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  1. Re:Right.... bit of clarification on GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel · · Score: 1
    Not that the EULA applies:

    From http://www.ichessu.com/Download.aspx?subPage=Downl oadClientApplication we read:

    Download client for lectures and games
    Return to Downloads

    I accept all of the foregoing terms either by clicking here or by any further use of the Software.

    I do not accept all of the foregoing terms.

    There are precisely NULL foregoing terms.

    Yeah, sure there is an EULA that FOLLOWS, but I only accepted the foregoing terms so I didn't bother reading that part.

  2. Re:6to4 Routing on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Similarly...

        1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms e1.aknx3.orcon.net.nz [192.168.0.1]
        2 55 ms 51 ms 51 ms 60.234.8.16
        3 50 ms 51 ms 47 ms 60.234.9.1
        4 52 ms 54 ms 52 ms 203.21.31.121
        5 58 ms 111 ms 47 ms so-3-0-0.XR2.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.149]
        6 185 ms 184 ms 183 ms 0.so-4-0-2.IR2.SAC2.ALTER.NET [210.80.51.61]
        7 182 ms 183 ms 180 ms POS1-0.IR2.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.49.78]
        8 182 ms 183 ms 187 ms 0.so-4-1-0.TL2.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.118]
        9 192 ms 195 ms 199 ms 0.so-6-0-0.XL2.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.54.129]
      10 463 ms 1031 ms 1123 ms 0.so-7-0-0.BR1.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.57.101]
      11 183 ms 183 ms 187 ms sl-bb20-sj-6-1-1620xT1.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.1]
      12 218 ms 219 ms 234 ms sl-bb25-sj-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.3.198]
      13 227 ms 221 ms 220 ms sl-bb24-sj-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.3.217]
      14 224 ms 219 ms 222 ms 192.88.99.1

  3. Pluto wins hands-down because... on Definition of Planet to be Announced in September · · Score: 2, Insightful
    it's the only planet (in our solar system) discovered by an American.

    Therefore whatever definition is used, Pluto will always be included as a planet.

    Same reason why American's will always keep the penny. Ego and historical pride.

  4. Re:been hit by a phonebook attack yet? on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 1
    I *love* phone book attacks. I just set up my mail server so that hitting one of a list of invalid addresses flags the sending IP as a spammer. Then I block that IP from sending me any more mail.

    Combined with greylisting, phonebook attacks are the easiest to shrug off.

  5. More obscure reference... on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1
    "All circuits are....alll circuits are...all circuits arrrr...."

    [20 minutes later]

    "Allllll circuits are now free of outside influence."

  6. Hots tips from the Dart mission on Satellites To Try Formation Flying on ISS · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...docking maneuvers for future orbiting satellites.' NASA's DART mission was designed to do the same thing, but in 2005 shut itself down and bumped into the satellite it was only meant to approach."

    Maybe I can get some hot pick-up tips from this Nasa Dart guy. I shut down on approach alright, but don't even get to bump into her after that.

    Oh satellites docking....never mind...

  7. Re:Purple prose on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1
    Some little, tiny, old asian man tells two strapping young black-belts to come at him with wooden swords -- in a shockingly short period of time, both young hearty blackbelts are staring up at the ceiling wondering how they could have done things differently.

    Next time, remember Rule No. 1

  8. Kent Brockman with Eye on SCO on SCO Denied Again In Court · · Score: 1
    Kent Brockman here. For insight into this latest development and commentary on the impact on SCO we cross to our correspondent, Nelson Muntz. Nelson?

    Ha-ha!

    Thanks Nelson. I, for one, welcome our humor-bearing SCO lawyers.

  9. Re:Excuse me? on EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do nothing. Roll over. Keep quiet. Don't stick your neck out. Hunker down. Give up. Deal with it. Surrender. Comply.

    Is that what you'd recommend in the face of arrogance and tyranny?

    Uh, no, I'd recommend:

    click...I, for one, welcome our warrantless, wire-tapping overlords...hello, hello, is this thing on, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I SAID I can be useful in rounding up fellow slashdotters to slave in your undeground Echelon data store....click

  10. We're already there. on Company Claims Development of True AI · · Score: 1
    To assess whether we have achieved true AI, we set the measurement bar too high.

    We compare to some of the brightest - the chess players, the academics doing the research, those people who've actually heard of the Turing Test, etc.

    As far as AI goes, Clippy would do better than most of the people I work with.

    Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!

    [] No Karma Bonus [x] Post Anonymously
  11. Luxury... on Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time · · Score: 1
    i, too, was left stranded on ceti alpha five.

    You think that's bad? I was stranded on Ceti Alpha Six.

  12. Re:What makes a movie worth watching over again? on The Ultimate Star Trek Collection · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe because Casablanca is the greatest screenplay yet written

    Ahh yes...Of all the space bars in all the worlds, you had to re-materialise in mine.

    The one starring Myra Binglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.

