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  1. A source I used once. on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 1

    Harvard CS 50. It's downloadable, open, and free. -Enjoy

  2. Owner Located on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Charlie Sheen 'was' slated to be a Mission Specialist?

  3. Wait... on Scientists Claim Infrared Helmet Could Reverse Alzheimer's Symptoms · · Score: 1

    What am I doing here again?

  4. Re:Easy on Networking in Extreme Conditions? · · Score: 1

    Having worked on avionics, I'd recommend quite a bit of usage of peltier junctions with an avionics oil cooled system. Your biggest threat isn't going to be heat, it's going to be condensation. You'll no doubt be using some seriously shielded fiber as well.

  5. Re:The real offender on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work, and neither does anonymizer, google translation, or a fu**ing T-Boy!

  6. The real offender on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    Blame websense... that's what the military uses, and that's who they trust. I don't know if websense lobbied the military into using it with political adgendas, but they useit ans I have personally set it up for them in Iraq when I was at Al Basrah. Doesn't surprise me really. The military is a corporation that is willing to take 16 year old boys and girls with no real education and brainwash them into their belief systems. I'm glad I got out, I just wish it had been sooner, but hey I was young, and needed the money.

  7. Self Slashdotted! on First Military Exoskeleton Reaches Prototype · · Score: 1

    This idiot slashdotted himself to pump up his stats. You all should e-mail him to let him know what an idiot he is... crash the fucking e-mail server.

  8. What poor broad posted this? on Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather · · Score: 1

    Did Cowboy Neal grow breasts or something?

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    Fourty two

  9. Re:Um... on How Microsoft Takes a Name · · Score: 1

    Yeah he would have lost the trademark battle... you mean like Lindows did here in America? I believe that Monkeyboy and Billy were told that they do NOT own the name Windows, no matter how much money they have. So the guy didn't have the money to fight them, big deal. Microsoft sent an extortionate letter demanding for rights to the name, and they were wrong. I'd sue them pro-bono. But that's just me. Q

    I have no sig...

  10. Re:How dare they! on Rootkit Creators Turn Professional · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone should develop the ultimate rootkit, patent it's code... and then sue the antivirus companies for IP infringement when they include it's code in their latest definition.
    "All your oil belong to us."

  11. Re:I'm skeptical on No Modification PSP TV Adapter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure if I want to watch anything clipped to your wang...

  12. Re:Not exactly.... on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 1

    Interesting... actually according to IMDB the film pulled in $454,700,000 at the international box office... See http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= non-us/. After all, the US isn't the only country to show movies... and funnier yet is that most piracy occurs overseas where the US has no jurisdiction. Hell, the airport in Iraq was selling Star Wars III on DVD the day after it was released in theaters for $4.00! I wanna see the MPAA show up and tell a Hajii shop owner who also owns an AK-47 that he's under arrest. Yeah, they're gonna slow the piracy... not.

  13. Did it years ago on Blocking a Nation's IP Space · · Score: 1

    Several years ago, I did it for the US Military's NMCI network... it worked so well that when Welchia and other variant viri took down certain portions of the NMCI network, my part ran smooth as silk. Consider the worms folks, not just the spams. If you don't do business overseas, then cnx the connectivity. You'll be happier you did. Of in the remote event these countries wake up and stop the bullshit, then open the gates. But really, we have physical border gates, why not Internet gates?

  14. Exploitation? Not! on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 1

    So a company employs enough select people that forces other companies to drudge for resources and ultimately raises incomes. This is the very same free employment agrreement that we all asked for. Google gets the best, because right now, they are the best... very strategic. You want them, you pay. Otherwise your idea aint' that good enough to tempt VC money. Get over this and kudos to google. There is a far deeper seeded idea here than what the initial article prints. In the 90's we enjoyed lavish paychecks, nice cars, and nice houses... then came the influx of H1B visas... we bitched, and lost money. Someone want's to restore our value and you complain? Bullshit. Google predominantly is english in nature... so for it to support english speaking/reading people and to take away from the H1Bs' is in my opinion welcomed. You should all welcome better wages.

