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  1. Re:Hardly covert on A.I. Helicopter? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the shakiness be solved by better balancing? I don't know what lengths model copter builders go to make their blades exactly the same weight on both sides. I also don't know how difficult or expensive it would be to get the blades balanced enough to eliminate enough vibration. Can you enlighten me?

  2. Re:Obligatory on Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Also something that I discovered: anal sex cures hiccups!

  3. Re:Wrong move. on 25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another wrong move: Marines hate it when their ship gets slashdotted.

  4. possible motivation on City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's a good reason why Austin might be doing this.

    Austin had a good scare a while back, with rumors of a Microsoft/BSA audit of the city's computers. The BSA is based in Austin, BTW. Anyway, I'm willing to bet that Austin didn't take too kindly to the hassles that Microsoft put them through, and are now happily giving them the boot up their ass.

    Good for them.

  5. Re:Here's a link to a whole steg. file system: on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    You put a journal entry up, but you didn't enable posting in it. How am I to deliver the Ann Coulter (if she were a liberal) impressions that you have signed up for? Perhaps you are just fond of hearing yourself talk?

  6. Re:In Finland... on Doomsday PC-Cooling With Dual-Cascade Coolers · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. I know about Finland too, just a little bit, because I've visited Helsinki. I thought that it was a very beautiful city. We planned a week in the city, and wished that we had planned two weeks.

  7. Re:Here's a link to a whole steg. file system: on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It figures that a conservative would want to hide things. Obviously you have a hard drive full of incriminating files, and since you conservatives put John Ashcroft into office, you have a reason to use steganography. After all, with the conservative police state seizing hard drives left and right, you've got to protect yourself. Disgusting.

  8. Re:In Finland... on Doomsday PC-Cooling With Dual-Cascade Coolers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sort of like In Soviet Finland, refridgerators heat your house? Very amusing.

  9. Re:640K--not true on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when are conservatives interested in what is true or not? Conservatives are liars, cheaters, womanizers, and TRAITORS. Yes, that means you.

  10. Re:I tried Xarandos once. on Xandros version 2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not mainly a Windows user, but I can offer this: When I'm working and clicking furiously, I really hate it when a window pops up to the top. Let's say that I'm writing something confidential, and AOL messenger pops up. I don't see it pop up, and I'm typing my confidential message into AOL's window for random joe to see. Not good.

    Also, when that window pops up, it breaks my train of thought. Also not good.

    Under Linux, the contents of windows may change, but they don't pop up, and the focus doesn't move from where I'm working until I say it moves.

  11. Re:I tried Xarandos once. on Xandros version 2 · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. If you're going to go through the trouble of making Linux look just like Windows, why not just use Windows?

    We should not repeat the mistakes that others have made. If we follow that rule, it is logical to think that Linux should have window managers and desktops the do NOT look exactly like Windows, right down to the parts of the interface that should be discarded.

  12. FPS on SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The genre of first person shooters has been so wildly popular that it's pretty much dominated most of the game development that happens. It's had a stifling effect on other types of games.

    There's just not enough money in the cerebrial games .

  13. More interesting on Company Claims Patent on CD Writing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Roxio's Easy CD Creator software has been one of the most widely used applications for burning music and data to recordable discs, although the popularity of the software has waned since such functions were incorporated in the latest versions of the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.


    I think this is more interesting. Is Roxio going to get StaXored?
  14. Re:That's too bad on Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep. However, his ego is still very much alive. We can all look forward to his next book entitled "The bizarre Cathedral: How a dot-com millionaire built a large church to house his gun collection." The book after that will be "Eric vs. Darl: The Last SCOFighter." Truly an open-source icon.

  15. Whoa on EMC To Acquire VMware · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they don't raise VMWare to EMC prices!

  16. Wires on Getting Power to a Rack Enclosure? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd suggest using copper wires to get the power to the rack. I was in Home Depot yesterday, and it seemed that they had some very reasonable prices for short lengths of wires. It shouldn't be too much trouble to get approval for the purchase. Glad to help.

  17. Re:Unintended Consequences on Ultima Online Patch Introduces Economy-Wrecking Bug? · · Score: 1

    That's just plain ignorant. Liberalism and socialism are different things. And, it appears that you're confusing capitalism for a political system. Misguided people might want to make a USA Inc. but last time I checked, capitalism was an economic system, not a political one.

    If you disagree with me, then let's argue over whether a company would work better with a bicameral or unicameral legislature rather than a CEO.

  18. Re:On warnings on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    That's just poor code. If you've refactored without fixing up your arguments, you've done a bad job. That's like stealing from your employer.

  19. Re:Here's a myth I see a lot on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    Can't get gnucash working? Unbelievable.

  20. Re:I already figured it out!! on Chimpanzee Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean that Darl McBride must be a LIBERAL?

  21. Re:Sic Semper Spammeris on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming · · Score: 1

    Thanks. That means that the ACLU was right to sue on behalf of the child molestors. No matter how despicable the speech is to some or most of us, it was still protected. There is no exception for even the most vile kind of talk, as long as it fits the rules set down by the ammendment and the court precedent.

    Also, I'm curious about why the original complaint was about the ACLU. They merely brought the lawsuit. The judges were the ones that AGREED with the lawsuit. Why isn't the anger directed towards the judges in this case?

  22. Re:Sic Semper Spammeris on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming · · Score: 1

    What is "actively promote"? Rather, what is "ACTIVELY promote", as you capitalize it?

    Suppose I make a website saying how much fun it is to burn down buildings, list all the ways that you can burn down a building, etc. It's all about arson, which is illegal. I'm actively promoting arson, but I haven't burned down any buildings.

    I just don't understand where the line is drawn between one kind of speech and another. I do understand drawing a line between speech and action though.

  23. Re:Sic Semper Spammeris on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming · · Score: 1, Troll

    Your speech should be censored too, by your rules. I'm offended by it, so it should be shut down.Either you have free speech, or you don't. If we were to listen to you, all "politically incorrect" thought would be illegal.

    So, shut your face, you big disgrace.

  24. Re:What tha ... ? on PHLAK 0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    But do y'all make stuff with them new-fangled 'puters? I'd say they done Texas right proud!

  25. Re:And that's why Linus Leads on Linus Corrects Darl on Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    I bet he could see his house from there.