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  1. Re:Royal Karma on Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    Hmmm ING Direct is looking better every day...

  2. Re:Everything is bad those days on Is Your Computer Leaking Toxic Dust? · · Score: 1

    I agree I had already contracted a fatal disease the moment I was born. It's called L.I.F.E short for Life Is Fatal Everyone.

    I mean no matter what you do it will quite probably kill you or take time off of your lifespan. Hell the amount of time I spent in front of the old Radiation dumpsters of computer monitors has probably given me some form of cancer. My grandmother had diabetes, since that supposedly skips a generation I'm next, and I've got a hell of a sweet tooth.

    My love of exercising can be bad for my joints, but sleeping all the time or staying in bed turns muscles into mush. People we're all gonna die, we may as well enjoy ourselves.

  3. Re:Linux dummy question: Switching between screens on Linux for Dummies, 5th Edition · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lets see here I do it all the time without thinking. Oh right ctrl-alt-f1-6 for a terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 for the GUI.

  4. Thank You on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    I never realized there were two clipboards for copy paste. I've always used the M$ ctrl-ins(or c) or shift-ins(or v) all my life.

  5. QBASIC on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    Qbasic is pretty simple, even my sister the technological disaster sould at least read some of what I was trying to do in that so there's hope.

  6. Re:One way to solve it.... on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    Murder 1 charge: 30 yrs or (if American) Death, PATRIOT ACT problems, a quick move to Jordan or Guatanamo Bay...

  7. Re:Damn on Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All · · Score: 1

    True that Mandrake is nice enough to provide the MakeCD script. However when I tried the CDs on my testbed I noticed a couple of missing(??) rpms. The only thing I didn't download was the RPMS.cooker dir since I didn't want the in progress stuff. Hefty bugger too 11 cds compared to the paltry 3 that you get with the official download isos.

  8. Re:Cost to orbit on Blimps... In... Space... · · Score: 1

    Quite frankly I don't see the problem with this. If you're worried about something breaking the ribbon, then have a damn reel to get as much stored away as possible. Should it break in the middle then the top half is still attached to the orbital platform no need to worry there. The parts below the break point are the potential problem (especially should carbon nanotubes be found to be poisonous).

  9. Re:Uh-oh. on NASA's New 'Exploration' Insignia · · Score: 1

    Nope, just by the order of the bodies to be visited it can't smack into the sun, Proxima Centurians beware our WMDs are comming your way!

  10. Re:Measures and counter-measures on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 1
    No doubt will there be a counter-measure to quantum cryptography, just as there has been to everything else in the world that people use to try to "keep safe". It's just a matter of time.

    So my tinfoil house is usesless for keeping Bush out of my brain! Oh crap, wait think insane thoughts maybe they won't try to make sense of it anymore, hey who the hell are....

    Nothing to see here people move along.
  11. Re:Your civil rights called... on Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site · · Score: 1

    Strange I thought you went over what happened in the Handmaid's Tale. You just described the President's Day Masacre, which in the story was based off of a CIA panplet or something like that. What I find scary is that in real life its a religious nut job doing the shite again.

  12. Re:Do I smell a rat? on Napster Gags University Over Fees · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised they didn't give an ultimatum that payment for the service must be forced on all students, regardless of whether they want it or not.

    At my University the same deal is happening with using our student IDs as bus passes. All of us or none of us.

  13. Don't tricorders scan things? on Astronauts Get Tricoders (Almost) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These don't scan (unless they have a digital camera), I would think this is more like a padd from the shows. A nice handy little data storage and display device.
    Now I'll be really impressed if they can replicate the function where you can control the entire station from one padd (theoretically).

  14. I AM CANADIAN on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 0

    Oh I am so proud of the pressure I put on RBC now! WOHOOOOO!

  15. Well DUHHHH on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 0

    Of course it increases the cost. Every time I have to help someone out I double my price from the last time. Parents are up to $1000, sister $10000 or so (with a promise to NEVER destroy another computer by simple touch), so the cost is always going up as long as us experts force it up.

  16. Ahhh Basic on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 0

    I remember doing my first simple math calculating programs in basic. Then getting more serious in high school realizing I could use the language to help "check" my math work (I'm serious I only used it for checking....).

    Then came an attempt to recreate a pac-man like game. Very ugly code but it worked to an extent.

    Even today for very quick logic testing or Windoze scripting BASIC still holds a place dear to my heart/head being the first language I learned.

