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I guess America isn't a realy democrasy, it's more of a Corpcrasy I think you mean Oligarchy.

Ahhh, the life of a consultant. Proof yet that there's life after BOFHdom.

I think you might want to look up the word anonymous in the dictionary. Apparently you don't know what it means.

...this should also take care of Thrombophlebitis a condition of blood clotting in the legs when they do not move enough... Great for those aging geeks!

I knew the 1920 response was familiar. That's a dittohead response to deforestation, both picking a low point in forestation and "[ignoring] the fact that much of today's forests are single-species tree farms, as opposed to natural old-growth forests which support diverse ecosystems".

And that is deforestation. A homogenous set of trees is not the same as a forest.

Does this mean that they will no longer pull asinine stunts like giving Everyone full access to the root of an NTFS drive? Or giving Everyone full access to \Inetpub\* in default installations? Or installing NetMeeting, Media Player and other cr*p on a server?

And when will this happen, mebbe 2 years from now when they release Windows XP 2004 (or whatever the fork their marketing droids call it)?

you are inferring that it should be the retailer that decides instead of the parent.

Just a heads up. infer means to draw a conclusion from some information. imply means to express something indirectly. The two are often misused interchangably, but they do mean different things.

For instnace: You imply that you dislike violent video games. I can infer from this that you have never played Cliff Yablonski: Freedom Fighter.

you are inferring that it should be the retailer that decides instead of the parent.

Just a heads up. infer means to draw a conclusion from some information. imply means to express something indirectly. The two are often misused interchangably, but they do mean different things.

For instnace: You imply that you dislike violent video games. I can infer from this that you have never played Cliff Yablonski: Freedom Fighter.

silverware Pronunciation Key (slvr-wâr) n.

1.Hollowware and flatware made of or plated with silver
2.Metal eating and serving utensils

Metal!=silver in case you were wondering.

...stainless steel silverware ...

Unless it's made of silver, shouldn't that be called flatware?

Sorry for being anal, but "stainless steel silverware" sounds dumb.

1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
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3) [...] A veritable harrem..

By the way, it's harem :-)

Hazah!

Now there's the tyop we've been waiting for!

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Pigeons coo. It would be a PR coup.

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Lameness filter ... gotta love it. I guess Slashdot ensures everyone displays symptoms of logorrhea in their posts just to get around it. Another word for logorrhea is pleonasm. I'm on the verge of punching the computer screen at the moment, watching the characters/line count inch upward...

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Pigeons coo. It would be a PR coup.

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Lameness filter ... gotta love it. I guess Slashdot ensures everyone displays symptoms of logorrhea in their posts just to get around it. Another word for logorrhea is pleonasm. I'm on the verge of punching the computer screen at the moment, watching the characters/line count inch upward...

It would be a PR coo [...]

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Lameness filter ... gotta love it. I guess Slashdot ensures everyone displays symptoms of logorrhea in their posts just to get around it. Another word for logorrhea is pleonasm. I'm on the verge of punching the computer screen at the moment, watching the characters/line count inch upward...

Let's all consult dictionary.com

racism
n.
1.The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2.Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

You, sir, are a fool and a bigot, not to mention an anonymous coward. Hitler was Austrian, not Australian, and to suggest otherwise is infantile.

You suggest that John Howard is responsible for "scores" of big businesses collapsing, and that the GST is a horror for small businesses. Now, the only big business failures I can think of lately are Ansett and One.Tel, neither of which can be attributed to the government... let alone John Howard. And the GST has caused trouble for small businesses, but only insofar as it takes time for a new system to become established and taken up. My family owns a small business and we don't have a problem with the GST. But then I guess you must have more experience with it than I? This may make me look like a huge Howard proponent, but I'm merely answering some mindless drivel with a bit of reason.

"But when he spouted his racist propaganda, redneck racist scum like this so-called Zealous Apathy lapped it up. Well, Zealous Apathy, I only hope you find yourself in a refugee boat one day. I hope you drown at sea, you friggin' asshole. Zig Heil, freakin' hilter youth."

