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  1. Re:Funniest Personalization Suggestion on When Profiling Goes Wrong · · Score: 2

    I swore this was photoshopped, and it was...

    ... but only so he could show it all in a reasonable sized image.

    Check out the URL!!!

  2. Re:performance info is useless on An Overview of the Boa Web Server · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or maybe you're in a situation where you're considering both, and it MIGHT be convenient to use the full Apache feature set, but might be willing to work around deficiencies to have better performance.

    Pardon me, but is sounds like you're suggesting we "use the right tool for the right job". Now I don't know if you're from k5 or where, but here on /., we don't do things that way.

  3. Re:Best Solution on Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 2



    Sounds sort of like those Flash and Java based websites....

  4. Re:Getting a life... on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you said on episode #18739 of Saturday Night Live: 'Get a life ... will ya, people? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's just a TV show.', were you really reprising 'Evil Kirk' as Phil Hartman's (RIP) character suggested or did your motivation run deeper than that, say to 'Amok Time' when you had to battle Spock? ;)

    A wizard did it.

  5. Re:What happened to all those tribbles?? on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Did you get to keep any tribbles? Or did they just burn them?

    I wonder if we could transport them all to Afghanistan.....

  6. Re:This is the way to do this kind of thing... on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 2

    Maybe with ipv6 we can be a little smarter and dole out adult ips to 6969:6969:6969 or sommat.

    Would it be SO bad if there was a bill passed that anyone serving adult material had to have their IP's in a certain range?

    That's a good idea, although might be difficult to get implemented.... OTH, maybe a page could be taken from the Anti-Spam book and blacklist IPs via an ORBS style DNS system.

    Although that's such a good idea, it must have already been done....

  7. new.net on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 2


    Why not just get a new.net .kids domain.
    </sarcasm>

  8. Re:Personal PC's on Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever" · · Score: 2

    The need is driven by games. I'm a gamer, so I have to have all of this bleeding edge hardware.

    hehehehehe....

    "have to have"

    hehe....

  9. Re:why I already hate filmgimp on Film Gimp · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...because it helped to generate that atrocious looking dog in the scooby-doo movie. ;)

    Actually, if you take a look at the imdb, you'll see that she is quite atrocious without the use of filmgimp.

  10. Re:FM radio is a *transmitter* on Neuros - Portable MP3 player, FM radio, Digital Recorder · · Score: 2

    That's possibly the coolest feature. It will broadcast the music on low-power FM, so that any FM radio in your house can pick it up.

    Yeah, this is great. I'm going to pick this up and tell my friends it has next generation bluetooth that works with virtually any car stereo. ;-)

  11. Re:Wow on My Compost Bin And I · · Score: 1

    People have been building compost heaps for years and years and years. How exactly is this news?

    Yeah, what is this, k5?

  12. Re:Next SUV on Landshark · · Score: 2

    As for betting from A to B... who would use this for a daily vehicle? Recreation, definately, but recreational vehicles aren't genarally used for 'A to B' travel.

    Are you kidding? A buddy of mine commutes to work about 15km or so each way a day alongside a lake (Gardiner/QEW for those who know). This would be great (assuming it was legal). Instead of being stuck in traffic averaging a crappy 40kph, he could zoom along the lake at 100kph+ unrestricted, his commute time would easily be cut in half, and he'd have a lot more fun :-)

  13. Re:Remind Us! on Leonid Meteor Shower 2002 · · Score: 2

    I'd hate to end up missing something like this and instead be out having meaningless sex...

    Sounds like DarkHelmet's been having too much sex...

    You need to get together with the boys and have a nice Molson Ex.

    Have you had Ex today?

  14. Re:Annoyances? on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bugs? I thought they were features.

    Features? I thought they were annoyances.

  15. Re:see why... on Beware the Haunted Cordless keyboard · · Score: 5, Informative

    I like having a cord on my mouse and keyboard because 1) i know it's connected and 2) i know another isn't. Wireless keyboards etc. have no less a security risk...

    Don't place too much confidence in the security of your keyboard, someone might slip one of these on.

  16. Swap Space on an existing partition? on Knoppix for Rapid Desktop Deployment · · Score: 2

    Knoppix mentions that the system will run faster if it can create a swap partition on the drive of the computer it's installed on.

