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  1. Re:Hello, Friends on MPAA Targets TV Download Sites · · Score: 1

    Actually, unless you are a Nielsen family. You aren't watching it anyway.

  2. Re:Being right doesn't stop you being a pedant (^_ on Your Hard Drive Lies to You · · Score: 1

    Your hard drive uses something other than binary to address the data stored on it?

  3. Re:Perhaps a strange suggestion, but... on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    You are of course mistaken. NT4 would support up to 64GB of Ram but the installation kernal version of NTFS could only create a 3.89 Gb primary partition.

  4. Re:Slashdot readers ask... on New Edition of the Daedalus Project · · Score: 1

    I was thinking can we get a DUHUH! More men than women play this sort of game and statistically most people are Heterosexual so a man playing this game who wants to keep his wife happy will try to get her to play.. women tend not to play so there goes that statistic.

  5. Re:From someone in the ground in Iraq on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    And when the answer is "I worked with computers" or "I worked in Communications" ... The next response will be "Goodbye" OR "STFU" or "MYOB" , etc

    And to add, most who have spent time deployed, I have not, but I know many who have, Really would prefer not to discusss specifics, regardless of which part of the pointy end they worked.

  6. Re:yea... Im calling BULL on this.... on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    And in the various * Times Most people outside(to include many Civilian/contractor types) the armed forces Don't really understand how the restrictions on Military members work... Of course many military members don't quite know either.

    *Army, Air Force,Navy, Etc

  7. Re:yea... Im calling BULL on this.... on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    BECAUSE IT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS. Duh... Members of the Armed forces take the privacy of the polling station very seriously.

  8. Re:Fine... on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    not the GP, but in todays world it really is smarter and safer, and there are other good reasons too.

    If you learn together and learn each other, it inevitably gets better. And yes, I've heard that variety is awesome, But Bill Engvall has a bit where he points out all the advantages of consistency in a relationship.

  9. Re:Fine... on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    Well if you did it in the lobby, you would likely be fired or arrested for indecency.

  10. Re:It IS a commodity on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 1

    Actually by sharing knowledge, you do LOOSE it

    But you of course meant lose.

    I believe that knowledge should be loosed in exchange for other knowledge.

    ANd yes you can stockpile knowledge... look at Davinci's journals That man had a stockpile of knowledge... that because metalurgy and power technology was not available was useless.

  11. Re:Shows what I know... on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. -Winston Churchill

  12. Re:A typical pompous "armchair quarterback" respon on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    You know that building houses pays better than programming in most places... RIGHT? You also know that working at McD's/etc. allows you a flexible schedule such that you can improve your skills and "network" during the day.

  13. Re:While it was rushed... on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Freedom is the lamb living in a Shall issue Must carry state.

  14. Re: A lack of work makes it harder to save much. : on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    You CHOSE not to work for 3 years... No wonder the US isn't number 1. No work ethic. I open any local paper and find the Help wanted section overflowing... Perhaps you couldn't get the job you wanted, but There are/were jobs available... you chose not to take them and that choice put you in debt.... Granted taking a lower paying job would not necessarily have been ideal, but you wouldn't be as badly in debt.

  15. Re:The whole story. on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    Ok.. Just because the Council misunderstood the prophecy and failed to realize that they were unbalancing the force. and that the dark forces/sith lords must ascend before the balance can be restored.. doesn't make Vader a completely bad guy.

  16. Re:Tell you what I'm doing -- Netflix on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    The rescue mission was a diversion to give yoda time to assemble the army... Of course let's not go into the whole 15 minute diversion thing.. and suspension of disbelief.. etc.

  17. Re:What's the competing product on Finding Sponsors for an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Ok so you got killed in M2 because you didn't read the moderation guidelines. Plagiarism !=troll.

  18. Re:Wait... Logic Check... on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    The reasoning with muzzle-loaders and Crossbows ultimately is rate of fire. Compound bow over a 1 hour period may actually be a slightly higher sustainable rate of fire than a muzzle loader/crossbow.

  19. Re:Hunting on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    Due to mad cow disease most cows are vegetarian. Also the chicken I eat are also vegetarian. I agree that eating a egetarian is a good thing.. I try to do that frequently.

  20. Re:Dumbest. Story. Ever. on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's just assume that they mean the real models used in the movies and Not an actual functioning lightsaber... Shall we..

  21. Re:Force power on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 1

    If you recall he seemed surprised when it lit up... almost as if WTF did I just do..

  22. Re:Cut, not Slash/Slice on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 1

    Except that due to the high energy level it is ALL edge and no flat.

  23. Re:What about Han you insensitive clod? on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 1

    Not being a Jedi and not being force capable are IMO two different things, but thank you.. I had forgotten that scene. It does seem a good counter example

    I'm just trying to figure out how the Lightsaber always automagically shuts off when let go of. See Episode 1 fight between qui-gon and Maul..

  24. Re:An appropriate award on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 1
    Yes... He had a vision of a functional academic and military communication tool being perverted into an advertising wasteland. Someone posted a link to something he sponsored in 1991. I was on the internet in 1991 and information was quickly accessible and reasonably accurate. If his legislation is responsible for the advertising infected and spam infestated internet we have today .. can I have the un-gored internet please.

    During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
    Further if he's responsible for the DOT boom, then likely he's responsible for the DOT bust too. SO he can have the credit IMO.
  25. Re:Qui Bono? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 1

    YEs... because you won't get hurt falling off a CPU.