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  1. of course there is!!! on Europe Heads for the Moon in July · · Score: 1

    Like they say about California -- it's the cheese. Miles and miles of green cheese. Mmmmm, cheese.....

  2. They will really be bummed because: on Europe Heads for the Moon in July · · Score: 1

    1. China will already be there and will have mined all the good moon rocks
    2. They will read slashdot and find out that European life is in doubt anyway!

  3. Elegant nevertheless on Server In A Fly · · Score: 5, Funny

    The impressive part is that they killed the fly by catching it in the air with chopsticks.

  4. Re:score 1 for apple. on Apple Patches Sendmail Bug Quickly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm glad they responded to this quickly, but more glad that sendmail is not enabled by default, and that they try to take minimal security risks on a basic install by turning off a lot of stuff most desktop users don't need. On another note, I am impatient for a fix for the annoying 1969 time/date bug; the workaround they posted is weak.

  5. Re:bad news -- bug leaves Apple most vulnerable on Apple Patches Sendmail Bug Quickly · · Score: 1
    PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.

    Come on, man, we need some more consequential numbers here. How many posts to Usenet about OS X in the past year?

  6. Re:Whoa... on Apple Patches Sendmail Bug Quickly · · Score: 4, Funny
    Wow, Apple actually patched the hole a year before it was discovered! Time travel?

    Yeah, man. They even posted a first post to this discussion about it, but it got moderated "Troll."

  7. good point but terrible example on China Wants To Establish Moon Mining · · Score: 1
    The reason South Korea is rich while millions are starving in North Korea is not because the North Koreans overfarmed or overmined or because the South Koreans are wastefully using up all the resources on the Korean peninsula. It's because the political/economic system of North Korean is screwed up.

    Uhhhh, yeah, whereas the political/economic system of South Korea is known for its virtue, efficiency, and absence of corruption.

  8. yeah that's what we need. on China Wants To Establish Moon Mining · · Score: 1

    Who's going to pay to put symbols on the moon that can be seen from earth? Advertisers, who else?

    Just what we need. Billboards. On the fucking moon. Like advertisers haven't conquered every last square millimeter of public consciousness already. I can't wait to look up at a full moon and see helpful information about a new long distance calling plan. Or to see the waning crescent used as a "C" in "Coca-Cola." Or to see Angelyne's decaying figure etched permanently into moon rock.

  9. Re:Why not? on China Wants To Establish Moon Mining · · Score: 1
    It would be a bad thing if we killed off some never before seen virus or something.

    How would we know? If we never knew, how bad could it be?

  10. Re:In the business world it's also kind of stupid on The Business of Instant Messaging · · Score: 1
    Maybe there is some great benefit to this that I don't see. Someone make me a case for why I would need to spend some money on something like this. I'm curious here. Doubtlessly there's got to be something I'm missing.

    So you can click a window and type "what are you wearing?" when you're supposed to be working.

  11. Re:Legitimate fork? on Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint · · Score: 4, Funny

    an example of a rogue fork is the spork.

  12. Yeah, computers don't make errors... on Computer Error Grounds Japanese Flights · · Score: 1

    They do those things on purpose!

  13. Re:When will people stop with the "9/11 excuse"? on Red Herring Magazine Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    He should blame it on the demise of Salon instead.

    Or, even better, on the return of Battlestar Galactica.

  14. don't forget the worst part of Virtual PC on Keeping up with the Latest (and Worst) Mac Software · · Score: 3, Funny

    is that it allows you to install Windows.

  15. Re:remove the open relays on Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain · · Score: 1

    Check out spamcop.

  16. Re:?!?!?!1 on PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it seems to be a known problem that many are having with the update, I have to reset the clock on every bootup. It's annoying. I hope apple fixes it soon.....

  17. Re:?!?!?!1 on PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wonder how they managed to up the clock so dramatically?

    Easy. They updated to OS X 10.2.4

    Oh, I thought you asked "I wonder how they managed to fuck up the clock so dramatically? "

  18. secure caller id exists on Slashback: Stupidity, Telebastardy, Fast Search · · Score: 0, Troll
    people who do think caller id is a secure way to id the caller.

    There is a secure way to id the caller. Answer the fucking phone. If the call really is from your grandma, she will nag you to cut your hair or something rather than trying to sell you a subscription to Redbook.

  19. Re:Not the "same civilization" on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1
    Man you logic if flawed.

    Man you grammar if nonsensical.

  20. Re:Not the "same civilization" on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1
    I'm having a very hard time believing that they're pushing for war because of all the oppressed Iraqi civilians (I'm guessing that's the point you were trying to make considering the link you posted).

    Yeah, check out the link, I'm surprised nobody else did in this conversation. All the human rights violations cited in the article are from the 80's, when the US was a staunch ally of Iraq, selling them chemical weapons and so forth. I can't believe anybody really believes we are going into Iraq to respond to human rights violations that occurred 15-20-some years ago.

  21. What I want to know is on NYT on RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    how did slashdot know what size you wear?

  22. Help with bbedit registration? on Bare Bones Releases TextWrangler · · Score: 1

    First, I love BBEdit, and have loyally paid for it + upgrades since version 3.0. I recently had to reinstall my system (OS X) and I reinstalled BBEdit and I made 2 accounts, an admin and a user. I put my serial # in for BBEdit under the admin account (version 7.0.1) and then when I logged in as the user, my normal account, it asked me for the number again. But it will not accept the same serial number! Do I have to reinstall everything to use it? I want access to it from both accounts and I am the same person in both cases (and it's on the same computer). Do they expect me to pay twice or am I doing something moronic here?

  23. Clairvoyant web browser? on Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs · · Score: 2, Funny
    "SnapForward" .. pages you want to jump to in the future, rather than the past.

    The day my web browser knows what page I want to go to in the future is the day I quit web browsing.

    I know, I know, it's a pyrrhic victory at best, since my web browser will know what day that will be before I do.

  24. Re:Oh? on Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs · · Score: 2, Funny
    Lynx (or Links)

    Folks, these are not the same browser. Lynx is sane, bloat-free, simple. Links has color and support for other bloatware like tables. This crap slows my computer to a grinding halt. Bloat I tell you!!! Next we'll be seeing popup ads, tabs, and other horrible things. Worst yet I hear they will be changing the name to (B)Links once they add support for everyone's favorite HTML tag....

  25. Re:Salon killed themselves. on Salon Asks for Help · · Score: 1
    a lot of the crap they were slinging was along the lines of "conservatives are so stupid", something I'm not willing to pay for.

    Yeah! Why pay for stupid conservatives when you can get that for free?