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  1. Server names on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    When my company was a subsidiary of the Time-Warner network, all our servers were named after Warner's cartoons. We had elmer, porky, tweety etc.

    On my home network, I have penguins. It was touchy until penguins got popular after Madagascar came out. I have tux, opus, chilly and rico right now. My wife collects hippo figurines, so she's got gloria (also from madagascar).

  2. Re:Bad registration doesn't matter on Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Guess you missed the part where volunteer poll workers used "leftover" voter registrations at the end of the night to make up for the lack of legitimate votes in both Gary, Indiana and St. Louis, Missouri.

    Voter registration fraud or voter registration errors aren't an issue unless actual voting fraud occurs which is much more difficult. I'm guessing you meant more difficult to prove.

    Oops, guess you missed this too:

    (Albuquerque, NM) - Public records released in New Mexico today confirm that fraudulent voter registrations are in fact turning into fraudulent votes. ACORN, currently under investigation by the FBI, is now confirmed to be responsible for producing fraudulent voter registrations and illegal votes in New Mexico. An inspection of public records has revealed that illegal votes were cast in New Mexico's 2008 primary election.

    What color is the sky on your planet?
    --
    "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." -- Benjamin Franklin

  3. Re:Who knows, but it WAS twenty years ago on San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ye Gods, you're daft!

    "The sin is the hypocrisy. The Republicans present themselves as the law'n'order party. Vote for us, they say, and we'll keep you safe from all those eeevil dark-skinned criminals and Muslim terrorists and hippie commie weirdos."

    I usually vote republican when I can't vote libertarian, although I did just vote for Kentucky's new Democrat governor.

    "Law'n'order" has absolutely nothing to do with the way I vote. "Stay the hell out of my life and get your frickin' hands out of my wallet" has EVERYTHING to do with the way I vote. Seems a lot of /. readers bemoan the evils of the government, but are all too willing to vote for the very candidates that will give them MORE big government. I just don't understand it.

    So I mostly vote the lessor of evils. And that's usually a republican, although this time around there's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama, Clinton & McCain.

    I'll probably vote McCain, just because he can probably postpone the food riots a couple of years longer than either of the Donkeys. But I'm really beginning to doubt that I'll die a natural death.

    And I'd go tit for tat with you about personalities, starting with Teddy Kennedy's underwater date and ending with, well, it hasn't ended yet. But that's useless. We'd just be talking past each other without a chance of ever convincing the other of ANYTHING. So we'll just have to agree to disagree.

    But grok on this while we're waiting; I vote the way I vote because I want a government that will leave me the fsck alone. Not because of law 'n' order. Not because of a religious belief. Not because of Muslims or hippies (I'm still known to take an occasional toke, and my hair is longer than that of most of the women I work with).

    And BHO, HRC & McCain don't want to help me, they want to CONTROL me.

    As I said, I don't hope to convince you here. Hell, I can't even convince my own wife. But... Peace out, dude.

  4. Re:got wood? on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're down to 1 7/16" x 3 7/16". And 3/4" plywood is actually 23/32", just enough to require a special router bit if you want tight joints.

  5. Sun? on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 1

    I don't know what to think now. My earliest memories of the 'net involve sunsite.unc.edu. I WANT to believe in Sun. They make that hard to do...

  6. Re:Least it's not the Canadian Hate Crimes Commiss on Blogger Subpoenaed for Criticizing Trial Lawyers · · Score: 1

    My God, man, have you no shame? This is Slashdot; you can't quote the National Review here!!

  7. Do something about it. on Congressman Hollywood Wants To Make DMCA Tougher · · Score: 1

    In the time it takes to complain about this on /., you could instead let your own Congresscritter know how you feel about the subject. Letters (real, paper snail-mail type) work well. Phone calls and faxes are next best. Email gets the least amount of attention. (Wonder why that is?) So call 'em. Write 'em. Tell them the same damn thing you'd post here. They got enough phone calls over immigration that it shut their switchboard down. That got their attention. No reason we couldn't overload their switchboard as well, is there?

  8. Re:wow on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 2, Funny

    Agreed...

    I've had this 4 digit ID for a while now...

    Oh, wait, it'd be almost 10 years, I guess.

  9. Damn! on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    I've been reading/ignoring "first post" on /. for 10 years? Time flies when you're having fun, I reckon...

  10. Re:Sad poll on RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007 · · Score: 1

    What's REALLY depressing is that you really seem to believe this.

