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  1. Re:Fly through Windows? on Microdrone Spy Planes · · Score: 1
    Of Course it is designed to Explode, and to destroy the entire family

    Orrrrr... a group of terrorists plotting their next nefarious deed.

  2. Re:If Windows were to diappear on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    And imagine how stuffy houses would get after being closed up tight all winter, with no way to air them out!

  3. Re:If Windows were to diappear on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1
    The inexpensive x86 machines out there all run Windows.

    Not this inexpensive x86 machine.

    I guarantee that your x86 box is capable of running MS Windows.

  4. Re:missed the GUI? on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1
    if Microsoft missed the GUI, why isn't Linux emulating OS X

    Simple: Because even though they missed the GUI, it wasn't a fatal mistake, and they had enough time to paddle fast enough to catch the wave.

  5. Re:I don't mean to sound bitter ... on NASA's X-43A Vehicle Ready for Flight · · Score: 1

    Oxydizer, not fuel.

  6. Re:deskstar on Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1
    moved about 70GB and 5 years worth of documents, MP3s and other irreplacables to it. ...Three months later ... the damn thing bit the dust. Crapped out. The head ate the fucking disk. All my files, gone. Died.

    What a fool for not burning them to CD-R or DVD-R (heck, even encrypting them and FTPing them to various family members) at various points in time.

  7. Re:Next ten years on Linus on Linux in 1994 · · Score: 1

    s/cluessless/clueless/

  8. Re:Next ten years on Linus on Linux in 1994 · · Score: 1
    Just like Jesus, or Muhammed, or Buddah, or.....?

    That's an incredibly cluessless statement.

  9. Re:Nonsense on ATI Releases Drivers for XFree 4.3.0 · · Score: 1
    I don't hear anyone complaining about Matrox or S3.

    Because the article's not about S3. But I still can't get my built-on-mobo ProSavage-DDR working with XFree 4.3. :(

  10. Re:Moon having "military value" on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    I don't care what the WCWC does or want, since I trust international organisations like this, the ICC and the UN about as far as I can spit into a gale.

  11. Re:Moon having "military value" on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 1
    I thought the 51st state was Canada?

    No, England is 51. Canada is 52-63.

  12. Re:Moon having "military value" on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 1
    Since when has the U.S. given a fuck about International Treaties? If it did, Rumsfeld & Cheney would be sitting in a Belgian prison right about now, with the child molestors, where they belong ...

    What the hell are you talking about? The ABM Treaty? If so, you need to stop smoking crack and mainlining at the same time....

  13. Re:10-8 hours of charge? on Build Your Own iPod Battery · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "The point's not toasting a cd every time you want to hear a song that's not toasted"

    Hey, I have an idea!!! Store all the ripped songs on you PC/Mac's hard disk, and copy a chunk of them over to the ipod when needed.

    Nah, that's too obvious.

  14. Re:Satellite has one big advantage on Cable TV Versus Satellite TV? · · Score: 1
    Cable -- Bigger rate increases -- Crappy customer service (getting better)

    Can't talk for anyone else, but Cox in New Orleans is cheap ($43 for Extended Basic: ~60 channels in analog), and the quality of service is so good, that even if their customer service is crappy, I'd never notice, because their services (TV, Internet [~2Mbps d/l speed] & digital phone) are extremely reliable.

    We've called them out twice. Once for a cut cable, and the other for fuzziness in the high channel numbers that turned out to be faulty installation by a 3rd party. They came out quickly, at no charge, and solved the problems rapidly.

    Non-disclaimer: no, I don't work for Cox, and am in no way affiliated with it.

  15. Re:Pff on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Back in the mid 80s, in a small state Uni, there was a PDP-11 with BASIC+ and VT-100s, with a DECwriter III to print out the programs.

  16. Re:No, we don't! on The Future of NASA · · Score: 1
    If only they could remove greed from politicians and remove stupidity from immigrants...

    If, If, If.... If if was as skiff, I'd be fishing, but it's not, so I'm not.

    There will always be times when violence is a valid strategy, and anybody who thinks otherwise is totally delusional.

  17. Re:Oh dear on Eolas vs. Microsoft Verdict Stands, Despite ReExam · · Score: 1
    IANAL, but where are the deep pockets with Mozilla?

    Eolas could/would file for a Cease And Desist order about developing and/or distributing the source code in each state/country it could get such an order issued.

  18. Re:Not a disease on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1
    sugar doesn't make kids hyper you mindless sheep

    You haven't been seen pre-schoolers before and after snack time, have you?

  19. Re:The need for "extension languages" on Lightweight Scripting/Extension Languages? · · Score: 1
    More languages:

    • Ada (part of gcc)
    • Fortran (part of gcc)
    • COBOL
  20. Re:People will keep using it, regardless... on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1
    Ever heard of an operatingsystem called Linux ?

    How many people still use KDE 0.x or Linux 2.0.36 in general desktop usage? Do RH, Mandrake & SuSE still support their distro versions from 5 years ago? FAT CHANCE. Thus, this is not something that we Linux users should make hay about.

  21. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1

    Once EZ Pass becomes "EZ Speeding Fine", usage will drop to near zero.... Nope.... We already send out tickets to people who speed through NYSTA plazas. Been doing it for ~8 years.

  22. Re:password on Debian Project Servers Compromised · · Score: 1
    i have with me a little RSA key thingy, which switches codes every 60 seconds. this code makes up part of a password that i need to authenticate myself to the work firewall. its one time, its constantly changing, and it uses a combination of a static password (my part) and a dynamic password (the rsa key).

    I also have one. It's called the RSA SecurID, and Nortel uses it with their VPN software. I've been told that they cost ~US$50.

    dmszero, is your SecurID small and black, or red, blue and the size of a credit card? I had a small, black one, and it's battery lasted more than 3 years.

  23. Re:Asimov's idea on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1

    From "I, Robot", published in 1950. The story is "Reason", and the function of robot QT-1 is to run a space station that collects solar energy and beams it down to collector dishes on the ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot#Reason

  24. Re:Hotplug CPU and RAM support? on What Will Be in Linux 2.7? · · Score: 1

    SGI & Sun do not make mainframes!!!! Never have and never will.

    Still, Big Systems (including mainframes, newer big "minicomputers" and the aforementioned Tandems) have support for hot-swappable RAM, CPUs & controller cards (mainframes don't have PCI slots).

  25. Re:NO MORE LASER PRINTERS! on What Will Be in Linux 2.7? · · Score: 1

    I think (hope) he was being funny...