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  1. Read it in the shitter; 5 pages at a time. on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1
    I got through it twice in under 1.5 years!

    And I still don't know what most of the people here are talking about. :) Too many of the names were too close to the others! Feanor I remember... Beren & Luthien I remember... Even Thingol. But if it weren't for Luthien, I wouldn't've been able to distinguish between Beren and Beleg ... too freakin' similar... Be[lr]e[ng].

  2. If they were dogs, they'd be clubbed to death. on China Seizes 13 Million Pirated Discs · · Score: 1
    At least these guys didn't get the treatement that everyone's puppies got...

    Read my posting here, where I detail how they clubbed 50,000 dogs to death... Sometimes in front of the owners as they were walking them.

    Until they do that to the pirates, they will always exist. And I don't think piracy is worthy of clubbing. :)

  3. Yea. on General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right · · Score: 1

    What he said.

  4. total crap on iPod Users Buy CDs, Shun iTunes · · Score: 1
    Captain -- bullshit meters are reading off the scale.

    "I hate books that have been zipped. ZIPping up the TXT of a book makes the plot not as good. I CAN TELL, I'M A GOOD READER."

    What a total fucking moron.

  5. The real purpose of aggregators -- people you know on RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal? · · Score: 1
    My parents are not too savvy and can't really handle RSS subscriptions. But I could go to their house and set up Google Reader for them manually. But, I have many RSS feeds (flickr, blog, blog comments, flickr comments, youtube, del.icio.us, wife's blog, wife's blog comments, wife's flickr, wife's flickr comments, wife's youtube, etc).

    I would much rather give my parents a single feed that encapsulates everything my wife & I do.

    When I add a new source or remove an existing source, my parents (and any other disciples) now have to edit their descriptions. But if they had used an aggregated feed, I would simply modify that feed, and everyone down the tube would automatically have the information I want.

    This is what RSS aggregation is actually useful for.

    Now the question is, which do I use? I experimented with several ( http://del.icio.us/ClintJCL/RSS+aggregator ) and didn't like any of them. Could someone suggest a better one for my purposes? thanks

  6. space-time is curved on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Obviously, the phasers work with the warp technology to cause space-time to be curved in such a way that they ultimately converge, you insensitive clod! Gosh!

  7. Well... on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    I didn't vote for Bush. And I'm not voting democrat again.. ever. At which point your argument will be moot, with respect to me, as far as I am concerned.

  8. Re:Right... because Bush Started the DMCA. on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    How is this GWB's fault? 'It was not until early 2001, after the election of George W. Bush in the US and with John Howard in power in Australia, that a US-Australia FTA finally began to take shape. In April 2001, President Bush signalled his interest in pursuing an FTA with Australia provided "everything is on the table".' [..............] 'the text was finally agreed to in February 2004, and signed off on by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and [Bush appointee] US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Washington in May 2004.' (Source Wikipedia, but unless you can find something to contradict, I'm going with it.) All Congress got to do was ratify the agreement as negotiated. Sorry boys, but you most definitely can blame Bush. reposted from someone else here becuase i thought it was a good argument

  9. Re:Thanks a lot, George? on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    How is this GWB's fault? 'It was not until early 2001, after the election of George W. Bush in the US and with John Howard in power in Australia, that a US-Australia FTA finally began to take shape. In April 2001, President Bush signalled his interest in pursuing an FTA with Australia provided "everything is on the table".' [...] 'the text was finally agreed to in February 2004, and signed off on by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and [Bush appointee] US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Washington in May 2004.' (Source Wikipedia, but unless you can find something to contradict, I'm going with it.) All Congress got to do was ratify the agreement as negotiated. Sorry boys, but you most definitely can blame Bush.

  10. the shiny lock is no guarantee on Google Public Service Search Makes for Easy Phishing · · Score: 1

    There are now exploits which work beneath the SSL layer. The lock is no guarantee. :) Read about it in Infoworld...

  11. Re:Yahoo fanboy. on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1
    Guilty as charged on being rude (see signature). :)

    When I see your screen, to me, it seems that someone is sending you invalid messages with no body. Maybe Yahoo is discarding these and Gmail is not (which I actually think is the proper choice). I've noticed Yahoo sends non-compliant emails -- as in, it inserts characters into lines that are 255+ long... Yahoo mail takes them out, but everyone receiving from yahoo sees it.

    Anyway, 2 of them have attachments, and 1 don't. That, to me, would indicate that they are indeed different emails. What's in the attachment?

    Maybe you have indeed found a bug in it, but it's not a bug I've ever experienced. I'd send it to the gmail team via the support link.

