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  1. Re:Mirrors on Uplink · · Score: 1

    What's Finland?

  2. Re:Must reach negative cap! Must reach negative ca on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years · · Score: -1, Troll

    Plus I got a fucking first post for Katie!

    Man, it's good to log in after playing The AC Avenger role for so long.

  3. Must reach negative cap! Must reach negative cap! on Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm on my way, you fucking whores.

  4. You are all fucking cunts. on Oldest IRC Server Going Offline · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thank you. Please return to your taco-snotting now, as I try and reach the bottom cap yet again.

  5. Re:Hack time? on Automated Ripping with CD Jukeboxes? · · Score: 1

    For windows, I use CDeX, which does all that for you, and names the file using whichever CDDB info you want.

  6. Re:IE compatibility on Gecko May Replace IE In AOL/CompuServe · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, sir. You're part of the 1-5% of web designers who actually does his job correctly.

    Most web designers out there don't care what the site looks like on any computer, save for his supervisors.

  7. Re:War is over? on Why Linux is About to Lose · · Score: 2

    The reason this would be an obstacle is that you're thinking of dropping a grand on a piece of Apple hardware, which is where Steve makes all of his money.

  8. Re:oops.. on Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that there is no such thing as a Hydrogen Molecule?

    You can also check out the Uranium Molecule hits I've seen.

    Just because it's an element doesn't mean it doesn't have a molecule made up of more than one atom. (Oxygen molecules and Ozone come to mind.)

  9. Re:Solid State Circuit. on Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The above poster is female, ergo, if she were a "fag", she wouldn't be interested in penis.

  10. Re:Huh? [OT] on Why Not Solid State Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    The poster above you was actually wrong - The GeOS operating environment for DOS was originally written for the Commodore - I still have the 5 1/4" floppies for my C64.

  11. If this were 1999... on New Cell Phone Typing Solution · · Score: 1

    BRILLIANT!

    I'm a young investor, and I'm more than willing to fund your idea, if it has a snappy name that we can tack '.com' to the end of...

    Want an Aeron Chair?

  12. Re:Heh, relying on IIS admins? on Microsoft Attempts to Secure IIS · · Score: 1

    The really keen thing to do, for desktops anyway, is to use hfnetchk to identify machines needing hotfixes, a script to customize the .bat file for qchain.exe, and SMS to push the file into a login profile managed by Active Directory [...] much of the deployment can be automated.

    I've since been laid off[...]

    Doesn't sound too keen to me...

  13. Re:Pansies! on Ultimate Guide to Hosting a LAN Party · · Score: 1

    The movie you'te thinking about is Mazes and Monsters, based on a novel written by Rona Jaffe.

    I don't think the concept would transfer over to FPSs, however, since the game is so much less social on screen... It may feel social when you type in a term window, but it's really a solo game, on-screen.

    The other big problem, at least with the same formula, is that while the kids in M&M were a bit on the weird side for playing a live-action version of their game, one would have to be fucking batshit to do the same with an FPS... and there isn't a character to get "lost in", to boot.

  14. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1 on Cell Phone Syncing w/ Your PC or PDA? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ACT I

    PROLOGUE

    Two households, both alike in dignity,
    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
    A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
    Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
    Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
    The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
    And the continuance of their parents' rage,
    Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
    Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
    The which if you with patient ears attend,
    What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

    SCENE I. Verona. A public place.

    Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers

    SAMPSON

    Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.

    GREGORY

    No, for then we should be colliers.

    SAMPSON

    I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.

    GREGORY

    Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

    SAMPSON

    I strike quickly, being moved.

    GREGORY

    But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

    SAMPSON

    A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

    GREGORY

    To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:
    therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.

    SAMPSON

    A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
    take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.

    GREGORY

    That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
    to the wall.

    SAMPSON

    True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
    are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
    Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
    to the wall.

    GREGORY

    The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

    SAMPSON

    'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
    have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
    maids, and cut off their heads.

    GREGORY

    The heads of the maids?

    SAMPSON

    Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
    take it in what sense thou wilt.

    GREGORY

    They must take it in sense that feel it.

    SAMPSON

    Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and
    'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

    GREGORY

    'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou
    hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes
    two of the house of the Montagues.

    SAMPSON

    My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

    GREGORY

    How! turn thy back and run?

    SAMPSON

    Fear me not.

    GREGORY

    No, marry; I fear thee!

    SAMPSON

    Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

    GREGORY

    I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
    they list.

    SAMPSON

    Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
    which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

    Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR

    ABRAHAM

    Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

    SAMPSON

    I do bite my thumb, sir.

    ABRAHAM

    Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

    SAMPSON

    [Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
    ay?

