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  1. Re:Precedent set? on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    Oh, kick-ass! So why is this even a story then? I summon the editor-trolls!

  2. Precedent set? on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 5, Interesting
  3. Re:Cha ching, reloaded. on Gates on Spam · · Score: 4, Funny
    Looks like a candy bar to me.

    Wonder where he hid the baby?

  4. Re:Jay Sherman Says... on Move Over Karaoke...Hello Movieoke · · Score: 1

    No way! This is the worst idea since Greedo shooting first!

  5. Oh Bother... on MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And I just submitted this story a few seconds ago. Dear Editors: Mock me not for my unsubscribedness!

  6. Re:Different kinds of hard. on Are Modern Games Too Easy? · · Score: 1

    Start running on top of the pipe, then tap left when you fall off so that you land on the first pillar. Keep running, and then jump from the second one. It's just there for the intimidation value.

  7. Re:Holey Shiiiet... on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    *transmit. Jesus, the spelling troll makes an error. I'm just going to go crawl under a rock and die now.

  8. Holey Shiiiet... on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Dear god, I was just RTFA and noticed this little bit in there:
    Cinergy and Current also will use Current Technologies(TM) BPL equipment to implement important new services that will provide improved reliability and increased efficiency for Cinergy's utility subsidiaries and their customers. BPL technology can enable a variety of enhanced power distribution applications, including:

    * Automated outage detection and restoration confirmation

    * Remote monitoring and operation of switches and transformers

    * Remote capability to connect and disconnect electric service

    * More efficient demand-side management programs

    * Automated meter reading

    Am I to understand that they're going to be controlling their critical infrastructure over IP? WTF? WTF? Has nobody in their management structure considered the security risks inherent in that madness? Much less the certainty of brutal RF interference from (and to) Hams and Emergency Service? This brings me to ask a few critical questions here, if anybody can answer them please speak up:

    1: Could someone with a properly configured radio reciever monitor traffic over this system wirelessly?

    2: If it's possible to monitor signals with radio equipment, could you transit? Is it unreasonable to call this analagous to the power co. deciding they're going to switch all their equipment over a wireless network?

  9. Re: can we expect... on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 5, Interesting
    No.

    Ham Radio will interfere with it severely, and there won't be a damn thing the provider can do because it's under FCC part 15, which must accept any harmful interference, especially from PROPERLY LICENSED services. Of course, the same rules will also hold the power company for any interference caused to the amateur radio service. Don't expect this to be available for long. Maybe now everybody will see that it doesn't work and let the abomination die like it should.

  10. Re:When does the patent expire? on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 3, Informative

    January 26, 2015

  11. Re:Experience with dual-boot? on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    wow, you've had your comment up for almost 4 minutes and it hasn't been flooded with fanboys yet. Amazing. But seriously, if ease of use is what you're looking for then you should probably stay away from Gentoo. I will admit that it's a dream once you finally get it running but getting to that point takes quite a while. It's quite simply the most masochistic installation I've ever seen. The live cd will dump you to a prompt and then it's up to you to partition your drive, mount it's filesystem, untar all the files manually, set up fstab by hand, compile and install your kernel, manually set up your bootloader, set up your networking, choose which compilation options you want to use, and then start compiling things. (desktop? hope you've got a day or two handy..)

  12. Re:And their response: on Fired Via Instant Message · · Score: 2, Funny

    "U R HEDED 4 UNMPLOI ! MAK UR TIEM!" rar... stupid lameness filter.

  13. Hook 'em now? on Jail Time for Misleading Domain Names · · Score: 1, Informative

    No dude. This is the internet era. No one must ever pay for porn again

  14. Re:What about on Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System? · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. er... should've previewed that on Debian Prepares To Vote On Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    oops... I mean, I <3 genitalia

  16. Tech that's so good... on Debian Prepares To Vote On Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    hey, you forgot to put Gentoo on that list. And genitalia. I 3 genitalia.

  17. Re: taxing blank CD-R and giving the proceeds.... on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    yeah, it is the case in canada. But it's still retarded.

  18. Re:Questionably Legal?? on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    There's one in Russel House by the bookstore, one behind it by the ATMs, and I think the third one is over in the towers. Oh, and how about that $100,000 internet GPS system for the buses! The internet! That'll show those stupid buses who's boss!

  19. Questionably Legal?? on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are plenty of legitimate uses for magnetic stripe readers. Why, here at the University of South Carolina we just installed 3 $1,200 newspaper machines to limit the free newspaper program to students and faculty. I suppose you also think taxing blank CD-R and giving the proceeds to record companies is a good idea, because nobody would ever want to, say, back up data with them.

  20. wait, WTF? on Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I presume they mean more accurate than a human that was only looking at the subject line? I fail to see how someone could misclassify an email after they'd already opened it unless it was some kind of marathon testing, which would be totally unrepresentative of any real life situation. Once you're getting 6,000 messages, it's time to reach for "Delete All" and change your address, methinks

  21. Suspicious files from the purported tree on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was looking through the supposed list of files at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortehu/files.txt and found a few suspicious entries, this looks more like a hoax now:
    0 11-18-01 14:23 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/ 52736 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/autolog.exe 61072 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/awk.exe 112672 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/chmod.exe 65536 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/choice.exe 9724 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/delnode.exe 76800 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/di.exe 143280 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/grep.exe 58640 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/kill.exe 70656 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/now.exe 18432 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/rcmd.exe 38912 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/rcmdsvc.exe 258560 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/robocopy.exe 29440 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/robocopy.wri 50448 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/sleep.exe 60176 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/splitsym.exe 10240 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/srvany.exe 9856 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/srvany.wri 56592 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/tlist.exe 88884 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/touch.exe 102400 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/winat.exe 134416 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/windiff.exe 17357 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/windiff.hlp 6460 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/ync.exe 0 11-18-01 14:23 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/desktop.eml 0 11-18-01 14:23 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/alph a/apache_install.eml 0 11-20-01 09:43 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ 1229 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ changepw.c 5503 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ changepw.mak 3855 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ getbldda.c 1247 07-26-00 02:12 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ htmlpath.c 0 11-19-01 00:26 win2k/private/inet/mshtml/build/scripts/tools/src/ copy of using web integration infrastructure.eml
  22. Re:Isn't this kinda pointless? on Putting a 1.48GHz Tualatin CPU in an Xbox · · Score: 1

    Oh, it was a taiwanese company. In fact, it was this taiwanese article. Why oh why did I ever go back and RTFA? Ignorance is bliss

  23. Isn't this kinda pointless? on Putting a 1.48GHz Tualatin CPU in an Xbox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If all of the games are designed for the stock hardware, is upgrading really going to make the slightest difference? Who cares about the framerate anyway? NTSC is only 60Hz interlaced refresh. Also, I'm pretty sure I heard about a company in Hong Kong that was already doing this.

  24. Good on 'em on NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia · · Score: 0

    Excellent.

  25. Re:What to expect.. on H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April · · Score: 0

    hey, don't forget the pocket fluff and life-size microscopic space fleet!