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  1. Re:Wrong perspective on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ooh, this uses WMV? Sweet.

    Full-motion ad block? Mozilla Firebird.
    I don't need that mime association. It's better
    to just save my videos to disk for later viewing.

    What? This isn't about pr0n?

  2. How to not be fired while telling your boss off. on Sharing IT Problems with Executives? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Send out an email to your IT staff, avoiding the managers. Let them know that a box will be made available at some accessable point, where anonymously _typed_ papers can be dropped off.

    Encourage folks to not only write down the bad stuff, but write up good things as well. And always give examples and suggestions with the bad. But make sure that the examples focus on the issues, not specific people.

    Deliver the box to the VP/manager/PHB and tell him it was done this way to prevent personal bias influencing the issues.

  3. Re:wow... on Introducing The Dave/Dina Multimedia Distro · · Score: 1

    Why not just use the real url: http://www.whoisusman.com/stuff/davedina.jpg?

  4. Re:Apple ads? on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really? So you don't have a problem with being seen and marketed as person who will kiss people of the same sex?

    I've been in a couple indie films, a few commercials, and over 50 plays. Never once have I been asked to passionately kiss somebody of the same gender in a performance.

    Would I? Sure. I don't have a problem with it -- but then again, i'm not being marketed as a mans man, man about the town.

    But if I were -- my agent would probably advise me (and my director) to use a double.. :-)

  5. Re:KDE is not to be ignored on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    Sig humor. hahah.

    Yeah, uptime pr0n.

  6. Re:In Other News... on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Hey, I might actually wear a watch if it was manufactured by Bollocks.

    Eh, nevermind...

  7. Re:Chomsky and stuff on Linguistics Meets Linux: A Review of Morphix-NLP · · Score: 1

    hmm.

    (6doz+3) * (7.5score) =

    (6*12 +3) * (7.5 * 20) =
    (72 + 3) * (140 + 10) =
    75 * 150 =
    75 * 100 * 50 =
    7500 + 3750 = 11,250

    In my head.

    Use shortcuts, its a lot easier..

  8. Re:OS? on SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released · · Score: 1

    One of those old dialup-to-ethernet router in a box solutions that some company or other was tossing about like candy. Long out of business, of course.

    I'd think that a low-end shuttle system would work fine, but that is much more expensive, of course.

  9. Re:OS? on SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released · · Score: 1

    Wow. See, I picked up an old embedded PC-in-a-box.
    It's only a p-166, but for a firewall, that's plenty fast. I threw in an old 6-g laptop drive to keep heat and noise down.

    There's no video, no keyboard. Just a serial console, and 3 ethernet connections.

    One small fan, but it's nearly silent. I don't hear the box unless the house is absolutely still.

    I don't regularly reboot it -- and it's backed up to my main system via rsync, so even if the drive fails, it's pretty painless to restore to a new drive.

    Just like a router, except smaller, cheaper, faster, and more open.

  10. Re:Original Joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Third Base!

  11. Re:Closed Letter -- pedantic spell checking is fun on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ye == the. y is a rune, pronounced like 'th'

    'ye shalt' is then wrong. 'thou shalt'
    'readeth' is not a proper conjugation, simply use 'read'.

    'ye hearts' should be 'thy heart dost'

    'I am using ye' => 'I be using the'

    'hast thou hearest' => 'hast thou not heard'

    'Remindest' is an improper combining of dost. Drop the do, and add an apostrophe: Remind'st

    'ones'? just 'one' will do.

    Most humbly, I remain _thy_ servant...

  12. Re:Full text of the Yahoo! Message on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1

    Ooh, i've got a fanboy! Yay!

    Too bad you missed my Action Security commercial.
    I thought that was much more true to the artform.

  13. Re:Two Sun Theory? on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    I've heard three different versions:

    1) Jupiter is our supposed second-sun that just fizzled out.

    2) A second star was in orbit around our system, but some anomaly forced it out. (reference the 'captured' galaxy slowly being swallowed by our Milky Way)

    3) A 'dark' star is locked to us, beyond the orbit of Pluto.

