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  1. Re:own rip identical to download on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    Sheesh! Learn the difference betwenn Meat Loaf and Leo Sayer for cryin' out loud!

    And also please realize that Weird Al Yankovic is not the only artist who does parody and other funny songs! Every freakin' funny song it seems is labeled "Weird Al".

    (Not that I've ever used P2P or anything. . . .)

  2. Re:HOWTO: Encrypted partition on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    A logged in root user still can see your data in cleartext if the partition is mounted.

    I was about to argue, then realized you're right. Oops. At first I thought you were saying root could mount the encrypted partition and read it, but you're saying root can read it as long as it's already mounted.

    So this scheme does not work in a company where administrators scan your mounted partitions.

    In that case, use that modified KNOPPIX that can use encrypted home drives, and no one has root access to your box. Or just do all your stuff at home.

  3. Re:Give up on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've discovered that my friends and family have quite a diverse selection of CDs that I don't have, and I can get consistent rips and naming when ripping their CDs myself.

    I just got hold of a 20GiB MP3 player that acts as a USB drive. Very handy when visiting friends & family! Riiiiiiip!

    And you can download the freedb database....

  4. Re:It's commonly assumed that people are base-10.. on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 1

    Two mommies.

    (Intentionally didn't try to add words to make it a joke because it wouldn't have been funny then, either. Hey, at least now that I said it you won't get some AC troll using it in an even stupider joke, so there.)

  5. Re:Power on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 1

    If you go to multilevel logic (not just on/off) then you're necessarily going to have intermediate states which both conduct and have voltage across them. . .

    I'm probably talking out of my ass here, but you've got to admit it's a great trick.

    Couldn't the three states be no voltage, positive voltage and negative voltage--without an increase in power consumption?

  6. Re:So that being the case on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    By the way, the official name for Longhorn will be "Windows HC" (short for "Windows Hypochondriac")

  7. Re:Logical conclusion... on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the "weakened" worm could actually download the official patch for the vulnerability from the vendor, set up a tftp daemon and copy itself to the next vulnerable PC. You could even design it so it would spread faster than an actual worm might.

    (If you think this is a good idea, read about Nachi)

  8. Re:High School French Translation Service on Columbia Accident Investigation Board: Final Report · · Score: 1

    ç (or ç) Is supposed to be the html code for a small "c" with a cedilla, but Slashdot allows very few codes. &, < and > are the only ones I know of that /. allows.

  9. High School French Translation Service on Columbia Accident Investigation Board: Final Report · · Score: 1

    Plus ca change...

    From your HSFTS:

    Put a goatee on the "C" in "ca" and it means:

    "The more things change..."

  10. Re:Maybe I have missed somthing... on Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs · · Score: 1

    Because it wasn't taxed yet

    What? You mean . . . . . . thingy?

  11. Continue to Cancel? on Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please, Gnome developers, switch Cancel and Ok to a consistent Ok(LHS) and Cancel(RHS)... Please?!!!

    Heh, that reminds me: I was cancelling an online subscription last night, and after verifying my password it gave me a summary screen of what I was doing and had two buttons : "Continue to Cancel" and "No, Do Not Cancel".

    I printed it to PDF but haven't put it online yet.

  12. Re:I've had it the typos. on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1
    I will gladly accept your citicism when you speak Greek as well as i speak English.

    I can spell in Greek. All I have to do is change my font like SCO did, right?

    :-)

  13. Re:Great! on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    Heh. I honestly can't imagine a company in the U.S. doing something like this.

    Exactly, because U.S. companies are almost all for-profit, even many (most?) of the "nonprofit" ones.

    Not to mention a lot of people would start screaming about communism and/or socialism which are still very bad words. I don't think they're even allowed to say them on TV, are they? That is unless it's refering to a country the administration wants to bomb. ;-)

  14. Re:Remember who's paying for this! on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    Just wanted to point out to the world that TV License paying Brits like myself pay for the BBC. Just something to keep in mind when you're downloading Red Dwarf season 3.

    Cool, so I can just download from you directly then, right? What's your IP? Thanks dude.

