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  1. Re:Its common on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 1

    Even more clever: Getting a domain and site hosted while living between dumpsters on 1st & Western.

  2. Re:Next big improvement for gentoo on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    Woo hoo! Thanks :)

  3. Re:Next big improvement for gentoo on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    Except, what about /usr/portage/distfiles? I guess you could move that to another directory, but I gained 1.7G when I cleaned that out the other day. Now that I think about it, I'd like some official method of clearing that directory in an automatic way. I know there's some scripts that have been written out there, but it'd be nice to be able to e-merge it :)

  4. Re:My kid does this powered by Eggo waffles on 8th Annual AUV Competition Results · · Score: 1
    Perhaps the method of creating a son is self evident, but I've tried MULTIPLE times and only received daughters. Was wondering if I could look at the diff.


    No diff necessary, you just need to add +penis to your use flags in /etc/make.conf.

  5. Re:A whole new ballgame? on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 1

    Wait! That's the plan... Get all of SCO's legal problems involved under one lawsuit. :) Once they hit the cap, they're free and clear!

  6. Re:Textism on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    But why would you want to do that? They're nice enough, even if it takes a bit of time when they come knocking on the door...

    Oh, wait. Demoronizer?
    ::blushes::

  7. Re:Chicken Blood budget on Establishing an IT Budget for a Small Business? · · Score: 1
    You know you will need it when the boss asks for those apps and hardware that magically do things that aren't possible in the natural realm.


    Is that all it takes? I code PHP as a part of my position, and here's a request I recently got:

    We need a competing software package that reads images from custom medical hardware in multiple remote locations, anylizes the images and performs various virtual treatments to a body part and then calculates the expected result and displays accurate statistics for the body part. It should be accessible from multiple clients and provide integration with existing billing and patient managment software. You'll need to do this:

    • In two months
    • Without specific knowledge of the medical procedures
    • Without any medical references, or access to doctors familiar with them
    • In PHP
    • By yourself
    • Without specifications or actuall access to the hardware
    • for $12 and hour
    • While performing your existing full time position

    Oh, and we've already informed the owner of the company that you can do it. But it sells for $26,000! Think of all the money the company will make!
  8. Or... on Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source? · · Score: 1

    You could make up some sort of presentation with some sort of animated character...

    Let's see, you'd want him to be something everyone in the office was familiar with, say a paperclip or something...

  9. Re:oh goody on Nerdcore Rap In The Press · · Score: 1

    here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a meldody & some harmony.

    And here's a stick and a bucket, get yourself some rythm... ;)

  10. Re:Why isn't this book called ... on Spring into Technical Writing · · Score: 1
    Speaking of which,
    did anyone else read the intro as:


    Read on for the rest of Chapell's review, Bitch.

  11. Re:My solution on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1
    By the way, I just go laid off, does anyone need a Sys Admin?


    No Sys Admin positions at the moment, but there's always room in Marketing!
    *ducks*

  12. Re:Just wondering... on DARPA Grand Challenge A Real Race At Last? · · Score: 1
    all without concern for enemy fire.


    Except of course, for the casualties, right?

  13. Re:How many mploc? on DARPA Grand Challenge A Real Race At Last? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait... Isn't MPLOC Miles Per Library of Congress?

  14. Re:My Childhood 1970's battle weapon on Summer FPS - Lazer Tag and Super Soaker · · Score: 1

    Paintballs are a lot more dangerous than a lot of BB guns.
    Sure, if you were to eat 20 of either, I'd go for BB's. If I had to be shot, I'll take the paintball gun, thanks.

  15. Re:It isn't broke... on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm... Insightful, polite, open to suggestion... Are you Canadian? :D

  16. Re:What a Great Idea! on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 1

    It's just that all the incompetent ones are ours, and the rest we have no say with...

  17. Re:I don't need a study to prove this... on A Study On Time Wasted At Work · · Score: 1

    You have to walk? I just have to pull one plug, and wait for the phone to ring...

  18. Re:Maybe get physical? on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Bitting the troll-bait here, but at which point did discipline and no-physical-beatings become mutually exclusive? Is it not possible to have constructive and structured discipline without clobbering somebody?

  19. Re:My ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Interesting... So make earlier schools more like college? Say, by moving students from English 1 to English 2 when they meet certain requirements. I could see only one of two problems coming up- either the teacher has to handle a class with huge variances in ability, or students miss out on much-needed social skill building. Maybe a restructuring of the 'class' ideal is due that would keep students in a familiar group of peers for a resonable time, but gives the teachers for the classroom a release from the burden of multiple lesson plans for the group?

  20. Re:Bah on Improving Education? · · Score: 1
    NA needs to be come a lot more stricter. ... and we wouldn't have 12 grades and have only 10 like everyone in Europe does.


    It appears that you have taken the ten year school attendance plan to heart. Either that, or your call for 'stricter' is amazingly accurate.

  21. Re:ummmm on Dungeon Master's Guide II · · Score: 1

    Yes, each post applies a -3 penalty to your Charisma roll.
    Whoa! Look out TripMasterMonkey!

  22. Re:To paraphrase a South Park quote on How Games And Religion Could Mix · · Score: 1

    Also, I don't like sports games or John Madden. So can we stop mixing these too? I hate being forced to buy them all the time.

    </sarcasm> Seriously though, this is no better than the Religious Right protesting games that they don't want to see made. I hope you're not too offended when you see the cover of a game you might not like at the store...

  23. Re:The problem is innate to the medium on How Games And Religion Could Mix · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing a lack of control of consequenses(sp!?) for a lack of free will.

  24. Re:It's all in the intent on How Games And Religion Could Mix · · Score: 1

    Also agree, play drums and (ex)praise band. I think 'eat the meat and spit out the bones' fits pretty well here. Most of what I listen to is secular, but I have trouble listening to the more overt anti-saviour songs from Alice and Chains and the like. Still, I enjoy a number of 'Christian' artists, although I get a few looks when the playlist cycles from Rage Against the Machine to Warren Barfield to Christafari to Pearl Jam to MC Frontalot.

  25. Re:I hope my wife doesn't see this... on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 2, Funny
    >a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted
    there's just no way I can compete with that!


    She can handle 23 finger tips? Reminds me of a joke for guys standing around bragging about penis size...


    Guy 1: Wow, that big huh? Mine's only four inches.
    Guy 2: Geeze you're mosquito sized!
    Guy 1: Well, it'd hurt the wife if it were any wider.