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  1. Re:Incase of Slashdotting... on Kerberos: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    DESCRIPTION
    The Kerberos system authenticates individual users in a network environment. After authenticating your-elf to Kerberos, you can use network utilities such as rlogin, rcp, and rsh without having to present passwords to remote hosts and without having to bother with .rhosts files. Note that these utilities will work without passwords only if the remote machines you deal with support the Kerberos system.


    Oh, good. My-elf always needs convenient authentication.

  2. Re:Each creature has several 'brains' on Does the Octopus Hold the Key To Robot Design? · · Score: 1

    That was absolutely brilliant. It took me a while to get it (just about my operational definition for brilliance). Thanks!

  3. Re:True Story: on Does the Octopus Hold the Key To Robot Design? · · Score: 1

    Also octopus only live a year so they aren't the best pets if you grow attached.

    I think the attachment bit is up to the octopus... Unless you're a total sucker, of course.

  4. Re:Each creature has several 'brains' on Does the Octopus Hold the Key To Robot Design? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but does ATI release linux drivers for those tentacles? Nooooooooo.

  5. Please tell me it was on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed · · Score: 1

    Richard Simmons!

  6. Re:You IDIOT! on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Perl is the language of the future.

    -- Leonard Cohen
    ...and it always will be?

  7. Re:I Use Stone Tablets on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lot was really pissed when he wife was turned into a pillar of salt for undocumented sins.

    They were documented in the EULA, tablet 251, paragraph 2, subparagraphs 2-7. Also see Appendix of Glyphs.

  8. Re:High-energy particle "wind" on First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads · · Score: 2, Funny

    although there is a lot of particle activity from the Sun, it is mostly absorbed and bent in to the shape of the Van Halen radiation belt.

    Hehehe. Hot for teacher, are we? Will they see this over Panama? Jump for joy, if they do?

  9. Re:No country will allow that, except for fed use on First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads · · Score: 1

    Not a lot of airliners flying over the South Pole.

  10. Re:Help on Robots that Lust and Reproduce · · Score: 1

    Brilliant :)

    Kick him in the stainless-steel nads.

  11. Re:Of course they don't know, we don't allow them on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Where "fun", of course, is replaced with "run". Hopefully the slashdot editors will let that mistake slip through!

  12. Re:Of course they don't know, we don't allow them on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    [...]the students just left an entire page blank as a protest.

    Excellent. You could also have fun a Firefox ad. :)

  13. Obviously, it's because... on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    ... in its original form, it was FRIST AMDENDMENT!

  14. Pledge of Allegiance? on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many students understand the Pledge of Allegiance? They're swearing allegiance to a republic about which they understand very, very little, and do it gladly, because it's the Done Thing.
    People shouldn't be pressured to say the thing until they're 18, at least, and have some inkling of what's going on. They shouldn't be *pressured* at all, in fact.

    I was so resentful of having to say it when I was a kid (and only realized this in 6th grade), that I was consistently the only one NOT to stand for it in high school and beyond. One gets some strange evil eyes when you don't do the Done Thing.

  15. SCO's take? on The Hundred-Buck PC · · Score: 1

    Great, so if these run linux, every user will have to shell out a grand total of $799.

  16. The secretaries here have been baffled... on The Future Is Open: The OpenDocument Format · · Score: 1

    ...but it actually is seeming to work (after weeks). Try this as your signature file:

    Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments. html

  17. Re:Talking to yourself again? on The Future Is Open: The OpenDocument Format · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, deep down, we are all Daniel Carrera on the inside!

    I don't think that name means what you think it means. http://www.asiacarrera.com/ ;)

  18. Re:Not true. Move on. on The Future Is Open: The OpenDocument Format · · Score: 5, Insightful

    most people don't have problems opening Word docs that are not the latest version, this is simply an anecdote perpetuated by people that don't like Microsoft.

    Great. But the point is that no one, if the program were committed to being more compatible with past versions, should have problems. I have problems opening Word docs in several versions, whether they were created on older versions or on the newest ones. And many people I know do, too.
    I don't care if 70% of people who use Office haven't had compatibility problems. I DO care that at least half of the people I work with do or have had problems with it. When you say "discounted 'stories'", I take some offense, because those stories should NOT be discounted, and they aren't apocryphal -- many are true!
    There are rarely problems with postcript files or .pdfs, and they look much better. There are NEVER any problems with .rtfs, or with plain .txt documents, and even though these don't have the bells and whistles of many Word formats, they're always readable, and always editable.
    There's a higher standard than Word, and there has been for a long, long time.

    I don't hate Microsoft, but their compatibility issues are ridiculous.

  19. Re:foiled? on Defeating XP SP2 Heap Protection · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, all. I must've been thoroughly drunk when I wrote that crap about standards on here.

  20. foiled? on Defeating XP SP2 Heap Protection · · Score: 3, Funny

    CNET reports that SP2 has been foiled.

    Shouldn't that read tin-foiled? C'mon, slashdot, standards?

  21. Re:Semantic meaning? on Deriving Semantic Meaning From Google Results · · Score: 1

    Maybe Google are also working on emotional search engines and the article poster doesn't want us getting confused with that.

    I don't understand your meaning, and I'm really happy about it! ;)

  22. Re:Learn online for free on The CSS Anthology · · Score: 1

    Not sure who would plonk down good money when so many thorough tutorials are online.

    I would. I keep going through monitors like crazy. IT says I'm not supposed to underline things with ballpoint on the screens themselves. Anyone have some soft #1 pencils they can send me?

  23. Re:I was assimulated by Microsoft.. on Microsoft in 2008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was assimulated by Microsoft..

    Not completely, it seems. They forgot to install the spellchecker.


    True. But the ass-emulator seems to be working fine!

  24. Re:Was introducting Bush/WMDs really necessary? on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1

    How gauche

    Perhaps. But it's BSD compliant! :) http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/index .html

  25. Re:Help climateprediction.net! on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    I model for a living, and it's practically an impossibility to get a model to reproduce complex data that already exists, much less predict the future.

    Heidi Klum? Is that you?