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  1. My brother, the cop, on recommended bullets.. on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1
    When I asked him about this very subject, he said, call the manufacturer of your chosen fire arm, and ask them what ammunition they recommend for home defense. Go with what they said, and use it in court if you're ever unfortunate enough to need it.

  2. it's a long term strategy.. on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1
    "Buying A Gun Won't Deter Criminals"

    No, but shooting them dead will, PERMENANTLY!!!

  3. FYI booby trapping is illegal on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1
    FYI this is completely illegal. Booby-trapping your house will get you in all kinds of shit. While I agree with your sentiment, they're intruders and have no rights, I'll stick with legal ways of dealing with them. Although if my house ever gets broken into I will have a serious moral dilema, 12 guage or .40 cal.. It's just so hard, and I wish I could decide in advance so I wouldn't have to pick under pressure...

  4. Re:What is this screenshot running? on X.org Making Fast Progress · · Score: 1
    E works fine for me under xorg... emerge'd fine, config was the same as X11, and I'm running it right now on the latest DR16.

  5. counts vs quality on JibJab Wins - 'This Land' is Public Domain · · Score: 1
    You're right there are more bullet points against Kerry than Bush, but I think the level of stupidity is bashed frequently. They're not just saying Bush is stupid, they're saying things like he can't say nuclear, doesn't have a brain.. but here's my quick bullet list of negative points made Bush is a dumbass, needs a brain, can't say nuclear right wing nut job trailer trash Kerry is a pinko commie/liberal weiner/sissy/un pussy herman munster/botox / ugly blows up people on the shore waffles on votes But on the positive/pro side we have Bush "kicks ass" and provides tax breaks Kerry is an intellectual and won 3 purple hearts Either way I don't think it's very pro bush, and if anything I see it as making fun of our political culture, that every candidate is a joke with some good and plenty of bad. Again, I'm a libertarian and will be voting that way, but if I had to base my vote of this satire alone I'd probably vote Kerry. Outside of this satire, there's no chance I'd vote Kerry. I will also throw in the OT comment that I think we're in trouble if the republicans keep taking away our rights, and the democrats step into that kind of control. I don't trust either party, or even my own candidate to decide what is best for me, which is why I'll vote for the candidate that trusts me to decide, as shown in their flash ad at here

  6. you're voting for Kerry then.. on JibJab Wins - 'This Land' is Public Domain · · Score: 1
    I think it's generally accepted psychology that people focus on things they're afraid of. I just watched it twice in a row, and I think it's hilarious. I tried to see who they were "secretly" pushing, but failed to. I think the jabs at Bush and Kerry were roughly equal, and I despise both of them, and will be voting for Michael Badnarik

    I'm sure someone has gone through and counted the jibs to jabs ratios, but if all you saw was them praising Bush, rewatch it. and I don't think the "I do kick ass" is meant as praise, I think most Americans that are anti-war wish we had a president that did NOT kick ass.

  7. 200GB for $127 on Portable Storage? · · Score: 1
    I just bought a 200GB drive from tigerdirect.com, and bought a Nexstar usb2 enclosure. It's worked great, total cost was $125ish, they have 200GB drives for $89 right now, and I got my enclosure for $38.

    200GB drive

    Nexstar usb2 enclosure

  8. what are you talking about? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 1
    it sounds like you're referring to reiserfs as not compatible with programs? The only types of programs that wouldn't be compatible with reiser4 would be things like fsck that are designed for a file system.

    You install reiser4 in your kernel, and start making file systems. You put programs on them and they work the same as they would on ext2/3/xfs/reiser3, except likely faster, and with atomic safety.

  9. OT heating/AC question on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 1
    If I mounted a swamp cooler on top of my external AC unit, would the added moisture increase the heat exchange in the coils? Would this equate to more effecient air cooling?

    I live in a dry area.

  10. RTFA - IDC is the source on Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 1
    The article says "Over the last three years, the fraction of home and office PCs powered by Linux has roughly doubled, to almost 3 percent, and it's set to double again before the end of 2005, according to market research firm IDC. Linux's market share has already surpassed Apple's, and every 1 percent gain for Linux sucks millions of dollars a year out of Microsoft's revenues"

    Also, I think you're "study" of Apple's market share is exteremly generalized, and seems to draw solely on your impression of Apple use. Claiming that their installed base MUST be anything is ridiculous. I'm sure IDC's numbers aren't exact, but I'll take their market research with a smaller grain of salt than your suppositions. If I took my impression and multiplied it out, Apple would have a

  11. Re:It won't be that simple on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    I think your missing the point. People in the supply chain are already somewhat responsible for their goods getting through correctly, and have an innate desire to use RFID correctly. Malicious customers have an interest in ripping off stores.
    This is like the bar code printers, that anyone can print out new barcodes and take them as stickers into Wal-Mart etc. and if the checker doesn't think, hmm $5.99 is a little suspicious price for an X-Box, then they've just ripped off the store.
    With RFID the checker won't be there as a human check, and the xbox will be in the customers back pack and nobody will think anything about it, since it scans them and knows the serial number for the xbox.

  12. De-Regulate and get out of businesses way on Broadband Is The Secret To South Korea's Success · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what government can do to improve broadband adoption. Stop trying to regulate businesses, and don't have any "initiatives". Let the free market take us where we want to go. I don't think that long run any of our problems will be solved by government, especially broadband adoption. Sure the government can make us pay more for broadband while we think we're paying less, since 30% income tax, tax on food,clothes,medicine,cars,travel are all acceptable, but $75/month for broadband is outrageous. Please, give me 5-10% flat tax and I'll be happy to pay more for market delivered goods, oh and give to charity and the needy.

