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  1. Listen...can you hear that? on Hacker Leaks Unreleased CERT Reports · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the sound of every sysadmin on Earth switching to BSD!

  2. Re:How about.... on Wired's Wish List For 2013 · · Score: 1

    Pets that eat poop instead of make it (Thus creating a circle of life between real and artificial pets.)

    The future is now! They're called "flies". Not the cuddliest of creatures, but you can't have everything.

  3. Artifical hippo-campus? on Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing · · Score: 0, Troll

    Artificial hippo-campus? I wasn't aware that hippos attended college in nature...

  4. The Dot in .confusion on Internships in the Post-DotCom Era? · · Score: 1

    Try getting an internship at Sun. The first 3 months I was interning there, they were paying me full-time salary, even though I was only working part-time. I had to bring it up to my manager quite a few times before the situation was "resolved". Of course, the resolution involved getting paychecks for $0 for 3 months, but for a brief while I was the richest intern on campus...

  5. What they fail to mention... on 3D Display a Little Bit Closer to Reality · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...in the article is that, to achieve the illusion of depth, the user must continuously blink one eye, then the other, exactly 30 times per second.

    SIG FAULT

  6. And at the heart of the system... on Which Price is Right? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...a random number generator.

  7. Crypto applications on Riemann Hypothesis Proved? · · Score: 1

    So, this is an attempt at a "very hard" proof of a function that helps generate prime numbers, correct? It seems to me that the lack of a rock-solid proof wouldn't keep more pragmatic-minded crypto software developers from just "assuming" that RH can be used (1.5*10^9 examples aren't often wrong), and working from that assumption. I mean, the only tractable methods of generating them as it stands are probabalistic anyway, so the only way to go would be up. Does anyone know if any software uses the zeta function to generate/verify large primes?

  8. Re:You know it's a reputable site... on Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots · · Score: 1

    Meh, I'm at work, whrere NS7 is the standard. Rest assured, at home I run a "real" browser.

  9. You know it's a reputable site... on Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...when it starts popping up online casino ads at you.

  10. It ain't just nerds that think they're unpopular! on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    Granted, nerds tend to have condescending attitudes and generally poor "social skills", but I think if you ask around you'll find that not too many people really felt that they were really accepted in high school.

    Geeks blame it on geekiness, jocks on (perceived) dumbness, tall people on gangliness, etc. The world is constantly telling you that high school is supposed to be a blast, and it feels like you're the only one not having the time of your life. Even the popular kids might tell you (years later) that they didn't really feel like they fit in. Nobody does. It's the defining characteristic of adolescence.

  11. FSCKTV on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    Heh, these guys make the dude at fscktv look like a script kiddie...

  12. Bah. on Forget Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    What does Google know? All the do is run a cheesy web site. Heck, they don't even serve up and big graphics...

  13. Re:THERE IS NO JULIAN S. TAYLOR @ SUN!!! on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, see, the more recent of those 2 references is 2 1/2 years old. Sun's LDAP is pretty up-to-date, so I trust it. Maybe he used to work at Sun, but he doesn't any more. In the past 2 years, there's been a lot of that going around at Sun...

  14. THERE IS NO JULIAN S. TAYLOR @ SUN!!! on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, it's a fake. I work at Sun, and a quick LDAP search lets us know that Sun doesn't employ a Julian S. Taylor. Geez, I wish f'dcompany.com would check this stuff out before they post it. Actually, I wish /. would check this stuff out first...
    -Jon

  15. Oh for gosh sake... on Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses · · Score: 2

    All this means is that the copyrighted stuff will not be free...technically. In reality, the fact that someone somewhere is still selling something means that it is more likely to be available through other *cough*P2P*cough* channels. If nobody can find it, 'cuz there aren't any copies being sold any more, its availability goes down. If it's available at a store, it's likely up on Gnutella.

  16. Wait just a minute! on Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you're telling me that I *shouldn't* write web apps with remote exploits, buffer overflows and generally crappy security?!?!? Well color me flabbergasted!

  17. Allen's thought process... on Assorted CES Gizmos · · Score: 2

    ...while developing the MiniPC:

    "You know, we're just not making enough money selling software. Let's get way into hardware, that's where the _real_ margins are."

  18. My debugger on How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? · · Score: 2

    System.out.println(). Works fine for me most of the time. If not, I can print a stack trace and see what's going on...assuming Java, of course.

    The only place I've seen that a debugger comes in handy is stepping through poorly understood code. Really, the code should be documented well enough to explain what's going on, but that's rarely the case.

  19. Re:How did he get the docs? on Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets · · Score: 4, Informative

    What I want to know is how did he get the information in the first place

    RTFA!

    "Serebryany obtained the documents while working part-time at a law firm in California that performed legal work for DirecTV."

  20. Re:great, but... on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and by "out school", I mean "our school". Yeah, that's the ticket...

  21. Re:great, but... on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 1

    Yeah, out school name in the dots. Frikkin' HTML incompetence...
    -Jon

  22. Re:great, but... on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 1

    Dude, I'm great, but I think your mail server's seen better days. I'm at jonathan.oexner@alum..edu .

  23. Re:great, but... on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, thank you Mr. Cringely...

  24. Re:Chase the Chuckwagon is crap! on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but don't rule out campiness. The Atari 2600 in and of itself has that special naive charm about it, and, well, a promotional game about dog food? Camp score 9.9.

  25. Bah on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 2

    That's nothing. You should see my dad after a a coupla burritos. Talk about unholy destructive power...