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  1. Re:Suggest: take HDD out, bury in shallow grave... on Report From RIAA v. Verizon Case · · Score: 1


    Yeah, but if you tell them that you've got nine of them, you'll be in trouble ;)

  2. Re:El Presidente? on Boucher Introduces New Bill · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Except for the fact that Schwarzennaegar isn't an American citizen by birth, which is required by the constituition for a person to run for and be elected President."

    You obviously haven't seen "Demolition Man"

  3. Re:What about Angela??? on Gaiman v. McFarlane Decision Handed Down · · Score: 1

    "Why would McFarland buy the rights to a character that he is never going to use her again?"

    Because he reeatedly said in the issues prior to 100 that in #100 he would kill one of the female character and that we wouldn't see her again, not in dreams, not in flashback, not because they need money and the fans loved her, not ever. He gave me the impression that he was playing that as a statement that he wasn't commercializing Spawn like other comics are (look, we deliberately killed a popular character, if we were overcommercializing we would have brought her back to life).

    Now, if Gaiman has the rights to Angela, or at least enough right to it to take her and do more stories with her in it ( either as the lead character or as a sidekick), like with the Angela/Aria crossover (I hope I have this right, its starting to be 2/3 years now) then it kind of make the point mood.

    Even worse, if Gaiman makes more story it can give him a bad rep (worse? apparently!): "Look, he killed another guy's character, the bastard".

    Of course, all this lies on the assumption that her death was some kind of metamessage, as I interpreted it, if it isn't (which is quite possible, English isn't my native language) my point is totally moot.

  4. Re:What about Angela??? on Gaiman v. McFarlane Decision Handed Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, a nice flamebait just for me. I think I will bite.

    I do realise that she is fictional, but then again, when I buy comic books its to read about fictional characters, not real ones.

    Also, your reply seem to imply that I only liked her because of her looks**, when I liked her for the combination of her looks (Angela being big, fat, and ugly just wouldn't be the same) AND her badass temper* (one can wonder how she ever became an Angel and not a Demon).

    As for never being able to have sex with her, don't worry, there are plenty of women I will never be able to have sex with and I don't feel any worse for it

    *feel free to say that me liking her temper only makes me a SM lover wanting to be dominated if you want.

    **Hey, if I liked her only for the undressed aspect, there are plenty of porn flicks to choose from, and guess what, in a porn movie, the images actually MOVE and are from REAL WOMEN, and no ,all of the actress in porn movies are not ugly and stupid (at least not all of them). Check Sylvia Saint or Eva Roberts for really beautiful women and Asia Carrera for a beautiful girl that is also more intelligent than you (she is part of MENSA, can you claim the same? No? Me neither).

  5. Re:Do we care? on Fortran 2000 Committee Draft · · Score: 1

    Luckily I know how to keep my mouth closed* because I was eating yogurt when I read it and started to laugh. I can already imagine the smiles at work ("what happened to your laptop this weekend?") had it been open.

    *although some people would say I need to learn to keep it shut.

  6. What about Angela??? on Gaiman v. McFarlane Decision Handed Down · · Score: 4, Interesting


    What about Angela?

    I was pissed off when McFarlane killed her in Spawn #100 (she was the coolest Spawn character and we never got enough of her), saying that he would never bring her back, but now if Gaiman had some right on her that McFarlane disputed I wonder if he killed her just to piss Gaiman off.

    And now that Gaiman's right on her are affirmed, what will he do with her, sell it to McFarlane so he can keep her dead or find some way to ressuscite her???

  7. Re: yep 40 accounts, is so simple... on Passport vs. Plan 9 · · Score: 1

    "Hmmm. One big downside - you only have two thumbs. If someone compromises your encryption twice, your SOL as far as creating new keys goes."

    Don't worry, with both of my hands and both of my feet I have a total of _20_ finger/toe-prints, enough to get around for a while. ;)

  8. Re:Ballroom dancing???? HOMO! on Many Hackers Too Fat For The FBI · · Score: 1


    "Additionally, being a good dancer requires a lot of strength, flexibility, and balance." ... And footwork too, of course, which is quite important both for dancing and martial arts.

    "Unsurprisingly, some of the best martial artists I know are also dancers."

    Like Bruce Lee who won a few dancing competition in Hong Kong (and recommanded dancing as a good way to improve your footwork). If its good enough for the best marital artistof the twentieth century, then it's probably good enough for us.

  9. Re:doughnut crumbs in the keyboard on Many Hackers Too Fat For The FBI · · Score: 1

    "You get a better fitting shoe, at a better price, without leaving your computer. What could be better?"

    Given that we are talking about exercise, wouldn't it better to go by foot to a shop selling them???

  10. Re:Great! on Microsoft Notes Critical Security Holes in Windows, Office · · Score: 1

    >>Arbitrary commands run by strangers if I don't,
    >>Arbitrary commards run by Microsoft if I do.

    >You know, I think I would rather trust the strangers.

