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  1. I became rabid anti-SuSE is what on Microsoft Paid Novell $356 Million in '07 · · Score: 1

    I advocated and used SuSE on server and desktop and laptop, but three days after the Microsoft-Novell thing hit I dumped the SuSE. Now I'm Debian for server and (K)Ubuntu for desktop. (Ubuntu is Debian with lipstick, by the way)

  2. Re: A quick Google search ejaculates forth?? on Just What is this ASUS Eee Thing Anyway? · · Score: 1

    not really, it's all about ignorance - if you look in a standard dictionary the definition not involving semen is still valid in the 21st century.

  3. Re: A quick Google search ejaculates forth?? on Just What is this ASUS Eee Thing Anyway? · · Score: 1

    actually, that word has much broader meaning than is in common usage, for example, it could legitimately can be used to mean "to suddenly exclaim", and in the 19th century such usages were more prevalent.

  4. Re:Wake me up.... on Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    sure, those CentOS folk are working very hard and have made a great useful thing, but realize RedHat could provide all that with NO real effort on its part, maybe a hobbyist login?

    I'm still unhappy with RedHat, am not using their distro.

  5. Re:Wake me up.... on Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    as ex-Redhat, that's an easy question to answer. The redhat I have to deal with at work for clients is NOT the redhat I can get for my personal use. access to the repositories to update the one at work costs money. with Fedora Redhat has a bunch of guinea pigs to try questionable crap.

  6. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    ah, that's a European Union regulation, and after looking in the U.S.A. California has decided to follow the RoHS with the ir own EWRA which applies to less items (e.g. LCD, CRT), but no similar thing contemplated nationally. Still this means in the U.S.A. we'll have lead-free solder in many consumer devices, but not a mandatory thing.

  7. Re:US Treasury is Effed on Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the All-Seeing Eye of Ra, and you've really pissed Him off with your flippancy. No solar power for j00.

  8. Re:Everyone knows: I don't know on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    those "utilities" of course won't run on my non-windows boxes, I just got a great help-desk person to run me through an alternative activation procedure which included hitting a weird port with http on a server somewhere.

  9. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    true that California outlawed the stuff, and so many consumer products made with leadless solder. but it's still allowed most places. all the rolls of electrical solder I'm pulling up for home/hobbyist/small business use with google still have lead, same as always.

  10. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    what??? Haven't bought it in quite a few years as I buy in bulk, but I just pulled up a few rolls of electrical solder on Amazon, and it contains lead now same as it always has, best stuff still 70% tin 30 % lead, cheaper stuff 60% tin 40% lead......

  11. giraffes also the gayest animal on land on Giraffes May Be Six Separate Species · · Score: 1

    homosexual rather than hetero mounting are the rule this might explain the six subspecies in the wild, no motivation to walk far away in search of new females when all they mostly want is some quick gay ass

  12. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at the metal contact on the bottom of a CFL right now, soldered of course. No doubt solder used in internal components. And what about the soft metals which make up the base, you're going to tell me there's no lead in that alloy? An incandescent bulb will contain lead too though.

  13. Everyone knows: I don't know on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Almost a year ago I switched from Comcast Cable Modem to AT&T ADSL just to save money. My BT traffic wasn't throttled then (though I see stories that now Comcast is throttling it at least in some areas), and it isn't throttled now. So I don't know that it is a common practice, would like to hear of all ISP that do so, please post your experiences. I'm 30 miles north of Chicago.

  14. Re:And, how many reach moisture on People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year · · Score: 1

    many people are important to somebody....having a classmate from long ago able to find your web page and to drop a line is fun, happened to me

  15. Re:Shoes on Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed · · Score: 1

    indicate nothing more than bored kids.

    yeah, on crack!

  16. ACID alright on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: -1, Troll

    Active Covert Installation Disasters - been Microsoft's specialty ever since they went into the browser business.

  17. what the FUD on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Good grief, ever hear of Pirate (Python to Parrot compiler)? partcl (tcl to parrot)? Git yo azz ovah to parrotcode an edumacate yo-self! most of Perl 6 is runnable by Pugs, which can compile Perl 6 into Haskell, Javascript or Perl 5. Now I'm a Perl 6 detractor in that I mock the way Larry can't resist throwing in every shiny thing he sees in other languages, he should have got focused and finished years ago. But I still follow the news so I must care in same way relative cares about some distant member of the family destroying their life with a drug habit. Parrot has many cool ideas in and of itself, educational to study it

  18. Re:Aren't these two unrelated events? on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    you're going to compare a magnificiently architected skyscraper with urban sprawl sans zoning? ah well, at least Perl 5 is useful, I've written tons of it. Sadly, haven't yet worked with any project where python was needed, and for my personal use I choose something else where they feel the need to release new things at Christmas!

  19. Re:As things go ... on How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    plenty of unused space can be reclaimed from horribly overbooked holders, it's five years or more, back to sleep everyone, we don't need ip6 this decade, and people that want to play can tunnel.

  20. Re:Is she going to sue MediaSentry? on RIAA Backs Down On "Unlicensed Investigator" · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because IEEE finite precision floating specs supercede actual exact analytical mathematics in any slashdotter's reality

  21. an example- not so bad on Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home · · Score: 1

    It is part of my job to be aware of EULAs and other licensing in the solutions I propose to my clients. For some reason software companies keep their EULAs concise and to the point, as they'd rather not have anyone violate it.

    Let's look at an excerpt from an MS EULA: ...............
    i.Distribution Restrictions. You may not
    alter any copyright, trademark or patent notice in the Distributable Code;
    use Microsoft's trademarks in your programs' names or in a way that suggests your programs come from or are endorsed by Microsoft;
    distribute Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows platform;
    include Distributable Code in malicious, deceptive or unlawful programs;
    or modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License.

    An Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution, that
    the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form;
    or others have the right to modify it. ...............

    That is not and should not be too complicated for an educated sixteen year old to understand; if one can read and discuss Shakespeare or Melville, one can read and discuss that EULA.

  22. Re:Yes you can on Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home · · Score: 1

    Even Microsoft's EULAs are very short. They are in what was high school level english 30 years ago, can't speak to the abilities of today's younger generations. Yes, you are intended to read them; I do.

  23. Re:Absolute truths on Wikipedia? on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    nope, theorems are not allowed to contradict or render nonsensical axioms, only your theorem is nonsense. And in this system all theorems are false regardless of meaning or statements about axioms. here's a "dunce" sign to go around your neck to match the pointy hat.

  24. WRONG! on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    sorry, thanks for playing but theorems are not axioms, and you've made the assumption that a theorem must have meaning or a valid meaning or can even have anything to say about an axiom. no, all theorems are just false. here's your pointy hat, over to the corner, dunce.

  25. Re:Absolute truths on Wikipedia? on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    no contradictions, a system of a single axiom that is even demonstrable by a real world system might go thusly:

    1. all theorems in the system governed by this axiom are false.

    Think of logic gates, with 0V (which also happens to be the ground in our hypothetical circuitry) being false and +5V being true. Imagine a gate that outputs false no matter what the input, the output is tied to ground.

    tada, no contradictions and even realizable in the physical world.