  11. Re:I don't believe their data on Store Says DRM Causes 3 of 4 Support Calls · · Score: 1

    * Their videos will never be played on Music Channels like mTV

    MTV is playing music again? When'd that start?

  12. Re:Hello on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    > My UID is prime, is your's?
    Actually, it is. And a much lower prime than yours.
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    I saw it on the internet. It MUST be true.

  13. Re:Can anyone say "class action"? on HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters · · Score: 1

    Count me in.

  14. Re:We need FCPA-2.0 on Google Stands Ground on Google.cn · · Score: 1

    While we're at it, lobby your Congress critter to outlaw evil. It's bad. Very bad.

  15. Re:Not sure the dems were ever friends of free spe on Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act · · Score: 1

    Damn, I wish I had my mod points from yesterday back. There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. On the one hand, you've got the (conservative) Republicans shoving the Patriot Act down our throats, while the other hand, the liberal (Democrat) SCOTUS is busy allowing people's homes to be taken from them and given to private developers to increase the tax base .

    A pox on both their houses...

    Dave Walker
    I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson

  16. Re:This was not an article on Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News · · Score: 1

    You're not the only conservative here. The rest of us just tend to lurk and LAUGH.

  17. Re:Maybe 10,000+ dead (0800 PDT) on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    Found this on the foxnews site at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142566,00.html / :
    "Pentagon Duty Officer Cheryl Irwin told FOX News that the National Military Command Center has received no reports of any damage to the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility, off the southern coast of India. The Navy is considering whether and what kind of aid to offer to local governments in the region, said Navy Press Duty Officer Lt. Pauline Pimetel."

  18. Re:Maybe 10,000+ dead (0800 PDT) on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    Asshole. Diego Garcia was one of the first things I thought of as well. I did TWO tours there in the '80's, and was there for the quake of '83. It literally threw me out of my rack in my third floor barracks room. I kissed my ass goodbye that night, for there is NO high ground to move to, and shore patrol was driving around announcing that everyone should move to higher ground and brace for a tidal wave. The only thing that saved us that night was that the earthquake occurred so close to the atoll that the tidal wave didn't have enough distance to form.

  19. Re:That's why I'm voting for... on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    I agree wholeheartedly, up until your comment about wasting your vote in the last election. I voted for Harry Browne in the last election.

  20. Re:Financial Contributers on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    Blowing mod points here... Fellow libertarians like me. $15 a month in my case. And extra $100 here and there. The party is self supported. I give to the EFF too... go figure.

  21. Anybody else... on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Had trouble downloading any of the other distributions since RH came out with their announcement?
    I've had a devil of a time downloading Slackware 9.1 the last couple of nights. Slow downloads or "too many people connected now" errors. I finally ended up using jigdo to snag a "cutting edge" Debian distro, but have (thus far) wasted two DVD's trying to get it to work. (Yeah, I know, they warned me. But still...) Getting errors about glibc...

  22. Re:Embarrass their sorry asses. on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    Was thinking the same thing myself. Tell everyone you know "I don't want CD's for Christmas because..." and "I won't be buying anyone CD's for Christmas because...".
    Christmas season is make it or break it for them, just as for many other businesses. Believe me, they'd sit up and take notice!!

  23. Re:Blog... on Yahoo Experimenting with Blogs? · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, you actually know that 'logging' has more than one meaning...

    Function: verb Inflected Form(s): logged; logging Date: 1699 transitive senses 1 a : to cut (trees) for lumber b : to clear (land) of trees in lumbering -- often used with off

    2 : to make a note or record of : enter details of or about in a log

    3 a : to move (an indicated distance) or attain (an indicated speed) as noted in a log b (1) : to sail a ship or fly an airplane for (an indicated distance or period of time) (2) : to have (an indicated record) to one's credit : ACHIEVE

  24. Re:Opera is fine but: on Opera Gives That C64 Feel · · Score: 1

    I'd be laughing if your post weren't so pitiful. Your use of IE only FURTHERS the advance of DRM.

    You think that bandwidth is costing MS? Do you think that's air that you're breathing, in this place, at this time?

    Yeah, I'm feeding a troll, lol. Gotta figure it's a troll, otherwise I'd have to feel sorry that he really can't see the big picture... a Microsoft owned Internet.

  25. Laughable on Opera Gives That C64 Feel · · Score: 1

    I thought "Finally, a chance to see a web page on my Zaurus as it was meant to be displayed on a Zaurus!"

    Silly me...

    Of COURSE there were no options for Linux, much less the Zaurus...