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  1. OT: DNS on South Africa Wants Control of .za · · Score: 1


    Plus, contacting all those other name servers along the way gives your local DNS plenty of information to cache. For instance, say you wanted to lookup "level2.sub.za.". From the previous query, your DNS would already know the IP address for the authoritative name server for "sub.za." and issue only a single request this time.


    I think I remeber seeing something in passing that a DNS only caches a name for like 1 to 10 seconds. Is that true?

  2. Re:why not give the money to the EFF instead on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    In the pipe, five by five.

    :)

  3. Re:why not give the money to the EFF instead on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    Two words? You just took one word and repeated it!

    Six words: Say hello to my little friend.

  4. Re:Credibility lost on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 2

    Dude, it's Geocities. You can slashdot it with 10 minutes and a reload button.

  5. Re:Not as easy as you'd like on Taking Issue With The Outer Space Treaty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Somebody write up a pigeon-space-suit packet-wrapper specification.

  6. Re:Overreaction on ReplayTV 4500: No Hacking, or Else · · Score: 2

    Because healthy, happy, non-screwed-over customers:
    ...
    * Don't involve the company in expensive lawsuits.


    Someone will always sue.

  7. Re:The hell with mammograms... on 3D Visualization Moves Forward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Strangely enough, these aren't mutually exclusive; any holodeck that I use had better be able to model breasts in three dimensions.

  8. Re:The REAL Dangers of Internet Communication on How Dangerous is Online Chat for Kids? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who would have known it was filled with criminals and perverts?

    Anyone browsing at -1.

  9. Re:how about the case when the parents dont care ? on How Dangerous is Online Chat for Kids? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

    (Come across = ejaculate on)

  10. Re:The Pitch Drop Experiment on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics · · Score: 1

    Is the hammer from 1927, too?

  11. Re:Gen X Nostalgia on Transformers On the Move Again · · Score: 1

    So it begins? Have you ever been to eBay?

  12. Re:Wrong assertion from the lawyers on Linux "is not piracy" Says Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    It is only illegal to copy it if you have specifically given up that right. As the GPL says, "Most lices are created with the purpose of taking away your rights..."

    I thought they were there to make your head itch.

  13. Re:Fan FICTION? on Lucas Restricts Fan-Made Films To Documentaries, Parodies · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    EXT - SPACE

    SCROLLING TEXT: Blah blah blah Senate blah blah blah Jedi blah blah blah.

    Pan down to planet. Wipe to...

    INT - ROYAL APARTMENT

    JAR JAR: (OFF CAMERA) Meesa gonna, meesa gonna, oh oh ah!

    JAR JAR enters from bedroom behind a curtain. He is naked and his eyestalks droop. We see AMIDALA naked, lounging on a bed. She is coverd in CGI spunk and is eating hot grits.

    AMIDALA: That was great, Jar Jar darling! See you tomorrow.

    JAR JAR exits stage left, slide wipe follows him...

  14. Re: Re: In 1948... on Copyright [CBDTPA] Bill Universally Rejected · · Score: 1

    Because he has a couple extra chromosomes.

  15. Re:In 1948... on Copyright [CBDTPA] Bill Universally Rejected · · Score: 2

    Thurmond ran as a 3rd party candidate called the Dixiecrats and almost gave the election to republican Thomas Dewey.

    Almost? I've got photographic proof that he did.

  16. Re:Still haven't _seen_ it..... on The Periodic Table of Comic Book Elements · · Score: 1

    Dude, this has been on the Internet for like 10 years. If you haven't seen it by now, stop talking about it.

  17. Re:You are a pathetic, irritating, pedantic moron. on A Unified Theory of Software Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, really. Stop now.

  18. Re:Wow, this is lame on A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads · · Score: 2

    I never click that checkbox. It would make my life easier when I try to update all the computers I support, but something about it just rubs me the wrong way.

  19. Re:Where's the connection? on Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless you call revolutionizing the distribution of pornography a spectacular human achievement, there's nothing approaching what Edison accomplished here.

    Who are you?

  20. Re:Agreed - handwriting is out. on Could a Pen Replace the Keyboard? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, my hand cramps up when I'm writing a check. Thank God I can pay most bills on the web.

  21. Re:hey now on AI in Video Games vs. AI in Academia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, I would string that bint along for hours. I'd just want to say, "Listen, babe; you're a princess and that's great. But I need somebody a little less clingy. And I have to go kill some metallic Hershey's Kisses now."

  22. Re:You missed the point on "Disposable" Cell Phone Actually Repackaged Nokia · · Score: 2

    I think we should get rid of cash, too. Law-abiding citizens can just use debit cards (and thier required national ID cards) to buy stuff. That will stop crime, for sure.

  23. Re:My pick goes for RSA on Deep Algorithms? · · Score: 2

    or a infinately long tape divided into squares, each of which is inscribed with a 0 or 1. fed into a machine...

    Hey, what if you used some kind of ferrous material embedded in a tough substrate and encoded the 0s and 1s electromagnetically?

  24. Re:How LOTR can win more Oscars on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 2

    * Arwen's role in Two Towers should be to sleep with some Orc played by Billy Bob Thorton

    Plus, no makeup costs!

  25. Re:Best Director on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 2

    I don't see the point of this chronological order trick. It makes the makeup & wardrobe continuity easier, and maybe it's easier for the actors to get in character, but you end up moving people and equipment around to different locations inefficiently and you're at the mercy of the weather much more than you would be.

    So did he do it just for the challenge? Or what?