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  1. Re:Damn it on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1

    You're probably thinking of Marx-Leninism, as practiced in the one-time USSR.

    Small "c" communism is a much older, looser idea.

  2. Re:There's an old saying... on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1
    fixing Ed Wood movies would eliminate the reason to watch them.

    ... "eliminate the purpose", perhaps, but is watching an Ed Wood movie something a reasonable person might do?

  3. Re:Get there before the RIAA does! on USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause · · Score: 1
    Then there's the argument that consumers ought to be able to back up the media they buy in case something happens to the original

    Let them lock the media down. Make them supply free replacements for damaged/failed media forever. Fair enough use, then?

  4. Re: Superman on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 1

    #5 real man - Bryan Allen & Gossamer Albatross

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross

  5. Re:what if the robot is shot? on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 1

    THAT sniper won't be making any complaints. ... and why should Skynet care? Accusations identify targets.

    It gets very simple once you welcome our new networked shooter overlords.

    See the video at http://www.machinima.com/films.php?id=118

  6. Re:what if the robot is shot? on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 1

    Use them in pairs.

    Next advance - network with local air cover, RPV or robot gunship. The robot team might be able to track the round in flight, target the source and put an explosive response on it before the rifleman could move out of range.

    There might be some need for IFF here.

  7. Re:Horses 4 Courses - They are NOT mutually exclus on Clustering vs. Fault-Tolerant Servers · · Score: 1

    OpenVMS has supported geographically separated cluster nodes and shadowed storage for years.

    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82FINAL/6318/6318pro _016.html

  8. Re:Does the format make an impact if 80% can't rea on Tim Bray on Implications of OpenDocument Format · · Score: 1

    You making the mistake of believing .doc is a format, when it is really a whole series of formats that are partially compatible with one another.

    Avoid costly upgrades and format changes. Stick with MS Office 97. More than good enough for me.

  9. Re:Wouldn't it shake things up if... on Mars Orbiter Sees Changes · · Score: 1

    It amazes me how many ppl love to mix truth with lies.

    Beats the alternative -- just pure lies....

  10. Re:Why do people keep calling it **AA? on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    Does ^W still work?

  11. Late News on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 1

    It may not be a dupe, but the references Google brings up are from May 2005.

    Move along, no new news to see here....

  12. Teach them to think, not code on Best Language for Beginner Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Smalltalk. Once you can structure your solution to a problem, translating it to some otherwise brain-crippling procedural language is less harmful to self and solution.

  13. Extremely Long Term Nuclear Solution on Long-Term Carbon Storage · · Score: 1

    Convert that nasty carbon to lovely breathable oxygen:

    Carbon (6C12) + alpha (2He4) ==> Oxygen (8O16)

  14. Death of Folders Announcement Premature on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    The largest and most sophisticated user of system resources is usually the system itself.

    There will be folders (directories) in the file system for a long time because they are an efficient and simple way to organise the data objects needed by the base operating system.

    Anybody can tack some cross-indexing tool on top of application data. Better let the system backup/restore/delete functions have a clear and unambiguous view of it all.

  15. Re:Sounds like a great idea on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1

    Have you seen what plumbers have to crawl through? Hint: when the sewer pipe bursts.

  16. Failure - when? on Venture Money in Open Source · · Score: 1

    Eventually all projects/businesses/empires fail.

    Ask how long they last, not whether they be immortal.

  17. Don't disturb the natives on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    Let the media moguls destroy the red/blue balance of lie distribution by turning off TV outside the cities.

    I can get all the weather reports I need with my dial-up connection to wunderground.

  18. Re:Dubious Developers? on Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dubious refers to the object (Mono, C#, .NET).

    Sceptical refers to the programmer (Mono non-user).

  19. Cipher on 1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD · · Score: 1

    What an excellent one time strip!

  20. Re:Ummmm.... on Pentagon To Send Robot Soldiers to Iraq · · Score: 1

    Please RTFS (read the fabulous stories). Young Dr Asimov was trying to show that those three simplistic laws would not work. There will always be edge cases that require judgement.

    We wished for mercy,
    we asked for justice,
    we received laws.
    We lost big.

  21. Re:Another false discovery, USA stealing credit ag on Tremors Predict California Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Well, I know Canada is a BLUE state.

    Is it time to invade Canada again?

  22. Re:fire yes, but you're the one who is smoking... on Aerial Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Edwardian buildings. HM Victoria died in 1901.

  23. Re:Size on Microgenerators Coming Soon to Electronics Near You · · Score: 1

    3/8 inch, near enough

  24. Re:goodbye CS... hello law school on SCO Puts a Cap on its Legal Expenses · · Score: 1

    Lawyers and other professionals have 'professional ethics'.

    These are to regular ethics as televsion wrestling is to beating up people Saturday nights -

    A pale imitation for those who have never felt the real thing.

  25. Tidal Forces are not just for water on Earth Tides Trigger Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    The moon and sun exert tidal forces throughout the earth. Loose water sloshes about some, but the force works on rock, too.

    It should be no surprise, in retrospect, that in places where plates are almost ready to move, a little nudge from tidal forces may induce an earthquake to start.

    The rocks are straining and the sky gives them a little nudge.