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  1. Re:Multiple SATA Drives on a Single SATA Connector on eSATA Connectors · · Score: 1

    There are devices (I forget what they are called) that will do 'fan out', but you need support (drivers, maybe a special controler?) on the host (PC) to make them work.

  2. Re:Problemm not isolated on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1


    Yeah, except you can drain and scrub a swimming pool...

  3. Re:Fact for the day on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Build a man a fire warm him for a day, set a man on fire and warm him for the rest of his life."

    Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll devastate whole ecosystems...

  4. Re:The volcano god is angry! on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1

    Unicorns aren't mythical - virgins are.

    Not on slashdot!

  5. Re:They're going for the high score! on File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security · · Score: 1

    Hey, bird flu is on my mind today. I spent this morning pulling dead pigeons, maggots & bird-nest out of the eaves of my house today....

  6. Re:What are they avoiding (besides paying taxes)? on Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai · · Score: 1

    A link to whitehouse.gov with the comment 'pretty good source'?

    Where the hell have you been the last 6 years?

  7. Re:WRT54GL on (Almost) All You Need To Know About IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've been putting it off because I haven't done much with Linux networking and I want to setup sort of a weird setup. I've got 4 public static IPs from my ISP and I want to bridge a few of those thru the WRT into 'interior' machines, but since I have Vonage I'd also like to get QoS setup as well.

    So I've got a lot of edu-mo-cating to do before I'm really ready to implement this.

  8. Re:Jumping on the bandwagon... on (Almost) All You Need To Know About IPv6 · · Score: 2, Informative

    My ISP, sonic.net does:
    http://sonic.net/features/ipv6/
    Or at least it's an IPv6 tunnel (not sure how that might differ from 'native').

    I haven't got around to setting it up, but if/when I get my WRT54GL setup with OpenWRT I'll probably have it run IPv6 as well...

  9. Re:Problem with your method on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 1


    This is incorrect. The plane needs the remote involvement of external transmitters like GPS satelites or other nav systems. But GPS signals are weak and easily jammed...

  10. Re:Just what we need on Tricked-Out Cars Trickling Down · · Score: 1

    It'd be interesting to see studies done where the bandwidth/voice quality to the person at the other end of the phone was varried and the level of distraction of the driver measured. I bet the better the voice quality the less brain power you have to devote to understanding the conversation and the less it takes away from your driving.

  11. Re:Nature of the beast.... on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    You may be correct, but you are completely ignoring marketing costs and competition issues.

  12. Re:Not sonar? on AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" · · Score: 1


    Sure, and you can go a lot deeper too...but I still find the lack of gear and quiet of freediving much more relaxing. Not that scuba sometimes isn't fun.

  13. Re:Not sonar? on AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" · · Score: 1

    you can do that, but in general, you spend a lot of time breathing, vs not breathing even if you're holding your breath occasionally. It's just a lot less peaceful...

  14. Re:Not sonar? on AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" · · Score: 1

    All the noises of the sea is one of the reasons I prefer freediving to scuba.

    Lots more peaceful without the noise of sucking on a tank.

  15. Re:But *THAT* is the problem.... on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    Really, you've seen or otherwise observed "Gravity"?

    Or have you just observed that, under some certain circumstances, objects tend to move toward each other? Maybe that's not "gravity", maybe it's just 'god' moving the objects.

  16. Re:Did you ever notice? on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1


    You're willfully ignorant. The scientific literature is there to explain how complexity arises. Every species on earth has been shown to be consistent with predictions of evolutionary theory. ID has no ability to predict anything, so even if it were to be right, it would still be completely useless.

    The complexity of the problem is swept under the rug with a very un-scientific monologue and a little hand waving without actually answering the question.

    This is an excellent description for ID: "_I_ don't understand how evolution could possibly work, so I'm going to attribute the complexity to some magic higher power which has existed 'for all time' (so I don't have to consider how it, with all its complexity, arose) and I will claim it 'works in mysterious ways' (so I needn't examine the mechanisms by which it could possibly create the entire universe). There, problem solved." That's not Intelligent Design, hell that's not even intelligent thought.

  17. Re:It's Global Warming! on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 1

    For the honey?
    So they can brew mead!
    Ok, I just bought my honey...I guess I'm just not that hard-core.

  18. Simple, the scientists are just evolving... on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 1


    in their approach to publishing in this anti-science ecosystem.

  19. Re:A big strike against Net Neutrality on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 1


    You're wrong about google index bots. Not sure if you've noticed, but you can search for images on google now.
    They had a bug where they would constantly retrieve a PDF file I've got on my site. The only think I can think of is that they failed processing it after the retrieved it and assumed that they needed to get it again. So they would constantly hammer my server sitting at the wrong end of a slow DSL line. I notified them and they sent me a polite email saying they'd fix it, but after awhile they (the bots) were back and I ended up removing access to the file.

  20. Re:Lunch on Recovering a Wrecked RAID · · Score: 1


    I've got those thermite packs against the drives in my server for a reason damn it!

    Actually, I suppose if I was really paranoid I could use the welding torch in the garage to melt the drives down, but I don't think I'd get as much for them on eBay...

  21. Re:Scarily familiar... on A Unique Perspective on a 'Game-Related' Tragedy · · Score: 1

    George Carlin's idea is horrible. I like Utah (hiking & skiing) and Colorado (Mtn. biking).

    What about West Virginia, or Florida or Ohio or something...

  22. I can see it (the next version of windows) now... on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 1


    Bill Gates announces it with this quote:
    "640GB ought to be the minimum for everybody!"

  23. Re:I'd buy a new 15" MBP today... on Apple May Be Re-Entering the Sub-Notebook Market · · Score: 1

    For the parts of the interface that get too small at that resolution (text), the UI will let you resize. For the most part I hate wasting 10-20% of my space on highly visible titlebars and such. But yeah, despite pushing 40 my eyes are still pretty good for closeup work. :-)

  24. Re:Misses the point on PMD Applied · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I've felt for many years that source should be stored as syntax trees and that editors should show you the source how every _you_ want to see it so it's most clear to you, not to the author.

  25. I'd buy a new 15" MBP today... on Apple May Be Re-Entering the Sub-Notebook Market · · Score: 1


    If I could get one with the WUXGA (1920x1200) resolution I can get on a thinkpad.