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  1. Re:It's a double free, not easy to exploit on MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honest question: Has there ever been an exploit of a double free (or similar) bug? I see how it is a problem (I've segfaulted more than once because of it), but how does one inject and run code using it?

  2. Re:Are grammar checkers that important? on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 1

    weird mistakes like "the the"

    That'll bite you in the ass as well, at least in languages other than English. Three perfectly valid sentences in Swedish, that Word cringes on:

    • Omröstningen handlar om om vi ska gå med i EMU ("The referendum is about whether we should join the EMU")
    • En en bär bär ("A juniper carries berries")
    • Är det det det är? ("Is that what it is?")
  3. Re:Hackable? on Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta · · Score: 1

    Of course it does, it's cached! ;-)

  4. Re:Lesson. on Lawsuits Force 321 Studios Out Of Business · · Score: 2

    I think the point of the legal system was to protect the right from the wrong. Right and wrong, however, changes.

  5. Re:Slashdot is dying on Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    I think they're leeching the servers and installing all the good computer parts in their to-be Doom III boxen.

  6. Re:Yay, now I'll get spam saying: on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enlarge your p3n1s... or get snipped! Well, then you'd really need the enlargement.

  7. Re:Can you get away with cheating in Jeopardy? on The Man Who Knew Too Much · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're thinking of "Who wants to be a millionaire?" There was a documentary about it called Millionaire: A Major Fraud.

  8. Re:Whoa on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1

    Windows NT started at 3.0. We all know why, but in theory, could that count as skipping two versions?

  9. Re:Ah... on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    Well, as opposed to the ones who think black is a color.

  10. Re:Ah... on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 3, Informative

    Visby is the capital of Gotland, which is an island off the east coast of Sweden where the (historic) Goths lived. In case you wondered.

  11. Re:Root Mean Square on Stallman vs Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    Well, Stallman is definitly root. That, we can all agree on. I bet Brown would see Stallman as being mean. And look at those clothes! He's square, alright!

  12. I got the pizza before the cheese melted... on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 1

    I think I'll call it a fancy cheese sandwich.

  13. Re:Too bad... on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Yup, and thus it was due to failure :-/
    --
    ...in bed

    It all makes sence now.

  14. Re:Why bother test? on Putting Google to the Test · · Score: 1

    Why bother testing gravity? We all know heavy objects fall faster than light ones.

    Why bother testing astrology? We all know fate is written in the stars, and astrologists are the only ones who can read it.

  15. Re:I guess the big question is... on Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger' · · Score: 1

    It's a tool for registering mafia members' activities.

  16. Re:I still hear static on From the Higgs Boson Particle to Leadbelly · · Score: 2, Informative

    We did this in a signal processing project, where we scanned old recordings and extracted the music. We tried Wiener fitlerning, but settled on spectral subtraction. Listen in. The problem is (as an anonymous coward so wisely pointed out) that you inevitably remove some of the wanted signal as well.

  17. Re:Where's my patched 2.9x? on WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey! Even though new songs don't pop up as often as they used to, there still are a lot of old ones that are worth listening to.

    Who uses... pff :)

  18. Re:Precisely - we can't even get WYSIWYG HTML righ on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    "Turn the rings to the maximum, and construct the word 'flax'."

    Flax means either "luck" or "flap," as in "flap one's wings." I'm not familiar with the quote, but apparently it's from a 70s comic series called Bobo.

  19. Re:Shows the power of IE on Making IE Standards Compliant · · Score: 1

    This will probably yield a fan-club and an annual parade in my name, but...

    I guess you don't see the ones that really do get modded down, because they rest peacefully under your threshold.

  20. Re:What I'd like. on Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    We're talking hard drives here, not RAM. A terabyte is 1000 gigabytes. It's sad, but true.

  21. Re:What writing? on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 1

    More like "free as in coffee."

  22. Re:another staticians aphorism on Energy Company Refutes Windows TCO Claims · · Score: 1

    Especially since Twain didn't even coin it; he just quoted it in his autobiography. The grandparent might wanna google for Benjamin Disraeli.

  23. Re:Any legit use for 3127? on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 1

    A beowulf cluster of wives!

  24. Re:A Round Of Applause Is Needed Methinks? on Pixar Drops Disney To Find a New Studio Partner · · Score: 1

    the youngest (2 3/4) is in love with Woody

    Toddlers hacking Debian? Wow, the new installer must be really good (or, more likely, your kids are ubergeeks).

  25. Re:I'm impressed. on Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software · · Score: 1

    Which track? One of the Calypsos? No, must be that 47 minute New Age thingy...