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  1. Re:Slashdot One-Sideness on Economist Endorses Kerry, Reluctantly · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, an "obscure Crawford newspaper" which happens to be his home town paper. And don't forget that bush said "if you want to know about me talk to the texans that know me" (not an exact quote).

    a vote for bush is an accessory to murder

  2. Re:IP Spoof Filtering... on DDoS Extortion Attempts On the Rise · · Score: 0

    How would this affect 'legitimate' spoofing?

    I consult with an ASP and they often need to send out emails in the name of their customers. They are worried that spoof-blocking will make them less able to meet their customers needs.

    FredRated

  3. Can it get any more trivial than this? on Kerry Blows Red Sox Stats, Again, and Again · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Perhaps next we will be discussing the brand of toilet paper the candidates use.

    Or whether they use enough.

    FredRated
    Rate not lest you be rated

  4. Re:Give me a break on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    No, he didn't 'assess the risk'. Read Paul O'Neils book, bush-league made the decision to get Iraq before he was even elected, everything after that was just excuse.

    What part of 'mass murder' don't you understand?

  5. Re:Hindsight... on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    Actually, if you read the law that authorized the use of force in Iraq, you will see that the democrats did not agree to this action. The law authorized the use of force only if Saddahm did not allow in the weapons inspectors to do their work. Since in fact he did allow the inspectors in, bush-league violated the law by using force anyway.

    Also the intelligence you refer to was unvetted and twisted out of shape to achieve lunatic-fringe goals.

    Lunatic-fringe. Thats what we called these people when I was growing up, not 'neocons'. Let's bring back lunatic-fringe, it has a better ring to it.

  6. Re:Once again... on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    What once was news is now infotainment, with a requirement to be a profit center. Lies apparently generate more profit, so let the lies proceed.

  7. Re:A Bush supporter speaks on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    This country got all upset because of the mass murder of 9/11. What of Americas part in the mass murder in Iraq don't you understand?

  8. Re:Faith based politics on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    We also believe in human ingenuity. That's why when we see global warming or oil shortages or any kind of incredible problem on the horizon, we don't worry about it too much. Someone somewhere is going to come up with a solution

    Works for me. There's nothing like waiting until your body is flying through the air, hurtling toward the ground, to decide what you are going to do if you fall off the scafold.

  9. Re:Here we go again... on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 0

    This is true by definition. Anything to the left of the right wing lunatic fringe is a bastion of liberal ideology and thought.

    If 'conservative' actually had something to do with 'to conserve', conservatives would NOT be voting for bush-league, the most unconservative person on the planet.

  10. Re:I'm just a few hours from Ohio... on Judge Says Ohio Must Allow Provisional Ballots · · Score: 0

    ... So I guess I'm going to get to vote Republican TWICE!!!

    Thanks, Liberal Federal Judges!!!! And remember, kiddies... Voter Fraud works both ways!

    Only when there are frauds like you to practice it.

  11. It's called table tennis on Mechanical Pong · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the backyard player calls ping pong, and it's even in the olympics.

  12. Re:87% of whom? on January Elections in Iraq? · · Score: 0

    "the interim government, which is going to do their level best to hold democratic elections in January"

    Sorry, the interim government has one job today and one job only: to do it's level best to get it's master, G.W., elected (for the first time).

    "after holding secret trials"
    You mean like the ones G.W. wants to hold at Gitmo? Illegal under international law, with no appeal and little in the way of representation?

    I think the lack of intelligence is demonstrated nicely by your post.

  13. Re:Forbidden!!! on Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux · · Score: 0

    No shit, I get the same thing.
    Did anyone download it successfully?
    Or does another major organization reveal the gross stupidity that underlies it?

    FredRated
    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource

  14. Right wing flamebait joke on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: -1, Troll

    THIS JUST IN!

    right wing calls for
    prayers for clinton!

    for him to die!

  15. Re:What ... on Hydan: Steganography in Executables · · Score: 1

    Is this what you're going to hide in your software?

