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  1. Re:Bill Gates... on What The Internet Isn't · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not necessarily, just the executives at VeriSign. (rimshot)

  2. So someone tell me... on Transmeta TMS5xxx Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    What is this chip and who uses it? =/

  3. Obligatory Back to the Future reference on Apollo 11 Launch Tower Rescue Effort · · Score: 1

    SAVE THE LAUNCH TOWER! Save the launchtower. Mayor Goldie Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to replace that launchpad. Thirty years ago lightning struck that tower and the rockets haven't launched since. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society believe that it should be preserved EXACTLY the way it is, as part of our hist-

    There you go lady, have a quarter.

    Thank you young man, don't forget to take a flier. Save the launch-tower!

  4. Re:How faster? on KDE 3.2.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Startup time? Let me put it this way. It takes longer to *shut down* Windows than to start up Linux, and longer still to start up Windows.

    Windows sure gets the login screen faster, but then it takes forever to load all the additional junk that Windoze needs.

  5. Re:Wikipedia is great! on Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles · · Score: 1

    Dude, if someone rolled it back... instead of just reverting... (admins can do that) then it wouldn't show up.

  6. Re:Hmm.. on Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles · · Score: 1

    Forget Recent Changes. Monitor #enrc.wikipedia on irc.FreeNode.net. Or use a Watchlist to take care of your favorite articles.

  7. Re:That's, what, about 1% of MS's cash reserves? on Mario Monti Fines Microsoft 100 Million? · · Score: 1

    It's not the cash reserves of Microsoft... Just think what the government could do what that sort of dough! :)

  8. Re:Open source: competing for new users? on Introducing Linux to Joe Average · · Score: 1

    This is like the Linux pronouncing debates 3 or 4 years ago (Lie-nux vs. LEE-nux vs Lin-ux) In the end, it doesn't matter because new users are going to pronounce it how it looks.
    The guy next door at my dorm always pronounces it "MoZEEla." But at least he uses it :)

  9. Re:I'm Doing My Part on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that was a joke, son.

  10. Laptop battery life on KISS · · Score: 1

    My ThinkPad will do ten-hour battery life... ... with the screen off ... :)

  11. Re:Adios, Disney on Pixar Drops Disney To Find a New Studio Partner · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't wait for Beauty and the Beast e^(i*pi)+1.

  12. Re:You're out of touch with reality on What's The Actual Cost of A Virus? · · Score: 1

    I believe his implication is that the existing antivirus companies could feasibly be behind viruses such as this.

  13. Re:USPS Needs a Major Overhaul on USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent · · Score: 1

    On the contrary. If the USPS did handle patents, then we wouldn't have this problem, because they'd mangle or lose all the paperwork in transit.

  14. Re:template on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Darn. I used to like the Seattle-PI. They run two of my favorite comic strips online. And these are King's Features comics, too, so if they didn't there would be nowhere else I could get them in real time, or even look at their three-year-plus archive.

  15. Am I the only one... on Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    who saw iMac and eMac and thought "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift"? :) Just not a Mac fan I guess. =/

  16. Re:SCO probably wrote it on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: 1

    They could probably make up some twisted excuse about it being the reason they lost all their source code files. =/

  17. Re:start, run.... on Alternatives to Icons and Start Menus? · · Score: 1

    If you have a modern Windows keyboard, you can do Windows+R instead. That saves time as well. I've got my dad launching winmine and mshearts from Run, in any case. :)

  18. Re:Drew Curtis on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Or a poll. =b

  19. Re:Linus on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    I would expect he has several machines with different distros like any well-funded geek might.

  20. Re:what's cuba like? on Cuban Government Toughens Internet Restrictions · · Score: 1

    In all honesty... would you rather trust yourself to the "brilliant" Cuban medical system or to the United States medical system? I guess it would depend on the kind of work being done.

    The one thing that sticks with me about government-funded medical systems is in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games (I think) where Cathy Ryan complains that in the UK (yeah, good old modern UK) two doctors went out for lunch while leaving a patient anesthezised. (That wasn't spelled right, was it?) Now, this may be fiction, but I believe it has some basis in fact, and while all medical systems probably have their dirty little secrets, I think I'd rather trust American for-profit ones:
    They'll at least cure you, even if they start playing insurance games and charging you an arm and a leg for services...

  21. Hematite on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OK... Anyone with scientific knowledge care to indicate how hematite in an area indicates the past presence of water? I'm fascinated, but clueless.

  22. Don't know about the UK... on UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but in the US, wouldn't the authorities soon be all over you for conspiring to fix prices if you did that sort of thing?

  23. You realize... on Gridlock Expert Takes On Sim City Streets · · Score: 3, Informative

    You realize, of course, Mr. Expert, that the periodic whining complaints about streets being made into roads makes just about no difference whatsoever? As long as the property doesn't suffer excessive traffic noise along its road, then you can deal with it.
    Particularly effective SC4 traffic strategies usually involve forcing your Sims to take the bus/train/subway/monorail by making it the only reasonable route out of a development... include a good Parking Garage for people who aren't right near the stations... Your development's exit should be headed in the opposite direction from the way your Sims want to go, and place the mass transit exit on the reasonable side. :)

  24. Re:simcity 2000 trick, would it work now? on Gridlock Expert Takes On Sim City Streets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Sim City 4: Rush Hour has traffic with sources and desinations. :)

  25. Re:Ion drives... on Next Goals For The ESA · · Score: 1

    Dude, I did RTFA. And I realize it's not on a direct moonshot. It's not fast enough to do that. Which was kind of my point. (Well, OK, raw speed isn't really the deal so much as power, but you get the idea.)