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  1. Re:I disagree on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    A good compromise is one which leaves everyone just a little bit pissed off.

  2. Re:Eeeeuuuuh! on GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    You've only just spotted that? Also check the BSD icon. Pretty cool when you first see it.

  3. Re:Here's my idea. on The Year in Ideas · · Score: 1

    Sentence fragment is a sentence fragment.

  4. Simple on Sober Code Cracked · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Register one of the URLs and post some code which, when executed, stops the worm executing. Rinse. Repeat.

  5. Re:MOD PARENT WAY DOWN! on Gallery 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah well you seem to have removed the redirect now so you should probably put it back in place... NOW THAT I've given my heart to the girl in black (Julie and Matt's Wedding 005)! Bastard! Anyway, tell her that her star crossed lover is waiting in England. I can offer 1000 camels for her hand in marriage... or 900 sheep if she's from New Zealand.

  6. Re:Al Qaeda group claims responsibility on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Jesus dude! Never use GOTO in your code man! Have we taught you nothing?!

  7. Re:You're an embarrassment to your country. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    >> DYING AINT FUNNY AT ALL MORON!

    I dunno dude. Name me one person who isn't going to die. What better way to deal with such an absolute than humour?

  8. Re:justice on Vigilante Hackers use Old West Tactics for Justice · · Score: 1

    I get your point, but maybe what the parent was suggesting was that if you are going to fight injustice you can't leave anyone alive to learn from their mistakes?

    Or maybe I forgot to take my medication this morning.

  9. Re:Never dealt with sports injuries, have you? on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Yep. Rugby players regularly go through that routine.

  10. Re:Hyuk hyuk. on Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's forté.

    define: forte

    What you're forgetting is that forte (pronounced for-tay) is actually a french word meaning 'strength' and the e on the end should actually be an é

    I've just realised that I might be an anal retentive.

    I also think that humour can be spelt either humor or humour.... with the latter naturally being more appropriate for a comment about the british.

  11. Re:Uh... on New Shoe Designed to Kick-Start Couch Potatoes · · Score: 1

    You mean something like this?

  12. Re:What do you mean? on Hacking the Web with Greasemonkey · · Score: 1

    Trying to prevent me from modifying the way I see your content huh?

    Well bet you didn't expect me to drop this LSD!

    Whooooooooah. Everything's in purple! Cooool. I t i s a l l g r e e n n o w . I A M G O D! I c a n f l y <no carrier>

  13. Re:Poor article on The Horror Of British Telecom · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah. I still remember that warm feeling of pain when I used to subscribe to NTL broadband. Eventually you learn to just relax.... lubricants help as well. http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0000872.html

  14. Re:This can be good... on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 1

    >> Or just by changing the date/time, or running NTPD on the machine...
    Would that help? I'm not 100% sure what clock skew is but I would have thought that it depended on the difference between two timestamps rather than the actual date/time.

  15. Re:We don't know on Robots that Lust and Reproduce · · Score: 1

    Agreed.... with everything you've said. I think what happens is that people take the word 'feel' and don't believe you can attribute it to anything as simple as chemicals plus neural activity. I believe you can and that the only reason we think pain is bad is because of the way our brain is wired. People *CAN* be born who do not feel pain.... they just don't live very long without an automated system to tell them that something is bad. If we can build a robot with the same feedback ("Don't do 'X'") then they, in effect, 'feel' pain.

  16. Re:Sound-Proofing on Robots that Lust and Reproduce · · Score: 1

    > > So, what evidence do you have that we are "simply a very complex form of a lusting robot"?

    I can offer none. What evidence do you have that we are not "simply a very complex form of a lusting robot"?

  17. Re:Sound-Proofing on Robots that Lust and Reproduce · · Score: 1

    Define 'experience'.

    Actually, define 'consciousness'.

    > > Unless you define "lust" as "programmed tendency to move towards another robot and interface to it" or something.

    Yeah. God forbid we would ever have a genetic tendency to move towards members of the opposite sex and copulate with them.

  18. Re:We don't know on Robots that Lust and Reproduce · · Score: 1

    > > But something else also happens: you experience "blueness." You have a sensation, one which cannot be reduced to words (the problem of trying to explain color to a blind man).

    Bull. What you call 'experiencing blueness' is shedloads of neurons firing. Your history of conscious and sub-conscious experiece affects your response to that colour. A simple example is if you your Mom died and she always wore blue you might remember her and those memories would evoke a chemical reaction which you associate with a feeling (sad?, happy?).

    Consider a new born baby. I don't profess to know what a newborn baby thinks or feels but I suspect than when a baby sees a blue wall that it just sees the colour blue. Do you think it 'experiences' blue? Or do you think that maybe it only starts 'experiencing' blue when it has a history of emotions attached to that concept?

    > > Particular neuron firings might always be connected with your experience, but we do not yet have a mechanism to explain it.

    Agreed. That's because it's too bloody complicated. Doesn't mean that it's irrational or that it's not reproducible.

  19. Re:PC == Keep your mouth shut?? on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    You just remember that the next time you have your penis in a woman's mouth.

  20. Re:my guess on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 1

    As a non-Yahoo-employee and a non-Yahoo-trainee-employee:

    No we haven't deleted the account. Honestly.

  21. Re:Market share? on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    What? How does that work? If it's single digits then it's a maximum of 9 (9 being 1 digit and 10 being 2 digits). That makes you (100/9)% of the users.

  22. Re:Security Diversion on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Might not work. Google Desktop search keeps it's OWN cache of data. You'd have to get the script to interact with google desktop and delete the cache that Google desktop holds.

  23. Re:Gee - if only I used MS products.... on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if it's possible to craft a packet where the ip address is 127.0.0.1 but the MAC address is the address of a different (target) machine. Wouldn't that mean that the packets are delivered to the machine with the MAC address?

    Then if the OS is stupid enough to reply to a 127.0.0.1 query which hits the ethernet card from the network you could get a compromise.

    Where's a network engineer when you need one? Probably probing someone's ports somewhere.... actually since this is /. they're probably probing localhost.

  24. WTF is Greedo? on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all of you who, like me, didn't get the Greedo reference, (probably less than 1% of /.) here's a link which explains the whole Greedo and Han thingamy bob.

    Who is Greedo and what did he and Han shoot and WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ALL ABOUT?!

  25. Re:Bring a lifevest for LAN parties on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    SATs? Isn't that a multiple choice test?