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  1. The Tenth Planet wants to be free! on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    Support the peaceful, freedom loving natives of Planet Freedonia! WORKERS OF THE TENTH WORLD UNITE! you have nothing to lose but your (err icy incasement?) Must be pretty cold up there.....

  2. Paper, we don't need no stinking on WI Bill Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail, Source · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Paper ballots. If We got paper ballots then how could be fix the elections?

    "It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin and up till now that's been Diebold.

  3. CATS = Roland Piquepaille on Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams · · Score: 1

    I really can't take any of these Roland Piquepaille articles seriously.

  4. The computers say we are under attack on Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams · · Score: 1

    I have a valid message. Stand by to authenticate.
    I agree with authentication also, sir.

    Entering launch code: DLG-2209-TVX
    Launch code confirmed.

    Holy shit!

    All right lets do it. Enable missiles.
    Target selection complete. Time on target selection complete.
    Yield selection complete.
    I need to get someone at the phone.
    Number one enabled, two, three, four, SAC.
    Try SAW HQ on the HF.
    five, ..ten. All missiles enabled.
    That's not the correct procedure.
    Screw the procedure. I want somebody on the goddamn phone before I kill 20 million
    SIR. We have a launch order. Put you hand on the key, sir!
    I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
    SIR! We are at launch - TURN YOUR KEY, sir!

    (c) Wargames

    Or it could go like this instead;

            Narrator: In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.

            Captain: What happen ?
            Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
            Operator: We get signal.
            Captain: What !
            Operator: Main screen turn on.
            Captain: It's you !!
            CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
            CATS: All your base are belong to us.

    OK that's enough of that....

  5. I already got a Treo 650 on The Real Hitchhiker's Guide? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    every bit of funtionality and more is present in that. And this is just begining. If it wasn't for the Hitchhiker's Guide ref, would we even be discussing this?

  6. Re:Liberty and pr0n for all. on Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn · · Score: 1
    "Democrats have a patent on "unenforceable" or "pointless" laws"

    That's no longer the case because the Republican House has taken over the Tax and Spend title and all the good Pork and Boondoggle legislations issues. Democrats are trying to fill the completely vacant Responsible Government role. Hoping to convince the few grownups left in the the GOP to switch sides. Sure this is crazy talk, but look at some of the other wack job ideas that have been coming out of late. If you want an example you should watch Fox News sometime. (Likely that's all you watch)

  7. ballast of some kind on Homebrew Underwater ROV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could something like AOL CDs or SCO lawsuits work?

  8. Re:Your mixing two songs, the theme and Jayne's so on Another New Serenity Trailer · · Score: 1

    and miss a chance to research the lyrics, bite you tongue!

  9. Your mixing two songs, the theme and Jayne's song on Another New Serenity Trailer · · Score: 1

    Jayne!
    The Man they call Jayne!

    Oh, He robbed from the rich
    and he gave to the poor.
    Stood up to the man
    and he gave him what for.
    Our love for him now
    ain't hard to explain.
    The hero of Canton
    the man they call Jayne.

    Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin'.
    He saw the mudders' lament.
    And he saw the Magistrate takin'
    every dollar and leavin' five cents.
    So he said: "You can't do that to my people."
    said "You can't crush them under your heel."
    So Jayne strapped on his hat
    and in 5 seconds flat
    stole everythin' Boss Higgins had to steal.

    Oh, He robbed from the rich
    and he gave to the poor.
    Stood up to the man
    and he gave him what for.
    Our love for him now
    ain't hard to explain.
    The hero of Canton
    the man they call Jayne.

    Now here is what separates heroes
    from common folk like you and I.
    The man they call Jayne
    he turned 'round his plane
    and let that money hit sky.

    He dropped it onto our houses
    he dropped it into our yards.
    The man they called Jayne
    he stole away our pain
    and headed out for the stars!

    (Here we go!)

    He robbed from the rich
    and he gave to the poor.
    Stood up to the man
    and he gave him what for.
    Our love for him now
    ain't hard to explain.
    The hero of Canton
    the man they call Jayne...

  10. Here is their real URL on FBI Arrests Eight On Copyright Charges · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Good start! on Computing in Rwanda? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You have a few things they don't have and neither will you when you get there. Google.

