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  1. Re:I don't like it. on Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb · · Score: 1

    | mice are sporting human brain cells.

    Hmmm... are you pondering what I'm pondering?

    This can only be ba-a-a-a-ad.

    Narf!

  2. Re:Vangelis is singular on UK Music Industry Sees Record Sales · · Score: 1
    And of course you must get his collaboration with Yes-man Jon Anderson - not to mention Wakeman's solo stuff - which then leads us to Yes's catalog, Jethro Tull...

    "Mr. Anderson! Surprised to see me?"

    You need to get your Andersons straight:
    Jon Anderson --> Yes
    Ian Anderson --> Jetho Tull

  3. Re:Correction: on Tin Foil Passports? · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia seems to agree with me.

    Ha! And now Wikipedia agrees with the grandparent again.

    (just kidding)

  4. Re:Trump card? Submitter is a bit off... on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, that's just good lawyering, and they do have good lawyers.

    Score: -1, Oxymoron

  5. Re:For the environment, everybody go, and... on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 1
    ...kill yourself.

    By all means. And please, before you do, join
    The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement!

  6. Re:EBags on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1
    > I had a Timbuk2 bike messenger bag [...]

    Tim and I, a-huntin' we went
    Came across three hoes in a tent
    They was three
    And we was two
    So I booked one and Timbuktu.
  7. Re:My favourite.. on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1
    Your search - "index of /admin" nuclear site:.mil - did not match any documents.

    ... Did you mean nucular?

    scnr

  8. Re:Somewhere.Com - The Scoop on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1
    Don't use fake email addresses. [..] buy some anti-spam software. If I can manage to use legitimate email accounts on somewhere.com and not worry about spam, then obviously there's some out there that works well.

    Anti-spam software is not going to protect you from the traffic costs. To see if a message is real or spam, the software will have read it first. If you're not backed by a company specializing in anti-spam software, people will want to avoid this:

    After a few hours we were looking at enough bandwidth saturate several T1's, and volume of at least one million messages a day.

    ... and this ...

    By last year we were rejecting 100,000 messages a day, of which close to 40,000 were going to someone@somewhere.com. I upgraded my DSL line to 768k just to handle the flow, and I had to limit my mail server to 100 simultaneous connections at a time.

    ... and this ...

    my router was starting to fail frequently under the load

    Of course, your situation is extreme, but I see little harm in giving fake email addresses to dubious websites, as long as the target domain does not exist and is not likely to be registered in the future (or just use example.net|org|com).

  9. Re:What a Suprise on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 1
    Out of curiosity, anyone have figures for how many slashdotters make a slasdhotting?

    Oh it's just a collective noun, meaning a group of (uncounted) individuals, like

    - a herd of elephants
    - a pack of dogs
    - a murder of crows
    - an unkindness of ravens
    - a slashdotting of nerds

    Look here!

  10. Re:Oh my sweet Jesus... on Periodic Table of the Operators · · Score: 1
    but come on.. different types of compare operators that work on regular variables (one for numbers, one for strings)? Can't the interpreter just say "Oh, one of these is a string, internally.

    That's what the PHP creators thought, and look where it got them. In PHP, you can have three variables A, B, and C, where

    A == B
    and B == C
    but C != A

    Yum. Don't believe me? Check this out:

    $a = "0";
    $b = 0;
    $c = "";
    if ($a == $b && $b == $c && $c != $a)
    {
    echo "oops";
    }
  11. Re:What will the Dairy Farmers Think? on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 1
    What will the dairy farmers of the world think when they discover their Dairy Records Management System has been compromised?

    BTW, ever tried to find the list of Open Source licenses on the OSI homepage?

  12. Re:SQL-Ledger of course ! on Running a Business on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    There is no reasonable user input validation in SL at all. You have the possibility for SQL-injection in just about every form field (try the date fields, for example), and from there you can create/drop tables and change the data in any way you choose. It is even possible to bypass the login procedure (or at least it was possible a few months ago; haven't checked with the current release). I don't know why anyone would trust a financial application that cares so little about security.

    And no, I did not send a patch, because a) you would have to rewrite half of the scripts to fix the validation issues, and b) because patches only show up in the 'premium' (or whatever it is called) version of SQL-Ledger, and take several months to make it into the GPL version. See the SL mailing list for details.

  13. Re:Isn't there a better way? on Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    Sharp S? In Germany? No such thing mate. They revised it out of the language years ago.

    You're wrong, the "sharp s" is still very much alive in Germany (as well as in Austria and Switzerland, the other IDN nations).
    If you don't believe me, this 10 volume dictionary even has a "sharp s" in the title.

  14. Re:I guess MS can just use on Another Garbage Patent · · Score: 1
    their own company symbol for trash now

    Apple reserved the name "trash" for their OS long ago.

    Translated from German:
    "The name 'trash' is reserved for the operating system. Please choose another name."

    BTW, this is *not* a fake.