    GREGORY

    No.

    SAMPSON

    No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
    bite my thumb, sir.

    GREGORY

    Do you quarrel, sir?

    ABRAHAM

    Quarrel sir! no, sir.

    SAMPSON

    If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

    ABRAHAM

    No better.

    SAMPSON

    Well, sir.

    GREGORY

    Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.

    SAMPSON

    Yes, better, sir.

    ABRAHAM

    You lie.

    SAMPSON

    Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

    They fight

    Enter BENVOLIO

    BENVOLIO

    Part, fools!
    Put up your swords; you know not what you do.

    Beats down their swords

    Enter TYBALT

    TYBALT

    What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
    Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

    BENVOLIO

    I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
    Or manage it to part these men with me.

    TYBALT

    What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
    As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
    Have at thee, coward!

    They fight

    Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs

    First Citizen

    Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!
    Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!

    Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET

    CAPULET

    What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

    LADY CAPULET

    A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?

    CAPULET

    My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,
    And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

    Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE

    MONTAGUE

    Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.

    LADY MONTAGUE

    Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.

    Enter PRINCE, with Attendants

    PRINCE

    Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
    Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--
    Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
    That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
    With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
    On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
    Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
    And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
    Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
    By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
    Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
    And made Verona's ancient citizens
    Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
    To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
    Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
    If ever you disturb our streets again,
    Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
    For this time, all the rest depart away:
    You Capulet; shall go along with me:
    And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
    To know our further pleasure in this case,
    To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
    Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.

    Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO

    MONTAGUE

    Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?
    Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?

    BENVOLIO

    Here were the servants of your adversary,
    And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:
    I drew to part them: in the instant came
    The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,
    Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
    He swung about his head and cut the winds,
    Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:
    While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
    Came more and more and fought on part and part,
    Till the prince came, who parted either part.

    LADY MONTAGUE

    O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?
    Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

    BENVOLIO

    Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun
    Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,
    A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;
    Where, underneath the grove of sycamore
    That westward rooteth from the city's side,
    So early walking did I see your son:
    Towards him I made, but he was ware of me
    And stole into the covert of the wood:
    I, measuring his affections by my own,
    That most are busied when they're most alone,
    Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
    And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.

    MONTAGUE

    Many a morning hath he there been seen,
    With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
    Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
    But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
    Should in the furthest east begin to draw
    The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
    Away from the light steals home my heavy son,
    And private in his chamber pens himself,
    Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
    And makes himself an artificial night:
    Black and portentous must this humour prove,
    Unless good counsel may the cause remove.

    BENVOLIO

    My noble uncle, do you know the cause?

    MONTAGUE

    I neither know it nor can learn of him.

    BENVOLIO

    Have you importuned him by any means?

    MONTAGUE

    Both by myself and many other friends:
    But he, his own affections' counsellor,
    Is to himself--I will not say how true--
    But to himself so secret and so close,
    So far from sounding and discovery,
    As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
    Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
    Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
    Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
    We would as willingly give cure as know.

    Enter ROMEO

    BENVOLIO

    See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;
    I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.

    MONTAGUE

    I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
    To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.

    Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE

    BENVOLIO

    Good-morrow, cousin.

    ROMEO

    Is the day so young?

    BENVOLIO

    But new struck nine.

    ROMEO

    Ay me! sad hours seem long.
    Was that my father that went hence so fast?

    BENVOLIO

    It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?

    ROMEO

    Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

    BENVOLIO

    In love?

    ROMEO

    Out--

    BENVOLIO

    Of love?

    ROMEO

    Out of her favour, where I am in love.

    BENVOLIO

    Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
    Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

    ROMEO

    Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
    Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
    Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
    Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
    Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
    Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
    O any thing, of nothing first create!
    O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
    Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
    Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
    sick health!
    Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
    This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
    Dost thou not laugh?

    BENVOLIO

    No, coz, I rather weep.

    ROMEO

    Good heart, at what?

    BENVOLIO

    At thy good heart's oppression.

    ROMEO

    Why, such is love's transgression.
    Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
    Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
    With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
    Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
    Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
    Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
    Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
    What is it else? a madness most discreet,
    A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
    Farewell, my coz.

    BENVOLIO

    Soft! I will go along;
    An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.

    ROMEO

    Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;
    This is not Romeo, he's some other where.

    BENVOLIO

    Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.

    ROMEO

    What, shall I groan and tell thee?

    BENVOLIO

    Groan! why, no.
    But sadly tell me who.

    ROMEO

    Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:
    Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!
    In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.

    BENVOLIO

    I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.

    ROMEO

    A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.

    BENVOLIO

    A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

    ROMEO

    Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
    With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;
    And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
    From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
    She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
    Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,
    Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:
    O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,
    That when she dies with beauty dies her store.

