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  1. Re:As someone who isn't 3133t on Point-and-klik Linux Software Installation? · · Score: 1, Funny

    As your new overlord my first proclamation is!

    BigBrother@gentoo >emerge -deep -p new-world-order

    These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

    Calculating dependencies ...done!
    [ebuild R ] world/governments-2.0
    [ebuild R ] world/undesirables-0.9
    [ebuild N ] instituion/Ministry-of-Truth-1.0
    [ebuild N ] instituion/Ministry-of-Love-1.0
    [ebuild N ] instituion/Ministry-of-Peace-1.0
    [ebuild N ] instituion/Ministry-of-Plenty-1.0
    [ebuild N ] lang/newspeak-fonts-1.0
    [ebuild N ] lang/newspeak-dictionary-1.0

    BBrother@gentoo >emerge -deep new-world-order
    --snip--
    BBrother@gentoo >gvmnt-update

  2. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 0

    Troll.

    Ah, great, you refuse to believe in anything that takes longer than our short human lifespans to happen.

    No. Nowhere is there any evidence that I believe this. You are putting words in my mouth (or words in my post). I was making fun at the OP that evolution, as in the evolution of man that explains our origins has NOT been observed.

    But aside from that nonsense, here's an interresting point of "macro"evolution: Look at a wolf. Good, good, notice the yellow eyes, the firm, proud buttocks, and the shading of the pelt. Now, look at a chihuahua.

    Ummm, whats your point? Wolves and chihuahua are related? How. Show me their common ancestor.

  3. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 0

    Thats *not* all. Anyone who debates that microevolution doesnt happen is an idiot. Macroevolution, what says that humans slowly evolved over millions of years from who knows what is still under debate.

  4. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Evolution is a fact. It's been observed.

    You're confusing microevolution with macroevolution. I want to know who on gods green earth OBSERVED monkeys turning into humans.

  5. Re:Disney to Fuc^H^H^HRemake Tron on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 0

    Crikey! It's a movie. Have fun with it and suspend your disbelief. I also did what you did. I loved it as a kid and watched it again maybe a year ago and it was worse than I remembered it, but not so bad that it wasn't worth sitting down and watching for old times sake.

    I think you may have rm -rf InnerChild sometime between your childhood and this post.

  6. Re:He got what he deserved on Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs · · Score: 0

    You need the code. I use that code to check to see if Im vulnerable if they give sketchy version numbers.

    Sometimes they say you're vulnerbale if you:

    A) Have x, y but not z nor x with u and/or/if/when q
    B) Have y, z and q but not x or d xor ê
    C) Have n, m, r, but not ë with ñ or a, b and herpes

    How the flip do I decided if Im vulnerable when they give cryptic reports like that? Its easiest to skip the long lengthy and tangled explanations about why the vulnerability happens and what software is needed to trigger it and just run the code myself to see if Im vulnerable.

  7. Re:Heat is the problem on Where's My 10 Ghz PC? · · Score: 0

    Well, IANAIE (Intel Engineer) but they dont replicate TWO WHOLE PROCSESSORS on one chip. Although there are two cores, they can share many other parts which means its hardly a 2x increase in heat. The processor is broken down into many subunits and the instruction decoding and processing units are just a few though they do the brunt of the "work".

  8. Re:Reported last month on World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines · · Score: 0

    Not to be dense, but how many apps end in -ster? Theres napster, iTunesster, Kazaaster, eDonkeyster, bittorrentster....Limewirester.... Am I missing any?

  9. Re:coherent (laser) illumination is worse than gla on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 0

    FUD and Troll. RTFA it's not a handheld laser it was something he bought to test fiber optics. Green beam at that. Much more concentrated. He even told the Agents not to shine it in their eyes it could blind them while he was being questioned. Another article points out that this laser was in the $100 range. How many hald-held weenie lasers cost $100? Furthermore laser light can burn faster than you can blink.

  10. Re:Stealing textbooks. on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 0

    I call FUD.

    Have been out of school a long time havent you? At my school you can return books no questions asked at any time during the year for a few $$. Being in the same class has NOTHING to do with anything. People are always having books stolen right from their room too!

    Just because it didnt happen by/to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

    Even if they are going for the more expensive items you listed, the books can still make it worth their while.

  11. Re:accidents on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 0

    Who on gods green earth puts the pizza AND the box into the oven for heating? Whoever does this deserves to lose their laptop not to mention starting a fire if they did this with a *real* pizza.

  12. Re:A high quality of life is required on New and Improved SETI · · Score: 0

    The economy is a funny beast and you can't just think of it as we have 'x' amount of dollars and we should spend x% on SETI and y% on health problems. Things like sports and music feeds the economy by moving money around.

    The economy NEEDS things for people to spend their money on. Going to a baseball game and paying for a ticket gives money to the clean-up crew and stdium staff (to pick a tiny subset) and in turn some of them might be donating to your worthy causes.

