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  1. Re:News For Nerds??!! on UK National Archives Divulge Secrets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still, the US haters are going to use this to highlight how US's policy was always about oil. I wonder what this will do to Bush in the elections, probably nothing, too bad.

    Now they've erased "WMD" from our collective minds as well, and has reduced the reporting of "Iraq has WMD and is buying nukes" to a "small error" which "should've been left out of the speech", yeah a small error which has left thousands dead, on both sides.

    I'm sure those people enjoy the fact that they are dead because of one erronous sentence in Dubya's speech.

  2. Re:Uhh.. on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    I opened the page, downloaded some pictures from my camera, and viewing them got to be so slow, something that's never happened before. I forgot about the page (I have a bad habit of abusing Opera's "Open in background Page" leaving 50+ tabs open at once), but I looked in Task Manager, and Opera was eating 100 MB RAM and 100 MB swap.. nice. But almost zero processor use, strangely.

    Anyway I rebooted, so maybe it's that, maybe it's because I was messing with the swap files earlier today (well, last year, meaning yesterday :)

  3. Re:Peace , definitely Good! on Israel Suspends MS Office Purchases For Now · · Score: 1

    Schoen, now describe American women!

  4. Re:My 2 cents on Making The Case That Voynich Is A Hoax · · Score: 1

    "I think is probably one" is a word for word translation, perhaps the poster was too much in an estatic hurry to get first post that he forgot about the english grammar. Or he just forgot a t and an apostrophe. The first one is a typographical error , the second is grammatical. :)

  5. Re:Tsu Doe Nihm on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1

    Too bad the first reaction of a lot of people when they hear the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet, is to laugh and say "Heh, politicians, they try to take credit for everything.", I'm glad K8Fan did a detailed description of what Al Gore did for the internet, for which he does actually deserve credit. When will we see you as President, Mr. Gore?

  6. Re:Wow, I would've never thought it possible on Windows CE.NET Ported to Xbox · · Score: 1

    Have a look at my Panther-powered iPod!

  7. Re:Slightly more informative story on Earth Travel On Time, Again · · Score: 1

    Eh, the article below that (with the small infernal mushroom cloud-like picture) is also interesting, but WTF, they call it Holiday Tree now?!? Fuck Political Correctness! Damn, pretty soon Christmas will be "End of Year Holiday", or will that be non-PC for cultures who don't use the Gregorian Calander?? Man...

    -- Speaking as a non-Christian who doesn't have a problem with calling Christmas, Christmas. --

  8. Re:Unicode? on Konqueror Compiled For Mac OS X; KOffice Next · · Score: 2, Informative

    Take a look at this...

    There are a few more screenshots, just go to the parent directory.. I hope it doesn't kill his server. :)

  9. Re:Dangling cash on The Expensive Hobby Of Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe a sniper older than 17, and probably not in England, but near White House, Washington, D.C. You might have heard they don't like being photographed. :)

    Waiting to see a ban on kites in that city...

  10. Re:Nigerian scam anyone on Holding On To Hope For Beagle 2 · · Score: 1

    Hmm, sounds familiar.. where is this quote from?

  11. Re:The problem is the stomach.... on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded · · Score: -1, Troll

    You must be able to accept some losses in the name of peace, progress and prosperity.

    Hah, it wasn't for peace, Dubya started a war to get oil and therefore money, damnit. Maybe it wouldn't have benefited the US itself, but it sure made Halliburton & Co. richer. Well, you can count the deaths as losses for prosperity; the Dubya Mafia's prosperity and the loss of lives which don't mean a damn to them. Gotta love the ingenuity.

    People forget, there used to exist a diplomatic way to solve to the problem of Saddam Hussein. He didn't even have fucking WMD! If the diplomatic solution had worked, the inspectors would have eyes all over the place that no way WMD could ever be made, and Saddam's weak position would have caused him to slowly lose power and fall. And in case he thinks he should kill some people who are trying to topple him, the UN could have gone in with less fear of WMD and more support from the common Iraqi.

  12. Re:BooHoo!!! Re:IBM Model M: Loud but eternal on Silent Keyboards for Silent PCs? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be undestructable? Go put it in the dishwasher, I heard even that doesn't kill it.

