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  1. Re:Happy birthday!!! on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 1
    Jeez! Get a life! I check into herdthinners, userfriendly, Dr Fun and unitedmedia.com/comics (Pibgorn, Dilbert and Monty) before tackling the tough issues of the /. day.

    You have to learn to round out your life more. :^)

  2. Re:The Real Question on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1
    So, you figure .. BuckySnowBalls?

    If these things were forming in clear skies, I'd figure that an airplane or three would have hit a swarm by now.

  3. Re:Kinda fishy on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1
    And all this time I thought it was what happened when you didn't feed tornadoes for a week!

    Huh. Oh well, anyone have a trailer parks that they're not using? These puppies are famished!

  4. Someone has to say it on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    It's a good thing that it wasn't airplane toilet water. (Used)

    After all, you would want someone to be dropping Icy BMs on Europe, would you?

    Yes, it was used in one of Spider's Calahan stories [Or maybe a Lady Sally one]. It's people like him that cause good pun shortages, and we have to get by on stupid Xanth level stuff. Those kinds of dangerous memes should never be published.

    "Dangerous Memes", hmm, I'll suggest that to Keith Henson as a title if he ever writes a book about his experiences with the Co$ merry-go-round. Harlan Ellison wouldn't sue over that, would he? (Okay, he would, but after Co$, who cares!)

    You in the back, say it slowly and think of the letters while you're saying it. Sheesh!

  5. Re:Excellent on California Sues Spammer for $2 Million · · Score: 1

    Okay, call me a liar! As I was typing the previous message, I got one from Godollo University of Agricultural Sciences in Hungary. (Or they've got an open proxy.) LARTs away!

  6. Re:Excellent on California Sues Spammer for $2 Million · · Score: 2
    That doesn't seem to be happening, except as one-shots until they get whacked. After all these years of spam, universities take a pretty dim view of spam. Also most university admins who have to deal with the extra load spam adds to their job are going to take a very dim view of it.

    Did you use your email address on a Usenet post, on a web page contact link, or even on Slashdot recently? It could have gotten onto another "Millions CDROM" and spammers all copy each other's lists. (Shocking! They're copyright pirates too!)

    As the the Nigerian 419 scam, that has connections with some Nigeria government, banking and business people.

  7. Re:The Al Capone Approach on California Sues Spammer for $2 Million · · Score: 1
    What was Al Capone's main approach? The one-way ride, cement shoes, or just shoot them?

    All of those sound pretty good, but I .. oh wait, you mean .. Never mind! :^)

  8. Re:The Bunco Squad approach; Call Joe Friday! on California Sues Spammer for $2 Million · · Score: 2

    Rent hell! They scan for open proxy servers at Korean schools (or the Korean Naval GHQ firewall, narf!) and send their spam through those. That and the loads of actual Korean spam are why many networks just black-hole all of Korea (and China and .. )

  9. Old news no? on Automakers to Make Diagnostic Codes Available · · Score: 2
    On Dodge Neons, turn the ignition key on/off on/off on/off (don't engage the starter), and it will flash a diagnotic code on that idiot "Check Engine" LED. Most Chilton-type books list the codes for each car.

    That Check Engine light was the most annoying thing! When was it lighted, I'd never know if it was signaling 30 seconds to warp-core breach or just a glitched oxygen sensor aft of the catalytic converter. The damned "owner's manual" was pretty vague about it, like "Check Engine: Check Engine". Garages can plug into a port, get it in text, then make "expensive engine repair" noises.

  10. Re:Balls to the walls on Ballmer Wants to "Stomp Linux" Using MS community · · Score: 1

    A military contractor supplying a defective product? Yikes, like that's never happened before! :^)

  11. Re:How do you become a spammer on Lessig On Bounties For Spamhunters · · Score: 2

    To be a Real Official Spammer, you have to invoke the number of the Murk: S.1618. It never made it into law, they'd still be violating it if it was a law, and I live in Canada -- but spammers still have to quote it their turds. (In many languages too. Weird.)

