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  1. Do you have a hard time enjoying ..... on Chicken Run · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Prozac?

  2. Re:Another option on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's a shortfall of the kernel not KDE.

    Why arn't all the kioslave protocols in the kernel?

    camera:\\
    ftp:\\
    http:\\
    fish:\\
    etc....

  3. Can't the Judge still screw M$ on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 1

    AIRC, Part of the settlement was the ability of the judge to review any further nastyness by Microsoft.
    Which could be mergers, or tightly intergrating media player or IE or whatever.

  4. Stop/Reload use the same button on Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement · · Score: 1

    ...."Why didn't anyone else think of this?"

    Well, because it's the most stupid UI mistake in the world.

    Given that no one ever reads anything, why would you change stop, please don't download any more, to 'reload', reload the whole fucking lot again.

    The functions seem compleatly oposite and bastard anoying if you click reload thinking it was stop.

    It's like replacing the break with the accelerator when the car is stopped.

  5. Re:Pickpocket from a distance... on Contactless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Lets see:

    I buy somthing/s with a credit card.
    The information about what I have purchased goes into a comsumer information pool.
    The credit and data mining companies have stolen something that I created without even asking.
    Now that's thieft from a distance.

    Use cash don't let the credit agencies steel your life away.

  6. Re:Please help NAT users... on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Well, I've just tried the mandrake9.1 distro, from the bittorrent web site.

    My dowloand rate is about 15k (out of a max 200k)
    My upload rate is 20k(out of a max 35k)

    If there's only enough bandwidth to give me a 15k download why isn't my upload maxed out?

  7. Please help NAT users... on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I would use BitTorrent but I only ever get a few k download becuase I'm using NAT.

    What is the possability of supporting push type connections so that NAT users can benifit from BitTorrent?

  8. Re:europe doesn't need GPS like the US does. on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    And the wrong colour, centre, gallon ..........

  9. If it weren't for standards ...... on Futuremark Replies to Nvidia's Claims · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "3DMark03 was developed strictly according to DirectX9 standard in very close cooperation with Microsoft and other BETA members. If hardware performs well 3DMark03, it performs well in all applications that use DirectX 9. Note that since 3DMark is designed to be an objective evaluation tool, it does _not_ include manufacturer-specific optimizations. This is why it is exceptionally well suitable for objective performance measurement. "

    Does this guy work for NVidia?

  10. *COUGH*Mathamatics*COUGH* on Are Standards Groups Stifling Innovation? · · Score: 1

    The whole of maths is just one big standard. Thing where we'd be today if it wasn't, bastards.

  11. New morpheus on Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program · · Score: 1

    There's a new morpheus client comming out soon. (since they won the court case).
    Hopefully it will force the Kazaa client to mature a bit.

  12. 'even for traffic between work & home' (OT) on IPV6 Conference June 24-27 · · Score: 1

    You should be using a comercial, not a private connection.

    I beleive that comercial traffic make up most of the day time load of ISP's and puts more strain on the network than P2P traffic.

    Wander why your being bytecharged?

  13. europe doesn't need GPS like the US does. on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least most of Europe can point to there country on a map of the earth.

  14. I aggree on ReplayTV May Drop "Commercial Advance" · · Score: 1

    Haven't watched TV for at least two years, don't miss it one bit.

    People should go out, talk and get their own lives instead of borrowing fictional lives off of the TV.

    Did you know that the US government gave money to ER (is it still running?) to show positions favourable to government policy. (e.g. evil drug addicts)

  15. Re:Some people don't take credit. on RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes · · Score: 1

    I pay for my drugs using cards!

    Paypal, fastpay, order drugs over the internet. I don't even know what my dealer looks like...

  16. Thats not how you steal money. on RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Break into a computer system,
    Transfer money to a Swiss bank account (Billions)...
    Do the time (15years max)
    Come out and retire.

    Or if you white collar.
    Get a job at XYZ bank.
    Embezzle money in a Swiss bank account(trillions)
    Do the time (10years max?)
    Come out and retire.

    If you a dirty scumbag
    Buy a gun
    Hold up a bank for a few hundred thousand.
    Get shot, do the time (25years max)
    Come out, and kill yourself.

  17. XSL? and dataprocessing on Inside Microsoft's New F# Language · · Score: 1

    Isn't XSL a functional language?
    I think Microsoft will be placing F# in the dataprocessing arena.

  18. Re:Dear Mr. Gates on Today's SCO News · · Score: 1

    I want to be the richest man in the world.

  19. Jack of all trades, MASTER of none (OT) on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog? · · Score: 1

    Jack and Master refer to places in society under a feudal system. 'Jack of all trades, master of none', says that you will never get far in life if you spread your skills about.

    Jack.
    a : MAN -- usually used as an intensive in such phrases as every man jack b often capitalized : SAILOR c (1) : SERVANT, LABORER (2) : LUMBERJACK

    Master
    1 a (1) : a male teacher (2) : a person holding an academic degree higher than a bachelor's but lower than a doctor's often capitalized : a revered religious leader c : a worker or artisan qualified to teach apprentices d (1) : an artist, performer, or player of consummate skill (2) : a great figure of the past (as in science or art) whose work serves as a model or ideal.

  20. Death by work on Computing's Lost Allure · · Score: 1

    Computers are great, if your doing R&D.
    I've found that I've started to rott away at work, I might as well be packing tins of beans.

  21. Re:it DOES cause an error on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    What context do people get then and than confused?

    I would rather have apples than plums.
    I would rather have apples then plums.

    Fairly obvious.

    Now then, do people really write 'Now than...'

    Please help: I don't want to make the then/than mistake.

  22. What makes them so reliable? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    The mainframe where I work gets reloaded every week, and often has peformance problems or downtime.

  23. banner adds? on I, Spammer · · Score: 1

    What's the differance with banner adds, there usually bigger than emails so they chew up more bandwidth.

  24. Do you realise what you've said? on Hijacking .NET · · Score: 1

    "Access control had nothing really to do with, it was primarily put into place to prevent some idiot from overwriting a crucial function or changing the type of data (IE static array to double linked list) and causing your program to CRASH."

    So it's not a security problem, you can't fuck up the buffers that are ment to be private, you can't cause undersirable effects.

    If you cause a signed module that has elevated privillages to crash or do somthing weird you can potentially elevate your priverlages.

  25. That would be true... on Hijacking .NET · · Score: 1

    But .NET runs in a VM and is supposed to be sandboxed.
    The VM should be responsible for preventing access to private members, this ability breaks the sandbox model (private means private) and is a security issue.
    just like calling
    sendmessage(some_handle_i_dont_own,larlar lar)