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  1. Re:Spin Doctors on Report From "Get The Facts" · · Score: 1

    I like their insistence on having the VB, C++, VBScript, and JScript docs for some APIs all in the same page making it impossible to tell which specific API they are talking about half the time. Nice for clutter.

  2. Way to go /. on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

    Nice :O

  3. Re:Only one way... on Networking in the Danger Zone? · · Score: 1

    Russia apparently had been telling the US that Saddam's regime was planning their own terror attacks against the US. Of course, they didn't mention that publicly while the whole build-up for war was going on.

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/18/saddam.t error/index.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3819057.stm

  4. Re:Try NVU on Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review · · Score: 1

    That and it appears to be hosted on a 56k modem. At least that's what I gather from the excruciating download speed I got...

  5. Re:Not quite on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    Similar statistics can be found in college textbooks that deal with the matter. They are real. The illusion that everyone in America owns tons of stock is an illusion.

  6. Re:Firefox + Thunderbird = Mozilla? on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    The current Mozilla suite probably contains little to none of the original Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code which Netscape released. The original Mozilla (Netscape 5.0) was trashbinned and they started over (after wasting quite a bit of time on 5.0).

    Netscape 6 (horrible) was based off a *near* 1.0 Mozilla codebase IIRC. Netscape 6+ are derivatives of Mozilla not the other way around.

  7. Re:Awesome! on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    It is a Mozilla bug.

  8. Re:Why is this shocking? on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1

    At the beginning of most television programs, a rating is generally displayed that would normally tip off parents. Janet's stunt was contrary to the expected content of the program in question.

  9. Re:Why is this shocking? on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1

    People that sat down to watch the game with their kids didn't get a chance to say "Junior, go in the other room for 10 minutes" because Janet just flopped it out. We're big on allowing things if parents get a chance to say no. Janet, in a lame attempt at publicity, forced her nudity on the television audience even though the act was NOT in the specs provided to the network who, under their agreements with the FCC, should have prevented it.

  10. Re:Look at the uses they're citing -- chilling on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    When the protest turns into a riot and people's lives and property are put at risk.

  11. Re:Perhaps It Belongs in the OS on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they are being sent by previously infected or unpatched zombies?

  12. Re:I know plenty who do... on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't recommend you unleash SP2 on production machines already. Why even consider it?

  13. Re:Dry-labbing on Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I once used a very jittery meter in an electrical lab and almost none of the readings matched (not even close) the theoretical values. "Dodgy meter" was listed in my list of error sources and therefore I was not marked down. I suspect he knew the meter was screwed and was looking for tweaked data.

    I would not fudge data with any equipment that was not my own. I probably still wouldn't, but... If by chance the prof is giving you equipment that he knows is dodgy and is expecting you to (properly) mark down the incorrect values, then giving "correct" values might just be improper.

  14. Re:Dry-labbing on Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification · · Score: 1

    My lab class was always instructed to verify it with a stupid number of measurements and little time consuming experiments.

  15. Re:Mainly the startup times... on Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can start typing in the WORD PROCESSOR, it's pretty much ready to use, isn't it?

  16. Re:Windows XP v. KDE or Gnome on Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower? · · Score: 1

    If it seems faster, than it is faster. Being faster but appearing slow is not a plus...

  17. Re:Compared to Windows on Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower? · · Score: 1

    That's odd. I thought they were basically the same operating system with a few extra features in Pro...

    Microsoft says:
    "128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)"

    XP Pro will install with 64 MB RAM. Using just the classic theme and most of the effects turned off, it would probably run smoothly with 128MB.

  18. Re:My opinion - but who the **** cares? on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    Is that even the FCC's job?

  19. Re:Misleading Summary on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The part about their growth rate is funny. The guy obviously doesn't understand the basics of immature VS mature economies.

  20. Re:fcc is a necessary body on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    History has proven that the minority requires protecting from the majority. The "there's more of us so fuck you!" policy does not make for smooth operation.

  21. Re:Architectural Obsolescence? on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 1

    and a whole lot of other things...

  22. Re:inquiring minds want to know... on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I imagine that the dead server would replace it as "cold".

  23. Re:Use? on China to Crack Supercomputer Top Ten List · · Score: 1

    There was no guarantee that the bombs (and they only had a few at the time) would explode properly so demonstrating them would've been a bad idea.

    Why don't I hear the same arguments about FIREBOMBING major cities?

  24. Re:Interesting on China to Crack Supercomputer Top Ten List · · Score: 1

    I believe Peking was the traditional spelling for Beijing before they changed it. A lot of things used to be spelled different before the switch.

  25. Re:And will you... on Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find it funny that you advocate forcing a website to discriminate and censor the ads that appear on its pages. Isn't Linux about openness and freedom?