User: donutz

Give 'em both KB & Mice on same system thru USB

On: "Extreme" Programming

You can plug a whole bunch of human interface devices into a system using USB...let both of them have a mouse...

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I hope my toaster never needs firmware updates...

On: When Forced "Upgrades" Bring You Down

I mean, a fully networked multi-setting intelligent toaster...who needs that? I mean, it's like a wristwatch running Linux or something....can you imagine that? Oh wait...

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Re:Passport Removal by phone works.

On: MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us"

And yes, I did this a few years ago. It works.

A few years ago? don't you think all the clooless frontline support idiots got promoted to managerial positions in that time? No getting out of passport now, methinks...

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Microsoft have set up us the bomb!

On: MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us"

You are on the way to destruction...

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Re:Opera

On: MSIE Security Worsens: Patch Bungled

I've downloaded opera at work, and after using it for a while, it's nice, it's fast...but for whatever reason it keeps locking up on me (Java? Firewall?). I haven't tried it at home on Linux yet....

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Re:$1

On: MSIE Security Worsens: Patch Bungled

isn't it illegal to let loose computer viruses? You better think about that before you finance skript k1dd1es for making them...

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Re:Homer Simpson

On: The DMCA Vs. Small Developers

I'm not sure about the first one, but the 2nd one sure doesn't sound like a verbatim quote...it doesn't sound quite right.

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just like gnutella?

On: Is The Internet Growing Too Fast?

too much crap passing thru the network that the network breaks into separate little networks...is something like this gonna happen with the net? nice little tribes able to connect within their own segment, but not out to the rest of the net? :p

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Re:Huh?

On: New Sharp Zaurus Will Host Amiga Under Linux

Wouldnt you consider vmware to be something of an emulator? I mean, NT sure runs like it's being emulated when you run it under vmware....

So that example sucks...but I guess your point is true...

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MOBS dont have morals...

On: I Suspect M$ That Has Broken The GPL

You can get a bunch of people together, give them a common enemy, and behold! They become a mob capable of doing just about any immoral act you can think of. Groups of people != sum of individuals.

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Turning Microsoft on....sexually, or....

On: Microsoft Turning Screws on Customers

Do you mean arousing Microsoft, or just hitting the power switch on a PC running a Microsoft OS?

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Re:Correction...

On: 2b Or !2b: Shakespeare TxtMsg Contest

2b||!2b is shorter if you take out the spaces...and clearer than 2bor!2b would be

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Re:Midwest (Wisconsin)

On: A Study on Regional DSL and Cable Speeds?

Who you callin' a fool, fool? I live in an area with a lot of apartments where students live. Who do you think is using up all the bandwidth in the neighborhood? squirrels? little old grandmas checking their email? It's students. get a clue.

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Re:Midwest (Wisconsin)

On: A Study on Regional DSL and Cable Speeds?

Living in downtown Madison, WI, I routinely get speeds from 6 KB/s - 200 KB/s with @ Home cablemodem. Stupid napster using college students....

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Re:Most people left napster

On: RIAA Wants Opt-In Filtering For Napster

they sure have left...i haven't had anyone download anything from me in days...

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Re:Dorks.

On: RIAA Wants Opt-In Filtering For Napster

if i remember the myth of the hydra right...we start worrying when the RIAA uses fire to burn the stumps after they cut the heads off...

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Re:Revealed! RIAA opt-in filter source code...

On: RIAA Wants Opt-In Filtering For Napster

you don't like Golden Throats? C'mon, you haven't lived until you've heard Leonard Nimoy sing CCR's great "Proud Mary" or William Shatner do "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

and after hearing it, you dont want to go on living anymore

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Re:Root?

On: Cross-Platform Pseudo-Virus: Don't Panic

why do you need to do all your work as root anyway? with the exception of stuff like cd-burning, I dont really have any problem not being root.

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Re:here's another Linux Virus

On: Cross-Platform Pseudo-Virus: Don't Panic

better yet, redo this virus as some obfuscated perl code...that way people won't know it's gonna delete all their pr0n

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Re:I don't mind about Linux viruses

On: Cross-Platform Pseudo-Virus: Don't Panic

And, for your daemons, services, etc., you can always search the code for something suspicious.

Not everyone is a programmer, so how are you going to know that there is something suspicious unless the virus writer takes care to thoroughly document his code? :)

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Re:PE ?

On: Cross-Platform Pseudo-Virus: Don't Panic

troll? o c'mon, dont be so paranoid. i'm not an msce either, and I don't know what it is....and it does sound like something an msce should know....doesnt it?

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Sweaty, Greasy forehead?

On: Mouse Begone: Use Head Movements And IR Instead

It sounds like a good idea, except that

1. it'll make everyone look hindu
2. will it stick to greasy foreheads?
3. if you're looking at pr0n and getting all hot and steamy, is that sweat dripping down the reflector gonna fsck up your mouse?

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But what about...

On: Crusoe To Power Microsoft-Based Tablet PC

Can we install Linux on these things, and make a Beowulf cluster out of them?

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Re:Slashdot Spin Machine

On: New Linux Worm

and at the same time, make it difficult to understand by forgetting the "d" on arrived, and possibly a comma after arrived...better check with your english teacher on that one though.

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Re:I suppose...

On: Red Hat Breaks Even, Beats Street Estimate

Phew! I thought you were gonna link me to goatsex or something...

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