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  1. Slashdot.org on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

  2. Re:Whine whine whine... on Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Web Sites for Fraud · · Score: 1

    I have no idea either... perhapes for lack of other modding options.

    maybe the defence for the Online dateing sites could claim he is just a whiny bitch, and thats why woman don't like him,.. not because the site is scamming him.

  3. Whine whine whine... on Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Web Sites for Fraud · · Score: 1, Informative

    No wonder he's single.

  4. save it as RTF and work from that on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    word even has tools to do this as a batch job

  5. My Browser is My Start Page on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    I use firefoxes native google search page as my home page, for all the other fruit, I have bookmarks... maybe I am just old, but it just the portal idea all over again.

    First thing I do is move away from my homepage, normaly via a search or to a book mark to fark, ars or /.

    Yay, it has the weather on it, I can know what its like outside, no need to look out the window...

  6. finaly, we will know the truth on Rating System for Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    vi or emacs, which is better?

  7. one important feature on The Real Hitchhiker's Guide? · · Score: 1

    Is it wildly inaccurate?

  8. Thats not spam on Study Finds Value in Email Spam · · Score: 1

    Thats just daily health and nutrition advice...

  9. Re:Better/Cheaper iPods with REAL competition on Inside Hardware Design - Competing Against the iPod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One of my biggest complaints, and I think just about everyone with an iPod would agree with me on this one, is that if you are into the whole minimalist thing, the iPod looks beautiful right out of the box. However, use it even once and the shiny chromed back is already getting scratched up and if you do not do something to protect the screen, within a year the screen is almost unreadable.

    Ah... no... Here is the deal. If you have an iPod, and you polish it keep it in its "skin" fawn over it... then you you don't own it. It owns you. Treat it as you would your wallet, car keys, cell phone. Use and abuse it... because then you free your self from it possession of you. Mine is scratched and has little rubber feet stuck on it to stop it sliding around when I pile it on my powerbook and relocate around the house. There is a cool factor here... who is cooler, the guy that turns up in a brand new 2005 BMW and polishes it every day so it looks immaculate and shinny, or the guy that turns up in the same car that is dirty, scratched and says to the world... I am so cool, and so rich, that this thing of great beauty is Just Another Car, it serves ME, I don't serve IT.

    2c

  10. The enemy of my enemy is my friend on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    MS are getting into AV, MS is getting into lots of things that they used to leave to ISVs... bring down MS, and the computer world is full of opertunity again.

  11. ha ha, yeah right on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 0

    We can't even get on with others that have diffent skin and cultures than us, let alone genes...

  12. IT does not fit into unions on Linux Geeks To Take Over World · · Score: 3, Funny

    As much as I'd like to be in an IT union... I don't think it fits. Collective payrates, strikes... rules... all that stuff.

    Unions are for sheep, IT people are cats... we don't hurd well.

  13. 1111111111 on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    1111111111

  14. Re:to watch it Happen... on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    while true ; do perl -le'print 1111111111 - time' ; sleep 1 ; done

    count down

    re: while... skinnning cats

  15. to watch it Happen... on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    until [ 6 -eq 9 ]; do echo $(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s"); sleep 1; done

  16. not very big? on Instant Buildings - Just Add Water · · Score: 1

    from the pic its looks a little small... (about the size a a small dog kennel) sure, its a concept demo, but you may run into trouble when you need a full size one, thats a LOT of weight, you'll need fork lifts, high pressure air compressors, and generators to run the compressors... stuff that is hard to come by in a hurry in a disaster zone...

    still cool tho

  17. Who cares? on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    Its online poker...

  18. Yeah.... my boss asked about it on Businesses Discover Skype · · Score: 1

    I thought it was vaiable, untill I discoverd that it was made by the guys that brought us kazza... it's all well and good untill the spyware comes...

  19. Good luck with the mars things guys on The Evolution of Space Suit Design · · Score: 1

    I pity the first crew on a mars mission... radiation sickness is a horrible way to die... in a tin coffin millions of miles away from home with nothing but the coldness of space arounb you no less...

  20. Any old PC on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just buy a cheap PC... You would be surprised at the hostile enviroments a PC will live in...

  21. we have passwds for a reason on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    would be nice surpise for the widow to find the dead husband was having an affair, and useing his yahoo e-mail because it was a secret...

    the dead have the right to privacy too

  22. Re:All I am is my brain... on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected...

  23. All I am is my brain... on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My brain is the seat of my consciousness, my consciousness is all that "I" am. It is a very fragile thing, a hard knock to my head will destroy it. Where as my body is in comparison substantially robust, it can survive limbs being broken, and flesh torn apart... but it is not "me", it is my vehicle. It exerts a great deal of control over my brain/consciousness, as all it cares for is its own reproduction... I fight with it every day, as a parent fights the child at only wants to eat candy...

    Given this (personal) view who and what I am, I am very very careful of looking after of my brain, for it is all I am. I have done drugs, I have found their effects on my consciousness somewhat,.. novel... but I don't trust that we know enough to mess with the underlying substrate of what makes Me. A small injury to my frontal lobe can turn into OCD. These Cognitive "enhancement" drugs may sound like overclocking your brain to some... but how many key rings have been made from CPUs by over enthusiastic overclockers...

    I will leave this stuff to the psyconauts... if that are happy, smart and enjoying there new consciousness at the age of 80... then fine... but I know that the default configuration of my brain is tried and tested over 100,000s of years... I know it will still be (with good care of my body that feeds it) in good working order until my body packs it in from cancer/heart disease, what have you...

    2c

  24. Re:Here is the bit I don't quite get... on How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding/trolling?

    there are many CD ripping apps out there that will rip/encode your cds and fetch track info from the net... then copy it to your player... I ripped all my albums in a factory line one afternoon...

  25. Re:This thing is the future of computers on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    Umm... what are you on about,.. you have heard of thin clients, winterms etc... the "future" is now dude