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  1. Re:Old News on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So do you eat the best chicken in the world, otherwise known as grassfed chicken? (Note that free-range chicken is just as bad as factory-farm chicken: all that is required for chickens to be called "free-range" is access to about a 30x100 foot area for the whole chicken house.) See Joel Salatin, the sage of the grassfed movement.

  2. Re:Dibs on O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0' · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, he's being transcendental. Those transcendentalists... never done a good thing... (Disclaimer: I am a mathlete)

  3. Re:Seek Time & Reduced Heat on Samsung Announces Solid State Laptop · · Score: 1

    Eh, I have 2.5gigs of RAM and 10GB of swap; it does all get used sometimes. (Python lists of 10000000000 elements, in case you were wondering. Why? Badly designed programs with "for a in range(0,100000000000):" instead of "a=0; while a100000000000:a=a+1".)

  4. Re:Avast vs AVG on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Avast, having tried it, is not pleasant for me. Avast seriously slowed the computers I installed it on (and they sped up again when I uninstalled it), while AVG - I can't tell any difference. Been running AVG for nigh on 9 months now, and no virii yet.

  5. Why bother? on Radioactive Warning for Future Generations · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By the time English is no longer understood or the signs are no longer understood, if civilization exists, they will figure it out on their own pretty quickly, while if civilization doesn't, who cares?

  6. Re:Irrelevant on Wal-Mart to Offer Components for DIY Computers · · Score: 2, Informative
    Not all open-source zealots are liberal Democrats or other things. I know personally, of my friends, 3 think Linux is cool, 1 is talking about trying it out on some old computers lying around, 1 has been on Linux longer than I have, and the rest couldn't care about anything I say about computers. How many of these are "gun-toters"? All of them, me included. How many are good, sane, ethical hunters? All of them who hunt.

    Some more conservative people than the neocons in office now are concerned about loss of privacy too. Thus we like open-source when we know about it. Some of us are also against other things Liberals are against,like animal abuse (which is not hunting, it's factory farming), we just disagree on what constitutes such things.

  7. Re:Mod Parent DOWN on Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps (don't get me wrong here, it probably shouldn't have been done) the company spoken of is one that MS favors and gave an early copy of Vista for them to use, so MS could point to them as an example of why every company needs Vista?

  8. Re:America Government by and for the Corporations. on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    Michael Peroutka. http://www.constitutionparty.com/ No spinelessness there.

  9. Re:Doesn't need to be mandatory on Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? How about Social Insecurity numbers?

  10. Re:Well, speaking as a Windows snob... on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Like Topstyle, Studio MX, and QuickBooks? Oh, but you have to put up with Internet Exploiter, Notapad, and BSoD to get them. So I'd say the average snob appeal of Windoze apps is less than Macapps.

  11. Re:Linux sNOBs on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is why Gentoo is the best distro. Sure, it has an aura of snobbery, but generally speaking the users themselves are not snobs. And the manuals are extremely easy to understand. Though it takes some time and typing to use Gentoo, it's very easy to use otherwise, because everything is spelled out. http://gentoo.org/ http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/

  12. So they come in our bedroom windows... on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 1

    So now the government will be able to look right in our windows and see what we are doing most of the time. And thus it'll only be a small step to microchipping us all. Whee. I for one welcome our new governmental overlords.

  13. Re:bit pricey on Dell starting to sell Computers with Linux · · Score: 1

    Try Gentoo if you want to go faster. It's very easy to install, although a bit time-consuming, yet doesn't require much RAM to run KDE. As a matter of fact, right now with Seamonkey, apache, 6 OpenOffice documents of 6-200 pages, and postgres running in KDE it takes up 125MB RAM. It has really good community support too.

  14. What is Ebola? on Ebola Vaccine Passes Initial Human Tests · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, Ebola was this virus a few years ago that "spread from apes to humans" and thus would spread and kill us all. Wait, isn't that what Avian Flu is going to do to us? It's all a lot of hype.

