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  1. Sign of rotten new music on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The music industry tries to protect its old music, since the new music is so bad. If there were good musicians today, raking in mountains of cash, then they would not have cared about the old stuff.

    My teenage son and his friends all listen to 1970s and 1980s rock music. When I was his age, I would not have been caught dead listening to my dad's ragtime...

  2. Re:Interference with nav system all of a sudden go on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never was an interference problem in the first place.

  3. Time travel on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Using Debian feels to me like traveling back in time. It is the only distribution that is already old and outdated before it is released.

    I guess Debian is a special distribution for masochists...

  4. Re:Great! on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    Just make the container the right size, so that the battery has neutral boyancy.

  5. Re:Backup oxygen? on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    It is never a problem to get back to the surface. Since your lungs are filled with pressurised air, you have to breathe out while going up and the oxygen won't run out either. The problem is bends - nitrogen bubbles in the blood when you go up from great depth.

  6. Re:One kilo what? on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, batteries are measured in libraries of congress per kilometer.

  7. Re:building cpu at gate level on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then he has to solder 200 ICs by hand. Wirewrapping may be more reliable, with a more dense board and shorter wires, than a PCB.

  8. Re:building cpu at gate level on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1

    Actually, wirewrapping is probably more reliable than hand soldering. Satellites used to be wire wrapped, to handle the vibration during launch.

  9. Re:This 'acomplishment' on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1

    "I'd have a 10-20 chips sitting on the garage roof" Wheee the good old bad old days - you should have stacked them on top of a kitchen fluerescent tube. It would take even longer to erase, but they would at least stay clean.

  10. Re:All hail Geekness on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1

    Cool! I still want to build one using Nixie tubes.

  11. Side by side comparison? on Red Hat releases Netscape Directory Server to OSS · · Score: 1

    Is there a side by side comparison of Network Information Service (Sun Yellow Pages), Open LDAP and Netscape Directory anywhere?

    I'd love to know what exactly the differences are and I suspect that most people have no idea and simply use whatever it is that they are familiar with...

  12. Now on CNN's ticker tape on Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant · · Score: 1

    Well, if it is on CNNs ticker tape, then it must be a true rumour.

  13. Re:Yes, but... on RFID: The Next Internet? · · Score: 1, Funny

    What missing socks problem? If I wear a pair of blue and black socks, I know that there is an identical pair in my wardrobe...

  14. Re:you don't know what you are talking about on Arctic Warming Drying Up Lakes · · Score: 1

    Well, H2O is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. So the best way to reduce warming would be to ban agricultural irrigation...

  15. Re:They just floored it... on Mars Rover Breaks Free · · Score: 1

    The problem of course is that it could dig in until it lay flat on its belly, after which it would not go anywhere again, so they had to confirm that the muck wasn't too deep, before they could put the pedal to the metal. I'm just wondering what will happen at the next little dirt heap, which is probably all of two feet further away.

  16. Re:Kick ass desk, lame desktop on TIE Fighter Case Mod · · Score: 1

    The 54 icons is due the unusable MS menu system which makes your seldom used, but very important programs disappear. The one place where you can keep an eye on your icons and ensure that they don't disappear on you, is on the desktop...

  17. Re:Win Activation on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    I happen to own more legit copies of WinXP than I have computers, about 6 copies at last count and only two of the six have known activation codes. There is only one computer that actually runs WinXP, but it would be nice to give the now dud copies of WinXP to friends who would like to upgrade from WinME...

  18. They just floored it... on Mars Rover Breaks Free · · Score: 1

    Basically, they gave up trying to think their way out of the muck and just floored the accellerator and kept it down - 212 feet of wheel spin. So, are they are stuck in the next dune yet?

  19. Re:XP Super CD on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    Setupreg.HIV??? Wow, that sure puts AIDS in a whole new light.

  20. Re:crippleware on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    Geez, I always thought that MS makes the most successful crippleware ever - not intentionally though...

  21. Win Activation on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A two byte hack to get rid of Winblows activation would be more useful...

  22. Re:Wow... the 1960's.. on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    What is that Sweet song: "Little willy willy won't, willy won't go..."

  23. Re:Park Lane Hilton on CNET to Award Open Source Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Yeah, especially considering that the original Paris was a man and would probably take offence to his name being given to a blond groupy...

  24. Re:Wow... the 1960's.. on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but I think of some places on the body where a non-airtight leotard won't work all that well and where 'localized swelling and buising' would be a wee little uncomfortable. Is that a 'localized bruise' or are you just happy to see me?

  25. Re:Great.... on Knoppix 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    Many Knoppix mirrors are still at 3.7!