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  1. Genius haha on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 1
    That's such a good idea. Have some javascript load the image, thus using their IP address, and you don't even have to worry about the email sites blocking the porn site's IP.

    Having millions of people actively looking for your product = millions of human scripters = more powerful than some puny code. Sweet.

  2. All your instruments are belong to us on Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software · · Score: 0, Troll

    Damn. So much for musicians and instruments. Long live programmers and the computer! Now, if I can only get ahold of a lisp interface to thesel ibraries, I could take over the music industry from my computer and crush the RIAA!! Muwaha.

  3. Help on Boot Windows Faster, Using Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't understand. Will this make Counter-Strike run faster? The damn faggots keep pwning me!

  4. Re:Two words for you: "Well" and "Rounded" on To Recertify, or Not Recertify? · · Score: 1
    I completely agree. Being well-rounded and able to communicate (IRL!) in extremly important. Let me offer my story for all: I just got hired at a huge-ass company as a programmer/analyst. I also just (as in the summer) got out of a liberal arts college (admitedly, a damn good one) with nothing more than a B.A. in Politics and a minor in math. My GPA sucked at 2.8, which is a guess, because i never payed attention to it. I had written alot of code before and worked as a programmer for my school, but that's all i could put on my resume (putting 'damn good hacker' apparently isn't kosher). My competition, it turned out, was a kid from Carnegie Mellon, B.S. in CS, and a 3.9 GPA. So why did I get hired? Because the kid only knew how to work with computers, and managed to botch the interview by basically saying he wasn't a 'team-player'.

    No-one wants someone with outstanding technical skills (certified, degree-d, or not!) who comes across as either a) someone who can't talk or write well to others b) someone who isn't willing to work with others, or c) only knows the field they will be working in. Technical skills in one particular field is the domain of Ph.D-toting specialists, and those people are a dime a dozen.

    In other words, having good connections and handling yourself well in an interview are the 2 most important parts of landing a job! Everything else is for the birds.

  5. B.S. on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The scientists who dealt with the press report said the moon is "a source of potentially unlimited energy in the form of helium 3 isotope."

    Any scientist who claims there is unlimited energy on any planet needs to go back to Thermodynamics 101...

    This story is nonsense.

  6. Re:Taking bets now on News from Mars · · Score: 1

    That's the thing, the drugs take you seriously, too. It's a win-win for everyone involved.

  7. Re:Taking bets now on News from Mars · · Score: 1

    The rock is clearly a miniature prymaid and a map to the location of the real pryamid city of Mars. But I have no doubt that NASA rearranged all the surrounding rocks with Photoshop to throw off any on-lookers. In fact, if you re-arrange things like so...

  8. Re:Expensive on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1
    If you dont like it, there are a bunch of other sites around that dont use them.

    Uh yeah.......for now....

  9. Re:Article text on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 1
    "They were investigating an actual crime of serious magnitude commited against a company that I, for one, am very grateful for making."

    So if hacking into a computer, downloading the PARTIAL source, making no money off its distribution, and causing no financial loss to Valve (everyone is going to STILL have to buy the game) is a crime of serious magnitude, where do you place murder, rape, torture, drug use, kiddie porn, war, embezzlement...?

    I think the Feds have better things to do than chase around an incomplete source tree for a friggin demo.

  10. Oh Cmon on Bleak Future for Videogame Customers · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "This is the model the game industry is evolving toward: one which allows you to access software on the fly, download the content on demand, and pay for every use according to a schedule dicated by the game's owner."

    Look, the games still take up, what, 1-5 Gigs? Unless people are downloading _consistently_ at some 500k, you'll still ahve to go to the store and get the game on CD. Given the state of the broadband market in the US this pay-to-play crap is like 20 years away, and by then, the games will take up a few terrabytes anyway.

  11. Re:Just cause you're a dork doesn't mean... on Turning A FX5900 Into A FX5950 Ultra, Tool-Free · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah. Damned english. I guess I have a ways to go before I become the SuperTroll. Do you think if I bashed Linus in the same sentence that would help my trolling, or would that just be overkill? (how many trolls can fit in the same post?)

