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  1. Re:no, POTS 911 won't cost you on VoIP 911 Emergency Service: Problems and Fixes · · Score: 1

    A deaf technician maybe? You can hear DSL on a line. That is why you need a filter at the phone, else it will be noisy: zzzzzzzzticktickzzzzzzzzzticktickzzzzzzzzzz

  2. Cover it with pig shit on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    then you won't smell the rotting pork odour.

  3. Re:Not pigs, but cigarettes on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yup, everything but the disk drives and screens, can go through a dish washer. About 10 years ago, electronic boards were washed in dishwashers in the electronics factories, with orange oil as solvent - then someone invented no-cleanup flux.

    Some random pieces will come out fschk'ed though

  4. Re:IMHO on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    Hmm, looking at all the problems we are having, I think networks do, do all that by themselves... sigh!

  5. Re:Reiserfs, storage and why do you want this? on Database File System · · Score: 1
    Exactly - doesn't matter how you organize files - sooner or later you have to search for one and searching with ReiserFS is damn fast.

    I guess the hoopla is mostly a Windows thing, where it is well nigh impossible to search for anything.

    Essentially, in a hirarchical system you sometimes search for stuff, while in a DB system, you *always* search for stuff - big deal...

  6. Small town on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 1

    It would have to be a really small town, with very few people for that to be of any use. In any half decent city, the billboard won't be able to change fast enough and if it is really directed at small number of people, then what's the point? It is much better to target a large number of people at an offramp with a static display.

  7. Re:Fried detetor on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 1
    Spray paint, Spray oil, Slingshot, Baseball bat (or a Cricket bat for the English), Shotgun, Flame thrower, Huuuuge Friggen Laser... MUUUHAHAHAHA!!!

    Pardon, couldn't resist it.

  8. Re:real-world popup ads :( on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 1
    A tinfoil hat won't help, but a shotgun will do wonders.

    Chances are that something as simple as a baseball bat or a slingshot will do too...

  9. Re:Yeah, physics! on World's Largest Working Computing Grid · · Score: 1

    You can have at least 6000 frames concurrently...

  10. Prior Patents == Prior Art on More Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    The USPTO only considers prior patents to be prior art. So someone can patent the keyboard itself and pre-empt MS's use thereof for everything...

  11. Re:And this is why Linux is not mainstream on Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 · · Score: 1

    So, roughly 1 billion Linux based cell phones are too hard to use by average Joes, or not mainstream? Come on, get real.

  12. Re:Cite chapter and verse please on Vandenberg AFB Missile Launches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chapter and verse huh? a. Drive up to any military base and look at the big sign at the gate saying "no cameras...".
    b. Go read the Patriot Act.
    Nuff sed.

  13. Re:Hrmph on Vandenberg AFB Missile Launches · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Photographing military activities and equipment is illegal in most places, though it is not necessarily enforced much in the free world. However, the USA is not exactly a free country at the moment, since it is under a limited State of Emergency.

    Making a web site out of this will most probably attract some attention from the men in black and the guy will have to take it down.

  14. Use *NIX and it would be on Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: 2, Funny
    about 8 minutes.

    I guess they wanted to leave themselves some room for improvement and therefore started off with Win2003...

  15. Re:Durability on The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you must be working in a PC repair shop then...

  16. Re:Dept colection? Great on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    He is American. He went to a public school. You have to take pity on the poor sod...

  17. Re:printer as a doorstop on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Well, actually an old monitor on a swivel base works better as a doorstop than a printer would.

  18. Re:And if this goes through? on Microsoft faces Monopoly Lawsuit (again) · · Score: 1

    So, what do you want instead? A Linux voucher? I can print you one...

  19. Re:Avoid oil (almost) entirely on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Diesels are already cheap enough - diminishing returns. Most diesels are better than equivalent sized petrol/electric hybrids. That is one reason why petrol/electric hybrids are not popular - just buy a diesel. Hybrid == needless application of complex technology.

  20. Simple - devalue the Dollar on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    If the US would devalue the Dollar to 25 Canadian cents, then all the outsourced jobs will come back...

  21. Re:Java's uncool image on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1
    Write once, debug everywhere, has been touted as a feature of every programming language as far as I can remember - all the way from Cobol, C, Pascal etc. to Java and C#...

    Probably the most portable language is Fortran, since nobody ever writes a GUI in Fortran.

  22. First Post on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn ext3...

  23. Re:ext3 to reiser4 ? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 1

    No, sorry, but it is worth the change. It is like buying a new faster computer.

  24. Re:IE Momentum on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1
    People like to suffer. It makes them feel they have a purpose in the world - to endure the suffering. It also gives them something to talk about, all their suffering and then their friends can nod and concur about the terrible, terrible calamity that they are suffering and that makes them feel good, since they have something in common with all the other sufferers.

    Philantropists that offer ways to end the suffering are generally despised. Selling people on Mozilla is a thankless job.

    In the army we used to say: "As jy kak is moet jy suffer", or for the benefit of the soutpiele: "If you are shit, you shall suffer". That is very true of Internet Exploder users.

    Let them suffer, they want to, they will be very unhappy if they are not suffering...

  25. Excellent on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    This is the only way that Congress can get first hand experience of the stupid security rules...