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  1. Re:Sterilizing Keyboards on Keyboards are Havens for Super Bugs · · Score: 1

    70% ethanol, eh?

    For a nominal raise, I could drop by current job and transfer to your location to work as a keyboard sanitizer.

    (Ultimately to be shipped away in the ship B)

  2. Re:The Pope Is Dead on Online Business Model for a Band? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, fuck off.
    He (pope) was no use for anyone anyway. He will be promptly replaced. Anyone can wear that hat.
    Boo-fuck'n-hoo.

  3. Re:Hmm... on Longest Chemical Name: 64,060 letters · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's encrypted!
    See freq analysis at http://www.fizzl.net/projects/crypto/

    The plaintext is simply:
    wioglcnteaeante ... utemrcetemrcetemrceteeihulni

    I think I also saw Cthulhu there somewhere...

  4. Re:No, however on Inside the PSP · · Score: 1
    giving instructions seems to be less so nowadays.

    Here, have some FUD and propaganda. You seem to be eating it up like a good god fearing citizen.
  5. Re:As expected? on Ars Technica Builds Make Magazine's Steadicam · · Score: 1

    1. That's not a steadicam. That's a simple stabilizer "stick". The real Steadicams weight a ton and cost a fortune (some $100k for the full rig). (Yes, Steadicam is spelled with 'I', it's a product name)
    2. The instructions seem to be ripped straight from one guy who makes these.. No matter, I recall he has released his plans for any use. Hope he was credited anyway.

    The video is pretty much useless. You can see he doesn't even try to compensate for his own shakiness. These kind of little steadysticks need skill to produce any meaningful results.

    You can get pretty decent, smooth video from hand with little practise (learn how to hold it sternly, compensate for steps etc). The kicker of the stabilizer is that you can learn to operate it on different heights with relative ease.

  6. Re:Weasels on SCO Website Using Groklaw's Content · · Score: 1

    Woohoo!!
    10/10! What do I win!?!

  7. Re:WTF on Joke-e-oke Makes You a Comedian · · Score: 1
    Great so now entertainment consists of a 'performer' being told what to say by a machine and that same machine telling the audience how to respond.

    It would be so much better, if the machines would be different atleast...
  8. Re:Call me an idiot... on GNOME Ignoring its Own Users? · · Score: 1

    For what?
    Why?
    What the hell?

    Drop this shit. If the enterprise you work for wants to use Solaris on SUN hardware or Irix on IBM or Tsunamix on FuckStorm, what the hell do you care?

    Why would anyone be compelled to 'talk peple into' using Linux or any other piece of open source? If they got the buckets of money to pay for hardware, software and suport, why not?

    For my applications OSS apps are pretty much what I need and I do not need support.
    The cost of operation is perfect.
    The fact that I can modify the source and recompile for my flavour of binary is just icing on the cake for me. And I'm pretty fucking technical person.

    If I see a problem, I can file a bug report and/or fix the problem myself. What if I don't fix it myself? Will it be fixed some day?
    Is there a way to escalate my problem with money? No? "So, have someone in our organization fix it!" -- "But we don't have such organization to fix 3rd party software" -- "Start one" -- "What about the legal issues" -- "Let's get a team of fuckward moneyhovering asshole lawyers involved in writing complex guidelines of writing the code".. etc..
    Wait... This turned into a huge rant. Nevermind ;P

    Guess once how much the VP's, CIO's or FuckMeOoo's care about modifying or recompiling of "guaranteed" and supported software.

  9. Re:Important question on 'Bubble Boy' Cured by Gene Therapy in UK · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid question probably. Answer has to be No...

    So, does the saved kid pass on the original deficiency in the gene pool?

    "Get out of the gene pool you natures fumble!"

  10. Re:Shouldn't that be too bloated to test? on Too Darned Big to Test? · · Score: 1
    1 Unit test.
    2 Component test.
    3 Integration test.
    4 System test.


