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  1. Re:random.org ? on True Random Number Generator Goes Online · · Score: -1
    I believe you meant simple HTTP interface.

    http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbitmap?format=xb m&width=256&height=256&zoom=4

    returns 8kB of random data in a convenient and easy to read image format, transmitted in a convenient and easy to read HTTP stream.

    real shitty isn't it. I want my random data a wrapped up in a 100lines of JavaScript and applets and god knows what so that it take me 3 weeks to get a script to interact with it. Or hey now that I take a closer look at another option.

    http://www.random.org/strings/?num=10&len=10&digit s=on&unique=on&format=html&rnd=new

    10x 10 char strings with nice and convenient HTML tags place around them to make it real easy to find the relevant part of it. These protocols and formats were designed back when computer resources were valuable so wouldn't you know it there real easy and fast to implement and read. Just because it's doesn't make it better.

    Line breaks! It's a good thing.

  2. Re:random.org ? on True Random Number Generator Goes Online · · Score: -1

    I believe you meant simple HTTP interface. http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbitmap?format=xb m&width=256&height=256&zoom=4 returns 8kB of random data in a convenient and easy to read image format, transmitted in a convenient and easy to read HTTP stream. real shitty isn't it. I want my random data a wrapped up in a 100lines of JavaScript and applets and god knows what so that it take me 3 weeks to get a script to interact with it. Or hey now that I take a closer look at another option. http://www.random.org/strings/?num=10&len=10&digit s=on&unique=on&format=html&rnd=new 10x 10 char strings with nice and convenient HTML tags place around them to make it real easy to find the relevant part of it. These protocols and formats were designed back when computer resources were valuable so wouldn't you know it there real easy and fast to implement and read. Just because it's doesn't make it better.

  3. Re:How very... on US GPS, EU Galileo to Work Together · · Score: -1

    I bet you China has something to say about who rules the world, Unfortunately I think EVERYONE in America has to come to terms with the fact they they aren't int fact the worlds police offers. Sitting there lording over us as if they have the right to dictate the way every other country behaves and threatening them if they don't, This is not a good way to make friends and the way the states is heading right now they're going to need all the friends they can get when the bubble they've been riding for a century pops.

  4. Re:Alright! on Zune DRM Cracked · · Score: -1

    A post criticizing someone for redundancy modded redundant, Now thats funny. Only on Slashdot ladies and gentleman.

  5. Re:That's the article... on Analyst Says Blu-ray DRM Safe For 10 Years · · Score: -1

    Just going to put this out there but you really only need 3 degrees of separation, You have 8 and at that point you could be referring to a mattress of Squornshellous Zeta for all we know.

  6. Re:So? on Winnipeg Demands Immobilizers on High-Risk Cars · · Score: -1

    We'll it seems pretty common here in Canada for insurance to fucked up one way or another.

  7. WOPR on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: -1

    Come on am I the ONLY one who got the WarGames reference? Before you now it we'll be running Tic Tac Toe on it to convince it that it can't beat itself and thereby avoiding nuclear annihilation.

  8. Re:Double the size of a single not gate? on First Quantum Computing Gate on a Chip · · Score: 0

    More to the point I thought the idea was to make these things smaller not bigger? Unless I'm missing something.

  9. Re:Man, little brothers really have it bad... on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: -1
    Wait so are you saying that killing my brother wont make me smarter? Shit! How the hell am I going to explain this to my parents.

    Just joking I'm the older one although I guess I should be on the lookout for my sister trying to kill me.

  10. Re:So... on Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business · · Score: 0, Informative

    http://www.emperorlinux.com/ Sells a whole range of Linux laptops, granted I never bought any of them but companies selling Linux computers do exist.

  11. Re:1800's logic though that travelling100MPH=death on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 0, Informative

    Actually AFAIK the deep space between solar systems should be pretty clear of anything really that big, In fact once you're past the asteroid belt where all the gas giants basically sweep up any loose bits of rock you should be pretty much in the clear. After all the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft have been going for years and they still haven't hit anything and a few of them have passed pretty close to planets and other sources of rocks.

  12. Re:Not a sure thing yet, but... on Nanoglue Could Be Used To Make Spiderman Web-Shooters · · Score: -1

    You're free to go swinging from building to building if you want too, Just so long as you're prepared to go back later to clean all the nanoadhesive off every building,car and sidewalk.

  13. Re:My comment to the CBC on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: -1
    Hey we may be evil and we do eat bacon but I'll be damned before I touch that Molson beer.

    Also I for one do know who my father is.

  14. Re:Notable: SharedSource on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: -1

    All those systems AFAIK run on there on independent networks, or at least they should be running on their own networks.

  15. Re:On the other hand, they also make great Bourbon on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: -1

    Oh man marquee text! That's almost as cool as the tag. I am so totally there!!

  16. Re:Honda Stereo Security on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: -1

    Door chimes and many other features I would expect but AFAIK all the air bags I've seen are completely independent units with even their own battery backups. It is far from unheard of that the radio system will be tied into the cars computer system(Body Control Module) and I've even seen these BCMs refuse to start up unless the radio was present and working correctly(which is a real pain when it turns out that 1 wire out of 60 was incorrectly grounded.)

  17. Re:...hmm on Microsoft, Sue Me First · · Score: -1

    "No, I'm Sparticus!" Go ahead as long as I get to be Spartacus. and together we can fight evil and fail at causing a revolution.
  18. Re:no sympathy on Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China · · Score: -1

    If you must be like that you'll note the '#' sign implying a root login.

  19. Re:no sympathy on Symantec Updates Cause Chaos in China · · Score: -1

    No sympathy for Microsoft when it allows the deletion of a couple files which can cause a BSOD.

    Try typing

    #rm -f /bin/init
    and lets see how far your computer gets? Critical system files are critical system files if you remove these the system just doesn't work anymore. Off the top of my head I can think of several files that Linux would fail without (init, the kernel, modules, stage2 bootloader, /dev)
  20. Re:Clearing Up Confusion on Bubble Fusion Researcher Faces Fraud Trial · · Score: -1

    IANS (I Am Not A Scientist) But I though the point of fusion was that it didn't produce radioactive waste and huge amounts of radiation?

  21. Re:Fixed on Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC · · Score: -1, Redundant

    More like billg: that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.

  22. Re:Been there, done that on The End of .Mac and Google Apps? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/Plan 9 It's .com not .org. But thanks for pointing that out anyways.

  23. Re:Fork? on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    Wow! Just wow.

  24. Fork? on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: -1, Troll

    Never heard of Office 2007 is it a fork of OpenOffice or something?

  25. Re:Smilies on Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware · · Score: 1

    Thats not funny, I had a neighbor whose computer I would fix on a regular basis and she insisted on using IE6 and installing that god damn smiley tool bar. She also once fell for one of those BS anti-virus programs you see on the internet. The ones that actually fill your computer with spams, fortunately for me she moved.