And with respect to the above: You are a wonderful human being.

Dave

GRAAAAAH!!!

Open Source Programmers are not fungible!

Ironic how you find yourself a member of this group...

4.Extremely difficult to deal with or tolerate: an impossible child; an impossible situation.

so, he was only attempting to be pedantic. in reality he was displaying ignorance.

It's a "[v]ariant of whacky, probably from the phrase out of whack. See whack." Check the dictionary for how it's "spelt," chucklehead. http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=whacky

wherehouse

warehouse

I do appreciate the suggestion for the first one, though.

wherehouse

warehouse

I do appreciate the suggestion for the first one, though.

Yeah, grammar is important, but so is spelling

am-big-u-ous adjOpen to more than one interpretation

am-biv-a-lent adjCharacterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes

and that's still funny the 10th time I read it.

look it up, mods.

...or even Cardiac.

You forgot (or never knew) what a nymphomaniac is.

Webster, American Heritage, and WorldNet would disagree.
Despite anyone's opinion atheism is a belief. The belief that God does not exist. Because God cannot be proven or disproven, theism and atheism are both beliefs.

Pretty easy. Got it on my second try.

It kinda helps to happen to know that the very last word in the scrabble player's dictionary is zyzzyva (requiring the only Z, both Y's, both BLANK's, and half of the V's. 75 points with the seven tile bonus LOL). I even remember that zyzzyva is a tropical weevil, hehe.

My immediate reaction for a second word was aardvark, but bad choice. Several occurrences of "from aardvark to zyzzyva".

For my second try I went with meteorology which returned 2 matches (plus 1 redundant match not displayed). The first match was this evil page. (WARNING - 9.1 MEG TEXT DATAFILE)

Then I found zyzzyva herpetology which returns no matches. Herpetology: study of reptiles and amphibians.

P.S.
People just can't resist challenging you when you put a word vertically simultaneously creating 4 or 5 two letter words horizontally, and announce that "oe" is a whirlwind off the Faeroe islands :)

Y,IAAG. (Yes, I am a geek) I created a list of all (96) legal 2 letter words. I haven't memorized them all though. Perhaps because no one seems to want to play scrabble with me :)

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a) A part or particle considered to be an irreducible constituent of a specified system.
b) The irreducible, indestructible material unit postulated by ancient atomism.

Oh, look, atoms once were irreducible. Guess they must still be.

I also hate to flame so I won't do it. I'll stick to facts. Here's one: resorting to arguments like "idiot" is the mark of an underdeveloped mind which is having trouble reasoning out a poor argument.

Putting that aside, when does copyright begin and end? Well, let's just see what the dictionary says.

To shorten the time you'd need to spend clicking, I'll quote the relevant, supporting bits:

"The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work."

Ok, so what is an author? Here's the relevant quote for the lazy again...

"The writer of a book, article, or other text."

Now, let me requote what you replied to:

"If I ssh into my ISPs shell box (that I pay per month for) and type in a book on their hardware and their CPU cycles do they own it?"

So, are Merriam, Webster, and the lads at Oxford idiots also, or would you like to retract your statement? Your only other choice is to refute me on the point that typing is not writing, but I've already got that one looked up. Or you could tell me you replied to the wrong comment, but then I'd ask why you typed in my name?

I contend I am correct, and I challenge you to prove me wrong.

I also hate to flame so I won't do it. I'll stick to facts. Here's one: resorting to arguments like "idiot" is the mark of an underdeveloped mind which is having trouble reasoning out a poor argument.

Putting that aside, when does copyright begin and end? Well, let's just see what the dictionary says.

To shorten the time you'd need to spend clicking, I'll quote the relevant, supporting bits:

"The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work."

Ok, so what is an author? Here's the relevant quote for the lazy again...

"The writer of a book, article, or other text."

Now, let me requote what you replied to:

"If I ssh into my ISPs shell box (that I pay per month for) and type in a book on their hardware and their CPU cycles do they own it?"

