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  1. Re:Walk before you can run on Longhorn Preview · · Score: 1

    Your experience with Linux is, as others have said, lacking. I have all of the available resolutions set up and can switch between them by hitting alt+/- on the numeric keypad from the point of install.

  2. It didn't by chance run into a U2 on it's way up? on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Sorry... very ashamed of myself.

  3. Re:In Soviet Russia, they don't give up on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Seems to me we've lost our share of spacecraft over the years and we're still sending them up there.

    Wasn't Hubble supposed to be scrapped a couple of hunderd times by now?

    Aren't we still launching the shuttle? I think we've lived through a few problems with those haven't we?

  4. Re:we have all this, don't we? on Command Line for the Web · · Score: 1

    No kidding...
    Once again something that came from the *nix world is suddenly new technology.

  5. ...if only they knew how. on Most Americans Want Gov't To Make Internet Safer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do we really want a government that can't secure it's own systems to be responsible for the whole system?

    I'll rely on my own security thanks.

  6. Let's all remember the UN's great contributions... on UN Wants To Regulate Internet · · Score: 1

    to the world...

    Anyone got anything?

    Well, sure they've failed at their job, let's let them screw up the internet.

  7. BG kicks ST's backside! on Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    The new Galactica series rocks! It just goes to show if you spend the time to write some good material and don't cancel the series two episodes into it's first season a sci-fi show can be successful.

    The next incarnation of Star Trek will probably be cancelled before conception.

  8. It's a hoax on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice that the smoke trail doesn't taper off as it gets higher into the sky? It's just as wide as it fades into the clouds as it is near the ground.Someone forgot to Photoshop in perspective. All this image needs is Bigfoot in the foreground and a UFO or two off in the distance... oh, and http://www.fark.com printed in the bottom of it.

  9. Re:Excellent, but I'm waiting for ... on THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut · · Score: 1

    I guess I should have mentioned that Dark Star was released quite a while ago on DVD.

  10. Re:Excellent, but I'm waiting for ... on THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut · · Score: 1

    John Carpenter would never be as thick minded as Lucas has been about ruining his own prior art.

    Dark Star is a great film just how it is (I'm pretty sure you agree with that. At least I hope your post was tounge-in-cheek) from its questionable acting all the way to its special effects that made the original Star Trek, flashlight on a ball of tin-foil effects, look high-tech.

    I hate to think I'll never be able to get the original Lucas films in their original format. For that matter, I want the original release of Blade Runner.

    Screwing with THX should be considered a crime against humanity.

    When will these directors learn? If you want to put out a new version, fine. Just make sure the original is still available.

  11. I'll stick with my 1 disk version thanks on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    Worst sequal(s) ever!

  12. Time to start reading the Supreme Courts' e-mail on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 1

    This means I can sniff e-mail communications off the wire without violating the wire-tap act right?

    It is "stored" on the wire in much the same way it's "stored" in RAM.

    How did they make that distinction?

    Shouldn't "in transit" mean "moving between it's source and it's intended destination"?

    Maybe after they receive a couple of million ads for Swedish penis enlarger pumps they will rethink (or think) that.

    When do my armband and jackboots get here?

  13. Re:Fireworks with no cannon?? on Disney Launches Fireworks With Compressed Air · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would immediately start a copyright battle between Disney and Warner Bros.

    WB owns the Looney Tunes and their Mel Blanc Onomatopoeia division is NOT something you want to screw with.

  14. Let's hope... on Disney Launches Fireworks With Compressed Air · · Score: 1

    It's also got something built into it to prevent ground level detonation should the launcher fail.

  15. Re:An enterprise security console on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what Unicenter TNG is supposed to do?

  16. Re:It's All Sun's Fault on Microsoft Eases "Shared Source" Restrictions · · Score: 1
    Bill Gates never said that. Just another urban legend.

    True... it also doesn't support what I said about him, but that really wasn't the point.

  17. ENIAC / Open Source on Herman Goldstine, ENIAC Developer, Dies at Age 90 · · Score: 1

    Was Herman Goldstine's idea of open source a wheelbarrow full of tubes?

  18. Re:It's All Sun's Fault on Microsoft Eases "Shared Source" Restrictions · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Imagine what would have happened if they had funded their own in-house development for a PC OS.

    "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

    "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

    "640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, Co-Founder and CEO of Microsoft, 1981

    Regardless of my dislike of the man and his company, no one could ever say he didn't have vision (sort of).

  19. Re:Now on Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? · · Score: 1

    It was a Microsoft problem when Win95b was eating Linux partitions... no one thought it was a conspiracy.

  20. Re:I'm lost on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    You are defending people for being stupid and trying to look smart while doing it.

    You can't actually tell me you think downloading an executable, no matter what it's named, and running it on your computer is an even remotely intelligent thing to do.

    You're a troll.

  21. Re:I'm lost on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm saying THE USER IS ENTIRELY TO BLAME.

    If you pick up a cigar in a factory that makes cigar shaped dynamite, stick it in your mouth, light it and blow your head off, it's your fault.

    The internet is a dangerous place.

    And don't whine to me about ad-hominim attacks when your OP was clearly ment to be condesending.

  22. Re:I'm lost on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    Your reading the literal meanings of the words, not what they're saying.

    In both examples given it takes the action of an undisiplined user to run either. Which is what my statement said. So don't a pompous ass.

  23. Re:I'm lost on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    You should take an English comprehension course before trying to be Mr. Smarty-pants and pretend you know anything about the Trojan war.

    Nothing in the sentence you cut from my message contradicts your reply.

    Rainman is a good name for you.

  24. Re:I'm lost on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    You aren't lost.

    It's not a trojan, just like a VBScript that someone is stupid enough to run on their system isn't a virus.

    The only Trojan involved in this story is the one the OP's dad should have been wearing.

  25. HEMP CAR on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    http://www.hempcar.org