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  1. Re:Silly hackers! on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Republicans = STUPID
    Stupid = Idiotically misconfigured servers dynamically creating pages!

  2. Re:Hm. on XP Starter Edition Examined · · Score: 1

    As this will only be GUI applications, not processes, maybe something like those programs which let you run normal apps in the tray will work...

  3. Re:Vulnerability? on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here is a perfect reversal of how /. usually works. Someone says "I can do X with FireFox, but not in IE", and someone else points out how to do the same with IE...

  4. Re:Hmm (ex wife, but seriously...) on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    I would think that one would die faster from blood that can't carry oxygen at all well due to decreased cell surface area and capacity than from a damaged immune system.

  5. Re:Hmm (ex wife, but seriously...) on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    it only has one moving part, a spinning impeller that drives a continuous stream of blood.

    IANAHS, but I think that heart-lung machines don't use spinning blades because they would fold the red cells. They use a rubber pipe which is squeezed from outside, achieving a similar effect to the way in which the heart changes shape to move blood.

  6. Re:Ummmm ... on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    That won't work. It will take several days to disappear from google's cache.

  7. Re:alltheweb.com is down too?? on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably not the virus directly but the extra load of google refugees.

  8. Re:Linux users on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 4, Funny
    cat /bin/emacs > /dev/audio
    cat /bin/vi > /dev/audio
    Emacs sounds better than vi!

    Let the flames begin!
  9. Re:That's just the thing.... on Cut-Rate Windows 'XP Starter Edition' in Thailand · · Score: 1

    Ah, Malaysia...
    Piracy...
    When I visited Malaysia a couple of years ago, they had, in Kuala Lumpur (the capital), a three stage building like a shopping mall, with every shop selling pirate software. You could get almost anything for the equivelent of under GB *1.00. And this was before CD-Rs were widely used. I can't believe anyone would release software there to prevent it being pirated.

  10. Re:Sounds Like... on Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Dies · · Score: 1

    Hmm... no doubt an intended Microsoft bash. But you obviously use Windows yourself or you would know that CTRL+ALT+DEL is also the Linux emergency restart combination.

  11. Re:Sounds Like... on Computer Pioneer Bob Bemer Dies · · Score: 1

    Map CAPS to CTRL at OS level, and CTRL to "run" at game level. Unless you live a decade in the past and still map CTRL to "fire".

    I did it for ET and it works.

  12. Re:Records from a webcam taped to his helmet ! on Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Duct tape. Not duck tape. Although the two Ts run together a bit.

  13. Re:Start Up on Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Er, actually, my family have a small boat. And the lights don't go out when the starter fires, they dim. The only reason they don't crash is that light bulbs are not delicate electronic components that like a nice stable supply.

  14. Network install on Slackware 10.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    I hate wasting CDs on ISO installs, (the images are usually over the 650MB limit for CD-RW). Does slack have some kind of boot floppy/minimal ISO ftp install? If so, where?

  15. First amendment? on Judge Halts Utah's Spyware Law · · Score: 1

    It must be the right of WhenU (in the form of their software) to talk to WhenU (in the form of their master server) about you (the fool who doesn't RTF Licence Agreement)...

  16. Re:Free speech? on Judge Halts Utah's Spyware Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry to quibble, but the Google toolbar offers a clear option at install time to either use or not use the "spyware" component.

  17. Re:It's a super bad analogy on Report From "Get The Facts" · · Score: 4, Informative

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>strings ftp.exe | grep -A 1 Copyright
    @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
    All rights reserved.

  18. Re:Illegal? on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    Even if an experienced user can turn that of, a normal dummy can't. Windows users are often dummies.

    Also, a perfectly good feature that used to have a GUI got hidden in undocumented advanced configuration, in an "upgrade".


    Furthermore, windows is evil, encourages terrorism and causes cancer, and Bill Gates wants to kill you all!
    Oops,didn't mean to say that last bit... It just slipped out... Sorry.
    ;-)

  19. Re:Illegal? on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You really should have been modded troll for that.
    And it's not even true. The first method only stops automatic selection of the program to open the content with, for example WMP for audio CDs, ACDSee for photos. It does not prevent executables specified in autorun.inf from being loaded.
    The other 2 methods are not simple. Did you work out that reg entry or did you read about it on the web?

    Thought so.
    In win95, users could work it out for themselves, or if not it was in the manual.

  20. Re:Great for paranoid nuts, useless for real peopl on RF-Blocking Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    YES!!!! Of course!!!

  21. Re:Absolutely Stupid! on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    Speaking from experience, the bird-scarer thing works.

  22. Re:Dangerous Potential on Worm Developed for Nokia Series-60 Phones · · Score: 1
    Lets hope cell phone manufacturers start tweaking their phone OSes to prevent that kind of disaster in the future!

    Or lets hope that everyone starts tweaking their OSes to prevent that kind of disaster in the future!
  23. Re:Spam spam SPAM! on 200mbps DSL On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    That kind of speed is for geeks. No one else need it...

    But lusers like unused capacity. If they need a GB of empty ram for reading their emails, why not 150Mb of unused transfer speed?

    Strangely, not everyone knows that things are useless if unused. Why do you think some people buy cars that will never reach 50% of their max speed?

  24. Re:Software paid via public funding should not be on Government-Funded GPL Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many people would keep modifications under the GPL because they believe in it.
    The GPL version would be likely to rapidly become better than the original.
    I meant modified code.
    Sorry for unintentionally speaking nonsense.

  25. Does anything actaully use this? on More 3D Displays to Come · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does/will any software actaully use this?

    It would be very cool for CAD, but this is going to take up to much processor for real-time gaming rendering, isn't it?