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  1. My question. on Ask Neil Gaiman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How did the actual comics medium affect how Sandman turned out, especially the Dreaming and the Endless?

  2. GoogleNews on Single-atom Laser Built at Caltech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a handy link with all the articles on GoogleNews:

    http://news.google.com/news?q=single+atom+laser

  3. Quite a piece of text. on EU Amends Software Patent Directive (Suggestions) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sign here if you read all of it:
    ________________________________

    The reward is a free eCookie(soon to be patented).

  4. Re:It's obviously anti-First Amendment on Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it more like this:

    You can say whatever you want, but what happens afterwards is another thing.

  5. In other words on Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship · · Score: 5, Funny

    GCC has been made illegal.

  6. Re:A better history on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 1

    You can unfortunately repatent them, a patent only lasts 20 or 30 years. Or something like that.

  7. School library on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmm... from what I've found out about DDC, it seems like my school library uses it.

    I really doubt they have a license. And there's no way to find out until tuesday... I can't wait!

    Oh, and here's a nice intro on DDC:

    http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/ddc22print/intr o.pdf
    (Why is there a space between the 'r' and 'o'?)

  8. Why, oh why? on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why did I discover this cool application in a discontinuation announcement?

    I wish I had discovered it earlier.

    Oh well, I can only hope that I can repent this mistake in my next life.

  9. I WIN FAGS!! on UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense · · Score: -1, Troll

    First post!

    I am the best first poster, ever created. I even created some C++ script code for this special moment:

    #include
    void main(){
    cout"hello world1";
    return 1;
    }

    If only I could steal someone's subscription...

    Oh, and just so noone will mod me for anything else than trolling: If you do, you are a fagoat.

  10. Re:Hiring Policy on Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up' · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I was thinking too much of America :)

  11. Re:Hiring Policy on Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up' · · Score: 1

    Is it even legal to deny someone a job because of where they have worked before?

    That's like denying people jobs just because they like people of the same sex.

  12. Re:start with the freshman handbook on Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network? · · Score: 1

    *buys Tux shirt*

    Mmmm... girls.

  13. Re:*n*x? on Don't Be a Sharecropper · · Score: 1

    I did say 'almost'.

    *looks at title, sees: Re:*n*x?*

    Oh, what's that? A ?, yes.

  14. Re:*n*x? on Don't Be a Sharecropper · · Score: 1

    It could almost be read like this:
    *n*x -> Windows XP

  15. Re:Yeah, BUT.... on Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society · · Score: 1

    They are talking about the seas on the moon, of course.

  16. Of course I won't pick one of them. on "Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"? · · Score: 1

    I would do something quick and dirty at first, then try to fix as much as possible if there is time over. Afterwards I'd try to patch what can be saved, maybe run away to somewhere where noone can find me -_- I'd better bring some sort of connection to the internet though, or I'd starve(order pizza to the north pole).

    The correct and proper way is the preferred one though, unless you are very time limited you SHOULD(RFC >:)) do it the correct and paper(that's what I read at first) way.

    If it's about money and losing money... hmm... maybe looking over the development process to cram some extra %s of properness out of the hackers ;)

  17. Suing on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 1
    Most importantly: "if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go."


    I always though that you sued to settle some conflict... seems like the tools of 'justice' have evolved a little.

  18. Teleporting on Real-World Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    This will be more interesting in the future when we all have mobile teleporters:
    Just click an image of [insert name of somewhere here] in your travel agency and you are there!
    Warning: Do not click something that might contain a hidden goatse link! I would not even want to think of where you would end up. Stops thinking... there that's better, what did I just say?

    Considering that we do not have teleporting just yet, this technology is still impressive. The police could use something like this, just point it at someone and it will bring up all his/her info.(Well... it would have to identify the person first... more non-existant technology... why am I not in the future yet? Can't I just go into a 19-year coma?)
    Or maybe this: Point at computer and click! Power up! :D

  19. Re:At Least Once on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1

    I bet the laptops are safer than grid bugs at least ;)

  20. Re:Gem on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 1
    Wicked awesome site design, so I can only assume that his software building skills are as magnificent.


    Aren't we being a little sarcastic here? :)
  21. Re:Strip Poker Games on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 1
    Mmm, EGA boobies...
    Argh, memory flashbacks.
  22. Re:When is a picture not a picture? on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I'd consider fair use of an image to be when you can not enjoy all of the image in all of it's glory. A thumbnail for example, does not allow the client to see the full detail of the image(if he can, it is not a thumbnail in my opinion). Thumbnail are not supposed to be enjoyed, they are supposed to be used to give a quick impression of the shapes and colors, to let the client more easily remember picture and images.

    I highly doubt that any court will rule agains the thumbnailers, IANAL though, and especially IANAALNEAC(I am not an american lawyer, not even a citizen) - acropolis(Sort of a play on acronym and metropolis, I thought about acrorama or something... please give some suggestions, acronymorama! :D)!

  23. Re:If my experience is any indication... on Trustworthy Software For The NSA? · · Score: 1
    Err... my google link was not that good :)
    Here's a better one:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=quake%20backdoor
    The first link leads to insecure.org.

    Hmm... this might be a little off-topic... just a correction.

    Oh, and I shouldn't be writing at 0 AM...
    what is the bug deal
    bug is supposed to be big :(
  24. Re:If my experience is any indication... on Trustworthy Software For The NSA? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This kind of reminds me of the Quake backdoor.(barb barb, do some googling to find it out, I can not type it all right now. Ah well, it basically allows any one at iD software to control a server remotely, the flaw in the backdoor is that you can edit your packets to make them look like they come from iD.)

    I would personally never use software written by someone else(closed source, that is, open source software is great in the way that it will let me see all it can do) for anything remomtely secure/sensitive. I just do not trust people enough. Especially not people from other countries, why should I? It is a normal behaviour to not trust other people. And I would rather buy software from my own country, it is nationalism!

    Also, I find spying very overrated, exactly what can you find out abot a country? If you are really lucky you might steal some blueprints for a new lawnmover, but that is just if you are extremely lucky. Otherwise I would guess that all you can get is dirt-throwing material. Possibly of the grade that some high ranking officials will have to resign or go to jail, but what is the bug deal? It suits them right to get punished for their crimes.

  25. Re:One dollar. on Distributed Computing Economics · · Score: 1

    More data == I can feed my robot children.