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  1. Re:Even if the answer is no... on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unless you're running on an old 4200rpm laptop drive, write speed shouldn't be a problem compared to internet speeds. 22mbps is only 2.75MBps, which pretty much any relatively modern drive can do, even near-full and fragmented to hell.

  2. Re:The world had its taste of freedom... on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 1

    This is called a slippery slope argument and it is a logical fallacy.

    It CAN BE a logical fallacy. If each stepping is logically supportable, the slippery slope argument is non-fallacious.

  3. Re:Backwards Compatible? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I think ext4 will mount with ext2fsd, if and only if you don't use extents. With extents on, there is no backwards compatibility to ext2 or 3.

  4. Re:OT : Why cancel analog? on Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, it isn't. But the idea is to use digital (which can deliver the same content while using a smaller chunk of the spectrum) and use the freed up frequency space for other stuff.

  5. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    How much do you pay per KWhr? That guy looks to pay about 27.2 cents. I pay a little more than 1/3 of that where I live.

  6. Re:Food for thought on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In space, yes. Outside the earth's magnetosphere, no. Even out on the moon, the magnetosphere still protects them from much of the nastiness (solar wind, cosmic rays, etc.), but if we're gonna go to Mars or wherever, we'll need to bring our own protection.

  7. Re:In all seriousness on The Evolution of Python 3 · · Score: 1

    For the "=" and "==" thing, do equality tests backwards, like:

    3==foo

    If you accidentally put

    3=foo

    It'll throw an error about an undeclared variable (presuming you don't have a string variable named "3") when you try to compile.

  8. Re:Hardware demands match? on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 1

    The 950 sucks period, though the drivers don't help either.

    Pretty much anything pummels the crap out of any Intel video, even the lowest end ATI and NVIDIA chips. the ATI HD3200 in my laptop (an HP tx2500 convertible tablet) more than doubles the performance of Intel's latest and greatest.

  9. Re:stupid question but..... on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    Standardization in health care records sounds like a clear, obvious, and appropriate use of the commerce clause to me.

  10. Re:stupid question but..... on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    Digital X-Rays (IMHO) are amazing. No more days of "Oh this one didn't turn out, go back for another set" The techs are pretty well trained and when the image pops up on their screen they know instantly if they need to redo it. The files are then tossed in some magical cloud. When I go to the visiting room with the Doc there's a computer that he uses to pull up my record and it has all my images (MRI and X-Ray) and you can scroll through them instantly. No more huge white boards. You could scroll through the layers of MRIs with the scroll wheel (pretty cool to me)

    I quite agree. We have this same sort of system up here in my town (In Saskatchewan, Canada). Less than 5 min after I'm off the X-ray table at the hospital, my doc is able to examine them from the comfort of his office on the other side of town. The cost and time savings though this must be absolutely phenomenal.

  11. Re:Gotta admire that singularity of 'Jackass' inte on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    Damaging his interests? It's in his interest to keep this zombie corp running as long as possible to keep collecting his salary.

  12. Re:Chiropractors are quacks anyway on Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review · · Score: 1

    Chiropractors that are insisting they are solutions to non-musculoskeletal problems fall into my frauds column, but they're quite helpful in their appropriate field.

  13. Re:Despicable tags! on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    I believe it's to differentiate between posted stories and unposted ones in the firehose.

  14. Re:One quetsion on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Internet Stream Protocol (RFC 1819) used 5 in the protocol version field.

  15. Re:little australia on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    Canada has had a constitution since 1867 (the British North America Act, a.k.a. the Constitution Act, 1867), which was then patriated with the Constitution Act (and accompanying Canada Act) of 1982.

  16. Re:Incompetence By Design on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    The torries future depends on if they impress the professor with their budget.

  17. Re:Hm. Great on Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    21 and one root canal here, right eye tooth. Tooth was apparently killed somehow while I was wearing braces. Was a very easy thing (easier than any filling), being as the tooth was already completely dead.

  18. Re:not a fan of ff3 on Open Source Victories of 2008 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The awesome bar is a learning thing. you need to use it for awhile before your sites float to the top of the list.

    Also, there's a couple tweaks in about:config that make it nicer. Set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true and browser.urlbar.matchBehavior to 2 (respect word boundaries) or 3 (search only beginning of urls and titles).

  19. Re:Here we go again... on Protection From Online Eviction? · · Score: 1

    Signature works fine.

    As for the complaint in the sig, you may be interested in the G1 dev version.

  20. Re:No need for IPv6, ever on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yes, it uses a NAT traversal technique, which doesn't always work. It's a hack on top of a hack, and is a really lousy substitute for just having things publicly routable.

  21. Re:Consumer Routers and IPv6? on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yes, Firefox can do IPv6. There's an option (network.dns.disableIPv6) to disable it in about:config, though it is enabled by default.

  22. Re:Why did they do it this way? on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are several free DNS services, such as dyndns and no-ip, which work just fine for such uses.

  23. Re:The US has over 1 million lawyers on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    What sane person wants to own an airline with the way that industry is going?

  24. Re:Why is this news? on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 1

    As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want.

    And we have the right to express our displeasure with that.

  25. Re:MS patting themselves on the back on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1

    At least some variants of it use some privilege escalation exploit, as running as a limited user does nothing to stop it.