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  1. Re:Reviewer == The Idiot on Review: Men In Black II · · Score: 1

    and ends up with a smart-mouthed, sometimes hilarious pug for a partner.

    When I first read this, it gives the impression that the dog was randomly found. It's Frank, the street informant, "intergalactic Huggy Bear" from the first movie.

    From what I hear, this movie is a sequel, nothing more. A repackage of the same jokes from the first film. Reading the review, it seems the reviewer didn't see or doesn't remember much about the first, and it all seems new and fresh.

  2. Have to pay RUN-DMC on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1

    Lyrics From You Talk Too Much

    25 Hours a day
    8 days a week
    13 months a year
    Is when you speak

  3. Re:Move to Taiwan on Telemarketers and Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Europe, at least the few places I visited are like this too. Look at the pay phones, the cost to call a local cell phone is just barely less than calling the states.

  4. Re:Code named software on New Red Hat Beta: LIMBO · · Score: 1

    The original Valhalla and Limbo are from Norse mythology. Warriors who died in battle where wisked away to Valhalla, roughly heaven. Limbo was liek hell, nowhere'sville man. I forgot, but I think you were stuck in Limbo, never could get out.

  5. Re:here is my theory on Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff · · Score: 1

    Just look at our automotive industry: the Corvette, it has gobs of horsepower but no decent handling, and for about the same price one could get a Lotus Elise

    To be picky, not in the states they can't. The Elise isn't allowed on USA roads, EPA stuff (emmissions, crash regs). Lotus will soon import it, finally jumped over the EPA hurdle, but you can't say thats the reason now.

  6. No scruples? on Data Mining, Cocaine and Secrecy · · Score: 1

    The traffickers have the advantages of unlimited funds and no scruples

    INSERT FAVORITE BILL GATES/MICROSOFT JOKE HERE.

  7. Re:Bootable Dedicated Game Servers on Running Unix Entirely from CD? · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, the DreamCast did this. WHne you turned the machine on, it booted into an OS off the disk. I think it had to be Linux or WinCE, just because those were the OSes that they ported the APIs to.

  8. Re:Hilarious on Coursey on Palladium · · Score: 2

    This is the same company that tells other folks that you should use MS products not Open Source because of security, then says it can't release their source code because their products are so buggy that any release will cause security holes. Hmm, if after years of writing OS and Applications you can't write code that would stand up to release, now you decide you have enough security expertise to totally rewrite the basic security platform of billions of PCs. Ummm, OK.

    Microsoft makes many products, some good, some not so good. But they've always been the best when it comes to anouncements of what they will do, and have people buy it. No matter how many cult-of-personality thinkers say it, Bill Gates is not the best visionary (MS BOB, remember how he had to reissue "The Road Ahead" to include his great wisdom on the Internet) but they're paranoid hyper-competitive people who will do absolutely anything to stay ahead.

  9. Re:And the anonymous is.... on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    ...Steve Ballmers...

    {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!! {Linux} Developers!!

    If we pay another 100K, do we get to NOT see him dance?

  10. Re:Very good game on World Cup Final · · Score: 2, Funny

    I watched it on UniVision here. The best was hearing (in Spanish) "It's a bird, a plane, it's SUPER-KAHN!" and I don't even speak spanish either.

  11. Re:Brasil! on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    Portuguese is a tough language, I took some lessons last time I was down there. When you have one s in the middle of a word, it's pronounced as a z. So the Pronounciation is 'Brah ZILL'. interesting to hear the spanish channels pronounce it, they spell it Brasil, but pronounce it as an s, so it's Brah-SILL to them.

  12. Re:true world champions on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    When they played Costa Rica, sat most of their players for rest and yellow card issues, and still whipped their ass 5-2. Costa Rica got close (3-2) and Brazil just turned it up a notch and went to work, scoring 2 goals in like 10 minutes.

  13. Re:Brasilians do not have last names? on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    Dunno, maybe you should ask Magic that, or Madonna.

    It's all nicknames, Brazilians are VERY big on nicknames, a very friendly, familiar kind of people.

  14. Re:"I belong to Jesus" / "Jesus Loves You" on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    Depends on the region. In Bahia, it's very much like Santeria, where they pretty much worshipped the deities from Africa, and called them the names of Saints. The Portuguese pretty much turned a blind eye to this, pragmatic about it, decided to keep the slaves happy. In other areas, it's more like what we view as mainline Christianity.

  15. Re:Whats wrong with that? on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    Azrael: The cat of Gargamel
    http://www.hcmagazine.com/gui/content/ar ticles/smu rf_gargamelnazrael.jpg

  16. Re:Spoiler... on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    My favorite was the ABC guys predicting the game. One guy said "I think Brazil 2-1." Hmmm, I'm pretty sure Brazil will get 2, but....

