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  1. Re:I've Had It With Slashdot on Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science · · Score: 1

    Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

  2. Re:Shouldn't that be platform neutral? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? · · Score: 1

    Or just lie / translate.

    Everything they ask you to do has it's equivalent, you just have to know what they want, do what you need to get it, and translate it back to what they expect.

  3. Re:Striesand Effect on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    DVDs? That's some wasteful text format. That should all fit on a CD with room to spare...

  4. ... the lower 48. Who's the 49th? Certainly not Hawaii, that's quite far south...

  5. You don't necessarily use SFTP because it encrypts the data. You mostly use it because it encrypts the credential exchange.

  6. It's IncrediFrustrating!

  7. ... and you would? That's retarded. Someone needs to take leadership, and there needs to be organization. Who the fuck wants to do that? It has to get bad enough to overwhelm this aversion.

    The way things are going, we WILL hit that point eventually.

  8. Re:Dear Google on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't matter. Hate to spoil the joke, but as long as the OCR system recognizes the typeface, it doesn't matter what the bit means - just so you get the data that was on paper in a document.

    Then you just flip the font to something more readable. Unless you're trying to tell me the character -> symbol map of the font is randomized on installation...

  9. Re:He's innocent? on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    You can't do that.

    (the re-try part)

    As bad as things are, you still can't be tried again over the same 'issue'

  10. Re:I don't know where they're headed... on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 1

    It's still not deep space... hell it's still barely off the Earth's orbit!

  11. Re:So What?? on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 1

    It's hardly a race. L2 is -not- in deep space. Here's some numbers:

    The distance from earth to mars at it's shortest (eg when we are in a line with it and the sun) is about 54 million KM.

    The distance from the earth to the moon is about 0.4 million KM.

    The earth/sun L2 is about 1.5 million KM from the earth.

    Translation? When taken to scale, the L2 is practically still in our orbit. It's not deep space.

  12. Re:Deep Space 2? on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 1
  13. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    Pick your favorite animal, and favorite euphemism or term for a sex act, and Google. You shall not be disappointed. Unfortunately, IMO, but whatever 'floats' your 'boat'.

  14. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone's setting up a very inappropriate film venture to me...

  15. Re:Gunna hate this BUT on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    We use it for all our internal documents.

    Yea, it's great for MS Office documents. I can load up a spreadsheet and look at it, check it out for editing, check in etc - that works fine! I love that!

    But try to do anything else? Sharepoint doesn't know what a PDF is - it treats it like a binary blob and can do nothing special with it. Other filetypes (not images, text files, or Office documents) are the same.

    Can't use Firefox in FIPS mode, because the IIS server throws a hissy fit. Can't do much in any non-IE browser at all, actually. Admittedly the first issue is likely the fault of our sharepoint admin, but the latter is the direct fault of MS using ActiveX and saying "screw everyone else" ... Does it still sound like I've never used it before?

  16. Re:Gunna hate this BUT on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    Sharepoint is utter crap if it cannot understand the file you are putting on it. Which incidentally would be anything not MS Office.

  17. Re:Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? on Man Creates Open Source Flashlight · · Score: 1

    Really? Citation please, I'd like to confirm before I add that to my random fact repository...

  18. Re:Bytes are Bytes. on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Well slap my ass and call me a Commie Mutant Traitor: there is no color.

  19. Re:Also not necessiarly that useful on GPL'd Driver and Linux Support For New H.264 Capture Card · · Score: 1

    There's more as well. Patents, yay. The hardware mfg may have license to use them, but they do not have permission to extend that license to others.

  20. Re:Element 115 on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 1

    Only if it's a bronze colored crystal!

  21. Re:Weightiest on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 4, Funny

    That only works if you (for some reason) insist on using the currency-based measure for gold, but not on all the other items.

    That's retarded. One of the first things you do is ensure your units are consistent.

  22. Re:It's not just Bitcoin. on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 2

    Since when was PHP a drug? I know it should be restricted and all, but I don't think it fits!

  23. Re:Similair to HP Memeristors on Phase Change Memory Points To Future of Storage · · Score: 1

    Why thank you for this incredibly useful comment!

  24. Re:Excellent about time on Asus To Ship Ubuntu 10.10 On Three Eee PC Netbooks · · Score: 0

    Wrong. Netbooks have been shipped with Linux before. Wal-mart had them. I got mine on Amazon.

  25. Re:Why no computers on take off? [Re:Misunderstan. on Alaska Airlines Jettisons Paper Manuals For iPads · · Score: 1

    ... and because someone won't understand and will try to argue:

    Yes, the charts go away during takeoff/landing if they aren't secured on the kneeboard etc.

    The crew is far too busy at these times, they simply don't have time to refer to them. These phases are pre-planned as well, you don't just fly to the airport and "wing it"