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  1. Re:the slashdot army... on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2

    Something tells me that Malda is incapable of a "rousing" speech of any kind.

    You're right. Jon Katz should give it instead. That would inspire more emotion from the readers...

  2. i WOULD do that but... on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2

    In the same vein, I'm tempted to do something like this ...

    Unfortunately for you, your product is prominetely displayed on the homepage of PetsWarehouse.com. As such, I conclude that you are sympathetic to Mr. Novaks lawsuits ...

    I would do that, except that his web site hasn't come up in my browser for the last hour and a half, so I have no idea who to send the letters to! :)

  3. Re:Overrated? ;) on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 1

    The non binary nature of their vocabulary (TROLL,OFFTOPIC,OVERRATED, etc.) breathes new life into it.

    OK, then how about a different challenge. Try to get one moderation of each negative category all in the same thread? So far you've gotten: Troll, and 2 Offtopics. You still need Flamebait, Redundant, and Overrated. I'd help you out, but as you can tell I've already posted in this thread... Cheers!

  4. Re:Overrated? ;) on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2

    See, this thread is like Flynn talking to BIT, flynn can say all this stuff and has the ful range of human expression, where as bit can only say "YES", or "NO". So in this case I am like flynn: a man trapped in a world he helped create bu cannot understand, raging against its confinement, and the moderations are like bit's "YES" and "NO" And the moderator is like a two bit punk-ass bitch.

    And so far, he's only been saying "NO"...

    Maybe dropping a Tron metaphor will win him over though :)

    I think you should keep it up and set a record for most posts a single person can get modded down in while having a conversation only with himself... call it scientific curiousity.

  5. the slashdot army... on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which troops would he rally? Do you think that a platoon of geeks bearing down on Novak's mansion would change things?

    No, but a quarter million geeks pounding away at his website address every 12 hours (when the story gets inadvertantly re-posted) can keep his bandwidth maxed out without letting any "customers" through.

    Plus, slashdot viewers are not what most people would consider "shy" in the online world, so if given a rousing "Sons of Scotland" speech from Mr. Taco, it's probable that you'd soon have millions of messageboard posts and emails to friends and quick-n-dirty websites thrown up on stupid/clever pun-ful domain names. We could bleed Novak dry just on the cost of all the paper he'd need to file suit against all these individuals, and their hosting companies, and the search engines who list them, and the PC manufacturers who sold them the computers they commited the 'harassment' from, and their lawyers, and ... their pets, for not frequenting his establishment...

  6. Duhhhh on Ballmer Wants to "Stomp Linux" Using MS community · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they stomped BSD, then where could they get code from?

    Duhh, they'll just keep copying the code of independent open source high school graduates which they get by reading their monitors via the secret cameras they have installed in everyone's house. Then the programmer dies in a freak accident/hate crime so he can't dispute the origin of the code.

    Geez, I guess some people just don't pay attention to what their television tells them anymore...

  7. Re:RedHat 7.3 fix already in openssl-0.9.6b-24? on Linux Worm Spreading, Many Systems Vulnerable · · Score: 2

    Maybe the 'g' build from openssh.org is necessary, but RedHat seems to think they've already fixed in in their "b-24" release.

    In general, the updated patched version is NEVER necessary from [openssh|apache|whatever].org on a RedHat system. They are always extremely fast in backporting the security-related bugfixes to the older versions of the packages, so while the "version number" is usually behind what the "latest" version is, it will have a higher "release number" than what you were running previously. Right now it looks like "openssl-0.9.6b-28" is the latest version for RedHat 7.3, and the bug is fixed in that release.

  8. Re:openssl 0.9.6g(latest) is broken on Linux Worm Spreading, Many Systems Vulnerable · · Score: 2

    Try compiling Apache 2.0.X with a dynamic loadable module of SSL. It will break on 'make', at least on Red Hat 7.2. I had to go back to 0.9.6f.

