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  1. Re:Geocities's Business Model on A Warrior's Programming Language · · Score: 1
    I'm truly peeved by this. If I go to the bother of creating a web site worth slashdotting, I wouldn't want cruddy ads served _instead_ of my page.

    I want off of geocities now. Yahoo has stuffed it up beyond all recognition.

    Any recommendations for other free hosting services?

  2. Re:Oh my God! on Geek Food: A Cookbook for the Technologically Inclined · · Score: 1
    I volunteer to add a spell check feature to the slashcode.

    I will also add a small inexpert system to make the suggested alternative spellings the most (in)?appropriate ones!

  3. Lighten up! on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lighten up lad. "It's funny, laugh!"

    This has nothing to do with advocacy, monopolies, anti-this or that. Its good clean schlap-stick fun.

    My personal X-headers include...
    X-Apparently-From: mars
    X-Complaints-To: /dev/null

    Hmm.
    grep -E '^X-[^:]+:' < read-messages| sort -u Should give me some more fodder. Hmm, those Importance and Priority headers might do something entertaining.

  4. I would be more impressed... on Age A Byproduct of Cancer Defense? · · Score: 1
    If by less of that protein they found mice that had cancer more often, but those who escaped cancer lived longer.

    Practically any stressor will make you age faster.

  5. Re:Don't Download - huh? on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1

    And microsoft's vision for the web is "only download from us or one of our big name subsidaries because you can't trust just anybody."

  6. Re:mailinglists on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1
    I like 'em.

    Whenever I have had a really bad day I can always find an enjoyable minute or two mocking 'em.

  7. Mod parent up. on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1

    This guy is right. He deserves to be modded up beyond the default.

  8. Re:My Clockless Experiences on Clockless Chips · · Score: 1

    So? I dropped my watch down the plug hole now I have a clockhronous sink.

  9. Hole over NZ, What blooming hole? on Antarctic Ozone Hole Leveling Off · · Score: 1
    Bizzarre. Does anybody actually look at those images?

    Every blooming image over the pass couple years has shown that the Ozone layer is thicker over South Africa and New Zealand than practically anywhere else in the Southern hemisphere!

    So whats the problem?!

    Sure, there is a ozone hole over Antartica, but everyone acts as if the problem is here in NZ.

    Me thinks the brain dead media is scaremongering and the climatologists are feeding them to whip things up for grant season...

    Sure you get burnt here in sunny NZ, but thats got more to do with staying in doors all winter 'cause its freezing and then going bouncing about the great out doors all summer 'cause the sun doesn't go down until it almost should get up!

  10. Re:What makes you believe alice takes medal? on ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition · · Score: 1
    Once many years ago under the light of a different moon and on the back of a wee 6502....

    I wrote an Eliza like program in basic.

    Alas,it had a bug.

    So I said to the basic interpretor, at least I though I was speaking to basic, but life confuddles one...

    So I said "list" meaning print out the program on the screen.

    Whereupon the computer, sensing weakness, sayeth...

    Really, Why?

  11. Re:The Loebner Prize is useless.. on ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition · · Score: 1
    We have no need to replicate humans, they are available in ample supplies and we have more fun ways to make more.

    True. Still, I would be far more convinced by Minsky's arguments if he had a AI that had won the Silver prize....

    So perhaps the point of AI is to create something smarter than a mere human emulator. True.

    But what should we set this "smarter than a mere human emulator" to do to prove itself?

    Well obvious, this "smarter than a mere human emulator" should create a program that wins the silver prize!

  12. Re:It's interesting watching people interact on ALICE Takes Medal At AI Competition · · Score: 1

    Aha! Perhaps that is the problem with irc, I understand it now. They all chock-a-block full of 'bots. Must be. How else can one explain the utter inanity of the average channel.

  13. Re:Bugroff License? on Mozilla Relicensing · · Score: 1
    I did. See what it got me. The exchange rate crunched my funds by a factor of three and forcing me to take yet another homeloan even though I had payed off my first.

    Seriously, look closely and you will see your primary protection is the "Don't kill the goose than lays the golden eggs" factor.

    Stop laying eggs, and the cooking pot looms.

  14. Re:Bugroff License? on Mozilla Relicensing · · Score: 1
    The legal system simply is. We live within it. Pretending it doesn't exist is even more useless than spending all of your life worrying about it.

    The legal system is, but does nothing sane for you. I don't say pretend it doesn't exist, I say ignore it. Don't feed the Jackals.

    I have recently gone through the saga of buying a house, ie. lots of legal stuff. As a programmer I can see the contracts and legalese has lots of holes. The agreements with the banks translate roughly as "all your bases belong us".

