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  1. Re:Incorrect: Understand the way it's shut off on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And how is shutting down GPS going to prevent a suitcase nuke attack?

  2. Re:Save Me, FAA! on FCC to Allow Wireless Access on Planes · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the FAA can prohibit passengers from bringing WiFi devices on board. IANAL.

  3. Re:Quit Using IE on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 1

    Don't Macs support USB floppy drives?

  4. Re:America has become a country. on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    And where in the US Constitution does it say that the states are sovereign? The Constitution prohibited states from maintaining armed forces or making treaties among themselves. Hardly what I would call sovereign.

  5. Re:Time to ditch the English Language? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Stillman, Stillman, and Harkins (Introductory Russian Grammar, Second Edition. 1972) use KO MHE and KO BCEM, but they also have K KOMY.

    Sorry, it's been 20+ years since I had Russian.

  6. Re:Time to ditch the English Language? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    That would probably be

    Ko komu ty poshel.

    Similarly for b/bo and c/co.

  7. Re:Illiterate? Or just unprofessional? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    But that delete many porn offers!

    Or is that the idea?

  8. Re:Time to ditch the English Language? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Isn't a German infinitive just a single word? Isn't that the same with other languages? Hence, the issue does not arise in those languages.

    I find it amusing that Russian has three single-consonant prepositions. Just try ending a sentence with one of them, tovarishch.

  9. Re:Who is it going to get? on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 1

    Actually, some of us pay for Linux. I'm hoping to buy SuSe 9.2 soon.

  10. Re:Windows is more secure? on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Hmm. . . Richard Stallman, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Tridgell, Jeremy Allison, Alan Cox, Stephen Tweedie, Guido Van Rossum, Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, Eric Raymond. . .

    Nah, never heard of 'em!

  11. Re:Its good, look at what happened with OJ on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    Dershowitz claims that one of the major blunders of the prosecution was to try OJ in downtown LA instead of, say, Brentwood.

  12. Re:compare to a Mac: on LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop Review · · Score: 1

    And why do you (or the original poster) believe that Evian is overrated?

  13. Re:Good for China! Bring this here. on China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" · · Score: 1

    Should the government have the power to stop them? Would the cure be better than the disease?

  14. Re:A few clarifications... on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 1

    Hmm, losing 3 hours out of roughly 9000 hours in a year would only be 99.967% uptime. Why the extra 9?

  15. Re:Woah there! on Linus Interviewed · · Score: 1

    As opposed to keeping viruses out of a Windows computer? Windows is (usually) already installed and configured, and often maintained and fixed by third-party vendors such as Symantec and McAfee.

  16. Re:Personal Edition was crippled anyway on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Hmm. . . Of course, where can one buy an OEM version of Windows XP professional? And how much treeware does XP Pro include? And can I install it on more than one machine? What server software does XP Pro have?
    Does one have to activate an OEM copy of Win XP Pro?

    Also, Office Depot charges $199 (US) for the upgrade version of Windows XP Pro, so your price seems a bit low.

  17. Re:Ready for the desktop? on Windows Viruses up Sharply in 2004 · · Score: 1

    How hard is Linux to set up? Sure it took a while to install SuSE 9.0 Pro, but hey, that's what happens when you try to install almost everything.

  18. Re:Binary size on Comparing Linux C and C++ Compilers · · Score: 1

    Of course, CPU time is cheap, too.

  19. Re:Microsoft shouldn't care about piracy on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 1

    Imaginary numbers?

    I wouldn't want to be the the Microsoft executive who had to report a loss of 80,000,000i dollars.

  20. Re:Interesting but on Transmeta TM8800 And Ultraportable Announced · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it say that you get a refund for the entire computer, as opposed to just the OS? I'm pretty sure that Microsoft has lawyers who can write EULA's

  21. Re:Are you sure? on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Still, toe-to-toe at the beginning would have been worse than these tiny wars.

  22. Re:Badger, Badger, Badger,... on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Nuke, it's a nuke; nuke, it's a nuke; nuke for England England England!

  23. Re:Are you sure? on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    As opposed to how many who would have died if the US and USSR had decided to go toe-to-toe?

    Also, would some of these wars (such as Afghanistan and Angola) happened anyway?

  24. Re:Paperless office... on Batteries For Your Pen And Paper? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used TeX/LaTeX for equations?

  25. Re:I hate to say it... on Pepper Pad 2 Linux Web Pad · · Score: 1

    Yes, I like to sit down and type away, too. But on a real keyboard.

    As for the size, OK 120 cubic inches vs. 64 cubic inches. But 4.3 pounds isn't that heavy.