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  1. Pfft Vader.... on Darth Vader Sculpture on Washington National Cathedral · · Score: 1

    Shudda be Cthulhu

  2. Re:Insider info on Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition · · Score: 1

    Saying you're a Windows System Administrator is like saying you're a Flight Simulator Pilot.

    (Guess what I do for a living!)

  3. Smirking Chimp... on Safari Beta 2 Available · · Score: 1

    Still doesn't work in Safari

    But hey, they hate me so much on that site that maybe it's a good thing

  4. well that's all great but, on Intel's P4 3GHz w/ 800MHz Bus & Canterwood Chips · · Score: 1

    will my floppy drive still be really slow?

  5. Uh oh... Apple Stock Drops on Apple Plans to Purchase Universal Music · · Score: 1

    on this very news.

  6. Re:Synthetic Turn-Ons on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    Those Playmate Turn-On blurbs are probably fake, too.

    NO! No, no no! I have been taking long walks on the beach for nothing?

    Oh man...

  7. This is great news on BSDs to be Merged · · Score: 1

    All that Open, Free, Darwin BSD stuff was really confusing!

  8. Massive flaw in this RFC on New RFC Adds "Evil Bit" · · Score: 1

    It seems not all packes that pass through ports:

    137
    138
    139

    are marked as "evil". How can that be correct?

  9. Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged on Designers - Are You Influenced By What You Read? · · Score: 1

    Makes me insanely angry everytime I read it. I shake with rage at the stupidity of James Taggert and his Progressive sniveling. Reading it can read like furthest Left rags. As if they read the book and choose the worng side.

  10. I guess if you have the cash on Amazon's Bezos Wants Web Advertising Patent · · Score: 1

    You simply throw patents against the wall and see what sticks

  11. If it is true on Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers · · Score: 1

    and get's proved in court I hope Sun goes under. And I like their stuff a lot.

  12. I've often said use waht you know best... on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1

    Clearly this is the point of this article.

  13. Hey we're all friends here on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need 40 bucks? Will that hold you until payday?

  14. AH HA! on 1.8TB Of Disk Space In A (Semi-)Normal PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    First there's all that fruit all over the room
    Then there's that bloody goop in the food processor
    Finally there's the Windows box peeking out from behind the dresser!

    Come on people do I have to spell it out for you?
    Don't you see what's going on?
    Oh the humanity!

  15. Re:I write Perl scripts... on Bare Bones Releases TextWrangler · · Score: 1

    True but I used to have COUNT the line number manually... guh... Error on line 235?

    "Sorry guys I can't figure this one out..." ;)

  16. I write Perl scripts... on Bare Bones Releases TextWrangler · · Score: 1

    On Windows I use UltraEdit. I like it. It has color syntax and it has line numbers. Line numbers are really important to me as I write horrible, horrible code and I:

    use warnings ;

    Is BBEdit any good at this?

    I use X/Emacs on OS X (my home, and fuzziest OS.)

    I'll pay but I hardly ever write HTML.

  17. Examples? on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    What would take weeks to cod that script could do in hours?

    I do very small (and silly) Perl scripts to break up the day. I can't imagine that any of the log reading, HTML producing, things I do have a week long equivalent in C, C+, Java.

    But I could be very wrong.

    Anyone?

  18. Re:Game theory, try tedium on Game Theory at 190mph · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, 70s technology? These cars push out 750 HP (not at Daytona, or Talledega), they have more suspension tweaks than most CART cars and a ton of telemetry. The cars HAVE to weigh 3500lbs and unlike the wusses in F1 _THEY_ drive the cars.

    These cars (routinely) hit walls at 150+MPH and drivers routiney walk away (unless you fuck with your seatbelt.)

    And the Oval, was adopted so people could:

    a -- see the whole race
    b -- be struck les by cars
    c -- learn to count to 250

  19. What difference does it really make? on PCGen to Charge for Data Files · · Score: 1

    When my half-orc barbarian will kick your puny ranger ass!

  20. But I'm angry now on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well this is really quite simple.

    Computers are for "smart" people

    People feel marginalized when they don't understand even the basic concepts of what has happened

    Therefore when a CEO realizes they have been hacked/cracked (you fight that out) they feel even more violated since they don't even understand how someone could get past all the hardware they bought and all those 45-100K+ people they have running around purporting to be computer experts.

    Their anguish is then felt by atrtorneys who can't understand the crime, the criminals or why everyone is so upset. The one thing they do know is that THAT FAT GUY WITH THE UNKEMPT BEARD AND THE WIERD SHIRT THAT HAS THE FORMULA FOR HELL ON EARTH:

    #! /usr/bin/perl

    ON HIS SHIRT IS DEFINITELY GUILTY!

    And that's pretty much what happens.

  21. You're all pissed off at the wrong folks on The Demise of Model Rocketry? · · Score: 1

    The US Gov't hasn't banned anything related to model rockets.

    Looks like UPS & Fed Ex has decided not to ship these items.

    This is hardly a ban.

    Sometimes reading the article related to the post is important. (But not if it is Microsoft related!)

  22. I need some help on Hacker's Challenge 2 · · Score: 0

    d00dz!

    c4n $Um1 pLz p0st a PDF of thz $0 I c4n dl !T?

  23. Are the Oscars even relevant anymore? on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Before it was an ass kissing event it was a way to show the rest of the country/world what was going oon in the Movie Industry.

    We all know everything before it even happens (Ashley Judd _is_ Catwoman -- wouldn't Kristen Davis be a better Catwoman?). We (USA) go to movies despite horrendous reviews (DareDevil). Do we really give a crap what Susan Saradon has to say? Or any actor for that matter?

    So in short, what difference does it make if the Oscars _don't_ recognize your favortite? I would assume that validates your choice.

  24. I wonder.... on Dave Barry Answers Alert Slashdot Readers' Questions · · Score: 1

    Does he consider each wife he has his Scarlet Woman ala Aleister Crowley... Using these women as "inspiration" for his lifestyle.

  25. Re:I'm beginning to dislike michael's comments. on Symantec Claims They Knew About Slammer In Advance · · Score: 1

    I'm all about the love you hickory ass platypus!