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  1. Re:How low can they go? on RIAA Subpoenas Neighbor's Son, Calls His Employer · · Score: 1

    Process servers can nail it to your door, or drop it at your feet too and I don't think that a 6" nail or a big rock in the dropped paper to keep it from blowing away in the wind are ruled out...

  2. Re:I still have an XT - 3 of them! on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    Oh my, using XT boxes to hold up a Grandfather Clock. I guess it fits. Don't try to drive that thing... ;)

  3. Re:no other technique??? on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 1

    Sails are uneconomical due to the increase in staff required to maintain them.

  4. Propellor in front on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then add some soap and La Voila!

  5. Re:no common sense case on No Business Case for HDTV? · · Score: 1

    "Well, in their defense..."

    Good point - the only place I still use Null Modem cables is in defence electronics... I had to dig to the bottom of my junk box the other day, to find a bunch of RS232 cables to string together in the lab for an airborne setup :)

  6. Do not taunt on No Business Case for HDTV? · · Score: 1

    the happy fun bits...

    I just can't see why I would want to view bad TV in higher definition. It makes sense to have more pixels to cover a bigger screen, but I don't really want a bigger screen either, unless my eyesight would deteriorate.

  7. Re:Why RTFA? on Why Vista Took So Long · · Score: 1

    What with 24 people and only 15 options, it means that 9 people did nothing?

  8. Really low earth orbit on Giant Mexican Telescope Launched · · Score: 1

    that launch was...

  9. Re:The Damage is Done on Microsoft Patent Deal Could Leave Novell Behind · · Score: 1

    Hmm, everything is compiled with GCC. 'Nuff sed. Anyhoo, it is MS that wants in - MS paid Novel for access to Linux. If anyone loses out in this deal, it will be MS. Novel has a long history of winning settlements and lawsuits against MS - almost a billion dollars when you add them all up. This is another settlement, probably induced by the SCO case.

  10. Apple started the beige on When Beige Won't Do · · Score: 1

    colour, with the use of ABS for the Apple II cases.

  11. Re:Economy question on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    No, it is not zero sum. If the economy is growing, then the sum is growing. If the Government is paying off debt (bonds), then money moves to stocks and you get 'stock inflation'. The opposite happens when the government increases debt (issues more bonds) and the economy shrinks.

  12. Re:Buy low; sell high; make money! on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    Buy anything in March, sell in September. Buy oil/gas stock in November, sell in February. This simple disaster avoidance strategy is hard to beat.

  13. Re:This would be my request... on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    GnuCash works.

  14. Re:Linux and Stock-Pick Software on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    You mean like invest-chart, gstalker, xinvest and intuitecsoftware? :)

  15. Re:Existing algorithms on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what the big investment houses are doing. They employ many programmers and mathematicians to do stock research. The question is whether one can make a better system using a smaller computer.

  16. Re:Blackness on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 1

    No, 'Paint it Black' was a Rolling Stones album. It won't do.

  17. Oh, Canada... on Silicon Superconductors · · Score: 0, Troll

    At 0.35K it will only ever work in Canada. So Winterpeg could become a mecca of supercooled computing yet...

  18. Re:The real problem is hopelessness on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    Well, the *real* trouble is that the minimum wage burger flipping jobs are all filled with university graduates. That severely limits the scope for high-school drop-outs.

  19. Re:The world needs ditch diggers too... on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    ...and honey-suckle operators...

    (sewer slurps - for those drop outs who can't figure that out)

  20. Re:My stuff on external drive. on Vista's EULA Product Activation Worries · · Score: 1

    So what is the diff between doing that and keeping your data on an internal drive? Have you actually thought about this? Anyhoo, it is trivial accessing your data using a CD based Linux, for example Knoppix. The data is not the problem - the trouble is if you need to use a special program to access your data that only exists on Windows and that won't run on WINE either - that is when you are screwed.

  21. Hyperbolic... on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1

    Typically, the best hyperbolic articles are typed on a Comodore Amiga while in unsuspended animation inside a hyperbolic chamber, also known as "Mom's basement"...

  22. Terrorist Stem Cells on Stem Cells At The Core of Cancer? · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously we have to find a way to hunt down these killer terrorist stem cells... So where is my Federal grant?

  23. Re:Fundamental Flaw on Stem Cells At The Core of Cancer? · · Score: 1

    You also have to capture a Bishop, so that you can string the King up with 'the entrails of the last priest', as Robert Heinlein so eloquently suggested.

  24. Follow the money on Novell Responds To Microsoft's IP Claims · · Score: 1

    MS agreed to pay Novell M$200 and in a face saving gesture, Novell agreed to give M$40 back.

    Obviously MS is the one with the guilty conscience.

  25. Re:How can windows be cheaper than a free OS? on Birmingham Drops Open Source Initiative · · Score: 1

    Mass rollouts? AFAIK all distro's have dd and netcat. It is just a simple matter of incompetence, lack of experience, lack of knowledge, whatever you want to call it, it is not Linux that is at fault.

    The trouble is that first of all, you need to know about dd and netcat and then you need to know that you could use Google or type 'man dd'. It takes a certain amount of UNIX familiarity, which a Windoze d00d simply doesn't have.