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  1. HTML on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spammers send me volumes of dada poetry like this, and it's all stuff that appears before HTML, which I assume is the main content of the mail. Pity that I filter out HTML. And here I was hoping that there was an international dada poetry guerrilla group...

  2. Wow. The rule of the day: don't date psychos on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    Was there any indication that this woman was a calculating assassin before this? There had to be...

  3. Well there goes that idea. on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    I guess you really can say anything here, no matter how ridiculous.

  4. Re:How about my old hardware? on Microsoft Researching Anti-Spam Technique · · Score: 1

    The perfect is the enemy of the good.

    I get roughly 2 spams a week with the filtering system I have, and since I do not read HTML mail (in fact I throw out html serverside) they generally consist of dadaist poetry.

  5. It's no solution on For Us, The Living, by Robert A. Heinlein · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably the single stupidist vision of how things should work ever proposed.

    It's the do-nothing vision of how things should work. No planning, not even any recognition of a problem. In other words, pretty much the perfect human solution to such a problem.

    I strongly suspect that's about how it's going to work out, too.

  6. I would if they had a good client. on RIAA Extends Legal Action · · Score: 1

    I tried the iRate client, and it's slow and sucks up resources that are better used for nearly anything else. Yes, I know their page screams bloody murder about not being interoperable with anything, and no, I am not a coder so I can't go out and fix it.

    So I shall just not use iRate.

  7. "Keeps prices down" on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1

    No, it keeps "sales" figures "down".

    Thankfully for us Cyber Communists Plotting Red Revolution, these guys continue to be as ugly as stupid as their butts (which are very ugly and stupid.)

    Ha ha!

  8. Or... on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 1

    One that's propped up by infinite amounts of government intervention to protect bloated ad budgets.

    3

  9. Conspiracies? on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 1

    Never had that experience. Can you give an example?

  10. My theory on this on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they're doing more aggressive checking on linkfarms, with multiple passes to verify what's going on.

  11. They're not filtering them out on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're going to exercise more care about who they sell ad space to, not excise the sellers from the results. Two totally different things- and it's the ad space sales that they have to take actual responsibility for, since they're being paid...

  12. Why not? on The Opening of Biotech · · Score: 1

    Think of the possibilities for low wage labor.

  13. edge flipping sucks on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 1

    It sucks in the same way the windows taskbar sucks.

    Namely, it doesn't use the screen edges correctly.

  14. The Magic of Plastic on Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way · · Score: 1

    Burning petrochemicals seems like a scandalous waste when you think about everything else we do with them.

    The end of oil energy would not be the end of the oil industry in total.

  15. The reason why we don't use it on Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P · · Score: 1

    The Nazi experiments were mostly producers of trash data- a scientific cover for the worst kind of torture. The only worthwhile scientific trials done in the camps were a few pharmaceutical studies for Bayer. The rest were utter garbage, such as attempting to change a Jew's eyes into an Aryan blue with chemical injections.

  16. A fucking extortionist on GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    ...that's what the man sounds like. Gamespy is dead on in dropping a legal bomb on these guys.

  17. You miss the point on Imagine A UN-Run Internet · · Score: 1

    The purpose of the UN is to provide a forum for diplomacy.

    Nothing more, nothing less. It isn't a world government, and it isn't a military command center.

    You're judging the UN on a standard you hope that it can't fit (because it would frankly scare the pants off you if it did) and then crow about how useless it is when it doesn't match your criteria (generally, that of being a US bigger than the US.)

    International law is a weird thing, and it's all about justifications. The UN is there to put it all out into the open.

  18. Ho ho on Google Expanding To IRC? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    finally I have a source for the newest and most horrible mind-destroying image weapons ever created.

  19. Filters on BitPass: Micropayment That Seems To Work · · Score: 2

    Why should I pay to stop spam when my filters have already caught all of it?

  20. No kidding on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 1

    I also disliked the noise of a fan going all the time in my little apartment. The computers are all in their own room, but the cable modem connection is in the main room. I like having it out there so I can have the option of using console broadband stuff without running a cable back to the main computer room. A silent, low-power router appliance is a lot more useful for this.

  21. Re:Hmm... on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    If we allow Russian collaborators like you to run our national security infrastructure, we'll all be writing odes to Comrade Stalin by next winter. Huzzah.

    And we won't even have any sneakers.

    Where did I say any of this was a bad thing?

  22. Re:Hmm... on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    Eh, just making a personal observation. It was something I hadn't thought about in a while.

  23. Hmm... on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who do I know that uses Redhat? No one, really, except maybe a couple of people who have dualboots and claim that "the computer is running linux version 9! what kernel? version 9 of course!"

    Everyone seems to be on Mandrake or Debian.

  24. Patents on Are MS, W3C Barking Up Wrong Prior Art Tree? · · Score: 1

    You can patent without the slightest idea of how such an object will be represented in the physical world.

  25. Re:Looks EXPENSIVE on More on Talking Shopping Carts · · Score: 1

    the answer is, no one will shell out for them because bums will just steal the carts, as they have since time immemorial.