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  1. Orgazmo on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    I don't want to sound like a queer or nothing, but Orgazmo is a sweet film.

  2. Re:Spinoff Series? on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    I think they should spin off a show pairing up Andrew with Bobby Trendy, and they can be evil decorators. If Andrew ever says "luxurious", I'll just die...

  3. In Microsoft House... on Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Microsoft House, toilet uses YOU.

  4. 10 gs *preceding* a collision? on Motorcyclists To Get Wearable Airbags · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'The sensors onboard the STM will watch for telltale signs -- such as a sudden deceleration force of about ten times that of gravity -- that precede a collision.'

    Um, if you are pulling 10gs, you have already hit something.

    I had a relatively low-speed accident a few years back, a combination of a limited-visibility off-ramp with a bad drop-off and a stationary pickup truck pulling a garden trailer. Missed the truck and trailer but heavy breaking made me dump the bike, or tossed me: There's some missing time of a few seconds. Broke the left foot peg mount, with my foot on it. Landed on asphalt with the left side of my body, primarily top and side of the head, shoulder, left forearm, left thigh, and both hands.

    Injuries: Bruises and soreness.

    Why: Full-face helmet prevented serious head injury (at best road rash on my face). Leather jacket saved about 8 sq. in. of skin on my shoulder. Leather gloves saved the skin on my palms. Leather boots with steel toes probably prevented a broken foot. Jeans sucked up just enough to save my skin on my legs, just barely (some extremely minor abrasions).

    After checking out myself and the bike, I rode it to work (with 5th gear only), got a ride to the doctor's office for some x-rays, then later rode the bike home.

    I'd consider wearing body armor, but not an air bag. That's just silly.

  5. Re:And... on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    djbdns can do this. Put the zone in your authoritative (tinydns) server. Then for your caching (dnscache) server, create $ROOT/servers/macslash.com containing the IP addresses of your authoritative servers. Restart your cache, and it will consult your authoritative servers for macslash.com.

    http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache.html

  6. I misread the title on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    I thought it was "Microsoft Infests in the University of Waterloo".

  7. How I'd cast it on Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie · · Score: 1

    Assuming a "Dark Knight" timeline...

    Bruce Wayne/Batman: Bruce Willis. He's not really old enough, but he'd do. First alternate: Harrison Ford. (Assisted Living Batman!)

    Robin: Tough call. Natalie Portman would get the CmdrTaco vote, though she's a little old. Need some mid-teen talent, dare I say a Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen (but can they kick ass?)

    Commissioner Gordon (ret.): Clint Eastwood, 'nuff said.

    Superman (no secret identity at this point): Tough call. Soupy doesn't seem to age much. If he weren't already doing Daredevil, maybe Ben Affleck. I can't believe some idiot wanted to cast Nicholas Cage for Superman (rumored at one point), that's just WRONG. In any case... needs to be mid-to-late 20's, and excessively clean-cut.

    ah, nobody's ever going to see this anyway... Go see a real superhero: http://www.megatonman.com/

  8. Re:Alternative Text on Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Python keyboard is somewhat similar, particularly the home row:

    corpus:
    find ~/Python-2.2.1 -type f | xargs cat

    I also changed the rules to reduce the penalty for moving the index and middle fingers up or over.

    9764078 16359434:
    g y e ; , f p l d v
    c i o a u h n r t s
    w . ' j z q b x m k

    Dvorak:
    15318270 23719637:
    ' , . p y f g c r l
    a o e u i d h t n s
    ; q j k x b m w v z

    Shoals:
    22927061 35909537:
    q w e r t y u i o p
    a s d f g h j k l ;
    z x c v b n m , . '

  9. Already using metric time on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1

    Not that anyone will ever see this, but the second is an SI (metric) unit.

  10. Re:prize? on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html

  11. Re:alphanumeric dotted quad on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Think less dotted quad and more in-addr.arpa. Better to use 1.p.foo.com, 2.p.foo.com, 3.secure.foo.com, 5.login.foo.com, etc., i.e. the server number in a rotation (first element) and the service supported (second element). Advantages: a) compresses better, saving bandwidth in multi-record responses; b) you can more easily delegate subdomains, i.e. secure.foo.com IN NS a.ns.secure.foo.com.

  12. Use branches on Linus Does Not Scale · · Score: 1
    1. Use a branch-per-task scheme.
    2. Enforce via the commit_prep stuff that only the "owner" of a particular branch can commit to that branch. Linus owns the trunk.
    3. Small-time kernel contributors can send patches to any major kernel maintainer (someone maintaining a branch) to try to get them to include it.
    4. When Linus is happy with somebody's branch, he can merge it into his working branch, and eventually the trunk.
    5. Anyone who wants can check out someone else's branch (like Alan Cox's) for their own use.
  13. Wildly inaccurate on ICANN, National Registrars Still Feuding · · Score: 2, Informative
    The computer of someone searching for www.bbc.co.uk for the first time would consult the closest root server and would find out that Nominet handles the database of net domains ending .uk.