    Why is it that swap space can't be used on an existing partition? It seems that it'd be to knoppix's advantage if it (optionally) allowed you to use an existsing FAT32/NTFS/EXT2 partition for temporary swap space while it runs.

    I mean, Windows does this and look at how great it runs!

    OK, I was just kidding with that last part, but I'd still like to know why this hasn't been done :-)

  17. Re:U-S-A U-S-A on Cathy Rogers Responds Without Crashing · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the whole though, I think the best is somewhere between the US and the UK attitudes, UK goes not far enough, US, to far.

    Hmmm... somewhere between the US and the UK attitudes, eh?

    A place like that sounds like paradise.... but then again, I might be a little biased... ;-)

  18. Re:I've seen this on What Software Do Cable Installers Place on Your PC? · · Score: 2

    Recommend you get a HARDWARE firewall, and put it between the PC and the modem....I don't know that this will stop the tracking/reporting, but it won't hurt. And uninstall that dog ASAP!!!

    Actually, it probably won't. Most people will probably just leave the firewall with it's default settings, which is great for blocking incoming traffic, but not outgoing.

    Oddly enough, Windows users are probably better off *with* a software firewall like Norton's. With Norton's, anytime a program attempts to access the net, it pops up a window asking you if you want that program to have net access or not. I don't think any hardware firewall out there has (or can have) this level of control.

  19. Re:Too Easy on Google Sued over Page Ranking · · Score: 2

    I like how hit #10 is kuro5hin's story on this.... 2 days ago. I'm sure some k5 zealot will be ranting about this shortly...

  20. More Info on OLED on 15" OLED Display Prototype · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article is pretty sparse about what OLED is... Dupont has a pretty cool page about their displays with some info that reminds me of my science text book back in high school.

  21. Re:You know how this is going to work... on MS Backs Down On Encrypted Digital TV Recording · · Score: 1

    1. MS bows to public pressure against encrypted recording
    2. MS releases recording software
    3. Public finds huge gaping security hole / bug in software
    4. MS releases SP1 containing, you guessed it, encryption software for recording
    5. Public is left with three options
    * Patch up to the encrypted version
    * Leave their system open
    * Find some new software

    Knowing what we know about the general public, which do you think is going to happen?


    Which do I think is going to happen? I'd put my bets on #3. #1 sounds highly unlikely ;-)

  22. Offtopic, but... on Intel's New Pentium 4 Chipsets Reviewed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Intel's new "Blue Mountain" motherboard comes on a black PCB

    How long until someone makes a white PCB? With all the casemods, etc., I'm sure the modders would love a mobo that would colour itself to whatever lighting they have installed/turned on...

  23. Re:"geeks" are being defined. on The Rise and Fall of the Geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I AM NOT A GEEK.

    I don't know about you,

    But if it looks like a duck:
    " can program in dozens of languages, configure routers, wire hubs, build servers, manage workstations, hand-edit the Windows Registry, and still remember the PET."

    Sounds like a duck:
    "I am against the DMCA, against harsh limits on fair use (while being for reasonable limits), and against an Orwellian future."

    And walks like a duck:
    "I have miserable social skills".

    Odds are....

    you're a duck.

  24. Re:Show of remorse on Former DrinkOrDie Member Chris Tresco Answers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or (are you ready for this?) Maybe... just maybe.... he really does think illegally distributing software is theft (and wrong).

    No. It's copyright infringment. It's illegal. It may even be wrong.

    It is NOT theft. Theft is:


    Yeah, yeah. Now you're getting technical. I'm just reusing the phrase from the original argument "I don't believe you really think warez is theft".

    Just because the dictionary defines a word as having a certain meaning, doesn't mean that every human being automatically knows that and uses that word as such. I'm sure you understood the intentions behind both my post and the parent post, no need to nitpick.

  25. Re:Show of remorse on Former DrinkOrDie Member Chris Tresco Answers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Required so that he doesn't get a stiffer sentence. I don't buy it--I don't believe you really think warez is theft, but I understand why you're parroting the party line.

    Or (are you ready for this?) Maybe... just maybe.... he really does think illegally distributing software is theft (and wrong).

    OMG, is it possible for the "sysadmin" of a warez group to have morals and values? I think it is.