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  1. Re:Slippery Slope is a lame argument on British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not banned if the theater is on fire.

  2. Re:The alternatives on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    glibc fix:
    sed -i -e 's/extern int errno;/#include <errno.h>/' djbdns-1.05/error.h
    IPv6 support Available with a patch, if you really need it, and most people don't. CIDR support for dnscache Largely irrelevant. For common sizes (/24, /16, /8), you touch one file. Worst case is something like 10.0.0.0/25:
    for i in `seq 0 127`; do ln 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.${i}; done
    (Uses hard links to save inodes, and assumes you allow localhost to use the cache.) DNSSEC If you really think you need it, use BIND. You said (in another comment), "Of course, the overall need for DNSSEC implementations is pretty low on the current Internet," and with BIND still being as wide-spread as it is and still hardly any use of DNSSEC, I don't see how it's a really compelling issue for djbdns/tinydns/dnscache.
  3. Re:and then just think on Project Gutenberg Made Accessible · · Score: 1

    That was supposed to moderated +5 Funny.

  4. Re:PRON on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    Which brings up an interesting question: Wouldn't the DOJ be compelled to bring these suits on behalf of the porno industry? Otherwise the DOJ would seem to violate the principle of equal protection.

  5. Re:and then just think on Project Gutenberg Made Accessible · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had a diet of worms, I'd be abrasive and confrontational as well.

  6. Re:Obviously on Video Games - Lost in Translation? · · Score: 1

    Definitely. Why someone would adapt "Lost in Translation" to video game format anyway? Even if it is set in Japan, there's just not enough action.

  7. Re:Evidence of Atheism as a Religion? Re:Gee... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'll bet Jesus is just rolling over in his grave over that post.

  8. Fires happen, things burn on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Monty Python reference (too lazy to reformat):

    Knock at the door, sergeant enters, and salutes.
    Sergeant Two civilian gentlemen to see you ... sir!
    Colonel Show them in please, sergeant.
    Sergeant Mr Dino Vercotti and Mr Luigi Vercotti.
    The Vercotti brothers enter. They wear Mafia suits and dark glasses.
    Dino Good morning, colonel.
    Colonel Good morning gentlemen. Now what can I do for you.
    Luigi (looking round office casually)You've ... you've got a nice army base here, colonel.
    Colonel Yes.
    Luigi We wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
    Colonel What?
    Dino No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if... (he knocks something off mantel)
    Colonel Oh.
    Dino Oh sorry, colonel.
    Colonel Well don't worry about that. But please do sit down.
    Luigi No, we prefer to stand, thank you, colonel.
    Colonel All right. All right. But what do you want?
    Dino What do we want, ha ha ha.
    Luigi Ha ha ha, very good, colonel.
    Dino The colonel's a joker, Luigi.
    Luigi Explain it to the colonel, Dino.
    Dino How many tanks you got, colonel?
    Colonel About five hundred altogether.
    Luigi Five hundred! Hey!
    Dino You ought to be careful, colonel.
    Colonel We are careful, extremely careful.
    Dino 'Cos things break, don't they?
    Colonel Break?
    Luigi Well everything breaks, don't it colonel. (he breaks something on desk) Oh dear.
    Dino Oh see my brother's clumsy colonel, and when he gets unhappy he breaks things. Like say, he don't feel the army's playing fair by him, he may start breaking things, colonel.
    Colonel What is all this about?
    Luigi How many men you got here, colonel?
    Colonel Oh, er ... seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.
    Luigi Paratroops, Dino.
    Dino Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
    Colonel Set fire to them?
    Luigi Fires happen, colonel.
    Dino Things burn.
    Colonel Look, what is all this about?
    Dino My brother and I have got a little proposition for you colonel.
    Luigi Could save you a lot of bother.
    Dino I mean you're doing all right here aren't you, colonel.
    Luigi Well suppose some of your tanks was to get broken and troops started getting lost, er, fights started breaking out during general inspection, like.
    Dino It wouldn't be good for business would it, colonel?
    Colonel Are you threatening me?
    Dino Oh, no, no, no.
    Luigi Whatever made you think that, colonel?
    Dino The colonel doesn't think we're nice people, Luigi.
    Luigi We're your buddies, colonel.
    Dino We want to look after you.
    Colonel Look after me?
    Luigi We can guarantee you that not a single armoured division will get done over for fifteen bob a week.

