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  1. Re:Stop that train... on Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage · · Score: 0

    LOL, I got it like a minute later. Good thing too, because your post was extremely confusing with "not" instead of "note".

  2. Re:Stop that train... on Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage · · Score: 0

    Hook, line, and sinker. Looks like it's just another d20 game.

  3. Stop that train... on Study Links Cell Phones to DNA Damage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    recent gammaworld campaign has served to remind me that mutations are almost always beneficial
    Any one have a link? I find this extremely hard to believe.

  4. Re:No dec25th on sunday, please! on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    We always went to midnight mass(1hr) 12:01am on dec25th. That's one hour. Then, christmas mass: 2.5 hours. This is 3.5 hours in mass.

    If it wasn't on sunday, mass would be midnight (1hr) plus conventional christmas mass(1.5hrs): 2.5 hours.

    Now if you add the travel time to and fro, plus preparing (family of 9 kids), you have two hours. I'm looking at sleeping 8 hours, 6 hours of mass, which leaves 10 hours of a birthday.

    So in other words, no, it never was 2 for one, mass was just twice as long.

  5. No dec25th on sunday, please! on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    "Wouldn't it be convenient if your birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July--not to mention most other major holidays--all fell on the same day of the week, year after year?"

    I was born on Dec 25th, I was raised catholic. Every time we got our new calendar when I was groing up, I frantically checked the day my bday fell on, hoping it wasn't on a sunday. Catholic Christmas mass sucks holy balls, and it's even worse when it's on sunday. You spend half of your friggen bday in church, yawning, smelling old people, and trying to get away from your family.

    When I lived in Denver, it was nice that there were actually bars open on Christmas, but now I live somewhere where they are not.

    Anyways, you can static your calendar, just don't put dec25 on a Sunday, I wouldn't wish that bday on any kid. BTW: I am no longer christian.

  6. Re:Correction to submission on WEP And PPTP Password Crackers Released · · Score: 1

    For a home network with a WAP and one wireless device, it will probably take a while. However, a place using a few devices would yield those captures in a trivial amount of time.

  7. Re:What next? on CA Court Strikes Blow Against Hidden EULAs · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I agree with you completely. I am american, and I am a product of the public education system. I can read EULAs without much trouble, and I also research statutes more often than I'd like without trouble.

    I do know, however, many of my friends cannot read at this level. It's not so much an intelligence problem, it's just that they don't want to take the time to understand.

    Your post was a bit on the trolling side, but it should have at least gotten a few insightfuls.

  8. Re:Study the instructions and the quickstart guide on When Do You Read the Instructions? · · Score: 1

    I got my sony dsc-p10 about 18 months ago, and I never read the manual. I had it all down after a few uses. The camera with a P next to it means "panoramic", etc.
    This was my first digital camera, prior to this I've only owned a ~$20 35mm.

    My point is, I love figuring things out, and this was a piece of cake. Some people don't read the manuals just for the challenge.

  9. Re:Contrinutions on Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 1

    I know I'm not getting FFXII, I've already decided. In fact, my brothers are not either, and we all own copies of 7 as well as the gameboy one (can't remember the version of the top of my head).
    Anyway, as far as we are concerned, the game lost its fun after VII. Now they just use it to squeeze every buck out of it, it no longer has the life it used to.

    Kinda like star wars, episodes 4,5 and 6 felt like lucas was saying "Check this shit out" or "Watch this!" or "Here's the real story", now it's like lucas isn't even trying, he's saying "Now, since almost every american has seen 4,5 and 6, they'll all spend $8 to see 1,2 and 3."

    There is no passion left in either the FF series or the Star Wars movies.

  10. Re:Haven't see snow here either! on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    Ouch. 40C! The only place I like 40C is my Barton 2600+. I might dislike the cold, but I hate the heat:) Anyway, thanks for stopping and saying hi.

  11. Re:I'm glad on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    I'm in SD, and we literally haven't seen snow yet this year. I just moved back here (I'm from here) from Denver, and I'm dieing to go snowboarding (which is nothing like copper mountain).

