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  1. Re:Use of 'hero' gratuitous? on Open Source Geeks Considered Modern Heroes · · Score: 1

    A lot of the Greek heroes were a bit weird. For Geek heroes, just apply a few thousand years of Moore's law to that bit.

  2. Re:Use of 'hero' gratuitous? on Open Source Geeks Considered Modern Heroes · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Only half of your chromosomes that way. on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    That's midi-chlorines. They add bleach to enhance the blond genes. Strong in the Force, but pretty stupid.

  4. Re:Pick of the List on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    How about a glass with someone else's DNA in it? Their whole big toe, in fact.

  5. Re:Only half of your chromosomes that way. on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    And you're missing the mitochondrial DNA. If you're male, that never gets passed down to your kids anyway, but to make a reasonable clone copy, you might want to save that too.

  6. Giant 2.0 on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fee! Fo! Fi! Fum!
    I smell the stink of a Slashdot bum!
    Be he 'live, or be he thing,
    I'll compress his bones, to make my bling!

  7. Re:Become a diamond on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could be worse. Could be ex-wives. "So you'd like us to add another diamond to the ring, Mr Bluebeard?"

  8. Re:Riiight ... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    But if you die doing this, you can join the Darwin Award Club.

  9. Important 300 Club safety tip! on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do not lick, hug, or otherwise touch the pole!

    (Their storage area is already full of bare-ass frozen tourists-onna-stick with a very stupid expression on their faces.)

  10. Climb like a geeko! on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 2, Funny
    Researchers in Manchester have almost succeeded in developing Velcro-like pads to fix to the feet of volunteers who will then be able to scuttle over the town hall or the Guardian's northern headquarters like lizards, with no risk of falling.
    Peter Parker's IP lawyers on line 2 for you!

    (Yes, it's gecko, but I just had to leave my typo in.)

  11. Re:Sharkey and the Shire? on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    No, and no.

  12. Re:Nothing new on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    I'll sell him a licence that allows him to depreciate other people's Moon land. Only $699.

  13. Re:not wanting to be libellous.... on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    Either that or they stood on the corner begging, and when someone gave them some change, they slipped them a licence and recept.

  14. Re:In the immortal words of PT Barnum.... on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 0

    I bet you that P.T. Barnum never said that. Just a frindly bet, of course. Quatloos or karma points?

  15. Re:This proves ..... on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    It's like the spammers. If 99.99999% of the people don't buy their p-pills, they're happy to crank up the spam engines to reach the 0.00001% who are morons.

  16. Re:Borland and .NET on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1
    .NET does take a huge download/install, and might require keeping multiple versions around like VBRUNx00.EXE. (I'm hoping that when .NET 2.0 ships, that it replaces .NET 1.1 unlike the beta. Maybe.)

    However, it's not so bad if you're the second .NET app that someone installs. :^P

  17. Re:Languages die for a reason on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    At the start, OWL was better than MFC in many ways.

  18. Re:Visual Studio on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    Like beer, you're only renting it. The beta versions are due to switch off in March or so. And they require another Gawd_Awful of space for .NET 2.0 beta. (Shades of VBRUNx00.EXE.)

  19. Re:delphi? on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    You might be thinking of the Compuserve-ish service. Delphi isn't exactly an uncommon name even within the bounds of computers and software.

  20. Re:Hack a Kensington finder into a cheap dev. kit on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    Cute! I wonder if any extra functions could be added to the unit? A headphone tone output depending on signal strength and type of access would be nice. (Then use two units and some shielding to make a head-mounted stereo directional finder. Camouflage it as Mickey Mouse ears or something.)

  21. Spotted a SCO-mobile on Thurday on SCO.com Defaced · · Score: 1
    I saw a car in a parking lot with the Ontario licence plate "SCO 4". I wonder, did they pay $699 for that vanity plate?

    I resisted the instant temptation to deface the car. If the plate is actually for something terminal cutsie like "Sco [let's go] for groceries", I can probably find it again.

  22. Re:Encryption and Access on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 0, Troll

    but it is an encrypted airport commercial network for say e-ticket kiosk. They have e-ticket rides at the airport? Cool.

  23. Re:A conversation regarding my WiFi detector... on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well.. At least you weren't using a Stud Finder.

  24. Re:Horrible Idea on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1
    Not the same as a joe-job at all. The spammer controls both the spoofed IP address and the hidden source of the forged IP packets. (The only non next-to-impossible way to sucessfully spoof TCP packets.)

    A firewall won't help. By the time the packets are out on the net, there's no way to tell between valid and spoofed packets. Blocking outward-bound packets with spoofed IP addresses is about the only way, but that would have to be done by the same ISP that sold the spammer a pipe in the first place.

  25. Somebody call it! on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 1

    Is is going to land on the comet head or tail?