  12. Just cause you're a dork doesn't mean... on Turning A FX5900 Into A FX5950 Ultra, Tool-Free · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can I just say, you're all bunch of faggots! Here we are, with 3 billion people on the PLANET who are POOR AS SHIT, and you'all are concerned with overclocking a graphics chip. Christ. Get a life!

  13. Re:Short term, yes. Long term? on The Hidden Costs of Bargain Electronics · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, those are 'official' figures. The black market economy is that much over again. The world-wide trade is guns, drugs, people, etc. is absurdly huge. Those people have figured out that the easy way around the problems of economic competition is to simply produce something that is illegal and take your chances with the government. The flip side of the coin is that if you want to crush your competition, all you have to do is invade the place and blow it up. Those 2 factors, being usually unaccounted for, make most of economic analyses worthless (in general, i'm not picking on yours ;)).

  14. Re:Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    I'm just saying anyone with time and money will still be able to crash a plane into a building, automatic no-fly-zone system in place or not.

  15. Re:Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1
    Read the news story lately of the college student who managed to hide weapons on planes for a few weeks before announcing to the world what he had done (i.e. he hadn't gotten caught)? It's actually pretty easy to get weapons on a plane, given some time and some money. And that's your average person, not a terrorist who may or may not be backed by an entire state intelligence agency with a bunch of people who do that for a living.

  16. Re:Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1
    *shrug* Well, if the terrorist is supported by an intelligence agency, red flags can be taken care of. As can a corporate front. And pilots. It's not like it hasn't been done before.

  17. Re:Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1
    More information is here.

    Oh, and I almost forgot, any 'terrorist' who has the support of any state intelligence agency would certainly have a few million USD at their disposal.

  18. Re:Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Actually you can get large Boeing frieghters outright for anywhere from $500,000 to $1.5 million, and on up. $500k isn't that much--I'm sure the Saudi royal family has a few billion they wouldn't miss. (Ossama, incidently, has some $200 million)

  19. Worthless on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Except that any terrorist worth their salt will do their homework and just disable the no-fly system, or they will lease/buy a private plane without a no-fly system.

  20. script kiddies on Risk Management of Wireless Networks · · Score: 2, Insightful
    As wireless becomes a bigger part of our networks, those of us charged with maintaining them find ourselves also responsible for keeping drive-by script kiddies with a Pringles can out.

    Nevermind the professional hackers with a 12db antenna engaged in corporate espionage...

    I mean seriously, I think the scR1pt k1Dd13 n00bs are the least of our problems.

  21. We'll Have to Wait on XForms Essentials · · Score: 1

    If 90-95% of the browser market doesn't support Xforms (currently it must be like >3%), then it's pointless to use them. Web browsers are stagnating (w/ exception of mozzilla, kind of). There's nothing that you can't do with web pages now that you couldn't do 5 years ago. I mean, am I wrong, or can Perl & HTML4 (w/ tables for positioning!) still cover 90% of the web sites' needs in existence (look at /., yahoo, ...)? So the Committee finished their standardization. Big deal. Standardizations for a few thousand or million other things across the world were completed that day, too.

  22. Re:In other news... on Spidering Hacks · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was a sign in arabic outside his shack that read "robots.txt...do not archive rug, rug/styrofoam, rug/styrofoam/hole, rug/styrofoam/hole/saddam", etc......let this be a lesson to all: security through obscurity does not work!!

  23. Re:Not too good? on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 1

    Quake 3 runs perfectly fine on my PIII, 300 Mhz machine with Voodoo 2. Seriously.

  24. No Shit on Would Ansel Adams Have Gone Digital? · · Score: 1
    talked at great length with Richard LoPinto, vice president for SLR camera systems at Nikon Inc. to find an answer. And guess what? LoPinto thinks Ansel Adams would have loved digital cameras.

    LoPinto SELLS DIGITAL CAMERAS FOR A LIVING: of course he thinks Adams would want to buy one!!! Do you really expect the V.P. of SLR to say otherwise?!?!

  25. Re:Scott Free on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 1

    Because the STATE is supposed to give people a SECOND CHANCE and because the relatives don't have the balls to kill him. I mean, I'm all for eye-for-an-eye between with people vs. people, but a state vs. people is a completely different thing. It s like giving a corporation the same rights as a human, despite the fact that the corporation (and a state) aren't even real, living things.