    Anyways, it was -5F last night, and that wind is a killer. But you are right, the last place you want to be really sick is here. Mainly because you can't enjoy life too much, unless you like staying inside reading /.

  12. Re:WTF on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but my ex used to get pissed at me for the toothpaste splatters on the mirror. I used to not close my mouth out of spite:)

  13. Re:X-Wing! on History of Star Wars Video Games · · Score: 1

    Interesting...
    Yeah, the tape has 3 stories, so it may be the same tape.
    I'm curious about there being actual animated ones now...
    I too told myself "This is not what we ran home from school to see...", but I was 5.
    I'm going to do some research now, thanks for the info.

  14. Re:Clarification of French Advertising Law on GEICO vs Google Ads: Google Wins · · Score: 1

    Once you figure out how to peel the geico label off of the geico bottle, let me know.

    Playing charades using internet advertising would be extremely difficult, of course, a similiar looking gecko would be a good start.

  15. Re:I guess.. on Symantec to Buy Veritas · · Score: 3, Informative

    *I am not the backup guy*
    Oh, phrases, how I love thee.

    One time, when I was the backup guy and I wasn't afraid to disclose my knowledge of backupexec, I became the *backup guy*. This damned me into restoring peoples resumes and digital pictures for the rest of my employment.

    When he learns his lesson, he'll again become ignorant. For now, he probably just does it because it's an IT job and the pay is OK.

  16. Re:X-Wing! on History of Star Wars Video Games · · Score: 1

    I know the feeling. My dad just picked up a he-man tape from the local library that's throwing it out. He mailed it to me and told me to enjoy. My brothers and I used to run home from school to watch this.

    It's not even animated! WTF? I swear it looked like it when I was 5. But instead, there are drawings, then flashes to a picture with two swords hitting each other, then it flashes back to the previous drawing.

    I kinda feel ripped off, knowing that was being taken as a fool. But, then again, if anyone would have tried to tell me that back then, I would not have listened.

  17. Re:Sample cover letter on Finding Student IT Security Placements in the Industry? · · Score: 1

    IOW: If you're the chicken, don't hand the farmer the axe.

  18. Re:Finally... on OpenBSD Project Will Release OpenCVS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do realize you can run subversion under Apache, so that subversion security == Apache security. Right?

    Yes, of course I realize. Additionally, I realize that your statement is blatently incorrect.
    Subversion security != Apache Security

    First, I referenced apache 1.3.x, afaik, subversion only runs under 2.
    Secondly, subversion *CAN* run under apache, but it can also run standalone.

    Subversion is not secure, and running under apache does not make it secure. If anything, it makes apache much more insecure.

  19. Finally... on OpenBSD Project Will Release OpenCVS · · Score: 1

    CVS and subversion are plauged with security vulnerabilities. I was beginning to wonder if it was ever going to stablize like apache 1.3.

    I'm extremely happy to see that the open(bsd) team is doing what it's best at.

  20. Re:For starters.. on Boot Process Visualization · · Score: 1

    Once, I shut mine down hard and it actually corrupted my intel8x0 driver.
    The kernel still loaded the module fine, but the driver wouldn't work.
    As soon as I did a rmmmod intel8x0 (or whatever), make modules_install and modprobe, it worked just fine again.

    Sometimes, if you get really lucky, you can just keep running fsck and you may be able to get yourself to a running state.

    Dont forget fsck -y

  21. Re:Configuring OSX Mail's Rules on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 1

    If you need a mail client that behaves correctly during a Daylight Savings Time change, check:

    http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

  22. Re:does it even matter? on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 1

    Now have? Have you been paying attention? I remember using similiar methods in 1999. "Now have" is a huge understatement.

  23. Re:another waste of money on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn! I've been having sex all this time because I thought I could live longer.

  24. Re:It's not only spammers.. on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 1

    Using a unreliable language on top of a P.O.S. application server is still just as negligent as not respecting an unsubscribe request.

  25. Re:Verkon non. on Illegal File Trading Draws Two P2P Raids In Europe · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking!