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  1. Re:How long do we have, really? on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you have been overdosing on Kim Stanley Robinson books.

  2. Re:Don't forget! on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    Not Venus?

  3. Re:Don't forget! on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasn't that nuclear winter?

  4. Re:Just do it. on We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Archive.org may not be willing to archive important sites (such as pr0n), and it only has a single mirror.

    Don't worry I'm working on archiving all that porn locally. Eventually I'll combine every single file into one giant torrent and upload at least 99.9% of it before dropping offline ;)

    You sir are a great humanitarian.

  5. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    I am not an American but I am curious about this issue. Are people born in US federal territories (such as Hawaii before it became a state) eligible to become president?

  6. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats no good for me. I need to have a hand free when using my camera phone.

  7. Re:Surely there's money in this? on A.I. and Robotics Take Another Wobbly Step Forward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think AI is mainly used in spamming these days. Maybe William Gibson is right. It will be a crime to conspire to enhance an artificial intelligence.

  8. Re:Screenshots? on Midnight Commander Development Revived · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just type mv a few times. At least once you will accidently type mc, then spend a minute finding out how to get out of this POS.

  9. Re:And the previous owner was? on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    A couple of years ago there was an incident where an Australian soldier accidentally shot himself at an army base in Iraq. The army sent an investigator to the site. On the way back home she mounted a CDROM containing the report in a public computer in the qantas business class lounge then walked away and forgot about it.

    The next person to use that system found the disk and gave it to staff but the media found out about it anyway.

    I work for a company which occasionally handles sensitive data. Anybody who travels for the company gets a laptop to use in the office, and at home, and when travelling. That way nothing has to leave the company system.

    Laptops are cheap. I don't know why our military can't work the same way.

  10. Re:An analogy on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 1

    Most /.'ers are not rabid foaming at the mouth loonies and they don't have a history of relentlessly hounding people who disagree with them. I expect most readers of Indymedia are equally law abiding but there is obviously a small group of people who may have read those personal details and used them to engage in a criminal campaign of intimidation.

    It wouldn't surprise me if a few people here would go that far. It only takes one.

  11. Re:so much for on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which just leaves the single point of failure. The domain name. Once the authorities yank that, the distributed server network behind it goes away...at least for a while.

    You can tunnel to an IP address. You can also get domain names from different countries for your front end.

  12. Re:animation, bottlenecks, etc... on How Quake Wars Met the Ray Tracer · · Score: 5, Informative
    I interpreted this bit...

    For this project, we started rewriting the renderer from ground zero. Because of this, the very first images from the renderer were not of typical ray- tracing caliber, but displayed only the basic parts of the geometry, without any shaders or textures

    ...to mean that they rolled their own.

  13. Re:The first link... on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 1

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

    Notice the URL. Notice who posted the article.

    I know it is a page from the poster. But the page content doesn't match the link text.

  14. Re:No SFTP? on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that you can't drag a file directly from nautilus into a non gnome aware application like thunderbird.

    I really wish gnome would write a workaround for that. My wife uses thunderbird for her email and stores her files on ssh accessible severs.

    If there some reason Evolution is not a viable option?

    Massive scaling problems when you have multi gigabyte folders of messages. Evolution maintains its own index files and they don't always work.

  15. Re:I for one ... on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I think a tag to the reviewed version would be enough. Readers of later versions could get a link to the reviewed version.

  16. The first link... on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

  17. Re:This is a shock? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Funny
    I think wikipedia will win out in the long term because:
    1. It is slightly cheaper
    2. It has the words Don't Panic written in it.
  18. Re:I for one ... on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    But every minor edit (fixing typos, etc) would require a new review by the expert and a new signature.

  19. Re:My troubles switching to Ubuntu at Work on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 1

    CVS. I really like TortoiseCVS and can't find an equivalent that is as easy to use. I guess it's not a big deal, I could go back to using the cli, but what can I say, I am lazy. :)

    How about tkcvs?

  20. Re:Linux not Ubuntu on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 1

    The last suse installation I tried installed three web browsers by default and gave them their own submenu. For most people that is too much choice.

  21. Re:For printable documents... on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 1

    This is something that I still don't get: Why do businesses require all printable documents to be written in a WRITABLE format?

    All formats are writable.

  22. Re:No SFTP? on Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that you can't drag a file directly from nautilus into a non gnome aware application like thunderbird.

    I really wish gnome would write a workaround for that. My wife uses thunderbird for her email and stores her files on ssh accessible severs.

  23. Re:i understand the nomenclature, but on National Censorship Plan Offensive, Says Aussie Shadow Minister · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think the term is going anywhere soon in Australia. It is pretty well entrenched. You can use a sporting analogy if you like. Player 1 takes up a position on the field. Player 2 from the other team takes up the opposite position and sticks like a shadow to player 1.

  24. Re:Shadow Minister on National Censorship Plan Offensive, Says Aussie Shadow Minister · · Score: 3, Informative

    As an American, I must say, we need to take a look at this nomenclature: Shadow Minister sounds so much cooler than Senate Minority Leader or the like.

    Under our system of government the party currently not in power runs a complete standby government. It is quite a good system because when you come to vote you already have a good idea of who will be in the important posts.

    On the down side, ministers have to be members of parliament so their skills will be more limited than in the US system where the president seems to have the power to pick people from the broader population.

  25. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    The only thing I dislike about gnome is the way maximised windows are handled. If I maximise a window gnome seems to store only the geometry between sessions.

    So when I want to make a window smaller I don't know if it is maximised or just very big. I think that metacity should not have a maximised state, or it should allow maximised windows to be dragged to a smaller size.