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  1. Re:why? revenue, of course on Tallest Roller Coaster in the World · · Score: 0

    I turned over a table at a restaurant once. Didn't make a dime.
    In fact, those arrogant bastards expected *me* to pay THEM! The nerve of some people...

  2. Re:web platform on IBM's OS/2 Strategy for 2003 · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd really like to get off of this platform. I'm not quite sure how I got on it in the first place.
    Did I ever mention I'm afraid of heights?

  3. Quite frankly... on Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player · · Score: 1

    I don't know if my DVD player could handle the beer. Last time it was at a demo party, it ended up with CSS all over the place.

  4. Re:scary - use encryption on Inside Symantec's 'Security Center' · · Score: 1

    This leads to something I have been wondering about a lot lately; How does encryption and encoding actually differ?
    If I have a voice transmission, analog, how is encoding it into a digital form (which no one knows the codec/compression for; completely proprietary, if it were), how is that any different from an encryption alogorithm where the third (intercepting) party does not know the key?

  5. Re:They should use that map... on Inside Symantec's 'Security Center' · · Score: 1

    You really should worry about your neighbors. Imagine what *they* think with all that racket.

  6. Re:Pepper Spray on New and Improved - SmarTruck II · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Insert a chemical or biological agent of your choice into a base substance of similar consitency and you have yourself a bringer of mass death on wheels.
    The pepper spray bit in the article is just to make you feel Warm And Fuzzy because you know how much They Care.

  7. I would really like to see... on Lord of the Rings, as Written By Everyone Else · · Score: 1, Funny

    LotR by William Gibson. :D

  8. Now... on Network Associates Aquires Deersoft Inc. · · Score: 3, Funny

    With each purchase of NA Sniffer Pro, you get a complimentary copy of "Deer Hunter"! Absolutely /FREE/! What a bargain!

  9. But I didn't have to circumvent anything at all... on DMCA Loophole For Peer-to-Peer TV Show Sharing? · · Score: 1

    to download all these movies, tv shows, mp3s...

    Even if the DMCA didn't apply, wouldn't copyright laws still be in effect? What makes a TV show different from a movie or mp3? You can get music and movies off of your television set, also.

    Eh, either way, it's not stopping me ;)

  10. come on! on Mood-Sensing Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I really want is a babelfish in my ear.
    I don't want a mood-sensing doohickey to get jealous!

  11. correction on 802.11g Hardware Arrives · · Score: 1

    s/flawed one/flawed ones

  12. Re:security? on 802.11g Hardware Arrives · · Score: 1

    There is still a flaw in the encryption which allows the key to be deduced, not cracked, by analyzing a large number of packets and looking for the flawed one. After a sufficent amount of packets are collected, it takes a minute or so. See AirSnort.

  13. Re:Quake 3 mapping. on Putting A Lid On Chernobyl · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes where Calvin's father explains to him how the world was actually in black and white a long time ago...

  14. Re:Well... on Kevin Free · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Who needs the right to a fair and speedy trial, anyway?
    In fact, who needs any of those r- things? They're becoming obsolete, anyway.
    </bandwagon>

  15. Re:Even better... on Modding A Paper Shredder · · Score: 1

    Really? They have engines that run on tomato juice now?
    Finally, a *use* for the stuff!

  16. Somebody call TIPS! on Multi-User Subversion · · Score: 1

    Multi-user subversion?!
    Isn't that a punishable offense now?

  17. Re:Where's Lavar Burton when you ened him? on Wi-Fi From The Sky · · Score: 1

    This system will let you have up to 150KB downstream, anywhere! ...But you don't have to take my word for it!

  18. Re:ABOVE commercial traffic? on Wi-Fi From The Sky · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do I have to say it?

    If box cutters were really dangerous in ANY way...

    lol, sorry, thats my weekly flamebait/troll/joke-i-found-funny-but-probably-ge ts-me-modded-down

  19. One step closer... on U.S. Proposes Centralized Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It seems to me like they are simply preparing for the IAO; They already had it planned, they're just breaking it down for some reason. Probably to make people think they're different tasks with different goals.

  20. I haven't kept up on Mac news since about 1998 on Build Your Own Mac · · Score: 1

    but... I thought that Apple had made an arrangement to allow other companies to sell Macintosh clones? I have some magazines from '97 or so that covered that, and had some ads from companies doing such.
    What ever happened to that?

  21. Items needed for circumvention: on New Software Secures Data when Owners Walk Away · · Score: 1

    * A frequency counter
    * A scanner with discriminator output and a transmitter -or- a tranciever
    * A recording device

    This scheme has about the same amount of security as a proximity card.

  22. Sounds good to me. on Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per Account · · Score: 1

    When I first started MUDding, having multiple characters was considered in the same league as multiplaying (having more than one character online at the same time, for personal gain usually), and I was happy with it.
    When people started to have multiple characters and such became the norm, people begain [ab]using the traditional power balance problems which plague multiplayer games, using their alternate characters to exact revenge, and other things which generally detracted from the gameplay.
    Down with multiplaying!

  23. Bah... on Cheating at Seti@home · · Score: 0
    Nealon says that would mean team members producing this much work must have 1250GHz of processing power at their disposal dedicated purely to the project. In human terms, thatâ(TM)s around 1,250 1GHz computers doing nothing but running the SETI@home screensaver.

    Apparently humans aren't capable of basic division...

    I was a little annoyed a handful of other details, but I don't feel like disecting the article...

  24. Sample Output on Chrysler Adopts Linux For Vehicle Simulations · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Approaching moving pedestrian.....

    Kernel panic.
    System Halted.

  25. Re:Yea bloatware... on Symbian Signs on Samsung · · Score: 1

    Symbian EPOC? EPOC is a bloated OS?
    Or are they using something different for these devices...