  12. Re:True on Lessig On Bounties For Spamhunters · · Score: 3, Informative

    Umm, that's not a good idea. Just who are you going to reply to? Spammers tend to forge headers for a reason. If the spam "payload" was a URL link in the body rather than a dropbox in the From or Return-Path, you've just sent an unsolicited email to whoever the spammer wanted to abuse. (Also known as a "joe-job".)

  13. Re:ADV tagging useless to real advertisers on Lessig On Bounties For Spamhunters · · Score: 2
    I had one spammer that kept sending me the same spam, and I swear that the "affiliate" name was randomly generated each time.

    Spammer heads on pikes, can you and your affiliates arrange that for me, Mr Morden?

  14. Re:We're focusing on the wrong question anyway on Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves' · · Score: 1
    If they so much as blink, we can disassemble their buildings with those cute hex-keys.

    Oh wait, Ikea is Swedish, never mind.

  15. Re:Well on Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves' · · Score: 1
    Check the city records to see if they have a variance for that awning. Also check to see if they own the public sidewalk under that awning. I bet that they don't. Next!

    And yes, the Cthurch of $cientology Toronto frequently claims to own the sidewalk under their overhang. City records show that they lie. But that's not news.

    Co$ Toronto

  16. Umm, "passive seismometer"? on Slashback: Courseware, Warranties, Subscraption · · Score: 3, Funny
    "These nuclear-powered ALSEPs also included a passive seismometer. The Passive Seismic experiment used four extremely sensitive seismometers to measure lunar surface vibrations, free oscillations and tidal variations in surface tilt."

    Passive as opposed to what? An active seismometer with giant hammers: "Wakey wakey Moon! Hello, this is your alarm-call!"

  17. Re:Mmmm, I wouldn't try it on More on Bayesian Spam Filtering · · Score: 2
    Google and Googlegroups for spam honeypot.

    And search Slashdot too. I think there was an article about a Russian honeypot a few months ago. Because of bandwidth costs, they "throttled down" their honeypot to reduce the truely huge amount of hits by clueless spammers. (But I repeat myself..)

    There are arguements both ways about relay honeypots. The downside is that you have to let some relay tests go through so that when the spammer tests it, the tests go through. But then when the actual spam-run happens, it has to choke it off completely.

  18. Re:The proof of the pudding... on More on Bayesian Spam Filtering · · Score: 1
    I'm sure those chuckleheads could care less. They probably say "Play it again Sam" and "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well" too.

    Death's too good for some people.

  19. Re:Wire cutters and some speaker wire... on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 1

    That's why I said one induction coil on each headphone. You did read my comment right? Ah, I forgot, this is Slashdot.

  20. What ever will they think of next? on Musicians vs. RIAA At USA Today · · Score: 2, Funny
    "They face challenges from increasingly vocal performers.."

    Well duh! Hello! They're performers, they're supposed to be vocal, or instrumental or something. I bet the writer was saving that one up for years.

  21. Re:Other ideas to ensure they're not distributed on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 1
    Oh sure, and what's to stop someone from cutting off her head, sticking it in a jar, and connecting it to a bunch of MIDI instruments?

    What? They want Tori back afterwards and they'll check for tampering? Bastards!

  22. Re:Wire cutters and some speaker wire... on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 3, Funny
    So don't break the case or clip the wires -- use those telephone induction pickups from Radio Shack (one on each headphone).

    Of course, I haven't shopped at Radio Shack in years. Odds are, someone has declared them to be terrorist tools or something...

  23. Re:Short-term memory gone? on Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to Be Explored Live · · Score: 1
    "Hey, has anyone seen that movie/tv show Stargate?"

    "No." "Nah." "Nope."...

  24. Re:Short-term memory gone? on Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to Be Explored Live · · Score: 1

    User Friendly's take on it: Good.
    Break from poking Wil with a stick: Bad. :^)

  25. Is it just me or .. on Harry Potter strikes back · · Score: 1
    Does anyone else read the title as "The Chamber Potty of Secrets"?

    I mean, no wonder that it's remained sealed for so long and why it's such a big deal when it's openned. Sitting on it would probably give you Malvolmort's face, and not on the back of your head this time!