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  1. Re:Ah. balance on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1
    (a) An IP address of yours
    (b) Some type of password of yours

    Well, actually, in my case, (A) an IP address at the local uni library, and (B) a list of 150 possible passwords. But good point. It could, indeed, be used carelessly. But not everyone feels like installing random software from random websites to "securely" build locally-generated passwords. ("Securely" if the software isn't a trojan, that is.)

  2. Re:More New Labour thuggery from the Home Office on UK Hackers Face Antisocial Behaviour Orders · · Score: 1
    You don't wanna know what an ABSO is; it's much harsher than an ASBO. Really.

    IANAL, on either side of the Pond. And apparently I'm no damn good at remembering NTLAs FTFA*.

    *Non-Three-Letter Acronyms From The Fine Article

  3. Re:More New Labour thuggery from the Home Office on UK Hackers Face Antisocial Behaviour Orders · · Score: 1
    UK Slashdotters: let's make sure we punish these lunatics at the next general election.

    You're just begging for an ABSO, aren't you?

  4. Oh editor of limited imagination... on Jaffe Ditches Games With Stories · · Score: 1
    We're wondering how Jaffe intends to make us cry without playing up the story elements

    Two-word answer: gank camping.

  5. Re:Ah. balance on Debian Locks Out Developers · · Score: 1
    then I got apg

    UConn has an online version, for those who don't feel like installing and running a local program. I was crazy enough to configure it to build me an SSID (useless for security, but at least it doesn't scream "N00B" like leaving the default value) and WPA PSK.

  6. Re:Tracking names just doesn't work. on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for communiques from Commandante Taco!

  7. Re:Currency symbol? on Over 12,000 black Nintendo DS Lite Systems Stolen · · Score: 1

    Well, the ampersand-entity for Euro used to work.

    It still does. Use the string sequence "€" (without the quotes, o'course) and you'll get a lovely € symbol to adorn your Euro-centric monetary discussion.

  8. Excellent! on Distributed Dirt Digging for Life-Extension Research · · Score: 1

    I need to clean the cat box anyways!

  9. Re:This just in... on World of Starcraft? Not So Much · · Score: 1

    The Universe as we know it in Starcraft is rapidly shrinking.

    I suppose World of Netcraft confirms it?

  10. Re:Ghost on World of Starcraft? Not So Much · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next WoW expansion should be Ghost A one way ticket into space.

    So, a WoW/SC crossover?

    Tarren Mill is under attack!
    Nuclear launch detected!

  11. Re:probably on Microsoft's list of next important on Apache down, IIS up · · Score: 1
    It's not like they can pay large percentages of the industry to switch over. At some point it has to come down to merit, and which server sys admins prefer to use.

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!111one

    Darn, I just used up my mod points, otherwise you'd definitely have my +1 Funny.

    You're serious. Damn. What world are you from, and can you take me back when you return? PLEASE?

  12. My choice on Source Code Browsing Tools? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Which tools do you prefer to use for browsing and studying source code?

    14-inch greenbar, preferably printing on a color-capable impact printer.

    Wide continuous paper, plus a large work surface, means I can stretch a module out and mark it up with highlighters and scribble notes. A straightedge and some detective work means I can verify "indentation" levels (code nesting).

    Of course, run a source code beautifier over it first.

    Why, yes, I am old; how did you guess?

  13. Activate... on Alien Bacteria May Have Landed in India · · Score: 2, Funny
  14. Re:Microsoft bought out Strawjet? on Steve Wozniak Honors Innovative Inventors · · Score: 1
    I heard Microsoft bought out Strawjet...a product that turns straw into, well, more straw. But well arranged straw.

    That's a bleeding giveaway that we're not talking about a Microsoft product here.

  15. Re:Windows Software Shop :-) on Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped · · Score: 2, Funny
    Failure is not an option

    According to TFA, in their software shop failure isn't an option there either.

    It's standard equipment.

    Buh dum ching!

  16. Re:Honestly... on The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time · · Score: 1

    And, to bring it back around, I know that Microsoft Basic was running bytecode at about the same time as UCSD Pascal. Slowly, true, but...

  17. Re:This is news? on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, but it's going to b uit ifficult communicating ffctivly without thos lttrs, particularly "". At last you in't pok out my "i"s.

  18. Re:This is news? on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Another famous example: Bill Maudlin's cartoon of a World War II soldier about to sorrowfully "put down" a broken Jeep, a la a broken-down cavalry horse.

    People anthromorphize. Soldiers are people. Therefore soldiers anthromorphize. QED.

  19. Re:perfectly reasonable on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 1
    I like this quote:

    The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node

    --Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

  20. This is bizarre on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's like some sick competition between the US administration and the UK one.

    "Oh, yeah, you think that telephone call database is slick, check this sh*t out. We're gonna make our subjects give up their crypto keys or go to jail"
    "Oooh, good one!" (high five)

  21. Re:From their Website on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 1

    What's the RFC for Maim-attachments?

  22. TFA quote says it all: on Too Soon For A Columbine Videogame? · · Score: 1
    He said he wanted to create something profoundly unique and confrontational that would "promote a real dialogue on the subject of school shootings."

    In other words, he's just a troll. We'd recognize him instantly if he posted here. (And mod his losing butt into the ground.)

    Too bad internet gaming doesn't have /. moderation.

  23. How about this for an explanation... on Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez · · Score: 1
    one which requires neither multinational corporate conspiracy theories or bluenose blackhats.

    The trojan deletes the most "desirable" files in a P2P share directory and then posts copies of itself in that same share directory...masquerading as the same kinds of "desirable" files it just eliminated.

    Think of it as elbowing the competition off the track to increase the likelihood copies of itself will be picked for downloading.

    It certainly squares with what most of us understand as the motivation of VXers: disseminate their work as far as possible, for either ego gratification or "ownership" of botnets, spyware takings, etc.

  24. So let me get this straight... on Caffeine 'Dipstick' Test for Coffee · · Score: 4, Funny
    You dip a camel... or llama... in your coffee and somehow that tells you (A) whether it's hot, and (b) whether it's caffeinated?

    And then you drink the coffee? Do you at least take the camel or llama or alpaca or whatever out of the coffee first?

    I wonder which llamas work best. Red, Mexican Whooping, or Guacanos?

    Oh, yeah, obviously, you use a "2-L" llama. I don't think most Tibetians would appreciate you using a "1-L" lama.

  25. Re:CORRECTION! on Congress To Restrict Social Security Number Use · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that you, Sigmund?