    The root server then would pass on the net address of Nominet to allow the searching machine to find the exact web address of the BBC website.

    This is totally inaccurate. If you are searching for www.bbc.co.uk, your computer asks the local DNS cache (listed in /etc/resolv.conf, unless you have some retard OS). That cache then asks a root server for www.bbc.co.uk (if that information has not already been cached). This produces a referral to the .uk nameservers. The process continues for co.uk and bbc.co.uk as necessary. Note that it does not ask the closest root server, because the cache has no way to know what this is. BIND uses the "fastest" server (until it overloads from all the other BIND servers using this strategy); djbdns's dnscache picks one at random.

    One way to avoid delays at the root servers is to run your own local root server, and periodically download the root zone. This shows you how to do it using the ORSC root zone, but you can do it with the standard root as well. You can AXFR it from one of the root servers. Then you tell your local cache to use your local root as the root server.

  14. Whitelist, not blacklist on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    MSN is apparently whitelisting acceptable browsers, rather than blacklisting "bad" ones. lynx is a text-only browser; why bother to blacklist it? wget doesn't work either, and it's not a browser at all. I set my lynx user agent to "big titties" and it didn't like that; therefore they have a list of "approved" browsers.

    Fun fact: Google can not crawl msn.com. I set my user agent to "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" and it was rejected. I'll be a lot of search engines are similarly shut out.

    Not that I *ever* go to msn.com for anything. I guess if the courts have already decided they are a monopoly, they might as well act like one.

  15. Re:US joins the rest of the world... on Voicestream Quietly Releases GPRS In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes, it does, since I have an analog module as well, which I haven't even put on the phone for several months...

  16. Re:US joins the rest of the world... on Voicestream Quietly Releases GPRS In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    I have had GSM service in the US for more than two years... First with PowerTel and lately with VoiceStream (bought PowerTel, and Deutsche Telekom owns VoiceStream).

  17. Re:Big debate on Spammers Land Optusnet On spews.org Blacklist · · Score: 1

    postmaster@spews.org appears to work. abuse@spews.org does not, but this is not relevant. Not all domains are required to have an abuse address.

  18. Re:What total FUD. on Why The U.S. Surrendered To Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is getting rid of the Win3.11/Win9x codebase innovative? Linux did this years ago.

  19. Re:A centralized blackhole list is important. on Open Replacement For MAPS? · · Score: 1

    Then you would have been listed as an untestable netblock or a manual entry for blocking the tester, which you admit is true. This is not the same as being listed as an open relay. Prior to 2001, this would mean a 127.0.0.3 address in relays.orbs.org (127.0.0.2 is an open relay, 127.0.0.3 is a manul entry, IIRC). Starting in early 2001, it would have meant an entry in manual.orbs.org and untestable-netblocks.orbs.org, as opposed to relays.orbs.org.

  20. Re:How about LAIM? on More Trouble With AOL And GAIM · · Score: 1

    Or MIA (Missing In Action)...

  21. Open Source is All-American on Ballmer Calls Linux "A Cancer" · · Score: 1

    Isn't "cancer" just another word for "growth"? And isn't growth what America's all about?

  22. Re:Re-rendering entire scenes is unnecessary on Could Square Re-Dub the "Final Fantasy" Movie? · · Score: 1

    Two words: Clutch Cargo

  23. Re:Freedom! on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    You can copy and hack the source as much as you like.

    No, you can't. The distribution terms (aka: LICENSE) specifically state that you can not.

    The distribution terms specifically state this:

    You are free to download the software from my web server; you then own that copy of the software, and you are free to compile it and run it.

    In any case, I specifically said, "The only real restriction is on the distribution of binary packages: They must operate the same as a user would get downloading and compiling the source themselves." Yes, that means you can't distribute modified binaries. So what if you patch qmail to use localtime instead of UTC? Are you distributing binaries? Unlikely. (About as likely as finding a buffer overflow in any DJB code, and that approaches zero.)

    You can copy and hack the source as much as you want. What you can't distribute the results outside of your own organization and call it djbdns. Lots of people distribute patches for various odd things, especially for qmail. And there are also qmail RPMs and djbdns RPMs. Maybe you should be reading FAQs...

  24. Re:Freedom! on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    You are so wrong about djbdns... Read Dan's Frequently asked questions from distributors. The only real restriction is on the distribution of binary packages: They must operate the same as a user would get downloading and compiling the source themselves. You can copy and hack the source as much as you like. In fact, there is no license because Dan doesn't think you need one; read the links on the page.

  25. Re:Dukes of Hazard on Would Fonzie Sell You A Lexus? · · Score: 1

    I'll pick nits! The General Lee was a Dodge Charger, not a Challenger. Probably 1968, possibly 1969, but I'll leave that to another nit-picker.

    I personally can't stand to watch that show, due to the sheer number of Chargers destroyed doing the stunt work.

    [Member of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Old Mopars (ASPCOM)]