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  1. Re:I fail to see what is newsworthy on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    Well, they play with LEGO all the time. (There's an xkcd reference here, but I can't check it at work to get the URL.)

    LEGO reference.

  2. Re: Google Docs work offline on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 1

    The point is that Google Docs will be available offline.

  3. get it right on Verizon's Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I don't carry a cell right now, but my wife has an iPhone. ...

    You've spelled your wife's url incorrectly.
    My wife would not tolerate such slack goofing off.

  4. Re:The Achilles heel of this... on Phoenix BIOSOS? · · Score: 1
    I've been watching FreeView in the UK for at least the last 5 years. My latest card is a Nova T 500. It worked out of the box, with in the in kernel dvb_usb_dib0700 driver.

    What problems are you seeing?

  5. Re:Hmmm... on Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative · · Score: 1

    You know how I know there's no God. Because if there was, a lightning bolt would come from the sky and blast this guy to smithereens.
    god works in mysterious ways
    i see it more as proof that satan is alive and well
  6. Re:Microsoft Tools... on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1

    I wrote a bunch of VBA many years ago (hey, I was young and needed the money :P),
    You should have been a hooker. It would have done less damage to your soul and self-respect. :)
    That's a little insensitive.
    RocketScientist could be as ugly as sin.
    We can't all get by on just good looks and hard work alone.
  7. Re:Right here... on Where's the Traveling Salesman for Google Maps? · · Score: 1

    This article is the 4th hit when you google: travelling salesman google maps.

  8. Re:Well, thats just nullty. on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1
    In engineering, a useful aproximation for pi is 3. There is no aproximation of i as an integer.

    i is approximately 1. (not that it's a useful approximation)
  9. Debian Desktop on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1
    Debian is non-existant on the desktop and has an atrocious brand.
    Debian is my personal desktop of choice, it's a brand that many folk trust.
    There are also the debian based distros, including ubuntu, knoppix and linspire.
  10. Re:The GPL3 process is not closed on Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process · · Score: 1
    Please explain how a license can "crumble".
    It's eniviatble once the bit rot sets in.
  11. Re:Yeah, what an awesome idea on Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds · · Score: 1
    I should poison the arp cache on the router and redirect fileserver requests to my own workstation. After all, I am not stealing anything -- I have a natural right to use 172.16.20.104!
    Oh no you don't. Unless...
    Keith is that you?
    WHOIS Record For
    72.16.20.104
    Record Type: IP Address

    OrgName: Valor Telecommunications Enterprises, LLC
    City: Irving
    StateProv: TX
    PostalCode: 75062
    Country: US

    OrgTechHandle: KCA49-ARIN
    OrgTechName: Caldwell, Keith
  12. Re:Obligatory on Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Maybe the cheesy effects were part of what made it great. (See old Dr. Who episodes for a better illustration.)
    The current series of Dr. Who is just as "great".
  13. Big Fat Lie on Lessons from the Browser Wars · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Because MS started to bundle the browser (and other network software) with the OS nowadays it is rare for an ISP to have an install CD.
    Between the AOL disks still in my mail, and the ISP disks at the supermarket checkout, you're talking out of your backside.
  14. Re:A security consultant on Former Hacker Irks Microsoft in EU Dispute · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't someone from, say, the Samba team be more qualified to judge whether Microsoft's internetworking protocol documentation was sufficiently made open?

    If only. The licence used makes it impossible for any Samba Devs to even look at the code.

    Important: In order to avoid any potential licensing issues we require that anyone who has signed the Microsoft CIFS Royalty Free Agreement not submit patches to Samba, nor base patches on the referenced specification.

  15. Re:The *real* killer distributed application? on Point and Click Cracking · · Score: 1
    It's kind of a shame that the killer app of distributed ad-hoc networks is so generally harmful, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Get a firewall, install you patches, and hope to God that nobody targets you with a DoS attack.
    Botnets are bad, but not everything.
    The killer app for distributed ad-hoc networks is still IMHO peer to peer sharing.
  16. Re:"Service Pack" -contact Sony on Slashback: DRM, MPAA, ADSL · · Score: 1
    Here's the letter I've sent to Sony:
    Dear Sony,

    I'd like you to know how displeased I am with the DRM in your Compact Discs, and I'm saddened that "Van Zant's" CD is reported to have a "rootkit" virus that infects only Windows. As a long time advocate of OSS and as a GNU/Linux user I stongly urge you to develope a cross platform DRM "rootkit" that supports free software.

    I think you owe your customers better.

    Sincerely,
    Bob Wilson
    Cambridge, UK

  17. Re:Why should Windows beat Linux? on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 1
    Really Complex Stuff like unzip
    Surely you mean tar -xvf?
  18. Go for the latest bugfix release on Vanilla Kernel 2.6 Stability vs 2.4? · · Score: 1
    If you want a balance between bleeding edge and stability use the last bugfix release of the previous 2.6 kernel.

    i.e. use kernel 2.6.12.6 because it should be more stable than the new 2.6.13.

  19. Re:Robots everywhere on House-Sitting Robot Hits Store Shelves in Japan · · Score: 1

    Maybe one day your juke boxes can evolve into robots?

  20. LOOK MAW ITS A TROLL on VX30 Ad-Stats Code Online · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you forgot to click the Post Anonymously thing.

  21. Re:Two dilemmas on BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't even got 4 friends, you insensitive clod.

  22. Re:Increase usable life of your box on Athlon 64 In-depth Overclocking Guide · · Score: 1
    I really don't understand how you could be quite so wrong.

    I've an Athlon "1700+" which I've underclocked to 800 Mhz. That drops the CPU temperature in excess of 10 C. That's going to double it's usable life.

    It may even give me enough time to finish transcoding the LOR trilogy.

  23. Re:Bloody OSS Bludgers on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... not sure why we call it that
    Because that is what the word means.
  24. Re:I Dub Thee, "Sir Troll" on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1
    How long until this quote appears verbatim on http://www.funroll-loops.org/?

    It's there already.
    It's the 7th quote down on this page.

  25. Re:Linux Alternative? on A Comprehensive Look at Solaris 10 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Solaris isn't going to be closed for long.
    There's a lot of doubt about Sun's ability to be open. The CDDL is not going to attract FOSS developers.