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  1. Re:Prison? on First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing · · Score: 1

    No they can destroy millions of lives - think titanic. lots of love scenes, and only one nude

  2. Re:Wait on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    Or the sound of a snake, since most people have the instinct, that will wake them up and give them an adrenalin rush if they hear the sound of a snake.

  3. Re:I already have a good solution on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those of you without a girlfriend, attach to strings to the end of your covers, and modify your alarm clock release a tweenty kilo bag of sand attached to the other end of the strings.

  4. Re:Great, but with some SERIOUS caveats on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    Pull the hd from the computer?

    But then people like you would say but it could replace the bios!!

    Look at it this way if we are talking about the US icbms, then yes this a danger, but it is still an increes in security.

  5. Re:Useless... on Web Design Hampers Mobile Internet? · · Score: 1

    You choose the run forum to complain about books, as opposite to most people, we are geeks, we like books and has actually read many of them.

    While a book needs a external light source, it is not like these are rare, and i have jet to see an airport without lights.

  6. Re:Yes on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes just like the horse carrige industries have died out because selfish bastards wanted to ride an automobil.

    Just like typewriters are a thing of the past, replaced with computers.

    Put ofcause if you prefer to write you letter with homemade ink on homemade paper go a head.

  7. Re:Yes on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 1

    Na you can only jump a limited space, but there is no limit on how long parts of the exe files you can fill with nops

  8. Re:ah-HA !! on Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence · · Score: 1

    Well the winner takes it all

  9. Re: latest victim of Identity theft? on CSU Chico Identities Compromised · · Score: 1

    No the victems are those in the database, the student and teachers.

    The idiots are the IT departments.

  10. Re:What do I use? A trashcan. on CD Storage Advice? · · Score: 1

    "To invent you need imagination and a pile of junk"
    T. Eddison

  11. Re:We're still not back to minicomputer price leve on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    True, but back them you programmed it in assembly, and avoided software bloat, today half the power is spent on eyecandy and gui.

  12. Re:Keep buying, suckers! on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    Install openBSD and use them as dedicated hardware firewall.

  13. Re:Keep buying, suckers! on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    one of the treat hackers have is pushing computers to or above there limits, if you can get HL2 to run on a 100mhz, i will give you more respect than if you had 1000$ to waste on a chip, that is going to be half as expensive in 6 months.

  14. Re:Power dissipation? on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    You could use helium in a liqued state that would make it very cold (helium boils at -268.934C/-452.0812 and melt at -259C/-434.2F under normal pressure)

  15. Re:Power dissipation? on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 2, Funny

    this site claims, that the average mass of a fish is 18,4 pounds. Or 8.34609961 kilograms or 8346,08861g.
    Avogadros constant is 6.02214199 × 10**23, so the molar mass of fish is 5,02613307 × 10**27 or 5026,13307 septillion
    Not sure what use it is though.

  16. Re:Style over function? on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    It does now, but when joy user buy that new computer from $Computerstore in the near future, the computer will come default with sp2.

  17. Re:Yes it is... on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not to start a flame war but would you rather have KlamAV without the k? -> lamAV (lam is danish for lame)

    I never said that the "i" didn't bother me either, but it's slightly less annoying(at least to me) because you get an idea of what the application does from its name.

    So let me start reading my ibook

  18. Re:This is news to people? on Students Do Better Without Computers · · Score: 1

    You are right about the calculator, but ask yourself - does it matter? you can get a calculator for 1-2$, hell there are often one in your cell phone.

    As for spelling, i have gotten better at this since i was given access to computers

  19. Re:Windows 3.11 on Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations · · Score: 1

    Hehe, my elementry school has 386 running win 3,* and the younger kids still fight over them. They are only used for playing games, and i dont thing they should be trown out anyway. They get the job done, and people love them.

    An old computer that does its job, is as good as any.

  20. Re:Hydrogen = Next greenhouse gas? on World's First Fuel-Cell Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    By power produced from windwills, wavecraft generators, or from burning of trees.

  21. Re:1234567890 on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    For some obsure reason, friday the 13 is found in many of the special unix date, the date after the 2038 bug, is also friday the 13, and so are a lot of other post on this website.

  22. Re:T rex? or Model T? on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    Buing stocks? Try to stop the world wars and you have just saved the european countries.

    How?
    Shoot princip before he can get a chance to kill the arche duke.

    Kill Hitler as he comes into the field hospital after the gas attack. Or after he comes out of the prison in Germany.

  23. Re:Eh... on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    No it may be friday the 13 of December 1901.
    I am not conserned though this guy seems to be on the other hand

  24. Re:will it work? on Major PC Makers Adopt Trusted Computing Schema · · Score: 1

    So in the future, we will have to find a bufferowerflow not to get access to other computers, but to get acess to our own?

    God god, do i really want to be a programmer after all?

  25. Re:I can't even on Gmail Goes Public · · Score: 1

    I agree with you.
    I have found that www.nerdshack.com fills my email needs better than google would have. Aside from the cool domain name, they offer pop3 over ssl/tls and apop.