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  1. Re:So? on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The study is important and needs to continue, but you can't assume a rise in temperature over 2 decades means something bad is happening. I don't think we'll ever have enough data to prove whether we are right or wrong until the damage has been done (or apparently not done).

  2. Re:So? on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree, and 18 year study proves nothing for a world and solar system that is 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%).

  3. Re:insight needed on Postfix 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Whether or not I deserve to use qmail is irrelevant. Their license effectively stops the distribution of qmail in my favorite distros, and will break package managemnet systems. It also eliminates linux vendor support for qmail, since they can't verify and test your setup in house before it is shipped to you. Also, I've had trouble patching and compiling qmail myself (I'm not a developer), whereas binaries would have fixed all that.

  4. Re:insight needed on Postfix 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    My users are real right now, but I'd like to go all virtual. Believe it or not, I don't have any spam filtering in place on the server, but the tide is slowly building up. Thunderbird's bayesian filtering has been working good enough, but I know its time will be up soon.

    I would also like to thank everyone that gave me advice in this thread!

  5. insight needed on Postfix 2.1 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it worthwhile to migrate to postfix from qmail? Qmail has a weird license scheme preventing binary distribution that sort of urked me, not to mention hit-or-miss setup documentation, but it's been running great for years now. I've wanted to add some virtual domains and spam filtering and it might just be easier to swap the whole MTA.

  6. Re:Here is why I buy CD's on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 1

    $30 a week is $1440 a year. It would actually take about $5.77 to get $300 per year.

  7. Re:Sweet!! on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 1

    Just drop some screws in there, they'll stick to the magnet.

  8. Re:So did Marx ... on NASA Gravity Probe Launched · · Score: 1

    I guess just like GTA is to blame for all the crime in society. It was their idea and someone else committed the act, so therefore it was the creators of GTA who are at fault.

  9. Re:So did Marx ... on NASA Gravity Probe Launched · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, if it's impossible to implement what Marx proposed with homo sapiens how exactly did it kill about 100M people?

  10. Re:great. on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sounds like you've got it real tough there buddy. It must be hard to live under those conditions.

  11. Re:spare MHz? on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whats a disturbed computing client? Help, the init has gone postal!!!

  12. Re:Heh on Linux Spreads its Wings · · Score: 1

    I think I'll stick with the GRand Unified Bagel, thanks though.

  13. Re:mostly satisfied on Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up · · Score: 1

    Yup, wget -c works great. I could even use squid to cache a lot of the redundant content but it hasn't annoyed me enough to bother.

  14. mostly satisfied on Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of the /. crowd is going to cringe when they hear this, but I have a 28.8 internet connection. The way the phone switch is setup, it effectively cuts all modem connections from anywhere in town to 28.8 and eliminates any possibility of DSL.

    Our cable company isn't going to upgrade it's infrastructure anytime soon to support cable modems either.

    I've lived with it for years, and it's not all that bad. It's fine for e-mail and web browsing, and when I need a kernel update I just let it download overnight. Theoretically I could download just under 7GB a month, which actually beats some of your cable download caps! My only other option is satellite, but the hardware is Linux unfriendly and the latency is annoying (even more so than 28.8).

  15. Re:Meh on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 1

    Sound, video and video capture can be a PITA to get working under linux, but network cards and USB cards are the easiest thing ever. Maybe not the USB devices that plug into the USB cards though.

    I know you are just trying to pull us Linux user's chains but I pay-for/donate-to my distro and use it because it's free as in speech and not because it's free as in $0.

  16. Re:Support your classic car restorer on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you're American, right?

  17. Re:Never been done before... on SimChurch · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem 3D as well, I think Duke even had some one liners mocking the church too, but I can't be sure. I do know you had to shoot the churches up to kill the baddies inside, breaking the windows and such. I remember there was a dead nun in the rafters too.

  18. Re:Anonymous -- duh on Former Anti-Piracy 'Bag Man' Turns On DirecTV · · Score: 1

    where did you learn this? i like my football card very much thank you!

  19. Re:What shap haven't we had on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 1

    Why would we need crewed spaceships to establish new wormholes? There are robots running around on Mars now, don't you think by the time C-Ships are feasible AI will be on par (perhaps superior) with human capabilities?

  20. Re:Primal hum of the electrical grid on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 1

    Please mod up, this was one of the rare comments that made me actually laugh out loud. (I'm American too.)

  21. Re:not an uncommon problem.. on iPod Mini Design Flaw? · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

  22. Re:There is another flaw on iPod Mini Design Flaw? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks like all that cash for the iPod family wasn't going towards quality after all, it was just paying for a brand name.

  23. Re:Testing on iPod Mini Design Flaw? · · Score: 0

    Yes, that's what Chevrolet does with their cars, they just start them up and press some buttons, but never ever do road tests. Why would you test products the way they are meant to be used??

  24. wtf on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hell, give me the $6 million and I'll get rid of your 10kg of junk. What a waste. It's the kind of people who buy SUVs for their daily commute that are behind these sorts of things.

  25. Re:And my town is one of them on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 1

    Hello neighbor! Fall River, MA here.