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  1. Re:This sounds strangely familiar... on Scotland Building Wave Power Farms · · Score: 1

    Yes, and it is not like a truck, you can only send so many waves down a tube...

  2. Re:A Trap for Idiots on Is Vista a Trap? · · Score: 1

    Uhh, considering that my laptop runs at 1.2GHz, has 1GB RAM and runs a fancy desktop with flying 3D windows and even more eye candy than Vista, I would think a 2GH machine should be fine...

  3. Re:NSA? on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    They are still improving it, judging by the release notes, but I guess the number of lines of code was not sufficient to register against the likes of Redhat and IBM.

  4. Re:The analysis is broken on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    Yup, I got a few suggestions (email with source code) included into the kernel by others. Many people cannot afford the effort required to configure a system in order to create a clean patch that can be submitted properly, so it is frequently better to email code to the real maintainer who can copy paste and test it and then submit a patch together with his own work.

  5. Re:Yay for eu while U.S. senate sucks up to big bu on Microsoft Threatened With Fines By EU Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Something of value happened outside the US borders? That is absurd.

  6. Re:Why do I need Vista? on Information Technology Pros Debate Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    XP has horrid bugs in its networking stack. If Vista fixes that, so that your damn desktop PC doesn't freeze up when a server on the other side of the planet goes down, then it would be worth it already.

  7. Re:Im sorry.... on Information Technology Pros Debate Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    RAM that isn't used, is RAM that is wasted. Linux does the same thing. Nothing wrong with it - quite the contrary really.

  8. Re:Sounds like on Information Technology Pros Debate Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Hmm, and it doesn't seem quite ready for anything else either...

  9. Re:AVG on A Bad Week for Symantec · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows is pretty damn good nowadays, but my Linux web server only goes down when the ISP has a power problem. That happens about once a year. In four years, the machine rebooted 5 times and never once due to Linux.

  10. First thing I Uninstall is Symantec on A Bad Week for Symantec · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whenever I have to fix a screwed up PC, MsAfee or Symantec is disabled by the malicious code. So, I always uninstall whatever is on the machine and install something else like AVG or ClamWin.

  11. Re:No, it's $80 on Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? · · Score: 1

    When an aluminium wok starts to rust, it is time to move to a less polluted area...

  12. Electronics? on Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? · · Score: 1

    One would hope that the $20k version includes the microwave transceiver - but yeah, I have made my fair share of home brew antennas and they generally work better than the carelessly made factory ones. Using a wok is a good idea - nice and sturdy.

  13. Re:For one thing... on California Joins Open Document Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Yeah friggen right - XML has so much superfluous bracketitice, that it is pretty much unreadable by any human, unless maybe you send through a 'grep ignore' filter first...

  14. Re:Where are the Chinese contributors? on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    Their pictographs turned into NULs in ASCII... ;)

  15. Re:Secretlab? on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    AFAIK they work with the NSA on things like SELinux and AES.

  16. NSA? on Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20 · · Score: 1

    I guess the work done by the NSA on SELinux is so secret that they are not listed... ;)

  17. Virus on Data Storing Bacteria Could Last Millennia · · Score: 1

    Flue is a virus and most OSS is proud to be immune to viruses...

  18. Re:Sneakernets: The Original P2P System on RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy · · Score: 1

    Hmm, teenagers are sharing whole DVDs full of MP3s. That must be a great bandwidth saver...

  19. Re:Well, only active because of the Mounties on Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws · · Score: 1

    That is nothing - Nelson Mandela collected 140 tons of real ammonium nitrate and 250,000 grenades 40 years ago and he went on to become president of South Africa...

  20. The laws were used on Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some blokes were in jail for a long time without ever hearing why. It is through their court action that it got struck down.

  21. Re:Uh . . on Honeynet Delineates Web Application Threats · · Score: 1

    Se Linux is probably a better idea than chroot.

  22. Re:Windows users should be hoping this flies on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    Not in America though. Linux is big in Europe, South Africa, Brazil and so on. However, in the USA, everyone wears Windows blinkers.

  23. Re:Vanilla "Linux"? on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    That is OK - having Linux pre-installed, proves that the hardware works and that all drivers are available. Then you can go ahead an re-install if you wish. Anyhoo, I have never found a Dell that Linux won't run on.

  24. I call bull... on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1

    but it is a nice story anyway.

  25. Forgot about Cost of Sales on IRS May Ask eBay To Snitch On Sellers · · Score: 1

    Selling Price - Cost of Sales = Profit

    Therefore tax is very little and should not be calculated on the gross.

    It just means that sellers must do their bookkeeping properly.

    Most people sell second hand schtuff and don't really make any profit at all.