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  1. Re:Pay a premium for the board on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Not a single human being has ever died as a result of PCB ingestion. ONE solatary lonely person has gotten ill from it and he recovered. If you would drink motor car oil, then you would get ill too...

  2. Re:Green Computing on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, at least the lead in the CRTs is inside the glass, in the form of a complex crystal, so it ain't goin nowhere...

  3. Re:But.. on This Robot Collects Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    No, no, you don't use your own soldiers to defuse bombs - you use captured enemy soldiers to do that...

  4. Re:Unfortunately... on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    That is Heissenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Banking...

  5. Re:Good idea but... on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, never underestimate the bandwidth of a minivan full of CDROMs...

  6. Re:Have fun with spammers! on One Third of Email Now Spam · · Score: 1

    No, please don't do that. Most spam has forged headers, so by bouncing spam, you make matters worse. Rather install a good statistical filter, eg. popfile if you use Windoze, or SpamProbe if you use Linux - both are on Sourceforge.

  7. Since Sunday on One Third of Email Now Spam · · Score: 1
    2205 spam

    120 good

    8 virus

    ==>95% spam...

  8. Re:My tool on One Third of Email Now Spam · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is very easy to remove 90% or even 95% of spam - the difficult part is that last 5%. You need a very good statistical filter to get to 99.6%, which is where I am now.

  9. Re:great. on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    So you put money in for 1 hour, then they double the rate and you get a parking ticket after 30 minutes???

  10. Re:then make a standard on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 1

    I, for one, pledge my allegiance to our new East German overlords...

  11. Bio gold on Money That Grows On Trees · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use of bacteria to concentrate gold is done on a commercial scale in South Africa for about 2 decades already.

  12. Re:Baked.. on Money That Grows On Trees · · Score: 3, Funny
    So, use the humans as batteries and when they fail, burn them to recover the metals.

    Sounds efficient to me.

  13. Dinosaurs in Canada on A New Ice Age? · · Score: 1

    Sooo, when the earth was warm and dinos roamed the Canadian and Russian arctic, they were troubled by ice and their wallowing swamps were dry... Exactly what kind of ice do you get at plus 40 degrees Celsius?

  14. Re:All BUT surpassed? on KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Well - Windows95 is still unstable, just like Redhat Linux 1.0 is still clunky and a horse is way slower than a motor car and steam trains are dirty. You know, at some point, you have to install a new version and stop complaining about the old ones...

  15. April 8? on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    7 days late...

  16. Re:Next step for microsoft on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 1

    that is 'la voila' you insensitive corperate (sic) clod...

  17. Re:Too Bad Commercial Airship Development Has Stal on Lockheed's High Altitude Airship · · Score: 1

    They are slooooooooooowwwwwwwww... Faster than a steam ship yes, but by golly, I would not want to do a long range flight in one of those. A little Boeing or Air Bus is way better.

  18. Re:Launch platform on Lockheed's High Altitude Airship · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the only thing you can use a space elevator for, is to launch geosync satellites. You cannot use it to launch LEO satellites.

  19. Thodds are sooooo far out on Planetary Defense: Protecting Earth from Asteroids · · Score: 1

    governments have greater things to worry about - such as clean water for everybody...

  20. Re:the best shell script on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    1001 uses of the Remark (rm) command...

  21. Not surprized on FreeS/WAN Project Bows Out · · Score: 1

    FreeSWAN is friggin impossible to configure. So no wonder nobody wants to use it...

  22. Vegas is a nuke testing area on Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday · · Score: 1

    The tests were/are underground, but that probably won't stop the EMP totally.

  23. Who's counting??? on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh · · Score: 1

    How do you count stuff that isn't sold? Bullshit baffles brains...

  24. Coloured diamonds on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    are neither valuable nor rare... They are commonly known as Industrial Diamonds.

  25. Hard to catch on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    This virus is very hard to catch - people actually have to dobule click on the attachments, so how the hell does it manage to spread against those odds?