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  1. Re:Great article on Possible Cryovolcano Discovered on Titan · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . and it just cut itself?

    Oh great, just what we need, a depressed angsty moon.

  2. Re:Elaborate on The Return of GPLFlash · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Macromedia's own flash plugin for Linux is dated, it still uses the Open Sound System and has ugly menus, and I'm sure it could be better overall if they tried harder.

    If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself :)

  3. When I hear... on Blogging For Paychecks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When I hear about blogging, I'm most likely to hear one thing: bullshit.

  4. Re:Lynx is safe on There Is No Safe Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Telnet is not necessarily safe: http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/3490

  5. Re:Bwuah? on Inquirer Blasts Mozilla for Microsoft-Style Bashing · · Score: 1

    It's not very 1337 since hitting ^W will delete a whole word instead of just one character.

  6. Re:But what about our promise? on New NASA Budget Woes · · Score: 1

    The United States of Space nigga!

  7. OT: Jabber on Time Warner to Spin Off AOL? · · Score: 1

    I wish they would fix up the jabber.org server, it disconnects people constantly. I would love to recommend and switch people to jabber, but I can't in this state, and I can't have them change servers every few months like I've done :-(

  8. Why control the cockroach? on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So let me get this straight; humans are controlling a cockroach that is controlling a robot? If they're going to tell the cockroach to turn left, why not just do it directly? It seems the cooler thing to do would be to let the cockroach bump around on his own will.

  9. Re:Not the best one.. on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    LOL, just now, out of pure instinct, my mouse went hunting for a little + near your post :)

  10. McNealy's teeth on Ballmer and McNealy Smiling Together · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think of this when they saw McNealy's smile?

  11. did anyone else see... on Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    "The daft bill says, simply,..."

  12. Re:US on Fair Use Review in Australia · · Score: 1

    When will the US stop trying to push its draconian laws such as the DMCA on other countries?

    We'll stop when there are no other countries =D

  13. Re:Privacy eh? on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Do what I do in Firefox: Preferences > Privacy > Cookies > Keep Cookies: until I close Firefox

    You don't have to worry about web sites fucking up because you didn't accept their cookie, and you can collect all the advertising cookies you want, just to have them deleted when you close Firefox. I wonder if that fucks them up at all...

  14. This is one of those moments... on FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else sometimes make the metal/devil hand gesture at their monitor as they read a good blurb like this one?

  15. Re:Tigerdirect is cheap for a reason on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    The other thing they do to stay cheap is put paper and CD advertisements inside the box with your product.

  16. Re:How do the judge so fast?!? on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 1

    I'm always amazed how people seem to be able to judge the quality of an operating system within just a couple of hours.

    You can judge some operating systems after using them for two hours. Especially when they get infected in the first 20 minutes ;)

  17. Build a machine! on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1

    Build a regular machine yourself to do it! Make it boot a very minimal Linux to a script that automatically wipes any other drives it can find. Use this.

    Or just make that floppy and stick it in the computer with the faulty drive. It's no-nonsense.

  18. Pictures on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: 1

    View pictures of the hackers at their web site right here.

  19. Anyone else rig up their Linux box? on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I'm not the only one that's done something similar, but I've got a crontab entry that runs a shell script that I wrote that plays random music very loudly, which forces me to get up, log into my server, and killall randommusic.sh. You don't have to be awake to hit a snooze button, but typing in your password ensures some coherency :)

  20. Re:Um'... makes sense why, too. on NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges · · Score: 1

    What's 'spaceaward'?

    Frylock and I'm on top, Rock you like a cop
    Spacewad you up next with your knock-knock.
    Spacewad make the money, see.
    Spacewad get the honeys, G.
    Drivin in my car, livin' like a star.
    Ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus.

  21. Re:Statistics..... on UK Officially The Most Hacked Country · · Score: 1

    Internet Explorer and thus Windows comes with spyware out of the box. It's kind of a stretch, but I still think Alexa counts.

  22. Re:WTf? on Wisconsin Researchers Create Nano-Bio-Circuits · · Score: 1
  23. Face masks on Autonomous Robot Finds Life in Atacama Desert · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought the idea of a fog collector was cool, so I did a little more research into the indigenous people. They wear face masks while outside to protect themselves from the elements. Here's a picture.

  24. Re:... and they affect Linux too on Over a Million Zombie PCs · · Score: 1

    Why do it nightly? I don't have my script on me at the moment, but think about what I do: cat /var/log/apache2/accesslog | myscript.sh

    Make the script check each line to see if it's an attacker and drop them in iptables right away. That way the zombie's second request will be blocked which might get attacks directly after that to stop and might tie up resources of the zombie since it's not getting acknowledged by the web server.

    The main loop looks like this:
    while read line; do
    echo "$line" | grep for bad stuff && drop if bad
    done

  25. Re:Sheesh... on Online Trust Failing Overall · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the waiter is in the room with you, and is on file as working with that restaurant. Purchasing online may take place in another country where you cannot persue your defrauder.