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  1. Re:Don't matter... on ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do we need to fight it? The increase in arable land due to warming more than offset the loosses around the coast lines. It will be great if we can settle and develop Antarctica.

  2. Re:I knew it - MS Linux is out on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Linux shipped in 2003 already: http://www.mslinux.org/

  3. WISP on Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again · · Score: 1

    The WISP space ( microwave backhaul) is still very under-served in Canada. In Calgary, Terago has only two towers - one is too low (on a hotel) and the other one on the CPP hill is overloaded. Hopefully this will improve things. Cables are so 20th Century.

  4. Masking Tape Programmers on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    Sooo, if DucTape Programmers work at Apple, do Masking Tape Programmers work at Microsoft?

  5. Re:Not enough on Unambiguous Evidence of Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Just drill a well. There should be water and gas (methane and ethane) on the moon. You may just have to drill a little deeper on the moon to find liquids, since it is colder than earth.

  6. Re:Why? on GPL Wins In French Court Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    "should therefore be available for all"

    No, not to all, only to their clients. What their clients do with it in turn is up to them.

  7. Re:Looking forward on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 1

    X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X

  8. Re:Good Grief on Nominum Calls Open Source DNS "a Recipe For Problems" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Win2003, the Microsoft DNS is a slightly modified version of BIND8 with a BSD licence. It is hidden in there somewhere under the wizards.

  9. Re:Global Warming on Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Confirms Climate Cycles · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm, the deniers did not actually have anything intelligent to write, so they just modded you down instead.

  10. Re:Mutant Garlic... on Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    Teenage Mutant Garlic Ninja Turtles?

  11. Re:get to jupiter in a few weeks on Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight · · Score: 1

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but someone had a thin nylon line somewhere...

  12. Re:Inherintly unconstitutional on Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, in most of the rest of the Western world, Roman Law applies and this type of nonsense would be moot.

  13. Re:I will buy one on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 4, Insightful
  14. City-Wide Tow Trucks? on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    I'd guess it is dead due the wrong connotation with dead cars.

  15. Re:Seriously, Slashdot? on Scientists Levitate Mice for NASA · · Score: 1

    It is because Roland Piquepaille passed away...

  16. Re:native filesystem on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    What? You run Windows without a full Cygwin installation? You should have your Geek card revoked...

  17. Re:Portable Encryption Please on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    Not quite - FreeOTFE only requires Admin privileges to install it. Thereafter a common user can use it alright.

  18. AES256 encrypted NTFS on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NTFS with LUKS and FreeOTFE does the trick for me.

  19. This is mainly a Tax Strategy on Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is a way for Microsoft to reduce its tax bill - Donate a few hundred million dollars worth of code to a charity you control and get a nice tax receipt.

  20. Re:Patents are so 1999... on Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms · · Score: 1

    You mean a Microsoft Unix like Xenix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

  21. Re:skype: most used feature? on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 1

    My EeePC 701 is still my primary computer, you insensitive clod, and yes, it runs Skype too...

  22. Flipping pages on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably the nicest feature of a book is the ability to bend it and flip pages by running it against your thumb, then sticking a forefinger in to hold the place. Once an Ebook reader can do that, I'll be impressed.

  23. Re:Pedantry note on Intel Lynnfield CPU Bests Nehalem In Performance/Watt · · Score: -1, Troll

    What? You call yourself a Pedant and you did not pick up the erroneous use of 'effect'? Geez, what is Sloshdat coming to - we cannot even trust the Grammar Nazis and Pedants anymore...

  24. The ISBN are still the same on Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why is this jerk moaning? Google hasn't changed the ISBN.

  25. American culture? on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 1

    I think a bigger problem is that Americans don't have meaningful culture in the first place. The result is that their Copyright laws are pretty much futile whichever way you look at them.