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  1. Re:ORLY on No More Next Big Thing? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also, I'm still waiting for my damned hoverboard.
    Actually, I'd rather have a Mr Fusion

  2. Re:Not just for command line use! on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    ImageMagick's function library is also accessible through a variety of APIs for your favorite language
    My favorite language (OCaml) is not there :( (although there appears to be Ocaml APIs developped elsewhere)

  3. Re:feh, meh, geh... on Internet Searches Reveal CIA's Secrets · · Score: 1

    actual forgeries such as (snip) Anne Frank (snip)'s diary
    WHAT?

  4. Re:Why pass what you know is flawed? I'll tell you on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps some of you don't remember 9/11
    Oh, yeah, that was so long ago...
    But not as long ago as the famous Ben Franklin quote

  5. Re:Sensationalist, but effectively correct on Was Thomas Edison Right about DC Power? · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. Re:Let me tell you about this better web technolog on How Do You Decide Which Framework to Use? · · Score: 1

    Good luck picking up a lady telling them you work on struts, scaffold or java beans.
    On the other hand, rubies are a girl's second best friend.

  7. Re:The most telling admission on Google Stands Ground on Google.cn · · Score: 1

    who's number one?
    You are number 6.

  8. Re:How a bout a sexual definition? on Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn · · Score: 1

    would prefer a sexual definition of porn. That is, porn involving pre-pubescent people would be child porn, while porn involving sexually mature persons is not. If you can reproduce, you are not a child in a biological sense.
    Of course yo DO realize that puberty (for girls) happens on average before 13...

  9. Re:Problems with today's internet. on Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Of course the real problem is that the word 'hacking' (or hacker or any other variation) is a piss poor choice of a word if you want it to be associated with something good.
    Is cutting wood something fundamentally wrong???

  10. Re:Public Health costs on Cardiac Patch for a Broken Heart · · Score: 1

    With medicine getting better & much more serious conditions being able to be fixed a lot easier, what are the social implications of this, humans are lazy, would it help create a society of people less concerned about their health? And what would that cost?
    Well, when society can't bear the cost any longer, the problem will take care of itself... And if this never happens, then there isn't a problem.

  11. Re:A few points to the EU powermongers... on EU to Develop Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Actually they wanted googol.com but that was already taken (and they misspelt it anyway)

  12. Re:Read: Lawmakers try to replace parents entirely on Lawmakers Try to Protect Kids From Spam · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, that some of the worst sex offenders can be found in the clergy.
    From:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_priests'_sex _abuse_scandal (with whatever amount of credibility you're willing to put into that article of course, I'll let you search for credible data to counter it)
    The term paedophile priests, widely used in the media, implies a distinctly higher rate of child molesters within the Roman Catholic priesthood when in reality its 1.5-2% is no higher than any other segment of society and lower than many.

  13. Re:analysis tools? on US Homeland Security to Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    Are they proposing building a 'i think know what you meant' version on lint or something?
    Not quite, but we're working on it :)
    http://linuxbugs.coverity.com/

  14. Re:Industry is in for a surprise... on If DVD Is Dead, What's Next? · · Score: 1

    Plain Old DVDs.
    They're not plain! Have you heard of CSS?

  15. Re:Not really different from most unixlike systems on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    I don't mind using a command line, but the problem is that Windows isn't meant to be managed with a command line, so I'm not familiar with what command I have to run to do things.

  16. Re:sudo chmod == pwnt on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 1

    Where I used to work we had an in-house program which was suid root which parsed the command line and executed, on behalf of the user, the correct underlying privileged commands or system calls.
    You know what sudo is right?

  17. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    OK, so how do I run control panel as root? (which is the main thing that actually requires admin priviledges).

  18. Re:Mere Christianity on Behind the Scenes of Narnia's Special Effects · · Score: 1

    You know, I saw the movie this weekend, and I had to squint to see anything like a "retelling of Jesus Christ". The circumstances of Aslan's death and resurrection are only vaguely like those for Jesus, and there are no other parallels at all.
    Actually I was even shocked at the way the depicted Christmas (as being "the time when Santa Claus brings presents"). And the death / resurrection looked more like a ruse than like a sacrifice. "The Matrix" was probably more of a Christian allegory (and it was awful).
    Also the "son of Adam" / "daughter of Eve" seems to come out of nowhere (like pretty much everything else in the movie). I don't know about the books, but the movie was seriously lacking a backstory, as well as any reason to care about those people (what? they fight for control of an empty world?).
    And let's not mention the fake snow. I especially loved the "but you look so cold!" when no one actually looked cold at any moment.
    The only thing good in that movie is the creatures (I'm usually not a fan of CGI, but this one was pretty good. The lion didn't look perfect, but quite believable).

  19. Re:Get your $#!^ together on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    uhm, if you think redwood city is a desert, it shows how much you know about...well, reading.

    HINT: Redwoods need alot of water.......guess what they have alot of in REDWOOD city?


    I live in the bay area. Outside of the urbanized areas (with A LOT of water sprinklers. And they tell you to conserve shower water!), most of the vegetation is very dry. Maybe there was a time when Redwood could grow in Redwood city (and I can't comment on a redwood's water consumption, I have no idea about it), but I'm not sure it would still work.
    Also for instance "lake" lagunita in Stanford used to be a place for rowing or windsurfing. Now it's merely a pond in the winter, and completely dry in the summer.

  20. Re:I'm not sure which is scarier... on Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm · · Score: 1

    Congress should outlaw EULA agreements altogether, even the part that says 'If this breaks we aren't responsible.' They wrote the software saying that it works, and if it breaks, they SHOULD be responsible.
    In the name of all software developers, PLEASE don't do that! Do you really want a software malpractice insurance?

  21. Re:ABRs of OSS on No WINE Before Its Time · · Score: 1

    Netscape got everyone to accept that we'd use "beta" software the same way we'd use a general release.
    I thought that was Google?

  22. Re:All I know on DVD Jon to work for Michael Robertson · · Score: 1

    I though that was the whole point of patent laws and the like.
    The point of patents is you shouldn't need to reverse engineer (although in practice it's not necessarily the case).

  23. Re:Not Forever on Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage · · Score: 1

    For instance, installing Opera didn't result in a shortcut appearing for the application on my Desktop in Xandros, so I had to conduct a search to track down the executable for Opera in that mess of directories
    Funny, for me one of the advantages of linux is that every executable is in /usr/bin (or /usr/local/bin), so when I want to run something I just type the command name. On Windows, you usually have to give the full path, also a lot of programs need to be in the path (e.g. Visual Studio.Net wants at least 3 of its directories in the path, all of which start with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003), and of course (at least on Win2k) the size of an environment variable is limited...

  24. Re:My cold, dead hands on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    Does E.I duPont REALLY need 0.39% of the internet address space?
    I'm sure having .39% (OK, maybe more like 1% given the number of other reserved /8's) more publically available address space would go a long way (1%?) towards solving the sortage...

  25. Re:The King and the Chalice (only for Experts!) on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Obviously, the most devious thing that the king can do is to always make sure the chalice is rightside up. Therefore, it will always be rightside up. Therefore, the chalice can provide no information. Therefore, it is a red-herring.
    No, since he can only move it k times.