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  1. So How About a Round Of.... on FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Scheme · · Score: 1

    .... Capture the flag?

    This thing will be hacked (DMCA or not, USA or not) faster than you can shed a fedora.

    T.

  2. Re:Read into it what you want on Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So Joe SixPack is going to secure every pager, phone, wireless access point, and hell, even a car because he is self-reliant?

    Joe SixPack either does nothing or sues someone.

  3. Answer to Last Sentence From Title.... on Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for Security · · Score: 1

    I think it says a lot.

    That's why Outlook is so *cool*.

    T.

  4. Re:If anyone cares... on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    I pick #3 or #4.

  5. Wow. on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced. I better get my license fee in before it's too late...

    NOT!

  6. Priceless... on MPAA School Propaganda Program Examined · · Score: 1

    Plane tickets to San Francisco: $500

    Cost to print out promotional flyers: $400

    Salary for small team of RIAA evangelizers for traveling road show: $99,100

    Having a 14-year-old say they'll host media in Uzbekistan to circumvent unfair RIAA copying laws?

  7. Re:A rose is a rose... on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    Are you insulting my date?

  8. Petabytes..... on IBM Introduces Petabyte-Capacity 'Storage Tank' · · Score: 1

    Wait 'til the NeoCons get a hold of this term.

  9. Re:More fun than VB? on C-64 Diehards Relive History · · Score: 1

    And yes, you could still use line numbers and still use gotos almost to this day. I know VB6 had all those "features"

    So where the hell is my C-64 -> VB.NET conversion tool?

  10. Off Topic, But.... on Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job? · · Score: 1

    I have a BS. I guess I have no shot at all.

    Thanks for the info.

  11. Off Topic, But.... on Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job? · · Score: 1

    Well, that explains our predicament then, doesn't it?

    How about Linus? Was he self-educated?

  12. Re:Thousands of steams? on TV's Tipping Point · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not looking for TV to be a mindblowing experience; I can leave the house for those

    Do you live in Amsterdam?

  13. Can't Resist.... on Frontiers: A New Xlib Compatible Window System · · Score: 1
    [xml screenshot][name]B.S.O.D.[/]
    [author]Gates, B.[/][screen]
    [pixel][y]1024[/][x]635[/] [red]0[/][green]0[/][blue]255[/][saturation]0[/] [/pixel]
    [(...)]
    [/screen]
    [/xml]
  14. Re:More ignorant flamebait... on Software Fashion · · Score: 1

    You must be joking.... please [diety], tell me you're joking....

    Don't let my PHB find out that one....

  15. Re:So how can I use the DMCA? on EFF Reviews 5 Years Under The DMCA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you a Fortune 500 company?

    Step aside.

    T.

  16. Re:Who do I blame for all this crap? on Microsoft Taking Over the BIOS · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up as patriotic. ;-)

    Damn good points though... play by the rules and you still get screwed.

  17. Small Moving Parts... on Track a Soda Can with GPS? · · Score: 1

    Drink the Coke, ingest an unknown transmitter, scratch your digestive tract like keying a car, poop it out, have a seagull choke on the discarded can and it can add another ounce to the silicon trash heaps in the third world.

    Can we stick to plastic caps? Please?

    Not that any of this discussion has to do with the article since they only talked about satellite tracking, but while everyone else is spinning out of control, why not join in?

    Where's my SCO news, dammit?

  18. Re:search engine ads on MIT Emerging Technologies Conference · · Score: 1

    Ah-Ha has a new single? Of course they need pop-unders!

  19. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN! on The Bionic Office · · Score: 1

    (w)indows... Not (W)indows (tm)(r)(c), etc....

    I'm stupid - but not that stupid. :-P

  20. Nice Office, But.... on The Bionic Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    - Windows are good. I love windows to look out at - preferably something pretty.

    - Too much neon. It would distract me.

    But the other architecture is very interesting... whether it would be distracting is another thing.

    As long as I have an office with a door, I'm pretty much happy. Just wish I had windows...

  21. Re:Apt protest. on Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    Mod parent -1 for faulty sarcasm detection.

  22. Re:Apt protest. on Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    Of course its like real life.... there are real people playing the game. :-)

  23. Re:Who needs expensive VoIP when there's... on Vonage Starts Charging 'Regulatory Recovery Fee' · · Score: 1

    But all the talking hexes sound so... boring.

    I want an exciting phone service... or voip service... or...

  24. End-around.... on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 1

    Just get a PO box in Bombay. No one will *ever* know.

  25. Obligatory Adam Sandler Reference.... on On the Record: Scott McNealy · · Score: 1

    "When someone says the sun sucks, say, "Yeah, the sun sucks. Long live the fsckin beast..." (off-topic, but who cares...)

    $1.00 for the first person to guess who Sun and Microsoft are in this allegory.