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  1. Re:I code C# for a living on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 1

    Obviously sir you haven't touched Scheme or Lisp. Now that was one hell of a migrane (and to think recursion in C or Java usually just gives me a headache).

  2. Re:My Next Job: on China Rewards Porn Snitches · · Score: 1

    Don't forget money from site subscriptions, very nice green, or blue, or purple (depends on the color of your currency).

  3. Re:Safe in an accident? on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All the more reason to give up SUVs, think of the people thinking of the environment! Think of the people giving the finger to the middle east buy not buying as much oil. Think of the terrorist revenue reduced! Stop driving SUVs. (gawd I think I need to shower again...)

  4. Re:Someday soon on Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress · · Score: 1

    Or you can become a citizen of my soon to be discovered country. I plan on finding an island and making my own country. Now if I could get a job to finance it...

  5. Re:Say Goodbye To Sales on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 1

    Indeed I made a shell script to do this. Now I just need the windows versions of mpg123 and oggenc.

  6. Re:a real test on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're right I can't live without the Wired, un oh Lain is calling me again...

  7. Re:This exploit is nothing new... on Public Exploit For Windows JPEG Bug · · Score: 1

    Yes that's steganography, nothing new here get outguess.

  8. Re:Didn't void the warranty on iMac G5 Porn Roundup · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the exploding monitors... damn that hurt taking the glass out of my arm, all I did was walk by the damn thing.

  9. Re:Water!! on New Clue for Life on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Strange when I searched google I found it was Quartz... don't those crystals make rather important electrical components?

  10. Re:Water!! on New Clue for Life on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Who said silicon dioxide has to be a waste product? It might make great gray matter for the future brains with it's electical properties.

  11. Re:Isn't that a "blue" screen? on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I remember watching MadTV they did a skit about some time travelers, on of the actresses cloths kept falling off (part of the gag) and then they had to cover her with a green wardrobe. All you could see was her head when they had a green screen of a starscape.

  12. Re:Oh No... on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    Mexico, Brazil, or someplace equally harder to find people if he takes aim at Canada. (Wait am I talking about Bush or Gates???)

  13. Re:Buyer's remorse on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 1

    Hell I got it for free as part of the MSDNAA (dev network academic alliance) for FREE and I feel like they owe me, (Specifically for the bug problems, virii destroying my harddrive [I'm on a borrowed laptop right now], and the feeling of selling my soul).

  14. B0rk CanadianCrackPots Box 3rd installment on Windows Fails 8% of the Time · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's ironic is that I need WinXP and Visual Stupidity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Studio .NET for my computer animation class (homogenous testing and development environment blah blah). To ensure as few porting problems as possible I went to the Academic Alliance and got XP and VS.NET for free. Knowing about security I immeidately removed my network cable before the install (SP1a) and afterwards put Norton Internet Security on the machine.

    So far so good. Then I had to disable the firewall to install SP2 and I was hit by 25 different worms in less than a minute. (I'm on a university network with uncleaned masses). I then smelled the good electrical smell as my box locked up.

    Immediately powering down and opening up the case to inspect the hardware I found my primary hard drive was a smoldering piece of scrap metal. Which I took out to replace with the 10 gb drive from an old computer that was collecting dust (thank god my data drive wasn't touched).

    So now here I am a day later with Mandrake only on my computer. I would like to thank MS for showing me where the far superior products are. (B0rk project 1 games ruined, b0rk 2 data drive fvcked over by XP, b0rk 3 hardware damaged, b0rk 4 not gonna happen).

  15. Re:Plants' life expectancy? on Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers · · Score: 1

    I dont' play that kind of music but I can say that my plants have survived over a year on top of my current speakers so I'm fairly sure these would be fine. Of course this might be more like a constant earthquake depending on the volume, anyone know how well plants handle those?

  16. Re:Some pictures of singing plants on Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll sell millions, as most geeks can keep a plant alive[/sarcasm]

    I take offence to that, I used to be a park caretaker. That was a lot of plants to ensure life for. I can happily say I did a very good job. Better than most other students since or before. (It was a government supported job available to university students only).

  17. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1

    I'd personally have the software e-mail me with details as to who it is (maybe not privacy...), signal the Software Piracy Association, and then delete the software itself from the computer, (or lock down the computer and change passwords until the cops provide an ass beating to the fvcker).

  18. Doom series on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just took the sounds of the weapons from Doom (the original) and set them up to motion and pressure sensors. Playback begins on a trip. Scars the crap outta crooks, and drunks.

  19. Re:What is a cup? on Cooking for Engineers · · Score: 1
    No I prefer Litres and the units that go with it.
    • mL
    • cL
    • dL
    • etc..
  20. Re:Thrive on Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. Back in my second year of University I did all the assignments for my third programming course in about 5 hours the night before it was due (some of the assignments were HUGE). I have never been able to accomplish something like that since (I was extrememly good at the subject data structures in Java).

  21. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    For you with Linux and Mac Zombies $10000 up front we need time to figure out how to do it first.

  22. Re:Don't Nuke It... on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 1

    No Rommie uses AP/P reactions to power herself. I mean come on its the most powerful Battleship around, (aside from a Federation starship sorry but Picard would make short work of the Andromeda Ascendant with the Picard Manouver).

  23. Obligatory joke on Lexmark Recalls 40,000 Laser Printers · · Score: 1

    ZAP!
    Victim: Stupid piece of shit printer, time to call Dell support. Why can't I grab the phone.
    Annoying Dell spokesboy walks in
    Spokesboy: Dude! You're going to Hell!
    Victim: WTF? What are you talking about boy it's hot in here...
    Sees Satan
    Victim: Oh crap....

  24. Re:New Moderation Proposals on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Ha! I live in Nova Scotia not a single American border to be seen.

  25. Re:I think it died on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 1

    No it kicked an empire and republics ass a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. Ten years before that phrase was coined.