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  1. Fear the web! on Australian Spiders Travel To Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just hope the astronauts don't have arachnophobia.

    Just imagine, you're in outer space, trapped inside a sealed container, no place to go, and you feel something moving inside your AstroSleepTight (tm) bag ...

  2. Re:Watch out for RIAA on iCommune for iTunes Shares Over Network · · Score: 1

    Good point - Perhaps he could make out it's just for home network sharing, although by saying he doesn't want to go the rendezvous route with auto-discovery because he wants the ability to share over a wider network, he might be landing him in (potential) trouble.

  3. Re:Breaking news! on How the West Wasn't Won · · Score: 0, Troll

    Standard goatse warning ...

  4. Re:Ooops on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find checking string arguments would be a hell of a lot more useful than checking inodes in this case.

    mkdir ~/mydir; cd ~/mydir; mkdir mydir; mv mydir ..

    You are moving a directory in your pwd to it's parent. If the directory you are moving has the same name as the directory you are in, you get a kernel panic.

    You're right, accuracy counts :)

  5. IMPORTANT! on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be very careful with this - If you are testing, or accidentally gonna do this, you will lose both directories and all data in them.

  6. Re:I hope you submited to Apple on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the spirit of scientific testing, I have just subjected my iBook to this - And sure enough, you get an instant kernel panic.

  7. Ooops on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Found the offending piece of code in Darwin ...

    BOOL HFSPLUS_Directory_Move( const char *src, const char *dest ) {
    if ( !strcmp( src, dest ) ) {
    __kernelPanic( KP_IMMEDIATE );
    } ...
    }

  8. Re:People flow on In-Depth Sims Online Development Story · · Score: 1

    None of the software is available for download - Quoting their site:

    OBTAINING SPACE SYNTAX SOFTWARE

    Please contact Dr Beatriz Campos for information on obtaining space syntax software.

  9. Re:The Sims Online? on In-Depth Sims Online Development Story · · Score: 2, Funny

    (Ignoring Matrix reference)

    I believe not, you just need to click the disk icon then "quit".

  10. Re:Make The Sims Open Source! on In-Depth Sims Online Development Story · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not a bad idea - Then slashdot readers will know how social interaction works :)

  11. Not likely ... on In-Depth Sims Online Development Story · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will Wright mentions his desire to see TSO to grow into a community similar to Slashdot's."

    What? A community where everyone goes around saying "IANAL, but "?

    Not sure I want to play this ...

  12. Re:Brits Seize Humour Glands! on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 1

    What's a hampster?

  13. Re:Escrow contracts are voided by bankruptcy on Protecting Your Code While Allowing Source Access? · · Score: 1

    Best laugh I've had in a good while, thanks Steve!

  14. Re:Hence on When Profiling Goes Wrong · · Score: 3, Funny

    To be fair, I think the government will actually get these statistics from elsewhere. Would you rather trust medical records and doctors or Amazon to tell you if someone is pregnant?

  15. Re:You answer your own question... on OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation · · Score: 1

    Do I really need to run a ftp daemon as root, if all I need is a privileged (<1024) access port, and no other privileged feature? Wouldn't it make more sense to run the ftpd as a normal user, with an option set that allowed the socket allocation only to run with elevated privileges?

    Yeah, if that normal user has write permissions into every directory that the users logging into the server will want to write into ... That's the problem, a normal user won't have.

  16. Re:Oh really? on Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Irony ... You're American right? :)

  17. Re:Oh really? on Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    you're spelling is also astounding ... :)

  18. Re:Don't Care on UK Prepares Own Version of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    If you don't mind, can you list five "draconian human rights violations"? Please ...

  19. Re:Did the information on this come from... on UK Prepares Own Version of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    And give the trolls a way to DoS?

  20. Re:Unauthorised distribution of EULA's infringing? on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    I may be 75 years, IANAL either!

    However, thinking about it, the expiration years only start totting up after the death of the creator (Enid Blyton was the example I had in mind), so in this case, he's going to have to wait even longer ...

    In Disney's case, Mickey Mouse is a trademark as you say, so that is exempt from copyright anyway, so I'm guessing it was someone else pulling a strop ...

  21. Re:Copyright issues on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    Bastard companies? Why are they bastard companies exactly?

  22. Re:Unauthorised distribution of EULA's infringing? on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you are correct. Unfortunately, the time period of expiration of copyright (in the UK at least) is 50 years ... So I'm guessing you've got a few years to plan your database, and what information you can mine from it ;)

  23. Re:EULA forbids sharing on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    No name, no slogan, no legal precedent that says an EULA cannot refer to itself

  24. Re:Prohibitions on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    How will hosting in Sealand help exactly? "Sealand" is inside British territory, and their law regarding this sort of thing is similiar to that in the US (and most other countries)

  25. Re:no love from mirco$ont on Converting an Exchange Userbase to Unix? · · Score: 1

    You have a MSCE but can't spell Microsoft? Good luck with that ...