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  1. Karakuri more advanced in many ways on Humanoid Robot Serves Beer · · Score: 1

    http://www.karakuri.info/

    Robotis? Spilled beer, awkward motion, weird beer pouring form, rigid looks, looking very primitive with attached wires...

    Karakuri puppets looks much better by these standards.

  2. Re:Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    HOLY FUCK, you're a god-damned idiot! Gibberish is plural, mouth-breather.

    gibberish can be plural or singular depending on the context.

    Ok, that's it. You, me, after school, by sandbox! Grammar Nazi Punk! You are so fucking dead.

  3. Re:Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    Ok, that's it. You, me, after school, by sandbox! Grammar Nazi Punk!

    you'll finally have something that's not gibberish.
    you'll finally have something that's not a gibberish.

    Jesus Christ, if you're going to give a smart-ass answer, at least make it a smart-ass answer.
    Jesus Christ! If you're going to give a smart-ass answer, at least,you should try to make it a smart-ass answer.

    Trying to smack me down as stupid doesn't work if you fuck up your correction.
    Trying to smack me down as stupid doesn't work, if you fuck up your correction.

    Yeah, both can play the same game, child.

  4. Re:Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    When someone looks and finds no WMDs, they are free to say "You're wrong". If you said "there are WMDs" under oath, then you can be done for perjury for saying it - not because you said it, but because YOU ARE WRONG.

    Being wrong vs. being deceitful are two seperate conducts. To say one is lying under oath is to say one presumptuously knows the truth yet falsely speaking. To say one is flat out wrong such as this case, you'd call me out and say I'm being dumb, stupid, idiotic, falsely informed, spouting off vitriol yet not lying.

    it isn't "Freedom of lying" - such as lying about there being fire in a cinema.

    Freedom of Speech does not stop someone from saying "it's the end of the world." I'm crossing the fine line here between believable truth vs. "no one gives a crap" truth. Those conspiracy theorists know this very well. Conspiracy theorists mix up bits of believable truth with nut bag evidence into a story to falsely mislead the public. What's the difference? George Tenent vs. some nut job from Ohio.

    you don't like a liberal and spouting off vitriol

    Yeah, that must be it.

  5. Re:Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So lets say, claiming there was 'WMD's in Iraq' was covered under "Freedom of Speech", hence all of those who cry foul are saying George Tenent and the Administration shouldn't be held accountable.

    Can anybody translate this out of moronese for me?
    There you go, moron.

  6. Re:Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    Whistleblowers who wish to truthfully disclose government corruption

    Right, because most whistleblower like this nut bag from former US-Iraq Intelligence, this world is so much better keeping insane liberal media junkies with daily fix.

  7. Freedom of Speech - George Tenent example on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: -1, Troll

    So lets say, claiming that WMD was covered under "Freedom of Speech", hence all of those who cry foul are saying George Tenent and the Administration shouldn't be held accountable.

    I see, how you liberal dimwits think now. Thanks for playing "flamebait game". I'll take my troll karma now.

  8. Suspending "Lives" of some of these developers... on 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon Well Underway · · Score: 1

    Project leader Theo de Raadt was quoted as saying 'I don't think anybody else does this, developers suspend their lives for a week to focus entirely on just development.'


    Can Acar
    Can lives in Ankara, Turkey. He began using OpenBSD in 1998

    Thordur Bjornson
    Thordur lives in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. ...continued to hang out with OpenBSD people on the mailing lists and IRC.

    Henning Brauer
    He noted that he did most of the work blindly on the airplane, and still could use hardware for testing.

    Michael Coulter
    Michael lives in North Vancouver, Canada.

    Gordon Klok
    Gordon lives in Windsor, Ontario in Canada.

    Marc La France
    Marc is from Edmonton, Canada. He's from the XFree86 group

    Ryan McBride
    Ryan was living in Vancouver, Canada

    Peter Valchev
    Peter lives in Calgary, Canada.

    Tobias Weingartner
    Tobias lives in Edmonton, Canada.

    Ken Westerback
    Ken lives in Toronto, Canada.

    Kjell Wooding
    Kjell lives in Calgary, Canada.

    Theo de Raadt
    Theo lives in Calgary, Canada. He started the OpenBSD repository on October 18'th, 1995.


    Suspending lives? More like OpenBSD zealot's Spring break... without the girls and tanned skins.

  9. Only the Display can find out if... on Display System That Knows Who You Are · · Score: 1

    who washed their hands after using the toilet... Honestly why would you want to touch anyone's screen or mouse for that matter... eeewwwww~

  10. Re:Cheaper? on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    There are few things you do not understand about CentOS. It's RHEL fork. RHEL is Fedora Core fork. The main difference is whatever works and becomes stable in Fedora Core will be forked into RHEL and CentOS eventually. As far as I am aware of, CentOS doesn't develop or package in parellel with FC or RHEL branch, however CentOS will package after RHEL release their source in dev/test/beta/prod branch. Knowning slow RHEL dev cycle, it's not ideal for workstations and personal computers. The most benifitial platform will be stable and seldomly changing server platform with support of hardware vendors. This is due to maximum customer support and reduce frequent bug patch release.

    This makes Fedora Core more attractive than CentOS or RHEL. You may argue for stability over bleeding edge, but in order to reduce overhead yet increase support from stable and solid community (Red Hat/FC community is one of the oldest while CentOS is recent and uncertain of its future), Fedora Core makes better sense. This is evident if you match software package release within OSS community. You will run into many more Fedora Core packages while you will run into CentOS pacakges which are not part of distro.

