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  1. Customs needed new servers on Ships Turned Away As Aussie Customs' IT System Melts Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    after EDS let their old mainframes walk out the door.

    Is it a big suprise that EDS fucked the upgrade as well?

  2. Re:Sensationalist journalism on The World's Smallest Car · · Score: 1

    It's never too late to not be a dickhead.

  3. Re:One question on The World's Smallest Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look out, I think it just ran over your sense of humour particle.

  4. Re:Response to new alternatives on VMWare Inc. Releases Free Virtual Machine Runtime · · Score: 1

    Anything free out of VMWare these days seems more like a response to free competitors

    That's the whole point of competitive capitalism.

  5. Re:gl hf... not going to see it in rural areas on The Future of Wireless Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Who is going to pay to set up a tower to give 20 people internet?

    Don't be a dickhead, it would be quite easy to set up bases in the town centers which do have the population, then set up repeaters to the outlying areas.

  6. The Onion? on Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans · · Score: 1

    Man, that redesign of The Onion is the classic case of how to fuck up a perfectly good website:

    It doesn't fit in a regular sized window and has a terribly confusing layout. There is no consistant feel to the page, it's just an ugly pile of shit.

  7. Re:A Year? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many new features can you add to VI? VIM is near perfect software and has been for years. Free licence has done its work already with this software, troll.

  8. Re:What else would SSH Communications say? on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 1

    Doesn't truth matter anymore?

    Yes. *snigger*

  9. Re:The linked page is NSFW on Defeating Captcha · · Score: 1

    Looking at goatse may be business as usual for you, but it's hardly fitting as headline material.

  10. Re:Goatse Man on Defeating Captcha · · Score: 1

    It is my manager

  11. To be a good BOFH... on More Students Prefer Interdisciplinary to CS · · Score: 1

    ...you need to do your apprenticeship as a PFY.

    BOFHs, take a PFY under your wing, pound all that CS and certification bullshit out of it and teach it how to run computer systems.

    Teach it humility; it will make mistakes and must learn to mitigate them when they happen, like using dev, test and BRP. Make it do nothing but change tapes for a year.

    Teach it voodoo; software has bugs and is not to be trusted to work correctly. Workarounds and duct-tape are not to be derided. Security is a process.

    Teach it to be self-sufficient; don't rely on the moron at the other end of the phone, learn to think laterally and brainstorm.

    Teach it how to drink.

    If you do this, then it is more likely your and my future team will consist of Real Men, not knowitall poindexters and tie wearers.

  12. Re:Fix the delusions on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    Tellingly, the more of the seven deadly sins you are guilty of breaking, the more you perceived as a salt of the earth american.

    If one were to publicly advocate Jesus' teachings outside of the context of Jesus, one would be derided for being a saddam loving pinko commie hippie.

  13. Re:I would have to disagree on Bill Roper Predicts Major PC Shift · · Score: 1

    SOF rules!

  14. Beat rootkits. on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 1

    Compile all of the drivers yor system needs into the kernal and turn off module loading, ala OpenBSD.

  15. Re:Funny because it's true on How Linux Beats Windows in ID Management Ease · · Score: 1

    When will linux combine usability with power and flexibility?

    Your gripe seems to be with Gentoo, after all Knoppix has a linux kernal and as you say all that shit works.

    Perhaps you should rephrase:

    When will gentoo combine usability with power and flexibility?

  16. Re:Naxos lost New York expired copyright court cas on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    The court said such recordings were still covered by common law.

    So US copyright is now infinite, enforceable after expiration? Heavy shit.

  17. Re:back problems on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Would you consider a chihuaua and a malamute to be the same species? Do you consider a house cat and a cougar to be the same species?

    In what way is their situation different? One having occured through selective breeding by humans, one through natural selection.

  18. Re:Problems I See on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    doesn't it seem that speeding up would be the safest bet?

    Considering that cars can decelerate much faster than they can accelerate, you would get yourself out of a bad situation much more quickly. Hit the anchors and the truck is gone.

    As you would be going slower, you would have more options to swerve safely. Whereas if you had to make an emergency maneuver with extra speed you are only making the situation more dangerous.

    The moral of this (exceptional circumstance) story is don't overtake roadtrains when it not safe to do so. Correct technique is to flash lights and make yourself seen, and use that horn.

  19. Re:Speed limiters? Congestion charge? on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    There is never a speed at which driving abruptly changes from "safe" to "dangerous".

    A small difference in speed makes a large difference between stopping and not stopping in time.

  20. Re:Problems I See on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    What if I'm passing an 18-wheeler in the left lane, and suddenly he starts moving into my lane?

    It would be far safer to slow down and let the truck in than to exacerbate the situation by going faster. Also, learn how to overtake properly and not drive in the blind spot.

  21. Re:Posting from the People's Republic of Fantasia on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    How about just putting the solar cells on the earth and then shutting down the coal stations? Makes too much sense?

  22. Uhh on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Isn't the food we eat reliant on the sun? Whoopsie...

  23. Re:How about on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They only believe she is innocent because she is young and kind of attractive, and because the TV made her look innocent.

    If she looked like me they would be passing the hat around to buy the bullets to shoot me with.

  24. Re:About the gender statistics... on Firefox Site Visits Up 237% · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that the gender comes from the surveys, but I don't want to upset anybody who might be really excited about a new gender-aware version of HTTP.

    They use the FF memory exposure vulnerability to see what porn you have looked at, extrapolating from there.

  25. Re:VERY handy. on Where Does NetBSD Fit In? · · Score: 1

    You can install Debian with X in 100MB, if you know what you're doing. OpenBSD is also a good choice for old sparcs, especially 4c.