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  1. Re:X marks the spot on AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll be worse than an invasion of moles (or whatever the local burrowing creatures are.)

    I believe the burrowing creatures you refer to are known as lawyers.

  2. obligatory.... on AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold · · Score: 5, Funny

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    23473437 how to stop spam
    23473437 gold in Mrs Wolfgang Hawkes' backyard
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  3. Re:$1,000,000? That's nothing... on Poincare Conjecture Proof Completed · · Score: 1
    It wouldn't exactly make thrilling tv though:

    Which of these is the proof of the Poincare conjecture?

    a) a fruit

    b) a small amazonian tree frog

    c) The n==1 case of the generalized conjecture is trivial, the n==2 case is classical (and was known to 19th century mathematicians), n==3 (the original conjecture) appears to have been proved by recent work by G. Perelman (although the proof has not yet been fully verified),

    .....1000 pages and several hours later....

    n==4 was proved by Freedman (1982) (for which he was awarded the 1986 Fields medal), n==5 was demonstrated by Zeeman (1961), n==6 was established by Stallings (1962), and n>=7 was shown by Smale in 1961 (although Smale subsequently extended his proof to include all n>=5).

    d) something we made up

  4. Re:Bonus geek points for not using GPS on Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    A field of dos would be quite fertile, however you might have some trouble growing lotus flowers on it.

  5. I wonder on EFF Files Complaint with FTC Over AOL Data Leak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even if this *doesn't* get through court, could an AOL customer ask AOL for their export ID number?

    Is the ID number we have all grown to know an integral part of every AOL account?
    Does AOL even know who user 17556639 actually is or was it generated automatically and then lost in the data export?

  6. Re:A quick tutorial on Dark Matter on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that Robert :)
    Its left me with more questions, but in this life that is a good thing - it gives me something to do.

  7. Question. on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you shine a torch at some dark matter what does it become?

    Isn't dark matter just all the none illuminated items in the universe?
    Rocks and stones and humans and plants and animals and silicon and paper and all these things are what I would consider dark matter, I might be wrong but someone could add some illumination on the subject I would be most grateful.

  8. Re:Clones are one thing... on YouTube's Growing Competition · · Score: 1

    CNN must be smoking the same stuff as Walmart.

  9. Clones are one thing... on YouTube's Growing Competition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but brand recognition is whats a winner here.

    I am reminded of iPod killing headlines.

  10. Pretending to be a terrorist gives 85% success on Biometric Terrorist Detector · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I were a terrorist, I would pretend to be a normal person, this thing won't fly.

    It reminds me of films like Airplane where the scanners stop and beat up the little old grannies but welcome the missile/gun toting libyans through.

  11. Re:Whats the problem? on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 1

    And your attention will slip when you have been battling with this softer wood and 4 blade changeovers and then get really annoyed and disable "the god damned trigger happy pile of shite" before slicing off your finger at a neat mitred angle.

    I know 100% that this will save digits. But the best thing for those which need saving is lessons and knowledge.
    You wouldn't go deep sea diving with an ear infection so don't operate dangerous machinary when your mind isn't on the ball.

  12. Re:Whats the problem? on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are benefits and there are drawbacks to this method.

    It works really well for none conductive materials (uses skin capacitance to make a circuit, then when made retracts the blade), however if your cutting up things which trigger it randomly you will disable the feature (yes its not all the time).

    Each time it is triggered the blade is ruined and needs replacing, better make sure the wood you are sawing isn't damp or you will either remove the safety feature (to save money) or get pissed off because you have to spend 10 minutes to change the blade every few planks.

    It would be better to concentrate whilst working than making silly mistakes every day, may be good to replace machines with this and for those silly enough to trigger it more than once disable the feature and let them learn a valuable lesson.....

  13. Re:My game will be called... on Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    Game registration error

    Microsoft has detected an error in the naming of your game.
    The term 'Linux' is a trademarked entity and as such cannot be used as the title of your game.

    Sincerely

    Billy boy

    ps, even if it weren't trademarked, we still wouldn't let you have it you commie pig :P

  14. Re:Easy compression rule on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    Nahhhhh you misunderstand the concept here,
    Let's suppose the binary string I am trying to compress is "141592653589793238462643383279502884", this exists at position 1 to the right of the decimal point.

    Since Pi is infinite there will be a matching location for *any* string somewhere within pi, you just have to tell them the index and they can calculate it (negating the fact that they might require a few millennia to decompress the "hello world" message).

