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  1. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    "they were on display for nine months."

  2. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want it a secret, then don't tell anyone.

    If you want if off the internets, then never let it out your private disk space.

  3. games on Linux Foundation Purchases Linux.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do you think should be on Linux.com?

    Linux games.

  4. rocket surgery on Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser · · Score: 1

    It's probably related to brain science.

  5. Re:Why? Why? WHYWHYWHYWHY??? on Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser · · Score: 1

    I think you accidentally the last sentence of your post.

  6. Re:null or not null, that is the question on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    `gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror` will check for uninitialized variables.

  7. Re:Sounds nice but on First Impressions of the Neuros Link · · Score: 1

    That keyboard is not bluetooth, it's RF.

    I bought one from
    http://www.fentek-ind.com/kbmrfotb45ub.htm

  8. Re:Am I the only one on First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...who watched the video and suddenly had a flashback of the POV-Ray rendering window? (the first half of the video, that is)

  9. Re:The SUN is always an entertaining read ... on Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean · · Score: 1

    I did, and it was a rather interesting device.

    The "sick" was not for the content of the link, but the plan for Waldo itself.

  10. Re:Koala's are lazy. on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    The CPU gets idle, processes sleeps.

    From the top manpage:

                        The status of the task which can be one of:
                              'D' = uninterruptible sleep
                              'R' = running
                              'S' = sleeping
                              'T' = traced or stopped
                              'Z' = zombie

  11. Re:how do they know on Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Yet Detected · · Score: 1

    So is the weather, and the stock market.

  12. Re:The SUN is always an entertaining read ... on Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's "-1, Sick" when we need it?

  13. Re:Koala's are lazy. on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Koala spends sleeping 75% of its time.

    So does any operating system.
    Just watch `top` and see.

  14. Re:Yeah, I guess we all stole something today. on When Servers Explode · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stole your working time, by posting here?

  15. Re:So something which we can't define... on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 2, Insightful
  16. Re:So something which we can't define... on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    err.. the <quote> didn't work there on the first sentence

  17. Re:So something which we can't define... on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    we're just seeing it on too small a scale to make that judgment.

    specially time-scale.

    perhaps they are intelligent, but if you talk to it for days, it can be just a split-second for the rock; and if the rock want's to tell you something, it won't finish the first word before you die of old age (or boredom).

    tolkien's ents come to mind..

  18. nonsense on Do We Need a New Internet? · · Score: 4, Funny

    give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety

    so I'll be safer by exposing myself?

  19. Re:KILL KILL KILL on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    A cat is not going to work. A cat will, at best, catch a few, but a cat does it one at a time. Your goal should not be to keep the population low, but to destroy all the rats.

    His goal is not to exterminate all rats, but to keep them away. A cat will work, because it does not need to catch them all. The cat will scare them, and keep them away.

    The problem with the cat, as I see, is it's hair clogging the fans.

  20. rats want food on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    Stop eating pizza in the server room.

    Seriously, if they come, that's because they're finding food there. Keep it clean, and maybe they'll go away.

    They also like the dark, so keeping the lights on can help. Search where they may be nesting.

  21. Re:Does it detect what's within? on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 1

    Worse yet.

    Remember, kids: when you're downloading Free software, you're downloading communism!

  22. Re:At least Reiser on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    He's not a dangerous criminal that would orchestrate his gang from behind the bars, so why not give him a laptop with Internet connection, so he can keep working? He will spend a lot (possibly the rest of his life) there..

  23. Re:Map 10 Downing Street on Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes · · Score: 1

    Cool, so it would be possible to do "del[icioous] tag1 tag2 tag3" as I always wanted.

  24. Re:Map 10 Downing Street on Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    agreed.

    this way it's almost indistinguishable from using the (very useful) bookmark keywords.

  25. victory is near on Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop · · Score: 1

    First they ignore you,
    then they laugh at you,
    then they fight you, ........<== you are here
    then you win.