    Sounds like someone is using Telelogic Synergy* for version/configuration control? ;)

    * Also known as CCM, Continuus, GodDamnPieceOfShitBrokeTheBuildAgain** and CanYouCheckThisInForMe***)
    ** Too many ways to break things accidentally.
    *** Too steep learning curve to bother to learn properly. Closely related to the one above.
  11. Re:Good encryption? on NSA Announces New Crypto Standards · · Score: 1

    Who god damn moderator mods these clueless looneys up?
    Go read a book on crypto.

    Suggested: Applied Cryptography. Everything explained so that anyone with opposable thumbs can get the gist.

    Answer is: Neither
    They just have seen that it's pointless to fight against the windmills. (I don't now if they actually want their recommendations to be public, but it seems they pretty much have no choice.)

  12. Re:Quit and find a new job on Staying Healthy When Working 12 Hours a Day? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Get some alcohol ... [in] your drawer.


    Forget the rest!
  13. Re:Yes, but... on Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs · · Score: 1

    Last time I used Windows embedded for something (3-4 years ago), I recall the version I was using was based on NT4.
    So, you'r implying this would be somehow better?

  14. Yes, Dvorak on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1

    Why do they continue posting these bullshit articles by J. Retard Dvorak?

    I read only the header (yes, I didn't even read the summary) before posting this.

    Dvorak on [Insert sensational headline], is enough to trigger my flamethrower.

  15. Re:Not possible. on Unattended Equipment Loan System? · · Score: 1

    Simply ask them for a copy of their police report of when they filed the burglary.
    This is required when someone loses some company property here.

  16. Re:Can United Nations REALLY stop cyber crime and on Should the UN Replace ICANN? · · Score: 1
    Well.. He provided links to all the organizations. Why don't you have a look see?

    And for the matter of...
    What I do know is that none of those 13+ organizations you rattled off has been able to stop genocide in Yugoslavia or Rwanda nor have they been able to prevent the UN from being a money launderer for Saddam.

    ICANN has done stopped all these things? (I didn't even know UN has been laundering Saddams money thou...)

    Someone mod this fucker down. I wanted to answer.
  17. Chewbacca... on Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated] · · Score: 1

    You still have no business trademarking MAME's name or logo. Go ask the MAME developers to trademark it themselves.

    What happens if one day you sell your company and the new owner finds that they own a trademark to MAME? Do they know what was your motivation? Will they honor it even if they know? What about the MAME developers who had trusted you with the trademark and left it unchallenged? They have trouble of reclaiming the MAME name if someone else has owned it for years.

  18. Re:Whew on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Whops. Sorry. Didn't even read the fucking summary roperly. So it was 50.000 vs 10. never mind :P

    Disregard that last one :)

  19. Re:Whew on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Well. It was only half an order of magnitude away from the bad scenario. (10ly vs 50ly).

    In astronomical scale; yes it was quite fucking close.

  20. Re:Practical Applications/Uses? on 42nd Mersenne Prime Probably Discovered · · Score: 1

    Namely in RSA.
    At times I hear someone say "primes are the foundation of modern cryptography".
    Not necessarily. We allready have ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) to step into RSA's shoes once someone finds/maps factorizations of large primes multiples.

    And this was totally off tangent :)

  21. Ah, hell on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    Guess I wnont be using SHA afterall...

  22. True... on VoIP for Deployed Soldiers? · · Score: 1

    Google would have been a lot more usefull for ths guy than the political flamewar here on /.

  23. This is wrong in so many levels... on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with your system US?

    Isn't there a single representative of the people who will raise a hell about this?
    C'moon. It would be wiser to just raise fuel taxes than throw a ton of money at a huge project aimed at discouraging the people who try to conserver energy.

    Heavier car=More road wear&More fuel used
    Lighter car=less road wear&Less fuel used

    Which one? Oh whic-fuck'n-one?

    Yes! Let's make the system more favourable to the god damn tanks!

  24. Why not "give it a shot" on Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    What's with this bullshit speculation? Just spell the contract out so that they can go back to the old way whenever they want.
    If google wants to be charitable, I think they sholdn't have anything against such arragment. If they want to lock them into their hosting with a contract however -- I'd say that they have a fox's tail in tow.
    (Eeehee... I'm afraid that Finnish proverb didn't translate too well...)

  25. Oh no... on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 1

    Guess I shouldn't be doing this:
    Retarded terms and conditions.