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  1. Moon dirt = 'ground'? on When On the Moon and Mars, Move Underground · · Score: 1

    So soil on the moon is also called 'ground'? How boring.

  2. IDE needs work on The Mono Mystery That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Can we just get the IDE to work with the debugger?

  3. Re:Does anyone really use it? on All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    but does anyone use MonoDevelop?

    It runs like crap. Click in the wrong place and it crashes.

    and frankly if you're using Mono you're probably an MS guy who wants his stuff to work on linux rather than a *nix dev anyway. Aren't you?

    I want it to work. Period. I'm a computer guy, I don't define or limit myself to Microsoft, Linux, or embedded 68HC11A, I just want a managed language that works. Shove your bigotry.

  4. Judge Gladys Dykes on Judge In Pirate Bay Trial Biased · · Score: 1

    Bailiff! Whack his pee pee!

  5. Aljazeera English via Livestation.com on Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online · · Score: 1

    Using the viewer from Livestation.com , I've been watching the debates on Aljazeera (English). It works perfectly on my Ubuntu 8 (64-bit) installation.

  6. Re:You admire a politician? on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that idea, I gave the EFF $100, too. As a prior Obama donor, I anticipate a phone call from their camp, for which I will reserve a tirade of extremely abusive profanity.

  7. Re:Overreactions on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    cash in on his previously-undervalued property

    I think it's more likely that they are just interested in keeping a bunch of lawyers' kids from finding a reason to sue them.

  8. flash animation of physics on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    This is interesting, enough English to be helpful.

    http://www.genepax.co.jp/mechanism/system.html

    Assuming this isn't plastic sushi...

    What pulls the electrons through the 'lamp' instead
    of the membrane? I don't see why the path of least resistance would be that way.

  9. Re:Not So Obvious to Many in Corporate America on Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Use Klingon phone protocol. Just bellow "SPEAK!"

  10. The "New You"... on Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog · · Score: 1

    The "New You" cosmetic surgery laser gone haywire in "Logan's Run" comes to mind. On the other hand, can I get one of these to melt snow on the road a few centimeters in front of my 70MPH tires? How many development cycles before 5,840 processors will fit in my glove box?

  11. E-Meringue Pie Top Company on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    http://www.emeringue.com/ One of the greatest takes of all time.

  12. We're all still here on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    There are more of us here on Earth right now than have ever been born, lived, and died. All souls in use. Not only is hell not half full yet, it's completely empty.

    Now hurry up with that Tribes 2 rewrite, kthanksbye.

  13. I love my linux router on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    IPTables FTW!

  14. The Enemy Within on Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches · · Score: 1

    "I have here in my hand a list of 235... a list of patents that were made known to the PR newswires as being used by Linux developers and who nevertheless are still working and under development outside of the Microsoft Corporation..." Sound familiar? yeah, (JAF) Joseph McCarthy analogy.

    There was a SuSE before Novell, there will be one afterwards.

  15. Have to last many years for effective ROI on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 0

    Last time I looked, regular boring old school light bulbs were $0.37 each for a 75 watt edison base. At ten times the cost, and only five times the lifespan, I can't see CFTs as desirable other than to actually lower the burden on our power plants. Jack the price of AC another ten cents a kilowatt/hour and maybe this point of diminishing return will shift a bit towards the CFTs' favor. Look out, here come the plug-in hybrids!

    Anybody up for the math? Assume a kilowatt hour of juice costs 5 cents, a normal light bulb lasts a year, a CFT lasts 5 years, that my children eat mercury for breakfast, and the price of rice in China is constant.

    Disclaimer: I've only had one cup of coffee so far today.

  16. Re:Encryption anyone? on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 1

    I do this... I have a very unhidden Truecrypt drive on my machine. Although I don't actually trade music (cause it's all cr@p and I still listen to Detroit punk rock), I'm hoping that one day somebody will spend a few zillion teraflops on decrypting it only to find it filled with... pictures of Britney Spears. And the Hilton sisters.

    If you haven't tried Truecrypt, it rocks. Except for the linux version, or have they fixed the 2.6.19 compilation bugs yet?

  17. Re:Perhaps a typo? on Wednesday Is Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Like the old joke...

    "I wish I had enough money to buy and elephant."
    "Why would you want an elephant?"
    "I don't, I just want the money."

  18. 355 / 113 : good enough for rock and roll on Wednesday Is Pi Day · · Score: 1

    355 / 113: Much better than 22/7

  19. This might have been relevant a month ago on Why Vanguard Sets a Bad Precedent for MMOGs · · Score: 1

    ...the game is working quite well now. Oh, and I'm selling tin horseshoes for 4.99 silver, get 'em hot off the anvil!

  20. Still made on Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unicomp (the original contractor who made IBM keyboards) still makes them and are for sale at http://www.pckeyboard.com/ . My undiagnosed 'carpal tunnel' pain went away after I started using one.

  21. Under-valued employees on Large FLOSS Study Gets the Real Facts · · Score: 1

    This is the one that's getting me confused... (page 283)

    "Employees may perceive that their work is under-valued using 'cheap' OSS products or changing operating model to OSS is problematic."

    What?!? You're not willing to shell out the bucks for a real copy of M$O for me? You cheap losers!

    "To overcome these pre-conception it is recommended to adopt a policy of both ad hoc and periodic training to fill the lack of knowledge/experience in relation to what OSS products are appropriate and how they might be deployed."

    Oh, but now you can actually afford to send me to class and pay me more?

  22. Re:Oh yeah, providing jobs and industry is terribl on Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation · · Score: 1

    Are you people daft? African swallows are non-migratory.