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  1. Re:Won't employ hackers? on White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have any links regarding that? I read the link in the story, and all it gives is some very brief information. I'd just like to see the guys reasoning for not hiring "hackers who have come in from the cold."

    Same reason the rape crisis center isn't returning calls from Mike Tyson.

  2. Re:This is just plain absurd... on Hilary Rosen from RIAA will write Iraq's Copyrights? · · Score: 1

    We're planning on leaving once they're up and running. It's the least colonial activity we could possibly do that wasn't irresponsibly abrupt.

    Kind of like the British did in (what used to be) India, right? No strife there....

  3. Re:Some coding expertise... on Reading Lips In Software · · Score: 1

    All I wanted was a lip-reading computer with a frickin pressure-sensing laser beam attached to its USB port. Was that too much to ask?

  4. Re:I smell a hotfix... on Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They've done it - a way has been found to make the Windows environment less secure. I can just see the sales pitch now.

    "With Windows CX, your computer will have the latest in Remote Memory Management. Share your system's power with another Windows PC for added performance. Trusted applications will automatically control your memory remotely, saving you the trouble of worrying about the wrong programs using your PC."

    (Which, in the usual MS doublespeak, means Bill's trusted computer can bork warezed versions of anything by remote control without having to resort to TCPA.)

  5. Re:"common to most Slashdoters" on Revolution is not an AOL Keyword* · · Score: 1

    I'm a citizen of my country. Most of the people in my country could really care less about me and my well-being. Many -- I don't know if it is "most" or "some" -- of them are downright hostile to me and the things I believe in. There's no need to go into a full list. Actually, I'd love to go into a full list, but I'd probably just be beaten and imprisoned by the people who are hostile to my views.

    There is nothing magical about my country. People are still people. Some of them are out for power, some are not. Some agree with me, some do not. Some people will be able to manipulate mass media just like some people can manipulate net media now.

  6. Give me a break. on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    These squabbling children are worse than two women who discover they're both wearing the same dress*.

    (*er... which is to say, each of them is wearing exactly one dress that looks just like what the other is wearing. Two women wearing a single dress causes a whole new slew of problems)

    I know the difference between a browser and a database. If someone says "my Windows crashed", I don't go running to look for the big empty spot in the wall. These people are inventing a problem where none exists.

  7. Re:Eathlink does this too. on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    So why are we all sitting around on our asses complaining about spam when a viable solution already exists?

    - You're right. We could sit around here all day,
    talking, passing resolutions, making clever speeches, it's not to ship one Roman spammer!

  8. Re:warning signs on Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare · · Score: 1

    I sit corrected =)

  9. Re:warning signs on Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare · · Score: 1
    I kept waiting for the humourous part to the end of this message, but it never came. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you probably weren't serious, and continue the message for you:


    "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some drugs to deliver and I have to get going before the cops notice my stolen car and the two library guards I had to shoot in the face to get in here in the first place."


    There. Much better.

  10. Re:Two common sense things they can do now on NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1.Equip each shuttle with a little mini-satellite with a web cam they can use to take pictures of the underside.

    2. Get science-savvy teenage girls between fourteen and eighteen to spacewalk on camera, rub the chests of their space suits and complain about how moody they are.

    3. Solicit donations from lonely single guys on cam portals.

    4. Use the proceeds to build a better shuttle.

  11. Re:Pray on NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall · · Score: 4, Funny

    As CNN's investigation into the shuttle crash enters its thirty-third week, we begin our review by showing the tape of a little streak of light in the sky for the six hundred-eleventh time. We then talk to a janitor and a bookkeeper, both of whom used to work for NASA and claim that a faulty paper towel dispenser in the sixth-floor mens' bathroom disrupted the job of the middle manager whose job it was to get the attention of the upper-manager & have him inform command that there maybe could've been a problem.

    Who broke the paper towel holder you may ask? Oh, I don't know.... SATAN!?

  12. Quite a resume on Opencroquet · · Score: 1

    Alan Kay, who also is one of the inventors of Smalltalk, one of the fathers of object oriented programming, conceiver of the laptop computer, inventor of much of the modern windowing GUI ...holder of the sacred chalice of reeks, heir to the holy rings of...

  13. Re:The Economics of RPGs on Kodak Releases Digital Camera With OLED Display · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wonderful, now I can see a high-resolution preview of a grainy underlit image 20% more clearly!

  14. Re:I kind of expected to read on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So did I, but there's really no moronic place to put an apostrophe in that sentence. "fi'sh"?

  15. Re:ELIZA does the trick on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 1

    * i am going to sue you
    > Do you enjoy being going to sue me?
    * Being going to sue you? Where do you get your ideas?
    > Everything I need to know I learned from Dr. Richard S Wallace
    * Interesting. But all things you need to know are not learned from Dr. Richard S Wallace
    > Hm. But all things are not...

  16. Re:Yes yes yes on Linux in High School Labs · · Score: 1

    ...but in English, a library is a lending institution, whereas in French la librarie is a place to buy books. You can't have everything I guess ;)

  17. Re:Can't you just change your PIN? on Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    You mean I can't rely on the sanctimonious "I read the article so what you said makes you sound like an idiot" argument unless I actually *read* the article?! But there are.... lotsa pages there! I don't know all those big words!

  18. Re:Can't you just change your PIN? on Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Nope. Having actually read the article in question I can assure you that won't help.

  19. Advice to my twelve year-old self. on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    Stay out of the arcade.
    Work out.
    Sell everything you own, buy four boxes of M:TG Beta. Do NOT open them.
    Prepare for the divorce.
    Exercise.
    Study in school. That 65 average will fuck you like you'd never believe.
    Black clothing is OK as long as there's something else in the drawer.
    Did I mention exercise?

  20. Re:Not in a long time... on Rand Expert Says To Keep Mum About Killer Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Relax, the cause of that explosion was dismantled by the man who invented it shortly after he realized what he had done. I'm just happy Tesla isn't alive today, cause he could do some mighty scary shit with the toys we have now.

  21. Re:As has been pointed out. . . on TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?! · · Score: 4, Informative

    For one untrained in the ways of the boot track, how might I go about removing it? I've played with the MBR and such, and even had a virus infect my boot record before, but what's the proper method for removing this thing? Assembly? ;)

    Sector editor. I prefer BreakPoint's Hex Workshop. Be sure you know exactly wtf you're doing though, or you could be in for a mighty long evening.

    By the same token, anyone with access to a sector editor can mimic TurboTax's copy protection and install it on pretty much any PC at will.

  22. Re:I Know She'll Be Missed on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sheep are very loving animals.

    Aye son, ye cannae deny tha'.

  23. Re:Given Names and Media on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name · · Score: 1

    "Cruise"? Tom Cruise? You don't mean Thomas Maypother, the guy who's dating Penelope Cruz, do you?

  24. Re:One question I have to consider... on ACLU And Others Weigh In On CIPA Injunction · · Score: 1

    How much time will libraries spend cleaning up after budding hackers?

    Oh please, it doesn't take that long! A few paper towels and some bar soap, and... ...OH! You mean fixing the damage to the computers!

  25. Re:Some different results on Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Deciding to test Google's AI, I took this a step further:

    all things are not always are not always you need to know you learned from Dr Richard s Wallace.: 2,240

    all things are not always are not always are not always me need to know me learned from Dr Richard s Wallace: 3,900,000

    But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to know you learned from Dr Richard s Wallace: 5,490,000

    But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always me need to know me learned from Dr Richard s Wallace: 5,490,000

    etc.