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  1. Re:Nope on Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? · · Score: 1

    the uninstall button a few screens into the GNU/Linux distro of your choice on the screen usually labeled "hard disk partitioning"

  2. Re:If only... on PHP 4 End of Life Announcement · · Score: 1

    Microsoft sure panders to braindead customers.

  3. Re:No way! on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 1

    CowboyNeal's planet nine is Urtaint, right next to Uranus.

  4. Re:A good slashdot poll on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 5, Funny

    and we'll conclude 18% of the world uses the CowboyNeal Microthreaded Kernel fork of Planet Nine

  5. Re:Rails is a joke for serious production sites on LinRails — Ruby On Rails For Linux · · Score: 1

    so who uses Ruby built-in threading? I fork and use IPC. When performance of any scripting language becomes an issue a fast library can be used. (or you can play with one of the new vm) The forums and IRC give wonderful support, great people in there. No basis to complain about API in Ruby or Smalltalk , if you don't like what's given you can change it dynamically!

  6. Re:Good News !! on Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    thank you for being a choice candidate for our Patriot Scapegoat and Patsy selection process. We will be kicking in your door at 3:04am. It is important for our subsequent forensics manipulations that you wear an orange jumpsuit and fall forward upon termination.

  7. Re:Socialised Healthcare is the future for the US on Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory · · Score: 0, Troll

    free-loading lazy scum sure has a price, I pay not only for their food and healthcare but their crime

  8. Re:Rails is a joke for serious production sites on LinRails — Ruby On Rails For Linux · · Score: 1

    no, j2ee is the joke. I work for a VAR that sells among other things Weblogic and all the major hardware platforms (Sun, HP, Dell, IBM). My observation is that j2ee sells hardware, that's for sure.

    Good application architecture is independent of language, but the common commercial j2ee platforms automate the creations of layers of bloat that needs expensive hardware and large numbers of servers to power. And the latest craze with SOA just puts middleware on your middleware, more bloat and even more servers.

    So go ahead and use your 1980's warmed-over c++ / half-baked oo crap that is java, make my employer rich.

    or, use your brain and a truly high level language, cut time to market in third and run on one third the front-end and middle-ware hardware.

  9. a one-shot deal? on What Happened Before the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    if expansion continues to accelerate, then the observable universe one day becomes smaller than any structure. 20 billion years from now, according to the Big Rip theorists, nothing can communicate with anything else so no force interactions. So the Universe goes from Big Bang to Big Rip, and we're screwed. And nothing to cause a Big Crunch, everything is just a lucky one-time event.

  10. Re:My virtual self? on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 4, Funny

    no one would pay the energy bill for a simulation of male humans who mostly sit at their computer either posting on slashdot or downloading pr0n and wanking off. QED, you're all real.

  11. Re:Gamma Rays on Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova · · Score: 1

    We're "pretty sure"


    heheh, like I said. And an "average" supernova might be dangerous to 100 light years, but this particular star is abnormally huge. And let's not forget evidence of mass extinction and embedded meteorites in mammoth tusks from a supernova 250 light years away. Now suppose Eta Carinae does something unusually when it goes.....

  12. Re:Stalked ? on Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru · · Score: 1

    Gene had man-titties? ewww........

  13. Re:Stalked ? on Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru · · Score: 1

    little beasties and billy-boys....to sodomize

  14. Re:Gamma Rays on Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova · · Score: 2, Funny

    but it is funny how astonomers say the explosion will "probably" go along the axis of rotation as the previous 19th century "belch" did (see wikipedia or nasa's web page). If "probably" is true, then things outside our atmosphere get fried, like sattelites, astrounauts on missions, etc. No big deal. But suppose that thing blows spherically, then the gamma dose will be many times greater and you'll be wanting a lead jock strap if you're male.

  15. Re:Sun and Open Source on Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars · · Score: 1

    you might be surprised to learn there are embedded systems and controllers that use python bytecode (takes less space), and it's also possible to make a package that includes the vm and bytecode for an end user. I've done that for clients who just wanted the small size to distribute across a large network, and e-mailed them the source code separately. The scripting languages have evolved into weird things!

  16. Re:I sense a problem... on Linux Programmer's Toolbox · · Score: 1

    but if you tweak VB .NET Express a little too well to actually make it a useful IDE Microsoft will send lawyers with threats to sue your ass.

  17. Re:Not a bad Linus message on Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars · · Score: 1

    Linus was speaking of freedom of creator to choose license, which is just reality of copyright law if creator has no obligation to give away ownership of his code. A programmer employed by another may not have that freedom, including Microsoft's programmers. Having WiFI drivers and graphics drivers in BSD has been a great result of brow-beating vendors. I for one hope the browbeating continues, the benefits are lasting. No damage!

  18. Re:Sun and Open Source on Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars · · Score: 1

    Not a valid argument as you can put out vm bytecode for perl, php, python, ruby too (either finished vm or one in active development led/supported by language's creators)

  19. Re:Sony is not dying .. on Microsoft, Sony Clash Over Vista Turbo Memory · · Score: 1

    yeah, and microsoft losing money so fast they'll be out of business in a month

  20. the downside on Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those attending the demonstration of sound-making-paper technology reported 1. it indeed worked. 2. it sounded like rustling paper.

  21. already a known and cataloged feature on Massive Cave Found on Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Time Lapse. They reach a cliff and look over the edge.]

    Zapp: Behold: The Great Stone Face of Mars.

    Fry: Hm.

    Zapp: The only known entrance to the Martian reservation.

    Leela: What about the Great Stone Ass of Mars?

    Zapp: Well, yeah, but it's way over the other side of the planet.

        -- Futurama, Where the buggalo roam

  22. Re:If that does not work... on After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad · · Score: 1

    or you could try Internet Service Pack 1, when installing be sure to click the box to make archival backup of the old Internet in case you need to back out of the install

  23. Re:Huh on Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P · · Score: 4, Funny

    getting caught lying to Congress without paying requisite bribes and campaign contributions is illegal

  24. Re:Old School on Inkjet Photo Print Longevity Lacking · · Score: 1

    No way, magnetic media of all type, tape and disk, is generally given as 30 to 50 years at the most. A hard disk is going to have the protective carbon layer on top the film oxidize away at some small point, and then the whole thing will corrode. Some archival optical disks are claiming 100 years. Digital storage media has limited shelf life under the best of conditions!

  25. Re:Particle Accelerators... on Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing · · Score: 2, Informative

    oh, and should have mentioned nature has likely built such mega-accelerators for us http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news-print.cfm?art =1509