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  1. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. I.S. E.A.R.N.E.D on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    In answer to your question: yes.
    If my "blasphemy" offends others, then that's their hang up. I certainly don't see why I should sanitise my language because of some quiche-eating notion of political correctness. If you don't want to be offended, stay the fuck off the internet, and for that matter, off the streets.You never know when someone will utter a dirty word, or maybe even take the Holy Mother's name in vain!

  2. Ha! Oblig. PA references: on The Memory Masters · · Score: 1
  3. Sweet fucking mother of christ! on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1
    Who are they going to try and tackle next? I'm thinking the catholic church is a possible next target:

    1. They have enough money to bury SCO like the lame dog it is.
    1. They are infringing on SCO's copyrights as much as any of the other targets.
    1. The average joe cares more about the catholic church than a whiney Utah lawyer.
  4. Re:Legal Defense Fund on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    *ahem* No. What he really thinks is that he could make some money by buying at a "low" price, and then selling later, after the "temporary bump", at a "high" price. Nice straw man though.

  5. Re:Amazing on Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad · · Score: 1

    Technically, I think the SP is side-lit, not backlit, but I agree :)

    I'm really gutted now, the NES went the way of my Star Wars toys, marbles, Lego, Amiga 500, Atari ST...parents sold them at boot sales and such when I "outgrew" them...

  6. But, it seems.....not *your* friend.... on Japanese Government Raids Microsoft Offices · · Score: 1
    Hohoho...so...you just swapped one kind of stupidity for another:
    America has always been a nation without royalty, and thus using "King George" in the title established much more clearly to American audiences that this was a film about a monarch than "George III" would have.
    ...and...
    Of course, you have to wonder what Americans who didn't recognize "George III" as the designation of a monarch would make of the film's title. The third part of something? Maybe. So in that sense, perhaps there is a little bit of truth to this one.
    I'm also shocked, the most important event in America's history was surely declaring independence....WHEN GEORGE THE THIRD WAS KING OF ENGLAND...and yet, they felt they needed to include the word "King" in the title because people might not realise it was *that* King George III otherwise.

    Mod me down, if you like, but them's the facts.
  7. Don't trivialise their complicit condonment!! on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 1, Funny

    You may mock, but I doubt any exploit has been written without using the Shift & Return keys.

  8. Re:What about on Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System? · · Score: 1

    Then you forget about all the complex mechanics involved and use Kenny Baker.

    It'd also be cheaper to maintain...apart from lip-lubricant..after all that whistling and beeping they get a little dry.

  9. Men have feelings too! on Girls in the Gaming World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hear hear. I could be beaten by blind,pre-pubescent paraplegics with bad hearing all the live-long day and I'd still enjoy the experience. But it's ruined when some whiny brat from Jerkwater, USA calls me a "cheting haker" because I got a head-shot.Once.

    To think that only women are subject to abuse is either naievity or ego.

  10. Re:Aussie tradition on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmm.....Jenny Agutter.

  11. Re:Why? someone? on Open Source Software Serves Niche Markets · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try opening a passworded excel file with OOo. Or an excel file with a protected cell...Mine wouldn't do it, and from what I understand it never will, for some reason (clarification anybody?)

    Very annoying, as I was trying to find out what mark I got for a module last term, and the lecturer distributed the marks in an excel file, which had a protected cell in it.
    I ended up having to go into uni to check my mark, bah!

  12. Re:The dirty room and the clean room on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1
    That's why many reverse engineering firms have two separate teams: one to describe a piece of copyrighted code and another to implement it.
    So, if someone downloads the code, and describes it, in plain english,or in a haiku to the Wine team, that would be ok? :o)
    I volunteer...just because I like the idea of the "dirty" room :o)
  13. HAHAHA!!! on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Especially after this little doozy.

  14. Re:John Carmack on Hackers Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    If anyone should be bumped off the list for JC I reckon it should be this guy, 'Julf'.
    I thought esr wrote some mail program or something? ;o)

  15. You're not wrong... on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1
    I won't detail the inaccuracies, as I'm sure you already have countless letters along those lines
    I also used the word inflammatory, threw assinine, hogswill and "lack of journalistic integrity" into the mix and detailed the most obvious flaws. You never know, if they're handing out credibility to that dolt, maybe I have a shot at the Director General slot...
  16. Re:the needed patch on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Firebird works fine at my little bank too.

    The only problems I've had is with websites who think they know best, telling me I *need* internet explorer this, or netscape that, and send me on my way. Of course, using the ol' user agent switcher solves this "problem". Why do they insist on simply blocking the other browsers?

  17. Re:Yeah on Microsoft Holds Off on Eolas Patent Changes · · Score: 1

    Err...yeah...I see lots of people being able to reverse-engineer the process used to make a chemical, given only the chemical..
    Wouldn't it make more sense to keep it a trade secret, rather than patent it and show the world...

  18. Programming with Qt - O'Reilly on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know how this compares with Programming with Qt from O'Reilly? That was the reccommended text for a Soft module I did last term/semester (whatever the uni chooses to call them this week). I thought it covered pretty much everything I needed..and even touched on the aforementioned XML/DOM/SAX stuff.

  19. Re:English/Metric on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    *Hint* If you measure it in centimetres, it sounds like more ;)

  20. Re:What will they think of next? on Toyota Offers Automatic Parallel Parking Option · · Score: 1
    never really understood why it never took off
    Because it was featured on Tommorrows World maybe? :o)
  21. Re:Poor Synopsis on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    I still say the funniest he's been is in the spots on the eleven o'clock show, though I'm always partial to the Man-Ranting school of comedy...

  22. After the CB Radio goatse.cx... on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1
    "You are a weasel"
    That's the second mouthful of coffee I've lost thanks to /.
  23. It is the sound of inevitability... on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1

    "PUNT TO LONGHORN!!"

  24. Re:Another Story on the Subject in The Reg. on Tampa Police Give Up On Face Recognition Cameras · · Score: 1

    And another here.

    On another note..one thing I find weird is that I'm more aware of the ACLU than I am of any similar organisation in this country.

  25. The $699 question... on Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...what uni is he going to? Moreover..how many geeks would apply there just to be near him? :o)