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  1. Re:New Kernel, rebooting... on Linux 2.6.15 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe so. I'm coming from seeing the kernel switching support in the config. I do not know if it being practical or not. I'm not that experienced yet.

  2. New Kernel, rebooting... on Linux 2.6.15 Released · · Score: 1

    Ack, Linux computers' uptimes can outlast their kernel versions!
    Well, at least now you can just switch kernels without rebooting the computer, thus preserving the uptime.

  3. Yes there will be! on Einstein Has Left the Building · · Score: 1

    What about me? ;)

  4. Re:Living in a surveillance society on Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's the deal. On one hand, you have your civil liberties. On the other, you have your personal risk.
    You'll enjoy being able to be who you are in a society where there isn't widespread survalence, but if you were attacked you might say to yourself, "Where were the cops when I needed them?"
    The survalence will give you the confidence to go into places you would ordinarily be too scared of going. Now, you may be as tough as old boots, a ninja, Batman, or whatever, but not everybody is. Remember to be compassionate to those who aren't gifted with super-human attributes. A friend of mine was raped brutally. Three men attacked her. There was nothing she could do. She was beat, and luckily, she lived.
    The point is this, you might now think it's better to have your liberties, but you might regret not having the protection later. You won't always be a robust and healthy man. You'll become weak and vulnerable someday. I'm not saying that society should be under constant survalence. I'm just saying think about this more carefully.

  5. Re:From a retail store owner on Santa Shopped Online This Year · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, a business is a subscriber base. The subscriber base is all those who would shop there. There is nothing else to a business. All the little things that are tacked onto a business are just to gain as many subscribers as possible. When you've built up a subscriber base, your business is worth a lot. The more subscribers, the more valuable. If you have a few subscribers, your business isn't worth much more than that assets, which may have already depreciated and aren't worth much. This person would have a subscriber base built up. Clearly, since he or she has returned a profit, there is a considerable subscriber base. Now he or she can sell it for some nice pocket change.

  6. Re:Bill Gates on 100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year · · Score: 0

    What about Sir Linus, eh?

  7. Bill Gates on 100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year · · Score: 0

    Our ol' pal Billy here is American. The Queen cannot knight a non-English man, right?

  8. Too...much... on Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy? · · Score: 0

    ...information...can't...handle...must...fight...
    **EXPLODES**

  9. Re:Or.. on Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Technically, nobody know what an electron really is. Sometimes it exists, and sometimes it doesn't. Observing this little menace can be a pain. It may only be predicted on probability. That is to say that we cannot just watch it and know exactly where it's going to be. When we observe it, that's when it's forced into a position.
    Studies prove this is true. It's an important part of Quantum Physics. With a beam-splitting experiment we find that small particles exist in two places at once, interfering with eachother, and forming an interference pattern when passed through a two slit hole. Light particles do this same thing, and so do atoms, and whole molecules.
    The electron is an elusive critter. Heck, we don't really know what it is. Who's to say that it does exist? How can you know something exists when you don't even know it's behavior, it's physics, or how to know when it exists?

  10. Re:cubic yards ? on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 0

    Why would I want to divide a meter by 6?

  11. Re:cubic yards ? on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 0

    Try dividing by 6 in your head. That's not as easy as dividing by 10.
    What is it that you do in the real world?

  12. Re:cubic yards ? on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 0

    I come from an American public school recently and we never used the metric system except in some sciences like Physics. There of course we had to use the metric system because the US Standard system gets way out of hand.
    Remember, we come from pioneers. Pioneers had to use whatever was at hand for their measurements. They used cups and whatnot. We have inhereted this in our culture despite that it's much easier to use the Metric system.

  13. Re:Hmmmm.... on RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury · · Score: 0, Redundant

    To be fair, babies are kind tasty, so I don't blame them.