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  1. Re:Hmmm... on Economic Analysis of the Nanotech Future · · Score: 0, Troll

    what i meant that the us dollar is virtually meaningless, there is nothing backing it physically. i'm sorry if it came across otherwise.

  2. unformatted floppies on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    YAY we're going back to the 80's where floppies were not formatted by the manufacturer and the ones that were cost about a dollar more per floppy! thank goodness that cd-rw's use UDF and not FAT

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Economic Analysis of the Nanotech Future · · Score: 0, Troll

    i dont know if the corporations began charging money for the communism they might not be too opposed to it, they are after a valueless object anyway (money)

  4. Re:Raises interesting questions on Economic Analysis of the Nanotech Future · · Score: 1

    its almost modded up the same too! that is funny as hell

  5. Re:I couldn't agree more on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At any rate, I'd love for Bush to announce that the US is going back ASAP. I'd want them to be there by 2010 at the latest and this time I want a promise that they're not leaving. Ever.

    i'd love for him to say that we are going back and leaving him there with no air.

  6. Re:The only reason this is news... on Gentoo rsync Server Compromised [updated] · · Score: 1, Interesting

    you could also RTFA that you posted a link to

    We don't know how many total servers the numbers were gathered from or what percentage of those servers is Linux vs. Windows, etc. It is safe to say that these results are true for the servers they monitor, but the percentages may not be true for all servers across the globe. For more statistics and the rest of the story you can see this article at globetechnology.com: Linux is favourite hacker target: Study.

    as the article states the statistics are not conclusive because they cannot be confirmed because the data of the actual study is not presented.

    they also do not define was is meant by compromising, as far as i can tell it could be anything from a remote root exploit, or a setup in a mail server that creates an open spam relay

  7. yay early post on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 0

    i can't wait for this movie to come out, have to wait a month before i can get tickets to it though, dont want to wait 10 days in line, with the money i make working i can afford to pay the scalpers hopefully

  8. Re:Mind the electronic spam, don't mind the paper. on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    thats why i always use fake names and addresses when i sign up for stuff, boy do i feel sorry for the guy living at '123 Fake st. Springfield, Ill.'

  9. Re:"No" on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 0

    what we couldn't get in high school

  10. Re:Oh, I thought you said Sauron on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 0

    i thought this too so i decided to go in the comments and read what people were going to be flaming about then after reading a few i realized i had read it wrong, why'd he have to give them such similar names?

  11. Re:But I like complexity on Removing Software Complexity · · Score: 0

    I think his intention is that a programmer creates the initial ruleset, and then the programmer's clients/customers can create incremental changes, such as change the sales tax rate from 8% to 8.25%, or modifying income tax tables.

    Personally i dont see this as an incremental change, i see that as a configuration change, e.g. the software should have been written so that it was not hardcoded at 8%, doing that with something dealing with money can cause problems. what if when you write the software, the sales tax changes, and you start using 8.25% in some places but earlier places still have 8%?

  12. Re:Generous and Wise on MontaVista GPLs Linux Components For CE Devices · · Score: 0

    Well the High Res Posix Timers should help for getting things more responsive, i mean if it helps programs and software to do more real time work (e.g. physics engines in games) then i think its great, this could also help for video capture, because i think that you could then maybe use this to help capture frames at a higher rate and more accurately, (e.g. setting an alarm at smaller fractioins of a second) though i could be wrong at whether that would be affected by the timers, but i do know that physics simulations could probably help considerably by this.

  13. Re:This happened once before... on Memory Hole Un-Redacts Redacted DOJ Memo · · Score: 0

    nah, adobe would put him under arrest with the DMCA, just like Dimitri

  14. Re:The difference: on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 0

    Zoidberg has been doing this for a while now, its not quite ready for primetime but i use it pretty well

  15. Re:Hmm. on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 0

    (except to their lawyers).

    I always thought large corporations paid a mainly flat fee to a firm so that there wouldn't be as many unexpected legal fee's to deal with

  16. Re:let it be said on NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption · · Score: 0

    nah 5242880 (640kilobytes) should be enough for anyone :)

  17. Re:FINALLY ... on NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption · · Score: 0

    The monroe Doctrine didn't deal with trade, it delt with imperialism and colonization in the western hemisphere

    http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democr ac /50.htm

  18. Re:FINALLY ... on NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption · · Score: 0

    also thanks to ITAR its illegal to bring it in or out actually....

    Become an International Arms Trafficing criminal and tell the US government that ITAR is wrong

  19. Re:Real Question: How is this flamebait? on Are Linux Zealots Terrorists? · · Score: 0

    hmm, thats a really good Question.... can't think of anything that would fit as community driven at the moment, anyone else want to try?

  20. Re:Real Question: How is this flamebait? on Are Linux Zealots Terrorists? · · Score: -1

    what about MSDN.com?

  21. Re:windows robot on VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download · · Score: 0

    Tex? i'd be calling him either Lucutus or Hue

  22. Re:This thing is DOA for real geeks.... on Review of YOPY YP-3700 Linux PDA · · Score: 0

    how is that a challege i can write you a windows emulator, all i have to do is make a blue screen and put some text on it...

  23. Re:PocketNES doesn't slow down in scaled mode on GameBoy Advance 'Time Machine' NES Adapter Trailed · · Score: 0

    i guess the gba must have some amount of hardware scaling, or alot of cpu left over

  24. Re:why not on GameBoy Advance 'Time Machine' NES Adapter Trailed · · Score: 0

    Also playing it in an emulator like that would reduce the amount of cpu power that you could use to deal with the inherit resolution problems with the nes->gba conversion

  25. Re:Not necessarily on GameBoy Advance 'Time Machine' NES Adapter Trailed · · Score: 0

    i was always under the impression that most pins on the cartridges were part of the board that the ROM chips and everything were mounted on. which would mean that blowing on them couldn't move them at all, nor could they be moved. The blowing actions was an attempt to get rid of the dust and other dirt (and infact spit seemed to help a bit, made it get better contact sometimes) off the pins so that a proper connection could be made with the internal connector of the NES/Famicom