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  1. Re:Good. on Attachmate Fires Mono Developers · · Score: 1

    It seems Microsoft can't do anything right!

    Yeah it's as though a thirty-year history of duplicitous business practices and hostility to standards makes people unwilling to trust them. Go fig.

  2. Re:Infinite harddrive! on Magical Chinese Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    How do you dispose of an infinite monkey array after you upgrade anyway? Can you just drop them off at Best Buy's recycling kiosk? And if so, did you video tape it?

  3. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    Well Congress has to wipe their asses on something.

  4. Re:Sadly, I still find it ugly! on GNOME 3 Released · · Score: 2

    Hopefully sooner than later considering they took out even the ability to change the color scheme.

  5. Re:Hasn't MS been chasing this fad for ~10 Years? on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 1

    Oh god longer than that even. Microsoft has been trying to get people to buy tablets with Windows on them since before they even had a product. In the early 90's GO developed an OS for tablet PCs called PenPoint, which Microsoft promptly killed by announcing that Real Soon Now you'd be able to get Pen Windows instead and it would be much better. After almost two decades all they have to show for it is an announcement that you don't need to buy the new iPad because Real Soon Now you'll be able to see a demo of the new Windows 8 tablet and it will be much better. It's kind of sad really.

  6. Re:USE BIND VARIABLES on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 1

    I'll give you guys the benefit of the doubt and accept at face value the claim that you always use Replace and never forget even for numbers and values you're totally sure you didn't get from the client. You are still vulnerable.

    Even if you fixed that, or tested for it and found that the way your database and web servers are configured that you aren't vulnerable, why in God's name would you just assume that there's not still some other attack vector you don't know about? On behalf of everyone whose credit card information you may be storing, please use bind variables!

  7. Re:It's a good decision on ICANN Approves .XXX · · Score: 1

    Btw, could we have slashdot.xxx, where slashdot users can upload their nude pictures?

    No, we can't.

    You mean no we won't.

    It's not like it could be any more awful than idle.

  8. Re:works the other way, too on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    I'm curious to know just what sort of accident you're trying to stage there.

    (p.s. not a cop honest)

  9. Re:Museum Fight! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 2

    With turtles, all the way down!

    That's LOGO. Perl would be camels I think.

  10. Re:If You'd Rather Read the Article on The iPhone Serial Port Hack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looking at it a little closer, CW just plagiarized the entire thing photos and all, and added a paragraph here and there to make it look like the article was about how they built one using his design. Classy.

  11. If You'd Rather Read the Article on The iPhone Serial Port Hack · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you'd like to read the article instead of Computer World's stupid-ass slide show, it's at http://resolvehax.blogspot.com/2010/10/iphone-serial-port.html

  12. Re:More magic? on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    It's like they assume we're stupid, and that's the only thing we can understand.

    Or perhaps somebody in Apple marketing just asked an engineer about the new zero-button mouse they were working on. "Never attribute to malice" and all that.

  13. Re:Eh Sonny? on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1

    Yah, this sort of behavior should be called the Tarkin Effect, not the streisandeffect as currently tagged.

    Heh. Nice try Babs, but I'm afraid you're stuck with this one forever.

  14. Re:Cars??? on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    It would be difficult to fit a battery the size of a car into a car....

    That's why us forward-thinking Americans all bought huge trucks and SUVs.

  15. Re:For Earthbound, mebbe... on Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny you mention "love" because there's no women on the moon, or on that ridge in Antarctica, which is a major drawback of accepting either of those jobs.

    Aw, the solitude's not so bad. The guy you really gotta feel sorry for is the midget they crammed inside the Hubble to draw everything he saw and drop the pictures back to Earth, message-in-a-bottle style.

  16. Re:"file sharing" on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Do they plan to tax that too?

    Just for future reference, the answer to this question is always "yes".

  17. Re:No on Viability of Mobile Broadband For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    I'm almost certain that running a server would be against the ToS, and yes it is fairly easy to detect. Hmmm...incoming Port 80/443 traffic...

    Depending on the carrier you might not even be given the option of violating the ToS. I recently set up a file server as part of an "office in the cupboard" for an over-the-road driving team, which I planned to manage remotely via a Verizon EVDO modem. Unfortunately it turns out that Verizon maintains a firewall that prevented me from accessing the server over SSH. I wouldn't be surprised if the other carriers have similar setups.

  18. Re:A better question on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's no problem, since the bounce would go to the actual sender. I get so much spam from stupid MTA admins who bounce messages after they've accepted them, though. Seems to be qmail users more often than not for some reason.

  19. Re:A better question on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't. In the majority of cases you'll just end up forwarding your spam to whoever was unlucky enough to be listed as the sender. Never bounce a message after the sender has disconnected.

  20. Re:xp does the job well on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Then Microsoft will stop pushing all new copies of XP and accidentally invalidate all "genuine" XP keys.

    Can you provide a citation for that? Or is it just mindless BS spouted out by the "M$" haters?

    They won't do it this way. What they'll do is start writing software that depends on an API that isn't in XP. It's how they got me to upgrade from an otherwise perfectly serviceable copy of Windows 2000 to the decidedly-less-so Windows Vista.

  21. Re:Full Windows on ARM on OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

    C:\>where command.com
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com

    C:\>file c:\windows\system32\command.com
    c:\windows\system32\command.com; DOS executable (COM)

    C:\>

    That's Server 2003, which is the most recent version I've got handy. The assertion that there's some legacy code in Windows 7 somewhere is a reasonable one.

  22. Re:Star Trek/Lost Mix on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well maybe a leather clad Janeway, hmmm I seem to have gone off topic.

    *shudder* I think what you've gone off is the deep end.

  23. Re:Here we go again on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    True, although they do have a wide selection available for purchase.

  24. Re:bird strikes on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 1

    Do what I did and outsource their jobs to bats in some god-forsaken Eastern bloc hellhole. Oh, sure, the customers whine endlessly about the thick Romanian accent, and how they have to wait on hold until eleven at night before they get anyone, and how they've got rabies now, but that bunch of jerkoffs will find something to complain about regardless.

  25. Re:Channeling Jack Thompson... on Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth" · · Score: 1

    This proves that watching Star Trek makes a person violent!

    Well... there was Voyager...