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  1. Re:Had a similar, RL case on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 1

    you misspelled "oops"...

  2. Re:Two thumbs down on BBC Reviews Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    I think the real problem with the MySQL movie is that sometimes you see the same scene twice at different points in the movie, or you feel like you missed something, but the producers say that continuity is something fancy that you don't really need in a movie.

  3. Re:File Swaping on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    +1 Cool Diamond Age Reference

  4. Re:Sure, sure, on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they'll listen to Reason...

  5. Re:dialogue on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    oh come, someone mod this up! has everyone forgotten the blade runner tests?

  6. Re:Now here's a chatterbot! on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    This one is more fun to talk to, definitely... maybe he's been around longer and knows more about stuff. He asked me my name, I said trent reznor, he answered "he is in nine inch nails"... I tried to teach Alice that reznor is in nine inch nails but I don't think she got it (I came back later, passed my self as reznor again and she just greeted me). Looks like this guy is a better learner.

  7. Re:Just Chatted With ALICE Myself on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    You may say it jokingly but I think it's very important to add a cultural context to alice if they ever want her to pass the test. I asked about books, movies and music, like I would to any person I really want to get to know, and nothing came out of it (hope it learned something out of the conversation, though).

  8. Re:Ping on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    Ping is an executable program. They just removed the ability to run setuid SCRIPTS (as in shell scripts).

  9. Re:Typical on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the best thing is it will be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.

  10. Re:Eh, not really breaking ground. on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    I already have a Mac (2 macs, actually - an old graphite iMac and a 17" 1.5GHz PB) but I only have GB1... I want to get a new iMac soon, so this might be an excuse for it. But at least it's an excuse to get GB2 (iLife '05). Anyway I use GB for playing some ambient keyboards with my band and occasionally recording a new song, so it won't hurt to get the new version.

  11. Re:Audio and Apple on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    Wow... I don't see how it can be performed in real time, though. The performer must be incredibly skilled with the mouse to do all that stuff (and maybe knowing every shortcut in soundrec helps too)

  12. Dream Theatre on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    The music is good but I can't stand the singer's voice. Luckily, their songs tend to be long instrumentals followed by a couple of verses, then 10 more minuts of instrumentals to let every member in the band show you how incredibly skilled they're at their instrument and how well they can play together these really hard parts using odd tempos and stuff. Then you listen to the guy wailing a little more and 10 more minutes until you realize it's the next song already and they're all mixed because it's a concept album...

  13. Re:Is this what you might call... on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    It's more like MS shared source license, in a way, but a little better... You can look at it, and you can modify it, and I think you can even redistribute your modified version, but you can't make a cent out of it.

  14. Re:Does this fix the 10 year old bug? on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update · · Score: 1

    Of course it does. This is what it's all about. The 10 year old bug is hiding inside the Stickies app. There is a security vulnerability in Stickies.app which can cause a remote privilege escalation but notifies xinetd, ultimately causing the kernel panic mentioned in the news item you refer to, as a measure of protection hidden in xinetd against remote privilege escalation attacks.

    The bug can be reproduced by creating a purple sticky, setting the font to Arial 12 Bold, and typing:
    ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
  15. Re:Another First on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    I thought you were talking about The Cell, which also has a lot of scenery that looks like leftovers from Closer.

  16. Re:Safari... on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    Yeah you can take a screenshot of Safari. Use Grab, it's in /Applications/Utilities and it lets you take a screenshot of the whole screen, of a window or of a piece of the screen. It saves the image as a TIFF and you can open that with Preview and export it to PNG.

  17. Re:Safari... on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    Safari fails. I tried 1.2.4 as well. This guy is looking at the reference png.

  18. Re:Ubuntu target is...? on Mark Shuttleworth Answers At Length · · Score: 1

    The fact that your post was modded Funny does say a lot...

  19. Re:Hibernate and J2EE on Hibernate - A J2EE Developers Guide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My quick recipe for that is:

    1. Screw EJB and CMP
    2. Use Spring instead of EJB's (or in conjunction with EJB's)
    3. Use Hibernate for persistence
    4. Configure Hibernate through Spring and use the Hibernate ORM support in Spring to further speed up development and decrease code (both Java AND xml)

  20. Quick Workaround: on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    install a pirate copy of windows. SP2 won't install there (or so I've been told... I don't use pirate windows of course - I use linux :)

  21. Completely Forgot on 106 Install-Fests At Once · · Score: 2

    I checked the FLISOL page a couple of weeks ago, but I completely forgot about the event. Probably because all Mexico City sites were too far away (there were no installfests in the south of the city). And I DID have the time to go to one, maybe help with the installs. Although the real help would have been promoting it so that more people would go.

    I bet there were very few people here, since no one seems to give a flying fuck about intellectual property, copyright theft, piracy, etc. and you can get a copy of Windows for $5 USD on almost any subway station.

  22. Damn Right on How Open Source Drives Down Startup Costs · · Score: 1

    We are a startup company. I have a client which is also a startup. Their product is propietary software that is installed inside a cellular provider network. By using open source (Linux, PostgreSQL, Asterisk, JBoss, and a bunch of open source java libraries), I've saved them a lot of money; probably $20K USD per deployment, and there are about 6 deployments due this year.

  23. Re:Respect will continue to decline on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 1

    Rocinante is a spaceship. Check the lyrics for Cygnus X-1.

    Oh, sorry. Didn't notice the smiley at the end... it's friday, I tend to miss sarcasm on friday.

  24. Re:I love Brazil! on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing Argentina with Venezuela. It is very well known in Latin American countries that Venezuelan women are very beautiful because of surgery... Maybe it is becoming popular in Argentina also, but it's odd because Buenos Aires is full of very beautiful women who are naturally beautiful.

  25. Great... on Rodriguez uses Linux to Edge out ILM · · Score: 1

    now Linux will be associated with crappy movies like desperado and from dusk till dawn...