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  1. Re:In other news ... on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    No, the grandparent had it right. Twenty Five is not only a multiple of Five, but it is Five Fives, (See the Law of Fives, from which the figure 23 derives). Hail Eris!

  2. Re:Then sell your home on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 1

    I tried this. It seems like a reasonable idea. The problem is that rules extend beyond the homeowner's association. The laws covering "Public Nuisance" in my COUNTY (not just in the city) include anything that would negatively impact neighboring property values - including such things as a brand new washer or dryer being visible from the street. Welcome to America - home of the money-grubbers.

  3. Re:Program Naming on First Impressions of Sabayon Linux · · Score: 1

    Actually, Konqueror is probably the most common container for KitchenSync ...

  4. Bzzzt! on Trolltech Woos Developers with 'Open' Linux Phone · · Score: 1

    Nice try, thank you for playing.

    If you had bothered to RTFA, you'd see that the phone supports 802.11, and is designed to be SIP enabled.

  5. Re:What I'd like on KOffice GUI Competition Winner · · Score: 1

    Actually, what you described does exist. It's called "Session Management", and KDE 3.5 provides it (I think it's been around since 3.2, actually). The program relied on works with other window managers too, and is called XSession. A session includes information about all running XSession-aware applications, which files they have open, etc. Details of use vary accross window managers.

  6. Re:You Insensitive Clod!... on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    I'll bite. I've been a vegetarian since I was three years old.

    The process here could be cruelty free, but in reality probably would not be completely so. Even so, making the assumption that an animal is killed for the initial cell-harvesting, and that a new batch of cells is used every so often (probably measured in weeks or months), and finally that there will be competing companies that each do their own slaughtering, the improvement over the current system is more than dramatic. I'm all for it.

    On the other hand, I probably wouldn't be a consumer. Contradiction? No.

    At this point, I've been vegetarian for long enough that adding meat back into my diet would make me sick, at least for a while. My digestive system just isn't used to handling it, as occasional experiences with uninformed waiters have reminded me. On the other hand, if the I was making the choice to eat meat or not at a time that the technology already existed, I probably wouldn't even notice that a choice needed to be made. If I did, on consideration, I wouldn't have a problem with it.