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  1. Re:Beggers can't be choosers. on Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System · · Score: 1
    VAX cluster?
    No, no. We only run that in the winter for supplemental heating.
  2. Re:Beggers can't be choosers. on Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System · · Score: 1

    Obviously, you can simply drink water out of tap. If you are afraid of bacteria or contaminants, you can invest in a tap filter or pitcher for pennies a day. Or drink juice or milk. But running your car on O.J. doesn't work too well. The best you can do is run an ethanol blend, but it seems that ethanol costs slighly more at present anyway.

  3. Re:Yeah sure... on End of Win 98 Support May Boost Desktop Linux · · Score: 1
    My dad's GF's daughter mentioned to me in passing the other day that she turns her cable modem off when she goes out because her windows 98 system has 128 viruses on it or some number like that.
    I'm pretty sure the viruses are getting on there while she's using the machine, not when she's away from it. Unless t3h h4x0r5 have put a hidden camera in her room so they can play with her PC while she's out. Just a hunch.
  4. Re:Could work, but for how long? on MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper · · Score: 1

    The fan I could see as a problem (if there is a crevice big enough to allow the paper inside the chassis), but the ignition temperature of paper is 450 degrees C. If your battery gets that hot, you already have a big problem.

  5. Re:Maybe it's time for some new paradigm on Undetectable Rootkits Through Virtualization? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like VMS.

  6. Re:Microsoft's MBU: The Mac's Fifth Column on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 1
    Vee are zee mastah rrrace! Sieg heil!

    Thanks for the laugh.

  7. Re:Ozzie the wizard on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 1
    His single biggest breakthrough came in the 1980s, when Mr Ozzie personally wrote a million of the first 3.5m lines of code for the first successful collaboration software, Lotus Notes.
    And for that, I have vowed revenge.
  8. Re:Child of my Child? on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 1

    You think IE4 was a bigger advancement than Active Directory, Kerberos, NTFS 5, ACPI, and storage quotas?

  9. Re:What they need is a new File System. on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 1

    Who said you would have to learn SQL to use an RDB? There's this neat thing called a "front end."

  10. Re:Canada has really young scientists on Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth · · Score: 1

    They've also mysteriously come into a lot of money, most of it in quarters and dimes.

  11. Re:Infuriated on Kent State's Facebook Ban for Athletes · · Score: 1

    Seems like these students should have another look at their scholarship paperwork and see if it mentions anything about being void in the event they participate in any "unacceptable behavior, including but not limited to ...". That would be the only instance in which they could legally institute an ex post facto addendum.

  12. Re:FFVII was *NOT* "revolutionary" on The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming · · Score: 1

    If your post doesn't make it onto SeenOnSlash.com, I will be highly disappointed.

  13. Re:Kinda defeats a parking meter feature on Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call · · Score: 1

    I both live AND work outside of that bastion of corruption! MUHAHAHAHAHAA!

  14. Re:Guns. on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1
    The best way to prevent accidental firing of a gun is to outlaw them completely, like here in the UK.
    The UK is not the USA and does not have the same political or cultural history. This is relevant.
    Many Americans cite the first ammendment and their right to defend themselves, and sure people should have a right to defend themselves.
    You're probably thinking of the second amendment.
    If it's hard for just anyone to get a gun though, then you're less likely to be defending yourself against a gun.
    Nearly all crimes committed with a gun in the cities (where firearms are most tightly regulated) are done so with illegal handguns. The laws are not being adequately enforced, so adding more won't help anyone except criminals who won't even have to worry about running into the random Bernard Goetz anymore.
    Whatever happened to "putting up your dukes".
    I'll be sure to tell recommend that to 75-year-old grandmas who are being threatened by a rapist. "Don't be a wuss! Put up your dukes, granny!"

    Firearms and less-than-lethal weapons like pepper spray (also outlawed or heavily regulated in gestapo rape-encouraging states like NY and NJ) are the only equalizer for the weak or elderly.

  15. Re:Can you say "war dialing"? on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1
    I hope this thing won't be FCC Class B. "This device must accept unwanted interference, which may cause undesired operation."

    Press the "talk" button on your Nextel, and BANG!

  16. Re: Bullet encryption on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1

    Don't you pretty much have to know someone in order to buy a handgun in New Jersey now? Forget about ever being allowed to carry one-- smart gun or not.

  17. Re:So this is like... on ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn · · Score: 1

    I think most reasonable adults would conclude that the state of anarchy (that is, the system of government) is the real problem, not the capitalism (that is, the economic system). Blaming Somalia's situation on capitalism is like blaming it on dark skin or guns.

  18. Re:That sums up all religions on ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Come now and let us reason together.
    - Isaiah 1:18

  19. Re:Advertising opportunities on Internet Giving Homeless a Home · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Well, we gotta cut the "death tax". Onward and upward.
    I'm glad you popped in this red herring to prove that you don't really care about the elderly-- you just have an agenda.
  20. Re:Before anyone asks... on Billions Donated to Charity · · Score: 1
    One argument in favor of the death tax is that it promotes charity by the elderly in order to avoid the tax.
    I don't see how. By giving more to charity, they're just deciding to give their money away before the government takes it. Seems to me that the greedy sort would rather just hang onto it as long as possible, and the generous sort would give away large sums throughout his lifetime without regard for this tax.
  21. Re:I can still remember Quake 1 being released on Quake is 10 · · Score: 1

    Ludicrous Gibs!

  22. Re:Anyone else feel threatened? on Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine, as long as they don't crap on the carpet.

  23. Re:Hmm... on Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strangely enough, when the Aibo language was deciphered it was found to greatly resemble Perl.

  24. Re:Offtopic, about immigration on Novell CEO Shakeup Puts Ron Hovsepian in Charge · · Score: 1
    Seems like if our government enforced all the laws, we wouldn't have a problem.

    Enforce the minimum-wage law, and citizens will be willing to work the farm jobs. Of course, then even more Mexicans will come looking for highly-paid work, so ...

    Enforce the immigration laws, and anyone who sneaks across will be deported and their employer fined.

  25. Re:Protecting privacy on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 1
    "Most people agree freedom of speech is great-- unless someone they disagree with is doing the talking."

    - me