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  1. Mirror of Galadriel on A Return Of The King Review · · Score: 1

    Then what did Frodo see in Galadriel's mirror? I don't believe that they would have shot these scenes for just 10 seconds of screen time in FotR.

  2. Re:This is a good thing! on Microsoft to Launch MSN Music Service in 2004 · · Score: 1

    since they don't have a hardware player

    yet. but how long till MS buys Rio/SonicBlue/Creative/any of 25 other mp3 player distributors.

  3. No, no, no, no on Instant Messaging Giveaway · · Score: 1

    you didn't even reverse the order.
    In Soviet Russia, /you/ pay /Microsoft/ ...oh, wait

  4. Article Timing / Previous Story on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    P2P hogs up to 60% of bandwidth...by the way, you can download the matrix here, here, and here.

    funny

  5. Not according to the poll on Sudden Death Experience · · Score: 1

    Not according to the latest poll. Now whether the poll is accurate is a whole nother issue.

  6. Half-Life Skills on Intel combines Robots, WLANs, and Linux · · Score: 1

    Finally we'll be able to apply our escape techniques in a real life nuclear disaster!

  7. Re:damn...... on The Next Level of X-Box Modding · · Score: 1

    I won't be impressed until someone gets apache (linux) running on their x-box with SSI so that we can have the hack x-box xbit hack

  8. Captain Monterrey Jack -- Re:Edison was a jerk on Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage · · Score: 1

    Edison may have invented the lightbulb, but he was a bastard to his wife and kids!

  9. Re:Clone Aid? on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 1

    Or Bob Geldof, Bono, and all their musician friends begging for money to support the clones

  10. No! MPAA/RIAA on University of Twente NOC Destroyed · · Score: 2, Funny

    It soon became one of the major hubs for peer-to-peer exchange programs like KaZaA

    DMCA enforcement in full effect

  11. Dr. Mephesto, take a note on Your Genome Scanned While You Wait · · Score: 2, Funny

    Braun, 46, is both jovial and German

    OMG, I didn't think that was possible! What will genetics bring us next?!?

  12. sakila = sa killa? on Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix · · Score: 1

    unintentional dig at MS SQL?

  13. Perl Crusade on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 2, Funny

    my little way, I'm sneakily helping people understand a bit more about the sort of people God likes.

    Thus it is God's own will that thou shalt program perl. Let us strike down the heathens who worship at the altar of (PHP|Python|Ruby)!
    or:
    dear lord,
    foreach $languser (@scriptinglanguages) {
    kill 1, $languser;
    }
    amen

  14. Re:Why NASA? on Slashback: Brainwaves, MPnothin', Telescopy · · Score: 1

    followed closely by mind+R and mind+RW, neither being mind-R/mind-RW compatible

  15. Re:Plug in your modem? on Broadband via Power Cables trials in Scotland · · Score: 1

    I plugged my modem into the wall, and all I got was magic smoke, and smelly ozone.

  16. Re:Transfer Issues on The Sex.Com Story Continues · · Score: 1

    Yes, and what's even worse is when Verisign buys a smaller registrar, and updates the domains registrar as verisign/netsol, but don't update their own database with the information. Two domains now I've tried to transfer that all whois utilities say are registered with netsol, but when you talk to netsol or try to get the account number, "there is no such domain in our records"

    arrrgh

  17. ...once it loads on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 1

    it's the fastest browser on earth. It also seems to make my other apps hiccup (like making winamp skip) when I minimize it, but I think that is more of a problem with W2K

  18. Re:Please explain the LISP code on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 1

    Sorry (damn < screwing up my post )
    Basically:
    unless the word's good weight and bad weight are .lt. 5 then find the word's average badness [(/ b nbad)] and it's average goodness [(/ g ngood)] and add them [(+ avg_good avg_bad)] (my edit).
    Then find it's normalized badness [(/ avg_bad +( avg_good avg_bad))] and that is the word's new "badness". Again, gurus, please correct me.

  19. Re:Please explain the LISP code on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    LISP is prefix so instead of a+b you'd have +(a b)
    IIRC in c this would be similar (LISP guru's please correct me):

    int g(char* word) {
    /* if word is in good hash, return weight,
    else return 0 */
    return 2*good_word_weight;
    }
    int b(char* word) {
    /* if word is in bad hash, return weight,
    else return 0 */
    return bad_word_weight;
    }

    int main() {
    if (g(word) + b(word)

  20. Body Filtering on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 1

    Of course, when filtering the bodies of messages, the easiest defeater is encoding the bodies of the messages. It's easy to block all messages which have "longer" within 1 or 2 words of "thicker" or "intense", but it's much harder to block SGkgVGhlcmUsDQogDQpUaG91Z2h0IHlvdSBtaWdodCB3YW50IH RvIHRha2Ug. Then you're back to blacklisting based on senders and domains and header information. Of course, this is for the ISP I work for, for personal mail I could just reject all encoded mails.

  21. Re:From the article on Boulevard of Broken .dreams · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the service is, the point is you're sitting on a /GOLDMINE/ Trebek!

  22. Keyword stuffing on Boulevard of Broken .dreams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    LOL. I'm the (former) dns master of ChristmasTree-ChristmasTree-ChristmasTree-Christma sTree.com, and our company specializes in search engine rankings, so let me tell you about keyword stuffing. Of course no one expects to type this domain in, but when it comes up 1 or 2 in $search_engine_of_choice, they just click the returned result. Then I'm the poor sap who also has to re-register said domains. (And you want to talk about niche markets? How about 2brsanibelislandfloridabeachfrontmidpricedvacation condo.com?)

  23. Emacs to VI on Switch Different · · Score: 1

    Ha! AOL!

    pinky pain, and load time (esp. on 33.6k dialup) were the main reasons I left emacs too.

  24. Retinopathy?? on Northwest Airlines Wants Eye-Scan Check-in · · Score: 1

    I've always had problems with biometrics. I am a diabetic, and have been for almost 20 years. One of the main complications of diabetes is retinopathy, ie. the clouding and overgrowth of the retina. So how do I explain to the security guards "Yes, that /was/ my retina two years ago, but I didn't take good enough care of myself." Or do I just get to get my metrics re-evaluated every couple of years?

  25. Re:Seems so long ago on Slackware 8.1 is Released · · Score: 1

    the machine was an IBM ps/note laptop with a 486, no cdrom, and 4 megs of ram. I had the Slack 3.0.0 available, and thought I'd worry about upgrading after I got something installed in the first place.