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  1. Re:This is interesting... on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    And cats also "play" with the prey to make sure it really is stunned (or dead)...because of the position of their eyes, they cannot see something directly below and in front of their mouth, so a grabbed--but alert/awake--prey can bite the cat as the cat prepared to eat it. This is especially common with cats catching and eating voles. It also explains why cats shake their prey (or first morsel of cat food) to break their necks. [this came from a reference book on cat behavior]

  2. Pick up chicks with lasers? on Laser Powered Virtual Display · · Score: 1
    Quote from site :

    Wicked Ultra - 30-40 mW
    More than enough power for most applications, this laser is perfect for those of us who desire the extra power. The beam produced by this laser will be very, very, very bright. This laser is strong enough to burn holes through black trash bags. You'll also be able to pick up beautiful women (or men) when they come up to ask you about your super powerful laser. Professional use only.Our Price - $259.00

    Burn holes in the trash bags of beautiful men or women, and get them to notice you! Yeah, right.

  3. Re:change to our type on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    You go in and press buttons and then hit "cast vote" and it goes "doo doo doo" and it gives me great satisfaction.

    Hey, that sounds more like an adult movie preview booth (or an Orgasmatron) than a voting machine...why can't we combine the two?
    Certainly more people would be coming to vote. (...ducks)

  4. Use a STICKY honeypot or tarpit that reports on Dealing with Intruders? · · Score: 1
    A sticky honeypot (a.k.a tarpit) can greatly slow down the scanners instead of giving them something supposedly useful (they think) that a "regular" honeypot would do. There's a LaBrea page on Source Forge.

    I ran a tarpit under OpenBSD at a large university to protect our subnet. Hardly any department's subnet was protected--fair game to any outside crackers/scanners (or inside zombies). We put LaBrea tarpit on the first (x.x.x.1) address so all scanners got tripped up at our very first address, for hours or sometimes days at a time!

    Want to automatically report the offending IP addresses to their ISPs? Check out DShield and and their free FightBack program where they notify the ISPs--not you. See some FightBack results.

    There are scripts and clients to report the intrusion logs collected from dozens of IDSs, firewalls, routers and log utilities (e.g. Snort, Linksys routers, IPCHAINS, LaBrea). DShield has Linux and UNIX Client Scripts, as well as Windows Clients.

    If the script kiddie/scanners are automatically trying to break in, why not automate the abuse reporting, too? Even if the scanner is a cracked zombie, at least they could be notified--could lead to them securing their machine(s).

  5. His last name is BENDER? on Fun With Passwords? · · Score: 1
    Any way, I started touch'ing files in a world-unreadable subdirectory under $HOME like "paul bender can kiss my butt"

    Then tell him to kiss his OWN shiny metal butt!

  6. Edison and the electric chair on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1
    Edison routinely electrocuted dogs and cats for audiences to show the danger of Tesla's invention, Alternating Current (though Tesla said he was a discoverer, not an inventor).

    Did Edison show that an electric chair powered by DC was less dangerous? I don't believe he did.

  7. Re:huh on Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back! · · Score: 1

    Maybe a dingo ate Justin's laptop!

  8. Re:Why Do All Scammers Write in Lowercase? on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    so did e.e. cummings
    does that mean he was a scammer, too?

  9. Re:It is just stupid on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1
    SIG ERROR DETECTED:


    53CUR17Y7HR0UH13375P34K15N053CUR17Y@411

    is missing a "6" (a.k.a. "G") at byte 14. 7HR0UH, should be 7HR0U6H.

  10. I think Michael Palin sang it best... on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1
    Every life form is unique.

    Would Every Sperm Is Sacred from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" tie in to that thought?

  11. Musical Phrase Off: THE LAW (DA-DUM-DUM!) on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1
    DA-DUM-DUM!

    Actually, that should be:
    DAAA-DA-DUM-DUM! (If you were meaning it like the first part of the old Dragnet TV show "catch tune." Add in DAAA-DA-DUM-DUM-DUMMMMM to complete the musical phrase.

  12. Re:Heh. on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1
    Though a close second would have to be any of a number of things they used to make you do with your own intestines. Yuck.

