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  1. Re:The Blue Screen of Death on SlashNET Forum with Marcel Gagne · · Score: 3, Funny
    I have seen some recently on winXP pro and they actually were due to hardware issues, so yeah they still exist, but nothing like their glory days of the win9x series. Beating the "BSOD" joke to death is old hat and really not current for a current book.

    OTOH, my new book "Saying goodbye to Exception Errors and emm386 by moving to Linux" should be on bookshelves soon.

  2. Re:Next our president will publically.... on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    AC pussyboy said:

    God you're a dipshit.

    The US could end life on earth at any moment, and we don't.

    If countries threaten us, which they constantly do because we're bigger and better than they are, we can, should, and will fuck with them.

    Go fuck yourself please.

    Now, now Cheney take it easy man, no need for that language.....but you know that attitude is exactly why people want to screw with us. Dick, really,think about it in your hidden bunker under D.C.

  3. Next our president will publically.... on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 0, Troll
    .....announce his love for jelly beans!

    "$66.4 million is being spent on a research project to "deny, disrupt and degrade adversary space-based surveillance and reconnaissance systems." He said another $79 million is funding efforts to build a "constellation of optical sensing satellites to track and identify space forces."

    So did we (the U.S.) just spike our flag in SPACE??? Space?!

    Since it seemes we're the only ones that can monitor anything from there and can create a constellation of space junk(?) Based on Michael Kucharek, U.S. Air Force Space Command spokesmans' comments.

    Maybe there will be martians in that brine, to come knock us down a few pegs....sounds like we need it

  4. Don't look behind the curtain on Infinium Labs Threatens Gaming News Site · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is the VC cash running out? What are they trying to keep "under the radar"? Their CEO at least is making a grand living producing nothing.....is this bad press pissing on their gravy train perhaps?

  5. Re:Exactly what Russian's need on Russian-Targeted MMORPG Faces Unique Obstacles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    screenshots here, for six bucks a month not too bad

  6. Time to start a towtruck business... on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1
    ....in New Mexico.

    I'm all for keeping drunks off the road, but treating everyone as a drunk right from the get go is not the way to do it. I don't know about New Mexico, but the DUI violators in my state get fined out the ass AND are required to foot the bill for the Ignition Interlock installation and monitoring, so yeah, thats a big deterrent for repeat offenses, unless you are a wealthy drunk.

  7. Re:Swearing? on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    personal projects, yeah its fine, at work I'd stay off the questionable words, but I do have in-jokes and smartass comments in there

  8. Re:Whoa... on Videogame Pirate Gets Long Jail Sentence · · Score: 1

    same here....when I was reading the summary and saw Razor1911 I felt all nostalgic and such. They definately were well known and had great "market-saturation" so to speak...

  9. Re:You know what's a bit funny ....about TAXES on HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures · · Score: 1
    I hear ya on the flamebait ruling..

    my "best we can do.." should have had {sarcasm} tags around it :)

    Yeah, money is pretty abstract but I believe the original intent and practice is that for every dollar, there is a dollars worth of gold/silver in the treasury, so the bill was just a representative of the actual valuable metals. And carrying around $20 of gold bar in your pocket can be a pisser!

  10. Re:You know what's a bit funny ....about TAXES on HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I agree, the whole premise is absurd, "this paper is worth more than that paper" but I guess its the best humanity can do

    And another thought I've had recently, take a dollar and if you could follow it around for ten years or so. Count how many times that dollar was taxed. I think it would create a monetary wormhole and collapse back on itself. The collective COST of using that said dollar would far suprass the face value.

  11. Another great book on ASM on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    Is Jeff Duntemann's Assembly Language Step by Step, I have the original edition from 92' and it appears there's been a revised edition that covers some Linux. Whats nice is that he has always taken the approach that it is your first language to learn, and he does a great job of laying it all out in very layman type terms. I still have that book and it will be one that I always keep around.

  12. Re:I got my barcode on my leg on Decode Your Barcode, Get Your Personal Info · · Score: 1
    What format?

    I would think it would have to be a 1-D code, any of the UPCs,EANs or CODE 39/128

    PDF417 is very picky even on printed documents, let alone on human skin! 1-D codes are very forgiving

    And all I need to scan these types of barcodes, is a scanner plugged into a serial port and good ol' Hyperterminal set to the COM port, but if you want to be able to read the data fairly easily, capture it to a text file.

