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  1. Re:How they used to do it in the old days on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Not really just the old days. It still happens quite a lot, in rural areas and such. Problems with goons are a known issue - most of the time with the help of the police, and sometime by bribing people with alcohol and other such perks.

    It's not just "party members" who vote repeatedly. There isn't a special technique to remove the ink either. It's such a low quality, nail polish removers will do the trick. I've had to vote thrice once, it was very simple getting it out and voting for two different people too. Voting for another was just a matter of knowing the other's name. Walk in, tell them you are such-and-such and vote.

    EVMs do help, but they still need to reach. Most local elections still have these problems.

  2. Re:How they used to do it in the old days on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    I've done it. A simple nail-polish remover does the job. This damn system is still in use - in rural areas especially, for local elections.

  3. Hmm on Installing Everywhere? · · Score: 1

    Release a zip and a tar.gz, and let them figure the rest out!

  4. Nah on AOL To Launch Blogging Service · · Score: 1
    Believe me, you don't want it. One banner ad per entry makes not an ideal journal.

    And those kiddies programming there will really pride themselves with finding a way to insert ads at the bottom of every picture you add to your blog.

  5. The Hulk on Harry Potter in German, not Czech · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I don't understand why Harry Potter is always compared to the Hulk. The Hulk is crap from graphics to story-line. It's unnecessarily overrated.

  6. Re:What do you use python for? on Text Processing in Python · · Score: 1

    Slow to execute? Python? Get outta here.

    I use it on 8GB sequences (Bioinformatics) and there is quite nothing wrong with the speed. Maybe you need to improve on your algorithms?

    It's extremely quick to code something powerful and it's damn fast too. As for your last time, beautifully put! That's exactly what happened to me - I already knew it, I only had to discover it. I was going complex code way on day one!

  7. Novell on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm more interested in what The SCO Group had to say about Novell's letter to them. There seems to be not much talk about it. The last I heard Novell was going to challenge SCO on Unix ownership.

  8. Re:joke on Zynot Foundation Forks Gentoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Random Guy: Well fork off then, you forker.

  9. Daily routine on MSN Planning to Take on Google? · · Score: 1

    Get up.
    Bathe.
    Internet Explorer.
    google.com
    xxx

    Hey! WTF... Must be an IE trick.

    "MSN did not find any matches for 'xxx'. Perhaps you were looking for 'Linux'?"

    In other news, Opera releases yet another "Bork" edition to circumvent IE's avoidance of Google searches. Folks at Mozilla were not available for comment as they were busy re-inventing the wheel.

  10. Not me on Late Night Gaming Tweaks The Brain · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly I have not had any of these problems. When I was addicted to Cataclysm I used to sit up till 2 to 3AM every night. It didn't cause me loss of any sleep albeit I slept less than normal.

  11. Re:Empire Building. on FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers · · Score: 1

    SPAM is nowhere NEAR a level of importance or National Security that would require investigations or legal proceedings to be held in secret No, no, no. You are mistaken. It seems this whole fiasco started after Prez Bush getting an email about penis enlargement. Seems he got offended by the offer of adding just 2". Apparantly he needs much more. "Make no mistake. We will ram these spammers"

  12. Mensan's suck on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 1

    Mensan's are probably the dumbest people I've come across so far. It's not just a swollen head and a "I am better than you" attitude, they're born assholes.

    So if someone brags to me that [s]he is a Mensan, I'd rather not get to know them. I prefer being known as stupid with a low IQ. I can whip their ass when push comes to shove and that's all matters.

  13. ISPs on Reviving the Finger Protocol to Fight Spam? · · Score: 1

    Another simple solution would be for ISPs to give out good, advanced filters to all their users, implementing most by default and allowing them to set black and whitelists through an easy-to-use (read: newbie friendly) administration panel. That helps in not receiving the spam at all at the ISP level and reduces our bandwidth consumption.

    I'm sure blocking it from even entering your mailbox will help a lot, although it may not help in elimination. Apart from the crappy filters on webmail services, I haven't seen an ISP that gives this functionality - directly check against the user's blacklist and bounce/delete the spam off at the inbound MTA level itself.

    I don't know if I explained it the way I meant it but I'm in a damned hurry. Good luck to the lets-finger-the-spammers-away dept, although I doubt that'll work out either.

  14. No wonder the new patch on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    In other news, Microsoft has released a 10.2MB patch to get rid of a vulnerability in IE that malicious websites could make use of to crash the browser with 4 lines of code.

  15. kungfoo on Other Sources of the "Slashdot Effect"? · · Score: 1

    Kungfoo probably gives the /. effect too

  16. s/? on Any Interest in a Regexp-Based Web Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    s/xxx//g Next day on /. "Bug in new regexp-search engine wipes out all pr0n"

  17. Re:Just Pretend on Looking for Linux Help When You've Lost Your Way? · · Score: 1

    I *am* a girl, you insensitive clod!

  18. Bah on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Honey, come quick, the computer's bubbling. There are tiny bubbles all over the place"

  19. Aha on Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Time for LinWinCE... Michael Robertson are you listening?

  20. Re:Non-American view - trying to see through the B on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    81% !! :))

    I read an article on Yahoo that said a recent poll said 71% of those who voted said they thought Saddam Hussein was the one behind 11/07. I can't get the URL right now but you could probably find it on Yahoo news - yesterday's news.

  21. Re:Idiots on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    And like it was announced in the Security Council, there are many other countries that are a bigger threat... Like Israel and Pakistan for example.

    They probably chose Iraq because they have nothing to fight back with... They used the UN to rid Iraq of whatever little defense Iraq had and now, is bombing away. It was probably their only intention since they starting chanting the 'disarm yourself' crap.

  22. Hah on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Great going Mr. President. Thanks for helping the Al-Qaeda get more support.

    Yep, there will be more terrorism and 'let there be no mistake' speeches from him. The cycle revolves.