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they claim you're running a rechid turd of a server

You know, I've read this bit over and over, and I'm still not sure what you meant by "rechid". My best guess is that you meant wretched. Am I right?

In case it's not obvious, http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aantidisest ablishmentarianism fails completely,

unlike http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=antidises tablishmentarianism

and http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type= word&queryword=antidisestablishmentarianism

(The latter needing to come from a suitable IP, like a UK uni, or with an account...)

No no no, 'gibs' are castrated male cats. So obviously, it's a hard g.

There's no patch yet, but in the meantime Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits.

And that's why Microsoft is going to eventually lose the war against open source. Can you imagine the heated boardroom discussions going around the table now?

Dilbert: "Microsoft says we need to pull 20 programmers away from their current workloads to focus on fixing ASP .NET in all our websites. C-c-canon-ical-ization is what they are calling it."

Dogbert: "How long is this going to take? And who is making these words up anyway?"

Dilbert: "Two weeks." (I mean that's the standard response right?)

Dogbert: "Let's give all our programmers a holiday, effective yesterday. Shut the sites down in twenty minutes after I call our contact in Belize. It's time for EULA loophole #27. {{WAG!}}"

So do the math. And tell me, please, all ye Microsoft supporters, why Open Source lowers my ROI again!

My God!!! Can't the slashdot crowd spell the word definitely?!? How hard can it be to look it up? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=definitel y&db=*

companies like to eek out

Eek! I think you mean eke.

It's just not profitable to "kill" a widely used technology like that.

It's profitable to someone. The question is, who's got better lobbyists?

How out of touch can you be with a name like the British Phonographic Industry?

phonograph ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fn-grf) n.
A machine that reproduces sound by means of a stylus in contact with a grooved rotating disk.

Sure semes like the world is aganst you look at dictionary.com for software piracy and it just says see software theft Same type of stuff (I tried looking for music theft and music piracy, but they don't have those terms, so I had to use software, but today, the situation is the same)

Sure semes like the world is aganst you look at dictionary.com for software piracy and it just says see software theft Same type of stuff (I tried looking for music theft and music piracy, but they don't have those terms, so I had to use software, but today, the situation is the same)

Well sorry to pop it to you but according to dictinoary.com To take (the property of another) without right or permission. and to download a movie is to take without permission, sounds like it meets the definition of stealling to me.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Kangaroo

First entry under Word History.

Can't be sure about the validity of sources either way though.

boxen

Dictionary.com also has it; see the first entry, it's credited to Webster.

It's not the machines sense though; appearently something about boxwood.

It was supposed to be gbrouser.com as a part of a get out the vote for George Bush campaign. You know, to stir up excitement for George Bush. </tongue-in-cheek>

Ahhh...what would a spelling flame be without containing an incorrectly spelled word of its own?

Apostrophe

A+, young AC, for carrying on the tradition!

Maybe in Washington, but out here in the real world, going from draconian regulation to strict regulation isn't deregulation.

Seriously, it's a portable media player - who is going to use the speakers? This is for plugging in and spacing out of the daily commute. Oh, and it'll make you pray that the leery, deep breathing guy doesn't stand beside you on the over-crowded bus/train/metro and pretend to look at it whilst engage you in frottage http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=frottage/

• "Peddling" means something completely different from what you think:

Peddling

• To travel about selling (wares): peddling goods from door to door.
• To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
• To seek to disseminate; give out: peddling lies.

Pedaling / Pedalling

• To use or operate a pedal or pedals.
• To ride a bicycle.
• To operate the pedals of.

• "Peddling" means something completely different from what you think:

Peddling

• To travel about selling (wares): peddling goods from door to door.
• To engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics).
• To seek to disseminate; give out: peddling lies.

Pedaling / Pedalling

• To use or operate a pedal or pedals.
• To ride a bicycle.
• To operate the pedals of.

Really I see the problem as a lack of a proper 'new' word. This community's approach to 'recapturing' the word 'hacker' has been to offer only the word 'cracker', which has been previous well known as a food item and as a racial slur. Not to mention that it's too close to the word 'hacker' to start with. You would be hard pressed to find a word for say 'shopkeeper' which can be changed to 'criminal' by just changing the first letter.

Black Hat Hacker is commonly in use as a replacement for 'Cracker'. While I beleive that it is a good compromise, it is still too easy to shorten to 'Hacker'. May I suggest that we refer to 'Black Hat Hackers' only as a 'Black Hat' or collectively as 'Black Hats'. The good folks at Red Hat may have a issue with it, but I beleive that there are several advantages to the use. 'Black Hat' is a wild west term, and many refer to the Internet as the modern wild west. It already has a negitive meaning, but is generally only known in a historical context. It's part of a term already in use to describe person who uses their knowledge of computers for nefarious activities, but short enough to roll of the tounge and easy to type.

