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  1. Re:Shooting yourself in the foot on Bush Demands Apple Recount · · Score: -1, Troll

    Al Gore doesn't enjoy a very positive image in fly-over country. Like it or not, he has "loser" tattooed to his chest. Even democrats like myself who voted for the bum think he has shot his wad. Really, Gore is joke fodder for late-night TV.

    I BEG TO DIFFER! The tattoo is on his forehead.

  2. Punny on Nanoscale Optical Fiber From Spider Silk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't wait for these to get integrated into teh world wide web... badoom-bing!

  3. Re:Just goes to show... on Users Conned by Cable Con · · Score: 5, Funny

    24/7 porn and pay-per-view

    No, you must have bought a cable modem, this is different...

  4. Make a mint on Selling your Inbox Instead of Chocolates? · · Score: 1

    step 1, get your own domain name.
    step 2, foreach address ('a' to 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzz') createMbox(address@mydomain.com)
    step 3, make lots and lots and lots of money turning in the addresses you just made.

  5. Re:I have always done that... on Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    -=-=-Haiku-=-=-
    fuck you fuck you fuck
    you fuck you fuck you fuck you
    fuck you fuck you snow

  6. Let the games begin... on University of Utah Promises DMCA Crackdown · · Score: 3, Funny

    for (IPAddress i=UTAH_LOWEST_IP; i UTAH_HIGHEST_IP;i++) {

    sendMail("We found a DMCA violation on this IP:",i);

    }

    It's such a bad thing to make policies where descions are arbitratily made before evidence is collected.

  7. Read it, it's not just physical access! on Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine · · Score: 1

    It's any process that can be running when menory erros happen. they happen all the time, relativly, so all you need to do is make an applet that runs in the background of somone's box for a few days, thier example was seti@home, java version, but you could be original and say, hmm, a free porn viewer or something. Eventually there will be a memory error OR a virtual memory error due to disk corruption, and presto, you got in. With .NET it might be even easier, since eventually people won't even have a "extra" VM that has to be loaded and run for programs, it will be the default. So at that poing ALL programs become questionable.

  8. Oh man oh man oh man oh man.... on Smart Gun with Minicam and Biometric Access · · Score: 1

    You just KNOW there will be all sorts of sites on the net with "candid shots" from this gun... I wouldn't envy those suprise "up the skirt" shots, but I am macabre enough to want to rate the "am I dead or not" pics...

  9. Catch-22 on Basics of Cryptographic Filesystems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with encrypted filesystems is that, in order to decrypt them, you need some kind of large, ungainly key. Those keys are not justthe kind fo thing you memorize and type in when you boot up the system, so they have to be stored someshere. If they are stored on the disk, in an unencrypted partition, then you no longer are very secure... if they are stored on some kind of physical key, like a USB token, then you are safe if you turn the machine off and you head home, but unless you plan to paged to come into work and plug in your token every time the machine wants to swap Mozilla out of memory, you're probably going to be leaving it plugged in most of the time, and then you are back to leaving the key around for people to grab. And with all of this, you then have the issue of how to recover the system when your usb token burns out or the partition with your key gets corrupted.

  10. Re:Slackware on Free Software Operating Systems for Old Laptops? · · Score: 0

    Wow, you've had an account since, what, '99 and you've posted on only handful of days in that time. What prompted you to show up today?
    And what did you do to deserve posting at 0?


    Well, that should be obvious... What did I do? I only posted a handful of times in the last 5 years! You can't get karma that way.

  11. Slackware on Free Software Operating Systems for Old Laptops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not that this is any help, considering I can't remember the version numbers, but I remember having a slackware box with specs very similar to yours and it ran great. If you look around for some of the 1996-1998 versions, they should all work fairly well on limited hardware. Are there mirrors of old distros out there?

  12. Re:Security? on OpenBSD: Hackers Meet Soldiers · · Score: 0

    Kind of like how Microsoft keeps its code private for security reasons too....

    I was under the impression that Microsoft kept it's code secret to stop people from seeing how munged and spaghetti it is... It's not like people have ANY problems finding security holes without teh source. :)

  13. Re:they are getting desparate on MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism · · Score: 0

    It's not so much funding terrorism, but increasing local gang violence. People DO get shot/robbed over drugs, incl grass.

    That's odd, I can't remember the last time someone was shot over a bottle of advil... Oh, you mean CONTROLLED drugs... Sounds like the very act that you wish to stop crime (controls) is the impetus for MORE crime...

  14. WOW, water on mars... on Flowing Water Discovered on Mars · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or shadows...

