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  1. Outsource the fun! on MMOG Currency Seller Owns Media Network ? · · Score: 1

    Anything that helps to dry up the pool of third-world VB programmers is a good thing in my book!

  2. Re:Not surprising at all on Business Considers Open Source on Par with Commercial Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I don't think "Fark GIMP competition" has quite the same cachet!

  3. Cellphone rage on Nokia To Use Microsoft Digital Music Software · · Score: 1
    Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!

    Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?

    Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!


    And "La Cucaracha" in polyphonic clarity!

  4. Re:Sad little robot on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1

    "I think you're overlooking something fundamental in the relationship between humans and robots."

  5. Re:Robot Security Guard? on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1
  6. Tinfoil hat, plz ignore... on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1
    Couldn't have anything to to with insider trading going on before the attacks, now could it?

    And Jacques Vallee applied the scientific method to UFO reports, and surprisingly, could extract actual information from them. And was roundly ingnored by both skeptics and true believers. Go figure.

  7. Re:They're wrong about PNG on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Err, sorry, I was factually inaccurate. When I said "First Amendment" I meant "Journalistic Integrity". Those are two distinct concepts.

  8. HAHAHAH GRABOULOUS! on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So Microsoft's use of FOSS directly led to this problem? The mind boggles at the interpertations people will draw from that!!!

  9. Re:They're wrong about PNG on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1, Insightful
    These bitch-ass "journalists" we have these days don't understand the fuckin' First Amenedment, how the hell do you expect them to grasp a more abstract concept like Open Standards?!!!


    B is just a superset of A here.

  10. Talk about brazen! on Copyright Infringement and Shoplifting Contrasted · · Score: 1
    Bonus points for using one of their demo computers and stealing the blanks from the store!

    Hmmm, do they have wireless networking now in-store so the saleguys can sell laptops? Why not just stealthily install kazaa on their machines, and then upload their own inventory one DVD a day? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!



    Thud457 does not condone stealing. Or copyright violation. For amusement purposes only. Do not taunt happy fun ball.

  11. Nobody understands this stuff! on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo · · Score: 1
    "Having an occult gizmo as your mascot is kinda creepy."

    The developers are just paying proper respect to the ages-old tradition that computers are a black art. Hell, just ask any user, they'll tell you. It's all magical thinking and cargo-cult mumbo-jumbo.

  12. Re:Succubus with Big Ones on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo · · Score: 3, Funny
    How's this?

    Raul also did a penguin-girl around the same time. I wish that lazy bastard would get back to drawing bonza chicas!

  13. Ding dong, the witch is dead! on HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down · · Score: 1

    "Stating this year, we'll strive to build every one of our consumer devices to respect digital rights."
    -- former HP CEO Carly Fiorina

  14. Re:should I write a novel? on Cloning License for Dolly's Doc · · Score: 1

    Just stick to the standard horror genre story with a twist -- healthy protagonist finds out on his 18th birtday that he's to be the donor for his older self.

  15. Re:Greedy bastard on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1
    Well, by his criteria, assuming you don't love Windows, you shouldn't be supporting Windows.

    No problemo...

  16. Listen up sunshine! on China to Pioneer Melt-Down Proof Reactors · · Score: 2, Funny
    Dinosaurs DIED to make those pleather pants you're so smug about!

    Won't somebody please think of the dinosuars?!!!

  17. MOD PARENT UP! on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea, they don't feel like being robbed, and you don't feel like you're charging too little / too much.

  18. Kooter's 'puter repair and bait shop... on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1
    "...local plumbers and auto mechanics"
    "semi-rural area"
    "Wear a shirt and possibly even a tie."

    Wouldn't bib overalls and a gimmie hat be more appropriate?

  19. helpdesk support wants to be free on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 5, Funny

    " Gas, grass or ass,
    nobody rides for free!
    "

  20. Get back to work! on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    You sir, are a true benefactor to humanity.
    "Oh, I wouldn't think to take your money, you'll just have to slave away for me in the RPG saltmines until your debt is paid off! BWAHAHAHAHA! "

  21. Re:No, really, this works... on The Sub-$100 Laptop? · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting insight. Are you serious or are you being flippant? Is there really a structural similarity between interferometry and properly done hashing? If there is, you might be onto something there.

  22. No, really, this works... on The Sub-$100 Laptop? · · Score: 1
    1. Print out the list of integers
    2. Make a hologram of the integer of interest
    3. View list through hologram
    4. You will see a bright spot on the hologram image where there is a match
    Unfortunately, this will also provide false positives for near matches. The closer the graphical match, the brighter the spot. O(N) time to print the list, but O(1) time to to the actual search. This is also useful for finding tanks.
  23. Be sure to send a monkey too! on ESA to Deploy Mars Express Radar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine how motivated to find water they'll be when they're marooned!

  24. Cognitive dissonance much? on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 2, Funny
    "/. is not a news organization,

    "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"

    One of those is incorrect. Plz fix, kthx, bye.

  25. Frivolous lawsuits are destroying America! on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Oh, wait this was a corp suing a citizen, not the other way around.

    carry on...