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  1. Son of Star Wars on Spy Satellites? What Spy Satellites? · · Score: 2

    what will really happen with the Son of Star Wars programme

    Shouldn't that be Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones? Thanks to George Lucas for blowing the whistle on what Dubya is really up to -- building a army of clones.

  2. Re:Actually: authors of strncat() MAN PAGE and get on Code Red: the Aftermath · · Score: 2

    Make your own functions. I use:

    void StrCpy( char *dest, const char *source, long destSize );

    void StrCat( char *dest, const char *source, long destSize );

    etc. E.g.:

    char str[STD_LINE_SIZE];
    StrCpy( str, blah, STD_LINE_SIZE );

  3. Marketing on Code Red III · · Score: 2

    Code Red III which is apparently faster and more vicious than its entertaining predecessors.

    I've always suspected that Code Red was secretly made by Microsoft's Marketing department to convince users to upgrade to the very latest products (and to grab XP as soon as it becomes available). That it's taken three versions to make Code Red work well is the proof!

  4. Attack of the Clones on Slashback: Mods, Books, Checkmate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, movies frequently have fake names while they are still in production. ROTJ was once called "Revenge of the Jedi" while it was still in production. In any case, Lucas should have embellished the title a little more to "Attack of the Killer Clones from Outer Space", though hopefully it won't be quite that hokey (cross fingers).

  5. SIC on Secure IRC? · · Score: 3, Funny

    secure alternative to IRC; the Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)

    They should have called it just Secure Internet Conferencing (SIC). This term would provide connotations about the content and would help to excuse some of the spelling errors.

  6. Re:Windows NT servers on Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red · · Score: 1

    It's a wonder that the recommended correction isn't to upgrade to a newer IIS or a newer OS. The virus was probably written under the guidance of Microsoft's Marketing Department.

  7. Re:Floppies on Case Tweaking · · Score: 2

    We'd be better off with a standard for ruggedized, hot-removable 80GB IDE hard drives.

  8. Re:Floppies on Case Tweaking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gah! What's everyone's obsession with the floppy drive? They suck, get over it.

    Well, before the Internet came along, floppies were the best method for exchanging viruses.

  9. Re:Insightful my ass! Read the damn article on Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed · · Score: 2

    F = (G * m1 * m2) / r^2

    Don't be so silly. To compensate the for the increase in r^2, you just square G. If Q can do it, so can you.

  10. Re:Gravitational Field on Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed · · Score: 2

    So what does the government use to PAY the company that PRINTS the money?

    The workers and contractors of the mints are paid with _actual_ money. What they produce is just fancy paper until it is sprinkled with the Royal Penguin Piss.

  11. Icon on Dolby Tells NetBSD Project: Don't Decode AC3 · · Score: 2

    The story icon is a little confusing as the lawyergram in question didn't use the dreaded 'P' word even once. One would presume that if they had relevant patents that they would mention them, rather than referring to vague "intellectual property". Unless copyrighted material in directly included in the package, a simple "please go and fuck yourself" response would seem appropriate.

  12. Re:"You either work with us, or you work around th on McAfee Patents ASP Business Model · · Score: 5, Funny

    Definitely sounds like a challenge

    Sounds more to me like "Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hah!!" {strokes cat while adjusting monocle}

    Nooo, Mr. Bond, I expect you to pay royalties!

  13. Re:Backward compability on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 2

    What better way to crank the upgrade treadmill? (Or to prevent shops from considering an upgrade.)

  14. Re:I would be very surprised to see this happen. on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft might be a major behometh and may attempt to stifle Project Mono but I doubt it would be throught the form of changing CIFS (the new version of SMB for those who don't know).

    They should have called it "CIFLS", pronounced "syphilis". Perhaps the 'L' can be implied. "First I got Mono, but then I realized that I also got CIFLS in the same transaction."

  15. Presumed titles on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 2

    The Phantom Menace
    The Rise of the Empire
    The Fall of the Jedi

  16. Re:Multitasking is ... on Multitasking Harmful To Productivity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trying to think of something profound, while going for First Post.

    That'd be real-time multitasking.

  17. Re:RedHat denies! on RedHat 7.2 Beta: Roswell · · Score: 2

    Red Hat also denies that alien technology not recovered from a ship that didn't crash not in Roswell was not used in the non-production of the non-existing non-software non-release. Ever!

  18. Re:Donate on Sklyarov Bail Hearing Monday · · Score: 2

    "Lawyers are like nuclear warheads. I have them because the other guy has them, but the first time you use them it fucks everything up."
    -- Larry "the Liquidator" Garfield (Danny DeVito), Other People's Money

  19. Re:Blocking drivers is minor. on Windows XP To Block Use Of "Troublesome" Drivers · · Score: 2

    Do you have StarOffice installed? Well that's why you crashed.

    Obviously Microsoft needs to extend its black-listing mechanism to include user-level application programs also.

  20. Re:Sad state of affairs on Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4 · · Score: 2

    The 64-bit AMD processor will be fully backward compatible.

  21. Re:skewed graphs to favor intel on Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4 · · Score: 2

    In general, one shouldn't talk about MHz vs. MHz. The only real metrics are: the maximum amount of bang that you can get out of a processor, or the maximum bang per unit buck. Of course, here you are using the MHz comparison to extrapolate the amount of bang of a more suitable Athlon to use for the test.

  22. Donate on Sklyarov Bail Hearing Monday · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I just made my $500.00 donation to the EFF. Have you made yours?

  23. Lunatic Fringe on Dan Gillmor on WinXP · · Score: 2

    It's interesting that Microsoft chose to use Red Rider's song "Lunatic Fringe" to promote Windows XP on television. The Jargon File defines "Lunatic Fringe" as "Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software."

  24. Your Qwest Leads To MSN on Your Qwest Leads To MSN · · Score: 1

    The article title isn't phrased right. It should be:

    All your Qwest are lead to Microsoft.

  25. Re:Sweet, 1000 RH 6.2 machines... on Final Fantasy Movie Interview · · Score: 2

    Dude, 1000 roothat boxes... Imagine installing the patches on those. ;)

    Imagine the automatability of most sysadmin activities.