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  1. I flip over my Explorer! on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being more maneuverable and closer to the ground, compact cars are generally safer for people inside _and_ outside the car.
    People who believe that SPUTES are safer really need to get a grip on reality.

  2. Re:Ternary system is the way to go on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 1
    Umm... But if you want to store numbers 0..1000, you need 32 states (2+10+10+10) for decimal systen, 20 states (10*2) for binary, and 21 for ternary (7*3).
    And if you want to store the numbers from 0..1025 you still only need 21 states for Ternary, but you need 22 states for Binary. Once again conclusively proving that if you let me pick any numbers I want I can prove anything I want to.

    Q.E.D.

  3. Re:FYI on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    It would more probably mean "Less Rule" or a state close to anarchy. "Rule by hippos" would be "hippocracy". If you are going to be pedantic, do it properly!

  4. Re:First long, thoughful post. on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 2

    Did you read the same article I did? The guy avoids answering any question regarding third-party sources. Some of what he says strongly implies that GPL'd code has made its way into Unixware and they are afraid of losing control of their code base completely. AT&T "lost" their infringement case against Berkley, but they were able to maintain nominal control of what was left. If SCOGroup has distributed Unixware with GPL'd code in the core they lose everything. PS: Don't shortsell their stock please, what gets sold must be bought. Who do you think is _BUYING_ SCOX right now?

  5. Re:Precisely on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the broken kernel wasn't a "must install" with a live attack in the field to exploit you if you didn't install it, and the breakage was only on certain configurations.
    In investigating this I noticed a new "critical" patch for DirectX. Do I dare apply it?

  6. Re:SCO's Position Understandable on SCO "Disappointed" by Red Hat Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    Not surprisingly, Caldera took to the idea of running a business by suing people over IP like a duck to water. SCO bought em, just so that there's a nice big crowd of IP-related folks with little decent product around, and something like this really had to happen sooner or later.

    Um, Caldera bought Unix from the Santa Cruz Operation, and then renamed themselves the Smoking Crater Operation.

  7. Re:denial on Latest SCO News · · Score: 1

    Even at that, I doubt any non-programmer could reliably guess at the *direction* of the code transfer. Caldera/SCO was actively doing development work with Unixware and Linux together. I'd guess that there is considerable GPL'd code in Unixware that nobody would have called them on before this.

  8. Yes they do. on How to Fake A Hard Day at the Office · · Score: 1

    This really isn't the sort of thing they teach in school, and most parents are apparently happy to let the kids figure it out for themselves.
    Besides, it takes a fair amount of self confidence to just _be_ somewhere when you want to find a member of the opposite sex.

  9. Re:Manhole Covers... on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    Are round because pipes are round, and the most common manhole is a pipe run to the surface from the sewer pipe.
    Really. Don't overthink these things.