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  1. I'm a lone nut, just like everyone else! on Librarians Join the Fight Against The Patriot Act · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you're reading "A Catcher in the Rye", you're probably not borrowing it from the library. You probably have several copies issued by the CIA themselves.

    JD Salinger was a well known member in intellignce circles in his day. Like the Scientologists, the spooks like to bolster their own, so all their brainwashed MKULTRA manchurian candidates are given a compulsion to buy the book, hence inflating the sales.

    I should know, since I just made this shit up!

  2. Compuglobalhypermeganet ? on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 1

    "Buy him out, boys!"
    -- Bill Gates, the book of Homer, 5F11
    truly the fount of all wisdom

  3. Re: You don't get it, do you? on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 1
    "Free" as in F-R-E-N-C-H ?

    WTF? That makes no sense whatsoever!

  4. Bill. Was. Right. on Legacy-Free PCs · · Score: 1
    640k should be enough for any REAL PROGRAMMER .

    Damn punk-ass kids!

  5. Re:NYT article on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    "No, there's been some horrible mistake, my name is Harry Buttle!"

  6. Re:Yeah. It's all a trap. 9/11 was faked. on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let's see, fire up PROMIS and hack into the camp X-Ray node from the Iraq secret police.
    tick tic tickity type tic tick....
    Here we go, he's being held in holding cell 44a, sub-level 4 on an "abandoned" oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

    He's ok for now, but they're not letting him have any smokes. He hasn't even been given his entry processing interrogation yet.

    So quit whining, or you're next!

  7. Re:Jesus Christ! And I thought the Iraqis were bad on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1
    Sorry if I wasn't clear.

    I know that one of the criteria I rate my Armies upon is how well they follow orders. So rebelling against my rule means that, at least in one aspect, they suck as soldiers.

    Of course, I am a benevolent dictator, and would never squander the lives of my legions frivolously. So maybe the existance of the concept of decimation could be more a reflection upon the political leaders rather than the army itself.

    Other than the point Chicago disaster, I am unaware of any large scale mutiny in the United States military. Is our society really better tempered than the Romans, or do we just not hear about balky soldiers on the TV?

  8. Jesus Christ! And I thought the Iraqis were bad! on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1
    "The worst punishment of all was decimation, usually applied to a whole cohort, in which every tenth man in the unit was randomly selected to be clubbed or beaten to death by the other soldiers."

    How much must your army SUCK that you'd need such a punishment in the first place?!!! No wonder the Roman Empire collapsed!

  9. Re:My girlfriend uses OpenOffice... on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1

    Every girls' box needs a firewall. Otherwise, she might have nefarious hackers rooting her box and spawning daemon processes, installing viruses or spiders even!

  10. Re:Lethal? on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    Any you guys called me paranoid !

  11. uuuhhhhh.... Micro Soft? (!!!) on SONICblue Hits the Auction Block · · Score: 1
    I thought Sonicblue was working with Microsoft to sell Replay TV.

    WTF happened with that?

    How could a company paired with the mighty Microsoft fail? (Where's my tinfoil hat?...)

  12. Re:Bah on Progeny Releases Linux Platform Manager · · Score: 1

    And Real Admins dissassemble the generated machine code looking for backdoors!

  13. Re:You're overlooking: on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 1

    1. I don't know what the typical floor would be in a sandstorm, or how it compares to AA radar coverage.
    2. Ideally, wouldn't you have supressed most AA radar from afar before going incountry?

  14. Re:Why Not on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 1
    I find it, err, disturbing, not just one, but several people knew that.

    Urkel is a horrible stereotype and not a good representative of our people.

  15. warning: this post contians blatent disinformation on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, but ARPAnet was designed to survive a nuclear attack, not the latest Microsoft virus-storm du jour!

  16. You're overlooking: on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Fly ABOVE the storm, see THROUGH the sand, shoot AT helpless targets.

    That's even better than moving and attacking with impunity under the cover of darkness (== nightvision).

  17. Thud457 reports : "*GUI is dying" on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1
    That's the problem with all you goddamned GUI freaks, you can't leave well enough alone. "Oh, I'll just re-arrange things to make it look more flashy". Too bad that means I have to spend five minutes hunting around for stuff that I know has to be there somewhere now everytime I want to change my config!

    That's a real PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT right there, - 5 min X N , every time I want to change somehting on my goddamned machine.

    As far as how this applies to Microsoft, why the hell are they putting a damn GUI on a SERVER anyway? That just makes it harder to script it or remotely admin it. Stupid ONE USER, ONE MACHINE, LOCAL DESKTOP paradygm! These guys are going at things ass-backwards and getting the expected results.

    /RANT

  18. Re:For the security-lingo disadvantaged... on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1
    I misread your statement at first and wondered where in google language tools it does ROT13.
    That seems like an easy and useful tool for google itself to provide.

    On another note, I don't recall ever running into ROT13 in dejaNews, er, google groups. Do they translate that at archival time?

  19. double-ROT13 on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has the added advantage of appearing to be cleartext, thus making the attacker think they've decoded the message!

  20. There's life outside of slashdot? on Linux for the Rest of Us · · Score: 1
    "the book wasn't authored for the sole purpose of being posted to Slashdot"

    To quote Jon Stewart : " hhhhhwwwwaaaahh? "

  21. SLOW: no wake zone on Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology · · Score: 1

    Underclocking runs cooler, too!

  22. Sooooo... on Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's official, " Intel owns the patent on stupidity "?

  23. Re:Bust a Cap in Their Collective Ass on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    Now reach into that bag and give me my wallet back!

  24. Re:Cussing in Esperanto on Dying Languages, Fading Formats · · Score: 1
    That's a pretty short list. ;-)Those esperanto guys need to get to work on that.

    And some of those constructs are pretty weak -- "everyone's woman" for prostitute.

    It seems that there's two different classes of profanity.
    First, you need a basic grabbag of short expletives that are easily shot off in the heat of passion. These can be easily strung together for greater effect.
    Those long portmandues (sp?) fall into the second class. In that case, you're either striving to be scathingly precise, or interjecting humor to defuse a tense situation.

  25. And I want a pony! on Amazon's Bezos Wants Web Advertising Patent · · Score: 1

    errrr, what I really want right about now is a cold, frosty beer!
    Or eight.