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  1. OK, what about the geology on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    The article makes it all sound so serene. "The magnetic poles are going to change, nothing to worry about, there's no more to see here, move along."

    My question is this. How will it effect geology? Will the earths geology 'move' to attempt to align itself with the 'new' magnetic field on a small scale, large scale, or what?

  2. Re:Mitnick stories... on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not that he's a felon, it's that Mitnick is a prick.

  3. Re:Mitnick stories... on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 1

    You'd go so far as compare Mitnick to Galileo? That's like comparing spam to Kobe beef.

  4. Re:Mitnick stories... on Mitnick Speaks About Hacking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now there you go shattering the illusion that the 'hacker' wannabe's keep holding on to like an old woman holding on to keeps trying to hold on to here fading looks.

    The sad truth of it all is that he's part of 'computing lore', he'll end up as a footnote in the computing equivilent of Bullfinches, placed there by his lame fanboys.

  5. Re:Careful... on Eye Transplant Enables Blind Boy to See · · Score: 1

    I was thinking much the same thing "wow, and eye transplant... oh hell, it's a cornea transplant... big deal."

  6. Re:We want to believe in CACert... but ... on Free Certificate Authority Unveiled by Aussies · · Score: 1

    There's evidently no checking for a valid government ID. I, for one, will not give out my ssn, drivers license, etc... to anybody unless they have a valid reason for those id's. Just enter a fake number, and keep track of it.

  7. Re:I hate to be a pushover... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 1

    Dannit! Dammit all to hell! My lifes work destroyed!

  8. Re:I hate to be a pushover... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Religion is not a factor. I am simply not impressed and will not 'ooo' and 'aaaa' over a number that has no real use or significance.

    It's simply an empty 'milestone'. Kind of like when you see that run down shithole by the side of the road. It's ultimately of little note.

  9. Re:I hate to be a pushover... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "To answer your question a little more seriously the number is not much use in itself but like many peices of research the route to the goal often turns out more interesting information than the goal."

    Kinda kicks you in the ass when people say "ok, what good is it?"

    I know what good it is. It's a way of keeping 'scientists' employed (scientific welfare) so they don't pollute the job and gene pools.

    I'm considering doin research on the 'how', 'why', and 'classification' of belly button lint. I'm sure there's a government funded grant in it. We REALLY NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS 'just in case' they are usefull in the future.

  10. Re:What about .American Graffitti? on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    I thought it sucked, but I'm also one not to live in the past thinking that time period was the greatest of all.

  11. Re:Yeah, real prophetic on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    In THX-1138 sex IS illegal, but there is entertainment of wriggling/dancing naked bodies for the masses to watch.

  12. Re:Car dealers on Telecom Carriers Use Deceptive Advertising · · Score: 1

    Actually, if they say "it's necessary, everyone has to pay it. It's state mandated." then it's a fraudulent statement, and, as we all know, fraud is illegal.

  13. Re:My prediction on Microsoft Blames Anti-trust Legal Fees for Price Increases · · Score: 1

    A car company forces you to buy Firestone tires even though you prefer Pirelli or Goodyear.

  14. Re:Wow, I really must be showing my youth... on Star Trek TOS DVD Box Sets Forthcoming · · Score: 1

    The Star Trek Log books are the same stories as the animated series.

  15. Re:Wages in the US ARE very high on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    So is the cost of living.

    Companies here want to command a high price for their product/service, but they don't want to pay their workers a fair wage.

  16. Re:The Bible has been shown again and again to be on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    There's so much hatred for Judeo-Christain beliefs because most people on Slashdot are just poseurs. Their the same people you see that wear "show me your cunt" t-shirts then wonder why they don't get laid. Their the same people that yell out "Hail Satan!", then profess to be pagans. Their the same people that dress like "gangsta's", talk like inner-city blacks, but are white and from suburbia. Their just a perpetuation of the continuing mob of trendenista's that perpetuate in society. Eventually they grow out of it, but their always replaced with more.

    They simply live to be contrary. Today it's to be contrary against Judeo-Christains, tomorrow it's anybody's guess what ill wind will blow their contrary attitude towards. It's like the stink from a stockyard. It stinks, it's there, and you know that the origin of it is a bunch of shit.

  17. Perception/relativity on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 1

    OK, IMHO, it's all a matter of perception. place the 'big bang' at the pointy end of the funnel, now mark 'now time' at the big open end of the funnel. Number the universe age from 0 at the pointy end to 'now' at the big open end.

    Perception.

    It's NOT funnel shaped, but limited minds could perceive it as funnel shaped all depending on how far away (back) they look with instruments.

  18. Re:You missed the message on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1

    And her name is Rosey Palm? eh?

  19. Re:What to do? What to do? on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 1

    IANAL...

    That is why everyone that this happens to should file a counter suit for the cost of the original suits litigation.

  20. Re:Status symbols on Spread The Love (And Pay Us) · · Score: 1

    Actually, Zircons look a lot nicer.

  21. Re:I'm not sure what to think. on EV1Servers.Net's CEO Regrets SCO Deal · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is site churn because most people that need web hosting have no freakin idea what they want or how the technology works. There's always someone else that will come along and promise them everything to get them to switch to their service. Churn is normal.

  22. Re:Worthless on SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You wanna know what he's thinking? KA-CHING!

    1. Get into the anti-spam biz.
    2. Talk ICANN into a .mail TLD with your org as the registrar!
    3. PROFIT!

    If you wish to debate #2 just think about it for a bit.

    The .mail TLD will not stop spam, spam-trojans, or anything of the like. It would be trivial for a spam trojan on a compromised machine to look into the configuration of any email software installed, extact the SMTP server name and just simply send through that server instead of sending directly to the recipients server. Most ISP's allow relays off of their network through their mail server with no authentication.

    Won't change a damn thing, just the method if that method is not already used.

  23. just great on SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just love it when a bunch of crazy fuckers with just as much a chip on their shoulder as the spammers have go and push for something like this. 2k a year? bullshit. they can suck my dick.

  24. Re:Shocked! Appalled! on Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go? · · Score: 1

    and here I was about to ask what planet they were from.

  25. Re:Tell me about it. on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    I charge $40/hr (yes, it's low low low), and I do offer $20/month for pm per machine (scandisk, defrag, check connections, blow out dirt, check card seating). Few took up the pm offer, the others... well... PROFIT!

    There are those clients that just keep screwing things up. One of them would literally get a virus infection once a week despit NAV being installed and running THEM kept saying that I didn't do the job right last time... first time I ever fired a client.

    As for blindly clicking the OK button? Well... PROFIT!

    Thank you Micro$oft, thank you Gator and the rest of the adware gang.