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  1. Re:Isaac Asimov on Pentagon Wants Screenplays From Scientists · · Score: 1

    Any kid who really is interested in things of a technical nature is probably going to be reading Popular Science or something like that at the age these comics are geared toward, and any kid who's not will say "You mean Thomas Edison couldn't fly?" and go back to betting they're life on a career in the NFL.

    What those kids bet their lives on becoming English teachers?

  2. Re:Karma-whoring clarifier on George Dantzig, 1914-2005 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the stimulation is a simulation of a certain other activity involving 2 people...

  3. Re:These Activist Judges on FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down · · Score: 1

    I sure wish the judge had the same opinion about the IRS.

    Except for the Sixteenth Amendment specifically authorizing an income tax...

  4. Re:Being from the USA on U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA · · Score: 1

    Did you know that href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_perso nhood">Corporate personhoodhas (formally) existed since 1886? It's no recent Bush or Republican measure.

  5. Re:life before apache on Yahoo, Apache, Ebay, Amazon, Netscape Celebrate 10 Year Anniversaries · · Score: 1

    It's still there but hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu is now running Apache. So it's labeled "Powered by NCSA HTTPd" but it's not.

  6. Re:That reminds me of a prank.... on Man Finds $1,000 Prize in EULA · · Score: 1

    It's even better if the replacement begins with the original. Then, they will delete back to the original word, hit space, and it will change right back.

  7. Re:whatever you do: don't be retarted! on Children's Books for Geek Parents? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would be a good idea to play a game about proper spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

    Read her a section from a grammar book every night before bed.

    When she starts to talk... "Apostrophe... can you say that?" "Good girl!"

  8. Re:WGET!!! on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Curl is also used by TaxCut for auto-updates.

    At tax-time I had a time installing TaxCut onto NT4 (screws up unless IE6 is installed) and I noticed that one of the included DLLs is "libcurl.dll"

  9. You know someone is a geek... on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    and he uses vi.

    ...when they judge people on their choice of editor.

  10. And then what? on California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So they will sue Diebold, win, and use the money to buy more Diebold products? After all, they are probably engaged in some type of "e-vote upgrade" and have already sold their "old" optical/mechanical/etc. machines to "poorer" [not considering the CA budget deficit] states.

    Have they considered vendor lock-in?

  11. Re:RTFA on Database File System · · Score: 1

    So... With KDE application, user gets pretty dialog with nice database-organized file system.

    With GNOME (until this is implemented), or Motif application... they get the "hierarchy"...

    And people thought the GTK Open/Save dialogs were bad before...

  12. File system in KDE... on Database File System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So now, you will lose access to your file system if you use a simple window manager instead of KDE?

    Great idea.

  13. Re:adblock on Exploring Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    IF YOU KEEP SHOWING YOUR IGNORANCE WITH YOUR SPELLING ERRORS, I AM GOING TO DO SOMETHING NASTY TO YOU.

    Your first "TO" is not a preposition, as it is linked with "do", which is not a noun. Also, with your correction, the AC will be ending a sentence in a preposition...

  14. Re:Fried detetor on New Ad Technology Tracks Consumer Movement · · Score: 1

    One of these would probably do.

  15. Re:It ends when they get some tech folks in there on More Microsoft Patents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now were there was a downfall of workers in a certain area and the jobs paid well for lessor peole, all the sudden an influx of too many workers come about and they don't have jobs.
    he amount of industry that has went over seas is nothign compared to the amount wanting of what people would consider good jobs. Yes there has been a shift in the locations of the jobs but the fact is that jobs just don't pay anymore or there are too manyy people in those fields.
    This isn't even touching on the lack of work-ethics in some of todays youths that forces businesses to higher more people for less money to get the job done.

    With your excellent spelling and grammar, maybe you could land a job as Slashdot Editor?

  16. Re:Windows 95 Kick off Aug 25th 1994 on Happy 13th Birthday Linux! · · Score: 1

    You mean August 24, 1995.

  17. Re:Are you kidding? on Always Use Protection · · Score: 1

    Keep using it anyway--they used SCO System V/386 3.2 until early this year.

  18. Re:Gnome used to run E? on Enlightenment Lives · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, GNOME once ran with Enlightement, then that was changed to Sawfish, and now we have the current Metacity.

    Though in reality, since all these are just window managers, you could replace them with anything you want.

  19. Re:Are you kidding? on Always Use Protection · · Score: 1

    I am the IT department at a local small business. I inherited a network put in by "computer companies" with ABYSMAL security. The business system runs on a SCO UNIX server with NO passwords on the accounts. An 802.11b wireless network was installed with NO WEP or MAC address whitelist--basically customer information was being broadcast in the air. The password on the access point was the default. There was a two-way satellite internet connection connected to a Windows system running Sygate. So the business could have been the local h4x0r hotspot for all anyone knew, and of course there was NO LOGGING that anyone could have used to find out. A part of the business requires connecting to a central agency with a terminal emulator. The central agency required broadband Internet access and gave the choices of DSL, Cable, or Satellite exclusively! DSL and cable are not available at the business location, so that's right, they REQUIRED Satellite, with its 3 second roundtrip latency, for an interactive terminal session! Luckily I have straightened things out and we are getting ISDN installed soon.

    The problem isn't teenagers. It is the desire of companies who sell networking products to make them as "user-friendly" as possible, and in this case, it even caught a professional computer service!