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  1. It should be noted on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should be noted that these super computers won't be for sale... IBM simply leases the cycles, you pay based on the cycles you use every month.

  2. Reminiscing about the good ole' days on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan · · Score: 1

    ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years." When quantum computers first come to fruition, the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day."

    Great, so now when I'm 119 years old, I can talk about the computers back in the day!

  3. Re:Sure Windows is more secure than Linux... on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    www.grsecurity.com, www.lids.org, and the selinux stuff that the NSA is helping out with to name a few. I have.

    Hmm, neither of those websites load.. wierd isn't it? or maybe you're just a complete idiot.

  4. Re:Sure Windows is more secure than Linux... on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    what's the point in having a unusable machine, even once you are logged in... that's what i'm saying.

  5. Re:Sure Windows is more secure than Linux... on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 0, Troll

    yes, i'm sure /etc/passwd says it's uid 0... but that doesn't mean it really is, what's in the /...security directory, maybe the real file system is in there? ever think of that jackass?

  6. Re:Sure Windows is more secure than Linux... on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 2, Informative

    anyone could change their root user to a different UID, and add a different user as root, who gives a damn.

  7. Re:Pah on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    Now, hundreds of thousands of football fans think Linux is a blonde haired boy that knows a lot of famous people from various occupations.

  8. Re:Pah on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    Linus.... Linux, i could see where people would get confused, but until i hear an audio of Linus saying it, i'll keep an open mind.

  9. Re:Microsoft claims are treated like gold. on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    well, i'm thinking gwb's foreign policy is a little bit different than microsoft. heh

  10. Re:Article Text ( slashdotting in effect ) on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    /me is wondering why slashdot, is never slashdotted.

  11. Microsoft claims are treated like gold. on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    All microsoft has to do is say that their software is secure! People will just believe it and continue to pay up.

  12. Re:my domain name (the URL *below* dummy) on Dept. of Defense IPv6 Interoperabilty Test Begins · · Score: 1

    well, it looks like i'm the dummy, as the URL is actually posted below, serves me write for not previewing!!

  13. my domain name (the URL above dummy) on Dept. of Defense IPv6 Interoperabilty Test Begins · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to use my domain name for something useful!!!

  14. Re:P2P is here to stay on New P2P Battle is Heating Up · · Score: 1

    Governments (well in the UK anyway) are pushing broadband for all sorts of PHB reasons like "education" and obviously the ISPs - AOL etc are gonna try and sell it.

    AOL, in the UK? I'm confused.

  15. ^ parent, ROOMBAVAC.COM on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    it's roombavac.com i'm sorry

  16. Rumba on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    The cleaning robot, http://www.rumba.com

  17. Re:OK, we have Robot Housekeepers now, on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    havn't you seen the commercials for the little round thing that goes around your house and cleans? it's called a Rumba,, www.rumba.com i believe

  18. Now, on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    they take over the world, and feed on our bodies, which are kept in pods, inside the pods we live in an imaginary world with lots of 'Smiths'.

  19. Re:I want that broadband. on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    no wonder.

  20. Re:I want that broadband. on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    oklahoma state... or ohio state... it makes a difference ;)

  21. I want that broadband. on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.

    What broadband is this? my cable modem can't download 600 megs of data in 15 minutes.

  22. from the on iPods are for Audiophiles · · Score: 1

    From the: I-Don't-Give-A-Shit-Dept... hmmm yeah... sounded funny when i started reading through the comments, but now i feel like a troll ;(

  23. while we sit here on New SANS/FBI Top 20 List · · Score: 1

    While we sit here discussing the major vulnerabilites in unix and windows, and how to exploit them. My boss and his secretary are sitting in the other room putting their minds together trying to figure out how to transfer a file in ASCII mode with WSFTP...

    One of the things i find most amusing about this is the fact that I work at a university, and they are FTP'ing into a state ftp server to upload Vendor Reports (whatever those are). To bad I left my laptop with 'dsniff' on it at home.

    now, tell me that number 1 on both lists shouldn't be 'human stupidity'

  24. must we again state... on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    ... that p2p has other valid purposes other than piracy.

  25. i downloaded the zip on The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 · · Score: 2, Funny

    i downloaded the "zip" file and ran mplayer on it... it's BITTERSWEET by FUEL... WTF