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  1. Re:DeathStar? on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    I love it! I had no idea this existed when I posted my suggestion before. Long live the DeathShrub!

  2. DeathStar? on Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either grow a massive hedge in an orb shape and stick this dish in the top section just like the DeathStar from StarWars or just do the same thing (sans hedge) with paper mache.

  3. Re:Skynet? on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    According to IMDB, season 2 starts on September 8.

  4. Skynet? on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    If the machine wins, the maker will get a military contract, then get killed by some hot terminator chick and a crazy woman named Sarah Connor.

    Wait... I've seen this before.

  5. Re:...This got greenlit? on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Ohh, snap!

  6. Re:A fool and his money on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you had one of these cables in question, I'm sure you could post a comment next year and still get first post. The cable transmits bits so fast, they actually go back in time.

    $500 cable = first post all the time :)

  7. The sadist in me... on A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...wants to wirelessly hack the hat and fire electricity into their brain via the headwear.

    Think of it. You just spent a few hundred bucks on a hat and some smartass with a laptop keeps electronically jabbing you in the skull while you run through the park.

    I, for one, would laugh until my beverage escaped through my nose!

  8. Force keywords in the subject line on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had to send emails to recipients within the Australian Defence Force (specifically, the Army), and every email sent from a civilian must include a keyword within the subject line. The keyword is to do with whether or not the information is classified or unclassified. Sure, getting all the clients to send all their emails with [companyname] in the subject line is a little annoying, and may not be possible depending on your circumstances, but the chances of spam having that keyword within it is virtually impossible.

    Set up an automated filter whereby anything that doesn't have the keyword in the subject gets dumped into a spam box to be sorted later. If the senders do the right thing, it assures their emails will be directed to the correct person.

    This is just one example of active spam filtering as opposed to the passive spam filtering used in IT today.

  9. Re:I think a better question is... on Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN · · Score: 1

    How could you not like a band with such deep lyrics. Take Free Speech For The Dumb

    What a meaningful song.

    Sorry, the "black" album had it's moments, but over all, only the albums before it were true Metallica albums. I do enjoy some of the songs from Load/Reload, but not as Metallica songs, just as pieces of music.

    I'm not into the new "Hardcore Country/Western" that they have become. That being said, I hear the new album will be disturbingly similar to an Offspring offering.

  10. Rivets helped sink the Titanic on Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic · · Score: 1

    That, and a f**king great big iceberg!

    That may have contributed.

  11. Blue on black on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    Tears on a river, push on a shove it don't mean much.

    Apparently this is Kenny Wayne Shepperd's favourite colour scheme:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyPNLi5jy1I

  12. Re:WTF? on Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Informative

    At least we know Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

  13. How about some product testing. on Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you make something that has some form of security (anything really) and you promote that it has security, surely the last thing you do before you release it is test your security. In IT especially, if you ever release a product to do with security, you have to expect that there will be a group of nerds (or even one) who will try to hack your security just so they can say they've done it. It's pure embarrassment that such a simple encryption mechanism is locking down a so-called secure device.

    Am I wrong?

  14. Re:c't Offline Update on Windows XP Update Library On a CD · · Score: 1

    After installing nLite, get the majority of patches from RyanVM's website. Any extra patches can be downloaded and applied after that, but his post SP2 update pack covers most of the big ones.

  15. Re:Downgrade??? on Microsoft Responds to 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 1

    OMG!!!!

    You just broke my sarcasometer!

  16. Re:Give 'em time on Microsoft Responds to 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Partners and Customers != end users.

    That just about sums it all up.

  17. Re:Am I getting this right? on EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, different direction then:

    Say I have a work of art in my loungeroom, an original painting by a famous artist. I then leave the window open and it is in full view of the street. If someone takes a high resolution shot with a really good digital camera and then gets that printed, I would be breaking the law by making the painting 'available'?

    This is closer to the truth than my first example.

  18. Am I getting this right? on EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory · · Score: 1

    So by making a file 'available' to the public, I am then violating copyright law?

    Well, by this same logic, if I leave my car window open and have a CD sitting on the passenger seat, I am then "making it available to the public". If I buy a DVD online and it is sent to my letterbox outside my house, and I don't have a lock on my letterbox, I am then "making it available to the public".

    Where is the flaw in my logic? Or am I actually making a valid point?

  19. Tyan? on Best Motherboards With Large RAM Capacity? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have you looked into Tyan mainboards. They're more for the server market, which is really what you're aiming for.

  20. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 1

    Okay then. I believe TV is not solely to blame for obesity, but tempting people away from activities that involve some form of exercise doesn't help either.

    Maybe they stopped watching TV, Americans wouldn't be so dumb. Controversial I know, but thats how the rest of the world views them. It seems more and more often worldwide, there is almost always a story on the daily news to do with 'some stupid American did this today...'.

    Maybe some mental exercise could complement the physical exercise. Americans could be smart and healthy.

    Or is that just the most absurd thing said on slashdot today?

    Remember, there is no 'I don't agree' mod option. Don't label me for making a valid point.

  21. Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to start the family exercising to help beat obesity?

    If TV gets turned off on Americans, maybe it would be a good thing.

    And don't flame me. TV is the major issue with American obesity, particularly in children.

  22. Re:Surprisingly common on The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, with Vista, Microsoft have taken away the 'My' prefix now just labelling it 'Computer' or 'Documents'.

  23. Obligatory Pr0n reference on Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of NSFnet, Internet Origins · · Score: 1

    "And who'd have thought the network we used to share our pr0n would end up being used by billions of people all over the world... ...to share their pr0n"

    Such vision!

  24. In Soviet Russia on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, ISO standard becomes PDF!!!!!

    Actually, that would work. It becomes a PDF so people could read it.

    Have we found an "in Soviet Russia" joke that doesn't work?

  25. Re:Wait on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's about time!