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  1. Re:Liberal bias on Wikipedia on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Link to the current version. As of 1128654199, those versions are: Little Saigon, Newt Gringrich, and Ronald Reagan. Just so we're all looking at the same thing.

  2. Re:It's happened.... on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    Y'know, for some reason, I just had flashbacks to SiteFinder.

  3. Re:Just Plain Stupid on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1
    Take the social security card out of your wallet and look at it.
    You mean the card that says "DO NOT carry [this card] with you", and "Protect Your Number and Card to Prevent Their Misuse" (underlined, caps verbatim)?
  4. Re:Geez, talk about confusion! on Linux Gains Lossless File System · · Score: 1

    Damn it, now every time I see a MILF video, I'll be thinking about Linux.

  5. Re:USB drive reliability on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    Huh. I got a 256M Lexar "Secure" jumpdrive (same one that got written up on Slashdot not too long ago). I wear it around a beltloop when I'm skateboarding, and I've crashed and burned on it a hell of a lot of times. Thing still works great.

    Funny, the most damage I've caused to it is when I got really, really drunk in a buddy's backyard and fell on it. The casing is cracked open, the connector's all crooked, but the damned thing still works.

    Not an endorsement here, either, but I was pretty impressed.

  6. Re:what info from this article? on Google Code Jam 2005 Winners Announced · · Score: 1
    That was kinda my point --
    Though, I wonder if you can just use g++ to compile a C program and call it an entry...
  7. Re:what info from this article? on Google Code Jam 2005 Winners Announced · · Score: 1
    Factors:
    • probability of having to spell a word you can't (I submit that all spelling bee participants have this same foible)
    • your mental and physical health at the time of the contest
    • judges
    • Languages in which the spelling of the word is considered "correct"


    I noticed C and Perl weren't on the list -- Java, C++, C#, and VB.

    Though, I wonder if you can just use g++ to compile a C program and call it an entry...
  8. Re:Go Vger...go!!! on Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge · · Score: 1

    Six, I think.

  9. Re:Sure Thing on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream · · Score: 1
    That's OK though, we'll just play Duke Nukem Forever all day on our quantum computers and go home and fuck our supermodel wives, because geeks are cool now.
    I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
  10. Re:This could lead to... on GTA: San Andreas to be Re-Released Next Week · · Score: 5, Funny
    Have one version M, which is like its now and another version as AO with everything the designers ever wanted and thought was taboo.
    ...Replacing the chick with a goat?
  11. Re:brilliant on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1
    Someone is going to find the sandwhich in some refrigerator, and it's going to be great.
    I ate it.

    It was okay.
  12. Re:product review: the yellow GSA on The Google Search Server · · Score: 1
    Problem: GSA does not provide very good status of where or what it is searching. It only has a dashboard light to say it is crawling. No details.
    *shrug* Hook it up to a Squid proxy.
    Problem: We found that the GSA would get caught in an endless loop if it encountered a user website controlled by a database. It would endlessly follow the next and previous links to find every database entry.
    I have a bash.org-style quotes page (originally written in Perl, ported to PHP for a Wordpress plugin). One of the sort options is "random"; it embeds a random seed into the link, so you can still use prev/next page links, and so you can click random again and get another page of randomness.

    Google (and other search engines) got hung up on this for a while -- not to mention the karma +/- links. I ended up keeping track of who requests robots.txt (by making it a CGI), and just leaving out those links for those hosts.
  13. Stuff: on What's In Your Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1
    1. IBM Thinkpad A20m (Debian)
    2. Spare battery
    3. Zippo fluid and flints
    4. A change of clothes, when I'm away from home
    5. Patch cable
    6. Bottle rockets (seriously)
  14. Re:Precedent: Voyager Golden Record on Send your name to Pluto · · Score: 1
    If we tick-off some aliens with an image that somehow translates across time and space to be something abhorently insulting, and in turn, they find and vaporize Earth, well, that's just plain bad luck. =)
    Am I the only one who immediately thought of Goatse?
  15. Re:While Pluto may be named - not a planet on Send your name to Pluto · · Score: 1
    Not only is Pluto not a planet
    Debatable.
  16. Re:Sandbox on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1
    IIRC the gist of the exploit is that it tests for the memory segment it is run in. A VM sandbox runs in a higher memory segment. If the exploit tests and finds itself being run in a higher memory segment it becomes dormant, if, OTOH, it tests and finds it's being run in a lower memory area it releases its payload.
    So have the VM lie to the program about where it's running. Easy.
  17. Other Jabber servers on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1
    Sorry, I think this is the third time I've posted in here saying pretty much the same thing, but I've got proof now. :-)

    From here:
    It isn't possible to call or chat with non-Gmail users through Google Talk (but we're working on it).
    So, relax. They're not cutting the rest of the world off. That would probably qualify as evil, y'know?
  18. Re:Great! This is absolutely freaking great! on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1
    True, but they don't allow gmail users to add jabber users from other servers. Also they block any sort of communcation (chat or message) from other jabber servers. Doesn't seem very open to me.
    From their site:
    We can say this, though: we believe strongly in user choice and open standards, and we are committed to letting users access Google Talk using the client and platform of their choice, as well as to enabling our users to talk with users from other service providers.
    I'm personally taking this to mean "we're working on figuring out how to enable s2s without getting all you guys spammed".
  19. Re:GoogleTalk + Dark Fibre = Internet Phone System on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1
    Has anyone ever asked the folks who came up with "Don't Do Evil" what the other half of their statement is? It must have a corollary.
    Protect the innocent.
    Uphold the law.

    ;-)
  20. Re:Does not interoperate with other servers on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1
    Same here:
    Aug 24 07:29:58 crossbone jabberd/s2s[20891]: [7] [64.233.161.107, port=5269] connection to gmail.com timed out
    I hope they're not going to try to keep it isolated -- but this is Google, of course they're not. Probably on their TODO list. :-)
  21. Re:Baz on Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar' · · Score: 1
    Apparently, it's just me, but my MSV list goes
    foo bar baz xip quux bletch
    (not that I usually need that many). I have no fucking clue where I picked "xip" up from.
  22. Too easy: on Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar' · · Score: 1

    "'Defcon' Attendees Raid 'Bar', Get Drunk"

  23. Re:LFS? on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Core dumps? (Ew.)

  24. Been done? on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 1, Informative
  25. Re:I baked... on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 1
    Who thinks this guy should only eat apple crumb cake for the next 15 months, say aye!
    Only if he's allergic to apples.