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  1. Re:Here's what I do on Most Usable Bookmark Managers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, and I forgot to mention that unison will synchronize using a ssh tunnel. You will be secure.

  2. Re:Here's what I do on Most Usable Bookmark Managers? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What a load of work. Everyone, look up a nice little program called 'unison'. It uses the rsync protocol to keep two directories in sync. It's even transitive. You can be working on client machine A, synchronize with server S, then move to client machine B and synchronize with server S. client A and client B will be synchronized with each other.

    I use it on a gigabyte of files in my home dir on my desktop and laptop. It synchronizes in less than 30 seconds on a 128kbit link.

    Everything is managed with a configuration file, so you don't need to manually remember what parts need to update and what don't, and where the little bits need to go in the directory tree.

  3. Re:why do they need my e-mail??? on Post-crash Salary Survey · · Score: 5, Informative

    They need the address because, contrary to the misleading /. article write-up, the surveys are not in fact out. They haven't even been handed in yet. That's the deal. You fill out the survey, and you hand it in. They calculate things, and then they will hand it back out with the results on May 1st. The e-mail address is so you can have a copy sent to you.

  4. Re:Another example from Time on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that the cigarette was removed recently? Women smoking in public wasn't considered polite earlier in the century. The attitude was changing by the Depression, but Time might have brushed the photo long ago.

  5. Re:Danger??? on New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test · · Score: 1

    Self serve stations have been the standard for the past 25 years here. I doubt that the number of fueling fires is going to increase - it's at equilibrium.

  6. Re:Sometimes reading the article helps. on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    Imagine being in an infantry squad, with the enemy holed up in a stone building, with no artillery or tanks, or air support. No problem. Just have the squad start shooting nonstop at the building. After a while, you could level the building, without getting close to it, damaging other buildings, or depleting your ammo.

  7. Re:Scientific approach on Why Are Skeptics Such a Negative Bunch? · · Score: 1

    They are invisible, but not transparent. Invisible pink elephants can see each other perfectly fine. Lots of people accept things like "three persons one god", so why is this so difficult?

  8. Re:Distrubing Answering machine on Possessed Technology? · · Score: 1

    So, are you saying that there are telephones in heaven?

  9. Re:Nearly Impossible on Human Eyes as Digital Cameras? · · Score: 1

    Easy solution: don't tap the optic nerve. Tap the retina. See the post about the cat elsewhere in the comments for this story.

  10. Re:Have to say it... on Human Eyes as Digital Cameras? · · Score: 1

    Why? Are you severely astigmatic?

  11. Re:Jeez on IPv4 Headers Investigated · · Score: 1

    I'm not fat. I'm big-boned.

  12. Re:Scientific approach on Why Are Skeptics Such a Negative Bunch? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But, is someone justified in believing in invisible pink elephants? And, if someone believes in invisible pink elephants, would they be justified in believing in invisible blue elephants?

    The point I'm getting at is without a good BS detector (scepticism) nobody will be able to decide what to believe.

  13. Re:yet more fodder for the 4/1 trolls. on Physical Hard-Disk Data Arrangements and Drive Failures? · · Score: 1

    It's nothing like the User Friendly shutdown joke:

    read it

  14. A toungue is worth on How Much are Tongues Worth? · · Score: 1

    (pinky to corner of mouth)

    a MILLION dollars!

  15. Re:Scientific approach on Why Are Skeptics Such a Negative Bunch? · · Score: 1

    I can't prove that invisible pink elephants don't exist, but is that also a crappy argument?

  16. Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) on Humor in Times of War? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's your crontab entry that will run once.

    1 1 1 1 1 cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda1; killall -9

  17. Re:Ogg the BASE! on Whatever Happened to Netrek? · · Score: 1

    I thought ogging was when you swooped at maximum speed, cloaked. Just when you passed your opponent, you dropped cloak and fired all weapons at your opponent, which would be directly aft at close range. Since you were moving so quickly under cloak, you probably wouldn't be noticed, and you'd also be out of range of the explosion as well as other enemies quite quickly.

    Am I right or wrong?

  18. Re:2.5 impressions on Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. For example, the following sentence is not a flame, but is definitely flamebait:

    EXAMPLE: The United States forces in Iraq are having a difficult time with the irregular armies, and they might wish they had listened to France and stayed home.

    See? It's not a flame, but it definitely invites flames.

  19. Re:2.5 impressions on Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait and troll are identical moderations. There is actually no moderation for someone who starts spewing abuse at another user. It should be called "flame" not "flamebait". Flame is when you dish it out. Flamebait is when you are asking for it.

  20. Re:Xtank on Whatever Happened to Netrek? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think anyone playing a tank game on Linux will probably be playing bzflag. Try it, it's quite a bit of fun.

  21. First ogg! on Whatever Happened to Netrek? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Got you! Can't blame it on lag.

  22. Re:Electronics Enthusiasts... on Build Your Own PCB Milling Machine · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. When I was in high school, I tried and tried and tried to design my own audio amplifier. I didn't care if it made things very loud or not. It was only 2 transistors, and I just wanted it to work. It didn't.

    So, I tried using vacuum tubes instead, thinking that I might get the hang of that more easily. Well, I built my circuit and fired it up. MUSIC CAME OUT OF THE SPEAKER!!! I thought that I was successful. So, I decided to turn off the power to the tube filaments. They cooled off. Music was still coming out of the speaker at the same volume. Obviously, I wasn't successful.

    Ack. There is some kind of voodoo to analog electronics that I don't understand.

  23. Re:the x86 is at a dead end on SSE3 Technology In Intel Prescott · · Score: 1

    Ummmmm, sure. Why do you care what processor you run on? Why would anyone other than an embedded systems guy care? Are you writing your code in assembler?

    As long as the thing supports things like larger memories and larger integers, and as long as it continues to get faster, then the processor is completely irrelevant.

  24. Re:Outer space. on Shuttle Missions Will Be Monitored From Space · · Score: 1

    Intoxicating enemas?

    Don't laugh. Some very primitive peoples have that tradition, though not with alcohol. I'm sure that a nice vodka enema retained for an hour or so would get you good and plastered.

    Not much on google about it though. I searched for "intoxicating enema" and just got a couple references.

  25. Re:Redundancy on Eclipse 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the article you referenced is full of crap. For example, he talks about thinking that someone with HIV has the full blown disease. That's clearly an ignorant viewpoint, since the acronym AIDS refers to the full blown disease.

    The redundant words are just annoying.

    BTW, Nazis is spelled with a capital 'N'.