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  1. Re:Great, now they steal your whole computer. on ABIT's Secure IDE Motherboard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Actually, They prefer to be called Secstapo now.
    Ge = Geheimnis, or Secret
    Sta = Staat, or State
    Po = Polizei, or Police

    Translate from german to english, and mash it all together again, and viola, Secstapo

  2. Next From Wiley Publishing on Solaris 9 For Dummies · · Score: 4, Funny
    Look out for thse up-and-coming titles from Wiley Publishing:
    • Managing your multinational corporation for Dummies
    • Nuclear Engineering for Dummies (available in Arabic and Korean)
    • Assembly programing for Dummies
    • Genetic Engineering for Dummies
    • the Federal Budget for Dummies
  3. Re:Eternal life on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Despite appearances, this is a very on-topic post.

    You see, you'll be playing the DNF beta on your holideck when you receive a message from Star Fleet that the Cyborgs have begun thier invasion.

  4. Re:Locutus would disagree.... on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 1

    I thought about this, then I realized: Since they're speaking english, they're probally translating everything they say anyway, including the coordinate systems. Since they're using a language as convoluted as the english language, translanting coordinate systems is nothing compared to figuring out verb conjugations.

  5. Locutus would disagree.... on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 4, Funny
    But most of the talk was of peaceful integration and continuation of democratic values.

    Freedom is irrelevant
    Choice is irrelevant
    You will escort us to sector 001 where we will begin assimilation of your species. Resistance is futile.

  6. Re:Good. on Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act Introduced · · Score: 1
    If you were a manager at this company you could use the two databases together, using the "gender" and "date of birth" fields to merge the two

    Just when I thought I was about to have what little privacy I have left invaded, it turns out that there were other males born on Febuary 30th*, 1982. Whew!

    *Note: this isn't really my birthdate.

  7. Re:but then on (Solar) Power to the Masses · · Score: 0, Troll
    *ahem*

    I believe you meant to say "Liberate those sunny countries". Me thinks you need more time in room 101 for political education with Mr. Ashcroft.

  8. Re:A bit of math on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    ah, every other person gets an IP address. This is why I shouldn't post before my 4th coffee in the morning.

  9. Re:A bit of math on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1
    Available number of IPv4 addresses: 4.2 billion
    Number of people on earth: 6.35 Billion
    At this moment, Every other person on earth could have their own IP address. And we'd still have a billion IP's to spare.

    6.35 billion people - 4.2 billion IP addresses = 2.15 Billion people with no IP addresses.

    Unless some those IP adresses were on really fast connections and get counted twice, I don't see where your 1 billion came from

  10. Re:Cyber-Kyoto? on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1
    We couldn't care less about you other countries

    What are these other countries that you speak of? Is this A-Rack another country? that would make sense because I don't see GW sending the army to liberate a woman's chest....

  11. Re:of course they are shrugging it off... on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course, it's a big conspiracy by the ISPs to rail you on the cost of IP addresses. It has nothing to do with the fact that to support IPV6, the ISPs would have to spend hundreds of man hours upgrading their routers and servers. And nothing to do with the fact that they would have to spend even more resources on technical support for their customers ("Durrrr... my iMac can't access the network. It just says something about Eye-Pee-Vee-Six com-pat-ability."), and that until everyone else adopted it, their customers would have trouble doing anything more complex than web browsing ("d00d, my 1337 kl4n c4n't g3t to my ph4t 53rv3r N3 more 51nc3 j00 n3rf3d my IP addr355 w1th th15 IPV6 cr4p"). And I'm sure the customers of the first ISPs to do this will wait paitently with their now disfunct connections while every one catches up.

  12. and this is bad because... on Wearing a Tie May Cause Blindness! · · Score: 1
    Such pressure rises have been linked to glaucoma..

    Yeah, that's what I have officer, glaucoma from wearing this tie. Can you give me back my medicine now?

  13. Re:Slashdot 20 years from now on Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I already make pleanty of Bud Lite shortly after I drink too much caffiene....

  14. WARNING on Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just noticed on the Nightly build that one of the seatbelts hacks I put in will lock-up the steering wheel if you try to lean too far forward. I think the cause is an oil leak in one of the components. One of my testers reported a Red-windsheild of death after this happened on a Pennsylvania backroad.

