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  1. Re:Simple Titlehttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid on New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects · · Score: 1


    Do aliens run SETI@home, also?

    Is that a trick question?

  2. Join G.A.H.!!!! on New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects · · Score: -1, Troll

    The developers, backers and early users of GAH are pleased to announce Version 1.00a of Goatse.cx At Home ! Through using our client you will help the underappreciated science of Rectal Stretching by way of calculating the maximum amount striated rectal tissue can get lengthed to before breaking.

    Your use of the Goatse.cx At Home client on your computer may help many fields of science such as:

    Fisting!

    Auto-Fisting!

    Gerbil Asphyxiation!

    and so much more..
    Download your own Goatse.cx At Home client software and watch the miracles of science stretch open before your eyes!

  3. Could be evil. on The Next Step In Spam Filtering · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Imagine a Joe-Job where an EvilDoer wants to knock someone else offline and sends out bogus spam with the victim's website.. Think before you jump.

  4. Re:Firewall on Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys · · Score: 1


    Wow, top posting on slashdot!
    Outlook has a slashdot import function now?

  5. /me puts on his Kreskin hat... on Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1


    iTunes for Windows will be a runaway success while EMusic and their new business model will flop even though it's cheaper.


    and you thought I'd say BSD is Dying because I mentioned Kreskin, right?

  6. Disingenuous scum. on Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Intuit issues an apology? It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission How about Intuit starts showing their conscience by sending cheques to registered owners of the crippled software. Only then would I be convinced they mean it.

  7. Money in the bank! on EMusic Acquired, Halting Unlimited Downloads · · Score: 1


    From reading all the "I just unsubscribed" postings, it sounds like the only group that will come out of this ahead of the game are the people that just sold emusic..

  8. Why two lists? on New SANS/FBI Top 20 List · · Score: 2, Interesting


    There aren't two internets running, one for Windows and one for Unix.

    Methinks this is to avoid having loads of MS crud being labelled as the bulk of the threats. MS advertisment money is always nice, wink wink nudge nudge.

  9. Re:Uhm on Disgruntled Fan Arrested, Indicted For Spam Attacks · · Score: 1


    That's going to a problem in the US courts.

    Not at all. The US will wait for the spammer to enter the US then nail him. After all, the nabbed Dmitry Skylarof when he committed no crime within the US borders.

  10. Re:5th most powerful? on Torvalds the "5th Most-Powerful Man in Tech" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bahaha! That was really quite funny. Too bad the "m0d d00dz" can't take a joke.

  11. Mmmmm on Torvalds the "5th Most-Powerful Man in Tech" · · Score: 4, Funny


    The bio they have written for him isn't the most flattering to the open source community though.

    Whatya mean? the last line says "Rumour has it he's a Guinness man as well." Mmmmmmm...Guinness...

  12. Re:Damn catch-words on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1


    By your definition then, "the net" and "net tools" have NEVER taken place. That makes them figments of our imagination?

    No. Events take place, items don't. ie: My hammer didn't take place, it merely exists. Using my hammer to drive a nail is an event. You or I don't take place, our actions do.

  13. Re:Damn catch-words on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1


    3.a.An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
    b.The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group


    The net or net tools aren't events nor are they the totality of using the tools. "Internet Experience" is just a marketting catch-phrase.

  14. Damn catch-words on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1


    "..A preview of the new user experience shows the user being prompted to confirm loading of each ActiveX control."

    [rant] When did using a tool become an "experience"? I first head that word used for using the net in a Microsoft ad. No one says "Let me grab my hammer for a nail-pounding Experience." or "I just had a fearsome toilet Experience.."

    It pisses me off that lame catch-words from advertising make it into the lingo. Computers are tools, you don't "experience" them, you use them. [/rant]

  15. Goes to show.. on UN Summit Tones Down Open-Source Stance · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Most of the world has the best politicians money can buy.

  16. Re:Cool can be manufactured 4 segment of the marke on Microsoft Wants to Project "Cool" Image · · Score: 1


    Die Die Metallica, Die Die RIAA, Die Die My Darling.

    Woo, I've never a Misfits-based sig. Please do some Motorhead next time. :)

  17. I knew it. on Ig Nobel Awards 2003 · · Score: 4, Funny


    Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species

    I always was suspicious of those damn mallards.. Their "Oh, I'm just an innocent duck" quacks and what not..

  18. Re:Now who couldn't see this coming? on Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware · · Score: 1


    That's what you get for installing binaries from an untrusted/unknown source.

    Yup. I compile my own eMule client from source (with a few custom things that help my bandwidth ;)) Of course it would be foolish to assume that I've gone through every line of source looking for exploits but there are a lot of contributors to the project and the source is there for all to see.

  19. Re:OpenOffice in schools... on Open Source Making Inroads in Small Businesses · · Score: 2, Insightful


    If only schools could switch to OpenOffice to, and we could probably get rid of the MS Office dominance for ever in a few years..

    Not necessarily. Apple owned the school market for years but couldn't make great inroads into the business market.

  20. Good. on Open Source Making Inroads in Small Businesses · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Small to mid-size business move faster than big business. When the smaller ones are more competitive and saving cash the larger businesses will have to follow suit to remain competitive.

  21. Simple. on Negotiating Pay for Open Source Work? · · Score: 1


    In true geek fashion you say: "G1bb0rz m3 j00r l337 c45h, f4gg0rzzz!"

  22. Cap'n Picard'll love this. on Is Google's Future: Star Trek? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  23. Waste. on The Map of Innovation · · Score: -1, Redundant


    There is no innovation outside of SCO, this book is a waste of money.

  24. Re:How much time until someone does it a 4x? on Living Life in Fast-Forward · · Score: 1


    If you thought your lady was unhappy with you "finishing up" in a minute, I'm sure she'll be ecstatic about the 15-second version..

  25. Did it. on Living Life in Fast-Forward · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I did a similar thing at my job.

    When I was hired on here I had to view 2-ish hours of safety videos ("Look at that 1 kilo pipe wrench soar into the bore of that MRI machine from 3 meters away! Fear!!") I don't work in the labs with glass, animals or tissue. Unless one of the SGI Origins becomes self-aware ala Skynet.. you get the idea.. anyhow many of the videos were not applicable to me or my work.

    Fortunately they were on CDs in Quicktime format and the Quicktime viewer had a fast play option for those lulls in the video. (the Flying Wrench O' Death was really cool, it's the highlight of the whole video set that anyone every talks about.)