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  1. Re:hmm on New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pam was my ex-wife. She was pluggable by too many.

  2. $15k wasted on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    These turds blew $15,000 on gizmos and gadgets for a family that only wanted to send pix of the kids to Granny? Talk about scope creep....

  3. Oh yeah! on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    Your search for "nudie bars" in "Portland, OR" returned 26 locations.

    This service definitely has possibilities. Oh BTW, I'll be calling in sick tomorrow.

  4. The MSFT way on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Some of its efforts to simplify search on the Internet will soon be in place.

    No doubt this also includes a legal team to assault the intellectual property of Google and Yahoo, forcing them both to divert R&D funds into defense of their IP, stifling real innovation for years while Microsoft catches up.

  5. Monkeyboy on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    "For example, users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face or background."

    So if I type in monkeyboy as a search term, I should get back pictures of Ballmer, right?

  6. Au contraire on Privacy International Internet Censorship Report · · Score: 2, Insightful

    why do you hate America so much?

    It's not that we hate America, quite the opposite. For many of us this is not the America of our birth anymore, and without ever leaving it we are grown homesick for the old country.

  7. Expectedly on Amateur Radio Braces for Hurricane Isabel · · Score: 1

    That part about "posting hams at shelters" sure has flushed out all the turkeys at Slashdot.

  8. Off topic on College Freshman Builds Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    $665.95 -- retail price of the beast.

    That was the suggested retail price. In reality, the prices at local discount stores are likely to be:
    $665.87 -- K-Mart's price.
    $665.84 -- Wal-Mart's price.
    $699.99 -- Sears' price, but that also includes the extended warranty.

  9. Re:Types of jobs on Worst Jobs In Science · · Score: 1

    I just left a job that is the worst job I can imagine, the worst place I've worked in thirty years, and not because of the type of work but because of the incompetent and abusive management. I am the fifth person in as many years to quit in disgust from that job. My offtopic question is - is there a website somewhere that I can post a warning about this employer? A newsgroup? Nobody should have to endure that place, except maybe as punishment.

    Truth is an absolute defense to charges of libel.

  10. Far out! on Sun Tries Subscription Software Pricing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This could be great news for my 501(c)(3) non-profit customer who technically has zero employees; there is nobody on the payroll, they are all volunteers by definition. I haven't read the whole of the offer yet, so I do not know if they are giving Solaris away for free or not. And anyway my non-profit site is happy with Linux, so free Solaris is not going to save them an appreciable amount of money. But when your revenue stream is primarily pocket change, every penny counts.

  11. What need next on NVIDIA's New Pro Graphics Quadro FX 3000 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    OK, graphics cards are finally where we want them to be for price-performance point. Now what I am needing is the same value in video projection systems, like 2000 lumens for $200. Because until you have experienced X-Plane in 8-by-10 foot format, you have not experienced X-Plane.

    Porn would also be incredible experience in that scale, yes?

  12. Technology transfer on Chic Gear to Suit Net Generation · · Score: 1

    Technology transfer is term used to denote the civilian adoption of technologies that were originally designed with a solely military use in mind. One of the most interesting with respect to wearable tech has to be the active camouflage fabrics the Army is developing. Think of it as a giant-scale LCD display that can be cut and stitched and worn.

    What this means is that a 300 pound chick will be able to project a photo of Britney Spears over her torso and you won't know what happened until the next day when all your friends at work point at you and start laughing.

  13. More changes on 2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to be a Unix sysadmin and took a five year hiatus, it being necessary to my mental health. So last month I decided to get looking and went to two interviews. What a disappointment they were, the duties were more for senior operator. Point and click, simple, repetetive tasks. The managers at both businesses were very rude, elitist, maybe even racist. I was reminded of mainframe positions we used to derisively call "tape apes" in the olden days.

    So even though I miss the money, I won't be going back to sysadminning. I will stay where I am and enjoy my pagerless weekends.

  14. Answer on Java vs .NET · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Java finished?

    Of course it is... and this late in the day it's time to switch over to beer anyway.

  15. Darn on Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams · · Score: 2, Funny

    % grep "women\'s dorm" camwatch.htm
    %


    Darn.

  16. Re:Risky? on Cracking GSM · · Score: 1

    I don't think the US goverment will arrest an Israeli professor for publishing a paper.

    Why not? The US Government arrested a Russian civilian for giving a speech.

  17. Factory defect on Phoenix Bios to Incorporate DRM · · Score: 1

    I will return as defective any PC or mobo I buy that has this feature enabled. I don't even care if I can disable it, if it's turned on when I plug it in, it goes back to the store.

    A few thousand incidents of this sort might tilt the profit and loss scales in a more sane direction. Profit is the only metric manufacturers really have to listen to.

  18. Correction on Sony's Linux DVR Can Record Two Weeks of TV · · Score: 1

    What they *really* mean is that it will record two weeks worth of in-your-face infommercials, sliced-and-diced movies that bear little resemblance to the original threatrical release, and the same episodes of inane sitcom reruns over and over ad nauseum.

    I am reminded of the observation that "TV is a medium that is rarely well done." Methinks I'll spend the $1380 on a memorable two week vacation instead.

  19. Re:What's the point of these suits? on Florida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers' · · Score: 1

    But what are the lawyers going to do with $48 million dollars worth of retail coupons towards a Linux distribution purchase?

    Buy Ximian back from Novell?

  20. Re:It's all over for Ximian on Novell Buys Ximian · · Score: 0, Troll

    My whole city still runs on [sic] Novel.

    Please let me know what city that is so I don't move there. And no, it has nothing to do with your spelling. I used to work for a local government that still runs Novell and it was a fuckfest trying to keep it running, trying to pay for it, trying to find new employees, trying to keep PHBs off your back, trying to find applications, trying to justify it every budget cycle, but worst of all - trying to keep the religous devoted CNAs from slashing your tires and keying your car's paintjob for suggesting any other solution might work.

    If I can do anything to keep Novell out of where I work now, I will.

  21. Re:RIAA Logic: on Googling Your Way Into Hacking · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And long before Google, there was Melvil Dewey. So how come this country didn't jail his treasonous copyrighted cataloguing ass back in 1876?

    http://www.oclc.org/dewey/

  22. Photography on What Should a Community Computer Lab Offer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Out of town? Tourists or snowbirds? You mean your typical camera toting crowd? Teach them digital photography, a few types of image compression, and the best ways to e-mail photos to the family back home. And throw in a little Gimp/Photoshop to show how to remove the wrinkles from their faces, brighten the Oregon skies, and in general make the stay-at-homes jealous. I'll be happy to sell them the cameras....

  23. Yeah, right. on Predicting H.S. Dropouts With Pervasive Databases · · Score: 1

    For the first time, educators can look up a student's attendance, discipline, immigration status, grades, and test scores at one source and use that information...

    ...to trim the teaching rolls and hire more administrators who will cut budgets to the bone and put illiterate children on the streets by the thousands.

  24. Huh? on Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again · · Score: 1

    If this has nothing to do with which administration is in power, then why did your first rebuttal fix blame on the Clinton administration? And who cares who sought the injunctive relief; the fact is that the BIA is blaming this on underfunding.

  25. I wonder... on Software Archaeology · · Score: 1

    If all record of this generation should become irrecoverable, is that really that great a loss?

    I'm old enough to remember the past half-century, and except for a few footprints on the moon... nothing happened. There are always empty gaps in history like this where humankind accomplishes nothing. Nobody seems to want to believe it but this is one of them.