    Before you go reseach research research. Also pick up a copy of Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. It is a well considered look at what a tech should face when suddenly being denied Tech. There are resources for getting you power, clean water and other things that are quite simple to do. If you do your research then you may be able to make due on much less then anyone thinks possible. They have all they need to do what you want, you can bring them the knowhow. One of the extra bits about being in a tech civiliasation is that you can gather knowledge quickly. Don't waste the time you have.

  12. time to buy google stock again on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 1

    Lawyers rarely google or do research, Paralegals do it. Pretty soon it's going to trickle up to the actual lawyers who use this stuff where it's coming from. Then being rich, they will go buy loads of Google stock. If for no other reason then to keep these goodies flowing.

  13. less servicing? on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that include oil changes?

  14. Re:The identifing the dead means citizens too on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    Dogtags cause cancer, I can send you a few websites to buy them on.

  15. The identifing the dead means citizens too on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1
    The dead people in the subway they have a hard time identifing are not tourists, they are british citizens. The proposal implies lojacking everybody so your body can be identifed in case of a terrorist attack or otherwise. There is already a movement against a national ID in Britian and very little traction for it in the US.

    Sorry, but if your family has to wait a while longer to find out if your dead as opposed to me having a RFID tag stuck in my body you can bloody well wait.

  16. That's not a fix on Philips Working on LCD TV Ghosting · · Score: 1

    Adding a flash to the screen will make watching them tiresome. LCD's advantage in readability is the eye does not have to adjust to flickers that TV/Cathode Ray Tube use for persistence of vision. Over time the eye catches the blank spots, the variations in brightness and the pupil contracts and expands to match. LCD has a steady light. I recently started using an LCD screen at work, and I have no intention of going back to a CRT again. My eye strain issues are gone, I walk out of work not feeling tired. I plan to chuck my old model TV soon for an LCD ASAP, and if Phillips is planning to use flicker technology I won't be buying one.

  17. sticky carrots ecch on Challenging Music Downloading Myths · · Score: 1

    As to how much music down loaders have that should count the amount that they now have. My MP3 files amount to about 11 gigs, but I used to work in a record store so it's skewed. I do fit that profile of owning more music. I just didn't pay retail for it. And I will be damned if I am going to lug a turn table and 70+ records in to work each day.

  18. Quick intro to Voltron on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am such a karma whore but here you go just tell them you got served

  19. updated address. on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry folks, looks like I had bad info. http://www.sachitechcops.org/ Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force 4510 Orange Grove Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841 http://www.sachitechcops.org/news022205.htm Apologies to those who mailed out already.

  20. Re:National TURN IN YOUR: Pringles cans? on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, there is no accounting for taste. Err Tastelessness err staleness???? People help me on this one.

  21. Re:brains......BRAINS! on Eerie Sounds from Saturn · · Score: 1

    What do we want?

    BRAINS!

    When do we want them?

    BRAINS

    Romero's one from the 60's was better. Then there's the Return of the Living Dead flicks. (no forget I said that)

  22. National TURN IN YOUR: Pringles cans? on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If we as a tech geek worldwide nation were to send Sacramento County Sheriff's by mail our used empty and UNCONTAMINATED cans to 'Prevent them from being used for' "illegal purposes" it may just get some notice and hoist the fools on their own petards.

    Sacramento County Sheriff Department
    3341 Power Inn Rd Ste 313
    Sacramento, CA 95826-3835

    mail them empty and uncapped, just slap the mailing label on it and seal the end with clear tape. we don't want them treated as possible 'other things' it matters not if the get there crushed. We can keep screaming at them that they are fools, but unless the world notices the won't either.

  23. Vote now for Idiot of the week on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1
    I nominate Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito. As this weeks most shocking display of stupidity while wearing a badge or uniform. Sadly he will wind up as Chief of Police at this rate. So in honor of his soon to be Chief status I bring you a tune from the past;

    Pop o Pies doing "Fascists Eat Donuts," The lyrics go like this; "Make those donuts with extra grease / This batch is for the chief of police.".

  24. Worse yet on 3Com to Buy Security Flaws? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The issue is that if you get paid for finding a flaw, you could get sued for it and there is a nice money trail back to you. 3Com makes no pretense at anonymity or grants any immunity from liablity. While I admit that's not likely, they would sue 3Com first and name you as a co-defendant, your still in it with them. This has happened in the past, I see no reason it's not gonna happen again.

  25. Open Source = disreputable researchers on 3Com to Buy Security Flaws? · · Score: 1

    that's the Microsoft/SCO theory anyway. (and yes I am kidding)