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  1. Re:Gates Foundation? on Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's the typical path to fool people into thinking he's respectable. Worked like a charm for the criminal Robber Barons of the 19th century, and judging by your response, it's working like a charm for the corporate criminals of the 20th.

  2. Re:Security? on Obtaining Shell Access via AIM? · · Score: 2

    Have you considered that non-native English speakers might not know what "go ahead", and "see ya" mean in this context? Let me guess...no.

  3. Re:Yay Evil Monopoly Of Doom! on Tim Bray on Microsoft Office · · Score: 2, Troll

    They'll simply add "features" to XML, enabling a Microsoft extension of the standard. The new MSXML will by copyrighted by Microsoft.

  4. Re:About to be on Is Linux Used in Production Telephony? · · Score: 2

    You're compiling software on your production machines? How ghetto. In the real world, we compile software on our development boxes, package it, and deploy it to the production servers. A compiler on a production box...please.

  5. Re:WD40 on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 2

    Spraying oil to stop squeaky brake pads...man. Do people really think of this stuff?

  6. Re:And... on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Don't go down the dark path of DJB's nameserver. He has a well-established reputation for making his products non-compliant with internet standards. Plus, djbdns won't scale well for heavy use. I tried it.

  7. Re:Geeks Moving? on The Free State Project · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the prevailing job requirements for a first-level ISP tech support on dice.com and monster.com at the moment?

  8. Re:You disgust me... on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't wait until they pose nude, like Drew Barrymore, or the chick from Labyrinth.

  9. Turbo Pascal on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I seem to remember making some damn small Turbo Pascal .COM files. Under 4096 bytes, IIRC.

  10. Re:Hedonism? on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 2
    Hedonism -

    1. Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.
    2. Philosophy. The ethical doctrine holding that only what is pleasant or has pleasant consequences is intrinsically good.
    3. Psychology. The doctrine holding that behavior is motivated by the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
  11. Re:a fitting quote on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whoops, got my religious nut cases mixed up there. Thanks for the correction.

  12. Re:a fitting quote on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 1

    Missing step: be assassinated by an Islamic fanatic.

  13. Re:Armed Forces on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 2
    That's the Marine Corps. They're killers, all right, one step above cavemen. I wouldn't want to be one, but I'm glad they're out there for me.

    Seriously, in the Air Force, you'll never sleep anywhere but a bed. In the Navy you'll sleep in a very small bunk in a room with five other snorers, but you'll literally travel around the world. Rather like a youth hostel.

  14. Re:Teach English on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 2
    Haven't been abroad much, have we? "Looking American" means Brad Pitt, Alyssa Milano, Angelina Jolie. Everyone in the world knows that all Americans look like the cast of "Baywatch". What could be more exciting than being taught English by one of these people?

    As an aside, in bin Laden's latest communique, he declares war against the "European race" (Europe and America) in retaliation for their support of the "Jewish race" (Israel).

  15. Re:How fucking depressing on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well, there's a downside to it, as well. Hedonism is fine, but when you're pushing forty and you still haven't heeded the biological urge to reproduce, you'll feel regret. Besides, if you wait that long to have children, you'll be sixty by the time they get out of school. Hedonism inevitably leads to ennui. Friends move on. Passing yourself on to the next generation is the only way to achieve immortality.

    Of course, YMMV. I was lucky enough to have a generally positive family, who actually gets together on the holidays and vacations together once a year at grandpa's expense. I can understand how those who had crappy families would want to stay as far away from that experience as possible by immersion in pleasure-seeking.

  16. Re:Peace Corps on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 1

    I love the Dangerous Places guy. I love him twice as much since he got the American Taliban to confess on camera...otherwise Lindh would have gotten off scot-free instead of staring at the prison walls that he so richly deserves.

  17. Re:Surprised? on First US Camera/Phone · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I have noticed that here in Tokyo, there are phones that play a .WAV file for a ring tone. Some people set the ring tone to be the sound of a ringing telephone bell. Rather odd to hear...so long since I've heard a real bell activated by line current to mean "answer the telephone". It's all beeps and boops nowadays.

    My next dwelling will have a real Bell System telephone, one of the armored black ones.

  18. Re:New Type of Spying? on First US Camera/Phone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just put the phone inside an empty potato chip bag when not using it. I'm sure if there's enough demand, a stylish "secure cell phone case" will be sold by someone (probably the Sharper Image) at a ridiculous price. Of course, you could just turn it off, or remove the battery. That works too, but doesn't project that "I'm super cool because I bought a $79.95 object on a whim from an airline catalog" atmosphere.

  19. Yawn on First US Camera/Phone · · Score: 5, Informative
    Japan has had these things for a few years now. It's rather odd at first to see people pointing their cell phones at the buddhas, shrines, etc. It doesn't elicit the same reaction as when you see someone pointing a camera (politely get out of the way, don't step in front of a picture-taker when walking, etc).

    It's also very popular for enabling teenage girls to find men willing to pay to have sex with them. You know the leading users of this will use it for pornography, right?

  20. Re:How do Opera do it? on Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones · · Score: 2

    The Solaris version is IE 3. I don't think that's useful to anyone. As an add-on to Solaris users unused to the Windows world, MS gracefully added random crashes to its Solaris version. Regrettably, due to the unfortunate habit of Solaris' seperating browser and operating system functionality, the full experience of a system crash caused by IE was not availible, making IE for Solaris a wasted exercise.

  21. Re:Good work now ...... on Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones · · Score: 2

    It has problems with zoomed/reduced images, though. It won't redraw them correctly when going back and forth in history, or changing windows. You get black bars or cropped images. It's been a problem for a while now, and reporting it as a bug does no good (they use the old saw of "other priorities").

  22. Re:It never was an internet company... on The Sinking Ship that is AOL · · Score: 2
    How about allowing competition?

    If people didn't want to eat McDonald's food, they wouldn't pay to go there. Consider an elitist island with high property values who passed an ordinance banning AOL, and only allowing local ISPs to sell internet access. Isn't that rather anti-competitive?

  23. Re:Outsourcing is foolish on IT Trends In and Out of Downturn · · Score: 2
    Proletarians of all Lands, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!

    Steal what was stolen!

    All power to the councils!

    Let's open our way through the new century in the spirit of the victorious 'arduous march'!

    Glorify this year as a year of fresh onward march in the building of an economic power in the 21st century!

    I think they may have an opening for you at the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Committee to Support the Reunification of Korea, or perhaps the Peruvian National Association for the Study of Kimjongilism, or another organization for study of the juche idea.

  24. Re:Oh, should have defined... on IT Trends In and Out of Downturn · · Score: 2

    A businessman's goal is not to make profit, but maximize profits. Never forget this. An executive has an ethical obligation to his stockholders to deliver the largest possible profit, every quarter.

  25. Re:Overtake Japan? on CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins" · · Score: 2

    A very small number of text message users in the USA incur around 60% of the billing.