Of course this will only work if we (as a group) refuse to use the term 'Hacker' at all. Use the term 'black hat', don't explain it just use it; it's 'cooler' not to explain it. Of course since I just explained it, I guess that I'm not very 'cool' (DAMN IT).

I'd even go as far a replacing '[black hat]' for every instance of the word 'hacker' in the orginal text of a reply. For example, I wrote:

I'd even go as far a replacing '[black hat]' for every instance of the word '[black hat]' in the orginal text of a reply.

...version of our NSA, all be it controlled by...

• Avoids answering the question? Check.
• Holds the Democrat up to the highest of standards while ignoring the GOP's shenanigans? Check.

• Avoids answering the question? Check.
• Holds the Democrat up to the highest of standards while ignoring the GOP's shenanigans? Check.

/BEGIN GRAMMAR NAZI

"nudering"? Some derivative of "nude"? I get this funny picture of a fat, middle-aged senator being stripped of his clothing in a very public forum....

I think you meant "neutering?

Oh, and yeah, this is Grammar Nazi stuff, but I only bring it up because it's funny....

No they were not. Early Mercury missions were flying the ballistic trajectory.

Space Ship One also flied in a ballistic trajectory. A ballistic trajectory simply means the trajectory of an object in free flight (Dictionary.com). SSO was at freefall (ballistic trajectory) between shutting down the engines on the way up and wings catching the airstream on the way down.

That said, SSO is nowhere capable of reaching a stable orbit, since it

1. Didn't get enough altitude - there's still enough air in the X-Prize altitude to fast orbit decay due to air resistance and
2. Didn't have any speed at the apex of its flight arc - it would have neede to go at least 7 - 8 km/s (horizontal velocity) in order to stay up.

So no, SOO was not comparable to a Mercury, but it did fly at a ballistic trajectory - any object whose flight path is mainly influenced by gravity is flying in a ballistic trajectory. Throw a rock and it's flying in a ballistic trajectory...

Now that you mention it.. I guess I'm stupid...

Not that most people have the slightest idea of what Anarchism is. And no I've never thrown a bomb or broken a window.

So, perhaps you can enlighten us? A link? More information? I'm looking for a reasonably reliable source of information.

See, the idea that we can do entirely without a govt is ludicrous. Government that allows for opposition is healthy, but the government itself is crucial.

Prior to the Iraq war, I demonstrated with my wife and children. We made up signs with words like "Peace is Patriotic" and "Loving troops does not mean killing them". We stood downtown with a group of perhaps two hundred other people. On one side of the street were the "Pro-War" advocates, and on the other side were the "Anti-War" advocates. The tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Insults were hurled, and both sides honestly considered the other side idiotic.

There were numerous police officers there. I was very, very glad to see them there, and I let them know such. They never said anything political, and when asked why they were there, simply stated that they were there to "keep things under control".

I knew that so long as I obeyed laws based on reasonable behavior, my right to communicate my message was unhindered. I never before experienced such respect for my nation and its laws, and that respect will last my lifetime.

Just remember that your right to advocate anarchism is protected by the government of your country - give respect where it's due.

There can never be "a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individuals" because people are not free. People live under the slaveries of economics, of insecurity, the demons of their childhood, stupidity, uneducation, and too many others to name.

Solve all these first, and then your utopian "free society of non-coersion" might possibly exist. Until then, the bullies and the greedy will reign.

I think "Hippo crate" was humor

Your post exemplifies the wonderful extremism of some conservative viewpoints. The parent referred to teenagers, not 3-year-olds. Age-appropriateness can be a wonderful thing, but it's hardly applicable when in a situation as mundane as this.

I'm not sure you understand what being open and honest to your children really is. Forcing raw violence and sex down childrens' throats is hardly the way to go about things, so please don't insinuate that's what I was going for. Your fear of a bare breast shown in a public forum has had you jump to the conclusion that what we're talking about is overtly and inappropriately sexual. The 'choice' that you would've been denied is precisely the same choice you're denied every day in a whole slew of public realms.

For someone who refers to nudity so nonchalantly as 'T&A', I truly worry in what manner your children perceive sex. Interesting that you people insist on sex needing to be this lovely thing between two married, monogamous, consenting adults (of the opposite sex, of course *wink*), but feel repressed enough to blurt out 'tits & ass' when nudity is mentioned. How terribly enlightened and respectful of women you are.

I digress, I know. Just seems you could be helped by a little dictionary lesson.

