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  1. Blue spay paint.... on Alienware Releases Limited Edition Superman PCs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Check! Superman decal? Check! After I finish modding my old laptop and install mIRC, I just need to keep the hard drive away from kryptonite, and I'll be the coolest kid in #comics!

  2. Re:ohhh ... EULA on Site Says 'Go Away!'; Federal Court Says No · · Score: 1
  3. Easy d/l here on Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Protectionism? Why? on Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department · · Score: 1

    Your first example is bogus. Look it up.
    The second example is almost right. It was some copiers supplied to the Soviet Embassy that contained secret cameras, and the techs were in no danger at all.

  5. F-Prot on Alternative Enterprise Anti-Virus Solutions? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.f-prot.com/

    $5 per PC/yr, less in volume. At >100 it goes down to $2/yr.

    A bit of a clunky interface, but the users will never have to bother with it. Set it to auto-update from a server (which updates from f-prot), tell it to mail you when a virus hits the real-time scanner. Simple, cheap, fast, and effective. The updater and real-time scanner take less than 1MB memory.

    Try the free trial, keep the (free) DOS scanner on a bootable CD with your tools, even if you don't buy the GUI version.

  6. Re:"Scientific American" Reports on New Antibiotic on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1

    Sadly, there's almost no research on this topic.

    Wasn't there a Dr. Martin Arrowsmith doing a study on the efficacy phages in the treatment of bubonic plague sometime back in the 1920s? What was the result of that?

    Will I get modded down for the joke, by illiterates? We'll see.

  7. Re:Fertile or unfertile, patented or free on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    "I heard a story..."

    This one?

    http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/2002/2002fca309. html

    The farmer most certainly knowingly violated the patent. Whether you think patents are good things is another matter.

  8. Re:So let me get this straight... on Caffeine 'Dipstick' Test for Coffee · · Score: 1

    You're safe:

    The one-l lama,
    He's a priest.
    The two-l llama,
    He's a beast.
    And I will bet
    A silk pajama
    There isn't any
    Three-l lllama.*

            -- Ogden Nash

        *The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known
        as a three-alarmer. Pooh.

  9. Re:What about Microsoft? on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 1

    time.nist.gov is a Stratum 1 server, it is poor internettiquette to use it for trivial (end-user) reasons.

    http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumOneTime Servers

    "As the load on the hosts supporting NTP primary (stratum 1) time service is heavy and always increasing, clients should avoid using the primary servers whenever possible."

    Just because NIST is being nice about it doesn't mean MS has to include it as a choice.

  10. What about Microsoft? on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 0, Troll

    The "Internet Time" tab on the date/time systray control lets you sync with time.nist.gov which is not supposed to be used by clients.

  11. Slashback Mountain on Cutting Off an Over-Demanding End-User? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, had to say it.

  12. A stolen RFID key would mean... on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    SOMEONE CUT IT OUT OF YOU!!!

    Thanks, but I'll stick to the flat metal thing with the notches cut into it.

  13. Unbelievable! on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: -1

    You mean, at an event, where, every year, a comedian makes fun of the President, A COMEDIAN MADE FUN OF THE PRESIDENT?

    Wow. That's hot. Er, I meant SHOCKING! Yes, SHOCKING!

    Go look at the Clinton/Monica years, you mindless droids. It's SHOCKING!

  14. Just STOP already! on Videogame Remake of 1986's World Series Game 6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This was the single most painful event in the long Red Sox win drought. I was watching that day, and a simple fielding error by Bill Buckner, his failure to stop a ball hit between his legs, seemed to cause the Red Sox to lose their spirit, and go on to lose that game AND the next one to lose the Series.

    It RUINED Buckner's life, although the rest of the team bore responsibility too, for not fighting back. Eventually Buckner had to move from Boston, because of abuse by fans, and then to Canada, to try to escape the taunts he heard every day.

    But one day, it became too much for him, and suicide seemed to be his only option. On a street in downtown Toronto, he stepped in front of a bus.

    It went through his legs.

  15. Here is a link to the text of the speech on U.S. Government Developed the iPod · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20 060419-5.html

    I suppose it's too much to ask that slashdotters actually read it. But I can always hope.

  16. Venture Capitals? on Facebook Raises Another $25M · · Score: 1

    Who are they?

  17. Re:Scare Tactics and Get Real on Does Open Source Encourage Rootkits? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the tip! this will go great with my DVD rewinding service!

    Man, I wish I had known about your service BEFORE I got hit with the $2 charge at the video store...

  18. Watching anime? on Japanese National Police Investigating Games · · Score: 0

    Why the hell didn't they investigate BEFORE I watched Speed Racer and Gigantor?!?

    I've been scarred for life!

  19. No one would steal my laptop on Wifi and Laptops Adds Up To Theft · · Score: 1

    It's covered with Defcon stickers.

  20. /. Dig at Digg on OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!! · · Score: 1

    How long before a story is posted with the summary "Title says it all!"?

  21. Re:Message to the Struggling Iranians on Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Domeone modded my comment flamebait. Well, I meant it.

    #include thatjeffersonquoteaboutthetreeofliberty

    Fuck the mullah-mods!

  22. Re:From TFA on Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk · · Score: 1

    Election commissioner notices an irregularity in the memory of some voting machines, from whom the owner of the manufacturing company has very clear partisan leanings.


    You meant the former CEO.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_O'Dell

    I doubt he has much pull at Diebold now.

  23. It's NEVADA! on Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk · · Score: 3, Funny

    The $40k is for the booze and the hookers. The techs will have to gamble with their own money, though.

  24. Message to the Struggling Iranians on Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You guys are going to have to start killing those mullahs running things there. I recommend you start texting each other to get flash mobs at all the major TV and radio staions, and another huge mob wherever those mullahs meet. Rush the mullahs and stone them. You know it has to be done if things are going to change.

    Good luck. If you succeed, the French will finish up that nuclear power plant. Count on it.

  25. Re:The ACTUAL charges. on Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught · · Score: 2, Informative

    It looks like you are not familiar with what conspiracy is used for in the legal system of the U.S. government. The fact that there are no other charges should make you pause. Here's a clue:

    Here's a clue for YOU. The guy is a British subject, and was arrested and charged in the United Kingdom.

    So why are you quoting US law?