    I remember some B-movie showing a stunned guy/hero laying under a spiked rod (a.k.a.. "spit"), and a corrupt priest was to slit the guy's belly, pull out some intestine, attach it to the small spikes on the spit, then slowly start turning the handle on the spit, pulling out the unfortunate's intestines as he watched.

    The hero prevailed, somehow, and put the priest in the same position for a fast rotary deboweling. Eww.

  13. Re:P-P-P-Powerbook on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    ROTFLMpdfO!
    (Also, PHQ could stand for Pretty Humorous Quote ;-) Thanks!

  14. Re:Patent system is messed up on Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent · · Score: 1
    Mr. Taco, Please make me a preference option to hide headlines with articles that require registration.

    Just use Bugmenot to provide registration codes.

  15. Re:Trying to fix this on LANL, Sandia Report Losing Classified Data · · Score: 1
    ...with NCs just providing an interface to the stuff.

    What's an NC?
    Non-Comissioned officer? NeXT Computer? Non-Classified (Something)? Nuclear Computer? Newbie Compiler? Naked Chest? Norwegian Concierge?

    Hmmm. Is it Network Computer (i.e. thin client)?

  16. Re:Hmmm.... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    Your right. "moot" was what I was going for, "mute" came out.

    That's funny...I didn't hear it.

  17. Re:[OT] What the FUCK is up with these apostrophes on Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro · · Score: 1

    No, he just needs some See's [chocolate] Candies! :-)

  18. Re:Wide range laser-tag (Buffy-style) on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1
    Except on hallow[ed] ground.

    Right. There you would use crossbows shooting sharpened stakes!

  19. Re:How about.. on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1
    How about..Big Gun...Small Peepee

    How about: Big Gun, Big Peepee, oops! Bang! Small Peepee.

  20. Re:stupid argument (grocery carts) on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1
    That's why I leave my grocery cart in the parking lot rather than return it to the store!

    ...Or one might roll down the driver's side window, hold onto the carp handle, drag it a block away then randomly leave it in the middle of the street.If someone hits it--hey too bad, but that could:

    create jobs for auto body repair personnel

    create jobs for auto parts suppliers or auto mfgrs

    give ambulance personnel, nurses and doctors job security

    create demand for more shopping carts

    give the store clerks some exercise and fresh air

    provide mobile storage for housing-challenged individuals.

  21. Re:Visual Basic generates jobs on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1
    I've been put in charge of VB development on projects where a loss of data acquisition and control functionality can result in plant explosions and toxic spills. Never happened. So don't tell me that you can't build a robust program with it.

    Yikes! You know that there's a part of the Microsoft EULA that specifically states that their code not be used (i.e. trusted) in any airport, nuclear, or health- or safety-related installation, right?

  22. Re:More nonsense on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    Arrgh! Seeing the words "Janet Reno" and "Bush" in the same posting is making me dizzy...
    Eww. Now I need an over-the-counter brainwashing.

  23. Re:Torx and other security screw types... on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 1
    He may even have a set of "security Torx" bits, which is basically a torx head with a hole drilled in the center. The screw has a shaft sticking out of the middle of it, and the hole in the bit fits over that. Normal Torx bits won't go into the security Torx screws, because of the shaft sticking out. Security Torx was created simply because so many people started getting into things with Torx screws. :)

    A small screwdriver worked back and forth tends to snap those pesky security pins right off...then you can use the regular torx drives to remove them.

    Worst use of torx:
    On my Chevy truck's dashboard, I removed six torx screws, no problem, but the seventh just wouldn't come out no matter what I did: It spun, as though stripped. I finally got mad and just yanked the panel off. Oh gee--Turns out it was a fake screw! There were no holes behind it to screw it down. I suppose the designer just wanted everything to look symmetric? Arrgh.

  24. Re:Well who didn't see that one coming. on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 1
    Screwdrivers aren't digital.

    Well you use your fingers (digits) to operate screwdrivers, right? So they're digital.
    Oops! Hope the DMCA weasels didn't hear that.

  25. Re:My thoughts on How To Make Friends on the Telephone · · Score: 1
    Shortly after we got wifi at my company, someone I know was in a bathroom, and there's a guy in the stall talking on the phone. The guy says "Let me send you that file...", there's the sound of typing and he says "there you should have it".

    I first read that like this:

    The guy says "Let me send you that file...", there's the sound of flushing and he says "there you should have it".