    What can you do? Shut up and sign. The legal system protects you? Bah!

    Inertia and "Don't kill the goose..." is what protects you.

  15. Bugroff License? on Mozilla Relicensing · · Score: 1
    Sigh! NPL,GPL,LGPL! It sounds like its past time for the Bugroff licence.

    http://www.geocities.com/cy_ent/bugroff.html

    Simply stated, the Bugroff license says...
    The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....

    Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.

    Follow the link for more on my reasoning and why the GPL is cosmically speaking a bad idea.

  16. Re:Abnormal conditions on Was Scott Of The Antarctic So Wrong? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If I remember the books correctly, Amundsen was nearly back to base when the extreme conditions hit. Amundsen was good, nay superb, but he was also lucky.

    My greatest hero is Shackleton. Now there is a story to inspire! He failed, but he got every last man home under the worst conditions imaginable.

    Bravery, skill and leadership of the highest order. And then, he came home to the first world war where the leaders threw away lives by the tens of thousand.Bah!

    What a stark comparison between one who wouldn't sacrifice a single man and the Generals.

  17. Re:World Without Borders on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1
    For years, especially since the advent of the internet, we've been proclaiming a world without borders. Now it seems that we're seeing the downside of that notion: An enemy without borders.

    ...snip...

    We don't yet know how to attack an army made up of citizens of our own country, living in our own neighborhoods.

    Ah but you do. Just read http://www.truth.org.za and cry and cry and cry.

    The South Africans attacked themselves for decades.

    Just remember that the process turns you into a worse monster than you are fighting.

    Try another route America, this one doesn't work.

  18. Re:The WORST Joke In The World: The Purple Wombat on The Funniest Joke in the World · · Score: 1
    Please don't hate me for this. I still can't get over how BAD this joke is. =)

    May Barney the purple dinosaur embrace you till your eyes glaze over...

  19. Re:Let's lose the FUD, people on New Release Of NSA SELinux · · Score: 1
    Not only is it secure, it reads your mail for you...

    Lose the FUD? Just because we paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't really out to get us!

    Hey, aren't these the people who put backdoors into other peoples encryption systems.... http://www.mathaba.net/data/sis/nsa-sabotage.html

    Lose the FUD? The only thing NSA linux is good for is to inspect what they did to secure it and contemplate borrowing some of the ideas.

    If there is one thing the old .za taught me is the only thing you can trust a spook to be is untrustworthy and vicious in equal measure.

  20. Re:Ask the NSA on Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph · · Score: 1
    http://www.politechbot.com/p-02396.html

    However their ecelon archives of private person to person mails would probably be _much_ more interesting to read!

  21. Re:This is not a good trend to cheer. on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1
    "country refuses to pay a fair price for drugs to save its own people"


    BALDERCRAP! How about people are dying?! How about people simply don't have the money!? Typical damn rich twit!

    OPEN YOUR HORRIBLE EYES AND SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU FOR ONCE IN YOUR MISERABLE LIFE!

    Look beyond the neat fences of suburbia and see the facts for a change...

    • Many people simply don't have money or barely enough to live on.
    • People are actually dying of a very nasty disease.


    Aids is often a disease of poverty. You are far more likely to get it if you are poor, as your immune system is already compromised by malnutrition, stress and other diseases.
  22. Re:A few ideas on How Can I Make More Of My Cubicle? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Plants? Nah! Fauna not Flora!

    The odd snake or two to keep down the managers...

    Fish tank is soothing.

    Incense stick for atmosphere.

    KILL THOSE @#$#$ FLOURESCENTS!

    Nothing convinces me more that they are out to get me than the flourescents.

    Persian rugs are nice.

    Get a sheet of Popping plastic. (Know the stuff the poppaholics get off on? Used for packing monitors and the like? That's the stuff.) Anyway, get a sheet and put it under the carpet.

    Watch the interesting dance visitors make when they stand on it!

    Get a large sign for the entrance. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE ERROR MESSAGE?" Listen for footsteps, hear the silence while they read the sign, hear the footsteps retreat never to return....

    Interesting looking components that itchy fingers reach out to fiddle with, and find that they are wired to charged capacitors.

  23. Re:As long as I can connect... on Taming the Web · · Score: 1
    KILL ME, DAMMIT!

    I don't think you understand. Corporate / Government / Military / Police hierarchies specifically select for those who would just love to oblige your request.

    We stand at the threshold of what possibly will be the fiercest liberation struggle ever...

  24. Quack! on U.S. Navy Building "Macross"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The phrase "Sitting Duck" comes to mind...

  25. Re:From the support desk on PDF Virus Spotted · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they first need to say a big sorry to and then hire a certain russian programmer to secure their stuff....