  14. Re:Full text of the Yahoo! Message on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Somehow I got around this by specifying my primary email address as 'noemail@nodomain.no'

    It's never been an issue for me, thankfully..

  15. Re:'Entre' (between) 'Acte' (act) on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Whilst I never reply to trolling, I felt that it was worth my while.

    Use 'whilest' before a word beginning with a vowel.
    Use 'while' before words beginning without.

    --
    Don't call me pedantic, just don't call me.

  16. Re:Creative Ford Driving? on Suborbital Spaceflight Update · · Score: 1

    I also heard it as:
    Fix Or Repair Daily
    Failed On Race Day
    F'd Over, Rebuilt Dodge

  17. Re:UK? on Matrix Revolutions To Be Released On Imax · · Score: 1

    Well, there are a number of factors, but presumably the first is cost. Most movies don't have the initial budget to be able to distribute copies to every cinema around the world all at once. Not to mention all the time it would take to make that many copies, without any of them being leaked prematurely.

    Now, given the size of the Matrix phenomenon, is it any wonder that the Wach. Bros. franchise can afford to open at the same time (zero hour) at major sites around the world?

  18. Re:I don't know. on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1
    Google now says:
    News: Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? - Slashdot - 8 minutes ago
  19. Slashdot Add-on Story! (was: Re: I'm as stumped... on Telstar 4 is Down · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...then the shockwave hit the outer windows of the NOC, flexing the plexiglass far beyond it's nominal tolerances. Shattered pieces of plastic tore through the air were propelled by the immense sonic boom that shattered McMurray's eardrums. His screams of pain lasted mere milliseconds, as the outward flow of sound from his lungs was quickly overtaken by a wave of super-heated air that cascaded down his throat, cooking him thoroughly inside and out.

  20. Re:WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT NAME?!?! on Historic Linux File Archive Created · · Score: 1

    Apparantly somebody didn't do their fact checking, or read up on their Norse Mythology.

    Yggdrasil is the world tree, situated between heaven and hell.

    And I think my Ygg CD is from mar 92.
    I'll have to dig it out of the closet.

  21. Re:The reason I pulled you over... on New Dell Clickthrough Software License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Another item on your speed limit example is that you have actually already signed a contract: it's called your drivers license. Note that there are sections within the testing which verify your understanding and acceptance of the speed-limit laws.

    And since you signed and paid them, you've now accepted the contract, and have no legal recourse for ignoring the posted signs.

  22. Re:Next Week.. on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    because the syn attack creates packets with a random source address on your network.

    The syn packet is directed at 127.0.0.1, port 80.
    90+% of people don't have a webserver running on their machine, so an RST packet, source 127.0.0.1, destination of that random address on your network is sent.

    Presto, instant DOS against your own network. Fun for the whole family!

  23. Re:DCMA Anyone? on Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers · · Score: 1

    Nope. I run Mandrake 9.1, and happily play Enemy Territory, Quake [1-3], Doom, Half-Life (Wine), Tux Racer, and many other games, all without ever needing to boot up a copy of windows.

    And i'm happy!

  24. New, but better? on SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 Reviewed · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, I like Crossover 2.0, but i'm not sure that it's worth that hefty cost increase either...

  25. Re:Universal Service Fund on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    > This is even more ridiculous. Living in a rural area is a choice

    Wow. You are about the most ignorant person I think I've ever come across.

    Tell me how a indigenous person, living in a village of 25 people on the north-western coast of Alaska, who has no "job", feeds his family by hunting, fishing, trapping, and foraging; tell me how that person can suddenly "choose" to move to an urban environment?

    Not even bringing up the question of their job skills or finances, but what about their heritage and community? What happens to the community when 1/5 of the tribes' providors suddenly leaves?

    As a person who works for a telco providing service to these rural communities, I can tell you that they are __extremely__ grateful to have internet service -- which has only been available due to the USF. It has previously been cost prohibitive, and while there is still no profit to be made here, the rewards substantially outweight the losses.