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  1. Not very user friendly on Server In A Fly · · Score: 1, Funny
    Check the picture halfway down the page. The viewer has to bend over to look at the fly.

    Why didn't they mount it at head height so you can see it while standing upright?

  2. Re:Surprising? on 419 Scam Costs Britons 8.4m GBP in 2002 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Maybe they should lose theire superiority complex.

    It's spelt their, you inbred redneck.

  3. Quit while you're ahead on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    I'm glad they ditched this. It's much better to stop it while there's still demand than for people to gradually get more and more sick of it.

  4. Re:Fat people burners on UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've often wondered about this. Well, not the fat American bit, but bit about hooking a gernerator up to an exercise bike.

    I wonder how much energy could be extracted from gym equipment?

  5. My moderation of this comment... on Professor Eben Moglen Replies · · Score: 2, Funny

    -1 KarmaWhore

  6. Re:So what.... on Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers · · Score: 1
    One month later the box was *filled* with spam. My guess is that MS itself sold the account to spammers.

    Yeah, I just bet that's what they're doing, after all, Micro$oft Suxx0rZ and Linux is teh BOMB

  7. Re:You're fired. on Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make him a troll, it just makes him a short-sighted employer.

  8. Re:Who cares? on Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? · · Score: 1
    I'm no politician, but that's a bit flawed.

    There's nothing stopping (well, over here in the UK there's not) anyone with an 8 hour day job getting a night / weekend job too. I nearly did exactly that the other day.

  9. Re:You're fired. on Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? · · Score: 1
    I can't believe you got modded down for this. +5 Insightful would be closer to the mark.

    Manual workers absolutely fuXX0red the UK economy during the 1970's with this sort of rubbish.

  10. Who cares? on Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? · · Score: 1

    Laws like this suck. It all evens out in the end. If you're not happy about your overtime situation, consider changing your job. If you feel lucky to have a job at the moment, stop complaining.

  11. Re:Clarifying the GPL on Ask FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen · · Score: 1

    In a situation like this, you'd probably find that the JAR was licensed under the LGPL, which works differently (I'll let you read it rather than try to explain it).

  12. Re:Nevermind that... on 1.6 Million IP Connections on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    We had a similar situation on our 4-CPU 100-user Sun. An email the next day explained that one of the CPUs was being hot swapped.

  13. Great! on Cashless Society · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've thought up this brilliant alternative to money. You'll get these sheets of paper that you can use instead of regular money. No information will be stored on it, so transactions will be completely private. For smaller amounts, little metal tokens could be used. They could be different shapes and colours to help tell them apart.

    Pretty neat, don't you think?

  14. Re:Sue them on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 1
    "the GPL is legally enforceable - something that has not occurred to date."

    I remember reading an interview with Stallman where he made the interesting statement that the GPL has proven itself simply because nobody has even tried to argue against it in court.

  15. Re:Nothing wrong with /. IMO on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Remote controlled X10 stuff is good but make sure it works"

    Oh no, it took me ages to get X11 working, I don't want to do more!

  16. Hotmail in Konqueror is screwed too on Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera · · Score: 1

    Just my $0.02

  17. Look around you, not up in the sky on Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here's a great idea; why don't we first stop fucking our own planet over, and then think about heading to other worlds?

  18. Re:Errrr.. on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 1
    "A Japanese restaurant near here has giant wooden phalluses with faces decorating the room"

    I misread that the first time ;)

  19. WTF? on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 1
    An article about ASCII art and not a single ASCII-goatse in sight!

    What's going on?

  20. He must be pretty leet on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, this guy has his own blog and web site! That's amazing!

  21. Simple: on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 1
    1. Connect microphone to computer.
    2. Press 'record'
    3. ?????
    4. Profit!
  22. Linux Torvalds on Linux Gains Support for NUMA · · Score: 1

    Wow, that guy called Linux changed his name to be just like that computer thing!

  23. Re:"Playing the Open Source Game" on 25 Best Linux Games · · Score: 1

    (forgot to mention in my post that the essay is quite old now. Unfortunately, it's still relevant)

  24. "Playing the Open Source Game" on 25 Best Linux Games · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Shawn Hargreaves (of Allegro fame, and also my lead coder) has written an interesting essay on why open source is quite a poor development model for games.

    Check it out Here

  25. Re:Hey, MS ain't that bad (for EOL at least) on Red Hat Announces Product EOL Calendar · · Score: 1
    "idiots asking questions that are answered in FAQs"

    Perhaps if the questions are so frequently asked, they're an indication of a user interface problem.