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  1. Headlines: Cooking oil cakes causing server to fry on Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil · · Score: 3, Funny

    As thousands of Slashdot users hammered the newly setup web server cooled by cooking oil the processor quickly heated up to previously unseen levels. This resulted in the server caking the cooking oil and quickly overheating as it crumbled under the /. effect.
    Okay....the server is still up....but it is running a bit slow.

  2. Re:I am going to be rich! on EU Approves Data Retention · · Score: 1
    A EU Legislature's plan to get rich.
    1. Buy stock in data storage companies
    2. Create legislation to require ISPs to retain data for idiotic periods of time
    3. Mark it as "terrorism" related to ensure it will be passed without anyone looking at it carefully and scrutanizing it.
    4. ???
    5. ...???
    6. PROFIT!!!!!!!!!! HAR HAR HAR!
    Seriously....what other reason could there be for such insanity?
  3. Re:How does it perform on Linux? on Skype 2.0 Adds Video · · Score: 1

    As someone else said...it works nice on Debian/Unstable...but I had to make a tweaked/faked package due to dependancy problems. Skype depends on a package that has another name under Debian...*sighs*

  4. This messes with ppl's heads on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    My closest friend lives in Palmer, Alaska. When they crank this thing up it SERIOUSLY starts to mess with ppl's heads. People begin to act strangely. I am sure expanding this project isn't cheered near Anchorage.

  5. Re:I mean...5. on Microsoft Reduces Shared Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    The are FOUR LIGHTS!...I mean...Licenses

  6. Wonderful! on 20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television · · Score: 1

    If Congress doesn't deliver a Broadcast Flag pronto, warns the letter, content producers will abandon free, over-the-air broadcast TV.

    WONDERFUL! The Industry is in desperate need of new blood. I say let them walk!

  7. Re:This will never stick on RIAA Trying to Copy-Protect Radio · · Score: 1

    Not only does this pose legal problems it also poses technical problems.

    The devices that receive an audio signal often has transmission jacks to transmit the signal to another (external) device.

    The devices include:

    1. Headsets
    2. Amplifiers
    3. Remote speakers

    Someone could insert a recording device (tape recorder, CD Recorder, PC Sound card) to any of these attachments and thus render the content control being provided by the receiver useless! ....Unless of course they plan to outlaw headphones or require headphones be able to unencrypt some kind of encoded signal sent to them by the receiver...

    I stand by my original statement...it'll never fly.

  8. This will never stick on RIAA Trying to Copy-Protect Radio · · Score: 1

    The FCC's Content-Flag for TV recently got struck down by the Federal Court System. In their decision the Court found that the FCC lacked the authority to regulate signal receivers.

    I fail to see how this case is any different.

    The FCC may only regulate the transmission of signals. To regulate the reception of signals the Congressional Act establishing the FCC would have to be modified to grant the FCC additional needed authority

    ....Thus sayeth the Courts

  9. Re:I want my fucking piece of paper on Diebold Insider Comments on Voting System Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's the argument against having to show ID?

    In Michigan, as well as most states, a Driver's License or State issued ID costs money (albeit, $12 for 4 years in MI). Still, this constitutes a poll tax and as such is unconstitutional.

  10. Re:format c: on Data Still Left on Storage Devices for Sale · · Score: 2, Informative

    My distribution of Linux as well as Knoppix-STD has a command called "wipe". It over writes a file (or a special block file 34 times with several different randomn patterns.

    I make sure to do this with all drives I send back for warrenty.

  11. The mom doesn't recognize the screen name because on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    The mom doesn't recognize the screen name because it is probably a Kazaa screen name set up by whoever set up the Kazaa.

  12. Re:I love it, but... on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sure they are sending one of there most attractive sales reps. to the policy makers as we speak.

  13. 2 things... on Do You Code Sign? · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. The book is a few years old (1999 or 2000 IIRC).
    2. I believe Bruce is referring to the fact that: yeah....you can say so and so created this code. But that doesn't teel you how trustworthy the person or how well the code was made. So therefore putting too much faith into a "seal" saying that it is signed is a mistake.

    Maybe Bruce himself reads /. and will post. I read his blog daily and I know he often posts comments in his own blog.

  14. Re:The truth? on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 2, Informative

    From Wikipedia.

    "Chain of Command", a famous episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Jean-Luc Picard is tortured in a fashion similar to that of Winston Smith. Just as Smith is repeatedly shown a hand with four fingers and tortured until he will agree that he actually sees five, Picard is tortured by a Cardassian sadist and is asked to see five lights when there are only four.

  15. Re:Money on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1
    1. Create Product
    2. PROFIT!!!
    3. ????
    4. Create Cert for product
    5. PROFIT!!!
    6. Create Patch for Buggy program
    7. Sell patch under "extended service agreements" - PROFIT!!!!
  16. The truth? on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What truth?

    There are FOUR lights

  17. NLP on Strong Emotions May Cause Temporary Blindness · · Score: 1

    This probably has something to NLP. In NLP when a stimuli occurs there is about a half second window in which an anchor can be set. Anchors can usually be set immediately after something "shocking" occurs.

    Then again...I have no credentials in the Psych community....just a randomn thought.

  18. Re:Registration form privacy information at eEye on Exploits Circulating for Latest Windows Holes · · Score: 1

    Our website's registration forms require users to provide contact information (names and email addresses) and financial information (account or credit card numbers). Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services purchased and is only used internally by eEye. Contact information is used to confirm and ship orders, to contact the user when necessary, and to notify users when new products and services are available. Users may choose not to receive future mailings from eEye; see the Choice/Opt-Out section below. eEye Digital Security may occasionally share visitor contact information with official product resellers that adhere to a comparable privacy policy; visitor contact information is NEVER given to other third-party vendors that are not affiliated with eEye.

    Or...you could just not give them a valid email address? Or...if they need to send you something (registration code....whatever) via email you can do this:

    1. Buy Domain for $8
    2. Make bogus alias that points to your real email address
    3. Register for whatever (with bogus alias)
    4. Get required email
    5. Delete Alias
  19. Simple solution... on Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Run your own DNS server.

    apt-get bind9

    Edit /etc/resolv.conf and point to 127.0.0.1.

    I've been doing it for years now...

  20. A new Sci-Fi Series on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Iraqui Occupation: The Next Generation

    Set your phasers to stun!

  21. Re:I would agree if you didn't know of the contrac on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you didn't know about the contract then I would agree with you. But if you knew about the contract between the two parties and then intentionally helped one of the parties break that contract that is where you have the tort violation. Because you acted in bad faith to sever a legally recognized relationship.

    Does this mean a woman can sue her husband's mistress?
  22. Re:They can't even handle 10mbit/1mbit on 50Mbps Cable Launched on Long Island · · Score: 1

    This activity smells of bait/switch. Have you considered filing a complaint with the FTC?

  23. Wait for the court challange... on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 1

    This provision may get shot down as unconstitutional.

  24. To the dark Side... on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no....apple is going to the dark side.

  25. Re:It's all a wind-up. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Now, that doesn't sound like a test of free will to me. And in fact, it seems that free will is not actually mentioned in the Bible.

    Sorry....do you actually read the Bible? If you had you surely would have come accross this verse.

    John 8:36 (New International Version)

    36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

    Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society NIV at IBS International Bible Society NIV at Zondervan Zondervan

    The idea being here being of free will to NOT be in sin and to turn back to God, to be the prodigal son.