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  1. Re:From ipw2100_main.c on Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 2, Funny
    My favourite is things like this:

    #define TWENTY 19

    That is much worse than single character names.

  2. Re:I get no spam on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 1

    Yeah well, newbies don't get spam - but you will. My domain is 9 years old and I get 2000 spams a day.

  3. Re:Hope it works on Four Big ISPs File Six Anti-Spam Suits · · Score: 1

    Well, the 'filter defeaters' just makes it easier to filter. My spam filters just keep getting better. I hardly ever see any spam - Yeah for SpamProbe...

  4. Re:Give me a break!! on SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Darl should beware of the Penguin Liberation Front... plf.zarb.org

  5. In most of the world on Do You Have A License For Those Facts? · · Score: 1

    you can already copyright compilations. So, this is nothing new, nothing earth shattering and won't change anything...

  6. Bleh on How The CIA Duped The Soviets' Line X Network · · Score: 1

    Why would a country that can build a space shuttle, fly it around the earth and land it by remote control need to steal software to run an oil pipeline? Pure bull...

  7. The beagle DID land on NASA Mars Press Briefing & "Significant Findings" · · Score: 1

    and promptly sank into the muck? Next time they should make sure Mars probes can float...

  8. Dino skeletons on Mars? on End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory? · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the mars probes to find dino skeletons on Mars. Just finding salty muck really isn't all that cool at all, unless the salty muck sticking to the rover wheels is dyno poop - now that would be something...

  9. Ooooooooh - can't wait on Ford Testing a New 'Traffic Monitoring' Device · · Score: 2, Funny

    to spoof that system to make it look like I: Change position instantaneously accross the city; Run backwards on a highway; Run red lights; Drive on the sidewalks; Speed at 1000s of km per hour and break the sound barrier in a school zone...

  10. Around the world on Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet · · Score: 1

    in 80,000 years?

  11. Re:Fake data on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many Canadians live in 24 Sussex Drive Ottawa...

  12. Old, old bug... on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months · · Score: 1

    I think that bug goes all the way back to CP/M 2.2 circa 1890 - the OS that Dame Ada created for Charles Babbage (Bill's great grandfather) and which all versions of MS Windows are based on...

  13. Re:Linux much cheaper! on Energy Company Refutes Windows TCO Claims · · Score: 1

    Well gee Pixar and Disney make their movies on Linux...

  14. Access can be a front end to MySQL on MySQL: Building User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    MS Access can be usedeither as a standalone DB app or as a front end to a larger SQL DB. Obviously the advantage of a SQL DB is its ability to serve multiple users at the same time, which Access on its own, can't do. So, use the right tool for the right problem...

  15. Added junk makes filters perform better on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    Actually, the more the spammers try to outwit simple filters, the easier it becomes for complex filters to remove the crap. I get about 600 spams a day. Of those, only 1 or two per week gets through to my inbox - that amounts to 99.98 percent effectiveness, with zero false positives. The Bayesian filter just keeps getting better. Thanks, spammers, keep it up!

  16. Re:Something Doesn't Add Up on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: 1

    Gimme you e-mail address, then I'll send you one.

  17. Mil Maps on Polymer Vision Produces 5" Rollable Displays · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool, now you can fly over the battle field and reprogram the enemy's maps...

  18. Re:What about Toshiba? on 802.16 WiMax Wireless Broadband on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    802.11g Plus can do 108Mbps, ditto with 802.11a Turbo. These speeds already exist in off-the-shelf equipment.

  19. Bah - no case - its his NAME on Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com · · Score: 1

    MS had no case, they had to yield or risk getting taken to the cleaners if he did go to court...

  20. Who will be first to drill for oil on the moon? on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 1

    If we put in a pipe from the moon to the earth, the oil should flow freely.

  21. Dinosaurs on Extinctions Due to Global Warming Predicted · · Score: 1
    lived on earth for a much longer time than human beings and all the while the earth was much hotter than it is now - the polar regions were like the tropics today and gawdknows what the tropics were like.

    Things seem to grow way better in warmer climes. If that wasn't true then keen gardeners would not have hot houses in their backyards and the tropics would not be forested.

    So why exactly do the doomsayers say that life will be destroyed?

  22. Low cost notebook PC on Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media Center? · · Score: 1

    Should run Linux OK - would probably be too slow for WinXP...

  23. Re:Other comments: Duh! on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Yah, I have one of these locked down WinXP boxes - so I use my own laptop running Linux instead and the special box isn't even plugged in anymore...

  24. Re:defeating random punctuation on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    That'll discriminate against Gaelic...

  25. All the tricks make it easier on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1
    If anything, the accuracy of my spamprobe.sourceforge.net filter installation just keeps getting better. I get about 400 spams a day on my domain and SpamProbe gets them all. About once a week a message slips through into my inbox, but those are quite inoffensive spams. Anything that is even mildly irritating gets dumped and the more tricks spammers try to use, the easier it gets for an intelligent filter to remove it.

    So, to the spammers: Please keep up the tricks, it really helps...