Your post exemplifies the wonderful extremism of some conservative viewpoints. The parent referred to teenagers, not 3-year-olds. Age-appropriateness can be a wonderful thing, but it's hardly applicable when in a situation as mundane as this.

I'm not sure you understand what being open and honest to your children really is. Forcing raw violence and sex down childrens' throats is hardly the way to go about things, so please don't insinuate that's what I was going for. Your fear of a bare breast shown in a public forum has had you jump to the conclusion that what we're talking about is overtly and inappropriately sexual. The 'choice' that you would've been denied is precisely the same choice you're denied every day in a whole slew of public realms.

For someone who refers to nudity so nonchalantly as 'T&A', I truly worry in what manner your children perceive sex. Interesting that you people insist on sex needing to be this lovely thing between two married, monogamous, consenting adults (of the opposite sex, of course *wink*), but feel repressed enough to blurt out 'tits & ass' when nudity is mentioned. How terribly enlightened and respectful of women you are.

I digress, I know. Just seems you could be helped by a little dictionary lesson.

whittle their dicks
Do you even know what the word "whittle" means? Ouch!!!

And yes, I am a hippo crate (I do not bike every day)[...]
I don't think anyone would expect a Hippo crate to ride the bike _any_ day, so don't worry :-).
The word you're looking for is "hypocrite". I was just trying to picture that.
SCNR

And yes, I am a hippo crate (I do not bike every day)[...]
I don't think anyone would expect a Hippo crate to ride the bike _any_ day, so don't worry :-).
The word you're looking for is "hypocrite". I was just trying to picture that.
SCNR

I have to question one thing concerning the comparison between Clinton and Bush lying. To this day, I don't see how people think Clinton lied about having sex. Take the word virgin by its definition. Think about the definition, and what a person must do to not comply it. Suppose a virgin female preforms oral sex on a male. Is she still, by definition, a virgin. Would he be? Now reverse roles. Does the same hold true? If two virgins preform oral sex on each other, and they remain virgins, then sexual intercourse can not have taken place. Every time I try to analyze politics I get a headache.

Ah, another sig troll. Hooray.

So you're tolerant to others, as long as they're not intolerant, and when they are you're intolerant of them?
That's a completely unfounded inference from three words in my sig. Fighting intolerance does not require that one be intolerant themselves.

Nope, no irony there.
Ignoring your sarcasm, I agree. See also the AC reply to your post.

You may find it interesting to know that my sig is a simple paraphrase of the actual dictionary definition of the word liberal, specifically definitions 1a and 1b.

(dear mods: I have self-applied a -1, Offtopic mod)

Should "of" typed "piqued".

Don't you mean homophones?

homophone
homonym

Don't you mean homophones?

homophone
homonym

I'm backing tautology

>>I don't think people need software to detect these malicious applications;
>>when their home pages get set to http://www.pornomonkeysonmeth.com
>> and their 3.2 Ghz processor is pegged at 100% trying to open up Notepad,
>>I think they're already well aware that malcious applcations are
>>present on their system.

>You've not done tech support, have you?


Sure I have! I actually fielded the issue I mentioned in my original post -- you can read more about it here.

>>I don't think people need software to detect these malicious applications;
>>when their home pages get set to http://www.pornomonkeysonmeth.com
>> and their 3.2 Ghz processor is pegged at 100% trying to open up Notepad,
>>I think they're already well aware that malcious applcations are
>>present on their system.

>You've not done tech support, have you?


Sure I have! I actually fielded the issue I mentioned in my original post -- you can read more about it here.

>>I don't think people need software to detect these malicious applications;
>>when their home pages get set to http://www.pornomonkeysonmeth.com
>> and their 3.2 Ghz processor is pegged at 100% trying to open up Notepad,
>>I think they're already well aware that malcious applcations are
>>present on their system.

>You've not done tech support, have you?


Sure I have! I actually fielded the issue I mentioned in my original post -- you can read more about it here.

It piqued your interest.

<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ana lyzation">analyzation</a>

<URL:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anal yzation>

<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ana lyzation">analyzation</a>

<URL:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anal yzation>

It sure is:

Analyzation

1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations.
2. Chemistry. To make a chemical analysis of.
3. Mathematics. To make a mathematical analysis of.
4. To psychoanalyze.

So much for "no child left behind". It's truly.

I hate the spelling police, but this one was too tempting.

Verify your facts before posting.
That way, I won't have to do it for you.

Verify your facts before posting.
That way, I won't have to do it for you.

Not to nitpick or anything, I just found your typo rather amusing.

From one nitpicker to another:

typo

malapropism