    Also to those who despise GOTO with a passion I was one of the few people in my Assembly language class capable of understanding an unconditional jump when it came time for the branch commands (and I proceeded to run circles around those poor pathetic fools).

  17. Re:Now I can answer that age old question. on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 0

    So take a look at that crater size.

  18. Re:Now I can answer that age old question. on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 0

    Well I don't know about the Neutron star but we're certainly screwed if we smack into the counter Earth at the speed of light.

    Your Inputs:
    Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles
    Projectile Diameter: 12756320.00 m = 41840729.60 ft = 7921.67 miles
    Projectile Density: 3000 kg/m3
    Impact Velocity: 300000.00 km/s = 186300.00 miles/s
    Impact Angle: 90 degrees
    Target Density: 3000 kg/m3
    Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil

    Energy:
    1.47 x 1041 Joules = 3.51 x 1025 MegaTons TNT
    The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 5.1 x 10^21years

    Crater Size:
    What does this mean?

    Transient Crater Diameter: 1316074.50 km = 817282.26 miles
    Final Crater Diameter: 8266150.33 km = 5133279.36 miles

    The crater formed is a complex crater.

    Ejecta:
    What does this mean?

    Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact
    Now that's a spicy meatball of a crater, bigger than the Earth!

  19. Re:WTF???? on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 0

    Also what is currently in Canadian copyright law is that you are allowed to make one copy for personal use (or backup purposes). You can even borrow a friends CD and copy that and it still gets covered.

  20. Re:Drug resistance? on Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice? · · Score: 0

    I seem to remember hearing or reading somewhere that a company had mixed some Peanut genes into a Soy crop, trying to get some benefit. When the crop had finished growing and they harvested it they did some tests. Apparently people who were allergic to nuts tested as allegric to the modified soy. So I don't think modifying rice to produce certain milk nutrients will help. If your allergic to something it doesn't matter what the medium, your still allergic.

  21. Re:Do we see a pattern here? on MandrakeSoft Exits Bankruptcy · · Score: 0

    Actually I remember when Mandrake was the distro that would have made or broken my linux usage. I originally tried out Mandrake 6.0 which I obtained from Maximum Linux awhile back (great mag in the first issue they discussed how to rebuild the kernel). Between Mandrake 6.0 and Caldera 2.4 I have never had so much trouble failing to get dual-boot to run. Mandrake would run without anything else installed, but Caldera that was the biggest POS I've ever seen (nice installer but I want to run linux again AFTER bootup damnit).

    The turning point came when a friend of mine gave me Red Hat 7.0. Finally I got to test the Linux waters. It was alright but I still didn't completely like it.

    Then one fateful day a friend of mine gave me Mandrake 8.1. What a god send, I was able to spend as much time coding as I needed, stability, it felt right, and I only had to go through obscure config files if I WANTED to, not because someone demanded I do it to change my config.

    Now I'm on 9.2 getting ready to switch to 10.0 community (and I'll join the Mandrake Club soon too I WANT Mandrake to last, no its not a power distro to start but I'm gonna change that soon ahh the beauties of linux.) But the biggest decision that kept me with Mandrake was the cool factor, and that I could spend more time doing the coding needed for my classes than spending it babying my system back to health (like in MS or Red Hat).

  22. Re:go OVC! on Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it can accurately count the votes in Florida, then Bush will find some way (buy out???) to through it out. And of course being open source any fixes would have to wait until the next election in 4 years.

    OpenSource: "But we can fix it now!"
    ElectionsPerson: "You can fix the results?!?! SECURITY!!!!"
    Security/Police: "Who are you working for?"
    OpenSource: "Ummm the people..."

  23. Re:Listening in on X-Box Live? on FBI Adds to Wiretap Wish List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other news today the FBI's tech support department all quit citing their superiors stupidity as the main cause. "I just can't take it anymore, thier lack of internet knowledge astounds me." one former employee stated before storming off. Another replied "You don't even need new hard wired devices to do this, or back doors built into IM protocols, they're already in PLAIN TEXT!!!!!" another stated before having to be sedated....

  24. Re:Dueling Challenges on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: 1

    Right guess there is no spam-proof system.

  25. Re:Fear Sells. on Thirty-Three States Contributed to the MATRIX · · Score: 1

    Exactly, thats why Al Queada won on Sept., 11 they've lost a lot of battles since, but won the war by making America scared shitless.