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  1. Re:Please clarify on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 1

    The actual initial post is even better. They call it a "Trojan Backdoor" which is stretching it for a program that calls home once a month.

  2. Re:Doh! on AOL to be Split into 4 Units · · Score: -1, Troll

    It should probably be Anti Rest of World Online to more correctly reflect Americas global attitude.

  3. Re:4 Units? on AOL to be Split into 4 Units · · Score: 4, Funny

    No,each division sending you a CD each month would be just stupid now wouldn't it. Obviously each division will only send a 1/4 segment of a cd to you each month which you can glue toegther to form a coaster at your leisure.

  4. Re:Quick Question... on AOL to be Split into 4 Units · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The big whoop is they probably paid some management consultancy group a library of congress sized amount of money to formalize what they were already doing under the guise of a complete management reorganisation.

  5. Re:Goal on Kim Peek, aka Rain Man Focus of NASA Study · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, there is no spoon.

  6. For the first time ever on Everquest 2 Launches · · Score: 3, Funny

    There will be a mass almost RTFA as all the geeks hit the link to perv, I mean study the Heather Graham pics.

  7. Its pretty obvious then on Do Honeybees Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The bees at some point turned into swarms of ravenous dinosaur eating killers and wiped the poor innocent helpless dinos out. There can be no other explanation.

  8. Re:Summary == incorrect on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    It forbids placement of weapons on celestial bodies

    What has Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie not being allowed to carry weapons got to so with this?

  9. Relax people on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    I will use my secret orbiting battle station to shoot down anything they launch, to protect the world from American imperialism. Well at least until I am ready to achieve global domination anyway.

  10. What would be funny now on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is if India or China set up a corp in the US and win it.

  11. Re:Cut down on Novell Linux Desktop Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I cant believe more distros dont do this. Ubuntu do it quite well. Its a one CD install which is the way it should be, not download 3 or 4 to get a piece here and a piece there. Ubuntu gives you a nicely polished install with enough to satisfy most people and almost everything works out of the box.

    Word of warning though Ubuntu may not be the best option for dual boots on Dell Laptops (more correctly it seems to be the debian installer). It nuked my win2000 install on one and refuses to see any partitions on the other and will only accept the whole device.

  12. OK we need some input from the Zope heads on Zope X3 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it really an Application Server and if so what services does it provide? I ask because the programmers tutorial makes it look like a run of the mill framework for generating webpages.

    Is it compiled into native code? I know this is more a Python thing but even mentioning an application server built in a scripting language will have me ridiculed out the door.

    Any performance indications or comparissons? Anyone port Petshop and compare it against JBoss or Geronimo perchance?

    What advantages does Zope offer me over a J2EE server?

  13. I missed that one on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can someone please explain the rationale behind the loss of 5 millions jobs if Kyoto was adopted excuse.

  14. The next challenge for Rutan on X-prize Award paid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is to convince his bank manager that spending 25+ million to win 10 million was actually a good idea.

    It was an excellent achievement but I think the real challenge is to get people to actually hand over their cash as easily as they pledge it and create a viable space tourism/haulage business.

    To be honest once the novelty and rich morons exclusivity factor wears off I cant see it happening.

  15. Ach my eyes on The Scoop on Bloggercon III · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That linked page contains way too much vomit inducing material and verifies many of the complaints about blogging, that its really just the leftovers of someones mindless typing diahrea.

  16. Re:In other words... on NASA Prize Competition Solicits Ideas and Partners · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why should they not ask for ideas. Many here are always posting that private enterprise would thrash NASA, and that if Burt Rutan was in charge we would already have interstellar drives and be shagging tripple breasted alien babes. Lets hear some of the fantastically reveloutionary ideas that are supposed to be out there.

  17. Re:At least with the human.... on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually the US rules of engagement prohibit firing at women/childen/civilians. So if terrorist babies are shooting at US troops the usual approach now is to withdraw without returning fire, and then call in an airstrike to kill the babies (they can now be considered collateral babies), which is allowed apparently.

  18. Re:That sure is 'open'... on J2SE 5.0 Source Code Bundles Now Available · · Score: 1

    Well heres a concept for you. SUN wrote it, they own it, they can do as they please with it, they can license it and the source in any manner they see fit. Thats their perogative because they created it. If you dont like it go build your own VM.

  19. Re:If for Research... on J2SE 5.0 Source Code Bundles Now Available · · Score: 1

    Out of Idle curiosity what would you like to customize?

  20. Games are not funny on Humor in Games? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the simple reason that the first couple of times you play it a joke is amusing, the 200th time you play, its a worn out fucking nuisance.

  21. How evil are you? on Review: Evil Genius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well I must be getting more evil. I used to just enslave captured populations in Rome Total War, now I almost always exterminate them cos I like the sound effects.

  22. Gotta say on Digital Retro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They were fun when I had them but I dont miss them one little bit. ZX 81 with that crappy excuse for a keyboard, took forever to key anything in. A Sinclair Spectrum with a more usable keyboard but god forbid the ram pack should move when you were doing anything. The joy of saving to cassette tape, and the interesting gamble of trying to actually reload it. Even my Amstrad6128 with its monitor and build in disk still pale in comparrison to my first PC, an IBM 286 (assembled by Vickers Tankworks I believe because the case was so heavy). And then one of my old favourites, a lovely tidy Olivetti 386 I got on the cheap, still dont miss it though.

    No thanks, I love my Inspiron 9100 now and will probably love my next machine even more.

  23. Spare me the heart tugging bullshit on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It comes across more like genital tugging. When I see heads of organisations like this attempting to paint their business opeations as something the head dude feels morally compelled to do because his child asked him I immediately switch to total cynic mode and am immediately sure there is another agenda.

  24. I really want to see a proper worm anlysis on Using Layered Defenses to Stop Internet Worms · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, when you start feeling like a worm?

    Do you feel like people are always looking down on you?

    Do you feel segmented and isolated from society?

    Do you worry about cholesterol given you have 8 hearts.

    Are you always this slimy or are you just pleased to see me?

    This is the sort of stuff we really need to know because to borrow the immortal words of that famous philosopher, John Rambo "To survive worm you must become worm".

  25. Cant post anything constructive on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am completely mesmerized by the mesmerizing blue backlight glow.