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  1. Re:But on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 2, Funny
    -> 42

    wow...a negative is greater than 42? Its more complex than I thought!

  2. Re:Hope FC3 restores some faith... on Fedora Core 3 Test 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I have dual boot 2K Pro and FC2 on both my laptop and desktop. I never had to do anything weird like this. I'm STILL trying to get my wireless NIC to work in FC2 though....grrr.

  3. Re:Anybody else have problems? on Fedora Core 3 Test 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I wish they had just kept Redhat going as well. I had no problems at all with Redhat 9 (aside from up2date wanting a new signature). Fedora doesn't even support my wireless usb card that worked perfectly in redhat 9.

  4. Re:Spyware on Is Dell Just Testing the Market? · · Score: 1
    nooooooooo.....

    look here

    Or just go to www.dell.com and look towards the bottom right.

  5. Re:Boobs bad, violence is good on PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship · · Score: 1

    I saw Three Kings on tv the other night and they had digitally removed all of the blood in the shootout scenes. It was quite strange....like...reminescent of A-Team.

  6. Re:Who else? on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I usually use support@microsoft.com

    That is so uncool. I used to work for an ISP and people like you slowed response time for real issues tremendously when we had to dig through tons of crap to find the real issues.

  7. its getting worse? on Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I had this problem for about 2-3 years. I finally got them to turn the stupid message thing off on my phone after arguing over the bill every month. Is it getting worse or did someone just now notice? Wondering why this is news.

  8. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    copy con hello.bat @echo off echo "Hello world" ^Z Easier ;)

  9. Re:If they had a wisk broom... on Mars Rovers Alive Until 2005? · · Score: 1

    I used to race dirt bikes & we used tear-offs on the goggles. If you got mud on you pulled a tab and took one layer off for a clean view. The next tab popped up like a box of tissue. That idea would probably work well in this situation. Just have it release one layer of clear material to blow off and you have just cleared a layer of dust.

  10. Re:Damn, I wanted a bout... on Mars Rovers Alive Until 2005? · · Score: 1

    Considering they have travelled .6 miles each...yeah. I read about this story days ago on jpl.nasa.gov. They are looking for good places to park & hibernate but continuing exploration for now. One of the rovers has a wobbling wheel but is still operational. When hibernation ends it will likely be a short ride since it will have so much dust on the solar panels by then.

  11. Re:Security through Stupidity on Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS Attacks · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hey I'm in!"
    ver^M
    MS DOS 6.22
    "wtf?"

  12. Re:security by obscurity.. on Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS Attacks · · Score: 0
    But servers B, C, D, E, F, G, etc are immune to your attacks on server A.

    Careful with that mindset. Many *nix zealots think this way & don't even think of things like being a haven for viruses to spread through the network. Get on server A, copy a few viruses, then wait for users on B-G to open one of them via NFS, Samba, ftp, etc.

  13. Re:Six month death spiral on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 1

    Uh I am the parent poster...grin. Maybe I could have worded it better but the point was it didn't need a fan. However, they do circulate air in satellites that face one direction too long. One side is freezing and the other is facing direct radiation/heat.

  14. Re:I remain: Unafraid, Undeterred. on Sneak Preview Of Vernor Vinge's Next Book · · Score: 2, Funny
    There are cameras covering every inch of the city I walk in.


    They saw that? *covers privates*

  15. Re:CPU on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 1

    The Pentium bug happened in my 3rd or 4th year of college so it was around 93-94 (just before Win95 was released). We were still installing WFW, Novell 3.x, Solaris (with COLOR! Woohoo!), etc when all that happened.

  16. Re:Myself, I like... on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 1

    Nah you just draw a line over the repeating 9's. You only round in partial cents and electronic calculations. Most other things require more precision.

  17. Re:Six month death spiral on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 1

    The point is that it doesn't need one. I ran my 486 66 for years without a fan. Newer ones won't last long at all without a fan & heat sink.

  18. Re:flash MP3 players? on New Generation of MP3 Players, New Features · · Score: 1

    "Was your HEAD with you all DAY???"
    "I dunnooooo!"

    I love that stand-up ;)

  19. Re:Microsoft et al. on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 1

    Remember Iomega Zip drives when win95 came out? They tried to sell the win95 drivers for $40 if you bought one before 95 came out. That was the last time I ever bought anything from them. I finally found the drivers and it started that click of death crap.

  20. Re:I don't recall ever having yearly product cycle on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 1

    I raced dirt bikes in the 80s and there were some extremely different styles that came out. Many times it was such a drastic improvement that it left the others in the dust. Disk brakes, upside down forks, swingarm suspension, etc.

  21. Re:Six month death spiral on Is The 6-Month Product Cycle Upon Us? · · Score: 2, Informative
    name me one processor available five years ago that you would take over one produced today

    Well if I were designing a satellite or space probe I would use a good ol Intel 486 processor. Low heat, low voltage, very reliable, and if the fan goes out...who cares? It is also more than adequate on speed since it takes much longer to actually do the mechanical moves than to calculate them. Same goes for calculators. Any old 80186 will work to crunch simple equations and maximize battery life.

  22. Re:Partitioning on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 1

    Well if you have blank space to install on it'll automatically make a boot manager to choose the OS on bootup (set default during install process or afterwards). You can also just mount the Windows partition in linux and put it in /etc/fstab to automount each time you boot. Then you have some shared space like that.

  23. Re:Is it wireless? on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 1
    Do you know how long it takes to break encryption (even just 64-bit)?

    Well from my original post, about as long as it takes to get your hands on one of these devices and look at the encryption code on it. I'm not sure how the # is stored on a blackberry but in Windows it's in device manager, in linux it's stored in a text file, etc. If you have access to one already logged in you could potentially just look at it.

    So to answer your question...about 2 minutes in the hypothetical situation in the parent post.

  24. Re:Not sure anyone thought of this but use the ice on Design Wanted For Antarctic Base · · Score: 1
    Oh wait I found it. 30 foot wall of ice falls on outpost

    The windswept outpost was almost completely destroyed when a 10-metre (30-foot) high ice wall reared up from the surrounding ice floe and collapsed on the base on Wednesday.

    So it wasn't the same thing but it reminded me of it.

  25. Re:Not sure anyone thought of this but use the ice on Design Wanted For Antarctic Base · · Score: 1

    I believe something like this was the source of a wall of ice falling on a Russian outpost a couple of months ago. CNN had some passing story on a rescue underway then just let it fade away like all of the other good stories lately.