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  1. Y2038 bug? on Verisign Plans DNS Changes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Doesn't the UNIX 'seconds since 1/1/1970' break in 2038 or so? I could be wrong. It's hard to remember all the various time/date glitch dates.

  2. Re:Stop Changing DNS on Verisign Plans DNS Changes · · Score: 0
    No worries--give the authority to the United Nations like the UN was whining about last year.

    Then you won't see any change.

  3. Re:Well that's all fine and dandy... on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 1

    Just wait until all those guys who build pumpkin guns get involved in this!

  4. Re:Campfire Activities on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1

    .. and he said it was choking on the hacker's finger exploits ..

  5. Re:Campfire Activities on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 4, Funny

    ".. and all they found was a hook in the firewall .."

  6. Re:Elites group together..this is news? on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1
    That VCs were there just explains..

    Tax write-off. It was a business conference. Honest.

  7. Re:Camp Foo teaches valuable skills . . . on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1

    You were probably okay with the badger. Just so long as you didn't take any turkish delight from some ice queen.

  8. Re:geek camping. on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1

    Only at knight.

  9. And tonight... on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll go snipe fragging!

  10. Re:why play if you can't win? hope it's fun... on RFID Casino Chips · · Score: 1

    I think the government should run it. I'm all in favour of taxes on the stupid.

  11. Re:Whaaaat? (Re:GOOD for them!!!) on RFID Casino Chips · · Score: 1
    They could even give you an automatically printed receipt to file with your police report, but somehow I don't think they'll do that.

    Lord Vetinari will have .. words .. to say about that. :^P

  12. Fluffy version of story submission on RFID Casino Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I submitted Gambling with RFID a day or so ago, but the accepted one is much better. Oddly enough, the company Chipco International makes no mention of RFID chips on their site. I wonder how unhackable those chips are?

  13. Re:Possible arrest for Impersonating an Officer? on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Setup a sting operation. Sell CDs with legal music on them in their area of operations. When they "bust" you and start the hassle, ask them to smile for the cameras and state their names clearly for the microphones...

  14. Re:What I'd like to see on Colorization of Mars Images? · · Score: 1
    Because the "hurtling moons of Barsoom" are two teeny-tiney balls of junk? They'd be pretty unimpressive unless they'd hauled along a telescope--which would be a strange waste of mass on a planet probe. A lot of the time, they'd be in the shadow of Mars too.

    *sigh* it sounds so romantic too. You could always lie in a field in Australia and watch the Man in the Moon fly upside-down and backwards.

  15. Re:Check the links, editors on Colorization of Mars Images? · · Score: 1
    No true--they acknowledge it, but hide the fine print under where it says "false color imaging".

    Did you know that Black Helicopters are actually dark green?

  16. Re:The issue of None Of The Above on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the outcry/whine for proportional representation that comes the losers in many Canadian elections. When they later win, they never mention the subject for some reason.

  17. Re:Very good thing on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 1

    All they need to do is seal the voting booth after the voter votes. That way, until they look inside, the count is both fscked and un-fscked.

  18. Re:Hmm? on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 1
    Have they actually proved that the voter didn't hit the vote button, or is the claim a mere speculation?

    Tricky. To know absolutely, they'd have to wire up the voting booth with all sort of cameras and sensors -- which they can't do if the voters and their votes are to be anonymous.

  19. Electro-Elections on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 1, Funny
    Election Systems & Software, [..], believes that some voters failed to push the "vote" button at the conclusion of the ballot -- akin to hitting the "send" button to dispatch an e-mail.
    Hit the vote button to turn off the voltage on the door to the voting booth. Election, electricity. Vote, voltage. There, that should be simple enough to remember.
  20. Re:Suggestion for submitter on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    Come on, everyone knows that SPF is IBM's mainframe document editing package. I'm surprised to see it making a come-back. (I think SPF stands for something pretty funny in the Olde IBM language.)

  21. Re:Be real interesting .... on GTA - San Andreas Looks to be Next · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sell them off to lesser crime game lines: Double-Parking: Portland or Jaywalking: Kansas City.

  22. Re:Maybe it's a trap! on US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online · · Score: 1

    Well, that's nothing new. (Continue on for a few days.)

  23. Re:Capitalism at work on US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online · · Score: 2, Funny
    Personally, I'm only using Republic of Texas money.

    Yes, but does Photoshop recognize it as valid currency?

  24. Re:Massive nose dive! on Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought? · · Score: 1
    I thought that loud whistling sound I heard, followed by the tremendous explosion and screeching, was Darl doing another line of coke. I mean, what else should I think from the subject of your post?

    You found lines of what Darl?

  25. Re:What would Doctor Who say? on Army Looks at Robotic Dogs · · Score: 1

    I know what he'd say. From a Tom Baker out-take to K-9: "Yeah, you never fucking know the answer when it's important."