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  1. Re:Accountability? on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1

    Shhh....all those colleges that produce mediocrity makes my college look so much better though.

  2. Re:Even made sense to a non-D&Der on 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D · · Score: 1

    Though I think this would give a better idea of a d12

  3. Re:Faked? on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    It looked faked to me, but more like it was attached to some kind of wire. Note the pendulum-like swinging action.

  4. Re:beige on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 1

    pure genius

  5. Re:Before the complaining gets too bad on Copyright Bill could Stifle Innovation · · Score: 1

    those of us that are Americans need to exercise our rights.
    In Soviet Russia, rights exercise you!

  6. Re:Could someone please enlighten me? on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    I am in full agreement on that one. What kind of servers does this guy install. Having multimedia applications like muine and xmms on a server???? And what server is going to need a non-linear video editor???

    It would seem that if those were actual screenshots of his server then he is smoking some serious crack. I'll take two of whatever he's having.

    On the other hand though, I could argue against myself and talk about how screenshots of a properly running server are pretty damn boring. Might as well take pictures of paint drying and you might get the excitement level of a servers screen shots.

  7. Re:without booting the OS on Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR · · Score: 1

    so would the other way around be a tv with a laptop built in? If so, it probably wouldn't be much of a laptop, given that it was built into a tv.

    I can see it now, walking down the street and seeing some poor schmoe with a 27" tv sitting on his lap with a little keyboard protruding out from the bottom talkin about how his laptop has a big ass display.

  8. Re:At what point... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Yes, they do have those facets working rather nicely, now if only my computer wouldn't bluescreen while zooming in for a sweet shot with my sniper rifle....I dream for the day.

  9. Re:At what point... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Good to see the boys at Redmond still don't know how to code, yet they are making all the money. Strange how that works really.

  10. Re:Lose your data to DMCA ? on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 1

    -- rights to recover you own data ?

    - None. If the disk gets scratched then go buy another copy. Remember, it's "good for the economy" every time you spend money.

    Not to jump out like a troll while you try to cross the bridge of understanding, but It would seem to me that if they were trying to recover their own data, that would be data that they had created. Not a program disk that got scratched.

  11. Re:Great, but.. on Cardboard WiFi Antenna Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I saw an episode of The Screen Savers where they reviewed antennas such as this and they were shown to work. I don't remember the specifics as to the actual dBi gain but I did gather from it that they worked.

    Pretty sure it just takes the signal going out the back side of an omni-directional antenna and reflects it back the other direction so you have more waves of the same amplitude going in the same direction, which would increase the signal strength. That increase in signal strength would create an increase in distance? Note: I could be wrong on all of this, I'm just basing my ideas off of a collection of stuff I've heard over the years.

  12. Re:Kill all the crew... on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    So wait, if his ashes are in orbit, the the orbit around the earth is, in fact, his grave. Given that, I would imagine his ashes are moving about as they orbit the earth. So, would that make him technically spinning in his grave?

  13. Re:Static or dynamic? on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 1

    I got a friend at the lab here that is working with the HOAP-2 . I'm pretty sure that it handles dynamic balancing. Though the price is rather hefty, $80,000, that gets you buggy software, a robot, a Japanese engineer and translator to setup the robot the first time, and a LOT of headaches. Did I mention the buggy software.

  14. Re:Microsoft are lying to us on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1

    the IE big wig thinks that all of his engineers should have other browsers installed to see what they can do Right, to see what they can do. This has nothing to do with *COUGH* the vulnerable nature of Internet Explorer. Looks to me that Microsoft was just following CERTs suggestion to stop using it.

  15. Re:this should be a definitive guide to installing on OpenBSD Review at DistroWatch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have found OpenBSD to be trivial to install on one platform out of the three I have tried. When installing OpenBSD on an UltraSparc 10 there was no issues what-so-ever and everything might as well have been point and click. The x86 family of processors and the Power PC processors, however, were an entirely different story and headache all together. You'd think that with OpenBSD talking about how secure it is and how great it is, that you'd see one of those developers make some user friendly installer in order to increase the popularity of the operating system. Personally I believe that more people running more secure computers is a good thing, but thats just me and I ramble.

  16. Re:BSD IS... on OpenBSD Review at DistroWatch · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you feel that you haven't had any security issues for that long, maybe you have and just don't know about them or, perhaps you haven't had those computers connected to the internet....

  17. Re:Pictures. on Cassini-Huygens Reaches Orbit Around Saturn · · Score: 0

    The is already raw and press images released but those did not get released till 4am PST.

  18. Re:so they don't owe the queen? on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 0

    Yeah, thanks for ruining my pun.

  19. so they don't owe the queen? on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 5, Funny

    are royalties treated different in a monarchy?

  20. Re:Kudos to developers on Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX · · Score: 1

    Damn, replied to the trolled post.

  21. Re:Kudos to developers on Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX · · Score: 1

    I don't know, ask microsoft.

  22. Re:Companies can contract without folding on Should Sun Just Fold Now? · · Score: 1

    Guess McNealy will be choking since this will allow your Ultrasparc based workstation run Windows. Amazing.

  23. Re:personnal opinion on Should Sun Just Fold Now? · · Score: 1

    I hate to burst your bubble, but you should read up on Sun's products before you rant. Note the use of DDR RAM. Blade 2500 Workstation