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  1. Re:The TV-Theory of Why We Can't Find Life... on Search For Earth-Like Worlds Focuses On Sun's Siblings · · Score: 1

    Or they might just traverse the vastness of interstellar space to demand we resume production of Single Female Lawyer. Who knows what extraterrestrial tastes are?

  2. Oblig on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure you've all heard this before, but it bears repeating here:

    Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word fuck. Out of all the English words that begin with the letter 'f' ...fuck is the only word referred to as 'the f word... It's the one magical word. Just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as most words in the English language is derived from German ...the word fuieken, which means to strike.

    In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:

    As a transitive verb for instance.. John fucked Shirley.
    As an intransitive verb... Shirley fucks.

    Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...

    An adjective such as... John's doing all the fucking work.
    As part of an adverb... Shirley talks too fucking much.
    As an adverb enhancing an adjective... Shirley is fucking beautiful.
    As a noun... I don't give a fuck.
    As part of a word... absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
    And as almost every word in a sentence... Fuck the fucking fuckers.

    As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:

    Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
    Dismay: ahhh fuck it.
    Trouble: I guess I'm really fucked now.
    Aggression: Don't fuck with me buddy.
    Difficulty: I don't understand this fucking question.
    Inquiry: Who the fuck was that?
    Dissatisfaction: I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
    Incompetence: He's a fuck-off.
    Dismissal: Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...

    I'm sure you can think of many more examples.

    With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.

    It will identify the quality of your character immediately.

    Say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU!

  3. Re:Comment follows on The Sounds of Tech Past · · Score: 1

    Same here... early eighties Goldstar is our office cooking appliance. Aside from a melted butter scalding accident back in '93, it hasn't caused any bodily harm. Nice satisfying physical 'DING!' when your soup's done, and no clock to set. Some old tech just won't die.

  4. Finally on StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was beginning to think this was Starcraft Forever

  5. Re:Unscaled photo link on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 1

    Fine, call it an electrograph then.

  6. Re:48VDC pros/cons (IMHO) on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A. You won't get zapped from 48VDC. If you are extremely sweaty you might feel a slight tingle, but nothing to get excited about.

    2. Just wire up some big batteries in parallel and you don't have to worry about voltage drop under load. As long as the rectifiers can keep with the current needed to float the batteries at 48V (really more like 52V in practice) you're fine. As stated by an earlier poster, this is proven technology in use by telcos for a very long time.

    D. This whole article is about datacenters. I hope Joe Twelvepack hasn't just slurpped down 7 Bud Lights and wandered in to wire up some servers, but if he has I doubt a dedicated power connector is gonna keep him from fouling something up. There already exist standard 48VDC connectors. They're called lugs. Just remember, the positive terminal goes to ground. Actually I have seen modular plugs for this purpose, but any tech worthy of working near such equipment should be able to terminate a color-coded cable easily enough.

  7. Re:Replace to words and things become interesting on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    Never thought about it like that before. It's a good definition though. If an entity has the power to allow (or not) another entity to exist, that entity is sovereign, and the lesser entity is subject to it. Everything else is just details. Take Iraq for example. The United States decided not to allow that country to exist any more. They won't be allowed to rule their own country independently until the US is happy with the way it is run. So really, even if and when US troops leave that area physically, the sovereignty of that nation is just an illusion because it doesn't make economic or political sense to destroy that country right now.

  8. Ignorance is bliss on Banjo Used In Brain Surgery · · Score: 1

    Not if he doesn't know what he's missing.

  9. Re:Title on Banjo Used In Brain Surgery · · Score: 0

    This is /.
    Who reads the summaries?

  10. Re:Blocks vs. sub-blocks. on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    Argh! I only have mod points when I don't want them. Best comment I've seen in a long while.

  11. Re:Small? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    It's to encourage readers to switch to Chrome, which lets you resize boxes as large as you like. :)

  12. Re:California Strikes Again on Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weird, crashes before you hit enter. So much for each tab on a different process too.

  13. Re:ask a lawyer on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 0, Troll

    This just in: You undermine your credibility when you expose your prejudices. Your hostility betrays you.