    BENVOLIO

    Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?

    ROMEO

    She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,
    For beauty starved with her severity
    Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
    She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
    To merit bliss by making me despair:
    She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
    Do I live dead that live to tell it now.

    BENVOLIO

    Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

    ROMEO

    O, teach me how I should forget to think.

    BENVOLIO

    By giving liberty unto thine eyes;
    Examine other beauties.

    ROMEO

    'Tis the way
    To call hers exquisite, in question more:
    These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows
    Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;
    He that is strucken blind cannot forget
    The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
    Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
    What doth her beauty serve, but as a note
    Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
    Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.

    BENVOLIO

    I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.

    Exeunt

  15. Can you imagine... on Satellite Phones Making A Comeback? · · Score: 1

    an Iridium Cluster of these?

    Oh, yeah.

  16. Geeralizations... on Hiring Open Source Developers for Closed Source Work? · · Score: 4

    Other than the fact that you can look at the source of projects they've worked on, there really isn't anything that all free software developers are going to have in common. You won't know if you've found someone who's a rabid Stallmanist, or Bruce Perens, or what, until you contact him/her.

    OSS developers, contrary to popular belief, don't have a hive mind mentality. There are a whole lot of individuals, and each of them has separate views on the subject of commercial software.

    If I were in your shoes, I'd solicit for resumes, but I would certainly consider the OSS developers first, as they have examples of their work that are clearly available, and you can see how good their work is, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and make a more informed decision.

  17. Viral != Evil on Shared Source? · · Score: 4

    However, one of the dominant open source license--the GPL--is the most infectious.

    Now, Personally, I'm more of a BSD licence guy, myself, but Microsoft is totally missing the point here. Of course it's viral. It's supposed to be. The GPL's viral properties keep people from being able to steal GPLed code, in the exact same way that MS will try to keep people from stealing their code. MS treats this viral property as if it were a great evil communist conspiracy, and they need to grow up. The GPL prevents code from being reused without a price, the same way that MS will do the same to anyone who uses any of their shared source.

    The difference, in fact, is that the GPL will give you the choice to use the code, even with the "Viral" license. MS will not let anyone use their code, instead going for their 'Code Under Glass' philosophy. Obviously, there's no questioning which one leads to true 'innovation'.

  18. Re:Oh No on Questioning C-14 Dating · · Score: 1

    the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere between 45 thousand and 11 thousand years ago

    I think the first paragraph, (quoted above), explains that isn't at all what their goal is. This is what happens when the need for a first post gets in the way of fact checking.

  19. Re:Scott Bakula, hmm? on Star Trek's Next Series · · Score: 1

    No, because then it would be pronounce In-ye-go. It's In-ee-go. The proper spelling is Inigo.

  20. Re:Give them instructions on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    WHile that sounds like the best, and most responsable choice, it won't work with the average person who can make managerial decisions. They'll think you're just nitpicking, because they can't conceptualize it.

    Personally, I'm all for the 'criminal' behaviour of just showing them... But it can certainly get you into legal trouble. The best plan, overall, is to let it go, and then laugh your ass off when skript kiddiez get into their machines using well known exploits...

  21. Employers have been doing this for years... on On Call and Underpaid in IT/IS? · · Score: 4

    Employers always want to take advantage of their labour. This is exactly the sort of thing that unionizing would be able to prevent, yet most geeks will scoff and roll their eyes if you even mention it.

    Personally, I think the exploitation is worse since IT workers keep the machines running... so the mentality is set up that, since the machines need to run, the IT folks need to always be on call.

  22. Well... on Judge Refuses to Reveal Anonymous Posters · · Score: 1

    Let's hope that this ruling can be used to set a precedent that can protect /.ers from the Church of Scientology, Microsoft, and anyone else who turns a legal eye on Slashdot.

    I know we haven't seen the last of any of them...

  23. Re:Communications cycles on New Fiber Optics In The Works · · Score: 1

    Well, then, if they try and patent it, call your buddy from when you were a kid, and see if you can break the patent based on 'prior art'...

  24. Re:That's Wonderful! on New IBM Linux Notebook Includes DVD Player · · Score: 1

    And remember, a little of each purchase will go to the MPAA

    That's better... I'll learn to use preview, I swear....

  25. That's Wonderful! on New IBM Linux Notebook Includes DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Wow... that's great... And remember, a little of each purchase will go to the PAA, since they had to license the decoder for that DVD player.

    Message - "Pay us exhorbitant licencing fees, we'll let you watch something you've paid for, but we own."

    Not to mention that, even on a decent screen, no one wants to watch movies on a laptop... When it maxes out at 15" or so of viewable area, it's not terribly easy to watch...