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  1. Re:Extend the character set? on Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    Except for all the code that polishes user input with the "upper()" function... :/

  2. Re:Just doesn't sound like Google to me... on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 1

    They claim that he illegally took the code the he had written for the company -- which he co-founded -- with him when he joined Google and that Buyukkokten promised Affinity Engines that he wouldn't develop a competing social network service for Google.

    It's just from the original post, but I'd assume he signed *something* at Affinity.

  3. Re:Working mirrors on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, twas posted as "Halo-", but if you'd like I can still call you a whore.

  4. Re:Developing for a prototype on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    I wish this could be modded to higher than +5.. Because it's 200% true. Having friends who leave college as programmers, and myself having been working in the programming field since highschool.. I can certainly see differences in the way things are written, designed, and implemented.

  5. Talk about waste-management... on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between this and using a task bar? I mean, why waste the CPU to tilt a window?

    Probably still has issues with true-window-transparency.. ;)

  6. Re:These aren't the rocket's I used to play with on Rocket Hobbyists Get Blown Away by Regulations · · Score: 1

    When a city has a population of 2 people per square foot, "accuracy" doesn't really matter...

  7. Re:id is the only reason I buy new computers on Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    How about donating the old computers your wife says are making noise to charity?

  8. Extra dimensions don't come free, folks! on DVD Player Displays 2D Movies in 3D · · Score: 4, Funny

    This "extra dimension" must be copywritten; I only paid for two. What should I do about this? Call my lawyer? Oh dear. :(

  9. Re:Taking cues from Microsoft on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1

    You're right. When they start outsourcing everything, they're that much closer to India.

  10. Re:Scope of the subpoena on FSF Subpoenaed by SCO · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's bad I named my first born "GPL McGNU", huh? I guess his SSN will be flung around now...

  11. Re:Some of the proposed game titles. on Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP Launched · · Score: 1
    • Steak Hunter 3000 (Sponsored by A1/Heinz-Brands)

  12. Re:Interesting on Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There we go. Set this up to query, instead of a text file, slashdot's rss feed. With every ping response, it returns the latest news headlines.

  13. This is so 1995 on Build Your Own Electronic Key Card Lock · · Score: 1

    Popular Electronics had a very very similar article. Punched out phone cards.. all of that stuff.. only they had used old breadboard. Yum!

  14. Much better removal tool.. on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 2, Funny

    fdisk
    format
    install FreeBSD or keep your copy of Winders up to date. :)

  15. Re:Exploits et al., on Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right, only now the webpage sucks because it's black and white.. ;)

  16. Re:Or they made a mistake on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the programmers nightmare when he has to write financial reports against said database and code to ignore the "fake" records..

    Talk about spec changes and scope creep..

  17. Re:OK, on Programming Web Services with Perl · · Score: 0

    I use SOAP::Lite all the time for production products, and processes.

    And they're all also quering a RDBMS.. Where's the problem you speak of? You're just lagging behind a bit, it's ok.

  18. Re:could be just what we need... on SETI@Home 2nd Look at Possible Hits · · Score: 1

    and Jesus too!

  19. Maybe this will lead too.. on Playstation 3 Gathering Components · · Score: 1

    XXX Box? Where you can only play BMXXX.. fiesty competition..

    But in all honesty, if the price of the PS2 stays at 199, this thing (when it comes out in 5 years, after Everquest: the next expansion, Everquest 2, and Everquest for your bathroom) will probably be 400ish. I'll stick with the PS++.

  20. Salaried people do *not* work overtime. on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 1

    Salaried people do -not- work overtime, as salaried people have no definition of "overtime". They are salaried for a reason.

    Hourly people, otoh, work overtime. Just a little clarity as I often hear salaried so-and-so complaining about all the OT he works. You never recieve OT pay in your paycheck, therefore you are no an employee capable of working "overtime", and "I worked XXX hundred hours of OT" should not be used as an argument. The thought being, if you are salaried, you should be compensated more week-to-week based on 40/32/whatever hours, versus somebody who works by the hour and is capable of working an 80 hour week and getting paid for 100 hours... and so on.

  21. Re:Hospital Systems on Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch · · Score: 1

    Mod the parent up, it makes more sense then the rest of most of these posts. Hospital systems especially. Especially when they are non-profit, etc, they have no excuse to not have the network needed to keep things up.. Hell, I've taken our sybase machines out with a really really bad accidental query.. but, I was using a test system, that was basically an ad hoc machine. It's what it's for.

  22. Banners on What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Release it to the world free, the only way people make any money these days is with pop-up windows anyway..

    So, release it on your .com and have it hidden inbetween gobs of banners. ;)

  23. Re:I just had to ask on Talk To an Astute IT Industry Observer · · Score: 1

    You mean Pico, right? :)

  24. Re:Is there time for negative reviews? on ChronoSpace · · Score: 1

    I like your idea, but you're forgetting about the rating on the top of the review. If you don't like reading bad reviews, then skip it. I like reading them because it helps with the impule buys (see comments below from others).

    Maybe /. needs a filter on reviews? "I don't want to see any reviews under 3" or something.

  25. Re:Moment of silence from rhetoric on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 1

    Things have been out of hand since caveman A decided he'd sleep in Caveman B's .. umm .. cave. It's Human nature I suppose. Well, maybe Human nature when the Humans have an inflated sense of power. That's all countries. The Earth is the sandbox of the children that decide what / who is right for all.