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  1. Voluntary amputation on Star Wars-Style "Bionic Hand' Fitted To First Patients · · Score: 0

    Voluntary amputation - what?!

  2. Re:i heard that Sony hack was insiders on US Slaps Sanctions On North Korea After Sony Cyberattack · · Score: 0

    As far as I can tell, no one seriously believes NK was involved in this at all. Literally no one.. except the FBI, who said the evidence had to be kept secret for "National Security" reasons..

    I see things are going well with the US government again.

  3. Re:The Systemd Fiasco or Hello FreeBSD on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 0

    lol

  4. It's simple, and works great. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 0

    It's the simplest init system I've used, as far as creating new items and starting/stopping/enabling/disabling them. And it works great.

    I wonder if maybe I've just missed something though, with all the hatred for it these days.

  5. Comcast/Verizon/etc? on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 0

    What about last-bills from phone companies, or cable companies, etc? I have debt that is "in collections" with both Comcast and Verizon. And it'll be a cold day in hell before they get another dime out of me. It's only like $100 each, but fuck them and fuck their bullshit. I wonder what % of this are people like me?

  6. What if it's not *my* favorite gravity well? on ESA's GOCE Satellite Provides Gravity Map of Earth · · Score: 0

    ... you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Google is back on Inside the Open Source Lab · · Score: 0

    It's still gone for me...

  8. Re:Someday on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 0

    I'm listening to The Resturant at the End of the Universe on audiobook (read by Douglas) right now.. curious, how such meaningless coincidences take place..

  9. Re:Stanley Steamer on High Speed Steam Powered Car · · Score: 0

    I was never sure if this was correct info, and maybe i should look it up.. but i have read in a history book (in highschool) that the Stanley Steamer (at least one model) was steared with a stick, had no windsheild, woden wheels, and a top speed of over 200 miles per hour. I remember some good laughs at the thought of somebody riding in one of those..

  10. Re:Temporal Cold War? on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 0

    Indeed, i too wondered what happend with the Suliban. Seemed line they were just toast one day. But now as the end of Season 3 is shaping up (almost hear i guess), it is begining to look like it's all supposed to be tied in somehow. As though perhaps the people helping the Xindi are the same ones that were helping the Suliban.
    Anyway..

  11. Re:what makes IT professionals unhappy on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 0

    Hmmm.. Arkansas eh? In Little Rock? Although - asking for a job probly isn't a good idea, since you said they just layed everyone off - heh..

  12. ARG!!! IE5 is toast! on CNET News.com Turns 7 · · Score: 0

    Woah! Hey, it looks like their new look might be cool, but i'm not really sure, cuz it's broken in IE5. Nobody supports the old guys anymore.. :-/ Maybe i should try to convince my company to upgrade? ;) (it's a 1500+ employee company with no admin privleges on the machines, so i can't just upgrade my own [i tried.. multiple times]).

  13. Re:Avoiding the Post Office. on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 0

    HA! UPS?! I don't know how good FedEx is. We use them here at work, and i havn't had much trouble overnighting things with them, but UPS has screwed me over more times than i can count. They are consistantly late, and damage items. I've never had to take it up with them, but i get many many comments on my website from people who have had troulbe with them replacing something they break. I hear they will just tell you it wasn't packaged according to their specs, and say they will not apy to replace it. BTW, their specs say it has to be packaged well enough to fall from 20 feet without being damaged. I'd like to see a monitor fall 20 feet. In any box. My grandmother also had a lot of trouble shipping glass items with them. They would kick the side of the box in every time - shattering half the shipment, then tell her the same thing - if it can't fall 20 feet, they are not gonna replace it. Anyway - i'd just like ot say that the USPS has done the best job out of any shipper i've ever used.

  14. Re:Read the paper yesterday. on OSDL Position Paper on SCO and Linux · · Score: 0

    Ahh, well, i apologize. It's just generally the women are in charge.. but you probly have a similar situation.. Although i'll assume he doesn't demand you do things for him - but then, who knows..

  15. Re:Read the paper yesterday. on OSDL Position Paper on SCO and Linux · · Score: 0

    Yes, you might be the only one left. But what if we only run it for our girlfriends? :) (oh, and no one bitch about me replying to his sig - he asked a question in it :)

  16. Re:Do-it-yourself EMP bomb for the airlines? on Risk Management For Electronics on Aircraft · · Score: 0

    Yeah, me too. Actually, i had already graduated, but was hanging around for the rest of the school year to play on their network :) (well, actually to keep it running, but anyway) So i didn't actually get expelled.. but i was told not to come back ever again :)

  17. Re:Do-it-yourself EMP bomb for the airlines? on Risk Management For Electronics on Aircraft · · Score: 0

    Nothing. At all. I don't have any idea why they said i did. I got thrown out too, lol. They wouldn't listen to me at all..

  18. Re:Them Script Kiddies on Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    I thought it was fairly impressive to see a new one so often.

  19. Re:Do-it-yourself EMP bomb for the airlines? on Risk Management For Electronics on Aircraft · · Score: 0

    Not reall on the subject, but i was once kicked out of highschool for "hacking into banks." I was accused by "computer-illeterate" people, God knows why, lol.

  20. Re:Compiled, tested, working. on Linux v2.6 Begins Testing · · Score: 0

    I'm working on it. It won't compile with all defaults. Neither would any 2.5.. actually, i never got a 2.5 to compile no matter what i fiddled with. Hoping to have more luck here :(

  21. Re:scary on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 0

    Hey.. i was serious. It wasn't a lethal voltage, obviously, but it was quite enough to feel it. It's happend twice, though i havn't put a lot of thought into it.. maybe i should check it out sometime, lol, althought i don't have plans to sue anyone ;)

  22. Re:scary on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 0

    My cable modem has been hit by lightning once. Nothing else was damaged (except for my network card that it was plugged into). Although that was a different brand modem.

  23. Re:scary on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1

    I've been zapped twice by my cable modem. It seems that if i plug in the power cable (while it's already plugged into the wall, i pull it out to reset it cuz it has no power switch), while touching the coax cable, and touching the metal on the bottom of the modem, it gets me. And it feels like strait 110 too...

  24. Re:Fight Club on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer

  25. Re:It is not bad to learn QBasic... on QBASIC Programming for Dummies · · Score: 1

    Amen! That help file was wonderful. It brings tears to my eyes too, just thinking about it. I was introduced to it by a teacher at school.. she even gave me a book.. but it wasn't actually for QBasic, it was for some other Basic (PowerBasic or something).. and i read a bit but most of it wouldn't work on QBasic.. Then i found the help file. I don't remember how old i was, but it wasn't very. 11 or 12 or something. That help file was so damn great. I wish i could find something like that with things these days. Well.. perldoc is quite nice.. but anyway. There wasn't anything else back then. I figured out how to PRINT, and INPUT, and it's been all uphill from then. Now i know several other languages, including Java, C++, and Perl. In my opinion, I would reccomend people learn perl first. It's my favorite language so far. Thinks just work so smooth. But anyway.. I too learned QBASIC first, and it opened up the door to so much more.