  15. Re:Mirror of your mirror, just in case... on Caching Content and the Shrinking Web? · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Well, technically wouldn't the mirror of the mirror look more like this:


    [ sihT ot ylpeR ]
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    .dethgilhgih gnieb tniopweiv ro eussi eht dnatsrednu nac yeht os srotisiv ruo rof elbaliava gnieb segap lanretxe eht no ylivaeh seiler ylsuoivbo erutcurts sihT .setis rehto no selcitra ot sknil sevlovni ytirojam tsav eht tub ,tnetnoc nwo ruo tsop ew emit ot emit morF .tnetnoc lanretxe ot sknil dnuora retnec noissucsid dna sbrulb yrots llams ;todhsalS retfa denrettap etis detneiro-noissucsid llams a nur I"


    "?etis s'redivorp eht morf deraeppasid ro devom sah won tub elbaliava saw ecno taht noitamrofni tuoba gniklat er'ew nehw ,yna fi ,egnahc eussi ytilagel/cihte eht seod woH .enil-ffo srevres tnetnoc etomer gnikconk 'tceffE todhsalS' eht dnuora deretnec snoissucsid esoht fo ytirojam eht tub ,todhsalS no ereh semit ynam dessucsid neeb sah segap deknil gnihcac fo eussi eht wonk I" :sksa puh-llik

    .tped tcatni-txetnoc-eht-gnipeek eht morf
    3002 41 hcraM yadirF -- MA 55:20 no ffilC yb detsoP

    ?beW gniknirhS eht dna tnetnoC gnihcaC

    .msiragialp rof em eus dna ssa ym ot pu pmuj nac sremalf erohw-amrak-atem esoht lla woN .rohtua lanigiro eht morf noissimrep eht tuohtiw derorrim ylsselemahs I tnetnoc eht si ereH



    (/gro.todhsals//:ptth)
    (4789055#) MA90:21@ ,41 hcraM yadirF no (421452) essj yb
    (1:erocS) devomer dna dettodhsals s'ti esac ni rorriM

    devomer dna dettodhsals s'ti esac ni rorriM

  16. Relativity on The Puzzle of Martian Meteorites · · Score: 1

    People forget that when this rock hit earth, it may possibly have been traveling AT NEARLY THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Yes, that way it would seem to be far younger that it should be. Sheez. Scientists can be so dumb sometimes... :)

  17. SpOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! on Live Action 'The Tick' Pilot · · Score: 1

    Aren't ticks supposed to have eight legs?

    Tick: What makes you think I don't?

  18. cool. on Live Action 'The Tick' Pilot · · Score: 0

    wow. I feel first post special!

  19. Hi, this is me, the original poster. on Perplexing PPP Problem · · Score: 1

    I found the solution, well, kind of. My MTU and MRU settings were fine, and I tried many different browsers. I was using pppd 2.3.7 (or whatever is standard issue with RH 6.0). I updated it to pppd 2.3.>9particular problem, so it is possible that whatever bug caused it may crop up again.

    Thanks for all your help!

  20. nanotech does a body good on Integrated Circuits the Size of Molecules · · Score: 1

    Imagine a little nanomachine you inject in your body that does nothing but run around killing the AIDS virus. Or, imagine fighting the war on drugs by injecting every baby with nanotech machines that seek and destroy varois known drug molecules. You could shoot heroin up your nose into your brain, but it would get eaten by the nanos before it could affect you. Or they could be programmed to rebuild tissue, you could get shot in the leg and be completely healed in two hours. Tons of fun, them nanos.

  21. You have a nit on your shoulder, let me pick it... on Windows Domination May End Next Year · · Score: 1

    you said :

    >the difficulty in linux is: everybody is >acomodated with win. Do you think Japanese is >difficult? if you ask it for a japanese child, >the answer will be NO. it's just a question of >Point of view. someone that grew into linux and >try to change to win, will get mad!

    Actually, many Japanese children DO think Japanese is hard. Especially kanji. I meet people every day (I live in Japan) who can't remember how to pronounce a certian character or who can't remember how to write something using the correct strokes.

    :) I'm just here to annoy!

  22. Why Linus will NEVER be allowed near the comp. on The Mindcraft Debacle: Part MCXVI · · Score: 1

    Lunis will never have a chance to touch the machine in question. He won't be allowed within 50 feet. Imagine, here is linus setting up his server. He sees that SMP isn't working so great, so he hacks out a quick fix and patches the code. Presto, linux is kicking ass. Mindcraft whines, "Hey, that's not fair, you can't just change the kernel like that! That patch isn't in the official distribution!" And linus just grins and say, "It is now."

    When when they undertsand the concept. The number one best super-duper cool reason to choose linux over NT isn't performance (not that it wouldn't beat the shit out of NT) but it's the code. You have all the info right there at your fingertips to crunch out your own perfect server, and you never have to wait for someone to come along and stick a bottle in your mouth.