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  1. Re:BleahBleahBleah. on Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Starcraft in 3d in Directx 9 with particles systems and a few minor tweaks to the gameplay."

    I'd buy that for a dollar!

  2. My grandad knows a few things. on Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date · · Score: 1

    He told me that chimps who type like they talk tend to use "then" when they do, in fact, mean "than" because they have trouble enunciating due to their slack jaws.

  3. Not just the news ? on Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper · · Score: 1

    What's going to stop people using the e-paper to read other things?
    I'm sure we'd all like something for reading documents on the move like reading from a book. If these guys want to generate buzz for their device, the should include a Project Gutenburg reader, extending the ad reach and revene sharing with the project would be good. I'd go for something like that.

  4. They don't like it up 'em on Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will · · Score: 1

    Animal abusing fucks can fuck off, fuck you fucking animal murdering fuckers of fuck.

  5. Re:I must be new here... on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 1

    The IRA/UDF bombed & shot their way into power, taking the reigns just last week.

    Europe's had its revolutions but I don't want you revolution. I want anarchy and peace. Whoever gets power from the gun is going to want to shoot me too.

  6. Re:I must be new here... on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 1

    It was on Reddit hours ago. Reddit is owned by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Publi cations .

    So it's not excatly a secret.

  7. Re:A hack? on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    In horseriding the term "hacking" is a horse ride for the fun of it. "I'm going for a quick hack about". There's also a "hacking jacket" which is a coarse wollen short coat with a particular pattern. It is considered bad form to wear these to a hunt unless you are a terrier man or other non rider.

    I'm surprised that this term isn't ever referenced as it seems nearer to the comp.sci. meaning than using an axe in germany !

  8. Re:Copyright jubilee on Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax · · Score: 1

    1 month

  9. Re:They could. on Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches · · Score: 1

    I think the crux of your agument falls down right about here: "I don't know whether they ever actually bothered to do it though"

  10. Re:Copyright jubilee on Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax · · Score: 1, Funny

    > I don't want everything I did copied around for a month.

    ooh your thoughts are sooo precious

  11. Re:Stupid question from a non english speaker on AMD's Radeon HD 2900 XT Reviewed · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eight-eigth-hundred-GTX? != eighty-eight-hundred GTX

    You're getting older now Jackie, time to give in and put those glasses on.

  12. Re:Yes, but does it run Linux\\\\\Windows ? on Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ · · Score: 2, Informative

    qemu runs Win2k. My AMDX2 3800 runs it using kqemu. I happily use it for testing things in I.E. It seems about as fast as my PIII 1Ghz laptop, though I've never actually measured it.

  13. Re:I hate PDF on Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF · · Score: 1

    Then I suggest you get your monitor fixed.

  14. Re:I hate PDF on Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF · · Score: 1

    > unless you are running a text-only OS, has an area of the screen that contains something similar--system clock at least.
    > Simply admit your ignorance

    after you, my GUI has no such bloat

    here's my desktop http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/desktop.gif

    where's this pointless waste of space you think I have ?

  15. Re:I hate PDF on Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF · · Score: -1, Troll

    System Tray, wtf is that ?

    try a proper Operating System, not some bloated corpse.

  16. Re:well on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    1 minute = 180,000,000,000 clock cycles @ 3Ghz

    Which is enough to do plenty of things.

  17. Re:WEP != VPN on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    They started at a store in the US and got all the way to the data centres in the UK and US and then took the data for $25,000,000,000.00 of transactions from the US, UK, Eire and Puerto Rico and more data that TJX don't even know the contents of !

    A system that allows that path just shouldn't even exist, VPN or no VPN.

  18. Re:well on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    What's the point of all that crap. How are you going to make the wire from the POS to the Bank totally shielded and MiM proof ?
    If you can't trust the bank employees not to steal your money there's no point in having any stored there.

  19. Re:Pringles .... on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    The UK's biggest cable supplier ntl: / Telewest bars the use of VPNs on their home DSL. Yes, you read that right, the right to bar ntl: from browsing your data is forbidden.

    They also want you to pay 4x the price if you want a fixed IP.

  20. Re:Leave the WEP out for a moment on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    The attackers got the keys from the US but the data was partly stored in the UK.
    Always discount the bandwidth of a suitcase full of tapes on a transatlantic flight.

    do a search for TKMAXX and see the BBC stories

  21. Re:Ironic on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    If your door is unlocked, it's not breaking in, a distinction that is made in law here in the U.K.
    I can even take your stuff so long as I am not intending to permanently deprive you of it and I don't damage it (proving the former is obviously a tricky prospect but it is a valid defence).

  22. Re:Ironic on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    My favourite is them leaving themselves logged in to MSN in Cyber Cafes (lol that sounds so retro!)
    I almost always strike up conversations with their logged in buddies, it's quite a hoot.

  23. Re:45 million or 200 million? on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    TJX is one of those Global Multinationals

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TJX_Companies

    Net income $690,420,000 (2006)

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6508983.stm
    The company also told the BBC that 100 files were moved from its UK computer system in 2003, and two files were later stolen.
    However, a spokesperson admitted that the firm may never know what was in those files.

    The data was accessed on TJX's systems in Watford, Hertfordshire, and Massachusetts over a 16-month period from July 2005 and covers transactions made by credit and debit card dating as far back as December 2002.

    5 years of data
    $500,000,000 of transactions per year = $25 billion of transaction history.

    Pretty good haul if you ask me!

  24. Re:Why isn't WEP recalled? on TJX Breach Began With WEP Crack · · Score: 1

    > It is difficult and sometimes expensive but thats what really needs to be done.
    If you consider it difficult, I suggest you advertise for a new member of staff for the IT Dept.

  25. Linux Foundations on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Linux was built on "oh no, I need a Unix and I don't have any money and AT&T is suing BSD so I'd better not use that".
    For me, that's not much of a premise.
    I'd rather they went for the "lets stop working on Linux" option.