  14. Re:Duh. on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This hasn't been a problem in FreeBSD for many years:
    That's because BSD is dead. Netcraft confirmed it.
  15. Re:Microsoft just announced plans for their fix on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    But windows isn't case sensitive!

  16. Re:Mod article flamebait on Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's more like the difference between a rotary saw, a hack saw and a chain saw. All three cut wood, but do it in different ways. Which one is most effective for a given task is left to the judgement of the craftsman.

  17. Re:Your sig is broken. on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    No, the ,1 will cause them program to load to the same address as it was in when it was saved. Without that argument it will load into the default BASIC location, which may be different for different cbm machines. Generally machine code programs need to be loaded into the correct address. Some programs do have bootstrappers that will cause the program to immediately run upon loading, but it is not default behavior.

  18. Re:WTF? on Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what would happen to your seoul?

  19. Re:Ask a craftsman about tools some day... on PHP Application Insecurity - PHP or Devs Fault? · · Score: 1

    Php is more of a tool box than a tool itself. In the box there are many tools, some are good and some are not as good. They all serve a purpose, but the junk tools get in the way of the good ones.

    It would be better if someone cleaned the toolbox out. I'm in favor of dropping the function bloat in favor of libraries. Keep the equivalent of java.lang.* in the core language.

    The part of php that tends to attract inexperienced programmers is the easy to find online reference. To help with the quality issue of wild php code the manual would benefit from a section on code style and qualtiy for inexperienced programmers. The barrier to entry is too low, we can't just ignore php and hope it goes away.

  20. Re:Craplets? on Microsoft Worried OEM 'Craplets' Will Harm Vista · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can call them crapplications?

  21. Re:you were making great points on DHS's 'Secure Flight' Program Proven Insecure · · Score: 1

    The thing is, there has been way too much political misinformation on both sides of the ball to ever truly know the whole story about this whole ordeal. Ask yourself, what do you know about 9-11? I know that the twin towers were hit by airplanes, and they fell. I saw this on live tv. I also know the pentagon was damaged by a large explosion. I've seen the damage with my own eyes and spoken with people who were in the building at the time. Everything else I've heard might as well be fiction. Of the six billion people I share this planet with, I haven't the slightest clue which of them were responsible for these events. We hear stories on Fox News and CNN and even Comedy Central about who did what to whom. Still, as of September 10, 2001 I had never even heard of Al Queda or Osama Bin Laden. Where the hell did they come from and how did we find out so fast that they were responsible for this? The airlines have never been totally safe, and they probably never will be. I have always thought that any group of fairly intelligent people could pull off just about any crime they set their minds to, and there are lots of fairly intelligent people in the world. Maybe a better question than how to stamp out terrorism, is what gripe do the people responsible for 9-11 have with me and you? Did we do something nasty to slight them in the past? As I see it, it really doesn't make any sense to organize and execute an attack on 3 civillian office buildings half-way around the world. It makes even less sense to get on an airplane and fly it into a building by hand. Most Americans I know are peace-loving neighborly people. There are always a few wingnuts here and there, but the same can be said for most societies. I'm willing to bet that most Middle-Easterners are not too different than Americans when it comes to core family and community values. So mainly the wars we fight are the wingnuts in our country going head to head with the wingnuts in other countries and thousands of young patriotic men on both sides get caught in the middle. Is this what we want? Is this even what they want? It would probably help if we all spoke a common language so we could talk about our issues on a larger scale. Just some thoughts on the issue. If my views have offended your side of the debate, try to think of it less in terms of sides, and more in terms of a common people trying to find a common solution. In the end, we all want peace, right?

  22. Re:wtf? on Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Unix did, and we'd be safe until 2038. The shuttle's only going to be around until 2010 anyway.

  23. Re:Who's aggitating my dots? on Airport To Tag Passengers With RFID · · Score: 1

    Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.
    -Dark Helmet

  24. Re:It strikes me as odd... on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 1
    nah...surfing the net is something that you do when you should be studying.
    I have an exam in an hour. Touche.
  25. Newsflash on Yahoo Messenger Blocking youtube.com URLs? · · Score: 1

    The internet is not anonymous. Online actions can be monitored, filtered, and traced, especially by corporations who provide free "tubes" of communication. Ask Mark Foley. News at 11.