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  1. Re:Listen up, people on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Electronic Toilet · · Score: 1

    So, if you accidentally grabbed a pile of shit with your hands, you'd be perfectly OK just wiping them clean with some toilet paper, forgoing the sink, water and soap? And who are you, so wise in the ways of science, that you know what others do and do not need?

  2. Re:Anyone recommend VPN provider? on The Problems of Web Surfing in Public Places · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could get a cheap hosting account that offers SSH and open a SOCKS tunnel on your machine or router and point your browser at that. DNS will be resolved on your hosting company's server (for SOCKS 4a and 5), and everything will be encrypted until it leaves the hosting company's server, at which point it will about as secure as any other wired connection (which is to say, not at all to the determined cracker). You also get the benefit of the static IP address and ability to run mail and web servers. Check here and here and here for some ways of keeping your tunnels persistent under *nix and win32, and look at unixshell# or JVDS for hosting plans. I've used them both, and they both seem pretty good.

  3. Re:s/ebling mis/ellsworth toohey on Google Targets TV Advertising · · Score: 1

    Heh. Who hasn't been bitten by an off-by-one error now and again (or, if you're a MySpace developer, nearly every day)?

  4. Re:s/ebling mis/ellsworth toohey on Google Targets TV Advertising · · Score: 1

    So, you keep your book collection in alphabetical order by title?

  5. Re:overkill, why not RAM? on Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off · · Score: 1

    Had you taken the time to read TFA, you'd see it is indeed a router AND a server, so you'd need 160 GB of RAM to replace the internal storage. Your convoluted and brittle solution is only cheaper if your time is worthless and you consider losing data acceptable.

  6. Re:Beetle on Flash Drives Go To Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA:

    Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving an employee's car over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and we didn't lose a single file.

    The article doesn't go on to mention how they then put the thumb drive in the employees car, set the car on fire and pushed it over a cliff. Miraculously, the thumb drive survived! Boy, was that guy pissed when he found out what they did to his car...

  7. Re:Link to experiment program on Unrestricted vs. Limited Shareware, In Dollars · · Score: 1

    I love the retro look and feel.

  8. Re:Hey! on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 1

    Umm, I think that was the essence of the OP's joke - the woodshop teacher has too few fingers to count to five on one hand.

  9. Re:Illegal spying: Britain and U.S. governments on UK Terror Bust Caught With Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    It's even more amazing to think that just 230 years ago, the United States was actually owned by Britain, but now is getting pwned by Iraq.

  10. Re:I for one... on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 2, Funny

    And who doesn't enjoy a sack of Schweaty balls during the holidays?

  11. Re:Quit bitching on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you trying to say the phase-shifted noise of a Mosquito annoyancebot sounds like a viola?

  12. Re:Has The Register become The Inquirer? on United States Cedes Control of the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    and Al Gore was seen screaming "You can't have my baby! You'll never take my baby!"

    Pedants take note: Yes, I know he never said he invented it. No need to reply.

  13. Re:Agree with the parent on Recommendations for a 50" (or Larger) Display? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably easier to get a new wife. There's a pool of about 3 billion women out there, so I'm sure one of them will meet your criteria for wifehood, and not be so fucken sensitive to shit like rainbow effects or wheat gluten.

  14. Re:dual boot? on Inside Vista's Image-Based Install Process · · Score: 1

    And now so are we.

  15. Re:Preview Release on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December · · Score: 1

    Reminds me more of the old "People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front" feud.

  16. Re:RAR? In a Torrent!? on Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals · · Score: 1
    cargo cult

    You keep using this phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  17. Re:Excellent article on How to use Subversion with Eclipse · · Score: 1

    You may want to remove Subclipse and try Subversive. It's free, and I've found it to be more reliable and full-featured than the Subclipse plugin. Check the FAQ before using for some info on migrating, if you choose to.

  18. Re:Adverts? on New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service · · Score: 1

    You could always try these guys: EveryDNS. It's free and very reliable.

  19. Re:Flaimebaiting... on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: 1

    OK, to simplify your position - attacking civilians is terror, acting non-civilians and infrastructure is not, no matter what the underlying cause of the attack? I can't say I agree with that, as it seems a bit simplistic and extreme, and that may not be what you are saying. I'm just tring to clarify. (Awesome - I was modded as both Flamebait and Troll! I'm like a Slashdot terrorist!)

  20. Re:Flaimebaiting... on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: 1
    BS. Any Act of War is "unlawful" according to the laws of the target. It is still an Act of War. Killing enemy troops qualifies. Destroying enemy's infrastructure qualifies -- it has military purpose (actually, Clinton's bombing campaing against Serbia is a bit suspect, but I would not call it terrorism either).

    Well, nice try at deliberately misinterpreting me, but I quoted US law, not Iraqi (or anone else's). I agree that bombing munitions factories, et al. during a necessary war is what needs to be done. And, yes, I understand that war is sometimes the only recourse. However, an act of war is unlawful from the acting side if it was predicated on falsehoods, as is attacking a sovereign nation that poses no immediate threat to your own. We have yet to determine who knew what and when they knew it, or whatever that famous quote from the first Nixon era was. It still stands that either Bush is a criminal and terrorist, or just massively incompetent. And are you saying that the simple act of declaring war on another nation - no matter what your reasons - gives you perfect legal freedom to blow all of their shit up, as long as you leave the shawerma and falafel stands alone? If so, your argument makes Hitler's campaign on Europe perfectly justified. (And what does Clinton have to do with any of this? Oh, right - you guys blame Clinton for everything, if you are one of those guys (and I suspect you are).)

    Oh, it is laws of the acting side, that you are concerned about? Well, then, none of those suicide bombers, the Bali-bombing planners, nor, indeed, the 9/11 perpetrators are terrorists, because whatever cause they were answering to gave them fully qualified permission and encouragement to commit these Acts.

    Which internationally recognized sovereign state of laws were they acting on the behalf of? Not any, as far as I can tell. A madman in the desert taking the Quran literally doesn't qualify as a recognized lawful state (nor does a madman in the White House taking the Bible literally, for that matter). Oh, and "they did it first" is a good defense up until about the second grade. It doesn't fly when you are in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth.

    Do not change the subject. Wipe your mouth.

    Sure, sure, and there's freedom fries in the cafeteria. Why do you hate America? Hey, is that a homosexual burning a flag!?!?!

  21. Re:Flaimebaiting... on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: 1, Insightful

    One man's terrorism is another man's "spreading of democracy." According to the Wikipedia, the US defines terror as "...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85). I suppose the keyword here is "unlawful." Congress gave him the authority to pursue by force those responsible for 9/11. If you presume his administration are so disconnected from reality they actually believed their reasons for going to war and that Saddam and Co. were the responsible party for 9/11, then you are right - he is not a terrorist. Otherwise, he lied for political and social reasons, and therefore the entire Iraqi war is an act of terror. So, Bush & Co. are either terrorists, or they are an incompetent bunch of chicken hawks. Either way, are these the guys you want in charge of defending the US? Excuse me, but I think a Korean missle just landed in the parking lot.

  22. Re:Tracking names just doesn't work. on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you kidding? There is a highly dangerous terrorist using that very name as we speak!

  23. Re:I just heard some sad news on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least we know he's in heaven now, with all of the other rich white guys.

  24. Re:An Internet of Their Own? on Google Explains ISP Rumors · · Score: 1
    Essentially we have a giant game of corporate chicken, in which Google has the biggest cock.

    And the biggest bowls of cock-flavoured soup.

  25. Re:Moonwalk on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm reading and posting on Slashdot, which clearly shows I also have nothing else to do with my time...