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  1. Re:No smiles in Ohio on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    Texas is out for smiles as well. They also discriminate against glasses, which is funny as besides that photo I don't know the last time I was out in public without mine on. Actually get a better hit from matching technology if the picture of me was wearing them.

  2. Re:really??? on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    Thats not entirely true... It is possible for civilians to own fully automatic weapons, however there are a limited number of them available (nothing produced after 1986, has to have been registered before then), the costs are usually astronomical (12-16k is average for a m-16 style weapon), only certain states allow it, and current wait times to get the paperwork processed is about 6 months. But it is possible... technically.

  3. Re:Heard of the slow food movement? on The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its actually a lot hard to be a sysadmin than most developers thing...

  4. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Bookers is without a doubt proof that god loves us. A drop of water or two to unlock the flavor, and your in for a good night.

  5. Re:Too soon? on Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises · · Score: 0

    Yes. It sucked.

  6. Re:Awesome Jedi Mind Trick on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 2

    If you want to show that the bible is made up, or its text is corrupt, I'm going to put you through scientific method process and axiomatic logic reasoning to establish your case.

    Couldnt the same requirements be placed on you to show it isn't made up/corrupt?

  7. Don't let them grow up to be sys-admins on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Warn them to say the hell out of Sysadmining. AKA the place where your considered a cost center, constantly under threat of downsizing, and basically only remembered when you need to spend money or something goes horrifically wrong. I hate to say it but I wish someone had sat me down 15 ago a years ago and warned me out of the whole IT field.

  8. Take them to the range. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Shotgun with slugs. Will punch a hole about an inch across thru the drive, and after 3-4 of them there is no way anyone, even a 3 letter agency is recovering that. And its a lot of fun...

  9. Re:My server's pretty secure... on Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen · · Score: 1

    It was Dr. Who, in the 20th centure, with the TARDIS! (no clue if thats what parent was refering to, but what else could be a spinning police box?)

  10. Re:Automated memes on DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium Some info about depleted uranium. Interesting stuff.

  11. Re:This just in on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 1

    But myth busters proved that they would fly :)

  12. Re:Heh they should all merge on AOL Jumps Into the Ring with Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brando, its what your browser craves. (Now with electrolites)

  13. dCache on Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.dcache.org/ You will need a system to act as a master, but otherwise your normal nodes should work great.

  14. Re:SuSE on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Back when I was still in the proccess of finding a distribution to use, I tried suse, and thought Yast was cool, but that it really was lacking just in pure volume of packages. This was a while ago, but I just found it to be troublesome to open up yast, search for things, not find them, then go install the .tar.gz anyway. I just found that apt and emerge had more than I ever could want/need/desire. And IIRC there is frontend for both apt and emerge.

  15. Re:screenshot available here on Canadian iTunes Music Store Opens · · Score: 1

    oh! I see it! The Canadian flag!

  16. Re:I AM SO UTTERLY SICK OF THIS HORSESHIT on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 1

    and how many users out there actully do patch? Thats great that the OS auto does, but what about the thousands of pirated copies of windows that can be patched?

  17. Re:I hear what you're saying, try this on for size on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    There is only one sligh thing that you failed to remember. Yes, there is near zero downtime (on older systems I remember the knoppix (which im assuming is similar to memphis) installer bogging the system down to a near unusable level. Yes, there is a ton of packages installed, but what if you dont want them all? For example, I remember having etheral installed by default (simply using it as an example, replace package foo here), when in my life I have never used, nor do I ever plan to use it. The same goes for many other pre-installed aplications. On my laptop, I really dont need the whole graphics suite that is installed. I could go on here, but its kind of redundant. The point being you could spend those six hours that you "saved" chasing down software that you dont want/need, and hoping to hell some dependencies dont get messed up (not so sure about the dependencies part, its been a year or so since my last adventure with debian). So before you go off and clame that these live-cd's are the answer to mankinds problems, remember that they can cause more problems than they solve.

  18. Re:Newbies and Gentoo on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    Amen to the X configuration. I remember installing Gentoo twice, the second time simply because I thought I had messed up somewhere, and hadnt installed X. It wasnt till much later that I realized that unlike other distro's (debian had been my flavor of choice pre-gentoo), X wasnt installed by default. Even a tag line in the Guide saying "click here for help on setting up a GUI" would have been a huge time saver. (2 stage 1 installs on a P3 500Mhz... ouch)

  19. Re:Some calculations... on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    "..It should also be noted that the chick in the middle of this picture is kinda cute..."

    Im pretty sure that its a guy....

  20. Re:I've been using Ubuntu... on A Review of Ubuntu Warty Release · · Score: 1

    Ill ask you the same question I want to ask everytime someone says how amazing another disto is. Where is the incentive to switch from my gentoo install? (not counting the 3 days it took to fully install and compile).

  21. ti4200 on Doom 3 Demo Available · · Score: 1

    It runs very well on my 1900+ (stock speeds), with a half gig of cheap ram, and a Ti4200. Sure, it lags out at anything over medium settings, but its amazingly playable at medium settings.

  22. Re:FIRST ANAL "HARD DRIVE" LUBRICANT POST! on New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    some of us prefer X ill have u know.

  23. Re:Who needs this? on Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service · · Score: 1

    Where are they? When the market share is anything more than 20% they will start to show up in great numbers. Hell, IMS Lin has its users running as root anyway, so it wouldnt even be that hard to get them to run a shell script. There is just no point to coding to the miniority of users. Plus, the real volumes of linux users (and not those that bought a cheap computer at Wallmart), arnt dumb enought to install commit-curser. Untill we get Joe-Sixpack on Linux, there is absolutly no reason to spend the time and effort to creat spyware for it. (And a fan-boy? Fan-boy of what? Im a gentoo user, that admits MS did a heck of a job at makeing computers and internet a mainline thingie)

  24. Re:Who needs this? on Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Was going to moderate this one, but I would just like to say, if there wasnt a windows, odds are there wouldnt be a Linux (just take a good honest look at the gui, the coding behind it non-withstanding). And if there was a linux, all the cute little sypware and bonzi-buddies of the world would have been written for the prodomatly linux world. Its easy to sit back and bash MS, but if they wernt around, it would be someone else. Its just smart to code crap for the prodomant OS, especially if your purpose is malware.

  25. Re:Do we really need desktop search? on Microsoft Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    no! no no no no! Even hearing that brings back some very bad and scary memories. People randomly and wildly press buttons, and then hope it gets saved. And descriptive names? file01.doc for their doctoral thesis file02.doc for their kids homeworks assignment.... rinse and repeast adnausium.