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  1. Re:Nope on Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux · · Score: 1

    --"I quit high school a total of 2 times..."

    I can tell.

  2. Im a happy Lenovo/IBM customer on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    I ordered this system from IBM, along with a Ultrabay battery. As it looks, it kicks ass, considering that I've seen what IBM quality is. It's good.

    1 SYS.6465CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM $1,200.35 $1,200.35
                The above product code consists of the following component(s):
      1 6465CTO CTO THINKPAD T61 WIDESCREEN-1Y $1,129.55
      1 42V8190 SBB INTEL CORE 2 DUO PRCESST7300 $0.00
      1 42V8012 VBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC $0.00
      1 42V8568 SBB MS WINVISTA HM BS32 US ENG $0.00
      1 42V8286 SBB 15.4 WXGA TFT $0.00
      1 42X0817 SBB INT GMAX3100 GM965W $0.00
      1 41W2063 VBB 2GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 2DIMM $0.00
      1 42V8195 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH $0.00
      1 42V8295 SBB UN(TRACKPOINT TOUCHPAD) $0.00
      1 42V8165 SBB 120GB HDD,5400RPM $0.00
      1 42V8172 SBB DVD REC.8XMAXDUAL LAY UB-S $0.00
      1 42X0805 VBB PC CARDSLOT EX CARDSLOT $0.00
      1 41W1501 SBB INTELPRO/WL3945ABGUSCNLAAP $0.00
      1 62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN $0.00
      1 39T6651 SBB 9 CELL LI-ION BATTERY $0.00
      1 41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA $0.00
      1 42V8339 SBB LPACK US ENGLISH $0.00
      1 41C9170 LENOVO THINKPLUS EXTENDED SERVICE AGREEMENT - 3 YEARS - PICK-UP AND RETURN

    Total of $1,368. Damn fair from what I've had to go through with Hewlett Crapard with their "tech support".

  3. Well... on Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing · · Score: 1

    Wheres the images?

    (after reading article)

    EWWWWW!! I dont wanna know!!

  4. Re:Ummm . . . on A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question · · Score: 1

    Check out here to cast doubt that even the laws of physics are invariant.

    Hmm. C changing kinda sucks when you think about it. What else has changed? Gravity? Mass of an electron? Plancks constant?

    Yuck.

  5. Re:Whew on Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you hold me at gunpoint, IP.

  6. Re:broadband over power on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    So you're for dumping insane amounts of RF down unshielded power lines?

    Smart. Real smart. Just wait until they hit the big cities... there will be soo much devices pulling ths rfi and doing lots of weird things.

    What is scary is that there's been no case studies on the expected results of dumping RF down these lines. Ill give you a hint: its bad. Real bad.

  7. Oh, come on.... on Misleading Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it that big a surprise that government and reporting agencies bloat numbers .... or even just lie to get their agenda covered?

    It's not just Canada. It's the USA, all the countries in Europe, Asia..

    Any peoples with a government body lie.

  8. Re:Um, look at the article. on The Smiley Face Turns 25 :-) · · Score: 1

    I like my ascii breasts better.

    ( . )Y( . )

  9. Re:Dell has this in many of their laptops BIOSs on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    Since it's a laptop, we can assume to know what wired and wireless hardware it runs. Knowing that, we can then shim direct data through the NICs. Better yet, if we can query NIC information via ACPI, all the better.

  10. For Linux..... on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    1. Set up a DynDNS account, and do the pay thing for "ownership" of the dns name for a time.
    2. Set up on Linux a DynDNS client updater. Do the same for Windows.
    3. Set up a secure rootkit with your authentication. Use kernel module hiders and use the kmod that hides certain port sniffing.. Its in HoneyD

    When you deal with a thief...

    4. Locate the IP address via DynDNS. Log into the stolen machine.
    5. Stream the audio from mics (pipe it from raw device to mp3 and send compressed). Do the same with webcam if it works with Linux
    6. Go then show up and stick that fucker up with a gun. See how he likes it.

    "I want my laptop back.."

  11. Re:and so it begins on Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru · · Score: 1

    Michael Crawford is also around here... ...said The Amazing Idiot.

  12. Re:Note taking on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 1

    Yet the word itself, Skole, meant leisure and relaxation.

    "Schools" in that day and age was places of communication and rhetoric. It was NOT a place of enforced learning, as we see happen in the Spartans.

    Enforced, mandatory schooling was the extreme insult for learned peoples.

  13. Re:Note taking on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 1

    ----You can lead a man to culture but you can't make him think.

    Something akin to this statement was found on a wall in a 300 level pathology lab:
    "For some people, bacteria is the only culture they have."

    ---Yes, Calculus is a useful thing. So is linear algebra and differential equations. You know what else? Animal husbandry was key to the development of civilization. So let's make everyone learn how to breed cows as part of a classical education. Hmm, doesn't make as much sense now, does it?

    Wrong. Animal husbandry does not consist of the basic skills of reading and how to use numbers. Perhaps people, outside of college, will not use them, but that is up to them.

    I was discussing a subset of people: University graduates. I was not talking about the trades or other manual labor. However, it is to be argued that even tradesmen should know something about the classics and moderate level algebra, as so they can raise their standard of living for not only them, but those who they live with.

    ---Just because something is useful to know in a given subject does not mean that people outside of the subject have to be familiar with it.