    Hope this clears few things up for you.

  11. Re:Story title on The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time · · Score: 1

    "The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time: Children's Edition"

    Now it is.

  12. Re:A common misconception about glass on Robo-Gecko Climbs Glass · · Score: 1

    Fools! It's called "soquid".

    Yes, you heard it first from slashdot that Glass is Soquid!

  13. Cancer and Alzheimer's... or.. on Scientists Search Deep Sea Reefs for Wonder Drugs · · Score: 1

    V1@Gr4 ... time for me to update spamassassin filter to include "deep sea reef"

  14. small and slippery glass spheres... on Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The glass spheres should be so small and slippery [...] there would be no risk of explosion or fire if a leak occurs."

    I sense, "slip and fall" litigation rate on the rise. Harvey Birdman, where are you?

  15. How is this an "IM" worm? on New IM Worm Installs Own Web Browser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By reading the article, it seems it's just general user clicking on "OK" rather than "Save As" worm. How is it different if the delivery is done through email or popup or iframe on some website listed on Google or Yahoo or whatever cross link sites? Or AIM for that matter? How about Gaim? or How about Jabber?

    Perhaps re-examining the actual exploit rather than delivery medium as the cause would be a good way to head toward right direction in my opinion.

  16. The most amazing information on this article on Recipe for Making Symetrical Holes in Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Harry Swinney, a specialist in pattern-forming fluid flows at the University of Texas at Austin, says the new observation is roughly in line with what one might expect."

    Wahhh~? Specialist in pattern-forming fluid flows at University of Texas at Austin? Heck I hope Mr. Swinney's parents didn't flush their saving down the toilet on his college education... oops, I mean, symetrically pattern-forming spiral downward flowing. ...yeah... the technical term.

  17. Extra-Solar+Planet: 404 Not Found on Planet Discovered Using Telephoto Camera Lenses · · Score: 1

    "[...] the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii."

    http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/extr a-solar_planet/

    404
    Not Found

    umm... this is awkward...

  18. Good Old Pearl Jam, totally expected move, however on Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    CC'd music video is pretty pointless. If you have noticed while you were watching the PJ's "Life Wasted" video, there are other Sony BMG Entertainment music videos you can watch as well. Yes, the video file can be freely distributed, but it's like distributing guitar tabs under CC license. It's just not going to make much sense for fans and average music lovers. If PJ wanted to make change, release their composed music under CC, not mp3 or music video. Effects will be same, but it makes stronger statement than "Pearl Jam release their unpopular music video LIFE WASTED under Creative Common License".

  19. It would be funny, ironic and sad "if"... on PTO Seeks Public Input on Patent Applications · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The patent office is weighing an online pilot project to solicit public input on patent applications. [...] The idea is for volunteers to be alerted about new patent applications--applications become public after 18 months--and invited to submit prior art."

    If the idea is already patented... Oh the irony!!!

  20. Old Con? Social Engineering in today's workplace on Tech Fraud Beating Out Social Engineering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Gone is the sharp-suited, debonair, sliver-tongued fraudster who'd charm his way to a personal fortune. [...] It is the ability to read a person's blind spot, tell them what they expect to hear - and get them to tell you what you need to know."

    I disagree. Now they all work in corporate america somewhere in Sales and Marketing department. Few of them even make it up to executive office. Social engineering is the template of sales and marketing.

  21. Re:FC 4 vnc-server-4.1.1-10.1 tested and passed on Critical Flaw Found in VNC 4.1 · · Score: 1

    Post your IP address and we can test properly it for you ;)

    "we"? oh boy... Gollum, is that you?

  22. Re:FC 4 vnc-server-4.1.1-10.1 tested and passed on Critical Flaw Found in VNC 4.1 · · Score: 1

    I rather use ssh XForward than VNC if I ever remotely (well, I never) need GUI. Call me simpleton, but that's just me.

  23. FC 4 vnc-server-4.1.1-10.1 tested and passed on Critical Flaw Found in VNC 4.1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have FC 4 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4smp kernel with some minor kernel sweak. For this test, I have activated vnc server (why need vnc when you have ssh.. who knows..*sigh*) with default config and disabled my paranoia iptable rules for this test. Also opened up port range from 5800 to 6001 (just to prove the point) from my firewall and set to port forward to VNC machine.

    I even disabled password for the account VNC display is binded to and set to no encryption for VNC.

    Nothing happened. No display, nah da, nothing.

    I have stable FC4 vnc package version 4.1.1-10.1.

  24. G3 data pipe not ready for realtime application? on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 1

    I have no clue what I'm talking about in this realm of technology, but knowing VoIP and IM, perhaps T-Mobile is aware of their shortcoming on realtime application support over their new G3 data network?

    But overall, doesn't wireless companies make most money off business users making ridiculous amount of calls and charging them with surcharges and what not? VoIP would definietly cut them off from the cash cow?

  25. I totally believe this guy on Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face · · Score: 3, Funny

    "A Frenchman who claims to have invented the yellow smiley face back in 1968"

    After all, this is a very well known fact that only Frechman is capable of being yellow AND have a smiley face. Fact proven during WWII, case closed. Give the patent to the Frechy.