    Honestly, I'd love to login to your account and check it out myself, but you'd have to be crazy to allow that. :D

    I'd also be curious what happened if you forwarded each message from that thread, one at a time of course, to my address [clint at acm dot vt dot edu which forwards to my gmail after creating a backup copy on a unix server, where I can examine things in their native text-based format].

    In short, I feel this is inconclusive BUT -- you may be on to something here. It's not common though; I feel it could perhaps also be a function of the outgoing emails from your company possibly being malformed somehow (Do what I want vs Do what I mean, I suppose).

  12. Yahoo fanboy. on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1

    Yahoo fanboy, I don't even believe you. I have amassed 600+ megs of email in my over 2 years of using gmail -- since early beta -- and have never seen this behavior. I send 400-600 emails a month and receive over 500 a day. I call bullshit. Post a screenshot please and I'll see what I can do in ways of an apology. :)

  13. Okay, so they don't need hope. on Bionic Arm Provides Hope for Amputees · · Score: 1

    Let's stop all research, then, since they are perfectly fine and in no need of hope, as you say.

  14. Prude. on Bionic Arm Provides Hope for Amputees · · Score: 1

    Prude. It's not discussiong his sexuality, it's discussing the logistics of no-armed people exploring their sexual maturity. It has nothing to do with your son other than his membership in the no-armed group. You were simply the person most likely to answer his question.

  15. You're wrong. You CAN select ranges with shift. on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1
    Shift-click absolutely lets you select a range of messages in gmail.

    Now, the 20-messages-per-page thing really annoys me. But what you described as not existing -- exists. You can also select all read or unread messages.

    And it doesn't load web-bug images without your permission, so spammers can't verify that you're actually receiving their mail (which is bad).

  16. And..... on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1
    And what would you want right-click to do in gmail, exactly?

    And what would you want shift to do in gmail, exactly?

    Actually, shift is already used. If you enable keyboard shortucts, "C" composes a new message. "Shift-C" does it in a new window, in case you need to compose one message while looking at a few others. "Shift-F" and "Shift-R" to forward/reply in a new window as well.

    What functionality are you missing, pray tell? [Email user for 14 years.]

  17. Explain yourself. on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1

    What is there to not get? If you send a message about a subject, and someone replies, it shows up below your original message. That's EASIER. How exactly is this harder?

  18. Clint Curtis Ohio 2004 court testimony on DIEBOLD on The Diebold Voting-Machine Hack · · Score: 1
    I downloaded this using bittorrent. If anybody wants it for purposes of furthering the truth -- just contact me.

    It is Clint (no relation) Curtis's testimony to the Ohio court following the 2004 coup^H^H^H^Helection. In it he testifies under oath how his Diebold superiors tasked him with writing a procedure to flip the votes 51/49, and how nobody would be able to detect the hack except for "maybe an MIT-level computer person" (paraphrased).

    Good stuff.

  19. I HAVE A FLOPPY!! It just doesn't fit in the cas on The Hard Drive Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    It just doesn't fit in the case anymore... http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/169885320/ (mouse-over image)

  20. I WISH I HAD MOD POINTS. on The Hard Drive Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    Definitely the best comment of the week, maybe month.

  21. Virginia Tech computer science didn't teach them on Mastering Regular Expressions · · Score: 1

    Virginia Tech computer science didn't teach them either. Oh, we learned C, LISP, Prolog ... but mostly stuck to C. I've never used any of it since graduating, but I've used regexes a-plenty.

  22. The only thing to fear is fear itself. on Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'? · · Score: 1

    Child molestation and kidnappings have gone down, and are happening now at a lower incidence than in the past. It is just reported more now -- for the ratings. And it's working.

  23. Asshole! on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1

    Wow. I mean -- WOW. So if coke is near you, you deserve to be raped?

  24. Re:Bull on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1

    When I bought my house for $141,000 in 1999, I was 24 years old and had worked for 1 year out of college. My only debt, ever, was my car that I had for a year or so. My rating was 823. I've never carried a credit balance, ever. So you're saying my good rating didn't come from a lifetime of always paying it off, but because I went into debt to buy my car? (Which I paid off in 18 mos.)

  25. Stupidest sentence I've read in awhile. on U.S. Arrests Online Gambling Company Chairman · · Score: 1
    Is online gambling the Alcohol Prohibition of the 21st century?

    Uh, NO! The Alcohol Prohibition of the 21st century is the Drug War, especially the War On Marijuana. This was the first step in eroding our civil liberties, before it transformed into the War On Terror.

    http://www.DRCNet.org.