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  1. we should raise matching funds on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building · · Score: 1

    we should raise matching funds for cmu so we can add a word -- the "gates sucks computer center"

  2. Re:Compliant Distros on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 1

    you could, but it totally defeats the better package management solution that gentoo uses. Plus it breaks things like versioning. RPM doesn't work very well with sources

  3. Re:Compliant Distros on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    considering the fact that gentoo is a source based distribution, it really can't. However gentoo trys to stay as similar as possible when it can for minimal pain

  4. this is a good example on Automated DMCA Notices Still Full of Lies · · Score: 1

    of when i really would just want to send back a letter telling them to go sod off. You have to wonder how sane these lawyers are.

  5. different takes on MST3K Rightsholders Sue Over Theater Commentary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i think it's fair enough that he doesn't want them to use the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 name since it's more adult themed than MST3K is. I wouldn't mind showing MST3K to pretty much any kid, so their recalcitrance to license it seems completely reasonable. There's no patent on commenting on movies (yet) so the austin people should just change their schtik a little.

  6. just put an IIS server in front of it on Hardening Apache · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're apache install will stay safe because they'll be too distracted

  7. Re:Seinfeld3 FS on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's not just ones and zeros. It's called a file system, because it's a system of filing data into ones and zeros, silly troll

  8. i've been afflicted by this and nearly killed on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 4, Funny

    one time i dropped my computer on my foot and slid down a few stairs while moving. In that case, the computer itself was a very large airborne particle!

  9. really informative on IBM Donates Java Database App. to Apache Foundation · · Score: 1

    just wanted to say thanks for an actually informative post

  10. telling IT cheifs to spend less money a good thing on NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux · · Score: 1

    Oracle chief executive Charles Phillips told the Oracle Open World user conference in Melbourne last week that if IT chiefs wanted better performance, they had to be prepared to spend less - that is, drop their proprietary Unixes and expensive multiprocessor boxes and go to Linux on clusters of two-processor or four-processor servers. That's a line to appreciate. Too bad it is from one *nix to another

  11. Re:I have a better proposal on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    you obviously don't know anything about machine learning. Machine learning is used to speed up what you want to know about instead of slow it down, ways to quickly process information that would otherwise be ungainly to deal with normally. As per performance, the amount of processing that it takes to display something absolutely dwarfs any algorithm that's processing a pretty small dataset

  12. Re:ricochet on Slashback: Wireless, Gasoline, Prevarication · · Score: 1

    haha I had a dual ISDN to the factory in switzerland, about ten miles away. And it was installed in 91 or so. I went straight from that to wireless and skipped dialup, which was cool.

  13. ricochet on Slashback: Wireless, Gasoline, Prevarication · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I moved back from switzerland where I had a dual ISDN line in 1994 to santa cruz, i got a ricochet modem. It was really wonderful, albeit very slow. I could go up into the hills between my house and UCSC and sit out on the field, something i can't do too efficiently nowadays. It was fun while it lasted!

  14. MOD PARENT DOWN on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    It was funny, but Dan Birchall isn't the head of NASA's mars probe program

  15. 100 people! on Wi-Fi Warsailing In The Netherlands · · Score: 4, Funny

    100 People with an accuracy of three decimal points. Now that's news!

  16. Re:I got it! on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    you can read the docs here to learn how bittorrent works http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/documentation.ht ml hth

  17. Re:How about knoppix? on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    use the one i posted above btdownloadcurses http://theaddress just follow the links to find the address - the link will end in a .torrent the file will download to the dir you are in, so navigate to the directory you want to download it in. the curses one will load a nice curses menu, but it is very simple. type bt then hit tab a couple times to see your options hth

  18. Re:A very quick bittorrent how-to? on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    grab the latest version of bittorrent, it should work much better. it will work behind nat, but you might have to open up your firewall. Search google for bittorrent clients. copy the download link and pass it as a command to the program from the commandline. i.e. btdownloadcurses http://address

  19. Re:UIUC on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 1

    well, if you're going to get even more nitpicky, it all depends on what the program is. I'd agree that MIT is definitely overrated, it's the harvard of the sciences for sure (in being obviously overrated and laurel-resting)

  20. Re:UIUC on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 1

    For most US students the top three are MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon. However UIUC is also an excellent school, and shouldn't be mocked at all

  21. opencd anyone? on Free Software at the Local Library? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For more information, check out www.theopencd.org

  22. i read a copy of the directions ... on Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition · · Score: 2, Funny

    it asks you to make sure that you get the street sign and a building number in the shot

  23. Re:Integrated? on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Why not have a heart for a change? I know this is a troll, but seriously, providing necessary services for the blind in your operating system is a little different than having to use your web browser to update your operating system. Jeez.

  24. Re:Hey... on An Xbox Live-like Service For Open/Indie Gaming? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I really like your enthusiasm, but as you probably already know, philosophy never goes "straight ... to reality"

    Just as there was never a real implementation of Communism, there is no real "free market capitalism."

    There are, on a simple level, two reasons for this. One, no one can really agree what "free market capitalism" or "communism" is. The second one is that there's no way in hell politicians would ever inact something that makes sense without perverting it with "political realities."

    Being an economist is definitely a dismal science ;-)

  25. for some reason it doesn't sit well with me on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 2, Funny

    While the intentions are good, the only truly elegant answers for a question like this would be a related to "42" While a laden swallow would most likely be "69" - one can only guess how it would be unladen