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  1. Re:Check your history... on Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands · · Score: 1

    we pronounced SQL

    who's this "we", white man?

  2. Re:A much bigger problem on Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler · · Score: 1

    I'm not a Green Peace lovin' (I hate 'em), tree hugging, nut job;

    nope, you're just a fool - d'ya think anyone else is talking for you?

  3. it's the perks, actually on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1
    but my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors

    Food und Drink, mostly

  4. What would Bruce do? on Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors · · Score: 1

    "No one interested in cyber safety would condone the leaking of this list." (Senator Conroy)

  5. Re:The Grand Tube Experiment on Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters · · Score: 3, Funny

    The trial is expected to use a blacklist of 10,000 banned Web pages,

    I heard that this list was compiled from the proxy logs at Parliament House.

  6. easy! on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1
    My current gambit is something like 'IT is seen as a young man's game. My next applicant after you is 23 years old. What do you know that he doesn't?'

    I know that he doesn't know that he doesn't know anything!

  7. netcat on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1


    NC(1)
    NAME
                  nc - TCP/IP swiss army knife
    SYNOPSIS
                  nc [-options] hostname port[s] [ports] ...
                  nc -l -p port [-options] [hostname] [port]
    DESCRIPTION
                  netcat is a simple unix utility which reads and writes data across network
                  connections, using TCP or UDP protocol.

  8. Re:Why not Python? on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    sings:

    I'd rather be a camel than a snake
    Yes I would
    If I only could...

  9. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    when we have something solid and legitimate to complain about.

    I wish to complain about your incisive and thorough investigation of the facts - this is /. don't y'know.

  10. Re:No, he's talking about replacing TCP/IP. on Net Neutrality vs. Technical Reality · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that what Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) was supposed to address?
    Yep, until they discovered that the porn industry already had dibs on that acronym!

  11. error in summary on Google Releases Desktop Gadgets For Linux · · Score: 1

    >> "Gadget support is not just a single feature, but rather an entire platform for USELESS miniature applications."

    Fixed that for ya!

  12. Follow the money... on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... from the lenders to the credit-ratings agencies.

    Yes folks, it was the purveyors of the toxic-waste that *purchased* the ratings rather than the consumers - so naturally the ratings were good, bug or no bug.

    There were other lesser known agencies at the time rating the same shite at 4 points lower, but then they were rating it for buyers, not sellers.

    See here for more.

  13. Re:Pacifism on DVD Porn Viruses Ravage US Soldiers' Computers · · Score: 1

    when someone puts military and gun together, they don't think about a nozzle that ejects a hot, sticky substance WHAT!?!?!?!

    have you never heard of the three-hundred-forty-four-millimeter Lepage glue gun that can stick together, in the air, entire formations of bombers? (Catch-22)

  14. Re:The better question is: should they? on Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Should tardigrades steal tarte-tatin from the middle-eight of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird?

    Fuck no! Those fuckin' tardigrades - I'll give them fucken tarte-tatin if I ever catch 'em!!

  15. Re:Low memory requirements from ms... on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 1

    256 Mb is pretty much all one needs for most tasks. Even EMACS

    you're quite off the mark there - emacs only requires 8Mb - EightMegsAndConstantlySwapping ;->

  16. Re:They're out there, but scarce.... on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 1

    first rule of leet programmers - they never acknowledge they're leet.

    bzzzzzt thanks for playing

    BTW your UID is waaaaaaaay to high for you to be anywhere close to elite ;->

  17. Re:PostScript on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Don, for putting all these johnny-come-latelys into perspective!

    And a big fuck-you to IBM, HP, et al, for forcing X onto us 'coz they were scared Sun would repeat the success of NFS with NeWS.

  18. Re:Skipping the blogodreck, here's the real info on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 1

    You can look at random samples from the training set for amusement.

    filtered already!

    Sorry guys, slashdot + mysql = tears. Randomized stupidity temporarily disabled until the load lightens up a touch.

  19. Re:Better Off. on The Fermi Paradox is Back · · Score: 1

    you're bang on the money there - who would want to travel 4+ light-years just to end up on the menu!

  20. Re:A step in the right direction. on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1
    Surfing the comments at level 5 means I miss most of the gems like this:

    Except that kind of reasoning is the job of legislators, not judges. Like many judges, he has forgotten his role and taken the job of dictator for life.
    I'd like to refer you to this cartoon and point out that you, sir, are a mollusc and should not be using the internet.
  21. Re:Summary? on Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace · · Score: 1
    >Here is all the data I need:
    > the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines.

    so you're quite happy to believe the pollies clutching their brown paper bags EVEN THOUGH a study has indicated that it isn't safe AND Monsanto knew and lied about it?

    your naivety is quaint - and possibly fatal.

  22. Re:A *gasp* COMPUTER Was Involved! on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    and don't forget, not only is our head up our own arse, it's also up America's arse!

  23. Re:Fact and Fiction on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    Scare stories like this one just undermine the work being done by thoughtful people.

    there are no thoughtful people in Howard's gummint - he purged all those capable of independent thought - the Liberal party is now just a "conga line of suck-holes"

  24. Re:random current cmd gripes on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    if you gonna gripe about about cmd you missed the bone-headed select policy: what fscking moron thought it a good idea to have a rectangular select policy instead of line oriented one. sheesh. i don't think you could find a big enough clue stick to hit him/her/it with.