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  1. Or something on U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List · · Score: 2, Insightful
    e must really, REALLY think he's making the right decision (or lives in his own little world...).

    Or has an enormously inflated sense of self-importance and likes that sort of thing.

  2. Lively Hood on Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence · · Score: 2, Funny
    They will not investigate the criminal acts being perpetrated against your lively hood.

    There better be no muthafuckaz tryin' to perp' shit against *my* homies in *my* lively 'hood. Might have to pop a cap in somebody's ass.

  3. Stop trolling and modding by opinion on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Take your flame/troll war to macslash or somewhere else more appropriate. This is completely offtopic and should be moderated as such.

    2) How is this insightful? It's Apple's ad campaign! It's not even original. If anything, it's redundant in addition to offtopic. Whether it's true is irrelevant.

    3) We really need a pair of new mods for the macheads. "+1, Said Something Nice About Apple" and "-1, Said Something Mean About Apple." Because that's what you're doing here.

    In short, we do not need this. It's bad enough on mac stories, which this is not. The editor's point was simply that Kazaa does not RUN on a mac.

  4. So what do you get... on Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat · · Score: 1
    ...when you multiply potential, mass, acceleration, the speed of light, and entropy?

    ???=E*m*a*c*S. The units work out to Joules^2*Newtons/(Coulomb*Kelvin).

    Yeah, I don't think that really means much.

  5. Chicken and egg on Athlon 64 Debuts · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Unless they come from the same company, either the 64-bit OS had to come before it had a 64-bit chip to run on, or the 64-bit processor had to come before it had anything to run. Which makes more sense - releasing a chip so the OS makers can finalize their designs, or releasing an os that uses mythical 64-bit opcodes?

    I think we can all see the wisdom of releasing the new processor before the new OS.

  6. What keyboard are you using? on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 1

    "D" and "N" aren't near each other on my trusty QWERTY, and aren't even on the same finger/opposite hand.

  7. I didn't think.... on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 1

    ...we were already able to dope semiconductors with small mid-Atlantic states like Maryland. I figured we'd start with something like Hawaii.

  8. Safe honeypots on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 1
    Okay, let's talk about the box of goodies. Let's say you leave a box of weapons outside with full knowledge that a neighborhood kid will probably find it and will likely use the contents for something illegal. If that happens, do you think you are partially responsible for whatever happens?

    With a well-designed honeypot, with your example, the guns would appear to be real, would act like real guns unless you fire them, and might even shoot blanks to make you think you were firing them.

    In otherwords, the box full of pinball parts that fooled some terrorists in Back to the Future would be an example of a crude if effective honeypot, had they used it as such. An actual bomb, not so good.

  9. Re:C'mon, do it all the way! on Quicksilver · · Score: 1

    Yeah, forgot about that. Probably be induced from sniffing toner instead of Sister Morphine though.

  10. C'mon, do it all the way! on Quicksilver · · Score: 5, Funny
    When things get crazy at work, I just think to myself, "What would Shaftoe do?"

    Well, first, when IT fucked up all the networked laser printers, he'd parachute into their building, impaling himself mortally on a letter-opener on someone's desk. Then, he'd machine-gun the front-line support staff. Then, he'd lob a few grenades into the server room. Finally, for good measure, he'd jump in there himself to make sure the job got done, going out in a big ball of glory.

    Now *that's* some fucking adaptability. If you're going to do it like Shaftoe, you fucking do it right, soldier.

  11. CALTECH ROCKS! on Single-atom Laser Built at Caltech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go Beavers!

  12. GNUggle on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1
    It works much better than I expected.

    Which is to say, at all? They shouldn't bother writing a search engine, they should just get Google to call itself GNUggle.

  13. Worst "In Soviet Russia..." ever on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: -1, Troll
    Crap, if I wanted internet that logged into me...

    In Soviet Russia....

    YOU log onto the INTERNET!

    ...Hmmm, that's strange.

  14. Nice on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    You might want to try not turning the kind of chicks who would do pr0n in the first place into SO's. I could see a hookup, but probably not the apartment key swap.

