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  1. Re:There have to be worse movies. ;) on The Battlefield Earth Contest · · Score: 1

    No one's mentioned MI-2. It's supposed to be very bad. I haven't seen it yet.

  2. Re:There have to be worse movies. ;) on The Battlefield Earth Contest · · Score: 1

    I don't recall the name of the lead actress (Gwendoline) bu she had at least two redeeming qualities, which is three more than Battlefield.

  3. The best one I saw on Examples Of Questionable EULAs? · · Score: 1

    Sorry I don't remember the name of the product, but it was impossible to read the damn EULA until you broke the shrink wrap. Of course, once you got to it, it said "By breaking the seal you agree to the following terms...".

    I usually don't read the stupid thkngs anyway, does that mean I am not bound by the terms?

  4. Re:Fake Spam? on Is Forged Spam a Crime? · · Score: 2

    Correction: Spam is pork Jello.

  5. What about the Hurd? on Systems Research Is Dead? · · Score: 1

    How's that coming along?

    Also, another exercise: Isn't the "consumer" version of Windows 2000 still based on Win98/Win95/Win3.x/DOS?

  6. How's this for backward logic? on Criminal Libel, Free Speech And The Net · · Score: 1

    The school principal said "If you disenfranchise somebody to the point where you become their enemy or their classmates become the enemy, then you want to remove them."

    So you keep picking on someone until they fight back, then it's their fault.

  7. Re:Another Haiku on Thoughts On The Pike Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    There once was a programmer named Mike
    "An new language, yeah that's what I'd like"
    He searched high and low
    But it was Slashdot, you know
    Where he first found a URL to Pike.

    What's that? Not a haiku?

  8. Re:But, why would anyone ... (the good news) on Donald Davies: End Transmission · · Score: 1

    At least he didn't say "I conceived the use ..." with the added phrase "And I patented it!" Think of where we would be today if he had.

  9. Snoopy Dog Dawg? on The MP3 Troubles Continue · · Score: 1

    Who cares?

  10. Re:Triangulation on Crack A "Numbers" Station · · Score: 1

    The NPR show said they did try it once in Florida. They found a transmitter at an airport, pointed down toward the Caribbean. It turned out to be an unmanned station with just a phone line going into it. No help.

    seven six nine four one two one six ... Oops, sorry, sometimes I just like to do that.

  11. Re:Kill the show already! on 'The X-Files' Returns For 8th Season · · Score: 1

    I think they already did the one where Scully has an alien baby. Or was that Xena, where Gabrielle has a demon baby?

    Maybe they should do an episode where the same day repeats over and over again, until someone does something different to get it unstuck, like Groundhog Day. Or maybe they already did that one too. Or maybe that was Xena too. Maybe my life is stuck on the same day. Same old job, same crap on /., same TV plots. Can someone please click something different to get me unstuck?

  12. Re:Load of Crap on Borland C++ Can No Longer Be Used To Make Free Software? · · Score: 1

    It's true. It has just been discovered that "Clippy" aka "PaperClipMan" secretly reads all MSWord documents and reports back to MS Redmond all violations. Try it. Type in "MICRO$OFT $UCK$", then save it. Then run tcpdump on your Linux machine and watch for secret messages hidden in the TCP headers.

    I am going to see if it works with WordPerfect files stored as .doc.

  13. Quick, forward MS letter to DOJ! on Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts · · Score: 2

    And Judge Jackson. Include an explanation of how Microsoft is trying yet again to impose propietary standards in order to control the Internet.

  14. IE for Unix? on MSIE's Cookies Are Public · · Score: 1

    The story says IE for Mac and IE for Unix are not vulnerable. Since when is there IE for Unix? Which Unix? Next thing you know there will be IE for Linux.

  15. here's what I do: on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 1

    I actually order their crap. Then I return it. When they ask why I say "I always do that to people who call me at home to sell something". It wastes less of my time trying to keep them on the phone, and it probably costs them more money. I don't get as many calls as I used to get.

  16. make 'em pay on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 1

    There should be a way to make the spammers pay for resources used to download their shit. Isn't there something like this for cell phones where the user pays just for air time?

  17. Sounds like it's time for Caller IQ on Spammers Hit Wireless Phones · · Score: 2

    You set the IQ level for calls and messages you want to accept.

  18. Correction: It wasn't a red CAR on Man Arrested For Enigma Theft · · Score: 1

    it was a red Peugeot. I don't think Carmen Sandiego would be seen in a Peugeot, even if it was red.

  19. "I wonder how much an S/390 will cost in 3 years" on The Practical Value Of Mainframe Linux · · Score: 1

    Even if it was free you couldn't afford it. In three years a 1 GHz copper Athlon will be obsolete (i.e. cheap), so it might be more cost effective to run 40,000 of those.

  20. Bigger danger! on Your CPU Will Explode · · Score: 1

    The blast is even worse on Dual 1 GHz Pentiums. I've heard it can take out a whole city block. Next thing you know someone will put Beowolf cluster on a truck and park it outside a Federal building. And don't even mention RamBust technology.

  21. Re:Now for round 3... on Microsoft Loses · · Score: 1

    When the FoF was released, there was talk of the DOJ having the option of a fast track to the Supreme Court, bypassing the Court of Appeals.

  22. Re:Dear god help us on The Home Of The Future · · Score: 1

    Funny, they left out the part where Whirlpool says the fridge will be too expensive to compete, so they will have to sell advertising on the screen to lower the price.

  23. Past Houses of the future on The Home Of The Future · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember the Monsanto House of the Future at Disneyland, about 40 years ago? I'm still waiting for that one.

  24. Oh no! on Tim Burton To Remake "Planet Of The Apes" · · Score: 1

    Let's look forward to yet another shallow, plotless extravaganza, with some mildly interesting visuals. How about some apes singing Day-O? Apes doing head transplants between humans and dogs? BatApe? An ape with scissors for hands?

  25. p-mail on The Dead Media Project · · Score: 1

    I thought pneumatic tubes were making a comeback. No, really. There is an elaborate tube system at the medical center I go to (Kaiser).