    You don't have to manually install the new versions of Apache/OpenSSL/etc from the project authors on Red Hat servers. RedHat backports all the security bugfixes to the older versions of the software, so the "version" number that you are running is always older than the "latest" version available from the actual project's site. RedHat (supposedly) does more compatibility testing to make sure all the different packages play nice with each other, so they don't actually release new packages to be 'up2dated' unless there are significant features in the new version. This delay (often weeks or months) doesn't usually matter because you don't NEED the latest versions to be secure, the bugfixes get updated pretty much immediately every time. It's worked pretty good for us so far...

  9. Maybe the stats aren't as bad as they think... on Linux Worm Spreading, Many Systems Vulnerable · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Almost half of the 22 million Apache HTTP sites found by the survey are running Apache/1.3.26, whilst only around a quarter of the Apache SSL sites are running this version, which fixes the chunked encoding vulnerability."

    Does this statistic take into account that some Linux distros (for example, RedHat) backport the bugfixes to earlier versions of Apache/OpenSSL/etc.??

    All of our servers are running Apache 1.3.23, but it's 1.3.23 release 14 which DOES include the fixes for the bugs mentioned on that page. If they are simply going by the Apache version number reported, then they may be over-estimating the number of vulnerable web servers by several million...

    But you all know what they say about statistics anyway...

  10. Re:Bamboozled at the Revolution? on Bamboozled at the Revolution · · Score: 2

    The book is an inside tale told by an insider who chronicles the frantic days when the insiders were certain that the Internet was going to change everything. In this case, the insiders...

    That's nice and all, but does it have any INSIDER info??

  11. Re:I know... on Verizon Lawyer Explains Telecoms' DMCA Position · · Score: 2

    Older Women make better lovers anyway.

    You keep telling yourself that, mom.

  12. Can't find the article mentioned on Nature's site on Speed of Light Inconstant? · · Score: 2

    Did a search for "Paul Davies" (lead author of the paper supposedly) on Nature's site, and only came up with one old unrelated article. Don't see any links to anything like this on the main page or the Physics section page either... maybe it just hasn't been updated yet.

  13. Yeah, what he said... and more. on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 3
    I mean, what if I took Return of the Jedi, and took the cool Ewok song off the end, added a completely idiotic musical number, and passed it off as the same movie?

    The point here is that they're not passing it off as the same movie. No one is being tricked into thinking they bought the original version - these versions are being specifically requested by the consumer.

    Exactly. This just needs to be posted a few more times so that more people can see it.

    These aren't derivative works, in that the other companies are claiming IP rights to the modified versions and selling them as "their own" movies. People (bashful, or maybe with wussie kids) seek out these companies who will modify the media they've already bought, or pay the companies specifically for the service of providing them with an edited version that does not contain the content they find objectionable. This is NOT censorship. Censorship would be one of these companies or the government blocking out the content in question without the knowledge/consent of the customers, and trying to pass it off as though this is the actual unmodified work. Nowhere does it say anything about people doing this. The movies are marked as edited, and are edited in specific ways as requested directly by the customer who is buying them.

    This is just an even more absurd attempt to exercise power over the masses by the MPAA. And why don't they get it through their thick skulls that all these stupid things they're trying to do will only HURT their sales?? They actually fucking argued that "the films are the creative property of the filmmakers and cannot be altered without permission. A person who is troubled by the content of a film should simply not watch it. Censoring it even temporarily is not an option. ... Parents can control what their child sees by not allowing it in the house."

    So they're basically telling people that, "instead of paying us full price for a product we made, and then paying somebody else to make it more convenient for you to skip past the parts you don't want to see, you should simply not pay us any money at all and not view any of the movie whatsoever." ...and thereby missing out on the all important 'artistic message' entirely. They're actually telling people to not buy their movies, instead of making simple modifications that would make them acceptable! But of course it's Napster's fault that movie sales are down...

    And where the fuck are these people getting Blockbuster from?? It's not mentioned in the article at all! Nobody said Blockbuster was editing movies and renting them under the guise of being the original movies. Stop filling in the blanks with whatever pops up in your head people, and read the fuckin article!

  14. Use slashdot to your advantage... on Motivating Your Co-Developers? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Block "http://www.slashdot.org" at the firewall :)

    Personally, I just complain about my co-workers on the front page of Slashdot... they all get pissed and quit, and then I can replace them with new people who know what they're doing. Seems to work....