  15. I tell women... on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ya, I have an 11 inch... but you can only see 6.

    ...I measure starting from the base of my spine.

  16. This lawsuit's BEEN DONE on Take-Two Interactive and Sony Sued Over GTA · · Score: 1

    Judas priest and Ozzy already got sued for this shit. It doesn't fly in court. I don't know why the game maker can't just get the damned thing dismissed.

  17. Re:I don't want to be the ass who brings up SCO... on British Court Issues Bizarre Copyright Ruling · · Score: 1
    As would a tree because they've both got roots.

    Nice. ;)

  18. Re:I don't want to be the ass who brings up SCO... on British Court Issues Bizarre Copyright Ruling · · Score: 1
    infringe "Unix" != infringe SCO

    If they have the copyrights they claim, it does. If they don't have that, the whole suit is moot anyway, but as I recall, Novell wasn't able to completely substantiate their claims of still owning the whole thing.

  19. I don't want to be the ass who brings up SCO... on British Court Issues Bizarre Copyright Ruling · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...but I will. Under this idiotic interpretation, Linux would clearly infringe on Unix simply because it works like it.

    Cheerio!

  20. Yeah, I saw this in the rules on Google Code Jam 2003 Announced · · Score: 1
    When your stuck on how to code something.... run a competition and let others do the coding for you.

    I saw this in the rules:

    1. Function #26 must be called "CheckForSearchKing(char * HTMLpage)." It must accept a pointer to a long buffer of char.
    2. Function #27 must be called "PageRank(char * HTMLpage)." It also accepts a pointer to a char buffer, as shown. Also, it must call Function #26. Function #27 should return 0 if Function #26 returns true.

  21. They couldn't on Californians Can Get Free MS-Settlement PCs · · Score: 1
    They could give the stuff away and still make money just by charging for upgrades...

    Actually, as a monopolist, I don't believe they'd be allowed to.

    Screwy, eh?

  22. And he didn't even win! on College Freshman Builds Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1
    Others thought it was cool, too. Wallace began winning contests -- local, state, national -- culminating in second place in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair last May in Cleveland. He's now beginning work on a USU physics degree.

    What I want to know is, what the hell did the winner do? Build a cat starting with household chemicals?

  23. And an old one! on Turing Award Winner On The Future of Storage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, timothy, when it says June on the article it just might be a dupe, ya know? But it's nice to know that the future of disk access hasn't changed since then.

  24. Difference on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 1
    I'm not entirely sure who you're thinking of here, but the post you responded to was my first post in this thread. As the son of a Kodak lifer, and the grandson of a tool and die maker, I've probably got more empathy for the blue collar worker than most people.

    I didn't notice the handoff, sorry. Previous poster mentioned that it was only the blue collar jobs that were supposed to be sent overseas by NAFTA (not that NAFTA covers India, but I digress). Hence the hypocrisy angle. I didn't notice when he stopped posting and you started.

    It's really not terribly appropriate to make wild-assed guesses about people's economic backgrounds. You have no way of knowing if I grew up with money or not.

    I'm playing averages, and I guarantee, not having ever seen money growing up that the son of a Kodak lifer would have, that I was right.

    Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that the world is not as cut-and-dried as you seem to be planning for. "If I work hard and make myself indispensable I'll have a job forever!" might have worked at one point, but it doesn't any more.

    Two points - I'm not talking about unemployment, which most certainly can strike the qualified. I'm talking about outsourcing, and that's a different animal. Therefore, my goal is to develop skills that someone who speaks poor English and received a subpar education wouldn't have. I'll put it this way - I may get laid off, but my job won't be shipped to India.

    Second, even for unemployment, if you keep your skill set relevant, you'll be less likely to have a long stay in the unemployment line, though, as you say, the world no longer guarantees a 50-year tenure and a gold watch.

  25. Yeah... on Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead · · Score: 1
    How about the fact that I don't want CATV, I just want Internet. They are apparently tied and it costs MORE to have just Internet than both basic cable and Internet??!?! How does that make sense?

    Same way that a round-trip flight is 1/4 the cost of a one-way.