  15. Re:This is very good news on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    As an non French living in Paris, this is soo good. Now we can finally watch some real TV here, instead of only 5 public channels of stupid quizzes and musical shows.

    And Jerry Lewis movies. You have that, too, right?

  16. Re:SCO's Website Down on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 1
    Ow. I never before realized I'm epileptic.

    :-)

  17. Re:SCO's Website Down on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 1

    Check their short shares. (Right column in the bottom table.) 5.5% of the outstanding shares are short right now; I don't think that's enough to squeeze. I've seen companies with 50%-60% of shares short.

  18. Re:SCO's Website Down on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 1
    I like how all the replies to this are taking it seriously, despite the admission of trolling.

    And the fact that another front page story says the downloaded program redirected people to a web site. People are funny.

    Let's make up some more reasons:
    • Utah suffered a blackout due to further complications from the Northeast blackout
    • IBM bought them
    • Microsoft bought them
    • Corel bought them
    • BYU annexed them
    • Japanese robot went on rampage in SCO HQ
    • Debris from Brazilian rocket lands on SCO HQ
  19. Re:Kicking it on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even gangstas need 1099's for their bling bling.

  20. Re:Idiots. on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Edit that slightly and send it to Microsoft:
    -----
    Come on, if you're going to write an OS, do it right.

    Don't use 20 predetermined machines from which to fetch updates; generate an unstructured network while you're spreading (remember who sued you, and trade alliances randomly).

    Don't fetch and install any updates provided to you; use RSA signatures to verify that they are legitimate.

    Don't use canned, easy to filter, subject lines in your email messages; borrow subject lines from your host's mail spool (optionally, do so with only a small probability -- let evolution determine which subject lines are the most effective).

    In short: If you're going to release some software which you want to see on millions of machines around the world, try not to embarrass yourself.

  21. Re:Stupid, Offtopic, Newbie, Question on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the difference between a worm and a virus?

    You see, a virus is what we doctors call
    very very small. So small it could not possibly have made off with a
    whole leg.

  22. Sex, dummy on Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics · · Score: 1

    wonder why we spend so little effort studying our oceans.

    Deep sea diving doesn't get you laid like riding thousands of pounds of burning rocket fuel into LEO. I bet those astronauts live like Wilt Chamberlain when they're back on the ground.

  23. Anagrams? on SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off? · · Score: 1

    Here's the output of an for Darl Mcbride. Perhaps we can use of these? "Damn, you pulled a 'red limb card' on that one!" Hmm, maybe not.

    mcbride lard
    cradled brim
    climb red dar
    climb add err
    climb dad err
    crib dram del
    crib dram led
    crab mildred
    crab mild red
    calm bird red
    clam bird red
    calm bred rid
    clam bred rid
    cram bridled
    marc bridled
    cram bled rid
    marc bled rid
    cram bird del
    marc bird del
    marc bird led
    cram bird led
    cram bred lid
    marc bred lid
    clad brim red
    clad bred rim
    carl bred dim
    carl bred mid
    card limb red
    card brim del
    card brim led
    card bled rim
    card bird elm
    card bird mel
    carr bled dim
    carr bled mid
    carr bed mild
    dec brim lard
    dec barr mild
    arc bred mild
    car bred mild

  24. Re:Where is Linux going again? on Debian: A Brief Retrospective · · Score: 1

    Linux users expect everything to be free and in general dislike things they have to pay for.

    Heh, you actually have a point there. Pay us like Capitalists but provide for us like Communists. But as far as a "direction" the "community" is moving I don't think there's a consensus.

    Don't troll.

    Isn't any blogger by definition a troll?

  25. Where is Linux going again? on Debian: A Brief Retrospective · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like staying away from the current direction that Linux is moving but I don't believe that the rest of the community necessarily believes that's the best way to go.

    When people talk about where Linux is going like it's a bus (or bandwagon) I get confused. Who says Debian should be the Linux platform for mainstream commercial apps when MS is overthrown? (If any of that happens; I'm not saying it will.)

    Talking about "the Linux community" is like trying to talk about "the Slashdot community"...people try to assign consensus opinions to each group but obviously there is none.

    Linux is a kernel, not a movement.