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  1. Re:What's the real reason on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: -1, Troll

    In all honesty, have you considered suicide? I mean think about this:

    1. You're contributing nothing to society.
    2. As an unproductive member, you're a drain on the economy.
    3. Any offspring you have now or will have in the future will be negatively impacted by your apparent lack of use.

    In scenarios like this, it's best to simply remove yourself from the gene pool, it's what any responsible member of the human race would do.

    Thank God they can only mod down to -1.

  2. Re:Thank you China! on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the moon flew planes into our skyscrapers, we would have people on it inside of a week. :)

  3. Re:I couldn't agree more on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, it would be the perfect place for my "laser".

  4. Re:What is this about ? on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins · · Score: 1

    Well, a good point about America, you can only be tried once for a getting DVD to play on Linux.

    :)

  5. Re:Buggy Leaks on Malaysian Police Not Roping Longhorn Rustlers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Selling alpha leak software as final revision. Wow.

    Well at least now your software comes pre-exploited, no haxors needed!

  6. Re:rofl, thanks for the link! on What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha, I know your pain all too well.

    Funny how the sticker on a machine that says "Designed for Windows 2000" actually means "Works with Windows 2000 if you go to our web site and download all the drivers for video, audio, modem, and NIC". Nevermind the classic chicken-and-egg problem of accessing their download site with no network interface drivers.

  7. Re:Lower prices on Game Piracy Results in Lower Prices? · · Score: 1

    Amen, brother.

    People don't play Counter Strike for the graphics, that's for sure. The game play is key, far more important than graphics. It's why I still play WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness.

    Flashy graphics are nice, but if your game play is convoluted/confusing/boring, then the game is going nowhere fast.

  8. Re:Lower prices on Game Piracy Results in Lower Prices? · · Score: 1

    come from being Hacked by Chinese!

  9. Re:useful on Javascrypt · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I explained to the client the concept of "passing the hash" and if someone was sniffing the network traffic that a hashed password wouldn't matter and blah blah blah.

    I remember his words were "well, it's secure enough for our purposes". So rather than argue, I simply went ahead and wrote it. C'est la vie.

  10. useful on Javascrypt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've used javascript cryptography routines before, once in a php project for authentication, used javascript to generate an md5 hash of the password and sent the hash over http.

    I considered it a hack, but it's what the client wanted, and who am I, the developer, to question the client's motives? Cheap bastard, didn't want to pay for an SSL cert. Just hope no one passes the hash. ;)

  11. brockman on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our new trusted computing BIOS overlords...

  12. Re:Spam Rage? on Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're a "computer programmer", and you don't know how to keep yourself free/less vulerable to popups and spam, then I really don't have much sympathy for you. No wonder all our jobs are going to India...

  13. Re:Let me get this straight... on Webservice Debugs Linux Binaries While-U-Wait · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Oh man these guys are gonna get pummeled.

    Most web servers cant handle the http requests associated with the Slashdot effect, and these guys are accepting uploads and running executables .

    perl -e 'while(true){ fork; }'
  14. Re:He skipped the Edu questions... on Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds · · Score: 1

    I still can't fathom the idea of paying for Red Hat software. Are they skirting the GPL? Can I download the Enterprise Linux for free? I don't need support....I will support myself.

    Now where is my ISO?

  15. Re:User friendliness on Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one wants to work on the little "niceities" that a user-oriented OS such as Windows or Mac OS X has. OSS developers want to work on the "cool" projects, that and for us, functionality is relative to the user. OSS developers tend to write software for developers, not your average Joe Sixpack.

    Fine by me, though. I'm not afraid of the command line. :)

  16. Re:Dumpster Diving SCO on Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving · · Score: 1

    Maybe a few neat scraps of intellectual property. And UnixWare. Yeah, they've done alof of useful stuff in their time.

  17. Re:Are they psychic? on Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is just a prime of the example of why you should read the fine print before you sign.

  18. Re:If Microsoft built the matrix on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1
    [matrix:/] neo% su -
    Password: ******
    [matrix:/] root# killall matrixd
    is faster than
    ctrl-alt-del
    Username: neo
    Password: ******
    Start->Control Panel->Services
    Right click matrixd, click stop
    [WARNING: The following services depend on 'matrixd' to run and will be stopped: AgentSmith, Oracle, PersonGenerator, Internet Information Services]
  19. Re:Not really fair to disclose this information? on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it the primary purpose of society/government/law to protect business?

    The primary purpose of government/law is to further the advancement of society; but unfortunately sometimes we lose sight of that.

  20. Re:Next Headline: on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if it can be used to keep my grades from being released to my parents, I mean yes; they pay the tuition, but isnt the semi-unique sequence of D's and F's my copyright?

    ...Can I sue my university for even printing them? ;)

  21. Re:Is it just me... on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 1

    Yeah so hopefully with this information being public, they will lose money?

    ...or just change the items that will be on sale.

  22. Re:My Own on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    Office Space
    "...So what would you say you DO here?"

  23. hahah on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Them's fightin' words.

  24. red hat? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think that Red Hat is an inappropriate distribution to use for something whose purpose is to create music. The best choice in this matter is in fact OpenBSD, because security should be paramount in any application of computer science to a non-related field. This is because we as computer scientists need to offer the best we have available to other fields.

  25. Re:Solving is not that hard on Rubik's Cube Comeback · · Score: 1

    Solve middles, pair edges, and solve like a 3x3x3. Same algorithm applied to a 5x5x5 or for that matter, an NxNxN cube. All can be solved in terms of a 3x3x3.