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  1. he's running a website on it on DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix · · Score: 1

    according to his other site

    way to burst his computer into flames...

  2. Re:Why do it at all?? on Leopard Already Hacked To Run On PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    And that's exactly why Apple doesn't want you to do that. They want the profits from selling you their hardware. That's also why I'll never buy any Apple computers new.

  3. Re:Enough with the stealth auto-"updates" dammit! on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: 1

    Exactly! That's why I have my computer unplugged and sitting in the closet within an armored safe. Nothing can get to it, especially the cockroaches!

  4. Isaac Asimov already thought of this on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 1

    And he called it "psycho history." The way he describes it, it almost sounds plausible as long as you have trillions of people, and they don't know what your predictions are.

  5. Re:Wow... on Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I was wondering why everyone here looked like a gray-skinned version of Superman and Lois Lane with very square features.

  6. Re:I hate troll article summaries. on Eight PS3 'Supercomputer' Ponders Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is where i go for excellent commentary

    You sure you're not new here?
  7. Re:Best upgrade? on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    "Actually, this is the second best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs as he quickly corrected himself.

  8. Re:bullshit reasoning on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power · · Score: 3, Funny

    An airstrike anywhere on earth with a high powered laser would be the ultimate clean weapon.


    That's right: it uses clean energy! Everyone wins!
  9. Re:Scary on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a hardware problem. You know, it's not always the OS that's at fault.

  10. Re:Or, better yet on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    If she had issues with Vista, what makes you think she'll have a better experience with this so-called "other" operating system that you're alluding to? Seems like if she's happy with XP, then she should stick with it.

  11. Re:Flash drives on Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS · · Score: 1

    My point was having the option of loading a fresh machine state upon reboot such that loading this fresh state or booting the normal way would boot the machine to the exact same useable state. This machine state could be compressed such that it would take too long to extract and load. Another poster had expressed concern for loading 4GB of machine state. Well, on a fresh boot, most of that 4GB is filled with nothing relevant.

  12. Re:Flash drives on Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Windows you can have the computer's current state be saved and loaded the next time the computer is booted. Is there an option to load the state of the machine on a fresh boot? That would save time on reboots.

  13. Re:Soubds like alot of work on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    It would be, but then you don't get mad-props for hacking a supposedly unhackable phone, don't get the media attention that you want, and most importantly: you don't get the Mac community's panties in a bunch.

  14. Re:My two cents on Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" · · Score: 1

    You're fine. The copyright is for "one cent." Crap...

  15. Re:Ssh! on How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ssh is a registered trademark of SSH Communications Security. You will be hearing from our lawyers.

  16. Re:And before you ask... on ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hear that "whoosh" sound? It's the sound of the joke going over the mod's head.

  17. That's great! on Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I love this part:

    Perhaps the most cunning use of an evolutionary algorithm, though, is by Dr Koza himself. His team at Stanford developed a Wi-Fi antenna for a client who did not want to pay a patent-licence fee to Cisco Systems. The team fed the algorithm as much data as they could from the Cisco patent and told the software to design around it. It succeeded in doing so. The result is a design that does not infringe Cisco's patent--and is more efficient to boot. A century and a half after Darwin suggested natural selection as the mechanism of evolution, engineers have proved him right once again.


    But who's to stop the person who wrote the algorithm to patent the solution that bypassed the original patent? Or the algorithm itself for that matter?
  18. Re:first man-made chimera? on Stem Cells Change Man's DNA · · Score: 1

    No because we've been doing solid organ transplants for about 40 years. And unless your organ donor is your identical twin, you're going to come out of the operation as a chimera.

  19. And this is news because...??? on Stem Cells Change Man's DNA · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've been doing bone marrow stem-cell transplants for years on people with hematopoietic neoplasms. In fact, we've been doing solid organ transplants for about 40 years. Of course they will have different DNA! In fact, even a normal person has different sets of DNA right now. This is most evident in germ cells, which undergo meiosis, and antibody-producing hematopoietic cells, which change their DNA to be able to make different antibodies to different antigens. So I don't see why this is news.

  20. Re:The cause is... on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    It's profitable precisely because people aren't willing or aren't able to lose weight to become healthy. Why do you think there are so many overweight/obese people in this country?

  21. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    Except Hondas are now made in the USA... by a Japanese company. So perhaps it's just that their manufacturing and QA processes are better.

  22. Hooray for progress on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a reason we don't use slide rules, abacuses, buggy whips, etc. - we have better tools now. I used to have one when I was a kid back in the '80s, never really figured out what it was for, especially since we had scientific calculators instead.

  23. Re:Firefox != Internet on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 1

    What??? You suggested IE over Firefox? I'm surprised you weren't modded down to "-20 Microsoft shill"...

  24. Re:It is amazing how much M$ owns the broken meme on Zero-day Exploit in PDF With Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    As someone who is of European descent, I'm offended by your use of the term "cracker."

  25. Re:I say, set a standard on Microsoft No Longer a 'Laughingstock' of Security? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't think that's quite fair since the base OpenBSD distribution that's audited doesn't include things such as X Window. Maybe a better comparison would be Mac OS X?