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  1. A little of column A, and a hint of B on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    It's OK to be a little bit of a bastard. I've blamed sunspots for everything from corrupted code to ethernet problems. Just explain things in a manner that induces the idiot mode.

  2. Re:CSI technicians... on Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Act their way out of a paper bag?

  3. Re:Selection unfairness. on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 1

    As someone who knocked-out High School in 2 years and was forced to sit the whole 4 years for my Bachelor's, I agree with you 100%.

  4. Re:You're not as interesting as you think you are on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 1

    The responsibility of the Network Admin is to keep the network safe from it's #1 threat: the user.

  5. Re:Great buy why 1080p on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 1

    Because it feels good to add to the alphabet soup that people have to wade through on a daily basis!

  6. Fuck them! on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    Count this as a troll but I don't care. I need to get this off my chest.

    This guy probably didn't have a $20 outstanding balance. He probably had a $70 outstanding balance. Knowing Verizon, they would probably want to tack-on their ridiculous $50 late fee bullshit like they did for me and my $35/month plan with one day late charges at one time.

    They can fornicate themselves with an iron stake as far as I'm concerned.

    [/vent]

  7. Re:The Importance of Being Forgotten on Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    FTP is sent in plain text. Even a noob can sniff your credentials out of the ether. You would be much better off using SCP where available.

  8. Re:Mine on Finding a Personal Coding Trifecta · · Score: 1

    I just took the driver's seat and made an adapter out of 2x4s to mount it to the base of an actual sturdy desk chair. Most directions that I've found online involve welding and tapping threads to adapt the chair base to bolt to the metal frame of the car seat. Just gather some parts and give it about 3 hours of head scratching. You'll figure it out.

    On the plus side, I left the seatbelt on it. That's for the occasions I want to go fast on the interwebs!

  9. Mine on Finding a Personal Coding Trifecta · · Score: 3, Interesting
    1. Whole pot of coffee. If said coffee pot is empty there will be a break while coffee is being brewed.
    2. Two packs of Marlboro Menthols. That is in case one pack runs out. If I can't smoke at my desk, the work is going to be shit because my concentration will be broken by a jonesin for a fix and a trip outside.
    3. My desk chair that was fashioned from the driver's seat of my last car. It's made to be sat in for hours unlike normal assless desk chairs.
  10. Not Surprising on Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space · · Score: 1

    Rats and other small animals captured in Pripryat have been known to have genes that are resilient to radiation. [citation not handy] I don't see how this is news.

  11. Re:Uh... yes. on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Insurrection and Nemesis we don't talk about... ever. They would have been better-off as made-for-TV movies.

  12. Re:Fools! on When Comets Attack · · Score: 1

    Tesla was a brilliant man. If he wanted to summon a comet, he would find a way. If he wanted to destroy a remote area of Siberia without a comet, he would find a way. The man was without limits in thought and imagination, only resources.

  13. Two Words on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Hells... YEAH!

  14. Re:What I learned from my TRS-80 MC-10 on First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC · · Score: 1

    ...At least one! *Ten paces and then shoot*

  15. Re:What I learned from my TRS-80 MC-10 on First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    gigs of ram and raid 0. I still need a better computer.

    The mnemonic I learned was : RAID 0 - The 0 stands for the amount of bits of data that are safe in the event of a single hard drive failure.

    RAID 5 may serve you better my friend.

  16. Re:Darn it! on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    Geocities is dead! Netcraft confirms it!

    Sure the archive keeps it on life support, but do you really call that alive?

  17. Re:Don't forget on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    Eye candy, or eye cancer? You be the judge.

    I remember reading a sentence of a paragraph once that was trapped in the blink vortex and said fuck this. *copy* *paste into notepad*

  18. Re:Be Skeptical of Drug Company "Scientific" Claim on Drug Company Merck Drew Up Doctor "Hit List" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With all of the marketing for drugs out there, I'm starting to feel left out that I don't take any.

    Also, I'm wondering if all of the marketing for drugs is really necessary. I mean, if a drug does it's job particularly well, it will be prescribed by physicians and people will pay for it. It falls into a different category than the beer commercial right after it - I can go out and readily buy beer on a whim and it's totally legal. If I wanted to do the same thing with prescription drugs, it would be more costly and time-consuming to do it all above board and legally.

    Does the public really need to be conscious of the existence of certain prescription drugs? Probably not.

  19. hmmmm on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    A system that can determine whether or not a user is human would have built-in characteristics as to what a human would do in such a situation. What's keeping someone from taking that same algorithm and adapting it for means other than their intended purpose?

    If a machine knows what to do, another machine can take advantage of that.

    Obligatory: import skynet; blah

  20. Re:Bad user experience, piracy or Linux will win o on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 1

    The point of an operating system is to be the thing between the applications and the hardware. Plain and simple. An OS needs to be as transparent as possible. Adding limitations to the OS as ridiculous as application limits is not only annoying, but also the OS making a nuisance of itself.

  21. Obligatory on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1
  22. Re:When everyone is special, no one is special on Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College · · Score: 1

    Last time I was asked my GPA during a job interview, I was in high school. Then again, the last time I had a job that I got from not using old-school social networking was never.

  23. Re:There's a place called Tararstan? on Hungary, Tatarstan Latest To Go FOSS · · Score: 1

    Motto:"We put holes in teeth!"[/cavity goon]

  24. Is there? on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    Is there really a peaceful use for nuclear weapons? Really? I mean, weapons grade nuclear fuel is an order of magnitude higher in concentration than fuel pellets used in reactors. Could a reactor be built to handle weapons-grade Uranium? Aside from that little idea, which no doubt has been thought before by someone who is more brilliant than I, I'm out of ideas for peaceful use.

  25. Re:Honeymoon is over on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration · · Score: 1

    same price for the machine but with the specs that XP needs.

    It's odd how that's phrased, but true. The operating system does need the slower hardware in order to remain viable in the eyes of Microsoft.