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  1. Re:Facts on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 0

    Let's not confuse the issue with facts.... this is slashdot afterall.

  2. We all know this works on Ballmer Babies Banned From iPods and Google · · Score: 0

    I know every time my parents said you can't do xyz, I immediately complied

  3. Looking more and more like OSX on Fedora Core 5 Available · · Score: 0

    or is it just me?

  4. Reminds me of another famous quote, no not Bill's on No More Next Big Thing? · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of another famous quote:

    "I have determined that there's no market for talking pictures" Thomas Edison 1926

  5. Re:Red Hat Certified Engineer on Ask About Life, Blogging and Linux in the Middle East · · Score: 0
    CISSP isn't a "techie" certification, even though a lot of CISSP's come from a tech background. Here are the 10 domains that you are tested on.

    Access Control Systems and Methodology

    Applications and Systems Development Security

    Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

    Cryptography

    Law, Investigation and Ethics

    Operations Security

    Physical Security

    Security Architecture and Models

    Security Management Practices

    Telecommunications and Network Security

  6. Will it *NOT* run Linux? on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 0

    That is the real question.

  7. Re:I wonder on Children Help Their Mothers for Decades · · Score: 0

    I think it has more to do with "Honey can you get the cat out of the tree", or "the kids ball off the roof" fatal accidents dragging the average down.

  8. Re:Idiotic on Apple to Buy out Palm? · · Score: 0

    What kind of return is 300% a year... ;-)

  9. Re:Argh! on Blizzard Techs Talk Login Times, Not Gay Rights · · Score: 0

    Leave the Flying Spaghetti Monsters out of this. We are peace loving, and apolitical.

  10. This is right up there with on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: 0

    1) McDonalds made my kids fat

    2) Gun manufactures are liable because people shot each other.

    3) Cigarette companies caused me to get cancer, not the fact I inhaled smoke hundreds of times a day, for 30 years.

  11. The real question on ATI vs. Nvidia in a Video Shootout · · Score: 0, Funny

    Does either card dual boot XP and OSX?

  12. Microsoft Killer! on Napster To Be Acquired by Google? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh man Microsoft is finished now!!!

  13. We must be in the same office building on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 0

    We must be in the same office building :-{

  14. Does it come with a hat too? :) on Make an RFID-proof wallet · · Score: 0

    I could use a new one.

  15. Re:Bad history on There is No Open Source Community · · Score: 0

    There was never a period of time when shareware was a particularly good model for anything other than marketing. The original shareware authors generally had a plan of:

    It worked great for the original Doom and iD software.

  16. Re:Big Brother and the iTunes Company on iTunes is Malware? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't want a computer program diagnosing me at a hospital even if it is built on solid Bayesian probability models

    I know lots of doctors. You are better off with the machine diagnosing you..... better probability of recovery and machines have more personality than most.

  17. Captain Trips on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 0

    So Stephen King saw into the future..... I'm going to start heading to Boulder, Co before all the cars filled with dead clog the interstates. Walking sucks!

  18. Re:Being Alive . . . on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 0

    This also makes the store less money, and could, in fact, cause music store to not buy DRM CD's anymore. The returned CD's would likley be shipped back to the music distributor for a credit on other CD's. Returning lots of DRM'd Cds would cause quite a pain for the music industry in the long run.

  19. Re:Strange requirement in FAQ on Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot on Sale Friday · · Score: 0

    but just what information could it need?

    To connect to all other wakamaru bots, become sentient, develop a collective and conquer humanity..... or create Skynet and decimate humanity.
    Either way we're pretty much screwed.

  20. 3 laws of robotics? on Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot on Sale Friday · · Score: 0

    The three laws of Robotics:

    1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
    2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
    4. (hidden) MS Windows is dangerous to human beings and robots alike.

  21. Re:I call "bullshit" on this article. on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1, Informative

    And cold blood would damage the tissues. And I can't imagine how the dog's mind would survive intact, but that's just me.

    I seem to recall two cases of children falling into sub-freezing lakes and remaining there for 30-60 minutes. Being revived and having no brain damage. It is the extreme cold that protects the brain from damage as I understand it.

  22. How long before these are removable media? on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 0

    and those of us in Info security were worried about 1G thumb drives ...

  23. Re:So, what justifies what? on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 0

    Is theft OK if I use the stolen money for "good"?

    It worked for Robin Hood!

  24. Re:Support food banks on Biodegradable Cell Phones Sprout Into Flowers · · Score: 0

    I don't care how hungry I get. I'm not eating a cell phone..... flower or not.

  25. Re:For all non-photo geeks out there on Largest Digital Photograph in the World · · Score: 0

    That is a trick question..... Irish shots are 5 gallon buckets.