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  1. Re:Star Trek has been completed! on Mastering Light · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the superheterodyne radio is not exactly new you know. It's been used for almost 100 years now...

  2. Google on The Searchable Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why don't they just licence the Google code and be done with it? That will save them a lot of trouble and they will have an immediately working system...

  3. Re:Atheists on the Rise on Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers · · Score: 1

    Atheists/agnostics are actually way more numerous than that. The StatsCan question was loaded to favour religion. They asked something like: "What is your religious affiliation, irrespective of whether you are an active member." In other research, they found that only 20% of Canadians are active religious members, so there clearly are a good many people who matured and abandoned religion, but still mention their affiliation since they were baptized as a baby in some religious sect. Eventually people mature and realize that it was their parents that had them baptized, they had no say in the matter themselves and then speak up and admit that they are non-religious. So, just looking at the circles I move in, the actual percentage of agnostics is around 60%. This probably explains why Canadians are considered 'friendly and tolerant'. The churches are not able to incite their particular intolerance and hatred in the general populous.

  4. Re:The disposability problem and convergence on Electronic Paper Advances · · Score: 1

    and when that nice girl walks by, you can make her clothes go transparent?

  5. Re:My fav quote on Electronic Paper Advances · · Score: 1

    No, those two seashells are for the toilet...

  6. Re:for the intl. folks: what is a "condo" ? on DSL Hardware for Wiring Condos? · · Score: 1

    That's American for a flat...

  7. Re:Instead of blocking spam... on AOL Blocks 2 Billion Spam/Day · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, so *that* is why OJ's glove didn't fit at the trial... ...makes you sink doesn't it...

  8. All your Brain on Brain Privacy · · Score: 1

    are belong to us... Yeah, I know, it is not funny.

  9. Re:Collage Students on Are Plain-Text Ads Doomed? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't think anybody would get it...

  10. Outside the firewall on War Driving To Be Protected In NH · · Score: 1

    Many admins intentionally place the wireless access points outside their firewalls. This is indicative of a good admin who only allows access through the firewall/vpn. There is nothing wrong with doing this. A side effect is that anybody can use the access point for public internet access, wich is not a problem either, since pretty darned few people use these things.

  11. Re:Bad idea. on Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you do when the punch card battery goes flat? ;-)

  12. Re:What I don't understand on New Online Music Push by EMI · · Score: 1

    'blank'...

  13. Why did it stay on during launch on Wing Seals Blamed in Columbia's Demise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and come off in space? There is a lot of shear forces and vibration during launch and almost nothing of that in space, so why did it come off when it did?

  14. Re:What I don't understand on New Online Music Push by EMI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, it is even more insiduous than that. Canadians can buy the same devices and black CDs by mail order from the USA and circumvent the taxes. Also, not one penny of this tax actually reaches the music industry, so it is just another Federal tax grab...

  15. Re:You know... on Crossover Office 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Two boxes runing Linux/Windows and an A/B switch works, but is more expensive than Wine or Win4Lin, more difficult to maintain and use more electricity too.

  16. Re:Illegal Tying on FoxPro On Linux, Drama Ensues · · Score: 1

    Yup, in many states it is illegal to tie any sale to any other sale. Most of MS's EULA contents is unenforceable in most places.

  17. Re:Wait... Tied sales probably illegal on FoxPro On Linux, Drama Ensues · · Score: 1

    Tied sales is illegal in many states and in Canada that one applies to the whole Federation. It always helps to first read your local Sale of Goods Act before whining about a possibly completely unenforceable EULA.

  18. Re:Why is it... on Trusted Debian v1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Trusted in the name of a program/product has the same value as the word Democratic in the name of a country.

  19. Worldcom forgery on Pew Internet Project Study on Internet Non-Users · · Score: 1

    screwed the stats. So any internet useage stats of the 'boom' period is suspect, since the boom actually didn't happen and was a slow and steady growth, not an explosion as claimed by the Worldcom and other con artists.

  20. There is no Infidel IBM code on SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2 · · Score: 1

    in our SCO Linux! Never!

  21. Cool, now for a religious leader. on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    Oops, they already have one... Now who will liberate the USAsians?

  22. Why the hell on Samba Exploit Discovered, Fixed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    would anyone connect a Samba server directly to the internet anyway? This is only an exploit of stupidity, of which there are many.

  23. Re:so... on Samba Exploit Discovered, Fixed · · Score: 1

    Yech, how about fixing that sig of yours? Repeat after me: preposition, preposition, preposition...

  24. A Paint Stripper heat gun on Soldering with a Toaster Oven · · Score: 2, Informative

    also works well for reflow of components. For rework purposes, use aluminium muffler tape to screen off the rest of the area around the component you are heating up. My recipe to remove a large chip: 1 minute at 2 inches to preheat 1 minute at 1/2 inch to reflow Flip chip off with an ice pick

  25. Re:My spam research on CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam · · Score: 1

    As for myself, generic procmail recipes dump 90% of all spam right on the server to /dev/null. The clients use Mozilla, which now has a statistical spam filter. It works great in getting rid of 90% of the remaining 10% of the crud, so only about 1 spam per day gets through to a user.