    The same should also be possible by supplying coordinates and vectors into the mandelbrot set, letting the user regenerate the results based upon this lookup.

    Never having to store the dictionary away would enable higher compression ratios.

    Its certainly not practical, but it isn't impossible to conceive.

  15. Re:Easy compression rule on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    Since the decimals along Pi are essentially an infinate lookup table (there are phone number lookup programs which find information in pi), couldn't you use the calculation of pi to produce your data tree.

    The entire 100mb file and everything else should be identifiable by a single location along pi.
    mmmmmmmm pi.

  16. Re:IRC the weakpoint? on Botnet Herders Attack MS06-040 Worm Hole · · Score: 5, Informative

    They know where its coming from, but the Chinese are still pissed at Jack Bauer so they won't shut it down.

    actually, they say its the same server thats been running for months:
    Amazingly, this new variant of Mocbot, still uses the same IRC server hostnames as a command-and-control mechanism after all these months. This may be partially due to the low-profile it has held, but also may be due to the fact that the hostnames and ip addresses associated with the command-and-control servers are almost all located in China. Historically Chinese ISPs and government entities have been less-than-cooperative in taking action against malware hosted and controlled from within their networks.

  17. Whats gonna happen when Norton removes WGA? on Botnet Herders Attack MS06-040 Worm Hole · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the analysis:

    This variant of mocbot copies itself to the system directory as wgareg.exe, and creates an NT service to run at startup called "Windows Genuine Advantage Registration Service". The description given to the service reads "Ensures that your copy of Microsoft Windows is genuine and registered. Stopping or disabling this service will result in system instability.", in an attempt to discourage users from stopping it from running.

    Do we actually know which is the more malicious variant?

  18. These...are...great on Star Trek... Inspirational Posters? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am getting a couple put up at work on monday.


    EXPENDABILITY
    Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back.

  19. Re:More difficult Rnd() generator on DIY Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    Oh crap, after reading the article, he did use americium just not as much as I speculated.
    dumb fuck...

    I bet he even tweaked it so the random numbers looked random
    that always confuses people when you show them a random sequence that happens to be all one number of an increasing sequence, "bah its not random"

  20. More difficult Rnd() generator on DIY Random Number Generator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once collected loads of old broken smoke detectors and ripped out the small cell of americium from each of them.
    I placed them into a big ball wrapped in tinfoil (shiney side in), then used my fathers' geiger counter to supply random numbers.

    Its been working well, I've been counting the number of years its been running on my fingers, so far I've got to 13.

    *note, this is totally false, but there was some stupid kid who did something similar.

  21. Music has been passed down for generations on OLGA Shut Down by DMCA (again!) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without somewhere to get the pass on the music it will be lost.

    I would feel great pride if I were a composer having my tune played around the world by people, its like having your code used all around.
    Its not like knowing the chords will give anybody an advantage to become an international star, and I doubt it would lost anyone money.

  22. Re:Late Late Late on Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak This Weekend · · Score: 2, Funny

    DUPE! This was posted on slashdot in 1997 and again in 2003.

  23. Re:hahahahaha - im going to get involved then fork on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, I just read the source code, I don't want to get involved with this guy:


    [!--[if gte mso 9]][xml]
      [o:DocumentProperties]
        [o:Author]C.Mulvey[/o:Author]
        [o:LastAuthor]C.Mulvey[/o:LastAuthor]
        [o:Revision]2[/o:Revision]
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        [o:Created]2006-08-12T14:17:00Z[/o:Created]
        [o:LastSaved]2006-08-12T14:17:00Z[/o:LastSaved]
        [o:Pages]1[/o:Pages]
        [o:Words]413[/o:Words]
        [o:Characters]2360[/o:Characters]
        [o:Company]The Mafia[/o:Company]
        [o:Lines]19[/o:Lines]
        [o:Paragraphs]5[/o:Paragraphs]
        [o:CharactersWithSpaces]2768[/o:CharactersWithSpac es]
        [o:Version]11.5606[/o:Version]
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    Isn't metadata annoying....

  24. Re:Our first order of business... on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 1

    You aren't a very good business man, you just lost five bucks.

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
    <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11">
    <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11">

  25. hahahahaha - im going to get involved then fork it on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 1

    ftsalespitch:

    How Will it be Funded:

    Initially the company will be funded by a monthly subscription by those who sign up. I'm thinking in the are of maybe 25 a month(in the region of $30)