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  1. oh ... you mean those people ... on Thief 3 Website Goes Live · · Score: 4, Funny
    This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War.
    So you're saying I should give this one the miss then?
  2. Re:Question... on XFree86 4.4 Released · · Score: 2, Funny
    "mortal coils".

    rimshot, etc.

  3. Re:Debian avoiding the new release?? on XFree86 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see you do better with a bzip2 of patches 3 megs in size that XFree86 won't apply to their upstream code even though they fix some insane number of critical XF86 bugs.

  4. Re:ACPI on Mars Rovers Update · · Score: 2, Funny
    Except ACPI doesn't work properly on anything but Windows.

    Nice try.

  5. Re:MS *doesn't* have a patent on this! on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager · · Score: 1

    Froth any more and we'd have to have you put down for rabies. :)

  6. Re:M$ Anti-virus on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1
    Nope. SSL implementations and such always install a "trusted" bundle client-side.

    If your hacked-up certificate server doesn't use the original signing key then your efforts are essentially worthless.

  7. Re:M$ Anti-virus on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1
    Certainly. All you have to do is hack VeriSign. Without them noticing.

    And then all they have to do is revoke a certificate, and you're back to square one.

  8. Re:Great news. on The Science of Love · · Score: 2, Funny

    But first you must put the lotion in the fucking basket.

  9. Re:Sigh on A Setback For Microsoft In Lindows Trademark Case · · Score: 1
    And if everybody else remembers things the way you do, we can change history to however we see fit!

    For example: Hitler never lost the war! The Russians crushed the rest of Europe under the weight of a million tanks! Japan nuked the United States! And Gore won in 2000!

    See? It's easy and fun!

  10. Re:surprise on Spammer Profile: Scott Richter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Idiots are worth $2 apiece? :)

  11. Re:RFC 1738 on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 4, Informative

    Confirmed to still work for FTP.

  12. Re:Hell has frozen over on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a bit colder than usual this winter, too. Heh.

  13. One thing that doesn't jibe ... on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 5, Insightful
    According to the Symantec Security Response site, MyDoom, or Novarg.A's DDoS payload isn't supposed to trigger until February 1st, at which point it runs until February 12th.

    So how is it that SCO is supposedly already feeling the effects of the DDoS from the virus?

  14. Re:needs a girlfriend on Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Every game is available online, via a download.

    "Hundreds of games" in your "collection" and you call that guy a loser?

  15. Re:CD Jewel Case on Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    At least with just plain paper sleeves I can stick the game CD into a CD wallet and store it that way.

    What in God's name am I supposed to do with a paper sleeve with the CD key printed on it? That's a situation that's completely ass and awkward to deal with.

  16. Physical artifacts ... on Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'd much more rather have a cardboard box and a CD sitting there nice and pretty than not. Even if I'm making a backup of a game CD for regular usage, I'd still rather have the original sitting in a jewel case on a CD shelf.

    So even when (if) HL2 comes out and it launches on store shelves and over Steam, I'd still buy the store version. No questions about it.

    And no, the paper sleeves some games are coming in, just aren't cutting it for me. Jewel cases forever!

  17. Re:For most Slashdotters... on Lie Detector Glasses Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    But surely that's better than "have no friends"? :)

  18. Oh it's much much much worse than that: on Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through Filters · · Score: 1
    Each Spamassassin installation will automatically adjust the scoring of various rules based on the number of times they are hit and the final scoring of the e-mail message.

    A few thousand forged HABEAS spams later at -8.0 a pop, you will also have a huge corpus of spam e-mail tokens poisoning the ham portion of your Bayes database because Spamassassin auto-learns ham and spam scores.

    Put two and two together, and your protection against every other piece of spam in the world is significantly lessened.

    This is devilishly clever. And my personal mail server is being crippled by the amount of spam that's now passing through my most stringent filters that would ordinarily have eliminated close to all of them.

  19. Re:It's vaporware 'till I can run it... on Doom 3 Vaporware no More · · Score: 1

    Nah, it was running on XP SP1, but it was on AMD Opteron/Nvidia hardware.

  20. Re:*sigh* a programmer explains: on Doom 3 Vaporware no More · · Score: 1

    Almost 4 years, now, actually. They announced that work has begun on it in June of 2000, and had a batch of artwork and an engine demonstration at the Apple G3 announcement.

  21. Re:*sigh* a programmer explains: on Doom 3 Vaporware no More · · Score: 1

    Actually, since the alpha leaked in November of 2002 and was a build for E3 of 2002, they've had over A YEAR AND A HALF more time to work on the game so far.

  22. Re:the nicest feature on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    They'll have to buy a new certificate once a week then, afaict. Just remember that every time you have to click "never trust" they will have spent another $150+.

  23. Re:the nicest feature on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Finally! This and the built-in pop-up blocker and I'll probably uninstall Firebird.

    Come on Microsoft, unleash this baby!

  24. Re:I laugh! on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    I'd mod this Insightful if I ever got any mod points.

    And since I have never ever seen any mod points in all the years I've spent reading slashdot, I can only come to the conclusion that I've uttered some heresy in some not-so-distant past that was sufficient to have some marker placed upon me that prevent my input into the moderation process.

    Freedom of thought and freedom of expression indeed.

  25. Re:Spirit vs Beagle on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    So, apparently, does your anonymous cowardice. :)