  13. Re:Keeping Score on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 1
    You don't compare two theories by counting the things each explains; you take the simplest one that explains all the data, and if niether Mills' theory nor quantum theory does that then you make a new one.

    The simplest theory huh? Ok:

    It's all done by piskies. The LASERs, reading data of your hard drive, the LEDs...it's hundreds of little piskies running around making it happen.

    Can't get simpler than piskies.

  14. Re:think of the children. on Engineers Bringing Soap Box Racing Back Again · · Score: 1
    I wrestle gorillas that I've loaded up with steroids and bred to be super-intelligent, usually with an arm tied behind my back, sometimes blindfolded.

    You sir, have my admiration for your non-specist outlook. If I was going to breed super-intelligent gorillas I'd want to be blindfolded every time .

  15. Re:How can they DO that? on New Technology Could Kill WiMax? · · Score: 1
    For example, let us build (in our minds) a transmitter/receiver pair

    Nice try Mr Jonesy boy! You can persuade me to build a transmitter receiver pair in my mind right after you pry the roll of tinfoil off my cold dead, head....ummm....no, wait...that's not actually an invitation....

  16. Re:I don't get it... on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 1
    That's why McDonalds sues everyone who uses a "McSomething"

    Bring it on...

  17. Let me be the nth to say... on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1
    Ecological catastrophe is in revelations. It must be fufilled so that the lord may return, clean it up and let the meek rule the world while the know-it-all science geeks get poked by demons for their materialistic ambitions and lack of faith.

    ...I, for one, welcome our materialistic-ambitious-and-faith-lacking-science- geek-poking underlords.

    It's in Revelations, people!

  18. My plans are on track on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 4, Funny
    Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record.
    Nothing can possibly go wrong now.
  19. Re:The Easiest Way for Something to Actually Happe on When Microbes Ate the Ocean · · Score: 3, Funny

    Arthur: What does it say?
    Brother Maynard : It says: "I believe! I believe! Aw crap! my blood's boiling!"
    Arthur: What?
    Brother Maynard : my blood's boiling!
    Sir Bedemere: What, he's dead?
    Brother Maynard: He must've died while posting it.
    Arthur: Oh, come on!
    Brother Maynard: Well that's what it says.
    Arthur: Look, if he was dying he wouldn't bother to type "my blood's boiling!" He'd just say it.
    Brother Maynard: Well that's what's posted on Slashdot.
    Sir Lancelot: Perhaps he was dictating.
    Arthur: Oh, shut up.

  20. Re:Why do you still have riders? on EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why else would Cheney quite his super high paying job and sell his Haliburton stock if he wasn't going to make out any better than the relatively small VP salary.

    Ummm, to serve his country?

    To promote world peace?

    To change the country (and the world) for the better?

    To share his wisdom and experience for the betterment of humanity?

    To meet interns?

  21. Re:Yeah but that's not the problem on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1
    IIRC, Copyright mark is the date of first publication,

    I don't know where you get that idea from. Copyright applies from when a work is created. I think the following applies: US Copyright

    Works Originally Created before January 1, 1978, But Not Published or Registered by That Date

    These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047.

    Interesting questions: one could argue the material was written in Japan by a US Citizen. Which country's copyright laws apply? I'd say Japan's as in 1945.

    Does providing the work to a censor count as publication? It's debatable, but I'd say yes: The legislative reports define "to the public" as distribution to persons under no explicit or implicit restrictions with respect to disclosure of the contents. Of coruse this is probably moot because it was created before 1976.

    Regardless I object to someone slapping on the current year as the date of copyright. Maybe that is supposed to be a reference to the book the son is publishing, but the original work (and that's all the website is quoting) should become public domain much earlier than what the son is claiming. Not to mention applying his own name (and hence his own lifespan).

    I object to the sloppiness that can curtail the growth of the public domain. Of course copyright is now so long that for all practical purposes it makes almost no difference in the here and now.

    Unless you can successfully argue that the article was legally "published" by distribution to the censors in which case it would NOW be in the public domain.

  22. Copyright 2005? on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1
    How exactly is the son claiming copyright on his father's works, and in the year 2005?

    The date of creation of the work was 1945.

  23. Re:Shutting down botnets is a pointless effort.. on Hunting for Botnet Command and Controls · · Score: 1
    So even after you've got more secure computing solutions out there you have to convince people it's worth the time and more specifically, cost, of upgrading.

    OR use the botnet command and control centre to command the bots to upgrade themselves...

    Just make sure to use the CONTROL centre and not the KAOS one.

  24. Re:I didn't like on Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy · · Score: 1

    It was depressing. He was a nihilist at heart (IMO).

    I imagine he got tired of people demanding MORE h2g2 stories (with the associated deadlines) and finally wrote a "this will fix 'em" story (a la Conan Doyle and Reisenbach Falls).

    I think he did leave an out, if you note that Ford did leave the editor (formerly Zarniwoop's) office by the window....

  25. Re:Dirk Gently on Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're following the books/radio/TV versions then Hot Black doesn't have any lines...

    therefore Kenau Reeves would be the ideal choice.