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  1. a standard for link exclusion on You Can't Link Here · · Score: -1, Troll

    perhaps we should have a url "/linkers.txt"

    User-agent: MSIE
    Disallow:

    User-agent: slashdot scum that use mozilla
    Disallow: /

  2. what about my pets? on Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression · · Score: 1

    if mp3 is modelled around human hearing, no wonder my dog isn't enjoying my tina turner collection.

    perhaps I'll use to dog vorbis in future

  3. Re:One connection per second? on Throttling Computer Viruses · · Score: 1

    Now make that 1 connection per (leap) year for ad servers and I'll agree

  4. and if missing trailing parenthesis is art on Open Source Art? · · Score: 1

    .. then ..

  5. Re:try saying this code isn't free speech on Open Source Art? · · Score: 1, Interesting
    the art is also in the creation of the brush strokes, so it is also in the key strokes.

    brush strokes create pictures

    key strokes create source code

    therefore source code is art
    if (action.stroke.brush == art and apply(empty_canvas_space, action.stroke.brush == art and action.stroke.keyboard == art) then
    apply(empty_text_buffer, action.stroke.keyboard) = art;
  6. US has quantum computing.... on Cryptogram: AES Broken? · · Score: 0

    And all bets are definitely off when quantum computers arrive on the scene.

    should read

    And all bets were paid when quantum computers arrived on the scene.

    The would be last year when the US cracked quantum computing and opened up >40bit keys for the rest of the world

  7. my outstanding patent on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 0

    a procedure for the fufillment of happiness amoung a group emptying of barrels causing vertical urination in a place for the producution of fermented beverages
    Details
    people get drunk

    can I patent that please.

    really a patent that uses the way a schoolboy would dream up after think about the problem for 2 minutes during a physics lesson

    when my feet get hot I take my socks off, can I patent that?

    when I need a piss I undo my zip, can I patent that?

  8. Re:preditor time: see the shimmer on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 0

    wipes out my spacing, how nice

  9. preditor time: see the shimmer on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 0
    mimiking the light that arrived at the back at the front is no good for non-thin items as it will only look correct on fairly uniform backgrounds or at the point ot the object directly in front of you (even then the brain should work out something is wrong as you have 2 eyes and except the light at a given point to be different from different angles).
    abcdefghil
    | |
    | |
    =x=====

    y
    as I look at x from y I expect the light from a not c. This will go from appearing a bit wierd, say a shimmer, to totally wrong when there is something behind the object that the brain recognises say writing
  10. real world solutions on Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality? · · Score: 0

    if you want to produce 'real world solutions' it helps if the people creating them get to see some of the real world

    b.t.w. all leave, the guy sounds like he wants to run his company into the ground. over promising not willing to get extra resources to deal with them, the company is going under. get out now

  11. DRM and upping the fee on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 0

    combine digital rights management and putting the fees up anytime they choose and we have a future were the only problem with computer is where to bury them.

    perhaps automatic delete files is a good idea as it protects the copyright owners rights.?

    perhaps the food in my freezer should decide that I have to pay more for it than I did and instruct the freezer to thaw? this protects the supermarkets rights

    perhaps I got the paint on my walls too cheap and the paint should instruct my flat to collapse? this protects the paint company

    meanwhile I have no flat or food and I'm left singing to myself in the corner

  12. Testing on Why are Businesses Willing to Spend More for Software? · · Score: 0

    Always try to get a rough idea how much someone is spending and go up to that in testing. a project plan with plenty of itterative testing cycles looks good and gives you plenty of time to get on with the other project you have to do as no one really tests things anyway.

    you can even send reports to be ignored at the end of each cycle send the same report 3 times. send the same report to all you clients. use a random number generator.

    they get protection because they have opted for a project with in built early failure warning and you get protection because it is a load of rubbish that they didn't read when they should have

  13. are people not worried to eat food with a hidden 1 on Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005 · · Score: 0

    I thought america had a dim view of the number 13

    <slightly ot>
    what with buildings not having a 13th floor, or rather not calling it the 13th floor to residents (so hotels have 13 painted on the inside of the lift doors, the bit your not meant to see while the buttons and rooms all say 14th floor)

    this is all irrelevant as it is usually the 13th floor from the ground as you look at the front of the building not including the one you walk into
    </ok it was totally ot>

  14. Doctor please can you get Dell a backbone on Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS · · Score: 0

    Why do they buckle in to Microsoft?

    Why not say fine then and sell them with the price of windows clearly labelled and full details about how users can install there existing windows from their old machine on it (providing they don't use the old machine). And maybe how to use other os

    Maybe in the US microsoft's you can't us this os on another machine counts? I don't know. Who does noone has the balls to find out.

    Perhaps they should set up subsidurary fixed liability companies and find out

    If the big boys call Microsofts bluff it will only hurt Microsoft. Perhaps they'll be more reasonable

    Perhaps being shown that their bullying only hurts them, Bill might sack the management type who dream up these things

  15. Re:linux virus has it's own virus environment on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: 0

    flaimbait hey?

    history takes a day to back me up....

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.ht ml

  16. linux virus has it's own virus environment on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just put up webpages and suggest people view them with netscape 4

    It is bound to randomly crash / use up 99.9% processor time / force them to hard quite Xwindows

    It's almost as nice as outlook viruses and it is more random.

  17. Re:killall on How Hard is it to Manage Different Unices? · · Score: 1

    where can you run killall -

    various linux - kills processes with that name
    aix, hpux, true64, solaris - shuts the machine down

    perhaps people ought to stop using root when they don't know which machine you are on?

  18. digest on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    the only thing I care about is does it support digest authentication or are they still trying to ram ssl down the throats of those who just don't want to pass password in the clear

  19. Java scripts on CPAN Shifts Focus · · Score: 1

    The Java scripts section is my favourite The scriptS (sic) would be one for each implemention in each browser I assume
    If only we could have 10 different incompatable versions of perl embedded in a totally insecure manner on every desktop that would be grand