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  1. Re:Leading question on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1


    'Scrapping' pages is exactly what the Internet archive or Goggle do, this is common and generally accepted practice

    Most people want their pages to be found, hence the reason they tend to not mind google and other search engine scanning the site. The submitter's dilemma is different, the boss wants it done covertly and unethically.

  2. Re:This is the record? WOW on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 1


    Most windows machines come bundled with office

    Really? At work we buy it separately or install OpenOffice if the user prefers.

  3. Good timing on Open Source Hardware, For Fun and For Profit · · Score: 2, Funny


    I recently received my Arduino kit with Ethernet shield. Haven't touched the soldering iron yet, that's probably this weekend's fun[0]. It's a really cool project and cheaper than the Basic Stamp to get going.

    [0] "Your family is out of town, you're in bachelor more and this is what you do for fun?!"
    Yeah yeah :)

  4. Re:Hell Yeah! on New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law · · Score: 5, Funny


    It was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space

    Here in Winnipeg we could just put these units outside thus eliminating the need for cooling units. You can't get much more environmentally friendly than that!

  5. Re:Hey, we could use that in the U.S. too on New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a similar box (Caller ID Manager) from PrivacyCorps.com which intercepts the first ring and checks the caller ID. We have a Panasonic wireless setup with 4 handsets from which the base station is fed from the CID unit. Bad CID? We never even get that first ring. The call is routed to another plug on the device where we have an answering machine telling the caller we don't take calls from their number.

    We've blocked all 800, 866, 888, 000, 123-456-7890, etc. The thing works beautifully.

  6. Quick workarounds on Handling Caller ID Spoofing? · · Score: 4, Interesting


    1) Have her set up an answering machine with a short explanation.
    2) Get the mainstream media involved.

  7. Re:boing! on Cray's CX1 Desktop Supercomputer, Now For Sale · · Score: 1


    You live in your parents' crawlspace?

  8. Re:Microsoft's foolish mistake on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 1


    Yes but does .NETcraft confirm it?

  9. Re:And yet on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 5, Funny


    Their speeds all suck next to lynx!

  10. Re:Well, here we go on Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office · · Score: 2


    Linux's UI is more uniform than even all of MS's products

    Unless you're referring to the uniformity of a nice 80x24 text console, you're way off. Unix/Linux have oodles of different window managers.

  11. Re:A LiveCD ... on BSDanywhere Announces First Release · · Score: 1


    I don't know about the OS being dead, I've used it for many years.

    But there's another side to OpenBSD most geeks don't realize, I'll relate my experiences here.

    Many years around the early 2.x releases I read until my eyes were bleeding about OpenBSD. The ferocity towards 'noob' questions on the lists was legendary, even back then. I bought a copy of the CDs and installed it a Pentium I had.

    The next morning when I woke up I felt something odd around my nether-regions.

    My penis had grown at least 10 cm (4") overnight, and that was just in girth. I was hung like a stallion.

    Staggering to the bathroom for a shower I saw in the mirror that my facial features looked more chiselled, for lack of a better word. My jaw was prominent. Then I realized I lost all my geek belly fat.

    I hadn't looked that good since I was 20.

    Hoping into the shower I was lathering up and I smelled mint coming from somewhere. Wasn't the soap, wasn't the shampoo. What the hell? I realized then that the smell was coming from under my nose.

    OpenBSD even made my breath minty fresh. Permanently. I threw away my toothbrush several days later.

    I don't need to tell you about what happened with my Holmesian nether-regions but a few hints: peanut butter, latex gloves, cloven hooves.

    OpenBSD made me what I am today.

  12. Re:heh on BSDanywhere Announces First Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I received 3x copies of 4.4 today as well (we order a few at work). November 1 they'll have the ISOs up (they do that now).

    Just IMHO, though, if you're a *nix weenie and don't use OpenBSD it's almost a certainty that you use OpenSSH. It's a good gesture to toss them a few bucks for an ISO set or donate.

  13. Re:ANd? on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 2, Insightful


    freedom of speech means you can say what you want

    Sadly many people want "freedom from being offended"

  14. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    whoops, clicked Submit too fast. From that site (hyperlinks not pasted over):

    It always amazes me how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said "Thou shall not kill". For example, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21). God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of "all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses" (Joshua 6). In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife! Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody! In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church! In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.

    The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9).

  15. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1, Insightful


    EvilBible.com has many nice links. Your children are disobedient? KILL THEM! That's right, god tells you to right in the book. Many, many more examples of just how loving and caring that god really is.

  16. Re:Maybe it's me on Dead Space Wants To Scare You · · Score: 1

    I'm playing SS2 (again!) with the patch at 1680x1050. The high resolution texture back (Rebirth?) is also a nice add on.

    This is the 5th time playing through SS2, this time as a true PSI. The only extra I had to pick up was basic weapons so I could use a pistol. Other than that: PSI all the way. Very tough.

  17. Well... on FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity · · Score: 2, Funny


    Don't worry, if McCain wins he'll make Joe the Plumber his special advisor on such issues.

  18. Re:I hate Hollywood. on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1


    I hated how Voyager emasculated the Borg.

    In TNG they were a deadly foe, always exciting. In Voyager it was almost to the point where Janeway and crew would throw cream pies in the Borgs' faces to make good their daring weekly escape.

  19. Re:I hate Hollywood. on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 5, Funny


    they aren't raping anything, they're re-imagining.

    Your Honour, the defendant didn't rape the victim. He simply re-imaginined her vagina with his penis in it.

  20. Re:I hate Hollywood. on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The current Galactica is far superior to the tripe from my childhood. I'm probably in the minority but I really did enjoy Enterprise as well. Voyager with Captain Duck got lame fast.

  21. Re:Obama on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    hahaha, awesome troll.
    That made me laugh, thanks.

  22. Re:Ugh, I tire of this... on Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight · · Score: 1


    take better advantage of the rich Internet experience

    I never understood how in recent times the term "experience" is applied to so many things. The net is a tool, not an experience. I use a hammer, I don't have "nail driving experiences" with one. I download BluRay rips, I'm not having a "copyright infringing experience".

    Picking nits, I know...

  23. Re:I'm impressed. on Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan · · Score: 3, Funny


    WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?!

    Because I'm Canadian?! :)

    Anyhow, this was at a Toys-R-Us, not WalMart (they aren't the same company, are they?)

  24. Re:I'm impressed. on Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan · · Score: 1


    We were getting at Toys-R-Us the other day picking up a small child's birthday gift. In the cash line there were some Hanna Montana cookies ("Hand Decorated") on the impulse-buy racks. I looked at one: "MADE IN CHINA"

    What the fuck? Surely Disney has enough money that they could have FUCKING COOKIES made by someone on this side of the ocean. But no, surely some businessman found they could save a few cents per cookies to have them made there.
    bR

  25. Start low level on How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? · · Score: 1


    You want your students to learn something about computers along the way. Start with something like C. The last thing you want are a bunch of grads knowing shit about computers but knowing all about how to function in the Java sandbox.