    The rate at which money changes hands in a system can drastically impact all areas of life including research.

    Without jobs that sports provides money would be moving at a much slower rate and thusly slowing research down by stagnating the economy. What good is a scientist if he cant purchase the equipment he needs or get a loan for his house because the economy is too slow? Think he cares about the cure for cancer when he doesn't have a roof over his head?

    Are pop stars and star quarterbacks overpayed? Sure. But is their high salary bad for the economy and in turn research? Thats a question that cant be answered without some research and thought.

  13. Re:And let's not forget who is funding a lot of th on New and Improved SETI · · Score: 0

    I demand you take the naked pictures of my girlfriend out of your sig!

  14. Re:Not vulnerable: Windows 98 SE on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0

    Actually that figure, for an unpatched windows XP box is more or less 28 seconds depending on which security firm you ask. You're still right, but the actual number is MUCH more scary.

  15. Re:Wind maybe? on 'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover · · Score: 0

    An unemployed smelly Martian hobo, that just comes along with a towel and a some window cleaner while the rover is stopped looking at rocks and just holds his hand out expecting some change? Like the hobos that wash your windows in the cities.

  16. Re:Trackers or Indexers? on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 0

    If you have a legit copy then you have no need to download another copy, you can just use your legit copy if you need to change the format or make a backup.

    BS. Sorry. Id love if this was true, then I wouldnt HAVE to spend hours on the net looking for ISOS.

    Every few months or so a game pops into my head and I'll say "YEA! That was a great game! that I played X years ago. I'll play it again." I'll search my entire collection of CD's only to find it missing. Im not going to be able to go to the store and buy it. Most reatailers only carry newer games. Crap that has been made in the past few months, not years. I use Bittorrent and the like to download CD's that I've lost or lent out but never had returned or that got scratched beyond repair. I LEGALLY bought and owned these copies but no longer have access to them.

    Yes Ive lost both the backups AND the originals to some games before someone complains I should have backed them up. Shit happens. Services like these let me continue to have fun with games I legally purchased even if something bad happens to the original.

  17. Re:My solution is... on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 0

    I wonder, when was the last time a perfume/cologne directly caused cancer, emphysema, or any of the other fun tobacco use-related conditions when used normally?

    That would be Carcinogen, by CK. Big lawsuit I heard. Nasty stuff. Smelled great though.

  18. Re:Specialized earplugs? on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 0

    Yes. Uh-huh. Great post. Good point. Dupe yep. I hate ACs too. Haha Soviet Russia. *nods*

  19. Re:The Lanuage isnt that weird.... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 0

    Ok, perhaps I did not make my point clear. My point was that there are plenty of different tenses in other languagues which convey subtleties(sp?) in meaning. What makes a tense that differentiates truth vs. possible truth any cooler or more amazing than a tense that describes desires or a tense that implies uncertainty? Is it that we (U.S. and large chunk of Europe) are more familiar with Latin-dervied languages and dont give it a second thought, or is there something in that tense that I don't appreciate?

    duplo1 hit on some historical interest though: This feature of the language actually served to insulate the people during the years of Soviet occupation. The news (i.e. propaganda) would be reported in the "I saw it first-hand" tense, thus nobody would believe it.

  20. The Lanuage isnt that weird.... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Maybe someone can clarify why this Chocktaw(sp?) is so cool....but Spanish has two past tenses, preterite and imperfect. One for an event that happened once, at one time, and one that could continually be happening, or the start/end point is not certain. (My explanation is a bit hazy im not a native speaker).

    Plus for every tense you have... past present, future, conditional,etc. there is the subjuntive that expresses desires and doubts. It seems to me that the argument for learning this language is rather weak as I can get a handful of confusion from Spanish, not to mention im sure there are alot more languages like this ;)

  21. Re:I see this as a way to pirate games... on Hacking The DS's Wireless · · Score: -1

    That wont hold. XBox was cracked and it used something similiar to what you're suggesting. If I recall a very smart man actually tapped into the traces on the board to obtain the key to cracking it. If you store the key anywhere on the devicve in any form someone with enough boredom and skill will get it. It would just require another modchip.

  22. Re:Three words... on MPAA Sues Movie-Swappers · · Score: 1

    Don't think its ever going to happen. Some firewalls+routers strain with massive PPS and MB/s even GB/s loads just MOVING the data, and you want to SCAN it? ISP's can do this on mail servers because traffic is non-realtime.
    No offense but your post is just FUD worrying about threats that don't exist or can't exist. George W., Is that you?

  23. Re:Honesty vs. Staying in Business on Ask Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade · · Score: 1

    Could you post a link or a torrent to that comic? I was too late reading PA to ever see what they were so pissed about.

  24. Re:Count me in. on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    MMmmmm pi(e)truck.

    (Look at the ^H's ;) )

  25. Re:like anti virus companies on Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company? · · Score: 1

    He read your thunder.