  13. Re:Quoted message wrong on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 4, Informative
    The correct message in the executable is:

    "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry."

    My^H^HThe Authors Name is not "Andy", he just says "Sorry" to him :)

    Even though its an AC post, MOD parent up....and it may be that "Andy" is the author of the A variant("andy" was found in version A exe), and the author of the B variant(where this sorry message was found) is just apologizing to the original author for whatever reason.

    And maybe the new author is named Barney, cuz, like, it reminds me of Barney Fife saying sorry to Andy Griffith or something, or we could guess all day long with no real basis for any of it. Wheeee!

  14. Re:MOD PARENT UP on "DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation · · Score: 1
    Mod this parent UP due to the power of their sig!

    Newly Wu-Signed,
    Superintendent God-Botherer

  15. Number 16 - Spike Lee on The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm glad that idiot is listed so high, that lawsuit was just wrong. I guess he owns the market on "Spike" huh? I was hoping the network won, but it turns out there was a settlement, wonder how much it cost to have Mr. Lee grace the network with "his name" - what a tool

  16. My Co-Worker just said it best....... on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1
    after I forwarded the link to him

    "If I read that whole article my head will explode. Could we just fix the fucking problems please? I have enough to remember already."

    :)

  17. ...turned up some interesting finds? on Warspying in San Francisco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Where were these "finds" in the article? The office? The store security camera? I didn't see any particularly interesting

  18. Re:I'm curious... on Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars · · Score: 1
    What I'd love to see it some photos of the night sky. I've always wanted to see the same constellations from a planet other than Earth. Dunno why, just seems significant to me.

    to take that a step further, have a decent telescope sent up that can gaze from there and transmit images back to us, getting 35 million miles more sight could be interesting

  19. Re:Not hacking, just bad administration. on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1
    A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.

    To me, it looks like what happened here is that the Dems didn't configure thier system correctly, and accidently gave the Rebublicans access to thier confidential files.

    To me, it seems that that both parties were on the same server(as stated in quote and article) and only the Republicans were snooping where they shouldn't be, or they were the only ones who got caught in this situation.

  20. Re:Use Apache! on Apache Cookbook · · Score: 3, Informative

    Servlets/JSP are handled by Jakarta/Tomcat, webservices are handled by Axis both are Apache projects

  21. Re:Big Brother on Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring · · Score: 1
    I expect their excuse is to improve road safety. The real reason is so they can issue more speeding tickets and increase the number of tolls.

    Well, I don't know about in the UK, but the US Northeast theres something called ezPass, which is a rf device on your car that allows you to pass thru tolls without waiting in line. I always wondered if ,just on the speeding issue alone, law would ever be passed to give out tickets based on the time duration between toll-booths.

    And on a side note, Red-Light cameras are becoming more popular as well (I work for State Government) where cameras are at intersections and catch red light runners. Alot of people get up in arms "invasion of privacy" and bs like that, if you are in public, you are in public. And if you're in public running a red light and the police have video/pics, too bad for you.

  22. Re:Asianux on Linux for Asia: Asianux · · Score: 2, Funny
    C'mon, no one said "It should be called Rinux" yet?

    *rimshot*

    LOL or should I say ROR?

  23. What???! *Outrage* on Linux for Asia: Asianux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you mean GNU-ASIANUX? *Hrmmmph*

  24. Re:Can they really do this? on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1
    I'm surprised SCO hasn't started busting into every business and started taking computers with Linux on them...

    Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Don't give them any ideas LOL

  25. Very Clear, sir, verrry clear! on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1
    "We want to be very clear who we are and what we?re doing," says John Langley, Western regional coordinator for the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit. "First and foremost, we?re professionals."

    How is playing dress-up and acting like law-enforcement and conducting "shake-downs" professional or clear? Can actual police have anything to say in regard to this? So if I have a industry I can round up a posse to ruffle up some people that I don't like or that I think is causing my business harm?

    Nice......bwahahaha! Time to incorporate and kick some Ass!