  16. Re:socks? on The PHP Anthology - Volume II, 'Applications' · · Score: 1

    I think the point the author is trying to make is that, because the socks "remain safe in the top drawer" they wern't 'knocked off' by this amazing work.

    FredRated
    "PMS: when women act like men for a few days a month"

  17. Re:Is SETI Even On The Right Track? on SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 · · Score: 1

    According an article in the Scientific American a year or two ago, unless ET is specifically aiming an extremely high powered signal in our direction, there is no way we will be ably to detect anything more than a few light years away. Radio, TV etc. are initially too weak and attenuate to fast to be detectable very far away.

    By 'high powered', they meant something like seven times the total energy output of the united states. Seems unlikely anything is wasting that kind of energy.

    FredRated
    Rate not lest you be rated.

  18. My brain already controls everything i do on Brain Controlled Tightrope Video Game Shown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    through these interesting appendages called 'hands' and 'feet'. These are actually directly wired to centers in my brain, and they can be used directly to control games, etc.

    Seriously folks, with all due respect, why are we spending lots of money to develop what amounts to an inherently low bandwidth control? Trying to control something by modifying brain waves, to make it go 'left' or 'right', will never compete with a directly wired hand, the nerves of which will always have a much higher bandwidth and will always provide faster response with a greater range of control.

    This is like trying to fall back on a 300 baud modem in the age of fiber!

  19. The Mars scorecard is biased on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Their criteria for scoring is
    "For every piece of hardware that returns useful information from the Lobbee's planet, the Lobber scores a point. For every piece of hardware successfully thwarted by the Lobbee, they score a point."

    So the score is not Mars 20 Earth 16 but Mars 8 Earth 16.

    Based on their own criteria, the following points awarded to Mars are disallowed because Mars did not participate in the failure as the above requires:

    event 2: Marsnick 1, launch failure
    event 3: Marsnick 2, launch failure
    event 4: Sputnick 22, launch failure
    event 5: Mars 1, failure in transit
    event 6: Sputnick 24, broke up before Mars trajectory
    event 7: Mariner 3, failure before Mars trajectory
    event 10: unnamed, launch failure
    event 12: Mars 1969a, launch failure
    event 14: Mars 1969b, launch failure
    event 15: Mariner 8, launch failure
    event 16: Cosmos 419, ignition failure
    event 29: Mars 96, failure to enter Mars trajectory

    Launch failures are incompletes and failure to enter Mars trajectory means Mars didn't even know it was coming.

    "Stupidity: it's a renewable resource"

  20. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 0

    Wrong, they both have skip marks in front of them. The snake from braking, the lawyer from accelerating.

  21. This well will never run dry on In Search of Stupidity · · Score: 0

    Or, as a friend of mine declared: "Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!"

  22. Re:Who cares about the FBI.. what about the compan on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 0

    "except be an honest citizen and don't make myself a target of such investigation."

    Oh, so honest citizens are never investigated? Investigations are only carried out on criminals? If you know ahead of time they are criminals then what is the point of the investigation?

  23. Re:Hey INGRATES... Remember the Big Red Bear? on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    What a line of crap. All Reagan did was spend our tax money (wasn't he with that group that always complains about government spending, declaring how the American tax payer is better able to spend their own money than the government?) on weapons which turned out not to be needed. The big red Russian (paper) bear turned out to be a lot of hot air that could have been blown away with a fan.

  24. I feel safer now on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: -1, Troll

    Refresh my memory: what will this 5 billion dollar monstrosity do for us exactly? Keep Cuba at bay? Patrol the streets on Baghdad/Tehran/(insert imagined enemy here)?

  25. Re:Thank you Wired. on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    Right, creating hydrogen is easy, all you need is electricity and water. So all this hype about the potentially great hydrogen economy is really saying we need an electricity economy. Don't we already have a mostly electricity economy, from burning coal and oil? So where is all the new electricity required to separate hydrogen from oxygen going to come from? Without a clean alternate power source the so-called hydrogen economy is bunk.