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  1. Re:Someone has to do it on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 5, Funny

    'ees not dead, 'ees pinin'

  2. 2.6.3 Unaffected: on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    alex_n@styx alex_n $ ./mremap_pte
    [+] kernel 2.6.3 vulnerable: NO exploitable NO

  3. Re:Does this work for non native speakers? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    I've been speaking in English for 7 years now. Been learning it since 1st grade, actually, but I wasn't really interested in (or good at) utill I moved to America. Since the only time I had to speak in my native tounge (Russian) only at home (and only with parents) I learned English pretty fast. I still don't *speak* well (being the quiet kid that sits in the back of the class), but I write much better (if not very well).

    I was very surprised I didn't catch on to the bad spelling in the news post the first time around. I only noticed by the time I've got the the Cheerio part, which was obviously not a word I read/write every day.

    Oh yes, I read a lot too, so that might account for the pictorial recognition of words. I guess that's the trick, reading. When you read, your brain learns to recognize the words better.

    Or maybe not. Who can say...

  4. What I want to know... on International Bigfoot Symposium · · Score: 1

    ...is he running for Governor?

  5. O_o on LinuxTag: 40% Growth Over Last Year · · Score: 1

    40% growth over last year

    Does that sound like a user testimonial from some kind of an email ad campaign? Only there should a lot more exclamation marks and $ signs. Oh well, can't something something. Where is my coffee?

  6. Re:Ok, which alt browser do you prefer? on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    You forgot lynx, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Excellant Article on Nanotech on The Nanotech Nose: Towards A Smaller Future · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google spake thusly:
    Scientific American nanotechnology articles: linky.
    Richard Feynmand's famous talk: linky
    Ralph C. Merkle's Small World article: linky

    Some more google results: linky

    Just though I'd share.

  8. Alt-what? on Widespread Use of Hydrogen May Hurt Ozone Layer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean we need an alternative fuel for an alternative fuel?

  9. Mod parent up! on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 1

    You are correct! I'm sorry I didn't finish reading before I posted the link(showes me to RTFA first!). I am aware of talk.origins website and lurk their newsgroup regularly.

    (OTOH, they did have a nice physical comparison table, that was my original motivation)

    Thank you for correcting me.

  10. Re:How about sanctions instead? on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not proposing any tehnical solutions though... anyone have ideas on that?

    An earlier article about this. (google)

    But the best tactic is not having an email, period.

  11. Re:How come there are modern and non modern Human? on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 1

    No, apes are descendants of humans. We just haven't discovered the joy of flinging poo, yet.
    (alright alright, SOME of us haven't discovered yet)

  12. Re:Hominids on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just though I should fire up the old google and check it out for myself, here's what I found:

    "While the largest Homo erectus brains were about 1250 ml (2 imperial pints) and modern brains average about 1200 - 1500 ml in volume, female Neanderthal brains were about 1300 ml and those of males about 1600 ml, extending to 1740 ml in the Amud man." --Stringer, Christopher & Gamble, Clive. In Search of the Neanderthals. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993. link

    "The Neanderthals were fully bipedal and had a slightly larger average brain capacity than that of a typical modern human (though the brain structure was organised somewhat differently)." --link

    A good discussion and some comparisons here: link

    Of course by the time I've read it all and wrote this, someone might have posted some relevant information already. Just though I'd share anyway.

  13. Re:food on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? · · Score: 1

    Air fresheners...

  14. Re:Congratulation on a USA today reading level! on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...[SCO] basically re-implemented the Linux kernel with functions available in the Unix kernel to build what is now known as the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) in SCO Unix."

    and

    "The LKP is a feature that allows users to run standard Linux applications along with standard Unix applications on a single system using the UnixWare kernel."

    and you said

    "so I think it is safe to say that these functions were in UnixWare first"

    So you are saying UnixWare was compatable with Linux binaries before Linux came to being? Just asking.

  15. hmm! on UCITA Stalled At State Level · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Politicians are such babies these days.

  16. Re:stick it to the consumer on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    That's why you have neighbors. Sell them a part of your bandwith. I pay nothing for my cable (would be $50 something).

    Best things in life are free, no?

  17. Another reiser4 on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Once Reiser4 comes out, should I switch or just stick to ReiserFS? Why, why not and so forth?

  18. Reiser4 on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    How's reiser4 shaping up these days?

  19. Re:Sure on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except of course animations, PNG will never do that. Plus IE won't display PNGs correctly, for some stupid reason or other.

  20. Re:Cowboys and indians, cops and robbers on Games - The Jury Is Out And Confused · · Score: 1

    When I was growing up we just threw rocks at each other and then ran around hitting stuff with sticks...

    This one time some kids from another neighborhood came around and we chased them around a bit. Untill the grown-ups started yelling. We got angry and set and set some garbage cans on fire. I guess somebody discarded a load of spray cans because the whole thing went up in a fiery glory of fish guts and twisted metal, breaking some windows and setting some other stuff on fire. We got scared and ran away in all directions. So the other kids started chasing us and some grown ups with brooms and things joined too. All of us were grounded for like week...And then there was time we played war, but that's another story.

    A video game can't beat that.