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  1. Around here on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only slide rule around here is to not push the kid in front of you.

  2. Depends on the context on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    Take advantage of the chroot ability in vsftpd and try to break out of that one using an FTP client. It must be impossible. Which is good, because I'd hate to have users inadvertently find their way into other system directories (even if they do lack write privileges).

  3. Statistic Shmatistic on Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job · · Score: 1

    Forty-seven percent of tech pros admit they've kissed a co-worker But what percentage of those were imaginary co-workers? Or in a dream? While sleeping at work?
  4. Re:Whatever on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, just in time for Duke Nukem Forever ;) Duke Nukem Forever? But that's impossible... Don't you know there's a certain reason for why "Forever" was put in its title?
  5. Re:What?!? on UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons I finally bought a console for gaming. Do you buy consoles for other purposes?
  6. Re:Whatever on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, hell would be frosty indeed before that happened...

    They'd likely never touch Linux/BSD, but I don't think something *nix in nature should be discounted as a possibility in the future of MS.

    Xenix revival, anybody? (hahahaha)

  7. Re:Whatever on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should be sometime in Q1 2025. Ah, just in time for the PC port of Halo 3.
  8. Not exactly news on Velociraptor Had Feathers · · Score: 2, Informative

    I remember reading an article in National Geographic many years ago about this. The ultimate speculation was that birds of prey (like ravens) had descended from velociraptors.

  9. They have my attention now on Smash Bros. Online Mode Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I'm really quite thrilled about this. Considering Nintendo's track record with online gaming however, I really hope they know to allocate enough server power and broadband such that it prevents any sort of lag. If you have any kind of lag in a fast-paced game like this, it can really mean the difference between in-game life or death. Since nobody would dare consider direct IP-to-IP functionality for console gaming, playing within a LAN will likely not make a difference. So while Smash Bros. online sounds awesome, don't be surprised if it suffers from lag (at least, starting out) or if it suffers from limitations (only certain levels, characters, items, etc.). I have no problem with remaining completely anonymous from strangers. I could give two craps less about statistics; I'll just want to play the game.

  10. Re:Enough already. on Jack Thompson Decides He's In GTA IV · · Score: 1

    It is pointless articles like this that give that ridiculous man publicity And it's counterintuitive that Zonk gave the article a "stopthepublicity" tag. WTF?
  11. Re:Off means off on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    Yeah, most phones have the airplane mode now. But unfortunately, the vast majority of people either don't know that it exists, they don't know what it's for, they don't know how to disable it, or they completely forget that they even have it. Most people also aren't aware that their phone might still be on even if it appears to be turned off. It's foolish for phone designers to put faith in the general public fully understanding that. Future models of the phone should at least tell you that it's not actually being turned off when you think you're turning it off. It should then tell you how to turn it completely off, should you decide to do so. That little feature by itself would have probably saved that huge ATT bill.

  12. Sorry to hear about that on Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies · · Score: 1

    I got the opportunity to hold and play with this bird a few years ago. He had an equivalent IQ to a 3-year-old child and was able to identify (and speak the name of) a number of different objects presented to him.
    He also did this strange dance for me whenever I had a piece of fruit in my hand.
    But he was a remarkable creature, so it's definitely a sad bit of news for the University of Arizona dept of biology.

  13. Re:Crikey on Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Dunno... I'd pirate it.

  14. Re:Think of the children!! on Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail · · Score: 1

    'Sex has always been and remains a central interest of humankind... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware.' Fairy tales of the Penthouse Forum?
  15. Wait wait wait on Halo 3 Almost Done · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why are they releasing Halo 3?

    I'm still waiting for the remaining half of Halo 2.

  16. Re:Corpse 3 on Halo 3 Almost Done · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Didn't Halo die when they turned it into an xbox-exclusive FPS? Before Halo, Mac gamers were Bungie's only fanbase.
    Halo is playable on XBox, PC, and (omg) Mac.
    Whatever small fanbase they lost, it was only a fraction of the fanbase that they gained.
  17. Re:purple pill? O.o on ATI Driver Flaw Exposes Vista Kernel to Attackers · · Score: 1

    Now, seriously, what's "purple pill"? It's what you get when you mix the red and blue pills.
  18. Re:I don't see that as accurate anymore on ATI Driver Flaw Exposes Vista Kernel to Attackers · · Score: 1

    now ATI/AMD is many accounts a better choice for Vista users Did you not just read the article?
  19. Re:That's a lot to read on OpenGL SuperBible · · Score: 2, Funny

    Read - the - article.
    Hope that sums it up for you.

  20. Plus on Lenovo to Sell, Support Linux on ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    If Lenovo is willing to collaborate with the Linux development community to improve the Linux laptop user experience, it will be a big win for all Linux users, not just the ones who buy laptops from Lenovo. And not just for Suse users, but of any distro in general.
  21. Re:Release on Wikia Acquires Grub, Releases it Under Open Source · · Score: 1

    Who knows what form it will be in, but it will probably be similar in shape to a real grub.

  22. Re:Emulator name? on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Either that, or MacE (Mac Emulator, read: 'mace').

  23. Sings point to No on Can Space Nerds Get Along? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can Space Nerds Get Along? Considering that Star Trek and Star Wars nerds can't even get along, I would say that the answer is 'no'.
  24. Well duh on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Teenage Social Agenda != Professional Business Applications

  25. Script Kiddies as well on US and China Top List of Spam-Relaying Countries · · Score: 1

    US and China are also the top two harborers of SSH and FTP attackers (dictionary and brute force script kiddies). My auth.log and vsftpd.log files are evidence of that. This also reflects in the DenyHosts statistics. (Click the 'Country' link at the top of the page.)