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  1. OptimumOnline on 2.7 Million VOIP Subscribers in the United States · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have OOL here in Brooklyn. The service is great and we haven't had a probl

  2. That's not what he meant, was it? on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo!

    I think you meant that there is one more reason, yada yada.

  3. Re:Usual /. idiocy... let me help on Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn · · Score: 1

    Now SlashDopes if you don't understand number one... I'm with ya. I'd love to bang the snot out of every thigh high booted, thong showing, belly button ring wearing cock tease I see on the E train. It's just a really bad idea.

    I know you. Weren't you looking for an NSA femme dom w4m u host on Craigslist Manhattan Saturday? Same diction and CAPITALIZATION. Hmmmm....

  4. Re:70 years is too much but.... on Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

    You have just disqualified yourself from any position in the current US Administration.

  5. Re:Slightly off on Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View · · Score: 1

    When I saw this at a Google employee's house and what they are trying to do I told them it would never ever work. My PhD dissertation is on remote sensing and mapping, and if there is one thing I can tell your about road maps and Tiger maps, they sure as hell are not derived from photos. Maybe helped by but not derived from. As he was a Google employee he told me that I was wrong and that they were developing a solution. I offered to co-author the paper at a large conference where Google and all of its super-genius employees would get credit for solving the raster vs vector problem. It would make my career. Ha!

  6. Re:This supreme court on Supreme Court Rules against Grokster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2. The insane Eminent Domain ruling, making it a cinch for anyone to take anyone else's property, legally. Property rights no longer exist.

    This state of affairs has been the case for many years. The ruling was a reaffirmation of the status quo. If you live in a state, city or county that can take land without review, be worried. I live in TN. All eminent domain attempts are subject to a jury trial. It is different from place to place.

  7. How about this... on Supreme Court Rules against Grokster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright ... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses.""

    One who distributes a gun with the object of promoting its use to kill ... is liable for the resulting acts of killing by third parties using the gun, regardless of the gun's lawful uses.

  8. In Other Google News on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    While teasing a Google-employed friend about the CIA-like secrecy about his team's project at Google the other day, I got him to admit the obvious: That he is working on a project to offer a particular type of information for free that a corporation currently charges for and insert ads in the search results. Well that's the current business model for Google, no? So he's the manager of the group and has an MS in Comp Sci and a JD (research specialist). Let the inferences begin! Look out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw. Look Fucking Out.

  9. Re:In other news ... on Bezos Patents Information Exchange · · Score: 1

    Cyclist Lance Armstrong has been granted three (3) patents: ...
    Winning the Tour de France


    But I hear Eddy Mercxx is claiming prior art. Seems winning the Giro, Tour and Vuelta all in one year may give him credibility that Armstrong will never have. Heh. Bring it.

  10. Fair and Balanced on New York Times Exploring how to Charge for Content · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now we could pick on FauxNews for is sources or on the Washington Times for its inspiration.

  11. VOIP on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    "The 1-76 TOC had two means of communicating with 4th Brigade, its higher headquarters: Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)2 and FM. The 1-76 FA Battle Captain was using only VOIP to communicate with 1-69 IN, but experienced problems with VOIP, therefore losing its only communication link with 1-69 IN..."

    Vonage sucks too.

  12. Re:How do you log on? on RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing · · Score: 1

    It is a high-speed, research-only network that connects US universities. You don't log on. You have to be on the network at at one of these institutions. If your traffic is destined to the commodity internet (I1) it gets routed there. If your traffice is destined to the research network (I2) it goes there. If you are sitting in a coffee shop, pijama-blogging or trolling Slashdot from a Comcast account, then you are not on I1. Doing all of the same from a dorm room at Indiana U for example, then you are.

  13. I have a thyroid condition. on Help For Those With Shaky Hands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This causes shaking of the hands (ranging from 'ever so slight' to 'disturbing') because of a flaked out thyroid. Medication helps now but there were weird days when I couldn't use a mouse. I got one of those softball sized trackballs and used it on those days. This looks cool and could really help with people who suffer from hyp(o|er)thyroidism and Hashimoto's. The benefits are obvious for Parkinson's type diseases too.

