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  1. Re:A lot of buzz on It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization · · Score: 1

    seriously, what sort of *nix system thinks you don't need a C compiler by default and makes you go looking for it in the repositories? I don't need a C compiler as long as the repositories are sufficiently up-to-date that the drivers work for my hardware. What sort of distro insists that you install software that you don't want or need?
  2. Re:Thats right on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    Probably. Jesus is a highly respected prophet in Islam.

  3. Re:Easy win - bring a dictionary on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 2, Informative

    No need for a dictionary. I've RTFA (before it was posted on /., so I have an excuse), and the kid cited a case in which a judge called Scientology a cult. I've no doubt he'll cite it again if this comes to trial.

  4. Re:Nanowires are nice and everything... on Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency · · Score: 1

    I think that "floor lamp" means what I know as a standard lamp: a bulb on a 6 foot pole with a reflector which points up, so the light is diffused off the ceiling. A friend has one whose bulb gets pretty hot - I'm not sure what power it uses, but when a fly lands it on you smell burning fly.

  5. Re:Try this... on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    That's Shanghai, not Mahjong. It uses the same tiles, but Mahjong is a four-player game with completely different rules.

  6. Huh? on What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook? · · Score: 1, Funny

    When did lynx acquire support for CSS?

  7. Re:DOS on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1

    It's not hard, but it's very unintuitive. The interface doesn't need to be quite so confusing as it is.

  8. Don't be silly... on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    If they called it that, macho men wouldn't buy it!

  9. Re:Happened to me on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    It depends on the kind of ant. Army Ants are black and red; Carrion Ants are black; Fire Ants are red, as is the instant Release the Ants; Saber Ants and Yavimaya Ants are green.

    A multicolour creature can be targeted by a CoP of any relevant colour, so both CoP: Red and CoP: Black are effective against Army Ants.

  10. Re:Locusts on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    What about frogs, gnats and flies?

  11. Re:Qt on Targeting PocketPCs With Mono? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Definitely. My experience with Java (using IBM's J9 on PocketPC) is that a MemoryImageSource which repaints in milliseconds on a "real" computer takes more than a second on my PocketPC. That's not the kind of thing you want to find out in the final stages of testing.

  12. Re:Bootable antivirus discs? on New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rather irritatingly, the Avira rescue CD comes as a .exe which (I presume - haven't run wine-safe on it yet) unpacks a .iso. Given that the whole point is to burn to a CD, I don't know why they don't just distribute the .iso.

  13. Anaphor on New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill · · Score: 1

    It's not a dangling modifier: all the words are present, but the order is misleading. It's a bad usage of anaphor such that the immediate antecedent is the wrong one.

  14. Interesting way of putting it on New Antivirus Tests Show Rootkits Hard to Kill · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know that AV software can be fairly intrusive, to the point that it feels like it's taking over your box, but to call Microsoft Windows Live OneCare and McAfee VirusScan rootkits seems a bit strong.

  15. Re:Bought in? on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I don't think you actually read what I said, because your first sentence contradicts something I didn't say. "Includes" != "means".

    The issue of earthly punishment may not be quite so clear-cut as you suggest. And there's some rather clear support for killing apostates in the Hadith.

  16. Bought in? on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Where "bought in" includes being born to Muslim parents. Stoning doesn't seem to be so common nowadays, but some countries (Egypt springs to mind) put your religion on your ID card and will only allow changes one way; and murders by means other than stoning do occur. It's often hard, though, in such cases to separate religious motivation (X should be killed simply for abandoning Islam) from social motivation (X should be killed to preserve the family honour, which was damaged by having a family member abandon Islam).

  17. Re:Don't underestimate corporate arse-covering on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    Since you didn't link it, the utility is question is at http://security.debian.org/project/extra/dowkd/dowkd.pl.gz, and a GPG signature can be obtained by appending .asc to that URL.

  18. Re:How on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    And I bet they downloaded it rather than going to a shop and buying a CD!

  19. Re:What's the hurry? on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    Some of us run 'testing', you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:Hey, wait a minute! on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 1

    That's not fixing the problem but avoiding it. Fixing is what you do after you've installed SP3. Does it still work then, or is it not possible to get that far?

  21. Re:Same problem on Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    Remember that you're asking people to work on someone else's code. There's always a massive hurdle to understand the design before you can make any contribution, so unless someone is very highly motivated to add a particular feature they're likely to give up before they get anywhere. That's just the nature of the beast.

  22. Re:Y'know on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I occasionally use Wine to access some e-books in a proprietary format, and I've once successfully used it to extract a Pocket PC-installable .cab from a .exe installer (snip rant about publishers who assume that everyone with a Pocket PC has a Windows desktop). It's not something I use more than once every few months, but it's nice to have it around.

  23. Re:Tell them this on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    Sure. But China isn't Western, which is my point.

  24. Re:'polished turd' on Processing Visualization Language Ported To Javascript · · Score: 1

    People haven't done their own image manipulation since Amigas stomped the earth. I have, working for a company which makes Java games and still supports MSJVM. We wrote our own libraries to do almost everything because there wasn't available library support for it.
  25. Re:Tell them this on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. The Chinese economy is predicated on the need for manufacture. Western economies are increasingly based on services, and there would still be a limited number of university graduates.