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  1. Well. on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Soviet Russia (yeah I know bear with me) if you had something secret to say, you whispered it into someone's ear.

    I don't know why, but it seems the Russian Federation is returning to it's own vomit (so to speak) I used to like Putin, but lately, he seems to be returning to his roots.

  2. Yeah sound's easy on Evolving the Wireless Robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pitfall 4: Security. Hackers can exploit a robot's vulnerabilities and turn it into a weapon or completely disable it. Solution: Install safeguards to counter these vulnerabilities.

    If it were truly that easy, there would be no hackers. It sounds like a movie solution.
    "The bad guy is hacking us!"
    "Enable safeguards!"
    "He's backing out sir! It's working!"

  3. FYI on Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. · · Score: 1

    The Governor of Michigan was born in Canada.

  4. Base 64 encoding on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since it is on the website, google will probably cache it meaning it will not be lost. :) And even if MS orders to take their site down, google will still have it.

  5. Damn on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 1

    Unlike Champagne, ink becomes useless with age, your drivers turn up their nose at an old cartridge. Damn expiration dates.

  6. Re:99% ? on Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Outlook express as well. Considering many of us had hotmail accounts before MS took over. OE is the easy way to get to them.

  7. 99% ? on Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ideally yes, but 99% is a bit generous. I know quite a few it gurus that just use IE. I mean mozilla is the politically correct thing to do, but you know, IE is pretty familiar to most people. If we could see the logs at Slashdot, I'm sure that IE would have a commanding lead.

  8. Other people's bill collectors on Telemarketers Plan Counterattack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's my problem. I had my number changed about 6 months ago and now I get at least one call per week for Jose Rosales. Most of them are in spanish. After I argue with them about who I am not. I get to wait another week for them to call back.

  9. Porn Sites on Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah, porn sites discriminate against the blind too you know! Ever tried to get off on a mouse-over image desc?

  10. Re:Hmmm ... on Toshiba Introduces A 17"-Screen Laptop · · Score: 1

    Funny, now it has a link that says "Slashdot users, click here "

  11. I've got it!! on Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists · · Score: 2, Funny

    The creature is grey, lumpy, and the size of a school bus.

    Jimmy Hoffa! I knew he'd be found!

  12. Keep your walls white on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    And when you move, fill the holes with tooth paste.

    If you cut some holes for wiring boxes, you tape a piece of notebook paper over the hole and paint the wall. I guess if you wanted to do it the home depot way, get some mesh and some spackle. Now remember no home network is complete with out at least 3 separate Unices. So grab a few SparcStations, an SGI or two, throw in an x86 box running Linux or BSD and you've got a good start.

  13. Re: load on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that if you are running a nat with squid, you may have caching enabled. I found out that my squid config was caching and causing heck trying to participate in online forums, I couldn't see my own posts because they were caching. Also some ISP's by default pipe port 80 through a proxy.

  14. Re:Youth? on Indiana Jones To Arrive Again in 2005 · · Score: 1

    ...and every Doctor. I mean, you couldn't find seven more different types than William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy (I'm not including Paul McGann or Peter Cushing because they were only in movies).

    Colin Baker? He always made a better bad guy than a Doctor. Maxil was a jerk, but I'm trying to remember him in another role, where he played a bad guy (Maybe Blake 7?) that wore a black body suit.

  15. Re:Of course. on Using Linux for Windows HD Snapshots? · · Score: 1

    It will still be readable and I believe if you chkdsk -r it, it will drop the unaccessable clusters.

  16. Gesture recognition maybe? on Motion-sensitive Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    Great now I can dial numbers by drawing 3 foot numbers in the air. If I don't get arrested first for breaking people's noses or get thrown into the Funny Farm, again... (Just Kidding)

  17. 2 problems I see. on Backscatter X-Rays Coming to Airports · · Score: 1

    First some guy looking at 13 year old girls toilet paper filled bra's.

    Second, what about women who have had breast cancer and carefully conceal it by having a "strap-on" boob?

    I still think the Total Recall version would be best, you just see bones and guns/bombs.

  18. Re:How long will you be staying at Mars? on Backscatter X-Rays Coming to Airports · · Score: 1

    OT: I saw the woman that was in that scene on "Love Connection" in a re-run that took place before the movie was made. Someone liked her... I guess...

  19. Re:Meanwhile back at Mars Central on Ice Detected Underneath Mars' North Pole · · Score: 1

    My God I should have been shot for my grammatical errors. Please excuse them, I was translating from Martian to English.

  20. Meanwhile back at Mars Central on Ice Detected Underneath Mars' North Pole · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Martian scientists have just found definite proof of solid ice on the poles of earth, now bringing up the possibility of life. A scientists was quoted as saying "This is exciting news, if earth has solid ice, then it is possible that ice burrowing intellegent lifeforms such as ourself. We always new earth had liquid water but everyone knows it is impossible to life in melted ice, or even in a gas atmosphere."

  21. Re:Missing something on PyraMac Pyramid G4 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you must have me confused with someone who reads articles. ;)

  22. Missing something on PyraMac Pyramid G4 Case Mod · · Score: 4, Funny

    It needs the eyeball at the top of the pyramid. :)

  23. Re:SCO Letter on Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL · · Score: 1

    pump-and-dump of thier stock

    Levitz, Enron, WorldCom, Emclone (sp), now SCO. Note to SCO: I think the SEC should (to quote Axle Foley) "Crawl up your ass with a microscope."

  24. Re:SCO Letter on Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL · · Score: 1

    But if SCO sold them Linux, I don't see how they could sue anyway. Isn't selling someone something which implements your IP an implicit grant of permission to use it? If I buy the new Harry Potter book, for instance, can't I assume I have a license to read it?

    Well I think that the fact that SCO is "selling" GPL'd linux WITH THEIR CODE IN IT, is an implicitly saying the code is GPL'd! If their code was not GPL'd then they can't call it Linux, it's Linux+SCO SystemV "enhancements". By sco knowingly distributing it, they have just lost their reason to claim that someone has pirated their code... That's like not proof reading a book and after you have sold it, you find out that some how someone slipped your home phone number into the book. Too late now!

  25. soon? on (When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I was under the suspicion that this had already happened years ago, but then OSX came out and reclaimed the lead.