  15. Re:Crawl while you surf on Microsoft Hopes Prizes Will Attract New Searchers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See the Flock browser: it works really well, faster than FF, and it's still Gecko-based. And it has a search-history feature that's quite nice. http://www.flock.com/

  16. They wouldn't restrict it to paying websites on Google to Create a Private Internet Alternative? · · Score: 1

    after all, "do no evil". Would not EVERYONE consider that evil?

  17. Re:I Don't Believe The Article At All on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 1
    I was listening; he did not mispronounce it. As small as his vocabulary is compared to mine, he did pronounce a big word right for once.

    On the other hand, the question is: did he know what it meant?!

  18. All this Google hype isn't just good for business. on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1

    ...it also makes the younger generation have a job at Google their dream job. Lots of free time, fun work, good company atmosphere, and a possibility of producing the next big thing combine to make Google look like the best IT job around.

  19. Who cares about stupid links? on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    I don't mind having links to stupid websites. There is nothing that makes me click a link unless I think that the address of the site is interesting. If I click once on someone's link who submitted a story and find that the site is uninteresting, I don't have to click his link again. He wants hits, /. wants stories, they trade stories for hits. Problem solved. A perfect example of free enterprise. Does anyone have a problem with that?

  20. Re:Naval gazing? on Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans · · Score: 1
    The editors need to learn some new words(an hwo to spel;). Maybe omphaloskepsis instead of navel gazing? It only requires 2 more keystrokes!

    Seriously though, indeed Slashdot is ugly. Let's work on rearranging everything. How about a rollout virtual menubar on top??

  21. The Board Game on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1
    Will a new version of the board game come out at the same time? The board game is incredibly good; I plan to get any new version the instant it is released.

    How does Civ: the Board Game compare to other Eagle Games like Attack!?

  22. Re:Recommendations: on Best Web Authoring Application? · · Score: 1
    DW is great allaround, but for CSS, I recommend TopStyle Lite. bradsoft.com. Great coloring and suggeting, and integrated preview.

    DW is great for the occasional coder, but I prefer Homesite+ or Topstyle Pro for hardcore coding. TP is good for CSS too. Of course, for Linux, I like Kate. It's the only one though that doesn't have autosuggest of tags.

    If you don't care about standards, MS's Script WEditor is great. Go from Word, show toolbars with We b in the name, and click the colored infinity symbol. Great program for IE development. Also has JS autosuggesting

  23. Re:No biggie on Body Modifications Still Hinder IT Professionals? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I'll open my mouth on this issue, knowing I'll probably lose karma, but whatever. The parent needs to be modded up.

    Any piercing on a man is disgusting. Any. An earring makes you look wierd, and you should never get hired for more than the most menial of jobs. Pray tell when the last time you felt good about a earringed guy selling you a product was. Unless you're unusual, as in pierced yourself, never. Multiple earrings, other piercings, enlarged ears...you should never be hired. Who knows - you obviously don't have great morals, so the employer knows that you are a risk. You know that the ancient Easter Islanders used to do earlobe lengthening as a rite of passage. They had them so long they hung down to the shoulder. Piercings are such a pagan thing.

    On women, any earrings lowers my estimation of them. 2 in each ear, and I'm not very impressed with them. Any more, or other piercings, or even just midriff showing, and I consider them very, very, very much in poor taste. As I said, something that pagans do. Of course, you masochists/pagans like that, but Christians don't.

    Piercings are disgusting, period. Unprofessional and distracting too. Same for tattoos. Also makes you look callow and jejune.

    Ynimrod

  24. Re:Left-handed model? on Nokia's Linux Handheld · · Score: 1
    No, predigous is not a word. Yes, cromulent is a slang word. I think you ment predacious.

    In reply to ozman's comment, you need to learn some more words. You could have saved 3 keystrokes and said ...of the USA is ambisinistrous. You /.ers have such limited vocabularies;)

  25. Can't we use this in other ways? on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Like creating super-strong alloys? Demolition: melting the buildings instead of wrecking... Or in war: melting holes in enemy tanks. A lot more uses for that super-strong laser than fusion.