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  1. Re:I hate my girlfriend! on Hybrid Fleet Vehicles · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hahaha! Oh man, that caught me so offguard. Thanks for my Friday morning burst of laughter. (bye bye karma)

  2. Re:I prefer poke-her on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    This is slashdot, you should at least include a link to the definition of "condom".

  3. Re:A good day for starving artists. on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Very good! You get a gold star next to your name.

  4. Re:your tax dollars at work... on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1


    "not acquire by theft"

    Re-read the grandparent: "return them unopened and in resalable condition".

  5. A good day for starving artists. on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 5, Funny


    As a member of Citizens United against Network Thievery, let me be the first to jump for joy. For too long musicians and movie moguls have resorted to smaller mansions, some with empty garage spots, as wanton piracy has hurt sales of their reasonably priced products. This rampant hooliganism must be stopp... ed.. whoa... what's this square of blotter paper doing in my coffee?

  6. Re:interesting math on Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router · · Score: 2, Insightful


    If they spent 500M on this, and they sell for 450T, and they have a 10% profit margin (unlikely, but it's a round number) then they'd need to sell +10,000 of these boxes to make a profit.

    Right, but the target market for these boxes will likely have "Cisco" logos all over their networking racks. Even if they don't make money on this line, they won't have a competitor (Juniper, Nortel, etc) getting a foothold in the data center.

  7. Re:I must have been a bad boy... on Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router · · Score: -1, Redundant


    Ditto. Why have a link to submit problems/dupes if they don't read or acknowledge the reports?

  8. One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 5, Insightful


    "Once you're in an urban environment, it strips out a lot of (America's) technology advantages," he said. "It puts you in a fair fight. And you don't want to be in a fair fight."

    So why are guerilla tactics used by an opposing force often decried as unfair or underhanded? The side at a disadvantage uses any and all means at their disposal to help make the fight more "fair". This fellow seems to back that up, unless having a lopsided fight is only sporting when it's his team doing the slaughtering.

  9. Re:Flag on The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    s/2/3/g ... blah.

  10. Re:Flag on The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1


    The flag is encoded into the music at a higher layer, not layer 2.

  11. Re:am I missing something here? on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1


    I'm just sick and tired of this "free beer" attitude.

    UID of 778K+ and you're already sick of the attitude? Whoa, that's whacked..

  12. Re:-1 Offtopic on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1


    Michael Moore is a fat, delusional, self-aggrandizing moron who thinks he can singlehandedly change the world.

    Singlehandedly? No. However if he prompts others to think and ask questions then real change can happen. It's the old "I told two friends and so on..." on a massive scale.

  13. Well duh... on What To Wear On Mars · · Score: 2, Funny


    All Mars explorers will need are Grizzly Bear Proof Suits.
    They're well armoured for micrometeorites and, hey, you never know about those Martian grizzly bears.

  14. Nice but not cheap on A Different Take On PC Manus' 'Recycling' Schemes · · Score: 5, Funny


    Using old PCs as Linux stations is a great idea, but when you include the $699 licensing fee it can add up quickly.

  15. splat on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I'll register tubboy.com for pictures of any daring /.ers that follow in this fellow's footsteps.

  16. Re:I'm proud of CMU on CMU's Snooping Robot Headed for Iraq · · Score: 0, Troll


    That's what George W. Bush should have done, rather than going AWOL like a coward.

  17. June 30, eh? on CMU's Snooping Robot Headed for Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful


    If they're sending these things to Iraq so late in May does anyone really believe that Iraq will be handed back to the Iraqis on June 30?

  18. Re:Disclosure on More From Tanenbaum · · Score: 4, Funny


    I think "The Brown Book" describes what the book and author are full of. That the author's name is Brown must surely be a coincidence.

  19. Re:Use blacklists... on 71% of Spam Servers are Located in China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't matter. The source machine is all I care about. If it's in China I don't care if the spammer is American, Chinese or Martian.

  20. Use blacklists... on 71% of Spam Servers are Located in China · · Score: 5, Interesting


    If you don't know anyone in China (or Asia) you can use a blacklist for the whole region. My firewall with OpenBSD's awesome spamd autoupdates its tarpit blacklists every couple of hours. One good list for Asian IPs is here.

    I love the idea of tarpitting, seeing spammers connections being tied up for ~3300 seconds (my highest) warms my heart. If more people did it that'd mean less overall spam traffic.

  21. Re:Damn those people on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 3, Informative


    SCO is making a last grasp for anything.
    The subpoena was filed last year. It's not a sudden "Hail Mary".

    btw, fp!
    At least you don't fail that.

  22. Re:Are they sure it's not just a virus? on Nanobacteria Discovered? · · Score: 1

    Atkins is used to lose weight, these critters are already smaller than viruses.

  23. Re:Mayo clinic on Nanobacteria Discovered? · · Score: 5, Funny


    The Mayo Clinic is named after the famed 19th century doctor Charles Mayonowski. His family moved to the US from Poland in 1857 where they changed their name to remove the ethnicity of it (this was the mid 1800s, remember)

    Charles was born in January 1850 but the exact date isn't known. He was an average student in early school but showed a strong interest in biology. His father would often find him in the barn late at night dissecting newborn piglets.

    In 1869, Charles went to England to attend school at Oxford. He later received his medical degree but had to come back to America after suspicion was cast on him when several dozen fresh graves were robbed of their corpses and were later found wrapped in burlap in the university incinerators. (the bodies showed signs of expert dissection).

    Moving to Minnesota, he founded a small clinic for the poor. Many of the patients disappeared but Mayo was found to be an excellent practitioner all around. When he died the funeral was attended by over 20,000 people. Many of them relatives of the poor who disappeared (and were presumed dissected) but knew of the importance of the knowledge he gleaned from his bloody experiments.

    Actually... that's all bullshit. Sorry.

  24. Awesome... on Cellular Automata and Music Using Java · · Score: 3, Funny


    I can't wait to hear these new Java-written MIDIs on Geocities pages, complete with leet spinning skulls and black background...

  25. Re:Who? What? on SBC CWA Strike Imminent · · Score: 0, Troll


    All you have to do is start your post with a bold declaration that it's not a troll and you get modded "interesting" rather than "troll"?

    [Let's try out your theory:]

    NOT A TROLL

    Don't forget to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.