    Most people can barely tell who the last 5 presidents were, let alone who their elected representative is in their district. As it is today, people care more about what the "In" people are doing, and who is popular, and who isn't. Instead, people do very little/no means to better themselves. Are they capable of bettering their lives? Of course they are!

    ---For example, in computers: recognizing a properly formatted email address, everyone should know that. Setting up a new Exchange server, nobody but sysadmins should have to bother with it. Teaching calc to people outside of math and engineering degrees is a waste of effort. I didn't need to know it then, I don't need to know it now, and if I ever did need to know it in the future, I'd have to teach it all to myself again anyways because I don't remember any of it.

    That is my point. Those intelligent enough to teach oneself a skill is what I'd hope we all would accomplish. Teaching how to learn is the best skill above all, in which all people should master.

    ---As for your love of the greeks, you do not instill an appreciation of culture by force-feeding it down people's throats and giving them a test on it later.

    Don't patronize me. I know how the Greeks taught, and how they communicated knowledge and scholastic studies. They didn't. There were no schools in Athens.

    ---Not everyone is meant to be a renaissance man, some people are just as happy to be bricklayers or factory workers or craftsmen. A lifelong pursuit of learning is a good thing but the best you'll do by trying to beat it into people is fostering a lifelong dislike of learning.

    Like I said before, anybody who graduates from a University should be required to know the basics of Calculus. I said nothing of the trades.

  14. Re:Note taking on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 1

    And in my opinion, anyone who claims to be a university graduate should be required to take and understand calculus.

    Calculus is a 400 year old math discipline, and regarded as a requirement for a classical education (something in which we have forgotten). One should also take philosophy and review the works of Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle, Euclid, and other Greek people.

    Yet, now we barely focus on what topic of study we choose, and not much else. I'm sure the American joke has been told: What are you called if you only speak 1 language? American.

  15. Re:religion on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess we can agree that the normal peoples have no basis of understanding what we do argue. I've read many of Darwin's works, and come to agree on many points.

    Evolution, by definition, does exist. Sexual reproduction requires that. And being in the advent of easily sequencing DNA, we can show that every lifeform almost always (there are exceptions.. clones, chimera, mitosis) has a unique DNA code.

    What we argue is that of Natural Selection. It is not proved, as it is a theory based upon observations.

    Theories can not be proved true (in the non-mathematical sense), but can be disproved by other observable phenomena. The key word here is observable.

    God, God's work, and God's thoughts are not observable. Whether God exists or not is no concern here. That quantity is not measurable, and therefore we cannot account for it. The only way we (scientific community) can account for a religious text is if we can demonstrate an act that can be reproduced.

    Unfortunately, God is unprovable, as are his acts. We only must rely on observable data, in which God is not there. To say otherwise is to discredit all science in recent history using the scientific method.

  16. Re:religion on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    For one, evolution is a fact.

    Let me repeat that... Evolution is a fact. Simply enough, what is the definition of evolution? According to Webster, it is the process of changing in a certain direction. We care not what direction.

    For example, if you would have sexual relations with someone else (opposite gender reqd.) and created a child, they would have evolved from both of you. Simply, they have changed unique to either of you. This is a known fact.

    Natural selection is the theory to describe why and how evolution pushes towards certain outcomes. Why are native Africans black? Why do Asians have different eyelids? Why are some people susceptible to certain diseases while others are not? Natural selection argues that there are forces within nature that shift certain traits to certain ways. This is the theory in which to attack.

  17. Re:Wow on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what would make sense is if the network bigwigs used Bittorrent to trade around their network shows.

    They could seed them in that they would have paid ads in them. Who would set up a anti-nbc BT client just to remove ads? I'd gather that the pirates (arr matey) are too lazy to rip out a few seconds here and there.

    NBC would get their ad revenue, and pirates would get high quality goods. Win-Win.

  18. Re:"Totally Illegal" on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 1

    If we capture it in a format like Xvid..

    Tell me: did the producers emit the shows in Xvid? I think not. You are not copying "restricted" content.

    Due to Nyquists theorem, you are NOT copying the data, as it is not digital. You are approaching an infinite value (that of the broadcast).

  19. SpaceSuits anyone? on "Lifesaver Bottle" Filters Viruses Out of Water · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This sounds like what was in Dune... A rehydrator from excrement (sweat, fecal matter, urine).

    If anything, along with rebreathers and this rehydrator, one could stay in horrendously inhospitable areas for a long while.

  20. I dont like SALT!! on Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and SALT!!

  21. Re:Soo.. on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    What math are you using? Roman numerals?

    4800$/24$ = 200

    200 chunks * 20 MB = 4000 MB = 4 GB

    4 GB / 3 phones = 4/3 GB per phone.

  22. Re:This had better get fixed on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    Good point. It should have a combo selection box that also includes text explaining what it does

    Radio Off/Disable Radio :This mode is good for when you are in locations that require you not to use electronic devices (like air planes). This mode is also good for when you do not want iPhone to check mail and use network resources when in another country.

  23. Re:DIRMS on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Why would one need to "defrag" a hard drive partition?

    Isn't your FS driver intelligent enough to do best-fit calculations?

  24. Re:Just another SCO wanabe? on Sun CEO Says NetApp Lied in Fear of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Woot!

    Sun Yellow Pages....until they were sued by "Yellow Pages".

    Damn lawyers.

  25. Re:ahem on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin


    "Think of the children!!!" - Hillary Clinton


    "Fuck the children!" - George Carlin