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  1. Pull your 40/week and stop on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my early 20s, I like everybody worked 14 hour days 5 days a week. Then at some point (marriage, probably) I realized that the *better* people get their shit done in 8 hours, and go home. If you find yourself working superlong, you're probably not operating correctly. You should just go home and do better tomorrow.

    It's all about planning. Now I no longer look on 70-hour week people as heros; actually the opposite, why can't they get their work done more efficiently.

  2. Re:She looks halfway decent at least on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    Oh god, she's fucking hideous. Damn I need glasses.

  3. Red Vs. Blue appears to suck big time on Machinima - Spielbergs with a Joystick · · Score: 1, Insightful

    God, that is awful. 4 people standing around moving their heads up and down. It's reminded me a lot of "Stimpy's Cartoon." If that's the state of the art, the art has a long way to go.

  4. Re:Super easy movie making? on Machinima - Spielbergs with a Joystick · · Score: 1

    Ug, that is sophomoric crap. Anyone who complains about generic "consumption" clearly is still living off Mom and Dad and feeling pissed off because they don't have the ability to consume all they way.

  5. Re:She looks halfway decent at least on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, you're kinda old, but it's been a pretty dry spell. Sweet, I could use it, if you're serious :-)

  6. Re:She looks halfway decent at least on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 2, Funny

    You obviously haven't ever met any really ugly women. Trust me, they get a lot worse than that. Think Jean Teasdale from The Onion.

  7. She looks halfway decent at least on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: -1, Troll

    Kinda hard to tell from the photo. Tits are small.

    She must be pretty old, but she doesn't look that old. What's her story?

  8. Nobody knows how to make an album any more on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    Part of the reason people don't care about album order any more is very, very few people know how to make an Entire Album any more -- they make a couple of good songs and a bunch of filler. The last real Album I bought was Black Crowes' Amorica back in 1994.

    When Cobain offed hisself I thought their music must rock and I went and bought all his albums. What I found was the typical disease -- a couple of good songs, with a lot of crap surrounding it.

  9. Re:More opensource CMSs on Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS Software · · Score: 1

    Most [a-z]{3}[0-9] combinations are still available. As a "Third," I found it nice to have my initials + 3.com

    They are relatively meaningful and at least have the novelty of being short and not pure nonsense.

  10. 25M? 60M? miles? meters? on Listen to the Sky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they mean 1000 balloons will be enclosed in a 25 mile net at a height of 60 miles?

    Or a 25 meter net at a height of 60 meters?

    The first seems ridiculous; the second is not very high.

  11. Pretty cool stuff on Build Your Own Steadicam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The videos are pretty interesting. Sony should make a commercial version of this, if they can make it for $14. Isn't it amazing how much cooler things sound with a soundtrack.

  12. Netgear on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 1

    I bought a $100 5-port Netgear non-copper Git-E switch and a $39 non-copper gig-e card. My new computer was an i875P which had a gig-e on board. I'm burning a lot of TV shows to DVD. Now I'm actually bottlenecked by the HDD. I can copy over the network as fast as I can disk to disk. Now need faster disks!

  13. Re:Google hardware on Google's Early Hardware · · Score: 1

    Their software must suck, if you need 8 servers to index 40 GB worth of data.

  14. Re:More on Janus on Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme · · Score: 1

    In the Yin-Yang sense, the dualistic animal/noble nature of man.

  15. Yes Please on Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice? · · Score: 1

    I'd like Alprazolmam in mine.

    Do yourselves a favor:

    - Take two days off this spring.
    - Take a 2MG Xanax.
    - Drink a strong cup of coffee.
    - Smoke a joint.

    - Enjoy your afternoon.
    - Sleep all day the next day.

    If only the straights would all die already, and us normals could make this legal.

  16. Hardware will be free on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's rationalizing the fact that Windows costs 50-60% of the cost of a blade server.

  17. He's going insane on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    The man is clearly falling apart, judging from that photo. It's really rather sad.

  18. Re:Meanwhile... on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 4, Informative

    Turn on the "light" theme: no slashboxes, just black and white text. Then use Firefox with AdBlocker extension to block the ads.

  19. I don't like it on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (1) The boxes made different length strings "web", "groups", "news" take up equal space. Now "web", the most important, has the smallest amount of space. It's the hardest to "hit".

    (2) I don't want Froogle on every page. I don't go to Google to shop. It's okay in the "More".

    Google begins to go the way of all search engines:
    not a single one has not faded away yet. If this one isn't eventually replaced by another, it will be the first.

  20. What's wrong with Firefox? on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember: YOU HAVE TO THINK IN RUSSIAN!

    I like Firefox. What the hell name would I change it to? Who cares anyway?

  21. Re:Now they just need to make ambidexterous people on Two-Fisted Computing · · Score: 1

    I'm left handed but I can only mouse right handed. Same with scissors and golf -- you learn to adapt to the tools at hand.

  22. Re:SVG & Steganogrpahy? on SVG And The Free Desktop(s) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that kind of thing is obvious. What I was looking for was an algorithm which would encode an arbitrary secret into a meaningful block of text. Bonus points if I can specify that block of text beforehand. No pre-sharing of secrets. You know, the whole 9 yards, same as with the binary kind.

  23. Re:SVG & Steganogrpahy? on SVG And The Free Desktop(s) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever written any steganography which hides text in plain sight? I.e., a somewhat normal looking piece of text, which contains encoded, different data. Don't answer funny, you see what I'm getting at.

  24. Re:I think they know something we don't! on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    As long as this happens with 30 years they come out ahead.

  25. Re:Some of these are not so good on Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words · · Score: 1

    I used to have this boss who built a lot of airfields in Hondouras in the 80s, and he was 'NAM and still went down once a month to do radio work in Florida.

    I asked him: Is Big Brother here?
    He said: When he wants to be.
    I said: But what saves us is most of the time he just don't care right?
    He said: Right.

    Think about it: if your job was intelligence, why would you care about filtering out all that noise? Don't you think it would be much more effective to be highly selective in your electronic intelligence, by applying a default filter of "ignore most shit?" Your paranoia over ECHELON aside: really, why would the CIA give a shit about 99% of what happens? It would just be a waste of time. All you *really* want to know is the good stuff.