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  1. Re:Scarred for life... on Another Fan-Made TRON Costume · · Score: 2, Funny

    "That's Tron, he fights for the twinkies..."

  2. Re:In other news... on Academics Take On Government Net Censorship · · Score: 2, Informative

    Education is a provincial matter in Canada, so more likely the government of Ontario. However the provincial legislature (Queen's Park) sits on land that the University of Toronto owns. (Previously the site of a mental institution. Another one, that is.) The lease is probably one of those 99 years for a dollar deals, but those run out eventually. (Under British law, 99 years used to be the max limit for those kind of contracts.)

  3. Re:platform SDK on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yegods! You're right. I wonder what else my installation of Borland Delphi 8 has dropped on my hard drive? :)

  4. Re:Heeeeeeers EULA on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Did the parent post have the text of the EULA? It certainly doesn't now.

  5. Re:security? on Wi-Fi Security Robots? · · Score: 1
    PatrolBot systems have been used at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer Global Research and Victoria's Secret.

    Exploits? Sweet!

  6. Re:Rat Thing on Wi-Fi Security Robots? · · Score: 1

    I think the first models will be more like Sleeper than Snow Crash. "Woof woof. Hello, I'm Rags. Woof woof."

  7. Re:Searching from the server's perspective on How to Build a Search Engine · · Score: 2
    There are lists of the various bots used by search engines, and who's naughty/nice. (I've seen one list recently, just don't remember where it was.) You might want to see who the persistant ones belong to. There are also some that check for copyright/trademark violations, and their bots don't always behave.

    A few years ago, a number of Scientology-critical sites were getting hammered by bots from machoproducts.com, which seems like a weird link. (Rumours of a martial-arts cult, but no direct Hubbard connection.) I don't know if they still do that, and many sites just blocked their bad-mannered bots at the router.

  8. Re:Which was first? on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 1

    You are, number six.

  9. Re:Which was first? on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also, how much has the Martian atmosphere changed over time? (Earth's certainly has, and there was life here before that blue-green algae started farting poisonous oxygen.) We need a better baseline on how Mars has changed over time.

  10. Re:Which was first? on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be a lot easier for Mars rocks (and life) to get to Earth than vice-versa. Earth's gravity-well would require much more energy to splatter rocks around the solar system, eventually reaching Mars. Of course, if you're God, aliens, random-chance, Kibo, etc, and you have big planetoids to toss around, energy is not much of a problem. (How to blast Earth-life to Mars without killing everything might be tricky.)

  11. Re:It does exist! on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 1
    Their A record has:
    www.nasrda.gov.ng. A 127.0.0.1 [TTL=86400] [*L]

    I tried to go there, but there's nothing but pr0n.

  12. Re:IAAD, and in short on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 2, Funny
    You just haven't the next message in the series:

    Please help! I am returned Nigerian astronaugt with having many health problems...

  13. Re:Obvious bank to pay them from ... on 419er Lost in Space · · Score: 1

    That's that cyberpunk one about the guy who's married to a bunch of people, has snap-on replacement arms, friends with an AI, and some people wear body glitter like glam rockers? That was cool. :P

  14. I wonder if Co$ ever did get the joke? on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, you laugh that anyone could get fooled by a 127.0.0.1 address, but way-back-when, it really happened.

  15. Re:turbo charged bar stool on Take Me Home, I'm Drunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    It just needs GPS and auto-nav. Be careful with it though. You might wake up on your way to Las Vegas, and that's bat country!

  16. Why don't players have a real shuffle play? on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strictly speaking, a shuffle play shouldn't be random. Like a dealing from a shuffled deck of cards, once it's played one song, it shouldn't play that one again until it's finished them all and reshuffles.

  17. Re:beer scooter on Take Me Home, I'm Drunk · · Score: 1
  18. And dead cells make noise too on The Sound of Cells · · Score: 2, Funny
    while dead cells give off a low, rumbling sound that Gimzewski says is probably the result of random atomic motions.

    Maybe they're just hungry, for brain cells...

  19. Re:I'm telling you... on The Sound of Cells · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. They didn't have Prozac back then.

  20. Re:I can see it already. on VIA Pulls PadLockSL · · Score: 1
    our version should define int to INT and write INT i, just to throw off code comparison.

    If they compare the code after the preprocessor pass, that would be a waste of time. If it's written from scratch, why bother? (Besides, they just need a lawyer to wave a prop briefcase with "millions of lines of stolen code". Reality seems to have nothing to do with it.)

  21. Re:Why is this company buying Alias? on SGI Sells Alias Subsidiary to Accel-KKR · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they want to use Maya to make it look like there are vast hordes of customers in their client's grocery stores?

  22. Re:About time... on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Funny Elevator Action should be mentioned. It was one of a number of "spy runs around a building with elevators" games that were independently developed and all released around the same time. If the first one had some IP lock on this obvious idea, perhaps it wouldn't have been Elevator Action you played. But then again, I played a lot of Intrepid, so that may have warped my view. :^)

  23. Does it come in colours? on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 1

    "The latest RC has passed QA and gone gold paper!"

  24. Re:I was expecting 3M! on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 1

    But when someone says "I left a list of project changes stuck to your monitor", which would you rather have?

  25. Re:Especially on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want Attack, you'll want psDooM. Excuse me while I go frag that zombie child process...