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  1. Re:Germany conquered Kongo? on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    And even if they were, how would they get the stuff to Germany? The Congo had but a small coastline, which the Allies could easily have denied to the Germans. Or did the Germans ship it overland to North Africa, and somehow smuggle it across the Mediterranean?

  2. Re:Getting sick of European leaders trashing Ameri on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    Actually, the worst of those atrocities occurred when Belgian Congo was the personal property of Leopold II, not a Belgian colony.

  3. Re:the hand which feeds you... on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    Which reduces the probability that a single virus will exploit them all.

  4. Re:Assigning homework isn't teaching on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    Yuri Gagarin might disagree, as he was the first man in space.

  5. Re:Windows should have 10 times the sales on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    But your Windows servers are single points of failure for their individual services. If your lone email server fails, telling the boss that your web server is still up won't make him/her happy.

    Of course, with multiple boxes, you could run all/most of your services on each box, thus avoiding single point of failure.

  6. Re:Meanwhile at the Microsoft headquarters... on EU Deadline Approaching for Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    And how many times per second does that happen? :-)

  7. Re:Microsoft C++ compiler is free on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    And you are assuming that he already has Windows.

  8. Re:I hope he writes C better than he writes Englis on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    Compilers are much greater "grammar nazis" than any human. Are they even more pathetic?

  9. Re:I hope he writes C better than he writes Englis on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he meant users of a certain API?

  10. Re:Microsoft C++ compiler is free on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    And what OS would you run it on?

  11. Re:Why I haven't "gamed" in over a decade on A Gamer's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    But who would buy a 256-megabyte video card? Do you want NVIDIA to go bankrupt? :-)

  12. Re:A game developer's response... on A Gamer's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    Others have commented that a 1x DVD-ROM drive has a throughput of roughly 1.3 megabytes per second, which means that a 16x DVD-ROM drive should be able to get 16 megabytes of data in less than a second, not counting the seek time.

  13. Re:NIHS on Microsoft IIS v7 Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has used BSD code in the past (try running strings on ftp.exe). Is there a particular BSD licensed web server you would suggest?

  14. Re:Why Do Smart People Defend Bad Ideas? on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 1

    Then cite Laplace, who, when Napoleon noted that Laplace had not mentioned a deity in his Celeste Mecanique, replied that he had no need of that hypothesis.

  15. Re:some issues.... on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 1

    And how much time did it take me to read it? Also, that's a somewhat contrived example.

  16. Re:some issues.... on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 1

    The extra } as the third character from the end.

  17. Re:It's okay.. on The Death of Licensed Enterprise Software? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. . . Doesn't Red Hat have some kernel developers on its payroll?

  18. Re:you can't be serious on MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    Well, some of us do.

  19. Re:you can't be serious on MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're jpegs. When you reply to/post a comment, you have to type the text imbedded in some image. Those images are what the original poster is discussing.

  20. This KDE fan thinks konqueror is a good idea on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Actually, I would object to running standard commands from a window manager (that's what xterms are for). Also, can't you tell by the address bar whether the URL is local or from a network?

  21. Re:Integration with the OS is B-A-D.. BAD on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    And how integrated is konqueror with the Linux kernel, as opposed to the KDE desktop?

  22. Re:wait wait WHOAA on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    It has been mentioned many times, but does anyone have any data on this?

  23. Re:OS's in the same boat? on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Windows includes Samba? Or did you mean SMB?

  24. Re:Wireless NIC's on The Future of Linux on Laptops · · Score: 1

    The problem I have is not getting the drivers to work, but how to connect to a wireless router/access point at an internet cafe. Kismet is no help there.

  25. Re:Slippery slope not a valid argument? on Vigilante Hackers use Old West Tactics for Justice · · Score: 1

    In deductive logic, an argument form is valid if given true premises of the correct form, the conclusion is true. Hence, for a slippery-slope argument to be valid in this sense, the probabilities must be 1.

    Of course, the argument may still have some inductive force.