  15. Re:ATH0 (delay).... on WebTV/MSNTV Virus Dials 911 · · Score: 1

    Really? Is there a patent on the delay after "+++" to enter command mode? Is that why some modems don't impliment this (absolutely needed) feature?

    Yes. That someone was called Hayes Corp... they were big bullies back in the early modem days... back when I got my first 2400baud. By the time I making the choice between Kflex and x2 when 56k came out, Hayes was a dirty word and you couldn't even buy their stuff anymore. (Retailers weren't selling them, at least not around here.)

    I guess they're a pretty good example of how you can get short term gains from patenting offensively simple details, but in the long run you lose because you've pissed the whole world off. When was the last time you heard of someone buying a Hayes product??

  16. 'No Tom' is a GOOD thing... on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 1

    I loved the part of the book about Tom Bombadil.

    When I read the book the first time many years ago, and again last year, I had the same feeling about Tom. He seemed like a mystical character that could have been developed into a much bigger, more important role, but that nobody wanted to wait around long enough for him to take their mission seriously. He could have been a hero of dazzling importance and power, but he won't because he can't keep kimself from bursting into giddy non-sensical little songs about EVERYTHING.

    Tom Bombadill is going to the bathroom
    dombadil bombadil vagisil dillio!
    And he's going to take a crapper
    Bigger than yonder mountain
    dilliel billy-il yankmydil dillio!

    The whole time I'm reading his chapter I have this overwhelming mental association between him and the "singing bush" from the Three Amigos movie... kinda prevented me from taking him seriously. :)

  17. Yeah, it's all Slashdot's fault! on Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You · · Score: 1

    MS can't even try to do something right without slashdot bitching about it.

    Yeah, Slashdot treating Microsoft unfairly in their news stories is the reason my Microsoft "Critical Updates Notifier" has popped up on my screen at LEAST once a week for the past 2 months...

    MS is getting the bashing they have deserved for a long time. There just wasn't any way to publicly display their faults to so many people so easily before the internet (and Slashdot) came along. If you make a product that 90% of all people who use that type of product are using, and your product has countless major security holes, which you don't fix in a timely manner, you deserve to get a verbal ass beating from the public.

    Let's say you made security alarms for cars and houses. And the vast majority of all houses and cars used your company's alarms. And then imagine that people were constantly finding stupid little flaws in your product, like: blowing a dog whistle within 100 yards of the car will automatically disable the alarm, unlock the doors, start the car, and make the headlights flash so you can tell from a distance that the car has been "owned"...

    Some MS bugs aren't even so obscure. Some are exploitable just by using the interfaces as designed, only with some oddly formed input that wasn't tested for. In our alarm example, it would be like being able to go to any house alarm, and hitting the "9" key about a dozen times and it will automatically shut itself off, regardless of what the "security code" was set to. And your company immediately issues "fixes" which consist of instructions telling people to take a screwdriver and pop the "9" key off of their keypad... For what reason should people do anything other than harass the hell out of your company publicly and argue the faults of having such a monopoly in charge??

  18. My favorite quote from the article... on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 1

    The situation is not exactly clear yet, but the article leads me to believe that the state will claim that Oracle and this Logicon company thinger may have misrepresented themselves during the contract negotiation process. Misrepresentation is definitely something that can cause contract to get nullified

    Misrepresented huh? That's one way of saying it... Here's my favorite quote from the article: "In one case, the audit found that Logicon's $3.6 million estimate of how much the state spent in one year on software maintenance was overstated by $3.2 million."

    "Overstated"??? The actual number was $400,000 and you were off by 3,200,000! That's not an 'overstatement', it's not even fucking close!

    Oh well, I guess that's every businessman's daydream... to someday be on the receiving end of deal involving some dipshits trying to give away gobs of money. More power to 'em I guess.