  9. Re:Revision to the song on RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today · · Score: 1

    I didn't think they had earthquakes in MA. Or was there some sort of collision between parallel universes?

  10. Re:Religion on NASA Mars Press Briefing & "Significant Findings" · · Score: 1

    I object to your use of the word "farce", you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:OSS advocate on FreeS/WAN Project Bows Out · · Score: 1

    Nautilus didn't start to get good until long after Eazel died. It was unbearably slow and buggy. It would usually crash within 60 seconds of me poking around doing normal stuff. The image viewer was atrocious; if you zoomed in, it resized the entire image, not just the visible portion, and could consume enormous amounts of memory (all you had and more). On top of this it had huge memory leaks. It was very disappointing because had some great concepts that were implemented very poorly.

    The GNOME 2.4 versions are much, much better.

  12. Altoids on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1

    I carry my money and credit cards inside an Altoids tin, minus the Altoids. Now I have a good reason. Thanks!

  13. Re:We live in interesting times.. on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a shotgun attack; it's the death of a thousand cuts. I like it, and I've been waiting for GPL'd projects to start doing this.

    In other news, SCO's smoking gun

    has finally been revealed.
  14. Re:Just get to it... on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police · · Score: 1

    He must be new here.

  15. Re:George Bush on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    WH could mean "White House", but it could also mean "Waffle House"

  16. Re:Don't copy machine have this feature too? on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a nice vector for denial-of-service attacks against copiers.

  17. Missing from the list on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Slashdot story editors.

  18. Re:so what ? on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your analogy might be better if he had been going around stealing people's souls with his camera., although some would argue Macs *do* have souls. Perhaps Microsoft was worried that he was cutting into their territory.

  19. Re: xhpcalc on HP Launches New Calculators · · Score: 1

    Bruce Perens doesn't work at HP any more, so he may not have as much influence there as he used to.

  20. Obligatory Futurama Reference on China Sends First Taikonaut To Space · · Score: 1
    Lander returned
    to this site by the
    Historical Sticklers
    Society.
    The Series Has Landed
  21. Re:Ice Storm Blackouts on Electric Grid is a Vast Machine · · Score: 2, Funny
    15,000 died as a result of a heatwave in France this summer, ...

    Well, he did mention "the Boiled Frog Scenario"...

  22. Re:Fringe science, or valid? on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, that was from measuring the mass of the Higgs boson. You're also assuming that the Earth is a Type-13 planet in it's final stages.

  23. Re:Doesn't make sense to me on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    That would make more sense, putting it then around 5000 lbs total curb weight, which is still a far cry from the original claim of 9000 lbs.

  24. Re:Doesn't make sense to me on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    A Ford Expedition has a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 7000 lbs. This is how much it weighs fully-loaded with cargo. With a trailer, it can go up as high as 13,500 lbs. However, the curb weight (weight of the vehicle itself with fluids) is a surprisingly low 2650 lbs (depending on model). With a single passenger (typical), you're still under 3000 lbs, even with a real lard-ass behind the wheel. In fact, this is not very much more at all than a Volvo. Using the fourth-power formula, though, 3000 vs 2500 does approximately double damage, if you can believe that. (3000/2500)^4

    Not to defend Fords or anything. Use Google to find the curb weight; I checked several different sources. Also, this legislation is really dumb.

  25. Re:MHz is already meaningless on Athlon Xp 3200+ 400FSB is Coming · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean 8080 or Z-80, not 8086... The 8086 is a 16-bit processor with a 20-bit address space (IIRC). The 8088 was an 8086 with an 8-bit data bus. The 8080 (and faster clone, the Zilog Z-80) was an 8-bit processor.

    The 6502 (1 MHz) compared so well against the higher-clocked 8080/Z-80 (usually 4-5 MHz) because of better pipelining and shorter instruction cycle times (IIRC).