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  1. Re:Checks watch... on LOTR to Become a London Musical · · Score: 1

    it cuts the value of the Internet from minimal to nil for an entire day.

    OT, but this is one of the more insightul things I've ever seen posted on /.

  2. Re:What happened to the naming convetion? on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wasn't 'Apollo' considered the sun. Remember, this wasn't just a 'naming convention' but actual mythology. Apollo drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. Mars, the god of war, appeared in certain places at certain times, same with Venus.
    Now that Roman mythology isn't really considered religion (outside of Berkeley) it can be a nice tradition. I mean, it's not lik the Inuit have really contributed to Western Culture except for, I guess, hockey and lacrosse.

  3. Re:How could on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "FAR" is a very vague thing in space.

    I hear they're going to adopt the new distance measures 'hither' and 'yonder' so normal folks will have a better understanding, at least in galactic terms, of where things are.

  4. Re:So on Beer Bubbles Really Do Sink · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, the dog remains stationary, it's the rest of the planet that moves...

  5. Re:small difference on Thirty-Three States Contributed to the MATRIX · · Score: 1

    NJ has little concern over laws. After all, the State Supreme Court replaced Torricelli on the ballot with Lautenberg, even though there was no legal grounds for such a decision. Paying them would probably make them treat you nice, though.

  6. Re:Why haven't they redone SMTP yet? on DARPA Aims to Redo the Internet Protocol · · Score: 1

    If Yahoo! & AOL worked together on this, then @ least all mail going between those 2 sites could be verified.

    But what about IP spoofing?

  7. Re:Wow on Thirty-Three States Contributed to the MATRIX · · Score: 1

    I wonder if those guys model themselves on agent smith -- try to look like him, imitate his mannerisms, setc.

    I'm sure they have nothing better to do than worry about how they're dressed.

  8. Seriously... on Linus on Linux in 1994 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...is it really about the story or just trying to show how slash whips phpNuke's ass?

  9. Re:How big is it? on Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    In case you still don't get it, that's 45 hours of HIGH QUALITY PORN. I mean, that's almost as good as the real thing, right?

    Maybe for you.

  10. Re:What?!! on NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    Exactly.
    Problems you'd like to have.

  11. Re:would on Iraq's Open Source Possibilities · · Score: 1

    In the article, they say they only need $5-10K.
    No Uncle Billy's got bigger pockets than that.

    Let's see, set up a PayPal account, or take 200 Large from the clean-smelling, pasty dude.

  12. Re:compression on U.S. Spam Law to Take Effect Jan. 1 · · Score: 1

    The government prints money, it doesn't generate money.
    The idea to successfully leech is to keep the host alive, not to kill it.

  13. Re:SOOOOO obvious on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 1

    Thus taking away the only relatively anonymous system of transportation we have.

    There's still the horse. ;-)

  14. Re:Pleeeeze on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 1

    Didn't they do this in The Italian Job?

  15. Re:CE??? on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 1

    they're practising their tried and true method of "throw enough shit against the wall and some of it will stick"

    Like the fucking tablet PC.
    What a joke.

  16. Re:And so it begins. on SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet · · Score: 1

    2001, just like the movie... Oh, wait.

  17. The FCC? on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why are they deciding who gets to broadcast over what frequency.
    It's not like they could stop you if you decided to start transmitting with a bunch of stuff from Radio Shack?
    What's this country coming to?

  18. Dying?!?!?! on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slackware dying?
    Who are you? Stephen King?

  19. Re:Time for plan B on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 1

    this is energy, not matter

    What's the difference?
    Ever read Einstein and Infeld?

  20. Re:If Linus needs a defense fund on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of stuff to locate, prepare, organize, etc. and does cost money.

    I wonder if he could cat the linux.os newsgroup into a LaTex doc?
    Would probably save time.

  21. Re:Easy Question to Ask on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 1

    He's not the one 'throwing dirt on the floor', he's just cleaning up.
    It's whoever purchased the system that's doing the dirt throwing.
    His job is to clean up.
    If he can make a good business case, that's great.
    However, an admin who says they can help cut admin costs is digging someone's grave.

  22. Re:Easy Question to Ask on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 2

    It's called Job Security.
    Hint: You don't have to like it.

  23. Re:Completely Stupid on Building a Budget Storage Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Easy there, cowboy. I'm not an apologist for the writer, I'm just pointing out what he said.
    Heck, if you're spending $3K, what's a 10% increase to prevent failure?
    I was also ticked about the lack of OS explanation other than "Linux won't cut it."
    For what they ultimately achieved, you could get fairly comparable results with a well tweaked setup from mwave.com. (Which is basically what they did.)

  24. Re:Completely Stupid on Building a Budget Storage Server · · Score: 1

    In the article, they point out that RAID will only help if a drive fails on its own, and not if there's a MB failure or some other badness.
    And one of the points was they were going for a cheap offering. Adding more stuff means adding more $$$$.
    Obviously, you're free to do whatever you'd like.

  25. Re:What about wireless to landline? on Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of my cell service and just want to put my wireless number on a landline. Or better yet, put my wireless number on a vonage line.

    Sorry. You'll have to wait for more legislation. ;-)