  19. What's wrong with YOU man? on NASA Satellite Stranded · · Score: 1

    MOO, Whats wrong with this picture? http://www.revoh.org:1234/whatswrong

    Dude, that picture thing in your sig is FUCKED UP! That's just wrong man. Scared the shit outta me... I think it's funny now, but Jeezus!

  20. Yeah RIGHT! on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    For instance, male geek can stroke just below his navel, and in response, female geek feels caressing vibrating sensation just below her navel. Female geek then rubs below her left armpit, and male geek feels vibrating sensation under his left armpit.

    Yeah Right! As if it were somehow possible to acquire/wear one of these things, you'd be putting them under your ARMPIT... heheh You kill me!

  21. Sympathy song for all you single guys on V-day on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    My last girlfriend didn't like me thought she might be
    Most likely a dyke she just didn't excite me
    Lefty? Yeah but that was alright
    She was hotter than the sun but she just wasn't that bright
    My mistake she was more flaky than a leper colony
    I think a wooden clothespin would have been much better company
    Ass like a donkey acting funky gave her "L" now she's a flunky
    So my love for her died quicker than a batch of Sea Monkeys
    Early bird gets the worm spread your legs or spread the word
    So what if I'm not the smartest peanut in the turd
    I'm white which goes with everything but I can come in any color
    And I'm looking for the kind of girl that reminds me of my mother
    But it's hard to find a girl with a viper tattooed on her tushy
    And how many girls do you know that can play the harmonica with their pussies?
    Like em' easy and hot and sweet like a Rice Krispie Treat gee
    You know what I really want in a girl? Me!

    I need to find a new vagina
    Any kind of new vagina
    It's hard to rhyme a word like vagina
    Calvin Klein? Kind of... North Carolina

    Women are like dog doo hear me through don't interrupt
    It's just the older that they are the easier they get to pick-up
    I'd fill the generation gap clean the cobwebs from her rafters
    Old hens would rather put out than be put out to the pasture
    No age just ain't a gauge I like my girls like my cheese
    Preferably for me fat-free American singles only
    I want my next chick anorexic the winner is the thinner
    Won't have to take her skinny ass out to a fancy dinner
    Like Sizzler ... she got a beef we'll chew the fat
    If I forget to put the seat up I can put up with her crap
    Let her lash out and crack the whip but not in bed I don't play rough
    No I can't be tied down with a girl that wants me tied up
    Just independent like NOFX, smart like Janeane Garafolo
    She'd use big words to make fun of me so that I would never know
    Bestow upon me all her wisdom of the Dewey Decimal System gee
    You know what I really want in a girl? Me!

    I need to find a new vagina
    Any kind of new vagina
    It's hard to rhyme a word like vagina
    Kevin Klein? Kind of South Carolina

    Vagina VAGINA VAGINA!!

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    Props to BHG for this lovely masterpiece (3.14)!
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  22. It's because they're totally useless! on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    What kind of sick fucks are women that they want us to demonstrate affection by ripping the sex organs off of plants and presenting them as gifts? I mean, think about it...

    Their appreciation of your gift is inversely proportional to the gift's usefulness... They think "Awww it's so sweet that he blew 80 bucks on something so practically useless and will die and disappear forever after a few days!"

  23. Re:Logging? on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    would be fairly easy... see we have this thing these days.... it's called "fire" i have portable "fire creation device". commonly called a "lighter"

    If you're going through all the trouble to get physical access to the room to burn the logs, why bother hacking in the first place? Just pick up the computer and walk out the door with it! wheeee

  24. Correction! on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    I DID finally get it to work (well, NOT work I guess). You have to start the message with "begin ", begin followed by TWO spaces. That wasn't made clear in the original story, but luckily someone posted the MS Knowledge Base Article number (Q265230) which gave that small detail. It really is a stupid bug...

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  25. This bug does not exist in OE 5 (AFAICT) on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    I just tried 3 test messages with varying amounts of text, and none of them were displayed incorrectly in Outlook Express 5 (5.50.4522.1200). And I don't know what he's talking about, about not being able to view the 'message source' either.

    Has anyone actually tested this and seen it work as reported? Seems that, at the least, it is outdated (says that ALL versions have this bug), and at the most totally untrue...