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  1. Re:I for one.... on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    They must have been as tasty as a Dodo...

  2. Re:And soon... on Canada Says No To DMCA · · Score: 1

    Well, if you are REALLY bankrupt, then no act is going to keep you solvent, except maybe an act of god, such as winning the lottery. That act will only stop the fraudsters, which is a good thing.

  3. Re:Walk this way... on Canada Says No To DMCA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I typically see about 2 African Americans per day: My son and I, and we are white...

  4. Re:Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    She is fluent in at least 4 languages...

  5. Re:Alone? on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    Well, if you actually RTFA, then you would have seen that Novell said that the training costs are negligable, measuring only a few hours per person.

  6. Re:Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmm, my father was a Latin teacher and my wife studied Legal Latin as well, so I do have some idea of what you mean. The hundreds of little pieces of paper with Latin phrases stuck to the walls around the house, including the bathroom and toilet, over a period of many years, caused me to pick something up...

    While 'Legal Latin' is highly complex in its written form, it is however doubtful that the common populace spoke Latin with all its fine nuances in everyday life.

  7. Re:Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I can give you some more anecdotal evidence: A few years ago, a German radio station broadcasted the news in Latin as a lark. They got a local professor to translate it for them. After two weeks, they stopped, thinking that the joke must be wearing thin - then they got a lot of phone calls of people asking that they please resume the news in Latin! It turned out that there were many Romanians, Turks and Greeks that enjoyed it, since they could understand Latin better than German.

    BTW, the Romanian I referred to is an engineer and quite well educated and can speak several languages - including Latin. So, I tend to believe her statement that Romanian is almost exactly Latin.

  8. Re:Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Well, that is what a real, live Romanian told me. Maybe another Romanian cares to comment?

  9. Re:The first thing anyone needs to learn.... on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    "Me fail English? That is unpossible!"...

  10. Re:Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    No, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian are quite different from Latin. Romanian is almost exactly Latin.

  11. Latin isn't dead either on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 0

    Romanian is almost exactly Latin.

  12. Cheap is best on Batterylife Activator Reviewed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actual tests of batteries always show that the cheapest batteries are the best value for money, in terms of watt hours per dollar.

  13. Satellites on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    Well duh, considering how high the satellites are, service can only get better with altitude...

  14. 386SX anyone? on Faulty Chips Might Just be 'Good Enough' · · Score: 1

    Anyone here old enough to remember the 386SX? The idea of not throwing away chips with minor imperfections is clearly older than the writer of that article.

  15. Re:It is so fracking annoying on The Rise of Smart Buildings · · Score: 1

    Infrared motion sensor: A desk lamp and a fan should fix that...

  16. Re:A "Beta?" on Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage · · Score: 1

    Thanks for pointing to that tip!

  17. Re:What's with the pathetic default settings? on Growth of Wi-Fi Opens New Path for Thieves · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, there is no good reason why the manufacturers cannot ship the devices with preprogrammed random passwords. Every device they ship can easily be unique. Any self respecting EPROM programmer can do that and then print it on a label stuck to the bottom of the device. Back in the day when we manufactured access points, we did that.

  18. Re:People don't like crippleware. on Windows XP Starter Edition off to Slow Start · · Score: 1

    So how long till someone figures out how to remove the restrictions? My guess is it will be done by virus and spybot creators, who find these limitations to be too limiting...

  19. Re:connections limited by os ... on Windows XP Starter Edition off to Slow Start · · Score: 1

    That is exactly the thing I thought of the first time I saw the connections limitation. If you have a PC with multiple spybots running on it, then it won't be able to operate and I have cleaned a PC just a few days ago, with 400 spybots on it, of which many were running...

  20. Re:Company upgrade snafu on IRS Employees Fall For Hackers · · Score: 1

    It depends on the size of the company. With a small company, it is not cost effective to buy all the centrally managed software - basically any place up to several hundred employees run like a glorified home user, with some random flavour of Windoze on the desktop and one or two harried IT blokes walking around, fixing random problems on random desktops.

  21. Re:What a bunch... on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    Well, here is one way to migrate to a larger drive, using dd:
    a. Install second drive - you need a Philips screwdriver. Also set the jumper to Slave.
    b. Boot up and log in
    c. Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a console
    d. su -
    password:
    e. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
    f. halt
    g. Remove old drive and swap the cable position for the new drive. Change the jumper to master.
    h. Power up and log in.
    i. Use diskdrake to repartition and format the empty space on the new drive

    ...and what is so hard about "option = xinerama"?

  22. Re:Logging in on MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    No, one post-it note and a rubber finger.

  23. Re:Obligatory Comment on Hitachi Unveils Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    No, it can run anything - it has wheels...

  24. Re:Down for me on Canadian Spam Levels - Up? Down? You Be the Judge · · Score: 1

    Spam at work??? Please send me your details so I can sell your company a proper mail server with Spam Assassin.

  25. Re:Canadian University blocked AOL on Canadian Spam Levels - Up? Down? You Be the Judge · · Score: 1

    What you have discovered is that Shaw and the Canadian Universities know how to configure Spam Assassin properly, while the US Universities don't. The amount of spam in your inbox, bears no relation at all to the actual amount of spam rejected by the mail server...