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  1. Re:I'm inclined to say on Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~Tacitus, Annals

  2. Re:Limited feature set on Early Work on Homebrew StarCraft for the DS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not if we require additional pylons.

  3. Re:First Post! on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 1

    Breaking the day into 12 hour chunks makes perfect sense when you look at when it was developed. Open your hand and with your thumb, count the number of segments in your fingers. Good way to keep track of time. After counting your digits, you're done with a days labor.

  4. Re:The Meat... on TransGaming Releases Fast Software 3D Rendering · · Score: 1

    Slideshow? Like what 1 FPS? Huh. 50x faster than that is what... 50 FPS. You're right. Completely worthless.

  5. Re:cdr cdr car? on LispM Source Released Under 'BSD Like' License · · Score: 1

    The issue is not the raw number per-se. The crux of the problem is the way in which you have many of the same punctuations bunched up in one place. Lisp is exceptionally bad with everything being a parend. C/C++/Java has its problems when you do lots of embedded control statements and {}. C/C++/Java mixes it up a bit which makes things easier on the eye.

  6. Re:Manwich on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    Finally someone got the cynicism intended in my statement.

  7. Manwich on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Excellent. Maybe now we can use some of those stem cells to create man meat. It wouldn't even be cannabalism because stem cells aren't people. Yummy.

  8. Re:Indymedia are not going to be prosecuted here.. on Second Indymedia Server Seized in UK Within a Year · · Score: 1

    The reason they dont just mirror it is that they need to maintain the original unmodified if they are going to try and prosecute with any evidence gained from it. How easy is it to falsify digital data?

    The second any trial came along based on such a disk copy I have little doubt that you or any rational person would want to make sure that the data was not falsified -- i.e. the original was intact and entered in evidence.

    Now it may not be necessary to impound the server indefinitely until trial, but it would be necessary to do so until a verifiable and sealed duplicate can be made to ensure a fair trial.

  9. Re:Smart? Yes. A Nut? Perhaps. How about both? on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry. But snooping around a house, checking the door, finding it unlocked and entering without homeowner permission is still illegal.

  10. Re:Server going down? on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its pining for the fjords.

  11. Re:Encryption use != evil on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1

    Umm... you just pointed out the very obvious conundrum when anyone pleads the fifth. Its not a failure of the judge, its a consequence of logic.

    Anytime you plead the fifth you most likely have something to hide (maybe not directly relevant to the case, such as a mistress).

  12. Re:Can it cut things? on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NFL!
    Fuck yeah!
    Bed Bath and Beyond!
    Fuck yeah!
    Fullerene slips!
    Fuck yeah!

  13. Re:Let me get this straight . . . on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up +5 insightful and then -5 troll :-)

  14. Re:what the heck? on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention 'pyramid scheme'... I bet you're in favor of social security -- the only completely legal and government subsidized pyramid scheme. There is no denying it is one -- even if you are for it.

  15. Re:your posts on slashdot aren't a political platf on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to humans or natural trends? Let's try both. In Ohio youll find in some burgeoning populations of deer (which end up in large numbers dismembered on the side of the highway) in the spring but by winter you see massive starvation. So. Discounting those that die by car accidents and hunting, there are still enough to cause starvation on a large scale. Sounds like there are too many fucking deer now that they have no natural predators besides us.

  16. Re:Speaking of bloat... on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The find for the command line would be a great place to implement this idea of theirs. It doesn't take much effort to write a wrapper around it -- much like searching is done today.

  17. Re:Speaking of bloat... on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    What does gnome have to do with this? I just think that under the standard of a desktop environment is the wrong place to develop this type of software. I mean to me it seems analogous to sticking a voip client inside the kernel. Useful? Sure. Competitive against windows? Yes. Can be disabled? Check. Right place to put that technology? Not at all.

  18. Re:Speaking of bloat... on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Poor choice of words -- was thinking desktop when I wrote windowing -- I certainly do understand the difference between the two.

  19. Speaking of bloat... on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why put this in a WINDOWING ENVIRONMENT? I mean, if he wants to do a project like this, graet! Just dont do it under a desktop banner.

  20. Ach! Mein thirsten! on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-09 -18&res=l

  21. Re:Just annoyances anyway... on MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Nor is cutting your own lock with said bolt cutters.

  22. Re:Lies are still lies. on Are You Ready for the SCO Blitz? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats not how you spell 'morans'. Duh.

  23. Astroturfing? on Are You Ready for the SCO Blitz? · · Score: 4, Funny

    How could anyone accuse a reputable company like mine^h^h^h^h SCO of blatantly manipulating people like that.

    This is obviously an attempt by the administrators of this website to discredit SCO and avoid paying for their legally extort^w required license.

  24. Re:Don't Forget on Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor · · Score: 1

    Does this remotely deal with "rights" that could be "yours" at some future time? Are we "online" right now? QED.

  25. Re:I wonder why... on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 1

    I am well aware that VAXen are still in use. I have personal experience with them. That is precisely where I got my opinion from. A large number of people on my program had to work with them and deal with them. No one had a good word to say about it. While it may "work" and be a reliable back end system, "perfectly usable" seems to imply human interaction; and in this regard, it is horrible sub par.