  13. I'm a libertarian on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1
    What doesn't make sense about the economics of libertarians? Mostly free market ideas, little or no government interference, they sound pretty logical and clear to me... And here they are, from the horses mouth, at this link

  14. Re:this isn't much different on China Deploys IPv9 Network · · Score: 1
    d00d, they don't SPEAK ENGLISH, so how could they join yer st00pid mailing list...!! sheesh

  15. real republicans vote libertarian on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1
    http://www.lp.org/

    In high school film class we watched Roger an Me, and I enjoyed it. I, also, "fell" for it, as we had a group of 6 or so students visit from Flint, Michigan within a month of watching it. Their visit was in no way related, but I talked to a few of them about Flint, and the film. They all knew about the film, and very much resented Moore, and quite openly called him a liar. Their view seemed very bitter..

    Since then, I've read critiques of Bowling, but won't see it, and won't see 9/11. I'm a libertarian, and think both our majority parties are so bad for us Americans, and our freedoms. I can't stand Bush, and Kerry doesn't look to promising either.

    I'm not sure what we should do for our international policies. I think freeing the people of Iraq is a noble goal, I'm not sure that was why we were there, but there's no doubt in my mind that anyone that gasses large portions of populations like Saddam did to the Kurds could be justifiably removed from power violently.

  16. Could M$ do anything right? on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 1
    AHAHAHHA
    you are completely correct, 1024TB = 1PB and 1024 PB=1EB.. what a bunch of n00bs, they obviously didn't check this byte converter a tron

    lamers

  17. Re:Card hackers piss me off -flame on DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF · · Score: 1
    Wow, it would be hard to sound dumberer in fewerer words than you just done...

    This is NOT about card hackers, RTFA, it is about legitimate card users, like ME, who got harrassed by DirecTV and their goons becuase a smart card with a flashable chip was $80 at an "evil hacker" site, and $350 from a big retailer..

    ejumacate yersef, dumass

  18. Re:What's the maximum partition size in WinXP/Win2 on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 4, Informative
    "The maximum size of an NTFS partition is 16 EB"
    EB = Exabytes = BIGGG
    I believe the problem you ran into is only during installs, and is similar to WinNT4's 4GB max boot partition. You can simply put the drive in another Win2K box that's already installed, format the full 160GB and use it nuts. Just be aware of NTFS versions that differ in Win2K/WinXP... I think XP has a newer version, and 2k can't use it, but could be wrong..

  19. everything I need portable in my sidekick on OQO Examined · · Score: 1
    It's not the end all be all of speed and raw power, but I've got a basic web browser, email, AIM, and an ssh client. The network is modem slow, but it gets signal anywhere I'm not roaming.

    I don't know about Windows users, but I use my computer to do things, like work, and I remote admin servers, get email alerts, and chat with coworkers. This does all of those things, and has a usb port and a dev kit from danger.com, if you want to write your own apps.

    Bummer is the terminal monkey (ssh client) used to be free, now I see it in the catalog for $9.95.

    I paid $149 w/1 year t-mobile contract, but it came with $120 in mail in rebates I never sent in. I think you can get it online for ~$50 these days with 1 year contract.

  20. Re:Hasn't been updated in years?? on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    The files compared to BIND as confusing is interesting. When I first migrated from BIND I thought the same thing, but it's really pretty simple, here's a sample DNS file:

    =www.pirateraps.com:67.41.185.14:3600
    =mail.pirateraps.com:67.41.185.14:3600
    .pirateraps.com:67.41.185.14:a:43200
    .pirateraps.com:64.90.206.19:b:43200
    +pirateraps.com:67.41.185.14:3600
    @pirateraps.com:67.41.185.14:a::3600

    The first character on a line is the type of record, = is an A record, + is an alias, . is a dns server, and @ is a MX/mail record, that's cake.
    Then you have the FQDN or domain name, then the resolution IP. Now 1 thing that got me was the mail server name, this says 67.41.185.14 is an MX but didnt specify its name, tinydns puts in the next value .mx. So in this case it's a.mx.pirateraps.com, if I had a second one it would be b.mx.pirateraps.com.
    The next part of the line is the server (a,b,c,d,etc.) for NS and MX entries, and the last part is the TTL. On MX entries there's one more thing between the server(a|b|c) and the TTL and that's the weight.
    Now, to me that's cake.

  21. very close near misses... on Engineering An End to Aging · · Score: 1
    I just have to say I love that phrase...

  22. Re:my bad he gets 38 city/ 45 highway on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    Still pretty amazing

  23. My friends Geo Metro gets 48mpg on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1
    I think he got it in 1992? It's ugly, small, and underpowered, but so are mini's...

  24. I just signed up for allofmp3.com on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 3, Informative
    And I've spent a whopping $3.50 and got 4 full albums. It's legal, and like buying CD's doesn't screw the artists anyways. I'll go to shows and buy merchandise from them to pay them directly, where they get higher royalties.

    There's an interesting thread here about it, scroll down to the one that starts "OK, here's the scoop on allofmp3.com" by ronross.

    $.01/MB is about what I think is fair for online music, you like $.99/track great, I don't, I like $.05/track. If I thought artists deserve to live like rock stars I'd send them parts of every paycheck, or buy them coke, but I don't. If a musician makes more a year than I do for what is obviously less work then they can't complain.

    The URL again where you can legally get tons of good quality music for $.01/MB is www.allofmp3.com
    The English button is at the top left, FYI.

    Oh, and by the way, I welcome all flames/spam/etc to my personal email address kgb@submarinefund.com

  25. 51% same as it started out on Planetary Defense: Protecting Earth from Asteroids · · Score: 1
    remeber the recent article, Bias in Heads-or-Tails