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  1. Re:I'll really be impressed... on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...when these robots are so effective, the male roaches will mount them, and get their little roach members snipped off.
    Y'know, I bet the guys watching Google's access_log are laughing themselves shitless right now. I wasn't sure about the anatomy of a cockroach, so... yeah, you can guess the rest.

    Anyway: Found this.

    Apparently, "getting lucky" for a cockroach really is getting lucky.

    In the case of the American cockroach, mating is initiated when the female releases a chemical odor, or pheromone. When the male senses the pheromone, he starts flapping his wings and backing into things--anything that happens to be handy. Eventually, more or less by chance, he backs into a female, and deposits a packet of sperm.
    That's about how I do it... go to a party, get smashed, and run into things... :P
  2. Source on Intro to Encryption · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing they got around the crypto export laws by having it printed, instead of on floppies/CDs. Freedom of speech/press laws take precedence, apparently... clever. :-)

  3. Am I the only one on Security Pros Bemoan the Need for Focus · · Score: 1

    who hates the word "proactive"?

  4. Re:alternatives to WA on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    XMMS over XF86-Cygwin, but the sound would be coming from across the room. ;-)

  5. Uh, this is not a big deal. on Is Microsoft Crawling Google? · · Score: 1

    Search engines sell their results all the time. One engine I'm familiar with actually pulls from several other engines when you run a search.

    Google and MSN probably have a deal worked out.

  6. Upgrade? on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think kernels when they read the first part?

    I'm using a Thinkpad 760ed. Box at work is a 600MHz PentiumII/III thingy (not Intel). Firewall/router around here is a Compaq Contura 410c (headless laptop, 486, 16Meg ram).

    I'm happy with my hardware. I don't really need anything I don't have.

  7. Re:What now? on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 1
    All right, the election's over, SCO is dead . . . what now? Emacs vs. vi?
    PICO!

    Just kidding, sorry. :P
  8. Re:What now? on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 1

    "Spawn of satin"? :P

    I'm with you, btw. I don't NEED my fscking editor to do sockets.

  9. Re:Life is Good on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 1

    sarcasm++, but what happens if Novell starts bitching that there's some phantom code in Linux?

  10. Re:1995 minutes on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 1

    ~ 33 hours. Jeez. Wonder who sprang for Chinese food.

  11. I love my current job, on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    but I always wanted a job I could just dick around with and drop after a few days, just to screw with corporate America. Not quit my current job or anything, just take a few days off to fuck around. You know that commercial with the guy who makes that huge sub at Subway, then takes a huge bite out of it right in front of the people who he was making it for (who then scream out in mortal terror)? Yeah. Always wanted to do that.

    Now I'm thinking maybe I should go apply at Best Buy.

  12. Whack-a-mugu! on Sydney 419 Scammer Jailed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love that game. Fun to play, easy to win.

    Sysadmins need to be given legal authority to throw people in jail.

    Hmm. Maybe not.

  13. Gotta love it. on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Funny
    Check out vik1.c:
    /* Some more code */
    I think they gave him extra points for the comment.
  14. Re:oblig. on Humor in Games? · · Score: 1

    *smack*

  15. Re:Awww poor baby on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    Conflict of interest?

    Though I suppose the whole organization is one giant conflict of interest.

  16. Re:A Fun Game! on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 1

    I did something like that at defcon 9. I was helping a friend of mine get X running, and when I left his room, I typed in "rm -rf /" at the console without hitting enter. When he came back, he hit enter to unblank his console, without looking at the screen...

  17. Didn't I hear you on the radio? on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: 1

    Someone called KFI AM 640 earlier saying they were going as an iPod. Forget which show it was.

  18. New logo sucks. on NetBSD Chooses New Logo · · Score: 1

    It just looks... boring. A flag? What the fuck? Speedy must be spinning over in his grave.

    (That was a "BSD is dead" joke, by the way -- emphasis on joke. :-))

  19. Please do not feed the troll. on New URL Spoofing Bug in Pre-SP2 IE · · Score: 1

    Who the hell modded that up?

  20. The hell? on What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You · · Score: 1

    Where the fuck is Slackware?

    I can't believe they made a list of distributions without including the first distribution.

  21. "Maybe if TCP/IP were less formal... on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 3, Funny

    it'd be 'YO!/SUP?' instead" - Thinkgeek

    Seems fitting, though.

    192.168.1.2: 'Lo.
    192.168.1.1: Hey.
    192.168.1.2: 'n I get a shell?
    192.168.1.1: Sure.

  22. Re:Good thing they are still in beta. on Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to XSS Exploit · · Score: 1

    Two words: "perpetual beta".

  23. Re:Wives on Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to XSS Exploit · · Score: 1
    Time to read our wives e-mail to see if they are cheating or something.
    I'll save you the time, yours definitely is. ;-)
  24. Re:Easy on Brain Scans May Unlock Candidates' Appeal · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I asked my friend about the difference. (I have no knowledge of these things; I listen to Rush Limbaugh (blah) in the morning and John and Ken in the afternoon.)

    He said one's stupid, the other's evil. I keep forgetting which was which.

    I asked him about a particular person... I think it was Limbaugh. He said "he's bipartisan -- so he's stupid and evil".

  25. Re:But you know... on Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650 · · Score: 1

    Boots faster, too.