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  1. Re:So? on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Yeah seriously, I wiped Syfylis from my Tivo.. They can keep their ECW and stupid "haunting" show crap..

  2. pam_abl? on Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl

    The pam_abl module monitors failed authentication attempts and automatically blacklists those hosts (and accounts) that are responsible for large numbers of failed attempts. Once a host is blacklisted it is guaranteed to fail authentication even if the correct credentials are provided.

    Blacklisting is triggered when the number of failed authentication attempts in a particular period of time exceeds a predefined limit. Hosts which stop attempting to authenticate will, after a period of time, be un-blacklisted.

  3. Re:Not a great man on Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies at 95 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The so called green revolution if anything had no net impact on global hunger and starvation as it simply does not address the core cause: overpopulation.

    OK then, kill yourself, do your bitch Gaia a favor.

    Oh, did you mean just poor brown short people should die/never be born then?

  4. Re:Public Enemy #1 on Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies at 95 · · Score: 3, Insightful
  5. And Kent? on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop playing with yourself!!

  6. Can Chrome do 'send link' or 'send email' yet? on Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Kind of silly to be missing this feature...

  7. Re:Poetic Justice on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 1

    The amount of doublethink that goes on in rightwingers brains simply astonishes me.

    Errr.. Dissent is patriotic? Not according to pinkos in power...

    Just ask Cindy Sheehan..

    They're ALL soaking in hypocrisy, and if you don't see that or can't bring yourself to recognize that, then you're part of the problem.

  8. a/s/l? on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Diesel and window defogging on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    All I can say is, my Benz has rarely had a problem defrosting in cold AMs, even after having to brush half-a-foot of snow and ice off of it.

    Starting in extreme cold is problematic at times, particularly if you haven't run it for a few days, but plugging in the block heater helps with that immensely.

    And yeah, diesels need to move to warm up the motor significantly, since they don't run at a fixed stoichometric ratio, they can idle _very_ leanly (40- to 60-1 air/fuel ratio vs gasoline fixed around 14.7-1), particularly the turbos (which all modern diesel cars/truck are these days).

    http://www.dieselgiant.com/mercedesaldaboostsystemservi.htm
    (it's the ALDA that will add fuel as turbo boost and/or altitude increases, though modern electronically-controlled diesel engines probably don't have a mechanical ALDA anymore..)

  10. NSA, DOE, etc on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend:
    * National Cryptograpy Museum, Ft. Meade MD
    * Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, NV
    * Trinity test site (only open to the public like 2x a year, google it)

    IIRC there's also interesting NASA-related stuff in FL and Huntsville, AL... Not sure how much "modern ruins" gear is still left lying around near Cape Kennedy though..

  11. No! No! No!!! on Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org · · Score: 1

    I hate that fucking ribbon, therefore it must die.

    TIA.

  12. Didn't Britain already try this? on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1
  13. Re:So we're copying the Americans? on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1

    I've seen a few Cops episodes where they had actually installed cameras in people's houses to stop domestic violence, and potential child abuse.

    Err, if a frightened wife chooses to put a camera in her home, that's an entirely different situation..

    Nope, your nation still vies with North Korea at the top of the league tables for privacy violation by the government. Congratulations!

  14. Zihuatanejo on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 1

    Dude is off building boats with Andy and Red...

  15. Rocky's Boots? on Making a Game of Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/

    I always wondered if/when they'd ever have a robotic peripheral that would link in (via rs232 I suppose) and would carry your logic creations out of the computer?

  16. Re:Blue collar??? on Cloud-Sourcing's Long-Term Impact On IT Careers · · Score: 1

    Kenny?!!?!

  17. Re:so, if Apple... on POWER7 To Ship In First Half of 2010 · · Score: 1

    Ah so?

    (yeah yeah, short lived system, but at least it had a funny advertisement IIRC...)

  18. What a bunch of crap. on Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance · · Score: 1

    Opensource _enables_ cloud computing!

    Or are people really itching to spend money on Microsoft Cloud Server Enterprise Edition?

    Can CIOs really be that stupid?

    (that was a rhetorical question, you...)

  19. Re:Blu-ray? on BD+ Resealed Once Again · · Score: 1

    Oh, BTW, HDDVD doesn't have nonskippable intros, region coding, or BD+.. AACS hasn't been "improved", so existing cracking techniques work just fine on them. The only problem with HD cracks on Linux is dealing with the audio codecs, and IIRC there is eac3 (dolby digital plus) support in ffmpeg and mplayer these days?

    BTW, picked up the Matrix trilogy on HD for about $12 + shipping the other day.. It's nice to be able to choose...

  20. Re:The Grotesquely Ugly Truth on The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran · · Score: 1

    BTW, Sorry about Mossadegh, seemed like a good idea at the time, and in the grand scheme of things, would having gone commie have been any better?

    (not like it matters, it all goes back to the Kaiser promoting Jihad in the British territories and Revolution amongst the allied powers.. Revolution came moderately close to succeeding in Britain and France, and it _did_ succeed in Russia, and the 20th century was a charnel house because of it..)

  21. Meh. on SLI On Life Support For the AMD Platform · · Score: 1

    Not liking NVIDIA's stupidity lately with the mobile chipsets and hemming/hawing/lying, but they STILL have better binary drivers than ATI.

    Here's a question for ATI fans: why can't I drive 2 separate monitors with different resolutions in whatever ATI's xinerama equivalent is? TwinView can handle that. Last time I tried with the ubuntu binary driver install, it put pillarboxes on my 1920x1080 screen to match res with the 1600x1200 screen, and that's just wee-t0dd-ed. The windows 7 catalyst driver seemed to have no problem with that configuration.

    The opensource driver for ATI also seems to handle it OK, but I get ridiculous pointer tearing all the time.

    (been NVIDIA for like 10 years until this last card, a Sapphire 4870 1GB.. Maybe when Hackintosh Snow Leopard comes out I can put it on my box..)

  22. Hope they're better than the movies.... on Comedy Central Confirms 26 New Futurama Episodes · · Score: 1

    Having seen at least 2 of the movies (Bender's Big Score and the Beast with a Billion Backs), I'd say that any 4 random classic Futurama episodes put together gave me more laughs and pleasure than the movies did. Perhaps Futurama doesn't scale, so I've got hopes that these eps represent a return to classic form...

  23. Re:Developers/Engineers are the WORST! on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    Oh they're worse than that. Developers create Features, and they make Changes that Break Systems. They're usually piss-poor at Documentation or Process, and like to do shit like poke values into running code with gdb, but they hate being woken up at 2am on a sunday to do it because their code is crap and they can't be bothered to write proper docs.

    Admins are and should necessarily be quite Leery of Changes, because Stability is what they're ranked on. Developers' Shitty Code can make Admins look bad to Management, who are often too stupid to understand that the Admin is merely the Messenger slash Medic when that code breaks.

    In the best environments, with Responsible Persons in both disciplines, that tension is positive, creative, synergistic. Those environments are lamentably Thin on the Ground.

  24. Dead for tax reasons on Don't Panic, It's Towel Day! · · Score: 1

    I still think that DNA is only dead for tax reasons, and as soon as the mess in California is sorted, he'll be back..

    (might have to wait a while :p)

  25. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... on Don't Panic, It's Towel Day! · · Score: 1

    So many arabs, so little ammunition...