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  1. Re:Funny... on 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X · · Score: 1

    Go :(){ :|:& };: yourself!

    (Sorry, I had to use the joke again)

  2. Re:Nice script on 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X · · Score: 1

    You know more than I do, apparently. The only bash scripting I've done is to force programs into a specific working directory. I can barely look at that code myself, I just found it under a Google search. My best guess is that it creates a function fork that is very obfuscated to the reader. There were some pretty neat obtuse examples during that "Obfuscated voting machine code contest" as well.

  3. Nice script on 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think it's as much of a real vulnerability as it is Macintouch.com being mesmerized by looking at the code in the "new" exploit.

    #!/bin/bash
    :(){ :|:& };:


    Oooooooh, trippy code!

  4. Re:Curious... on Northern Bright Lights · · Score: 1

    ...followed by, ".....PHBHBT! AAhahahahaha!"

  5. Ob. Back to the Future II Quote on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Those things don't work on water! You gotta have POWAAAAH!

  6. Re:Wow... on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    They couldn't have chosen a better song. For some reason, seeing a lawnmower-shaped fixed wing model aircraft glide through the air while that music was playing made me laugh my ass off.

  7. Re:Seeing that video . . . . . on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Well, duh! Kill the engines of a 747 and...well, lets just say if i had to pick between being under a falling mower and a falling airplane, I'd pick the mower.

    A lot of two and four engine aircraft are designed that way out of redundancy for reliability over long range (very important for transoceanic flights), granted they use four moderately-sized engines instead of two monsters.

    Airliners usually meet a glide ratio good enough to make an emergency landing if they're near land if all the engines were to fail. I'd take the flight characteristics of a 747 over a lawn mower with much less lift.

  8. Re:Seeing that video . . . . . on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Of course, a couple reasons for the great amount of power in model engines is because they run on nitro fuel and are two-stroke (and as such, they get horrible mileage on very expensive fuel). Don't they idle at somewhere around 20,000 RPM?

  9. Re:This looks fcuking dangerous... on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 2, Funny

    .....you must be new here?

    Offtopic in 5, 4, 3, 2...

  10. Obligatory Simpsons Quote... on HP, Dell, and IBM Agree to Manufacturing Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    Homer: (runs lawn mower over a rollerskate and engine stops up.) "Bart, you've got small girlish hands, can you reach under the mower for me?"

    (Bart begins to reach under the mower, but the its motor starts back up and mower spits out shredded rollerskate)

    Homer: Never mind.

  11. Re:In other news... on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1

    Thank you. At least someone here understands the anatomy of a joke. I was just using a 4-door sedan as an example of a mundane object, not as some retarded version of a DeLorean. Yes, I realize that an actual DeLorean has 2 gull wing doors and a rear-mounted 130 hp aluminum block V6.

  12. In other news... on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 4, Funny

    CNN is a running a story on an Oregon college student's flat-screen Toshiba TV which was releasing the 121.5 MHz international distress signal...

    In other news, a man's 4-door sedan was emitting the 1.21 jigawatts necessary to power the flux capacitor. Christopher Lloyd was unavailible for comment.

  13. Re:would you have.... on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's the deal with "about:blank" anyway? That's one Ad-Aware detects simply because my start page is about:blank. It's an old habit, IE starts much faster on low-end machines when it doesn't have to load a page.

  14. Re:Try this instead: on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    I do know that VMWare Workstation will detect whether or not it is running inside a VMWare session and prevent you from nesting VMware sessions.

  15. Re:As a long time GNOME user... on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    Damn, looks like I'm screwed then either way. It's so easy to break KDE menus through normal editing. I'd be deleting my home directory every other week to fix it even if I were in GNOME. I hope somebody realizes how badly the menu system is overengineered. At least Microsoft's system works. (yeah, I know, MacOS's Apple menu predates this) I really don't understand why shorcuts on a launcher menu have to be more than just real link files in real directories, not some crazy hybrid of that in seven different places.

  16. Re:Work? Try "life." on When Gaming Trains You For Work · · Score: 1

    And I learned from Race Drivin' that even expensive, exotic cars don't have power steering. Damn, that game almost broke my fingers.

  17. Re:Based on the Traders I know... on When Gaming Trains You For Work · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the morning before my driving test. I was screwing around in Midtown Madness with the WV Beetle I had "tuned" to go 800 MPH. My Dad steppped in just as soon as I had the car do a three mile jump straight into a building. "You ready to go take the...holy crap."

  18. Re:As a long time GNOME user... on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    So the button order is true, then? Since I read left to right, the primary option should tend to be to the left. In this case, the "OK" button.

  19. Re:Meanwhile... on Colorado Researchers Crack Internet Chess Club · · Score: 1

    Which means it's time to break out the candy bars.

  20. Re:I miss Gnome 1.4 on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    Dude, is this a poem?

  21. Re:As a long time GNOME user... on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    For a while, I used a crystal theme to make up for that and besides the "Cancel" "Ok" button order, it looked enough like a KDE program.

  22. Re:As a long time GNOME user... on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a long time KDE user, I've recently realised the opposite. I tried out GNOME and found all the crap I'd read about it was totally untrue.

    But is it still true that there's about ten different configuration tools for the desktop, some of which do the same thing as the other? In addition to that, there's a preferences editor which suspiciously looks and feels like regedit. Or how about the "Ok" and "Cancel" button order?

    Oh well, at least anything is better than KDE's menu system. I think I've found at least five different locations it references, and the shorcuts and directories aren't in the same place. And then you have some crap in XML in a third location, etc.

  23. Re:Duping yourself now timothy? on Robots Do The Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Doom 3 Linux binary announcement that was right on top of the last one when viewing the Games section.

  24. Re:They aren't coming to Canada on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 1

    Of course they look similar. Ever since the Wagon R came out in the early 90s, lots of manufacturers copied the concept of a tiny, yet roomy wagon due to its success. Now you have cars like the Mazda Demio, Honda Life, Subaru Pleo, Nissan Cube, and the Toyota bB. What's that one Chevy's making now which is trying to bring this idea to the U.S.? The Aveo?

  25. Re:They aren't coming to Canada on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 1

    Smart Cars have been in Japan the whole time I've been here. Of course, small three-cylinder cars are nothing new here. Cars that can seat 4 or 5 people, yet are smaller than my 2-door, are actually pretty popular here. The Suzuki Wagon R is one car I see a whole lot over here, like it's the Ford Explorer of Japan. I believe there's both a three and four cylinder model, which would make it powerful enough for American roads. I wonder if Suzuki's ever considered exporting it, even if it were rebadged under a GM brand like the Suzuki Swift was.