  15. Please god, not on windows. on Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing · · Score: 1, Funny
    C:\buildColt.exe
    C:\buildDeagle.exe
    C:\buildAmmo.exe

    Clippy: It looks like you're going on a shooting spree. Would you like me to help?

  16. Let me be the first to announce... on Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me be the first to announce the open-source Car project. I'm currently on version 0.2. We have the chasis mostly bug-free, with occasional glitches on an Interstate network. Seat-Belts are available on the nightly builds, but aren't supported yet. You'll still have to use a closed-source engine module, and we're not planning on adding it until version .5 when we have the chasis, firewall, and fuel system components some-what bug free. I've heard some people saying that they've been able to use the engine module from the Open-Source-Lawn-Mower project, but it will only work under light loads. For now, I have to get back to developing the lights module. BTW, we're looking for someone to design a module-hot-swaping system, similar to linux.

  17. Re:Screen captures? on Disney to Make Movies Available Online · · Score: 1
    such a screen-capture duplication would be illegal--since you don't own the thing you rent, it is not yours to duplicate.

    And that matters to us how....oh wait, you're new here, my mistake. Welcome.

  18. Re:Poor choice of words on Diebold Voting Systems Grossly Insecure · · Score: 1
    And is hacking an iceberg permissible under the DMCA?

    As long as you don't use a cargo ship to distribute ice cubes in a Pier-to-Pier Network

  19. Re:Anything to get away for an hour on Meditation in the Workplace? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why there's slashdot....wait, you mean ONLY an hour a day?

  20. It's not netcraft, but oh well. on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    It is official; North American IPv6 Global Summit confirms: IPV4 is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered IPV4 community when IDC confirmed that IPV4 market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent North American IPv6 Global Summit survey which plainly states that IPV4 has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IPV4 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
    You don't need to be a Alex Lightman to predict IPV4's future. The hand writing is on the wall: IPV4 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IPV4 because IPV4 is dying. Things are looking very bad for IPV4. As many of us are already aware, IPV4 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
    RFC 1001 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time RFC 1001 developers Cody Christman only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: RFC 1001 is dying.
    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
    RFC 1067 leader Theo De Raadt states that there are 7000 users of RFC 1067. How many users of RFC 1189 are there? Let's see. The number of RFC 1067 versus RFC 1189 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 RFC 1189 users. RFC 1256 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of RFC 1189 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of RFC 1256. A recent article put RFC 1001 at about 80 percent of the IPV4 market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 RFC 1001 users. This is consistent with the number of RFC 1001 Usenet posts.
    Due to the troubles of Charmed Technology , abysmal sales and so on, RFC 1001 went out of business and was taken over by Verio who sell another troubled OS. Now Verio is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
    All major surveys show that IPV4 has steadily declined in market share. IPV4 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If IPV4 is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. IPV4 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, IPV4 is dead.
    Fact: IPV4 is dying

  21. I need more coffee... on Wozniak Unveils WozNet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone else read WozNet and think, oh great, another porno network.

  22. Re:When Good Spammers Go Bad on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 1
    no, then it would be "The only good spammer is an undead spammer"

    Of course, they prefer to be called "Undead Americans". The Zombie lobby lost some power since Strom Thurmond stepped down (The Watcher's Council was onto him, just needed an excuse to push him into direct sunlight)

  23. Re:Fear? on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    "You see, Mr. Pete-classic, we have noticed you are using a, shall we say highly dangerous, operating system. This operating system may suddenly become copyrighted. Perhaps if you'd like to buy some insurance from us, we can ensure that your copy will never become copyrighted."

  24. This could be bad for industry.... on Risk Management For Electronics on Aircraft · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it suddenly comes out that cell phones do nothing to mess up the navigation of an aircraft, do people really expect the airlines to suddenly say "Go ahead and use your cell phones on the flight". They won't they're making too much money off of those $5 / call Airfones.

  25. Re:So What? on White House Obfuscates Email · · Score: 1
    get your first aluminum foil hat free.

    Excuse me, but no self-respecting slashdot user would wear an aluminum hat. Tin is the fashion, Aluminum is soooo 1998.