  15. Re:I can see it now... on Nigerian Scammers Brought to Justice · · Score: 1

    Daryl? Daryl McBride? Is that you?

  16. Re:IT Market Does Not Follow Economic Laws on Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot · · Score: 1

    Positive some of them were not US Citizens. Although some became citizens shortly thereafter. The two most predominant non-US-citizen officers I remember were from Mexico, and the Philippines. The whole officer thing has much more of an ecademic requirement nowadays.

  17. Re:IT Market Does Not Follow Economic Laws on Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot · · Score: 1

    Not true, I've seen many non-US-citizen officers during my ten years in the military... I think you're confusing this with security clearances. Although it is not written anywhere that a non US citizen cannot get a security clearance, I've never seen a non-US-citizen get one.

  18. Surrrrreeee! on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 1

    With what .net? Longwhore? Oh wait here comes NeXT out of the gate! Yay!

  19. looking at Iraq on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 1

    I can't find Falluja... anymore.

  20. SCO Conference call on SCO Announces Q2 2005 Results · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Man what a conference call!!! Let's see, the first seven minutes was a huge lawyer like disclaimer that sounded like an EULA, and they only had two callers... one a private investor, and the other was a local newspaper. The gist of the conference call should be a warning to investors, "There are no millions of customers. If there were, then why did they have to cite so many ~6 foreign customers?" It sounds a great deal like they are praying on OpenServer 6 to be their salvation as the litigation isn't doing so well. If they can woo current customers over OpenServer 6, appropriately named 'legacy' they are completely sunk. I would be willing to bet that any current customers who are using SCO are more than likely seeking alternative solutions... which is a plus to Linux geeks. This means new jobs for old customers who wish to remain profitable. Imagine waking up for work at the auto factory and finding that your main supplier of engines are out of business? It should also be noted how outdated SCO training is. The only tests you can get are from Prometric, and Monster.com yeilds only 103 listings with the hitword SCO internationally. This certainly does not support the claim of 'millions of customers'. Just in case you're wondering, Red Hat yeilded 390 results... keep in mind that the word Linux was excluded from that search. The hit word Linux yeilded more than 1,000 jobs. Remember SCO's not Linux per say, but their own proprietary version of UNIX.

  21. 2600.com shows or DEFCON.org audio forums? on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    They're not too bad, certainly better than most evening radio shows out there during rush hour traffic.

  22. Re:pneumatic injectors are painful on Needle Free Injections With Microjets · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got my shots in the military with an pnumatic gun during the 80s, now that I came back to Iraq for the military as a civilian, no more guns! I asked one of the doctors where the shot guns went, and I was told that they had dosage problems with them. Apparently the dosage given out by those things was wildly inaccurate.

  23. Old Programmers on Programming Until Retirement? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, there are jobs out there for you... they're called management. Wherein you used to be something great, but now your information is old, obsolete, and you cannot comprehend the new fandangled thingamabobs and whatzits. You'll spend countless hours in meetings looking authoritative, but deep down inside you're just thinking about last night's dinner. Sorry dude, but the average IT programmer employment lifespan is less than 5 years... less if it can now be outsourced.

  24. Re:Possible uses on James Bond Peelable Automobile Paint · · Score: 2, Funny

    Advertising yes! You could advertise Longhorn, and it would be just like the software! Drive it around a while till it starts getting holes all over it then just replace the interface er' coating! Who cares if it looks like crap in a few months... we all knew it would anyways right?

  25. Um... Non-Pourous remember? on James Bond Peelable Automobile Paint · · Score: 1

    Do you have ANY idea how painfull it will be to get that layer of paint out of the crack of your ass? How about your front? Do you really want to listen to your parents screaming in the middle of the night? You sicko!