So, are Merriam, Webster, and the lads at Oxford idiots also, or would you like to retract your statement? Your only other choice is to refute me on the point that typing is not writing, but I've already got that one looked up. Or you could tell me you replied to the wrong comment, but then I'd ask why you typed in my name?

I contend I am correct, and I challenge you to prove me wrong.

• the part I find disturbing is the fact that the owner plans on webcamming the security cameras so you can check on who's at the pub

You do know what "pub" is an abbreviation of, right? Public house.

I'll (selectively but honestly) pick one definition of public:

• Open to the knowledge or judgment of all

Get a clue, get a life, get a job, get a haircut, whatever. But do yourself a favour and don't write single sentences that highlight that you're either trolling or a moron. Although I concede, that's not necessarily an "or" proposition.

(from www.dictionary.com)

professional (pr-fsh-nl)

1) A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.

2) One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.

3) A skilled practitioner; an expert.

Personally, I expect most Open Source Developers would tend to choose number 3

Cliff, the word you're looking for is "empathize". sheesh.

According to Dictionary.com an aileron is:

"Either of two movable flaps on the wings of an airplane that can be used to control the plane's rolling and banking movements."

Since a helicopter doesn't have ailerons, only a control rotor, this isn't, strictly speaking, an aileron roll; its more of a control rotor roll.

The moron at wininformant added all exploits for all linux distributions together. Image the obvious scenerio, where bind8.x.x has a root compromise. This would only count as a single exploit, however the article counts it once for eash distribution that acknowledged it.
If you look at the charts yourself, you see that Win2k had 42 exploits in 2001. In comparison, SuSe had 21. Redhat had 54. OpenBSD had 14. The figures also are not focused on a particular release. I would expect that the numbers would be substantially lower if it only look into account the current releases. Suprise, SuSE still publishes security announcements for 6.x in addition to 7.x, and those are counted.

THe author of the atricle need to look up Aggregate and try writing an article again.

Allow me to segway for a bit;

either that's funny, or he's just dumb.

Don't forget to link that sucker.

irregardless (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard

Regardless.

[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]

Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

Lodestone is comprised of iron ore. Lookup Ceramic and you will see it means molded and baked. So if your assertion that ceramics have existed for all time, then we can postulate that humans have existed for all time. This is ludicrous. You got your Masters (in Ceramics? yeah, right) from where? CrakerJack University?

there is only one movie theater here in town. Is that a monopoly?

The solution to a movie theatre monopoly isn't to get government action to stop it, but to get a businessman to wake up and realize that they could make money by buying the old theater Showcase Cinemas left behind when they built their new uber-theater, renovate it a bit, and undercut Showcase by two bucks a ticket and a buck a pop.

And the solution to AOL playing games with their protocol is to ignore them. Let MSN Messenger get huge, tell all your friends to use Jabber, log on to Y! Messenger. Leave AIM on the outside looking in, and evetually they'll realize that they want back in. Remember that old saw about the value of a network grows expontially with it's size? It applies to messenger services as well. Let AOL play in it's sandbox until it's just a worthless pit.

...Of course that does go against Trillian's "IM with anybody" philosophy, but hey, AOL's segregating themselves. It's like trying to stop a suicide.

-sk

Dummy. Taxes are to distribute the wealth of your economy to those less fortunate.

OK, probably a troll, but just in case you're really that misguided... Let's just presume that your idealistic notion is accurate (although it's demonstrably false; see below, where this rather-long response ties back to the SEC site topic). What are the real implications? The surface implication for those who can't think more deeply is that taxes are a fairy tale come true -- steal from the rich and give to the poor, very Robin Hood. But how noble is that really? There are some deeper implications that many taxpayers might find immoral, such as:

• Promotion of Force/Violence. Robin Hood is holding an arrow to your head with the force of a bent bow behind it. The more modern picture is the government enforcing taxes at gunpoint (try not paying your taxes and resisting arrest when they come for you -- the guns will eventually be made visible, whether during the arrest or carried by guards after you've been dragged off to a detention facility).
• Promotion of Sloth. By rewarding most those who contribute least and punishing those who contribute the most, there is no more logical action than to cease to contribute. Yes, that means that the only logical route is to immediately stop contributing -- don't work another moment. The only reason people continue to work is emotional -- they have ethical problems with sloth, they don't want to be seen as freeloaders, etc. But the very system they support with their work promotes the vice (sloth) which they are loathe to accept for themselves.

