surprisingly still runs. The only complains I have are it is very picky about burned DVDs and the video may freeze while it tries to read the disk. Eventually it comes back but I can just hop to a terminal and that system still runs. I have also never used a OS that could run even with the system drive completely full. And don't even get me started on the windows swap file.

  5. Re:Saturn service on Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret · · Score: 1

    I had a Saturn with 85000 miles on it and was putting in about a quart of oil a week in the damn thing.

  6. windows what? on A Novell Linux Specialist? · · Score: 1

    Runs linux at home on all their personal computers. And allows friends and family with Windows and/or Mac to plug in and party flawlessly.

  7. Re:Felony? on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    A felony, that is like a slap on the wrist. Lets not just ruin peoples lives by sending them to jail but just end their lives all together because file swapping is obviously a crime againist humanity. If everyone shared ideas just think of the horrific things to come.

  8. The beans on Review: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets · · Score: 1

    The theaters or at least AMC are selling those every flavor jelly beans. They are horrible things and are every flavor, and taste just as they claim. Caution: the vomit with make you wanna puke.

  9. Re:Trojan Horse? on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I always thought that Windows was the largest, most expensive, and most used virus out there. It certainly has the most effect on peoples lives. It has successfull made users blind to the facts, that they should not have to be rebooting all the time. And you should not have to be clicking 'ok' to all those errors.

  10. Re:You are so right my friend on Microsoft PR Rep is the Switcher · · Score: 1

    I couldn't even get the small company I work for to switch from MS Office to OO. The cost of having to learn all the quirks of a new Office can be expensive. There is more to the cost of implementation then just software expense.

    Though I am a happy user of it.