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  1. Re:Not pointless on USB/Firewire "Branching" -- Is it Possible? · · Score: 1
    The aging process and gradual enlargement of your lenses makes it more difficult to focus.

    Did this happen starting in your twenties? I find this a more plausible explanation, unless somehow you found occasion to "freeview" at stereograms for hours a day??

  2. Re:Blind Users on Baffling the Spam Bots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of sending an image of distorted text, send a wave file of distorted speech - easy for the human ear to discern, but harder for run-of-the-mill speech recognition tools to do.

  3. Re:Big Yawn!! on Andy Grove Speaks out on Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    The word is "disposable."
    Only if the old cannot find a way to recycle themselves, in which case they are indeed just trash.

    The lesson: don't become trash.

  4. Re:-1 Irrelevant on Andy Grove Speaks out on Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    I don't know about you, but me [sic] potentially losing my job because a more efficient route can be taken over seas [sic] effects [sic] me.
    Probably a good thing. You probably have all sorts of things about yourself you could improve while unemployed.
    So I would consider an industry big wig defending American workers from American big business rape is "news for nerds".
    The only thing big on Andy Grove these days is his prostate.

    And as far as big business, who commanded you to go forth and work for one?

  5. Re:Impossible Question on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm a TA for an advanced Fourier systems/elementary graph theory class at MIT.

    I tried this technique - giving students near-impossible problems - but inevitably some janitor comes by and solves the in the dead of night.

    Damn you night janitor, damn you.

  6. Re:ROY is DEAD (of Sigfried and Roy) on Benjamin Franklin, Civic Scientist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is horrible. There's only one thing to say at a time like this - GO GET EM TIGER! ROY IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1

  7. What happened? on What to Do When Your ISP Steals Your Domain? · · Score: 1
    It's not clear from the article exactly what your friend's plight is:

    • Did he try to change his DNS servers and was denied?

      That's obnoxious. Your friend should transfer the domain to another registrar with less obnoxious policies. Alternately,

    • Did he try to do a registrar transfer and was denied?

      He should check his account to see if his domain is "locked". Allegedly, registrars allow customers to lock their domains so as to prevent unauthorized/"accidental" transfers to other registrars. I say allegedly because domain locking is often a scheme to make it unnecessarily difficult to change registrars when you really want to. Many times when a domain is locked, it is not because the user locked it but rather because of some obscure rule in your registrar's terms of service - rules such as "you are not allowed to transfer your domain(s) to another registrar within 60 days of initial registration or within 14 days of expiration".

      If your domain appears "locked" and there is no obvious reason why, and no obvious way to "unlock" it, you'll need to call into your registrar, have them unlock it (expect long hold times and a shitty sales pitch to get you to stay with them), and then repeat the transfer request at the new registrar.

      At least three of the registrars I have dealt with (register.com, cheap-domainregistration.com, netsol.com) have shady domain locking practices. For my money, I've had positive experiences with GoDaddy Software.
  8. Re:"The equivalent of" on Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online · · Score: 2
    Why can't journalist start using Terabytes and Petabytes instead of "the equivalent of x number of CD's" and "x number the Library of Congres"?
    Because they're still niche terms, just like gigabyte was a few years ago. They're not meaningful to mainstream readership yet (though terabyte likely will be soon, as consumer demand for digital video storage continues to increase).

    You will also be disappointed if you expected USA Today articles to mention megaparsecs and kiloTesla anytime soon.

  9. Re:Distributed computing has been here for years on Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online · · Score: 1
    He doesn't really know what he's talking about specifically, which is why he defers to Google.

    He heard a story a while back (in the good old days), about grid computing, and thought it was neat at the time. That is the extent of his memory and knowledge about pre-existing distributed computing grids.

  10. well on Who Owns Your Weblog? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Are employers still likely to employ someone who is willing to argue points on their contract, especially in this economic climate?
    Put another way, are you willing to sell out title to your potential future ventures for the "comfort" of short-term job security?
  11. Re:funny on HTTP Developer's Handbook · · Score: 1

    Launch every "sig"

  12. Re:Yeah but Trillian steals their revenue. on Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients? · · Score: 1
    Yahoo Messenger is fucking annoying, doing such lovely things as dragging me out of other applications with its 'user is online' messages and popping new message windows to the front.
    These are configurable options as I am guessing they are for Trillian, Jabber, and other clients you mentioned.

    I guess that would make you fucking retarded.

  13. why i need this on Automated Wireless File Transfers? · · Score: 1
    I live in Kauai and make my living piloting helicopter tours over the Napali coast.

    I give my passengers a digital camera to use during the 90 minute flight.

    Upon disembarking, it is nice to have them be able to pick up the photos that they took or better yet take a CD home.

  14. Re:This is a bitch on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1
    That's a relatively weak protection mechanism anyway.

    Perhaps it will speed adoption of designated sender record verification though.

  15. Re:When this gets advanced to... on Serious Games Help Business Decisions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Been done - remember that PC game from the late 80's, Life and Death?

  16. huh! on ICFP 2003 Programming Contest Results · · Score: -1, Troll
    I did not know Juggalos could code.

    That almost redeems the face-painting and assorted other developmental disabilities.

  17. Re:gaming is big business now... on Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean shader business deals; many in the pipeline, in fact.

  18. Re:Ugh. No! on VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This also paves the way for a new kind of denial of service attack, perpetrated by a dictionary "attack" on DNS servers with the intent of flooding resolver caches with garbage.

  19. Re:Help me on Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free · · Score: 1
    Look in the Yellow Pages for a Stateful Packet Inspector who does windows.

    Make sure they are licensed and bonded and have available at least 2 references.

    FWIW, I am a Stateful Packet Inspector and I charge $55/hr., but I am great at what I do. I will inspect your packets one by one and remember critical details that allow me to decide what is safe for your network and what should be discarded.

    You will not get the kind of service you're looking for from ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm Pro, or ZoneAlarm Type-R.

  20. Old-fashioned way on Are DATs Still Worth Buying? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hook up the sound engineer with the drug(s) of his/her choice, and get yourself a direct digital feed from the board. Don't be stupid, there is a protocol for doing this intelligently and I leave its details as an exercise to the Googler (hint: it does not involve approaching the sound engineer during the concert)

    Then use a Nomad or similar to capture the PCM.

  21. Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1
    Sorry ladies, but if this guy exists he probably plays for the other side.
    You mean he uses Camel notation?
  22. Re:Personized News! on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 0, Troll
    HAHAHA! Foreign-sounding names SURE ARE FUNNY HAHAHA! This is like a Chevy Chase sketch circa 1978 except with TWICE THE FUNNY!

    Hats off to YU! HAHAHAHAHA!

  23. heh on Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and thus the "NAT defense" was invented.

  24. I use on Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16? · · Score: 5, Funny
    I use the 66.35.192.0/18 block.

    It doesn't seem to conflict with anything important.

  25. You'll have to be more specific on Where Is The Broadband? · · Score: 5, Funny
    By "broad band" did you mean:
    • Four Non-Blondes
    • The Go-Go's
    • The Supremes
    • The Donnas
    • Creed
    ?