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  1. Re:Xorg on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    Linux has always had a better recover mode than Windows. It is call the command prompt, it is actually safe, and get this! You can actually do stuff while there! I'd rather a command prompt than a less pretty desktop that means I can do even less than an unsafe desktop.

  2. Re:Yes, and yes. on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    come on.. I've had Windows stuff up the boot just updating.... It is a computer; we want it to stuff up to have an excuse to work on the computer.

  3. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 2, Funny

    slow update though....

  4. Re:Can anyone tell me... on IBM Demonstrates High-k/Metal Gate Chips · · Score: 1

    On the page that the 45nm link to Intel, there was another link to 32 nm. Its relationship to Apple is still under investigation.

  5. Re-Post on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Just clarifying that I was suggesting that cloud cover would be less under Global Warming, rather than altering the tilt of the planet. Not much of an effect I guess but something.

  6. Re:Hmmm.. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Global Warming should fix that... (yes, I am wary of the data I've been seen that have been extrapolated to Global Warming. That said, it still makes sense to make significant inroads to environmentally friendly and sustainable activities and products.)

  7. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that....

  8. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Direct hit. I'm a taxi driver and while I had a negative opinion of the welfare benefactors I had the same opinion as gp until I began taxi driving. Australia is racist... unfortunately. I am forever having people hop into my cab and begin a conversation with a phrase similar to "How do you put up with the Aboriginals?" I now respond in kind with a simple "Aboriginals? Nah, they are pretty good most of the time. Every troublemaker I've had with has been trouble with the Caucasians... much like yourselves..."

  9. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Please, please come to Australia and teach us to refer to ourselves correctly!

  10. Re:Ah, you forget... on Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have forgotten one, they are small admittedly, country which some claim to be superpower largely because their unusual explosive devices. They get very uppity when someone else looks like acquiring them...

  11. Re:Units of measurement on IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth · · Score: 1

    Anything your penis was going to be used to measure is way out of date.

  12. Re:Worst analogy EVAR! on IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth · · Score: 1

    You must have very dense knuckles

  13. Re:Worst analogy EVAR! on IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth · · Score: 1

    No he wasn't, he was inventing an entirely new system... lightspeed in a knuckle.

    Their cpu does +1.00 (possible loss of precision) knuckle lengths, which is better than most cpu as they haven't broken the knuckle barrier yet and are still limited to less than .99 (possible loss of precision) knuckle lengths or less.

    This rate of speed of cpus is cousin to hdds' Libraries of Congress in common use. Don't forget that for slower rates we use speed of light in buses, football fields, trains, rivers (commonly Mississippi or the Nile), equators, and solar systems.

    Most likely people will be confusing speed of light in a knuckle with time periods such as blink of an eye, reptiles grabbing insects, butterfly flutters and glacier recession. Tis a shame.

  14. Re:British ID card system on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 1
    Pressing your face into an ink pad would be rather disconcerting for a reasonable period of time.

    But then, that just my opinion. What ever floats your boat.

  15. Re:Open has more ears, but do we use them? on A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit · · Score: 1

    PP is a cannibal?? Seriously, it is just 'eyes' spelt wrong.

  16. Re:I'm not that impressed on Youngest Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    Java Man was based on a pigs tooth, that was still running around Java. The Iguanodon was also reconstructed to look more like a rhino originally. Brontosaurus etc....

  17. Rabbits, dementia... on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Ummm... how do you know when rabbits have dementia?

  18. Re:BBC, not BCC on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    yeah, I got caught with this coding in Java the other day, because of course I spell in the British English not USAian...

  19. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    That was a really poor example. I'm not saying they don't exist... but that actually worked against you.

  20. Re:Just another form of media... on US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists · · Score: 1

    As opposed to our integrity filled "old media". The only difference between the morals of the two are the speed at which they can be altered.

  21. Re:Cool on US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists · · Score: 1

    Except that we have had news reports that the 'Intelligence' had been say before going in that the WMD are unlikely to exist, and if they do they are probably outside their lifespan. My other reason for opposing the Iraq War is that, first we are told they are supporting Al Qaeda, then because Iraqis have WMD. In the end the 'Axis of the Willing' entered because 'it is the right thing to do' for the Iraqi people. Huh? Talk about rewriting history.

  22. Re:"Unique" has evolved beyond your notions on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 1

    so hackers are now crackers and crackers hackers?

  23. Re:Totally! on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 1

    And you have trouble with nuances for 'no' too don't you....

  24. Re:FORM on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1, Informative

    hahahahahahaha! Women who 'just' want to be friendly as they walk by?

    I fall into the 'gentle buffoon' category in first impressions and while most blokes on the street will say 'g'day' back, women give you this dirty look like 'how dare you think to speak to me...' or at best a weak smile that says 'get me outa here!'. Once they get to know me, none seem to have the initial reservations they emanated at first. I have observed this not just with myself but many other genuinely gentle and kind blokes. Even my wife still will tell me about a bloke she saw that 'scared' her -- all they said was 'hello, how are you?'. I later come across the fellow and they are almost always harmless and gentle, but they always fall on the plain and poor side.

    How do I know I fall into the 'gentle buffoon'? Other than the adults I know telling me directly, kids take to me quite quickly -- consistently, everywhere. I'm forever being the recipient of children's simple genuine friendly smile.

    Having also observed others, this trend is a given. Handsome or rich, women flock to you. Plain and poor, you have to work at it very hard. The easiest route is being conventionally quirky or funny. This has worked time, and time again including for my wife, who is still as bad as the rest of the women.

  25. Re:Somewhat pointless? on Is There Room For a Secure Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    If you didn't find that funny you are posting to the wrong forum.