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  1. Re:A helpful holiday reminder... on Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.10 Released · · Score: 1

    Who uses lilo? I use grub. That way, if I rebuild my kernel, I don't get boot errors when I forget to run lilo.

  2. Re:Select surivivors NOW on Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we cannot allow a Mineshaft Gap!!!

  3. ObMarvin on Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally · · Score: 1

    Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!

  4. Much Older than that on Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy · · Score: 1


    That statement is much older than that. According to WikiPedia, that's the phrase that gave us the term "Pyrrhic Victory".

  5. Re:it's a good thing the data is locked away on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, your tombstone would read: "Netcraft confirms it, Cynikal is dead".

  6. Re:Infect Slashdot on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is that different from most non-virus posts?

  7. Re:It Stays Exactly the Same, Year after Year! NOT on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    With leap year you have the every 100, 400, and I think there is one more that we have to deal with.

    I belive it's:

    Every 4th year is a leap year
    Unless it's divisible by 100, then it's not
    Unless it's divisible by 400, then it is
    Unless it's divisible by 4000, then it's not again.

    If you work it out, that comes very close to the 365.2422 days per year, averaged out over several thousand years.

  8. Re:so.. on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    Because nobody understands me when I tell them that something happened at "0430 Zulu"

  9. Re:so.. on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    You forgot the raging snowstorm...

  10. Re:pedal on CCC Mods Rent-a-Bike To Allow Free Rides · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't that mean that any solution he finds to the problem is in NP?

  11. Re:BT has a valid use, for example. on Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use · · Score: 2, Informative


    When the "right to share files" is enshrined in a constitional amendment,


    The Ninth Amendment.

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

    Also the First. Code is speech.

  12. Re:Five minutes was enough on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    From the previews, I had figures Danny Glover as Gensher (who was black in the book).

  13. Re:A step too far on Australian Record Industry Goes After the Red Cross · · Score: 1

    They'll have to outlaw fingers and dirt. You can write in the dirt with your fingers.

    "Will all consumers please report to the nearest RIAA/ARIA/CRAA center for a finger-ectomy? Thank you."

  14. Re:NO MORE CHRISTMAS MUSIC! on Automatic Christmas Music · · Score: 1

    Can't. It's my wife's car. She hates it when I change the stations, especially when she's driving.

  15. Re:NO MORE CHRISTMAS MUSIC! on Automatic Christmas Music · · Score: 1

    In LA, KOST-103 FM has been playing Xmas music 24/7 since Thanksgiving. They do it every year. Ugh.

  16. Re:Silent Server...Holy Server on Automatic Christmas Music · · Score: 2, Funny


    Servers roasting on an open link
    Slashdot poking at your site
    HTML being posted online,
    And usage spikes on CPUs...

    Everybody knows a story with an active link
    Helps to light those blinkenlites
    Though it's been said, many times many ways
    Merry Slashdotting... to you...
    </SONG>

  17. Re:Hyperspace on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 1

    It's much older than Kaku. Piers Anthony touched on it in "Macroscope".

    According to that noveol, Level 3 civilizations can master the entire energy capacity of a single galaxy.

  18. ObFightClub on Secret Agents Hold Code-Breaking Contest · · Score: 1

    The first rule of NSA is you do not talk about NSA.

  19. Five minutes was enough on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 3, Informative

    Within the first five minutes we had:

    * People throwing around each other's true names (witness the girl talking to Ged).

    * A hot-looking Kossil sleeping with some guy.

    In the books, you *NEVER* spoke someone's true name out loud. And Kossil was a fat, dumpy, ugly woman who was high priestess of an order that shunned men.

  20. Re:Since when on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    This happened in the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School". Dangerfield's character hires Kurt Vonnegut to write an essay on one of Vonnegut's novels. The professor gives Dangerfield an "F", saying he (Dangerfield/Vonnegut) had no clue what Vonnegut was talking about.

  21. Re:I predict... on Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    +1 Heavy Metal reference
    +1 *ONLY* BOC reference I could find here

  22. Re:But all space missions are expensive on O'Keefe to Resign as NASA Administrator · · Score: 1

    OP specifically referred to US-ian organizations.

  23. Re:It concerns us.... (the military) on Inside an Adware Company · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is why Poindexter tried to create the "Unclassified but Sensitive" security level.

  24. Except for a few... on Patently Silly Blog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While they may be silly, they're not dumb.

    The exceptions (that I saw) were the Migraine Gene and the Transgenic Pig.

    All the others (that I saw) were actual inventions. Dumb or silly in some cases, but actual inventions.

  25. Obligatory DNF reference on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 5, Funny

    So do they have Duke Nukem Forever yet?