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  1. Re:Filesystems in the kernel! on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Filesystems in the kernel, savages!

    Give it five to ten years. Linus will have to move all that bloat out of the kernel. I wonder if he will start again from minix 3?

  2. Re:Sure it would. on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 5, Funny

    promoting the pawn

    As an engineer I am here to hell you that pawns never get promoted.

  3. Re:What to do about it? on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 1

    A. Is your password "admin," "root," "password," or some other such simplistic shit?

    OpenVMS has a nice feature:

    set password/generate

    It sets the password then tells you what the password is. Personally on linux and BSD I use

    echo $RANDOM$RANDOM

    ...then set the password to the resulting string.

  4. Re:Honorable Way Out for NASA on Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest · · Score: 1

    Grissom (to be known as Gus)

  5. Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    Now there's an idea. On a cold winter night in Antarctica you could just collect frozen CO2 and bury it under the ice cap.

  6. Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    Or the CO2 freezes out of the air.

  7. Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Any version of Emacs you might use, including any of the commercial Emacs clones that are proprietary and closed-source, are based on the open-source Emacs written by none other than RMS.

    How could emacs be distributed as proprietary and closed-source?

  8. Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    My point is that like Richard Stallman who is a rabid GPL advocate, vegans are rabid food people.

    They have rabies?

  9. Re:Guys... on New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes · · Score: 1

    the marginally centrist-right National, and marginally centrist-left Labour,

    Labour is not by any definition left wing, perhaps only if you look at a handful of policies they adopt to cozy up to unions and the Green party. They are very centre-right in practice. The NZ definition of 'left' is a strange one.

    Its the same in Australia. Labour won the last election by moving to the right of the Liberals during the election campaign. Its a bit like football. The objective is to get between your opponent and the ball (the electorate).

  10. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Just like CPU manufacturers have topped out where they can push the clock speed to (for now) there is likewise an upper limit on how many cores are actually useful. One is much better than two, but 1024 doesn't get you anything more than 512 did.

    What about the real time raytracing which people keep talking about for games?

  11. Re:Yeah.. on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We have a voice recognition system where I work. In the intended environment it works fine but when we took it to a trade show to do demonstrations we found that it copes badly with background noise.

    So I wouldn't want to use one to trigger the mute function.

  12. Re:A big step forward on BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans · · Score: 5, Funny

    now they will be able to install CCTVs even in private homes

    That'l show those terrorists.

  13. Re:Why so negative. on US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel · · Score: 1

    Surface vessels must be pretty noisy even at anchor with waves bouncing off them.

  14. Re:It will happen on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    One difference I can see is that people external to your network can see how many nodes you have. So if you expect more work and buy more workstations it is possible for a competitor to know in advance that you plan to expand.

  15. Re:The switch from DC to AC on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    I have a public facing internet server. It runs netbsd which has supported IPv6 since the last millennium. If my ISP offers me an IPv6 feed, can I run v4 and v6 services in parallel? I would need to do that to transition to IPv6.

  16. Re:It will happen on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    You're aware that any decent firewall can filter packets without NATing them, right? The big problem with public IPs for everyone isn't access control, but network renumbering.

    Yes but you and I aren't making the decisions here. The people who do make the decisions know that the people they hire are unable to reliably configure a firewall. NAT is more fail safe because it is more like to fail to a not working (ie closed) state. I an not saying it is smart. Just the way things seem to be done where I work.

  17. Re:Cell phones on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    They are surfing right now.

  18. Re:It will happen on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    Lately while advocating decentralised version control at my workplace I discovered that management love to have control of their assets. Thats why you have to come into the building through one RFID controlled door past a video camera. I think our PHBs will be fine with NAT for a long time to come.

  19. Re:Post in one thread, mod in another SWEET on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    Its a keybounce problem.

  20. Re:Fastest dup ever? on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 2, Funny

    They just want to be sure we get the message.

  21. Re:iWant! on Nanotube Muscles Are Strong As Steel, Light As Air · · Score: 1

    A static charge from your clothing will easily give you three to five kilovolts.

  22. Re:Close to a Space Elevator on Nanotube Muscles Are Strong As Steel, Light As Air · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see the threads aren't perfect individual nanotubes, but still, good enough for a tether maybe?

    Yeah I had visions of vehicles being pushed up a space elevator by peristalsis.

  23. Re:first post revealed on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If your piss is frosty, I'd recommend seeing a doctor.

    Bit late don't you think?

  24. Re:http://www.main-hosting.com/privacy/alert.htm on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 1

    The filter here at work thinks it is pornography.

  25. Re:UK and Australia on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the US there is a lot of overlap between the Christian extremists and the Libertarians. The few christian extremists we have in Australia don't subscribe to libertarian views.

    Another factor here is the role of minor parties in the upper house of parliament. The Christian senator pushing the filters got in with less than 1000 primary votes. Most likely he got a lot of preferences because of the number of worse sounding groups on the senate ballot paper.