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  1. A good start would be... on Watch For A New Set Of CyberSecurity Laws · · Score: 0, Troll
    Stop allowing Department of Defence passwords to be the same as the logon.

    Whoops, hope I didn't just compromise any systems with that revelation.

  2. You've got prank! on AOL To Launch Blogging Service · · Score: 2, Funny
    AOL's instant-messaging system or by telephone. The phone option will be available only to subscribers to the extra-cost "AOL by Phone" service, who will be able to leave voice messages that will be posted as MP3 sound files

    This will prove a boon to the AOL crank callers who wish to blog their exploits via three-way calling.

    Thank you AOL for providing a solution to this urgent need.

  3. Re:Is his math right? on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 1
    .07 cents times 10 plays = .7 cents
    You're mistaken. .07 cents isn't $0.07, it's $0.0007.
    Umm, yeah no shit.
    When did I say otherwise?

    I'll do the math slowly, so you can understand.

    .07 cents per song ($0.0007) times 10 plays = .7 cents ($0.007), right?

    20,000 megs of songs at 4 meg/song is 5000 songs

    Still with me?

    5000 songs times .7 cents ($0.007) equals 3500 cents or $35.00

    Get it now?

    Thanks so much for wasting my time when you could have just done the math yourself.

  4. Join the Democratic People's Collective OS Farm on Don't Be a Sharecropper · · Score: 4, Funny
    Do not place yourself under the boot of the capitalist pig-dog proprietary platforms any longer!

    Rise programming proletariat, rise and be free!

  5. Re:Odds of being trampled on by zebras ? on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Douglas Adams showed that the odds of being trampled by zebras goes up considerably if you have just proved black equals white.

  6. Is his math right? on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It looks like he forgot one multiplication.

    .07 cents per song played
    Played 10 times per cached copy
    4 MB per song
    20 GB total cached songs
    20,000/4 * .07 = $3.50

    .07 cents times 10 plays = .7 cents

    So isn't the answer $35?

  7. We're not hacking. on Xbox Hackers, Linux, the DMCA, And Modchips · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're embracing and extending the XBox.

  8. Re:Double edged? on The Double Edge of Copyright Extensions · · Score: 1
    Oh very clever. When I say clever, in this case, I mean stupid.

    I read the article.

    Other than the corporate entities and estates who own copyrights of dead authors, who benefits from these copyright extentions?

  9. Double edged? on The Double Edge of Copyright Extensions · · Score: 2, Funny
    Corporations are greedy bastards who want to maintain control over IP in perpetuity to enrich their own bloated coffers.

    What's the other edge?

  10. Re:Was Robbie forced to sign the contract? on Record Labels Looking for a Cut of Tour Revenues · · Score: 1
    You're right, the problem is the struggling artists.

    A combination of spinelessness and cluelessness on their part is what has allowed the record companies to walk all over them.

  11. Was Robbie forced to sign the contract? on Record Labels Looking for a Cut of Tour Revenues · · Score: 3, Insightful
    He was paid $20 million up front for the stake in his non-music revenues.

    Record companies are not the nicest people, but the spin on this submission is that they are somehow robbing the artists.

    There are enough things to berate the music industry over without having to fabricate injustice that isn't there.

  12. Just say Microsoft. on NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.

    What is it with the mass media not wanting to say that a given worm or trojan affects only systems running Microsoft Windows?

  13. What a coincidence. on SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since IBM has the option of planting a nice stake in SCO.

  14. Blood heats in partial pressure? on More on High-Altitude Balloonists · · Score: -1, Redundant
    "At about 44,000ft, you need to be wearing a pressure suit, because if not the blood will start to heat and actually boil."
  15. In other news... on Patent Granted for Ethical AI · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eliza sues inventor for copyright and patent violations to her own code. When reached for comment, she said "Why does it bother you that my code is being violated? You're not really talking about me, are you? Tell me more about your family."

  16. Re:I wonder... on Oldest Planet Ever Discovered · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I think you've missed the point.

    There are several planetary systems that we have discovered that have been ruled out as having evolved life as we know it.

    The system in the article is a prime example.

    The x-ray emissions from the pulsar would prevent life as we know it from ever starting, much less evolving.

    Those are our standards. We have only ourselves as a basis for comparison.

    Perhaps there are very alien forms of intelligent life that would not consider our system capable of supporting biology because we lack a strong x-ray source.

  17. I wonder... on Oldest Planet Ever Discovered · · Score: 4, Interesting
    How many civilizations have looked at Sol with their telescopes and determined the presence of Jupiter from our star's wobble?

    Would they conclude that it was unlikely that life could evolve in this system for one reason or another based upon their own standards?

  18. It sounds like... on "Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"? · · Score: 1
    You're going to get roasted either way in a situation like that.

    You'll either be branded as too slow or too sloppy.

    I would wonder about the future of such a company and if it would be in your best interests to look for a smaller, leaner company that could appreciate your talents better.

    Though given the state of the global economy at the moment, it might be wiser to just suck it down for now.

    Be sure to keep that resume updated, you never know what opportunities might arise.

  19. Use protection on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 4, Funny
    People in the open-source community should also not accept software under the Microsoft Shared Source license as they could become "contaminated"

    That just sounds vaguely nasty.

    Remember kids, don't share unprotected source with Microsoft, or you risk litigiously tramsmitted diseases.

  20. I only want Chandler on my desktop if.. on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 5, Funny
    Clippy looks like he's meant to snapped into the butt of an automatic pistol and says things like this.

    "I'm an occational drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard."

    "The kid's face had as much expression as a cut of round steak and was about the same color."

    "She opened a mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed."

    What do you mean Chandler wasn't named after Raymond?
  21. It seems like more tech than needed. on Real-World Hyperlinks · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Many newer cell phones have GPS and web capability.

    Wouldn't it be easier to visit a website set up for this purpose and send the locational data to get a lookup of everything posted for those coordinates?

    That way, we wouldn't be limited to the information that was paid for in the case of a movie theater being linked to the "official" site.

    Actual reviews could be posted, dare I say, moderated upon as well?

  22. How does your phone ring on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    when the line is disabled?

  23. Chapter 8 on Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pringle's cans.

  24. Maybe a little cruise missle diplomacy is needed. on Still No Federal Spam Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    We just need to connect the word "spammer" with "terrorist" a little more firmly in the Congressional mind.

  25. Got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 4, Funny

    And when to use a Beowulf cluster to simulate every possible strategy.