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  1. Whoops! on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read this as procto.net. I figgured maybe they were just pulling propaganda out of their butts.

  2. Ummmm.... on Moving to the Linux Business Desktop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to have confused "laser printer" with "cheap inkjet printer". I've never had a problem with a laser printer not working on Linux.

  3. Ummm... on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should the state be involved in a party's internal nomination? Isn't that what party conventions are for?

  4. Re:!FP? on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry, I'm from Canada, where we have sane election laws.

    You have to mark your affiliation on your registration??? WTF?!

    Who thought that was a good idea???

  5. !FP? on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is this not on the Front Page?

  6. Hopefully it doesn't harm on Crackdown On Internet 'Hate' in Canada · · Score: 1

    One Canadian site, Nizkor, documents (and refutes) the claims of holocaust deniers. In documenting the claims, they might fall afoul of the act (I've not read it yet), even though that is the exact opposite of their intent.

  7. Mu on What's The Linux Kernel Worth? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are assuming that market value is the only measure of worth. Even in capitalist accounting (GAAP) you are mistaken.

    To an accountant, all assets are valued at their expense, minus any prior amortization or markdowns. Most Linux users would thus have to include in their valuation any time they spent downloading, configuring, and installing the kernel.

    I would have to include a few hundred dollars for the time to develop, test, and submit the (very small) patch I submitted. With ten years of their life put into it, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc would each have to value it at several million dollars.

  8. Re:fork() is a cheap operation on unix on Solaris Systems Programming · · Score: 1

    Faster inter-thread communication, and only needing to mmap files once.

  9. Re:So... on Centaur - a Four-wheeled Segway · · Score: 1

    Were you referring to This?

  10. Re:But why? on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Is there Mac-only software that people would want to run on their x86 machine?

    Absolutely: Safari, Camino, and ie/Mac. Web developers can see what their site will look like and how it will function on a Mac without needing to get more hardware.

    I used to run Win2k on VMWare on Linux so I could see how my sites would look on a PC.

  11. Try this instead: on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 3, Informative

    PearPC, same thing only open source, free, and runs on Windows and Linux.

  12. Re:Umm on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    Your wife's ring probably doesn't get smashed between hunks of metal colliding at 1500m/s very often, as would happen with nanotube tipped projectiles.

    Also, copper in your (<24 Karat, you cheapskate) wife's ring is what is making her finger green.

  13. Re:Umm on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    The Hydrogen in water is already oxydized. The carbon in carbon nanotubes isn't.

  14. Umm on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're still made out of carbon, which oxidizes readily.

  15. Re:Overkill on 32-bit Processors, Cheap · · Score: 4, Informative
    So, when do I get my full-pentium-PC-on-a-chip so I can play X-Com on my watch?
    AMD.
  16. Not just "Power" on 32-bit Processors, Cheap · · Score: 1

    With Atmel's line only having up to 64KB RAM and 512KB ROM, it doesn't seem to have much advantage over the 16 bit or 8 bit segmented memory uControlers on the market (8086 derivatives).

    Annother concern with uControlers is pincount. 32 bit addressing seems likely to increase the number of pins if it can address external memory. This leads to higher system costs. One of the advantages of a SOC like the STAMP is that it has very few pins.

    The 68HC11 and 68HC12 lines of uControlers can address similar amounts of memory, and some models are fairly zippy (for a uControler).

  17. Not hard at all... on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    They have more guns.

  18. Re:not what you think on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1
    or a computer used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication

    Have you never visited a web site outside your home state?

  19. Re:sorta OT on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1
    plug in network cable, install your favorite firewall

    This is backwards

    Also, stromngly consider a hardware firewall/NAT router.

  20. Umm... on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 0

    I think that's why the title starts "Beginning..."

  21. My PHP reference... on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 4, Informative

    All you need.

    Includes all the functions, too. Without advertizements.

  22. Before I get flamed/foed on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    I should point out that I prefer PostgreSQL.

  23. Why MySQL? create user foo createdb; on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Creating a postgresql user who has the ability to create databases makes that user a superuser of ALL databases. This makes postgresql tricky to use in a mass virtual hosting environment.

    Also, most web applications are not written to take advantage of features such as stored procedures. This is probably partly because the developers don't understand them, and partly because MySQL is so common already.

  24. Re:My first question was, 'why'? on Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent · · Score: 1
    There is a public access cable station where I live, so my first thought was why bother? Do we really need to have that funny guy that lives by the old slaughter house broadcasting world wide his theories about alien brian implants?

    Chances are, there are only a few people within range of the public access TV station that care about his theories. Over the whole world though, there may be enough to warrant him having a show.

  25. Re:Frightening on Telecom Outages Now a State Secret · · Score: 1

    I think perhaps he was referring to the rhetoric in Germany around 1933-1935. Yes, there are no mass exterminations yet. Hopefully the world will not slide into the horror of reproducing 1937-1945.