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  1. Re:How to recycle flat cola... on Kimchi in Space · · Score: 1

    Or pour it down a blocked drain. Phosphoric acid is good at dissolving anything and everything.

    Having it on the space station would probably turn out like the Alien movies.

  2. Re:I love you on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    I couldn't come up with a good one for Eclipse, but I think the first two would have to be "Eighty Cores".

  3. Re:one pakage manager to rule them all on LLVM 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there is something similar in portage. `emerge --onlydeps xbattle && emerge --fetchonly xbattle` should do it, though then you have to mess around with package.provided so it doesn't uninstall the deps later on.

    I haven't used emerge for a while since I've found paludis does things better (its config files are actually in a consistent format, for one thing...)
  4. Re:Great... on Will Wright's Spore To Release Sept. 7th · · Score: 1

    uh... what? Sounds like your own life of abuse makes you automatically associate someone having a SO and not playing games with "abusive girlfriend".
    You should get that problem seen to.

  5. Re:Emporor's New Clothes on The Future of XML · · Score: 1

    All the Ogg metadata I've ever seen uses name=value pairs separated by newlines. Like an INI file.

  6. Re:XML is a fad, STEP is the future on The Future of XML · · Score: 1

    Also your lines arent fixed width so seeking to #9987976 means scanning through for 9987975 newline characters. Nope. Seeking to 9987976 is just doing a binary search and reading to the nearest newline/line number.
  7. Re:Did you ever consider... on Undersea Cable Cut Circumstances Examined · · Score: 1

    Here's the general formula:

    1) USA vandalises rest of world indiscriminately
    2) ?
    3) USA offers to repair damage by selling its own services for "only" several billion per month
    4) Profit!

  8. Re:Liquids: BS on TSA Changes Screening Based on Blog Suggestion · · Score: 1

    If someone walked onto a plane with a water bottle filled with nitroglycerin, it would blow up when they tossed it through the XRay machine. Who's to say they won't just settle for that?
  9. Re:No win situation on TSA Changes Screening Based on Blog Suggestion · · Score: 1

    With the state America's in (just look at this article for starters), can you really blame people for not wanting to go there?

  10. Don't use them. on Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage · · Score: 1

    Take all the hard drives out and run everything from a server using two or three of them. You'll save a few kilowatts.
    If you really need local storage put some solid-state drives in.

  11. Re:Yeah, right... on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like a botnet. One of the good things about the internet is that you can stick a firewall up to keep others out.

  12. "How will you use XML in years to come?" on The Future of XML · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sparingly. JSON is just plain better, and doesn't inflict an enterprisey mindset on anyone that tries to use it.

  13. Re:Instead of sending DVDs home on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 1

    The price ratio is bad, but you can fit 30 SD cards in the space one DVD takes up. You could get another 200 in the space the drive uses.

  14. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Sci-Fi Tech We Could Have Right Now (For a Price) · · Score: -1, Troll

    While you're absolutely right, have you tried doing anything about it?

  15. Re:Sad on One Step Closer to IPv6 · · Score: 0

    As are you.

  16. Re:Cue... on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    Please, don't use the word "we" in that context. It sounds like you're lumping in slashdot-reading folk with the terrorists in the US government.

  17. Re:Am I too late... on Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' · · Score: 1

    From what I experienced while wasting several hours contorting my jabberd's configuration for three pidgin clients to connect at once, its authentication code is FUBAR.

  18. Re:Wii already uses MEMS accelerometers on Next Generation of Gyroscopic Controllers on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    What did submitter think the Wii used to track movement when the remote wasn't pointed at the IR sensor bar? Psychic powers? I would've guessed it used basic differential equations, but that's just me.
  19. Re:This is the Wii remote, minus functionality on Next Generation of Gyroscopic Controllers on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    A gyroscope gyrates.

  20. Re:What does the Pope know? on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    What does the Pope know? I think he'd know a bit more about morality and ethics than you do, since his life's work is based around it.
  21. Hey, here's an idea! on Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion · · Score: 1

    Why don't the US ISPs use the billions they were given by the government from taxes to do exactly this? Or is there a case here against both parties for fraud?

  22. Re:Remove them from search engines on Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business · · Score: 1

    Maybe in addition to deleting the search engine ranking of sites when they get dropped, they could ban adsense on sites below a certain pagerank regardless of age. That'd kill two problems - bottom-feeding scum like this and long-term squatting sites that do nothing but waste space.

    If anything, it might make all the one-reader me-too blogs clogging up the internet go away.

  23. Don't know about outbound, but... on How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering? · · Score: 1

    I haven't had a single email, legit or otherwise, get through my ISP's spam filter in the past year or so. They provide no option to turn it off and they can't be bothered to fix it.

    I thought of running a local mail server, then realised I haven't come across a single situation in that time where I actually _needed_ a fixed email address for more than 5 minutes.

  24. Re:Catching up to Windows on power on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 1

    The xsession-errors file is doubly useless in that it deletes itself when X exits.

    The real worst offender would have to be Konqueror though, which calls sync() Every. Time. It. Uses. The. Cache.
    For example, opening a html file in it containing just the line "<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0">" will keep your hard disk light perpetually lit.

  25. Re:Guys, guys, OLPC are a charity! on Big Delays, Small Laptops: OLPC XO Recipients Mad · · Score: 1

    Yes. Is the concept of charity completely alien to you or something?