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  1. Re:Quite fair on Ripping DVDs to Handhelds = Fair Use? · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Can you explain to me the problem with copying my DVD movie to VHS so *I* can watch it in a room with a VCR but no DVD player?

  2. Which university again on The Psychology Behind Headphones · · Score: 4, Funny


    The University of Stating the Bleedin' Obvious ?

  3. I worry that my son might not understand on A Look at the Upcoming GNOME 2.6 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call
    me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that...But
    you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is
    necessary to those who do not know what horror means.
    Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and
    moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.

    A pile of little files. And I remember...I...I...I cried...
    I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I
    wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want
    to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a
    diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought:
    My God...the idiocy of that. The will to do that. You
    have to have men who are moral...and at the same time who are able to
    utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion...
    without judgement...without judgement. Because it's judgement that
    defeats us.

  4. Re:Many eyes, but wide open or tight shut ? on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 1


    I have no idea

    plan9 has 17 I think

    Saying "yeah, but what about windows" to every criticism is pretty childish.

  5. Re:Many eyes, but wide open or tight shut ? on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 1



    It's the failure of 'if in doubt, add a new system call' "design" process.

    If you rely on Linux for security, you're a fool.

  6. Re:don't it? on PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing · · Score: 1



    what on earth are you dribbling on about?

    No-one would mistake *you* for an idiot, no mistake at all.

  7. Re:Uh oh on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 1


    Good point, and one I had considered myself.

    If all new software is written with 'aw well, NX will catch it' then that's another stick to beat the non-upgraders with.

    Up here in the non-Windows world, where hardware upgrades for every point release are not an issue, programmers prefer to put their faith in the libraries.

    string(2): avoiding buffer overruns in upas since 1984

    The weak point then, is users have to hope that the programmers read the manual!

  8. Re:don't it? on PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing · · Score: 1


    If one hides for the negative posts how could it be considered karma?

    Besides, you may have not noticed but it is the score of the post that moderation exists for, not the poster.

  9. don't it? on PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing · · Score: 2, Funny

    "it says something that the GameCube was easier to convert to than Windows, don't it?"

    Yes, it says your command of English is poor.

  10. Re:Finally... on Feds Reject Eolas Browser Plug-In Patent · · Score: 1


    yea, let's hear it for inline executeables

    crackers everywhere can resume clapping

  11. Re:Uh oh on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 4, Interesting


    hehe

    I also like :

    Work continues with microprocessor vendors to help Windows support hardware-enforced "no execute" (NX) on microprocessors that support the feature. This feature allows the CPU to enforce the separation of application code and data, preventing a component from executing program code that a worm or virus inserted into a portion of memory marked for data only.

    So now MS and 3rd party programmers will think to themselves "aw well, if my pointer arithmetic is poor the CPU will catch any over runs".

    Apparently MS hasn't learned the ancient ninja technique of heap redirection or return-to-lib.

    So new hardware security features will lead to *more* exploits!

  12. Re:Spyware? You mean data collection? on Spyware on One in Twenty Computers? · · Score: 1


    http authentication can be used

    you can even use time limited urls

    http://anonymous:$hash@yourdomain.com

  13. Re:Security on Guilty By Association · · Score: 1



    don't forget the endpoints

    I can SSL you my password but then you can write it down on a post-it

  14. Re:Their gender detection code leaked already!! on Guilty By Association · · Score: 1



    do you work in Microsoft Security Dept. ?

    perhaps you are part of the Sendmail collaboration for anti-spam

    man malloc

  15. Re:Welcome to the real world folks. on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1


    Did Colt train them to be better rapists, lease them the guns and sell them the bullets?

    IBM collected census data in un-occupied Europe and as the Reich expanded, IBM sold them the census data pre-sorted into Jew and non-Jew. They also tabulated church records before the Nazis arrived such that people who's grand-parents were Jewish suddenly found themselves on the train. Plenty of them didn't even know they had Jewish ancestry until the knock on the door.

    One presumes Colt didn't have pre-prepared files on the missionaries of El Salvador free with every M16.

  16. Re:EV1 on MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans · · Score: 1



    infinate or infinite

    it's definitely one or the other

  17. Re:It's a car for women! on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1



    If the water boiled, so what?
    Boiling the fluid would cause more pressure, not less, surely?

    Steam engines work because the boiled water increases in volume.

  18. Re:Welcome to the real world folks. on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 4, Informative

    > IBM still has a policy of never smearing a competitor as far as I am aware... ;)

    lol, you make them sound so fluffy

    IBM's founder spent time in prison for his string arm dealings in the cash register business (smashing up stuff, dumping, threatening).

    He was awarded Nazi Germany's highest honour for a foriegner for leasing Holleriths and programmers to the Third Riech (they didn't run 10million+ slave workers with pencil & paper).

    The story is an interesting read. Especially with regard to personal data & the unseen hand.

    I wonder what a happened in this lawsuit.

  19. Re:It's a car for women! on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1



    hehe go get 'em boy

  20. Re:It makes good sense for Microsoft on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1


    > Linux is still being enhanced and improved. And most importantly, it's still being adopted.

    There's your chaos

  21. It's rated "R" here too on Controversial Manhunt Game Rated 'R' in Ontario · · Score: -1, Troll


    R for Rubbish

  22. Re: Microsoft's dis-service on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1


    Sudbury General Hospital is in England

    btw. your grammar is appalling

  23. I boot mine from CF on FreeBSD Based Live CDs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have an in-car PC that runs FreeBSD.

    It boots an EPIA 5000 from a 32Mb CF card and plays mp3s from any of the cds in the NEC 4 disk CDROM.

    I hope to add a 7" lcd to it soon and see what I can make it do next.

    Hopefully when my GPS mouse comes I can do some sort of homebrew routefinder

    My fello 9fan Matthias has done a bit of a walkthrough with scripts for making FBSD fit in under 32Mb

  24. Re:Tabbed Browsing on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Even the godly can have tabbed browsing in IE

    Is it not true that all sex is degrading? If it's any good.

  25. Re:No Surprise on SCO Postpones Lawsuit, Now Threatening Two · · Score: 3, Insightful


    The action of you buying the stock supports the price or even raises it.

    SCO and their employees own the same stock.

    Thus : you buying the stock helps SCO and can even make them money if you are one of many such buyers who push the price upwards by generating demand.