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  1. Death sticks on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 1

    Talk about Death Sticks.

    (Someone on our chat channel just said "Flaming Igits".)

  2. In a journal on Repositories for IT White Papers? · · Score: 1

    Why not publish it in one of the journals?

  3. Re:The ITLab and resumes. Something different. on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1
    You mean you kicked the new guy's ass.
    the only thing that stopped us from deleting them was if they sent a word document.
    I thought you deleted .doc files unread.
  4. Re:Not always a great idea on Long Term Effects of Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    [India] doesn't have large or complex enough domestic businesses competing with each other
    Er, that's not true.
  5. In our frat.... on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    Well, okay, it wasn't a frat, just 5-6 guys living in 1 fairly small house. Almost every one of us had computers. We'd regularly be IMing each other (and then laughing out loud), because it's a pain to shout through an open doorway. Sound never seems to travel distinctly through doorways.

    Then there was the time the roommate sitting next to me sent me email to (basically) say 'yes'. Our computer cases were less than 6 inches apart at the time.

  6. Some of us don't like forums on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    Some of us don't like forums. Give us our message-threaded mutt/pine. I hope this isn't one of those "no outlook? no email for you" stupidities.

    On the other hand, that'd help keep the lusers off our internet.

  7. Re:25 hour cycle? on Living on Mars Time · · Score: 1

    So we're all Martians anyway.

    More likely, the Earth's rotation was a bit slower a few million years ago.

  8. Religion on "Forking" Greatest Danger of Adopting Open Source? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If forking is acceptable in religion (notwithstanding "mine is the One True" etc.), it should be acceptable in software.

  9. Re:Tamil Linux on Linux Localization And E-governance · · Score: 1
    In any case, you can use Win XP to type in a few Indic languages, although Bengali is not one of them, and for sure, the UI is still English.
    . This is true. Hmm, slashdot doesn't do unicode?
  10. Re:The government should try to solve that problem on India Test-Fires Cryogenic Rocket Engine · · Score: 1
    However, the caste system still is a huge problem in India. The government should try to solve that problem rather than make cryogenic rockets, in my opinion.
    Yes, because governments can only do one thing at a time, right?
  11. Re:moon race? nah... on India Test-Fires Cryogenic Rocket Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This rocket is just because they can, and no doubt also an attempt to attract international investment. After all, this is a great adverstisment for the education standards of your workforce if you're able to achieve complex technological goals like this.
    After all, that's the same reason why NASA exists.
  12. Open standards? on Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as it's an open standard that eventually becomes RFC3821, I'll be okay with it. But if it's one of those proprietary "pay us to participate" schemes, they can go jump. Oh, and there should be no scope for someone to say "pay us or we won't accept email from you.

  13. Why? on Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis · · Score: 1

    Why is this on slashdot?

  14. Re:Dont fear the curry on 96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore · · Score: 2

    Yes, thank you. I'm really sick of people tarring me with the same brush and calling me a terrorist.

  15. Here come the puns on Cheap Linux Tablets, And (Maybe) An Apple Tablet · · Score: 2

    This is going to be a bitter pill to swallow, but the market needs strong medicine. The writing's on the wall. Let's not sugar-coat the truth.

  16. So it sounds like.... on Kernel Exploit Cause Of Debian Compromise · · Score: 5, Informative

    So it sounds like someone used a compromised user account to get in, ran a binary that exploited the bug, and got root that way. This is a local exploit, then.

  17. Well why not? on Planned California Bill Targets Video Game Sales · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, why not? They do that for porn anyway.

  18. Services on by default? on Apple Responds to Exploit · · Score: 1, Troll

    This doesn't sound much different from MS's way of leaving most services turned on and wide open by default.

  19. Distributed patent processing on A Day in the Life of a Patent Examiner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Distributed patent processing -- have a bunch of (volunteer) people do the legwork etc. The patent officers can do the final check. It should help a little.

  20. Re:Yay government. on Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act · · Score: 1

    Read the rest of my post.

  21. Re:Yay government. on Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, fuck no. I don't want want to filter the spam after it has already gotten into my system and is chewing its way through my procmailrc! I want it to stop outside my network.

  22. Re:IBM on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    The utility companies (electric, gas, phone, internet) here (mid-Atlantic state) all got my name wrong. Every single one of them changed all the Ts to Ds. What the fuck?

  23. Old, and on the list on Critical Eye on SpamAssassin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not only is this somewhat old news, it's been discussed on the spamassassin mailing list. Apparently, the article was edited so that it's more anti-spamassassin than the reviewer intended, but Mr. Harbaugh also defends his review of an older version of spamassassin as "it came with my Redhat 9" (NOT a direct a quote). He also claims it took nearly an hour to install and set up. (I counter that it took seconds to install and minutes to set up).

    The current version of spamassassin is 2.60.

  24. Re:The main issue with XML is performance on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    Like .

  25. Re:The main issue with XML is performance on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    Not free? How do you mean, money-wise, processor-wise, or what? I agree that sometimes using XML is a bigger pain than not using it. Especially the gratuitous examples in some documentation. Like .