  17. Re:congrats brasil on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    Ronaldo did play extremely well, good to see him get rid of the bad taste of the last world cup. Rivaldo also was dynomite. He helped on both of Ronaldo's goals, slamming the first shot hard enough for a rebound shot, and on the second pass from Kleberson, he faked like the pass was going to him, confusing the defense. Allowed Ronaldo to set up, and light up Kahn.

  18. Re:No commercials! on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    All games are like this, there are no breaks or plays, so there's no spot to put them in. They put little ads here or there on screen during though.

  19. Public Enemy et. al. on Music Companies Convicted of Price Fixing Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't steal from my old comment, Slashcode doesn't get that far back, the bastards, now I have to write with a few beers in me....

    PE had a couple new tracks, and a lot of remixes, and they wnted to put it out. They called it Bring the Noise 2000, named after their track Bring the Noise which permanently changed the direction of hip-hop/rap. Def Jam (their label) didn't want to. So PE released it as MP3s on the net, the label gave them hella shit. I actually have a copy of that before they pulled it from the web (thank you GeoCities).

    After this, PE left Def Jam (I think Def Scam was their wording) and put out an album called There's a Poison Going On, after they split from Def Jam/Columbia. They sold it from AtomicPop.com for $8 downloads, $10 if you bought the actual physical album, and that came with an autographed CD liner from Chuck D (I bought it to get the autograph). AtomicPop later imploded unfortunately, and I then see the exact same album at Virgin Megastore for $18.

    Did Virgin give Chuck and Flava Flav an extra $10 per album? (They didn't sell autographed ones, so compare to $8-9 or so.) I doubt it. I'm pretty sure the price bump was just to get it in their normal, non-sale price structure, and give R. Branson a couple extra bucks. Many artists have fought with the industry to get a what they consider normal price. I think Tom Petty actually released an album named 8.99 (or something like it) to stop the labels from boosting the price past that. The way the labels structure it, groups get cash from touring, not from record/CD sales, so groups have little incentive to sell a lot.

    Count how many elements a tape has:
    You have two plastic half-shells, two reels each with a plastic piece to hold on to the tape, the tape itself which has the tape, an oxide layer deposited on it, and two leader segments added to it, the metal and spongy piece to force good tape-head contact, and possibly astenerws (though the cheaper tapes just snap on). Contrast this with CD, with only one part, nothing moving. And the CD costs more? Ummmmmm....

  20. Re:sure.... but why? on Red Hat, HP, Intel Join in Itanium Linux Alliance · · Score: 1

    Of course, it's not a desktop system.

    Windows NT uses 2GB for the kernel address space and 2GB VM for process space. they made this 3GB for process space, and 2GB for kernel in Advanced server, some preocesses were choking out.

  21. Re:SuSE not in there? They were first on Itanium! on Red Hat, HP, Intel Join in Itanium Linux Alliance · · Score: 1

    No biggie, but TurboLinux was first, in May, and RedHat was earlier, by a month. See the Linux on IA-64 page.

    Though I don't know if these were actually up and running, or on the simulator. I'm just not checking out Itanium stuff, for FP speed.

  22. Microsoft becomes KaZaa on Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time · · Score: 1

    A company piggybacks unwanted code on a download.
    The unwanted code changes the user's experience.
    The unwanted code also actively trashes other software on the box (KaZaa had downloads that disabled AdAware).

    In some respects, Microsoft's is even worse. KaZaa is at least a descretionary download - your computer wll be fine without it. Microsoft is piggybacking on a security fix - don't patch it, and you leave yourself open to hackers. Ironically, the hole is caused by DRM.

    Gee, like Bill Gates says, good thing you don't have any of that open source where they don't have to listen to what you want.

  23. Re:Things to Try on Apache Worm in the Wild · · Score: 2

    rm depends on permissions of the containing directory, not the file. Since the worm does rm -f before the cat, make sure you have your /tmp permissions right.

    If you set the sticky bit on the directory (most tmps have it set already) the file can't be removed unless the owner of the rm process and the owner of the file match. Then the cat should fail.

    Also try chflgs if you're running on freebsd (other BSD's probably have equivs).

  24. Re:A logo speaks a thousand words? on No Logo Wins FreeBSD Foundation Contest · · Score: 1

    See PriceWaterHouse ==> "MONDAY"

    My fave was mens clothiers Hart Shaffner and Marx going to HartMarx. HartMarx sounds like a heartworm pill.

  25. Re: SCO and Mickeysoft on Ransom Love to Focus on UnitedLinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the Microsoft thing, you have to remember Microsoft created XENIX, mostly by farming it out to SCO to do the port. XENIX eventually became what is now OpenServer 5, which was SCO's mainline (and only UNIX) for many years. Kind of hard to hate MS when they formed the core of their business for decades. MS also owns some amount of the old SCO, dunno how that played out with the Caldera purchase. A lot of XENIX => OpenServer code had MS copyrights, and MS got a cut of every OS5 sale until 1997 I read...