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  1. Re:Asteroid? Why not meteor? on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    Arrrgh. Yet something else, heating up our world, causing the ice to melt, and polar bears, poor cute, cuddly polar bears, they'll drown, drown! Leave them alone, you bastards... :(

  2. Re:Asteroid? Why not meteor? on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    Goofy (in the UK at least) tends to mean front teeth that protrude. But, with a little reworking, your joke could be number one over here. :)

  3. Re:Oh.. you mean the Quick Start Bar? on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've started using AWN at work. And although I'm not a Mac-ite - you know what? It makes sense.
    Why (in Windows, KDE, etc) is there a place to start a program (Menu, QuickLaunch), and a different place to maximise it from, see where it's running? Answer me that?
    When I click the Firefox icon on the AWN dock, I'm saying "I want Firefox". I don't care if it's not running, and has to start a new one, or if there's one already running it can bring up. I just want Firefox to appear in front of me. Same for Thunderbird, PSI, Last.FM, Amarok, whatever.

    So yes, actually, docks make a lot of sense for apps that you only ever have 1 instance of. Like most of them. Terminals, etc - sure - that's different. And FWIW, I just have a Terminal quicklaunch set up to spawn as many as I need.

  4. Re:Efficiency on Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here · · Score: 1

    They need to get the costs down or the price of fuel to $10.00 a gallon or higher before hybrids and plugin kits make any financial sense.

    Shuuuush - don't let the government hear you. Getting the costs down is a lot harder than a 100% fuel tax.

  5. Re:Fear and greed on Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen Journalism · · Score: 1

    Yes - if so many people are obviously concerned about Steve Jobs dying, then perhaps they should sell their stock while they're ahead?

  6. Re:The dark side (tm) on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    If you did, and you do this, you will be a shamed man. Not to us. To yourself. You'll probably end up using cognitive dissonance to transform yourself into a more callous and selfish individual to escape the dichotomy.

    Is this what people do, subconsciously to deal with things? Perhaps he'll just use his money to get drunk and laid for the next 5 years?

  7. Re:Only works on uncompressed bitmaps on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 1

    Like this, you mean? (Couldn't remember the link to that nuyd place, so hot linked - sorry :( )

  8. Re:Red Sea tag suggestion: on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: 1

    Question - that'll require a brave person to say yes to honestly: Does anyone here, really, really think that the Earth is only 6000 years old?

  9. Re:Where and how well did they look? on Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros? · · Score: 1

    If you told me an invisible purple unicorn lives in my backyard, then, being entirely strict, I can't really prove that there isn't.

    Sure you can. How can it be invisible, and yet purple at the same time? Perhaps it's more of, say, a translucent llama?

  10. Re:Hashcash? on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    Can't we have a configurable system, so that you can specify: I don't want mails from anyone who has only generated a 12 or less bit HashCash? (or whatever would be a trivially small amount). Then, if you *did* often get mails from people with slow computers, you could drop that down, but if you're a techie, and everyone you know is running some fast box, you could ask (demand?) more crunching.

  11. Re:Saw on ubuntu forums and other sites on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Green Goddesses.

  12. Re:Captchas are no longer good enough on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    I wrote an app to generate time-limited aliases in the form 'myname-yyyymmdd.validation@mydomain.com

    I started doing this too. user@y2008m10.domain.tld. The advantage of doing it in the FQDN part is that you can set that address to 127.0.0.1 when you're finished with it, and you don't even see the spam.
    It's a pain for the people emailing though, as their address-books won't be of any use to them.

  13. Re:Not all reformats help on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... when I was looking at a hex dump of my BIOS for fun

    Do tell us more about your hobbies and pastimes!

  14. Put your swap in a RAM disk on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    I configure my system with my swap set to /dev/rd/0. Seems to work OK.

  15. Re:DON'T PANIC! on New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer · · Score: 1

    (Manually-built kernels FTW!:

    $ gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep -i syn.*cook
    # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set

    )

    zgrep might be on your system too.

  16. Re:yaaawwwwnnn.... on New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record · · Score: 1

    Call me when the ROI on home solar breaks the 20 year mark in my area. Right now it's almost 100 years.

    So, just make your mains electricity 5 times more expensive. 100 years payback down to 20.

  17. Re:Tagged "oops" on Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold · · Score: 1

    it's up there in one of the most extreme environments imaginable.

    Is it? I thought it was in space. You know, no wind, no rain, no monkeys, no bacteria.
    Now - on the surface of Venus - that's inhospitable. Inside a volcano - same. But in the silent, floaty calm of space?

  18. Re:But no https... on Security Flaw In Yahoo Mail Exposes Plaintext Authentication Info · · Score: 1

    Look at the fine picture. It's a wireshark trace. The complaint is that it is issuing IMAP traffic without even SSL wrapping it. I was trying to move someone from Outlook Express to Thunderbird, but she'd forgotten her IMAP password (auto-saved). Had a dig around in the registry, found the entry, but couldn't work out how to recover it (in about 5 mins of trying). So just installed Wireshark, and sniffed her packets while she logged into her mail from OE. (Luckily, her setup wasn't using SSL.)

  19. Re:Usually I like Google, but in this case.... on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure we are over in G/M/2 land. :( What rights do you have over there?

  20. Re:So? on UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents · · Score: 1

    Yep. I have 0 problem with proving my identity *when I am asked*. Not when it is demanded, or I have to carry some ID around all the time. I have a passport already I can take to a bank if I open a new account. That's sufficient.

  21. Frog into pot, Gas on 1. on UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, the frog is now in the pot, and the water is lovely and warm - it thinks it's having a bath!

  22. Re:Usually I like Google, but in this case.... on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    Amateur Radio enthusiasts are also suffering from interference in their frequencies due to Broadband over powerlines. And we're not a large chunk of the population like TV watchers. More info

  23. Re:Symmetric password is test on Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty · · Score: 1

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  24. Re:Coolant leak? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    Just reboot it, and when it gets to the POST stage, press F2, and then you can set the Liquid Helium values.
    Don't forget to Save and Exit, not just Exit.

  25. Re:Now what do I do? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    Or his friend was George Best, you insensitive clod!