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  1. Re:If this is how... on Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter · · Score: 1
    Since stopping them is near impossible. (Unless you just kill them.)
    GPLP (GNU Pretty Lethal Privacy) is a newly released Open Source encryption program, which adds a single, but very usefull, feature to the well known GPG.

    Should someone attempt to unencrypt the files or text protected by GPLP and enter an incorrect pass phrase, that person will be electrocuted by the built-in GUN.
  2. "alcohol, drugs, women" ... at TWELVE??? on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is

    Where did you grow up and why did I miss out on the action?!?!?!?

  3. On April 27, 1989 ... on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    Stay at home after school ...

    At around between 6 and 7 PM I had a rather severe accident on my bike resulting in my brain damage, loss of my near photographic memory, my rather good ability to concentrate (like being able to do difficult homework when surrounded by 5 crying and screaming kids and their parrents) and got a rather nasty black eye as well.

    That's the ONE day I'd want to change in my entire life. Period.

    Of course, I'd kinda like to see how I'd end up before actually going though with it - there are some people that I'd rather not have to be without.

    Other than that - no good advice, no "buy Microsoft" or anything. Just "stay at home that day - trust me".

  4. Re:My Lucky Accident... on Larry Page: Google Was an Accident · · Score: 1

    Bah .. you didn't invent that - I did!

    It's actually fairly easy:
    Store things in /dev/null and retrieve them from /dev/random

    Like you said, it's the decryption that's a bitch.

  5. Re:simple solution on Rand Expert Says To Keep Mum About Killer Asteroids · · Score: 1

    So in other words, you want to play billiards with asteroids. Neat idea. Probably stolen from Red Dwarf, but still neat.

    Of course, you just have to hope that none of the stuff you hit the big one with doesn't fall on us :-)

  6. Re:Content is important on Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping · · Score: 1
    Funny that. I have the following in my HTTP-requests:

    You, the owner of the server, the owner of the contents of the server and all persons even remotely related to said persons, agree to give me all of your belongings, by replying to my GET request.
  7. Let's scare the hell out of authorities on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1
    A website used by the Kartoffelkanone enthusiasts was receiving only 20 hits a day just three months ago: now there are more than 700.
    It looks like there are quite a few sites in Germany on this subject.

    Let's visit them all!
  8. Re:Say what? on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, SQL Slammer is only a TSR-worm and isn't stored anywhere but memory, so those who actually turn off their laptops as opposed to suspend or hibernate wouldn't be carriers.

    Of course - it only takes one infected client ...

  9. Re:Java is NOT in danger, sun is. on The Future of Java? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Emacs is an editor (and pretty much everything else), but it is NOT a compiler. Notice that GCC is not GPL, since it being GPL would cause everything to become GPL as well.

    And since java has a ton of standard classes, linking to those classes would require your program to become GPL.

    And you do not want to bind a language to a licence. What would ensure that your gnu/java is compatible with my gnu/java? Nothing. If anything it should be given to a standards body, like for instance the EMCA.

  10. Re:And their other findings ... on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 1

    NASA code causes expensive crashes

  11. I think George Carlin said it best on Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Now they're thinking about banning toy guns ... and they're gonna keep the fucking real ones!!! "

  12. Re:That's Insane... on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or does he "look" gay?

    Yeah, yeah - that's a horroble thing to say, but he still "looks" gay to me.

  13. One wonders about the automobile on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    It's a 2,000 pound contraption, that causes what ... 5,000 deaths annually in the US alone, usually used only by a single person, who has absolutely no respect for anyone else on the road, often hitting pedestrians, bicycles and others due to their "I own the road" attitudes. They account for roughly 30% of all the polution in the US, and are the number one cause of dependence on foreign oil.

    Why aren't they banned from inner cities? They're a hell of a lot more dangerous than all the other types of transportation put together.

  14. Re:the trick is in the X... on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 4, Funny

    X-wife ... 'nuff said!

  15. Re:Declare foreign spam to be terrorism... on MIT Spam Conference Conclusions · · Score: 1

    Funny - most of my spam originates from the good old USA.

    Lable ALL spam as terrorism - lets see them blow up those assholes with nukes ... please!

  16. Re:Stats, not heuristics; spambayes effectiveness on MIT Spam Conference Conclusions · · Score: 1

    I'm looking in to it - trying to figure out if I can set it up, so that the entire company uses one SpamBayes setup (server) and then tag e-mails they get as spam/ham in Outlook, making their decisions trickle through on a company wide basis. After all - the spam I get is spam to everyone in the company, and the spam they get is spam to everyone else. Likewise, the ham they get is ham to the rest of us.

    The trick would then to get Exchange 2000 to use SpamBayes, and the Outlook-clients to plug into it.

    Problem is - I have no clue what so ever how to do it :-/

  17. Re:What a silly argument on Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! · · Score: 1
    Now why should I, a broadband customer and legal owner of my entire playlist, be forced to pay for a service just because I happen to have an internet connection?
    For the same reason that you pay a tax for having a dick, so that those money can go towards reimbursing invoulentary sperm recipients (aka rape victims).

    Oh, you don't have a tax like that? Maybe we should make one - makes a lot more sense to me than this one!
  18. Re:It happened before, and was just as stupid then on Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! · · Score: 1
    Did you know that in many countries taxes are levied on CD writers and CDR discs because of piracy?
    I can't speak for other countries, but in Denmark that tax is NOT, repeat NOT there because of piracy. It is there to reimburse the content providers for legal copying. For instance, I can go down to the library, borrow their entire music AND movie collection, go home and copy it. As long as I don't circumvent a copy protection mechanism in the process (thank you, oh logical Infosoc Directive).
  19. Re:Quiet!!! on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1
    How often do we do things that are truely nessecary?
    Well, I can't speak for the other geeks here, but I masturbate almost dayly ...
  20. Re:I think you're right on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 2

    In a word:

    0wn3d :-D

    But - don't worry about that. You're not the only one who's fallen for it - both my physics and chemistry theachers fell for it. Unfortunately I can't claim originality points for it - I stole it off the web somewhere.

    As far as I remember, a bronze plaque next to the main door to a University or some such place (The Niels Bohr Institute) said:

    Question everything!

    Underneath it was a graphiti:
    why?

  21. Re:You misunderstand completely on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The job of the scientist is thus to question *everything.*
    Why?
  22. Re:You're mixing your terms... on Serial ATA, Here and Now · · Score: 2, Informative

    m = mili = 1/1000
    M = mega = 1,000,000

    please get at least those right - it's only a factor 10^9 difference ...

  23. Neat :-) on Waterproof Books · · Score: 2
    Among the books printed with the new technology are Aqua Erotica and Wet More Aqua Erotica, anthologies of erotic fiction.
    Well ... that definately fits my .sig ...
  24. [OT] .sig on Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home · · Score: 2
    God does not play dice with the universe. He plays roulette; that's why particles have spin.
    So - is it regular or Russian roullette?
  25. Re:Hrmm on Next-Gen Pop-up Ads · · Score: 2

    That's stealing!

    Didn't you know that?