    Yeah, at least there is a chance that they are not hostile.

  11. Re:TWO CONDOMS, THREE WOMEN on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 1

    No, because he always wears a condom with a side that only touched is penis, so he he mostly secure (unless it drips of course)

  12. Re:One of my favorites on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 1

    in ASM:

    XOR EAX, EBX
    XOR EBX, EAX
    XOR EAX, EBX

    in C:

    From the grandparent post I assume ^ is XOR in C, I don't remember given that i haven't programmed in C in a while. The explanation at the right use A and B to indicate the original value of A and B.

    A ^= B;// Put A XOR B in A.
    B ^= A;// Put B XOR (A XOR B) (which was in A) in B // This is equal to A
    A ^= B;// Put (A XOR B) XOR A (given that the variable B contains the value that originally was in A now) which is equals to B.

    The first line compute the XOR of A and B.
    The second line put the original value of A in B.
    The third line puts the original value of B in

    Just 2 variables necessary.

  13. Re:Good interview on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: 1

    He likely gets letters from prisoners who ate their own parents with a subtle tomato basil sauce, but is still able to correspond with them despite never having eaten his own parents.

    Of course, or how do you want him to get the recipe otherwise?

  14. Re:Does anyone actually use windows ME? on QuickTime 6 Is Out · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a laptop with winXP (now running Debian Sid) and, while toying a bit with it I thought about the fact that Windows ME is the only major Windows version I have never ever used since Windows 3.1 (or 3.11). I don't even think that I saw any screenshot of it (unless it looks like w98 and I didn't know it was ME). If I didn't read /. I probably wouldn't know that it does exist at all. That felt weird to me (of course, it probably says more about myself than about [windows] ME).

  15. Re:This genetic algorithm doesn't have sex on Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 1

    "Then sex was invented and then things started to get more interesting very quickly."

    It sure did.

  16. Re:Using the Debian packages on GNOME 2.0 Released · · Score: 1


    Condensed from http://www.hadess.net/idoru.php3:

    1)To your /etc/apt/sources.list, add:
    deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experim ental main
    deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experi mental main

    2)type:
    apt-get install -t experimental nautilus2 gnome-panel2 gnome-applets2 gnome-utils gnome-terminal gnome-control-center2 sawfish

    The bit doing the trick is of course the -t experimental.

    3)Wait until everything is downloaded and installed.

  17. Re:Well you've got to be kidding me on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 1

    At a glance, I can't tell the Aussie dollars from the Singapore dollars. They're both fairly brightly colored, but they're differently colored in an inconsistent way.

    You are right! To avoid such stupid confusion with all these colors, all the world should do like the US and use only green bills of the same size, with the same layout (except for the details like the name of the country...), so it will be easier to differentiate between the American green $1 bill from the British green £50 bill from the Japanese green 10000Yen bill.

  18. Re:Link me, but don't frame me. on Blogspace vs. NPR · · Score: 1

    But then you are not just linking, you are actively distributing a derivative of a copyrighted work without prior permission, so they can sue you for copyright infringement with a pretty strong case.

  19. IE6 on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 1


    I'm using Moz1.0 and i don't understand in what way it is broken in IE6, so if you could post a screenshot taken from IE6 for (my) comparison purpose.

  20. Re:ILM OSes on Linux at Industrial Light and Magic · · Score: 1

    Is the "tel" portion of "Lintel" really the part that isn't ready for the enterprise?

    I didn't know that Intel was producing fans now?

    Seriously, this is not a Lintel problem but a Dell (or whoever else made these machines) problem with QA.

  21. And that password is.... on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 1


    Bill Gates credit card PIN number.

    4 bytes (or 2 using compact BCD) worth a few billions.

  22. Oh, the irony on Where UnitedLinux Got It Wrong · · Score: 1


    With otehr software we have to bitch because the source code is unavailable/available-under-a-restrictive-license.

    Now, for UnitedLinux they decided to make it available only in source form to the general public so we have to bitch about not having binaries available to us.

    I find it quite ironic.

  23. Re:Finially an answer on Artificial Intelligence to Predict Sports Injuries · · Score: 1

    no you have to actually RUN the entire game, 45*2 minutes.

    Actually, football (soccer) is 2*45 minutes. Its more (American) football taht is 45*2 minutes to accomodate for the ad/breath-catching breaks.

  24. Re:excellent on New GNU Hurd Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    "No. This was a troll. It was an apparently serious comment, posted tongue-in-cheek to invite angry response. That's what the word "troll" means. The moderators do get it."

    Nah, that's just a joke.

    A Troll tries to make you believe that he is stating the truth. This was obvious sarcasm and unlikely to have anybody take it seriously (unless you really are gullible) and therefore not a Troll (IMHO).

  25. Doubly trolled on New GNU Hurd Kernel Released · · Score: 1


    Not only has he been successfully trolled by its parent post but he has been doubly "trolled" in that the moderators thought that _he_ was a Troll. I don't know whether to laugh or cry givne how pathethic it is.