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  1. Re:Too many humanoid aliens on New Battlestar Galactica Premieres Monday · · Score: 1

    I can't tell you which episode but I can describe it. Picards old archeolgy teacher asks for his help picard refuses, teacher dies, picard feeling guilty does the job anyway. They notice that there are similiar DNA sequences on thousands of worlds that make up the alpha and beta quadrants. When place all together the dna sequence becomes a holigraphic message from the past and one race, that littered those peices around just because they were bored.

  2. Re:Upgrade or "Surreptitiously Copy"? on Windows Security GM Talks NGSCB (Palladium) · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting DRM is machine specfic software changes unless they preserve the old keys changes DRM. if you do a true install of wipe and install the ficitional longhorn 2010 and then try to access your files from a backup you will be unable to do so. now using there server setup to access those files using drm might be possible, but it won't be the same machine so that the files may not be accessable. That is why unix seperate stuff by users. Any user can access any of their files from any location, and techincally only root and the user can change that. You do not sort files by machine very often. Doing so prevents you from upgrading either hardware or software.

  3. Re:Upgrade or "Surreptitiously Copy"? on Windows Security GM Talks NGSCB (Palladium) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Short story. My roommate and I were ripping our cds a couple of years ago. I used an mp3 ripper he used windows media player. 1 month after his hard drive died. great all he has to do s restore his music files from backups on cd right. nope he never disabled DRM so the files and all 14 wma disks(yes that's right nearly 10 gigs and they are all legit christian music) were useless the drm wouldn't play cause it wasn't the same computer. So much for DRM

  4. Re:Upgrade or "Surreptitiously Copy"? on Windows Security GM Talks NGSCB (Palladium) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually what scares me most about this is what happens when your motherboard dies, you now have a new pc with the old hardware and no access to your files. Also what happens if you upgrade to longhorn 2010 do you lose access to those files. it is a standard microsoft tatic.

  5. Re:First thing you see... on Novell's Certified Linux Engineer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes we are lazy, that is why we use linux. you set it up once, and it works, it works till you take it down. none of the I'm bored so I think I will crash stuff.

  6. Re:If if if on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 1

    Actually MS has already released tha info last year. They said according to their dr. Watson reports returned that 50% of all failures are due to windows itself. Actually they said 50%of all failures were due to third party software.

  7. Re:Not just that... on NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    NASA is a goverment agency and as such is tax-exempt. For Intelligent reasons the goverment doesn't tax itself. one of the few sensible policies it has.

  8. Re:"since google has no answers".. on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    just because I'm bored "why not \." simple the backward slash is only used by the backward company microsoft. All true operating systems use the forward slash / it is easier to get to on the keyboard and makes life easier as it is now standard. now to see if anyone bites

  9. Re:Ironic on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    One does not wack with a sword, they slice, or bash. And Setting things on fire is a good healthy exercise, in a controlled manner. I presonally liek drying out christmas trees and torching the branches off with a single match. once the needles get going a 6 foot tree goes to 12 foot flames ... know for all the 12 year olds here that is a good way to lose a head of hair.

  10. Re:!!! rag on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    I thought the problems are is that they don't have any error checking. Maybe they are getting some for longhorn, which is why it got pushed back 2006.

  11. Re:*swirls in MS logo* on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 1

    no OSX IS BSD SCO can not claim BSD as it has been cleared by a previous case. also MS is dumb enough to actually own sco they are jsut using them to test the waters of attacking the GPL. The first soldier attacking the fort usally dies first.

  12. Re:Backing up all within your house on Distributed Data Storage on a LAN? · · Score: 1

    Yes and No. your house would have to be totally gutted for that to happen, with an average 10 minute reponse time for fire dept. in the U.S.( longer if you live in a rural area, shorter in the cities) The proballity of losing all 8 systems is remote. Chances are at least 2 of the systems will survive.

    Your chances are even better if you seperate the macines through out the house.

  13. Re:Aren't obesity and traffic self-limiting? on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    The whole probelm is that technology is preventing the killing off of the people. I am convinced that per percentage that the number of stupid people in jus the united States, is greater than it was a cenutry ago. (of course they could spell too) Everyday I see people who should be smart be extremely stupid in how they go about their lives.

  14. Re:A couple comments on Top 5 Submerging Technologies Pinpointed · · Score: 1

    Um, hasn't this ship sunk LONG ago (except for multi-part forms, of course). Perhaps he's considering cash register receipt printers... Exactly, businesses still need multi-part forms. That and the fact that some of them just don't die. At work we have three that are approaching ten years of age, all three get used daily, and at least once a year get a 500 page report ripped out on them. Then again I do feed them a bit of blood now and then so they might be vampires

  15. Re:I just watched HG Wells' Time Machine on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1

    what if the "Tribe" is more than just a nation, we are on one planet, we are one race, Why can there not be one Tribe. Race is seperated by not being able to interbreed. Think of dogs, there is only a couple of races, but lots of breeds

  16. Re:I just watched HG Wells' Time Machine on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1

    Umm, money is a primary factor, but don't forget the vatican is worth more than most third world countries. REligion is a lie used to base a war off of for money. The Romans new they wanted more, and never denied it.

  17. Re:Funny quote from the article on First Napster 2.0 Review · · Score: 1

    the user will care the day he burns a cd with straight WMA's as backup only to find out that he can't play them in his new computer cause of DRM. yes I have actually seen this.

  18. Re:Will this finally make microsoft shape up? on MS Dissatisfaction High, Users Consider Switching · · Score: 1

    Define Normal People. is my old boss normal. who wouldn't let a computer into his store? he ran it for 50 years on paper why not now? Or how about my current boss who asks every week where is the Icon for Word. Or who won't give up AOL because it allows her to im to her son. Even though we have DSL. Or is it me and my roommate where between the two of us we have 5 computers one of which is a DEC alpha? Normal is subjective, as each generation dies off it changes a little. we as a race have completely rewritten how we work in less than a hundred years. Define whose normal

  19. old news?? on Online Journalists are ISPs? · · Score: 1

    I didn't read the article ,but I did hear about this in the register.uk a week ago. The FBI have since stopped it. Acording to what I read it was a lone agent acting without athority. I will believe it when I see it.

  20. Re:Could this massively implode on SCO? on Red Hat Cornering SCO in Delaware · · Score: 1

    That is the dream. To reaptedly watch chris & darl dragged off in handcuffs for committing crimes, both by the SEC & FBI

  21. Re:Intelligent life? on New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects · · Score: 1

    hell I would settle for them just to turn their bass down, it tends to drown out my bass in unreal

  22. Re:Top ten Windows apps to install. on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    I have been using leechFTP for years it is a shame he stopped supporting it. I install it on every machine i come across, as well as carry the binaries on my USB drive

  23. Re:I heard Solar was going to get cheaper in 1976 on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 1

    Okay my field you now have entered. the typical home in the US uses around 10kw without electric heat or stove. using both of those make it 22kw. yea that is right 22,000 watts. at least 70% of new homes being built are being built at 200amp services or 48kw. Between airconditioning, computers(lots of computers) and heat, that won't be enough for our tech happy people by the mid 21fst century

  24. Re:Trilogy? on MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing · · Score: 1

    um actaully it is 1 volume, normally broken down into 3 phyiscal volumes, each with 2 books inside.

    okay I have had my geek quotien for the morning I am good till noon

  25. Re:Overtaxing in the modern world on New U.S. Sales Tax Regime For Internet Sellers? · · Score: 1

    I shall look into that bit of knowledge. when I can find the time to get away from my computer of course