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  1. Re:Missing! on What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory? · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's Canadian?

  2. Re:The Bradley on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do we really want another Germany or Japan giving us a run for our money?

    Or even a US giving us a run for our money?

    South Africa was sanctioned for doing things the US is getting away with today.

  3. Re:Why ... on Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Bolshevik, one kulak, one "Enemy of the People", one Jew, one Japanese-American, one Communist, one educated person, one literate person, one Arab.

    Walk into a bar...

  4. Re:Benchmark against vendor kernels? on 2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout · · Score: 1

    Slackware always ships vanilla kernels.
    If there is a vital patch then then supply it as well and have instructions on how to patch the kernel.

  5. Re:Ford Escort? on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    What about all the ford escort rally cars?

    BDA power baby...
    Hang that back end out....

  6. Re:ISDN to mars on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1

    I've got DSL and it's 128kBits/sec down and up.

    If they can get that sort of speed from Mars then why can't we get a better economical speed here in New Zealand?

  7. Re:I remember... on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 1

    Casio Game 1 and Game 2 calculators.
    Your one should have been able to play music as well.
    The "n" came up when your hits came up to a multiple of 10.

    It was obligatory to learn "When the Saints" or the theme to Star Wars.

  8. Re:Two practical questions on Heads-Up Displays for Motorcyclists · · Score: 1

    The GPS is far more accurate unless you are using a pushbike speedo which is just as good.

    Yes to the bluetooth.

    The normal readout on the dash and if you get "one of those nifty helmets" the bluetooth enables the hud.

    Gear, speed, revs or overrev.

    Hell make it like a garmin gps where you can control which items you want displayed on the hud from the dash.

    I'd have one.

  9. Re:They say they want to discourage tourism... on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1
    A
    • few
    countrys have slices.
    Officially the US does not.
    They just have a base at McMurdo (in the Kiwi Dependancy?).

  10. Inconsistencies... on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    He initially said he had 35 hours of fuel which was clarified later as 32 hours of fuel for a 36 hour flight over the pole.
    35 hours would have been just enough for a flight over the tip of Antarctica to Argentina.
    He never had enough fuel to reach his destination.
    He contacted McMurdo saying he had a fuel problem but continued on to the pole before returning to the station.

    Also the solo flight over the pole had already been done in the 1960s.

  11. Re:This is a good thing on Galileo System To Include Jamming Capability · · Score: 1

    "Let me give one positive example. North Korea launches a galileo guided missle toward new york. The US military disables it."

    How do the US know it's Galileo guided?
    "If in doubt, disable Galileo"?
    And the critical infrastructure that relies on Galileo is left out in the cold for how long?
    People dying in crashes because the rescue systems cannot get a reliable fix?

    Oh and you're assuming that the US is the "good guy" here.

    More and more people are relying on GPS, how many more would with a system in place with more accuracy that was more reliable.
    Galileo would be reduced to a competing system with no advantages.

  12. Re:You're thinking of the REX 6000 on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    The rex 3000 had limited input capibilities, basically just ticking the todo item as done.
    The rex 6000 has a popup keyboard that let's you input anything you want on the touch-screen, appointments, contacts, todos, memos etc.
    2MB RAM and I've got over 5500 appointments on mine and 400 odd contacts and I've used 43% of the RAM.

  13. Re:Wow! on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 1

    He's the Prez so actually it's the second poll he's won.

  14. Re:qustion about segway et all: on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    27" is closest to 700c.

    26" is old style pursuit/timetrial/triathlon stuff.

  15. Re:So the US owns all the bandwidth, huh? on Global Crossing (Nearly) Sold To Singapore · · Score: 1

    And it has enabled New Zealand to have some of the best priced, fastest broadband in the world.

    And then I woke up...

  16. Re:Please tell me.. on Goodbye, Galileo · · Score: 1

    What's that in Librarys 'O Congress?

  17. Office 98? on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 1

    "We used Office 2000, which succeeded in opening all Office files, but we venture to guess that Office 98, say, would have had difficulties with some of them."

    Office 98 - Mac only?

  18. Anyone tried Kapital? on GnuCash - A Call For Help · · Score: 1

    Anyone tried Kapital from theKompany?

  19. Re:Backing up is like voting on Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    The problem with SMART is that on most computers it's turned off by default.

  20. Re:This case reminds me of something on SCO Calls IBM Countersuit "Unsubstantiated Allegations" · · Score: 1

    IBM wouldn't be using a .38
    They'd be using a shotgun at least.

  21. Re:Whoa, There, Cowboy! Local Obscenity Laws == Go on Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech · · Score: 1

    "There's a Big Big World West of the Beltway and East of Hollywood."

    There's an even bigger world than the USA out there.

    No really!

    Have a look at a map sometime.
    And don't just look for countries to invade.

  22. Re:Self-employment guidelines... on Part Two: Technical Self-Employment For All · · Score: 2, Funny

    "-- Unix is like a lover to me: I don't understand it very well, and it makes me angry sometimes, but I am still in love with it.

    This one is just too sad. Sure, unix has some kinky command names, but nothing like actually engaging in their real-life namesakes."

    Mutt?

  23. Re:Glamour on Part Two: Technical Self-Employment For All · · Score: 1

    "He is more describing the ideal world than something that can actually be attained. And, this is something that very few people can actually do to make a living."

    It's great to be one of the few.

  24. Re:Actually a smart move on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    "Realize that they initially went after their OWN licensees (AIX etc) and it was because those folks had signed contracts."

    No.
    They went after IBM and IBM's licensees of IBM's AIX.

  25. Re:You're asking for too much. on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems · · Score: 1

    Start a rumor there's an easter egg hidden on the polling console and they will come...