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  1. Re:Windows 2000 works *reasonably* well for me ... on Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users · · Score: 1

    wtf is "the curve" ?

    I've got 3 P75s running here, they have 80W PSUs and passive cooling. Am I supposed to ride this "curve" by upgrading them to 400W monsters ? What would I gain other than increased power usage and unused cycles ?

  2. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. on Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure they'd wait for you to go cold.

  3. Re:couldn't imagine? ... poor imagination on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1

    if you can cause explosions like that, why would you need to know which parts of the mobile phone network were vulnerable, it doesn't matter which parts you blow up.

    These people took down the World Trade Centre, do you think the need a map of cell phone towers ?

    Drive a truck onto the Golden Gate Bridge and detonate it McVey style.

    Demonstrative, terrorising acts don't require vulnerable targets, any target will do.

    I live in a place where the terrorists blew up pubs, shopping centres, fish & chip shops, court houses, police stations, soldiers on patrol and people's cars, they didn't need a fking map.

  4. I want my Blake's 7 on SiN Episodes Pretty Much Done · · Score: 1

    After the credits rolled, the BBC announcer said "Blake's 7 will return in the Autumn". I'm still waiting. I want my Orac back !

  5. Re:it's "toe the line" on White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing · · Score: 1

    It was below my threshold

  6. Re:Suggestion: on Questions for Entry Level PC Techs? · · Score: 1

    try "Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!"

  7. it's "toe the line" on White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing · · Score: 1

    not tow

  8. Re:At least for now we filter... on How Do You Handle New MS Word Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    In that case they are a false security.

    Extensions & MIME are a hint.

    Meta data is not trustworthy

  9. Re:couldn't imagine? ... poor imagination on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So how is knowing that carrier A drops 3% of calls and carrier B drops 5% of calls really going to make a fking difference to that scenario, brainiac ?

    "OMG teh Al Kayeeda blew up the mobile tower, I can't call Mom and tell her to pick me up from soccer practice, let's start pandemonium!!!!1"

    "pfft, don't panic, that tower drops 7% of calls anyway, n00bs"

  10. Re:what about the other 1/3rd? on ALSR in Vista Gets OEM Push · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do know that the people in Microsoft work in parallel not serial.

    They don't work on one thing at a time, so quit yer bitching.

  11. Re:erm to be fair on DRM 'Too Complicated' Says Gates · · Score: 1

    So DRM on Word documents is something to do with the music industry?

    Explain that one to me...

  12. Re:Mixed Blessing on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1

    They're starting to make Michael Howard look sane !

  13. Re:Mixed Blessing on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1

    > Sounds like a long overdue idea at the forefront

    sounds like one, but it isn't

    Keep the fuck out of my drawing book, mother fuckers.

    There's a world of difference between fucking a baby and some pixels.

    Reid is a fucking Nazi. I hope he dies soon.

    Did I make the depth of my feeling plain enough ?

  14. Re:No. Next Question. on Do Next-Gen Games Have to be 3D? · · Score: 1

    Come on, don't you remember those great 1D and 1.5D games ?

    Dot and Isometric Dot ruled

  15. Re:On second thought... on PHP Security Expert Resigns · · Score: 1
  16. Re:On second thought... on PHP Security Expert Resigns · · Score: 0, Troll

    The file upload exploit wasn't programmer error and this was the biggest cause of site defacements via PHP seen so far.

    SQL Injection is the default mode of the PHP paradigm.

    PHP is a toy language. It should be drowned in a bucket.

    And I've been paid to program in it for longer than I care to remember though it was PHP3 when I started, you work it out :)

  17. Re:My Rights Online??!! on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    Chechnya
    India / Pakistan
    ETA
    Real IRA
    ALF
    Uganda

    The US is not the whole world, despite what Fox & CNN might tell you.

  18. Re:FIOS is GREAT!!! on Fiber TV Install and Experience · · Score: 1

    What happened when you complained to the advertising regulators ?

  19. Re:A step in the right direction... on Google Web Toolkit Now 100% Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    come off it, it's not that hard

  20. Re:Clear our desk of wires? on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Wireless DVI

    http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11146180/Wireless_D VI_Dongle.html

    As far as I can tell, only the 3 power cords in your setup cannot be replaced by wireless.

  21. Re:Ita about time on Disk Drives Face Challenge From Chips · · Score: 1

    Or any fans
    Or power switches

  22. Re:Legality of the Honeypot part? on New Developments From Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Sounds like LaBrea need better lawyers.

  23. Re:MSN Search on New Developments From Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hate it when I go downtown and loads of market share are on the loose.

  24. Re:chipped kids? Ok on Ten Best, Worst, and Craziest Uses of RFID · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How a 10m proximity device would track his location constantly is a mystery to me.

    If he's being kidnapped, the napper would be aware that there is a very small window of opportunity to remove the child from the park before he's noticed missing, this window is made wider by your "it's ok he's been tagged, he'll turn up" mentality.

    And that window doesn't need to be very wide at all

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s16726 04.htm

  25. Re:In Soviet Russia on FBI Taps Cell Phone Microphones in Mafia Case · · Score: 1

    That also happened to some people I knew in the UK, the police monitored their house via their POTS phone.

    They then played the tapes back during interrogation, the bits where the housemates talked about each other behind their backs etc. to try and get them to tesify against each other.