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  1. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, no. Those references refer to limits on people's activity, not God's. The God of the Bible is always portrayed as being unlimited in power. The episodes in book of Judges do show that God limits his intervention in human affairs, but iron chariots do not pose a problem (Judges 4:13-15).

  2. Re:Exactly. on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...the amount of materials used for a new PC and 17" CRT are comparable to a week's worth of personal hygiene.

    I know there's a joke about geeks and hygine there just waiting to be said, but I can't quite find it.

  3. Re:Enough already ... Obscurity has its place on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 1
    So ... do you use a password on your accounts? After all, that's security through obscurity, right?

    Absolutley not! A password is merely a secret value that's a part of a known security process, there's nothing obsecure about it at all.

    When talking about security, obsecurity means you don't let others know how your security process works, otherwise they'd be able to figure out how to easily crack it. Good security means your process can't be easily cracked even if the process is known.

  4. Re:I posted this over on Groklaw... on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you still have payments on your loan and your loan is with GMAC, then yes, GM can sue you.

    What? I don't think so. If you trade in a vehicle financed under GMAC, the dealer is going to happily roll those last payments into your new loan. Everybody gets their money, and GMAC will care less if you still have a GM-made car.

  5. Re:Huh??? on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that this is usually an argument used to support GNU/Linux. Since the
    functionality is not available right out of the box (giving points for being painfully obvious) then it is not relevant to the discussion because Joe User is not guarenteed of being skilled enough to find/install it on the system. In this case XP is still playing catch-up to X Windows.

  6. Top software picks for MS Windows on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1
    In no particular order, this is what I use the most:
    • Eudora
    • Opera
    • OpenOffice.org
    • Grisoft's AVG
    The only thing I want to know is when is GnuCash going to be ported to windows (or is that tantamount to blasphemy)? :-/
  7. Re:I've only been with KDE on A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop · · Score: 1

    KDE was more "windows-esque" to me, and while I know that's a bad thing for a bunch of people, for me, it helps with the learning curve being greatly reduced for my everyday tasks.

    I've never quite understood this viewpoint. There's not much difference between GNOME and KDE -- other than cosmetic (ex: KDE has bigger icons).

    I currently use (and prefer) GNOME, but then my path was Win NT -> Solaris CDE -> GNOME, so that might color my perception differently.