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  1. Re:better question... on The BBC's Honeypot PC · · Score: 1

    The default since SP2 is for the firewall to be on. If you turn the firewall off, you get warnings to that effect on your system tray.

  2. Re:DRM on Teens Don't Buy Legit MP3s Because They Can't? · · Score: 2, Funny

    hey, are you trying to imply something by placing some of your word's letters in bold? Or am i just reading extra meaning from your odd message colouring?

  3. Re:So... on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 1

    I see. So when you make a major hardware change, you just do it and don't bother to make sure its working properly? Install or otherwise, i would hope that you at least log onto the system and check that it works.

  4. Re:So... on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 1

    An operating system is a piece of software. If you don't install the software correctly, then of course you will have problems.

    I ASSUME that the tech will connect to the server desktop at least once (install patches, drivers, etc), so i think the activation warning would be noticed. Not performing the activation is the fault of the tech, not the OS.

    If the tech is following a standard procedure (replace motherboard), that procedure needs a singe sentence update: "Check if OS is raising activation warnings. If so, call 1-800-____ and perform activation procedure".

  5. GTA mod on Burger King's Disturbing Games · · Score: 1

    I think in the GTA mod, you will find yourself waking up with the king.

  6. Re:And If the Government Asks? on Amazon's A9 Drops Retained Data Methods · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The government> I accuse Mr. White in the Conservatory with the CD!

    A search is not a purchase. For purchases, there are already records. It doesn't matter if you're searching for that new-fangled satanic rock and roll. If it matters at all, it will be if you purchase (or download) the CD.

  7. Re:Wrong word... on Hollywood Says Piracy Has Ripple Effect · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can find it here

  8. Re:Rated M on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    Very true. I suppose I meant that the "secondary" crime wasn't permitting the video game playing but providing access to a weapon.

  9. Re:Parenting on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    Even if the kid was the spawn of Satan, you can't shoot somebody if you don't have access to a gun. Where did he get the gun?

  10. a simple question... on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    Did you have easy access to weapons as a child? You had the video game and didn't shoot anyone, but the weapon access seems to be the part that is frequently forgotten.

  11. Re:Rated M on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    If you believe that the parents deserve criminal charges, then you also believe that the video game had something to do with the crime.

    The true criminal is who owns the gun (which could be the parents). The game is irrelevant.

  12. Wrong question... on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    Forget that he was playing a video game. Can somebody tell me exactly how the 14 year old acquired the gun? If you want to blame the parents for anything, i'd blame them for that.

    Strangely enough, this is the shirt i'm wearing today.

  13. Mr. Neutron on Power Suit Promises Super-Human Strength · · Score: 1

    http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/neutron.htm

    Voice Over: Mr Neutron! The most dangerous and terrifying man in the world! The man with the strength of an army! The wisdom of all the scholars in history! The man who had the power to destroy the world. (animation of planets in space) Mr Neutron. No one knows what strange and distant planet he came from, or where he was going to!... Wherever he went, terror and destruction were sure to follow.

    (Cut to Neutron's garden. He has three little picnic chairs out and is having tea with Mr and Mrs Entrail, a middle-aged couple. The lady, a little overdressed dominates. Mr Entrail sits there rather sourly.)

    Voice Over: Mr Neutron! The man whose incredible power has made him the most feared man of all time... waits for his moment to destroy this little world utterly!

    Mrs Entrail: Then there's Stanley ... he's our eldest ... he's a biochemist in Sutton. He's married to Shirley...

    Mr Neutron: (in a strange disembodied voice, grammatically correct but poor in intonation) Shirley who used to be the hairdresser?

  14. I feel safer already on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    Wow, the US only has 10,000 nukes. I feel much safer. google's info on nuclear bombs

    According to this page, the lethal fallout range of a 1 megaton bomb is 90 miles (1 direction, 7 days, 15kph winds). The diameter of the earth is 12,753 km (7926.4 miles). So if they were spaced out correctly, we could cause lethal radiation to occur in a ring around the earth 11 times.

  15. Re:Why Only U.S. & Russia? on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 5, Funny
    How many other kinds of global nuclear war are there?
    Global happy rainbows and ponies nuclear war?
  16. Re:There goes my week! on Apple Goes After the Term 'Podcast' · · Score: 1

    You also won't be invaded by aliens this week either.

  17. Re:How about artists that use Lime Wire sue? on LimeWire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations · · Score: 1
    We copyright nothing and openly allow people to copy it.

    Actually, everything automatically is copyrighted as your content. You choose to use that right to provide rights to copy to everyone else.

    Now if somebody went and started selling your music without your permission, you might get a little upset.
  18. Re:The worst movie about a computer hacker on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    Friends don't let friends code drunk. You'll regret the debugging the next day.

  19. Re:not a problem on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We're talking about the sci-fi future... I think i'd rather start buying stock in spice. I hear that stuff is both addictive and keeps your customers alive longer.

  20. self-plagarism on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 3, Informative
    My former college has rules against self-plagarism:
    Self-plagiarism is the submission of work that is the same or substantially the same as work prepared or performed by the student for credit in another course (except in instances where the instructor receiving the work has given prior permission). Work includes but is not limited to essays, term papers, projects, and assignments. Although self-plagiarism may not involve the intellectual theft that characterizes plagiarism (as defined in Definition-1 above), it is a form of academic misconduct and is subject to the same disciplinary actions as plagiarism. All Procedures for the Plagiarism Policy as outlined below will apply to this Policy.
  21. sword fight game? on First Gaming Fitness Arcade Opens in CA · · Score: 1

    I've seen the mocap boxing and the police game where you have full motion control, but i haven't seen the sword fight game. Do you know the name of it? I want to do a google search and see what it looks like.

  22. Lets not be silly... on How a Wiring Rack Should Look · · Score: 2, Funny
    Nothing like a 4am pager going off...
    4 am doesn't exist. Its just a story made up to scare little children.
  23. you expect the site to stay up... on How a Wiring Rack Should Look · · Score: 2, Funny

    when the article is asking us to go look at some nice racks?

  24. Support an opinion? on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. There doesn't need to be support. All he needed to do is somehow work in a bash on microsoft, a mention of vista, and a link to DRM and it would be rated informative.

  25. Re:Legolas Atreides on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1

    Regretfully, the role of the giant sandworm will be played by jar jar binks. Gotta love prequels.