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  1. Re:Where Does Europe Fit In This? on East vs. West: Culture and Distributed Development · · Score: 1

    +1, Amen Brother.

  2. Re:Just Great on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about Microsoft Dead Nigger Moving and Storage?

  3. Re:Anything that helps... on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1

    "The plot of all war movies is the same: the viewer survives"
    -- Jay Hyams, War Movies

  4. Re:Divide et impera on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    You wrote ...nobody likes monoculture...

    I do.
    I'm a developer.Know what a monoculture offers developers?
    An API.

  5. Re:And how does this help you recover old data? on Review of the Mirra Home Backup System · · Score: 1

    Re Iron Mountain / Arcus / whatever they call themselves these days:
    Fuck them with rusty jackhandles.
    I wasted months of my life dealing with those shitheads.
    How hard is it to pick a return set in order?
    Refiling is a lot easier when the tapes aren't strewn throughout 14 carts.

  6. Re:Backups today on Review of the Mirra Home Backup System · · Score: 1

    Fireproof safes prevent combustion, numbnuts.
    Your diamonds will shatter, your gold will melt, and your backups will warp.

  7. Re:Whinging on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    I just downloaded GoA and read the first 18 pages.
    It promises to be fascinating.
    Thank you for mentioning it.
    (No, I'm not the AC)

  8. Re:MySQL Suitability for,,, stuff. on MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released · · Score: 1

    You'd be wrong.

  9. Re:If every OS maker settled on a standard... on ArsTechnica Explains O(1) Scheduler · · Score: 1

    You wrote ...we could have a standardized hardware scheduler chip...there's no truly 'optimum' scheduler for all systems and user loads...

    Gosh, maybe the diversity of optimum schedulers prevents standardization?
    Could it be?

  10. Re:Shut up US on Giant International Fusion Reactor Draws Nearer · · Score: 1

    Hrm.
    M-16's fire .223 ammunition, so I can see where you'd have come up with .222, but M-14s (obsolete since 1962) fire .308, so I'm guessing you got confused when inventing this accusation.

  11. Re:Oh brother. on Build Your Own NOC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Easily.

    Duh.

  12. Re:master/slave/niggardly on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Excellent "HIC" moment!
    The slums got so much soul.

  13. Re:Cd's as a music archive: on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: 1
    Hey, there's someone who needs your help:
    Hello,

    I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

    I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

    In terms of payment:
    I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit. Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Sunday July 27th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Stand Time. If you miss this timeframe please email me.

    42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above sea level.

    Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now. There is a good chance that sombody will try to redirect the signal. The unit must be teleported directly in a way that nobody will be able to interfere with the transference.

    After unit has been sent please email me at:
    info@federalfundingprogram.com with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

    Thank You

  14. Re:Microsoft on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, that happened a long time ago.
    In fact, that's what drew my eye to your post.

    See you again someday soon.

  15. Re:Microsoft on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 0, Troll

    Few are.
    Nice to see you concede.

  16. Re:Ebay-style attacks on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'll make you a bet.
    You can name the stakes, but make them reasonable.

    I'm a lousy programmer.
    I've done some HTML, ASP, SQL, FoxPro, Visual Basic, C++, PHP, regex, etc. code.
    It's all business logic / crappy web page / etc. quality.

    I bet that I can have a patch rolled into the Linux kernel within 18 months.
    It may not be glamorous, but it will be part of Linus's grand creation.
    Interested?
    Respond and we'll take this offline.

  17. Re:guide to getting rid of slashdot ads on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    how do you think they pay for the bandwidth, electricity, equipment, backup tapes, diskspace and maintenance labour you're useing on their server?

    Felching schoolteachers?

  18. Re:Microsoft on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but you're an idiot.
    Not that you don't have a point.

  19. Re:Safe: Gnucleus, WinMX, eMule on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 1

    Why should I believe that?

  20. Re:RealOne on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 1

    That's because the typical Apple customer's point-of-entry is already in use.

  21. Re:OpenOffice on Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues · · Score: 1

    consider the extreme case of inventing a pressurised fountain pen for use in zero-g vs. using a chinagraph pencil

    Yeah.
    Now consider that you've used a horribly flawed analogy and that the first-pass evaluation might miss a deeper issue.

  22. Re:*APPLAUSE* on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Now, I've spent quite a bit of time on 35 and I never saw *any* fucking.
    Maybe it was all down in South Texas.

  23. Re:Yes, you probably can! on The Incredible Shrinking Recording Studio · · Score: 1

    Ever heard the Three 6 Mafia's somewhat hit Sippin on Some Syrup?
    It was pretty big in Memphis a few years ago.

  24. Re:Funny, we used to call it "The Net of 1,000 Lie on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Yeah.
    But it costs money.
    ProMiles is a mapping package used by the trucking industry - if you're willing to use COM objects you can do all sorts of wonderful things.

  25. Re:Locked Doors on How Were You Fired? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree.
    I was "let go" a year and a half ago.
    I packed my things, and as I was leaving I remembered that half of the RAM in my workstation was mine - I'd installed it after an upgrade at home.
    The network admin knew this, as I'd cleared it with him and done the install in his workshop, but he hadn't come in yet.
    I mentioned it to my escort and got a noncommital grunt.
    I was peeved, but not much, and I let it go.

    Good thing, because eight months later I got a call from the same company - they needed someone to take over their core program and my name had come up.
    Now I'm back, making twice the money, and because of the wording of our agreement I own every LOC I produce.
    That didn't seem like a big deal (to either party) when I took the job, but now I'm rewriting the entire application.

    Don't burn bridges when you can bomb cities.