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  1. Re:Intelligent Design? Or Evolution? on Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? · · Score: 1

    Intelligent design evolved from creationism.

  2. Re:"restrict the discussions on Slashdot: Podcasts, IM, Improved Discussions · · Score: 1

    It might be better to filter on age of account or total number of posts. Sort of like a cooling off period for sock puppets. Make the trolls work to be heard.

  3. Re:Buggy IE (7) on Slashdot: Podcasts, IM, Improved Discussions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

  4. Re:Ok. You read it, now extrapolate on CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels" · · Score: 1

    If you're right, the Patriot act moved the boundaries. This means that they're pulling illegal stuff worse than allowed by that Act.

    If they got away with illegal stuff before, then they will now, but their illegal acts are new and improved.

  5. Re:The Market? on Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox · · Score: 3, Funny

    It depends on where you leave the iPhone. Hell, a 20' container could be an iPhone mass murderer.

  6. Re:reasons for blackberry's success on Corporate IT Hanging Up on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    I had a couple of users. The Blackberry got its own email address from the provider. We just forwarded their email to that address. Done in thirty seconds.

  7. Re:I'm one off from the local... on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    I had my work direct line (diverted to mobile after hours, never again) listed in the paper for a no-experience, good pay, lots of travel, sales job.

    About 10% of the 'applicants' failed the simple test of:
    Sorry, this is the wrong number, try nnnn-nnnn.
    Yes, the paper has the wrong number. No, I don't know about the job.
    I don't know about pay.
    I can't re-schedule your interview.

  8. Re:I'm one off from the local... on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    We got issued the number of a former hospital. We had the number for ten years and were still getting referrals for, IIRC, mostly breast-screenings.

  9. Re:Slight complication on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just don't try cleaning them out with a high powered vacuum. You'll be pulling keys out of the bag. It's fun to watch if it's someone else, though.

  10. Re:what type on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    Well, Aussie Rules is played on an oval, so two radii, and they don't have a fixed size. If it's the others I'd like to know the radius of a rectangle.

  11. Re:Technobabble on Pidgin 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It's obviously Enterprise grade software.

    You forgot to modulate. Modulation is everything. :)

  12. Re:*burp* on Dresses Made from Wine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The mods are drunk.

  13. Re:$1500 ? on Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I missed one. Ultimate is A$1175. And for extra sticker shock Vista Ultimate is A$750.

  14. Re:$1500 ? on Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail · · Score: 1

    Try A$690 for Office 2007 Standard and A$850 for Professional. So it's more like 90% off.

  15. Re:nah on NASA Fires Astronaut · · Score: 1

    21 years? It's old enough to drink.

  16. Re:DST in Australia on Linux Systems and the New DST · · Score: 1

    That sounds like last December in Western Australia. Two political has-beens needed to fix their image so they decided we needed DST.

    Consider waking up and having the radio tell you that we'll start doing DST on Sunday and our last "trial" was 15 years ago. I stayed unemployed for that one.

    And as for Exchange, anything can make your IS refuse to restart, and updating it can require good luck and strong nerves.

  17. Re:Non-native on Microsoft Plays Up Open Source · · Score: 1
    The article specifies version 8.2. This is a native application with a nice click and drool installer. However, you may be right about one part:

    PostgreSQL uses a process-oriented architecture similar to that of Apache 1.3, where each request is handled by an independent process. The native Windows port has not used the Windows preferred thread-oriented architecture. For this reason, one should expect performance on Windows to be lower, especially where large numbers of small queries are executed.
    I always thought it was one process per connection. Otherwise, it's a simple how-to on installing PostgreSQL on Windows.
  18. Re:if old Kirk and young Kirk meet on Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details · · Score: 2, Funny

    Denny Crane?

  19. Re:Where to get time zone info source files from on Preparing Your Datacenters for DST Changes? · · Score: 1

    Windows still uses local time and adjusts the clock for DST. The bigger problem is that it only stores a single set of dates so you have to update every year that the dates are changed.

  20. Re:Alright, some Aussie, tell us.. on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    One of the few sore points with the GST was software. It went from 0 to 10%.

    The GST also got rid of the tax exemption crap we had to deal with on hardware. For engineers and project managers we could claim an exemption on the 22% tax. For secretaries and other office types we had to pay the full price. )With hidden 22% tax)

    What got really odd was, IIRC, sound cards that had a significat "software component" averaged the tax down to 15%.

    Now we just subtract the tax we paid to suppliers from the tax we take from customers and send whats left to the ATO.

  21. Re:eBay are still Tax Cheats on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    Did you retain 49% of the payment? They don't have to provide a tax receipt, but ...

  22. Re:What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    We had two stations in the same building swap frequencies. One was the kiddy top-40 crap and one was the not-quite easy listening station.

  23. Re:Wouldn't be the first one on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do a search for "Cosmos 954" It still had its power source when it hit Canada in 1978. And yeah, I'm not worried either. The stuff spread over a wide area, and as my Dad was tought in the '60s, the solution to pollution is dilution.

  24. Re:A$1,1799 - Ouch on A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia · · Score: 1

    Not when the local cut rate PC shops are selling cheap systems for $700 Australian. And maybe I'm old fashioned using A$ not AUD, but yes I said Australian dollars. They're the ones with see through bits and pretty colours.

  25. Re:A$1,1799 - Ouch on A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia · · Score: 1

    Quick and dirty prices in AUD.

    Processors start around A$100. 512 MB of PC3200 for about A$115. DVD for ~A$50. Got a DVD burner for $145 a couple of weeks back. 80GB Deathstar A$90. Not sure about the specific motherboard, but unless the moneys in the fancy case and remote, there's a bit of padding in the price.