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  1. But... on Review Mandrake Linux 9.1 Power Pack Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not already running Debian, I'm running RedHat... is it still worth my time?!?

  2. Re:But the great thing about standards... on Are Standards Groups Stifling Innovation? · · Score: 1

    For example for instant messaging you have your choice to support Jabber or to move to SIP (RFC3261).

    Which is right? Who knows! Let's forget about interoperability!

  3. Re:Umm, and on FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    But what about the meat of it?
    But if the FSF is right that OpenTV is violating the GPL, and if this behavior is found to be legal by the courts, the entire free-software and open-source movements could be derailed. Agreeing to share the improvements you make in the GPL-licensed software you've used is an essential part of the larger ecosystem.

  4. Re:Easy on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    What's this, you're not blaming Microsoft?!

  5. How much AI in these? on Power Tool Drag Races · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Robot Wars phenomenon, begun in San Francisco, gave rise to Comedy Central's "Battlebots" and a similar new show on Tech TV.

    I always found Battlebots to be more like remote control cars on steroids. What I want is something with a little more AI, like Honda's ASIMO (or whatever its called), give those guys a sword, shield, and we'll have Light Ages of Camelot - Live!

  6. Fuzzy? on Power Tool Drag Races · · Score: 3, Funny

    "There are very few happy, bouncy, fuzzy robots."

    Bah, who wants those kind... bring on the terminator!

  7. Re:agent smith, er rep smith is a talking puppet on Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably about as much as it cost the RIAA to prosecture copyright crimes!

  8. Re:Well, on Does Gaming Reduce Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Minesweeper?! Freecall all the way baby.

    Or you can bring your own laptop, chock full of mp3s, games, and all the joys of computing!

  9. Re:Why not 802.11g? on The Wireless Networking Question Roundup... · · Score: 1

    Not a standard and hence not widely deployed.

  10. For apartments... on The Wireless Networking Question Roundup... · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many apartments have pretty thick ceilings and floors so the signal shouldn't get too far vertically, though the neighbor on the other side of the wall might want to bum some free internet and pr0n downloads on your expense. Solution: secure that network.

  11. Re:I disagree. on Getting Inside Einstein's Head · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Our condition is our reality, and on the subjective level, the physicality of our world is taken for granted. Consciousness means experiencing duality. Everything we know must be processed one way or the other. The philosophers who focused on this duality set limits to what we can know, pointing out that we can in no way know "the world" as it actually is, that we can only know our perceptions of "the world". We take these perceptions to be the material world. The psyche mirrors an image, and the image can only be an abstraction being processed by the organism's nervous system. Without psyche, we do not experience matter. Consciousness may require we experience the duality of psyche and matter; but, theoretically uniting matter and psyche brings together the "physical" and "mental". This objective is consistent with Eastern Mysticism, which does not separate the observer from the observed, the subject from the object, etc.

    (Source)

  12. Re:Handwriting on Getting Inside Einstein's Head · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon the only legible things you will be able to write are 1s and 0s!

  13. Re:I disagree. on Getting Inside Einstein's Head · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we don't truely know of our consciousness at all. Check that out, it's a philosophy paper on the unus mundus.

  14. Re:whois still working on .org Registry Offline - Not · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, this was a horrible article to post.

  15. What does this mean? on Silicon Seduced From Silica · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A cost reduction of computer equipment in the not-too-distant future?

  16. What it can do on Mars Flier Prototype · · Score: 4, Informative
    • Simultaneous, in-situ, regional-scale measurement of the Mars atmosphere, surface, and interior
    • Bridges critical scale and resolution measurement gaps of remote sensing and surface exploration
    • Scout for future sample return and surface mission site selection
    • Magnetic survey with spatial resolution two orders of magnitude higher than provided by Mars Global Surveyor, with ability to resolve the crustal magnetism source structure
    • High-resolution measurements that cannot be achieved from orbit
    • Geologic diversity from regional-scale coverage that cannot be achieved by surface missions
    • In-situ atmospheric science
    • Ability to traverse terrain inaccessible to surface vehicles
    • Ability to precisely target science features
    • Ability to execute a controlled, pre-planned aerial survey pattern
    • Measurement of vertical surface structure not visible from orbit
    • Robust performance with regard to atmospheric uncertainties
  17. Re:Whew! on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 1

    I won't drive in NYC.. in fact as soon as you get around the toxic areas of NJ leading up to NYC you pretty much have to be a road-warrior.

    Subways are good, but there's not enough options. Perhaps a good solution would be several layers of monorails that went through the town, each with various stops.

  18. Re:Not for me. on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    American AC in Pars, thou art the wind beneath my wings!

  19. Re:forget the cars on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 0, Redundant

    True, there are extremes. The Ford Excursion versus the Toyota RAV4. A big cadillac versus a new hybrid car.

    I guess I was generalizing because I see more of the big ones than the little ones on the road.

    Canyonero!

  20. Re:let's be practical about it.... on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 1

    Let's be practical about posting, nobody likes to cut and copy plain text into their browser.... HTML shall set you free!

  21. Re:forget the cars on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget the cars and buy an SUV so you don't look over and see tires instead of windows?

    Yes, let us forget the cars for they are on the verge of being environmentally friendly (anyone else drive a hybrid) and SUVs are still sucking it down like -- well you know like what --

    Besides, now that there are so many SUVs anyone in a small car is much more likely to get squashed in an accident rather than dinged or jolted.

  22. Re:Not for me. on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe so, but the population isn't decreasing. My home suburbia town used to be pleasant to drive in, now it is clogged with traffic jams. Ever commute into a major city -- try it sometime and I dare you not to utter one curse word, flip the bird once, or otherwise get aggrivated.

  23. Whew! on Creating Car Free Cities · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anything is better than the car-clogged cities we have today. Small trips have big cap fares as it takes longer to get there. I tried walking from one hotel to another in Las Vegas, I thought I was going to die from inhaling all of that pollution. At least Las Vegas is moving in the right direction with mono-rails (yes, MonoRail!)

    If only NYC and others followed with some awesome inovations.

  24. Re:Patent everything on Verisign Granted DNS Lookup Patent · · Score: 3, Funny

    I patented people talking in caps in sentences in comment posting websites, so take that!

  25. Re:Look on the bright side on Verisign Granted DNS Lookup Patent · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean we don't have to memorize every IP Address?! DAMN!