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  1. stfu on Make Your OWN OMG Ponies SIGNS!!! WITH GLITTER!!! · · Score: 1

    It's april fools, I _get_ it. The increased luser status of the /. mods is turning it into a joke.

  2. Alarming Rate on NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can the rate of an observation be "alarming" if it has only recorded 3 of 6,000,000,000 years of existense?

  3. Re:Yeah, great, guess what on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But of course FDR never did anything illegal or unconstitutional as president.

  4. Re:incorrect statement on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Classifying BFC as a documentary bastardizes the work of authentic documentaries that attempt to provide an objective presentation of a subject's facts.

    Documentaries exist for uncovering the preexisting conditions of a particular subject in a way that the creator's own perspective is not present. BFC's producer deliberatly and intentionally created on-camera environments that would result in an expected outcome.

    We have a responsability to preserve the legitamacy of what a documenatry is all about. If all of our documentaries were produced with such careless regard for the preservation of fact and lack of subjectiveness, we end up distorting our generation's record of history.

    If BFC was actually a documentary, its premise would be absent of intentional subjectivity.

  5. Ha on Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client · · Score: 1

    I hope the CEO swims across the atlantic ocean this time.

  6. Re:Anti-Cold on How Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    Given the sarcastic nature of your reply, I would have to agree that your hypotheses is accurate as you, and now me, continue the recursion.

  7. Why not fix the problem? on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 1

    If the "new computer system" allowed such an oversight by as much as a keystroke, the system developers failed to safegaurd such anomolies. It didn't say which stock market this happened in, but if I were the company, I would be filing an appeal on the transaction. At least in the FTC, it's their responsability to preserve the integrity and fair market structure.

  8. Elementary My Dear Dewey on Archiving Digital History at the NARA · · Score: 1

    Who says you have to archive all data digitally. The system thats been working for years at our local public and univ. libraries is storing meta information digitally that references a tangible location.

  9. Sorry AOL on AOL Hopes to Change Image With Services · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate to break the news to you but you are 12 years too late.

  10. Bond. James Bond. on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How cool is it that the suit # was 007.

  11. per cent != percent on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    I find it amusing that Microsoft had a 12 percent(%) growth and Unix had a 3 per cent growth.

    wtf is a per cent, 3 extra revenue units for each cent it earned?

    Great Catch ZONK!

  12. Shooting the carrier? on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1
    I suppose an acute amount of ignorance is to blame for Glickman's desecration of the bittorrent technology. Let's apply his rationale to other repetitive criminal tracks.

    [sarcasm]
    • some psuedo chemists choose to produce methamphetamine, obviously all scientists use chemistry to make drugs
    • some people smuggle drugs into the united states by hiding it as they drive past the border, obviously anybody entering the country is to blame
    • anybody that wears a red shirt is obviously a gang member
    • anyone who attends the catholic church is to blame for the child molestations
    • all postal workers go crazy and shoot up the place
    • everyone leaving bars/pubs drive home drunk
    • and the politically incorrect kicker, all muslims are terrorists, islam should be stopped
    [/sarcasm]
  13. Michael Robertson Needs His Head Re-examined on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    In addition to the 1000's of reasons above, imagine how boldy Michael would defend this insecurity ideology if he walked away from his box and his 8 year old child decided to play around on the computer. The computer with all his financial assets, personal e-mail, business contacts, music, etc. I don't trust anyone with my data, and I'll be damned if I am going to give my kid a leg up in kicking me down.

  14. Re:Puns on Mac mini in a Volkswagen · · Score: 1

    are you listening to yourself? :>

  15. Re:Fine, then on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 1

    lbh vafrafvgvir pybq! :)

  16. Re:Fine, then on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 1


    of course aol would never be able to decrypt their own encryption scheme
    </sarcasm>

  17. To the anti-Keven crowd on Mitnick: Security Not about Technology · · Score: 4, Informative

    As I clicked on the comments link and expected to find a decent collection of Kevin flames, I knew I'd have to throw my two cents in.

    To the ones that claim that this is old news, or that Kevin isn't as "leet" as many think; I advise to take your comments with a grain of salt. Anyone who has actually read his book, The Art of Deception, will appreciate Kevin's viewpoints. The truly great hackers use a good mix of social and technical engineered tactics to comprise security. I give you the advice is outdated and isn't news, but his advice will always outlast ever-changing technology. As a bonus he gives you open-sourced ;) policy suggestions that would be a nightmare for admins to write themselves.

  18. A point that needs to be made on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1

    It's important for us to note that, in a macroview perspective, Google is contributing to the open source movement. With Googles own interests aside, this is one small step for Google, and one very helpful leap forward in open source. The more funding we can get by large corporations the better. And for all the nay-sayers:

    The open source world considers many of its large projects as benevolent dictatorships. It's a democracy only in the sense that cyberspace is infinite so anyone who doesn't like it can move out. -- Alan Cox

  19. FINK on Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X · · Score: 3, Informative

    We have been doing this via fink for quite some time now. http://fink.sourceforge.net/

  20. Am I in the wrong month? on Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin · · Score: 1

    It seems way to early for April Fools jokes.

  21. Old News on Texas State Parks Offer Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    There was a press release about this in May of 2004.

  22. Re:Did you read the article? on Reviewing Anti-Spam Offerings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Flame suit on, if they can't even get Spam Assassin working... why should I trust them to be knowledgable enough to truly provide a unbaised and effective review of Anti-spam solutions?

  23. Re:SpamAssassin? on Reviewing Anti-Spam Offerings · · Score: 1, Interesting

    His comment is still valid. That's like saying "We did a comprehensive review of the leading web servers, IIS, PWS, and Netscape's baby. We recognize that Apache exists, however we couldn't review it because we couldn't figure out how to get it to work.

  24. Re:SpamAssassin? on Reviewing Anti-Spam Offerings · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I second that. Any real comprehensive review would include some sort of mention of Spam Assassin. Yes, it's highly configurable and has plural avenues of use, but I think that's what makes it even neater.

  25. Holy Captain Obvious Batman! on AP Reports Young People Use The Internet · · Score: 4, Funny
    In other breaking news:

    • We landed on the moon
    • We pulled out of vietnam
    • Reagan won his second term
    • stay tuned as more develops, I'm going to go figure out how to program my VCR...