  14. Bush Administration on Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    this is brilliant (as in "it takes a thief to catch a thief") or sheer stupidity (as in a "fox guarding the henhouse").

    Assume latter.

  15. Re:Microsoft Research already does this on Translation Software That Learns by Reading · · Score: 1

    OK. But can they do it on Slovene? Or what about Ruthenian? How about Creek? No, wait. The Canary Island whistling language? Spanish has billions of lines of human translation. A language like Slovene (mine) has much, much fewer. Just a thought.

  16. Re:The only thing that really changed... on Blockbuster Sued Over Late Fees Claim · · Score: 1

    No actually. I was recently charged to my credit card 19.95 for a copy of Dodgeball (yeah, I know -- bad taste) because I got called away to Europe to fix some stuff on site for a client. I missed the 1 week thing by 3 days and they charged me. When I complained they said I could have store credit, but not removal of the charge. They fucking suck.

  17. Wrongamundo on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Fehr, et al had plans in the works for a post-GOP presidential win invasion of Iraq as early as 1996. Retired US military strategists were doing virtual war games at those conservative "think tanks" all through out the second Clinton term in prep and one of those models was what the Iraq invasion was based upon. Not on Pentagon planning, but on private sources.

  18. LaGuardia on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 1

    They still haven't patched an injection hole in their registration system, even after I was nice and told them about it. Free wireless for the kid while waiting on Delta to lose my bags. Another NYC pay-service is in the hotels run by Affinia. Supposedly you have to register, etc. All you have to do is statically configure and they never bill you.

  19. The local airport on Firefox Continues Gains against IE · · Score: 1

    TYS (figure it out) has a new GIS frontend that shows when a plane is scheduled to land and where it is on the map. Fascinatingly, it ain't IE in kiosk mode (does it have that). It's Firefox. The admin restarted the GIS app while I was sitting there staring at the girlfriend's flight from LaGuardia. Lo and behold....

  20. Who needs KITT? on Voice Activated MP3 player · · Score: 1

    it reminds me of the possibility for a real life version of the car from Night Rider, KITT

    When you have this. Floating of the Wings of Tenderness!

  21. Don't go the EU privacy route on American Airlines Information Gathering · · Score: 1

    I always have to indicate the address I am staying at when I travel to Slovenia for research as well as one contact address. I am a US citizen. It IS unusual that a Canadian would be asked for such info, but you always have to fill out a card when landing from an international flight to the US if you ain't Merikin.

  22. Two words for you: on Joel Gives College Advice For Programmers · · Score: 1

    3.0 forget it, not worth my time because you shouldn't have been in college if you can't maintain a high-B low-A average.

    Grade Inflation. I went to a small private college. A 'C' in differential equations is a lot harder to manage when there are only 16 people in the class. Beleive me, I know. I now teach at a major US university and all you have to do is show up and you get a 'C' in most of our intro to 300 level courses by virtue of the enormous n. You just can't curve grades down. You can make the course work more difficult, but this leads to a new spectre in America: lawsuits. I was sued for giving an F to a student who patently deserved it. The university settled with a D. The student made a 16 out of 100 on the final. Class average was an 82. I now have a judicial proceeding in my file (regardless of outcome or circumstance) because I created a fair test and graded it so.

  23. Vidicated on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Overloading. Ever heard of it? QED.

    You're using Socket.pm, and it's huge, that's cheating! Version 0.0.2 no longer uses Socket.pm. As for version 0.0.1, I should have read the fucking code myself before posting the previous version of this answer, because I forgot that it actually does use the sockaddr_in packing routine as well as symbolic constants. I still think that even in 0.0.1 I did better than Felten and Halderman, who imported an entire XMLRPC library.

  24. Cheaters, both. on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Look they get to call these 15 or less lines of code because they tightly defined what they can get away with. Yes, but Socket.pm for Perl is:


    ape@opica:~$ wc /usr/lib/perl/5.8.4/Socket.pm
    229 372 3514 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.4/Socket.pm


    I guess I could do the same in some shitty language like VB by just importing a whole program as a library and passing it to "run." Phhhbt.

  25. MOD PARENT UP on Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia · · Score: 0

    you beat me to the user name and I will admit that I couldn't have used it better. Well met...