  13. Re:Even better reason... on On NTSC Video, Blue Blurring, Chroma Subsampling · · Score: 1

    Must stay awake... Smurf will eat me!

  14. Re:Uhm... on On NTSC Video, Blue Blurring, Chroma Subsampling · · Score: 1

    What is NSFW? And how do I get those pictures? *g*

    Oh "Not Safe For Work". Hey it's Christmas, no one's at work, right?

  15. Re:India Colonizes Cyberspace while US colonizes I on BusinessWeek on Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    I like how the hard working motivated people in India are growing up accomplishing something, whereas the children of the fat empire get creationist theory in their broken-education-system school.

    The school system in India might not be that great either, but I think they have a lot of children who are motivated enough to better themselves; they probably don't sit all day watching Ozzy and Dismissed, but instead learn something productive. The rich world has all the luxury, and we've become lazy because of it.

    I remember how someone commented (in light of DMCA), that the next new technology might be created by a Chinese and his Indian friend, because children in USA would be restricted by law to learn anything. No such law is needed, we can see that children would rather look at Britney shaking her tits than at IC diagrams.

  16. Re:Touchy, aren't they? on Brightmail Denies "White List" Deal With Spammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    OptinRealBig? Why did I read that as "Open Real Big"? And why did that put the disturbing image of the goatse guy in my head?

    But, to be "goatsed" is definitely something this Scott Richter guy (as well as other spammers) deserves.

  17. Re:Seems an awful lot like Freenet... on MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and I (and probably a lot of people) can't download a torrent with a realistic speed because I'm behind a Uni NAT.. :(

  18. Re:Can we really trust this patch? on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    You don't need to learn C++, but listen to what people who do know C++ are saying about the patch. If a lot of them say it's evil it'll be mentioned in Slashdot and you'll know that you shouldn't install it.

  19. Re:How were they able to make such a patch... on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong. :) The URL I found in the source code is http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi? .. try it with http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi?slash dot.org. It's the error page that the program displays when it hits a probable exploit. The program does the checking in your computer and when the link doesn't have %00 or %01, it just shows it normally. Only when it does see a %00 or %01, it sends the link to the above mentioned page.

    If you ask me, maybe they want to have a record of which evil Paypal clone-sites are taking advantage of the exploit so they can tell the cops. Maybe they want to make it easy to tell the users that "MS has issued an update for this problem, please download it!", but of course maybe they want to display ads on that error page (Heh I would do the same).

    But no, URLs that are okay are not being sent to that site.

  20. Re:How were they able to make such a patch... on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems like they made an add-on to IE (it's been done before, e.g. GoogleBar, various pop-up stoppers, Gator/Claria), that probably monitors all URLs, and removes %00's and %01's out of it before giving it back to IE.

    Funny stuff, it's mostly a band-aid solution IMO, but a nice slap in the face for MS. :P

  21. Re:A new legal P2P Music Sharing system for Canada on CRIA Prepares To Sue P2P Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    Won't your CD-ROM drive die of overuse? I wonder how legal it is when you make a big enough cache that stores the CD contents, so that it would only have to be read once.. ;-)

  22. Re:Mixed emotions on Israeli Gov't Begins Testing Mandrake Linux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wanna read these ancient manuscripts I found in my basement? It says I'm the king of the world, so give me all your money or I'll chop your head off.

    Fucking idiots believing everything written in some stupid fucking manuscripts turned into a book. They can all burn in hell, I summon them to death! Ha.

  23. Re:No Quake? on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 1

    He probably means SYSTEM "refresh rate".. so the engine checks 60 times a second to see what has happened (if the rocket coming your way has made contact with your body or not, and so on...)

  24. Re:Australian Dollar value... on New Online Music Service For Australia · · Score: 1

    Man if you think that's a bad song, Backstreet Boys and NSync would be Vogon poetry.

  25. Re:Don't believe the advertising on New Online Music Service For Australia · · Score: 1

    Wow, I thought it would be a lot cheaper -- 1 AUD to equal about 0.65-0.70 USD -- but I guess the USD has been weakening for a long time now.