Actually I could go on but I'm on my lunch break and must wrap this up before it is time to go back "on the clock" to support those on welfare. (Actually, I'm being partially sarcastic; read on for the debunking of that notion, along with the debunking of your original idea about what taxes mean.)

So if, as you incorrectly state, taxes are to take from the rich and give to the poor (where 'poor' -- according to you -- includes poor in mind as well as bank), this "noble" idea is only noble on the surface, and evil lurks not far beneath.

Luckily, taxpayers can rest assured that taxes don't mean what you say they mean...

...but they should be made uneasy again by seeing, below, what they should mean versus what they do mean at present (speaking from the US perspective, to stay on topic of the SEC). By the way, what you implied matches neither what taxes are nor what they should be.

I stated above that your concept of taxes is demonstrably false. How could that be demonstrated? Follow the bouncing penny! Follow the funds to see where they really go. The bulk of tax funds go to government programs that are ostensibly for the common good. Not the good of just those unwilling or unable to contribute to society and the economy, but everyone. (Maybe it's different where you are, but around here we don't have roads and highways set aside for 'poor' people only.)

Had I not said "ostensibly," there would be no difference between what taxes are and what they should be. The difference is in the beneficiary. Ask yourself, who creates taxes (generally speaking; I realize there is some complexity, but it can be bypassed safely at the moment)? From an entirely selfish perspective, would it not make sense for taxes to benefit those who create them? Of course, our taxes don't go directly to our elected "representatives" (other than in the form of regularly-increased and already-very-large salaries), but taxes we pay do go, indirectly, to support the political careers of incumbents.

This really should be obvious by now, but you might miss it, since you claim to believe in something that is obviously not the case. So let me illustrate: Pat Senator wants to be re-elected. Pat Senator knows that a certain government program for the "common" good is particularly good for constituents in the district responsible for that re-election. Pat Senator also knows that the program needs funding, and that the burden of funding for it can be spread over a much wider population than the Senator's constituents. Time for a new tax!

Tax funds are only marginally used to "take from the rich and give to the poor." Vastly, they are used to support political careers, by supporting businesses that make campaign contributions and by supporting constituents who vote. So what should be for the common good, really is for the good of politicians.

This isn't news, by the way. I'm not telling anybody anything they don't already know -- just what they might prefer to ignore.

The question originally was, who pays for the SEC web sites? The implication, I believe, is why should taxpayers pay for these sites? It's a valid question -- for reasons already noted beyond the scope of my message, the SEC sites will do little or nothing to "help the poor." Are they part of a program to help the common good (really)? Are they part of a program that will help a politician's career? Or are they the result of a side-effect of a corrupt political system, that being insufficient "change control." In other words, perhaps they're just the result of somebody saying, "Hey, I've got an idea" and there being insufficient structure to prevent the idea from taking form without proof of validity.

Regardless, it sounds like a government-spec government program: An ineffective use (a.k.a., waste) of resources.

There goes my lunch hour...

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

Don't you know the origin of the word geek?

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Arrghh! I've seen this too many times on Slashdot. "He has a loose * tooth; he may lose * it soon." * Definitions courtesy of dictionary.com.

Arrghh! I've seen this too many times on Slashdot. "He has a loose * tooth; he may lose * it soon." * Definitions courtesy of dictionary.com.

Hasn't anyone goat a sense of humour any more (Well, Visa Might.)

Soon it won't be possible to sodomize anything without getting a nastygram?