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  1. Milk Isn't Healthy on Cloning Cows for Cuba · · Score: 2, Offtopic



    http://www.milksucks.com

    Don't support the dairy industry it's trying to kill you.

    The vitamins are added, the anti-biotics attack your immune system and to top it all you run the risk of Crohns Disease [and that aint nice - from one who knows].

    Skip the cows and grow earth sapping mono-cultures instead

  2. Re:Defending the common criminal on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the consumers of the material are considered victims too.

  3. Re:Defending the common criminal on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 1, Troll

    Derailing Nuclear Waste trains is hardly a common crime

    Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures.

    Political violence has been the major tool in the journey along our road to freedom whether you like to admit it or not. More blood will spill, that is the only guarantee.

  4. Re:Of course not... on Security of Open vs. Closed Source Software · · Score: 2

    The worst security problems are frequently bad design not bad coding.

    try :
    Auto-executing attachments.
    Cross window Javascript exploits.
    Path traversal exploits.

    etc.etc.

    bugs are just one vector.

  5. Re:Might be controversial on Security of Open vs. Closed Source Software · · Score: 2

    pure fantasy

    Try the Latest Apache Chunked Encoding bug with a released exploit for OpenBSD.

    How can some mad admin skillz sort that one out save switching off the box?

  6. Re:usefullness? on Blocking Instant Messengers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sounds like use you IM to replace IRC.

    We use IRC at work. Central logging, open source servers, open source clients, bots, scripts etc. etc.

    At my last place I saw one employee get the sack when she used the IM system (some crap tagged in to Windows chat iirc) and she said her "line manager was useless and was only in the post because she flirted".

    Poor lass

    anyway : use irc

  7. Security Through Obscurity !!!! not again on Security Concerns When Consoles Go Online? · · Score: 2

    Security is one of the reasons Microsoft is building its online service as a closed, Microsoft-only system.

    'Cos for sure no one has ever made a clone of battle.net or Everquest

  8. Re:Plural ( spiraling OFFTOPIC ) on SpamNet: Razor for the Masses · · Score: 1

    lol @ ATOC again.

    I put ATOC instead of AOTC when I first did my sig.

    See even Lucas couldn't get that right. The world needs acronyms that scan not that twist the tongue.

    Screw the karma, I've got points to burn. The karma kap kills the RPG element of /.

    I was looking forward to posting @ +3 for my 500 karma after years of devoted service. Imagine EverQuest keeping the level cap @ 50 because accounts were being traded offline. Ridiculous.

  9. Re:Plural ( spiraling OFFTOPIC ) on SpamNet: Razor for the Masses · · Score: 1

    I'm probably not sure actually just that ATOC was the last one I saw. The pace of the story is just so weird. I don't think Lucas is much of a story teller and has found himself out of his depth.

    He should have stuck to Monkey Island.

    The hype of Star Wars on /. has always puzzled me. There are so many more well crafted examples of the art of cinema to choose from.

  10. Re:Plural on SpamNet: Razor for the Masses · · Score: 1

    yes it is
    there are a plenty of nouns that work this way

    some flour and some more flour is still flour
    water
    rice
    salt
    etc. etc.

  11. Re:How does the censorship work? on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 1

    maybe it is best to be an anonymous coward. Better to be a member with mod points.....

    maybe it's best to remember that it's really not that important

  12. Re:A little too early on LindowsOS Softens Microsoft-Compatibility Claim · · Score: 2

    they bought win3.11, nuff said

  13. Re:How does the censorship work? on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 2

    No one talks about the censorship
    How would you know if their commentary was censored?

    Besides, one of the aims of censorship is that you *never* get to know about stuff. If you don't know about it how can you complain that you can't see it.

    Here in the UK ISP censorship is done on a sort of gentleman's agreement. The local cops come round and say "if you drop these newsgroups we will be satisfied that you are doing what you can, we all know it's pretty pointless but it makes people happier when they can't see alt.binaries.erotica.under8 or whatever"

    The main point seems to be to stop people complaining.

    On a related note, one of the argument that anti-porn campaigners use is that porn denigrates women. It attacks their self esteem because they don't live up to the glamour of pron. I guess in the time of the goats.ex that these days porn denigrates the viewer cos it leaves them mentally scarred!

  14. Re:How does the censorship work? on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Your still dumb."

    You're dumber, dumbass

  15. Re:Nevada Nuke License Plates on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The U.S. winning WW2

    win?

    sorry, but I don't recall it being much of a game.

    It's disturbing that such an opinion should come from one of the people with continued responsibility.

    Why not have a picture of a grave or a burnt face or a cancerous lump?

  16. Re:The Killer App on Serious IIS Hole; Minor X Bug · · Score: 2

    I've come across this one too. I have laval programmer friends who think that the way to programming riches is writing a Visual Basic utility releasing it as shareware and hoping that it will gain momentum.

    The thing is with windows is that the GUI mindset can make the simple things hard. Put on top of that that windows doesn't really come with a decent programming environment as standard. Users become reliant on the fleets of Visual Basic Programmers making temperature convertors and other one line unix programs.

    Once upon a time I thought Windows was the One Microsoft Way. Eventually hitting the power user wall and the desire to make network based utilities and I was introduced to the simple notion of regular expressions. It still makes me angry that a powerful and useful concept was kept almost secret from me because of Microsoft products. The number of times a quick regex would have saved me hours of text parsing.

    Just for that I will never forgive them and once your eyes have opened the rush of confidence of the newly converted overwhelms you, it makes you want MS to wither and die and all those crappy VB utilities with them.

  17. A compass points northwards on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 2

    a pair of compasses draw circles

  18. Re:To quote Guns 'n Roses on Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? · · Score: 1

    apples dont come in bunches
    stupid dipshit GnR

  19. have you read Slashdot's EULA? on Selling Your (MMORPG) Soul · · Score: 2

    Slashdot's EULA

    Here's an interesting snippet :

    3. REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS

    If required by the site in question, each user must: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information on the Service's registration form (collectively, the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data as necessary. If, after investigation, we have reasonable grounds to suspect that any user's information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate that user's account and prohibit any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof) by that user other than as expressly provided herein.

  20. Manuals - anything else aint geek it's nerd on What's on Your Summer 2002 Reading List? · · Score: 2

    Program Python (2nd Ed)
    XML-RPC
    SVG

    that would just about do me

  21. Re:Credit Card Numbers on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 2

    also your purchases are insured for a short period of time if you buy using certain cards (Barclaycard in the uk has this service iirc)

  22. Zaphod spins in Douglas' grave on DRM Helmet · · Score: 4, Funny

    hhgttg

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

    er wtf.

  23. Assignments on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 2

    my ($x) = /(.*)/ my $x; / $x:=(.*) /
    # may now bind it inside regex

    This is a feature that I hope is carried over into the scripting languages I use (PHP, Python).

    My first impression was that they may as well embed AWK in the regex engine.

  24. Re:Breaking expressions on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 1

    aye, don't these young pups know about ^W !

  25. Re:Breaking expressions on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 2

    I often say "talk to the face cos the hands aint listening"