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  1. Re:In OZ, even single young men can get welfare on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1

    You mean they still require one?

  2. Re:In OZ, even single young men can get welfare on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1

    Like that would present a problem. With the one way ticket, we clear the record.

  3. Re:In OZ, even single young men can get welfare on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1

    This could be just the info we need to make prison reform work. Give the criminals a tech degree and send them to Australia.

  4. In other news Identity theft on the rise. on Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows · · Score: 1

    Has M$ sent the specs to the Russian crackers yet?

  5. Re:TCO Laugher on The Truth About Linux and Windows · · Score: 1

    True, except freedom is not going to be ported anytime soon.

    BTW Real image editing is beyond photoshop, but photoshop is all you can expect for $700.00. You did purchase it right?

  6. Re:Paranoid? Why not? on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    Is the rest of your opinions wrong too?

  7. Re:Paranoid? Why not? on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    MS Flight Simulator can't hold a candle to X-Plane $50 and you can have flight simulator software that is used to train commercially


  8. Sounds Great to me. on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    I do not want Texas to be paying for porn delivery. The purpose of the rest stops access is information, email and etc.

  9. Re:3 whole arttcles! on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 1

    And I am the Pope

  10. Re:If you RTFA on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 1

    I read three extra on topic articles as well. Maybe reading more than what you are fed would help you as well.

  11. Re:Microevolution on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This just proves the need for genetic diversity within a species
    This research doesn't show a change in the animal, just a change in population ratios. During the time when there were a greater number of predators more of the small helmeted animals were eaten and therefore produced fewer eggs. Once the threat was over the ratios returned to normal levels.

  12. Re:Heh on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 1

    Changelog for acroread
    You can install whatever binary on Gentoo you want. There are a lot of ebuilds for binaries such as nvidia or acroread.

    The changelog shows when it was made available to Gentoo users. *acroread-7.0 (14 Mar 2005)

  13. How about this keyboard on Keyboards are Havens for Super Bugs · · Score: 1

    Projection Keyboard The keyboard is made of light projected on any flat hard surface. This would be as bug proof as it can get.

  14. Re:Balance? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    GCECF.

  15. Re:Balance? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    What you are saying that a GPS guided bomb that targeted a single house, kills the same number of civilians as the previously required carpet bombing?

    That is just dumb.

  16. Re:Balance? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    The fact that this post is marked insightful, means that insight is rarer than previously thought.

    Simple Math supports the original poster. Modern well equipped Military is able to operate with greatly reduced loss of life.

    More people died on the shores of France in one day of a WWII, than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. This is the result of a Modern military.

  17. Re:Oh, and I just on Gentoo 2005.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The other thing that is in a release is a portage snapshot and a binaries disk that matches that portage snapshot. Try doing a gentoo install fest without that.

  18. Re:About time! on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Debian disagrees.

  19. slackware is so 90s on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Slackware is dying

  20. when reqired for basic life functions on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 1

    When I require an artifical heart, and it requires drm, then I am there. Otherwise forget it.

  21. Kernel Forks are a way of Life. No reason to fear. on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    Your have the Linux Kernel sources as hosted by kernel.org Then with each new release come a bunch of forks, such as.
    the redhat kernel
    love-sources
    ac-sources
    ck-sources
    hard ened-sources
    mm-sources
    usermode-sources
    Too many to list.

  22. He is using linux on a dual g5 on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He is using linux on mac hardware that was given to him. Wouldn't you?

  23. This is illegal on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    By Law the voting process in a state is up to that state. To say otherwise violates the 10th Amendment.

  24. Sounds stupid to me. on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 1

    Do they really want to make everybody type http://www.redhat.com in the browser address bar? That is too much work for most people.

  25. I guess someone at TiVo downloaded Mythtv on TiVo to Offer SDK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Myth Check
    Weather... Yes
    News...... Yes
    Games..... Yes