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  1. Re:"Name That Moon" Contest on Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn · · Score: 1
    It seems pointless to waste a good god or goddess name on a chunk of rock/ice. It's not like we're making new gods all the time (a debatable philosophical point perhaps), so except for worthy objects, we should tap other sources.

    I think characters from 1950s/60s TV shows would be good, and suggest Ranger Bob (from Lassie). However, it might be an idea to reserve certain shows for whole moon/planetary systems, such as an entire Leave it to Beaver-themed solar system.

  2. Re:"Name That Moon" Contest on Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn · · Score: 1

    I think you mean S/MMV SI. (He had a brother who was god of awkward Roman numerals.)

  3. Re:Same Jim Kartes? on Maui X-Stream: GPL Violations, Lies, and Damn Lies · · Score: 1

    Yes, and of course when I read back through, it jumped right out at me, even with the same link. D'oh!

  4. Re:But this is a problem on Maui X-Stream: GPL Violations, Lies, and Damn Lies · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Strange, I can't imagine the "community" reacting very strongly when a company that openly and honestly uses GPL code and makes a best effort to comply with the licence slips up. "Of course we use xxxx code, it's right there in our documentation. We thought we were complying with the licence, but give us a few days to review this and if we made a mistake, we'll correct it as soon as possible."

    It's these companies that sneak around like weenie-waggers and wave their cartoonie lawyers instead when they get caught that get the flames.

  5. Same Jim Kartes? on Maui X-Stream: GPL Violations, Lies, and Damn Lies · · Score: 1

    There's a Maui Giclee, owned a Jim Kartes, that sells art reproduction prints. Umm, I'm sure that Maui Giclee has all their copyrights and licences in order, but ..

  6. Lots of wire... on Homeless Wires? · · Score: 1

    Why not build a bopamagilvie and call your Eustace, enk?

  7. Re:Who actually uses SPEWS!? on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1
    Usually the poster has said which unreponsive void is their ISP by then.

    What do you want the peanut gallery to say? "Right-o, we'll fire up the SPEWS signal and you'll have your personal little hole punched in the block within the hour!"

  8. What does a Spreading Worm *sound* like? on What Does a Spreading Worm Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Sound of a worm going through MS security after you click on an MSI installer.

  9. Re:What a spreading worm *really* looks like. on What Does a Spreading Worm Look Like? · · Score: 1

    If they were blue, I'd have figured that it was network cable and a far far scarier movie.

  10. Re:Hopefully with a small thermonuclear device on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    At the last minute, he kills Palpatine, gets a nose job and takes over as Emperor. It's a secret plot twist for everyone who thought they knew what was going to happen.

  11. Re:final? on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Later he might go back and re-edit those comments with enhanced digital effects...

  12. Re:SoGoSearch on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    I never got a pony either.

  13. Re:Who actually uses SPEWS!? on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1
    It's not that much of a logical leap.

    Not much of a logical leap, no.

  14. Re:Who actually uses SPEWS!? on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1
    Amazing. Who did you talk to who claimed to be speaking for SPEWS?

    I've never met them and don't know if they're control freaks, and have never heard them making excuses (or anything at all). And yet all the black-hats claim that they have. Is there a special phone number to SPEWS that you only get when you sign a contract in blood with Al Ralsky? (Or are you like the Something Awful zombies who confused the nanae newsgroup with SPEWS?)

  15. Re:Is blocking port 25 really useful? on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1
    Not always stupid. You could do that for a private email network and not have to deal with attempted traffic from the great unwashed spammers and worms. Setup mail servers between company branches, only accept connections from a trusted list, and give that email an express route through the spam blockers and filters for zero false-positives.

    I get hits on my port 25 several times a day (Godzilla sfx) and I'm on an ADSL DHCP IP address. If they ever found a server, I'm sure the attempts would go to the next level.

  16. SPEWS doesn't make announcements either on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1
    In late April, Spews announced that it had started blocking more than 900,000 net addresses used by Telewest's Blueyonder broadband service. Many were suspected of being used by spammers.

    They don't make annoucements other than publishing their block list itself. Nor do they block addresses themselves--that's up to the admins who find their list to be a useful tool. (Many use it to tag email for filtering.) Also suspect is the assumption that those addresses were listed for directly spamming. It's also likely that they were listed because Telewest has had spammers that they have ignored for a while and the SPEWS listing expanded because Telewest is seen as spam-supporting.

    Anyone making exact statements about SPEWS' reasons or motives is speculating. IANS.

  17. Re:When Where Who What on How Should an Application's Logs Work? · · Score: 1

    Think thousands of records with a small handful formatted in the Splutlestan National Format. Adding a few lines takes care of that, until the phase of the Moon changes or something and they go to a new format. It makes code fragile.

  18. Re:Favorite logging on How Should an Application's Logs Work? · · Score: 1

    Configurable logging with wide control over groups and level of logging is a blessing, especially when you're trying to figure out what's going wrong at a customer site with Idiot Inside. You can always turn it down/off when you don't need it or the customer site is close to a tropical beach.

  19. Re:When Where Who What on How Should an Application's Logs Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, standard timestamps! (Especially when timezones are involved.) It's extremely irritating parsing stuff into a db for processing when someone uses a non-standard format for no good reason. I've seen sites with different formats in HTTP headers for Date and Last-Modified. Huh? And almost every domain registrar uses a slightly different format.

  20. Replacement Killers on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Won't someone think of the replacement? Just think of the bad karma you'd receive for fixing the replacement up for a term with psycho-boss! Imagine if the replacement was actually someone you knew or even a friend? Come to think of it, why can't they find at least a semi-suitable replacement in today's job market?

  21. Re:Nerd/tech/science? on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's only natural to confuse them, since Lewis and Clarke did so much exploring together. :)

  22. Re:Charter Schools USA, 20 second judgement on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 1
    No stockholder left behind!

    They won't fsck over the kids. They are, after all, a Valuable Product of their company and will be as close to zero defects as their Quality Assurance department can manage. ;)

  23. Re:Whois Entries Not Indicative of a Hack on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    Busted! :^P (And I use my own program rather than telnet usually.)

  24. Re:Text of the legal threat: on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 1
    CSUSA has reviewedthe web site and has determined that your and other parents' and other web site participants' published accusations, comments and statements are unlawful, defamatory and libelous against CSUSA, Gateway Charter School and DR.Nauss.

    Sloppy wording. They might feel or think that the statements are "unlawful, defamatory and libelous", but they're not actually that until a court determines it.

    Unless they got a quicky judgement from Charter Courts USA Inc...

  25. Re:true tort reform. on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 1

    Not so. Civil courts can have juries. Juries are used to weigh facts and evidence. If those aren't in dispute by the sides in a civil case and it's question of law, then they don't need one. (Your court system may vary.)