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  1. Re:Tar Pitting on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    Nah, I prefer iis_admin for the jest...

  2. What's really strange about all of this on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    is how not having strange quarks is the strange issue...

    Hum.. strange

  3. Re:A challenge... on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 4, Funny

    so it's probably written karuSpeedu or something...

  4. Re:Stand on Zanzibar on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music · · Score: 1

    It's easy to compose like John Cage. Just buy yourself some blank sheet music.

    I would say something similar for 'painting like Jackson Pollock'

  5. Re:I've found a beautiful explanation for this on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no!

    When you're speeding to death the first thing you do is update your facebook status or post it to twitter...

  6. Re:Since when is a year = 2 mod 4 EVER a leap year on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    You really don't need A LIBRARY to know if a certain year is a leap year...

    Time libraries are really useful and should be used thoroughly (especially for thing like - what's the week day of 400 days from now)

  7. Re:Since when is a year = 2 mod 4 EVER a leap year on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly, I mean...

    It fails the FIRST TEST, that is, ((year % 4) == 0) for leap years. Guys, 2010 % 4 == 2, I mean

    the mind boggles

  8. Re:Ugh on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 1

    Hey, but at least 'my black hole of a joke' actually inspired you to write this elegantly funny retort.

    it made my day.

  9. Re:The Crackers Will Win on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 0

    It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Polly wanna cracker'

  10. Re:Remember when PARC actually invented stuff? on Xerox Sues Google, Yahoo Over Search Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Too bad management at PARC were too retarded to profit from what the guys (and gals) there invented (they were 10 years ahead)

    researchers: "We've invented the GUI, OO programming, etc, etc"
    managers "hurr durr durr what's that hurrrr"

  11. More Importantly on Simon Singh To Appeal In UK Court Today · · Score: 4, Informative

    Simon Singh is the author of VERY COOL books:

    Fermat's Last Theorem
    and
    The Code Book

    (those are the ones I read, at least)

  12. Re:HM on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    Probably not... flip flops need to be power cycled for this to work... As with a diode or radio noise you get lots of noise bw.

  13. Re:This is a random comment. on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is a very important issue

    Nazi German forbid 'non random looking' "passwords" (I believe it's a 3/4 letter combination) so things like AAA, ICH etc were banned as a message password in Enigma machines.

    Back in England, code breakers took this into account simplifying (significantly) password breaking.

  14. Re:The real question is, of course on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Never thought of that, makes perfectly sense.

  15. Re:he was mentally ill on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    Well, say to your friend that he's delusional as I'm the most amazing person in the world...

  16. The real question is, of course on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF is he doing in Vegas, I mean...

  17. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gessing you can get a Monster Cat5 cable for an absurd amount of money, that's got gold plated connectors and electrolytes and stuff...

  18. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    History would disagree with you there. For much of civilization's history you drank some sort of alcohol if you didn't want to get sick from drinking the unpurified water.

    I am aware of that.

    But there's beer, vodka, sake, wine, etc, etc, etc. For medical purposes there are other proper sources as well.

    Really, don't worry, that it's not going to run out.

  19. Re:What would happen? on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    I've HATED Corn based ethanol for YEARS... Everyone would point to some country in South America (Brazil?) about how good Ethanol was and the amount of fuel created etc... But that was end of process SUGAR CANE! NOT a major food source!

    Sugar cane is even MORE vital. It's a major potable alcohol source (rum). Definitely not something we need to waste in cars.

    WHAT?!?! No, seriously, WTF?!?!

    No one 'needs' a potable alcohol source as much as they need FOOD.

    You, sir, are a troll.

  21. Re:Landis grew up a Mennonite on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing says 'I'm on steroids' better than testicular cancer...

  22. Re:Landis grew up a Mennonite on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 1

    OTOH Mormons seem to be very tech savvy. Or at least the one I know :)

  23. Re:Bounds are Complicated on New Bounds On the Higgs Boson Mass · · Score: 2, Informative

    2 sigma means a 95% certainty, and 3sigma means a 99.7% certainty.

    So at just 2 sigma, 1 in 20 times you will get it wrong/fail.

    It doesn't work that way...

    I would hope that in medicine and biochemistry, where it matters, that they do use 3 sigma certainty.

    No, they use usually btw 90/95% (if not lower).

    Also, WHAT, 3sigma is a huge space (especially in this kind of experiment).

  24. Re:To be clear what this means. on New Bounds On the Higgs Boson Mass · · Score: 1

    And by the way, does it makes sense to talk about the mass of a particle that seems to be implicated in the origins of mass itself?!

    (Ok, maybe it does, still...)

  25. Ok, let's see on Where Microsoft's Profits Come From · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We look at the graph: MS is losing like 500Million per year on the Online Division

    Then we look at the other graph and sees that Windows and Office has a 2Billion a year profit, EACH

    And then we have to read crap like this: "We wonder when Microsoft will finally decide to do what it should have done years ago: Save its money and flush its entire online division down the drain."

    No hon, SteveB is stupid, but not as stupid as you. It's called 'strategy', look it up. If it's working or not it's a whole different matter.