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  1. Re:Automatic or manual? on One-Third Of Companies Monitoring Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As if sucking is a swear word. Hell, I suck lollipops all the time!

    And what about the word 'hell'. Well, coming from a Christian activism group, that's a valid word. Or chicken farmers talking about cocks. What's next? People called Richard being unable to use their abbreviated name? One Linux distro forum site censors the word "documentation" as "do***mentation".

    Censorship is stupid. Automatic censorship more so.

  2. Electricity over IP on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 1
    Is it just me, or does this sound strikingly similar to RFC 3251?

    Thing is, its now 28 days late...

  3. Re:LMAO on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 1
    Sure, just put MOSIX on both host and guest operating systems. Problem is, the host system gets bogged down running the guest system and so offloads the process onto the guest system, and so the host slows down by running the virtualisation software inside the guest operating system.

    So then it offloads the virtualisation software onto the guest OS. At this point the guest is actually hosting itself! This is where things get weird; the laws of conservation of CPU time break down, the universe implodes, and all that is left is a self-hosting system in a closed space-like curve.

    Then things really get confusing.

  4. Re:Departmentalisation... on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 1

    Woah. You used the phrase "couldn't care less" properly! This is slashdot, isn't it? News for the grammatically challenged?

  5. Re:Direct link for those listening live on Hitchhiker's Guide Quandary Phase Starts May 3rd · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those too lazy to figure out how to do the above.
    --------
    #!/bin/bash

    url=$1
    file=$2

    mplayer -dumpstream $url ; mencoder -oac pcm -o $file.pcm -noskip stream.dump ; oggenc -o $file.ogg $file.pcm
    --------

  6. Re:What is so great about the Hitchhiker's Guide? on Hitchhiker's Guide Quandary Phase Starts May 3rd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Adams is the seventh Python. He wrote a number of the sketches for the original Monty Python series, as well as being a close friend of the Pythons themselves, having attended Cambridge together. Terry Jones even wrote Douglas' Starship Titanic novel for him.

    If you like Python, you will love h2g2.

  7. Speed of a bicycle on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If your measurement for the speed of light is comparing it to the speed of a bicycle, how do you know that the light has slowed, and its not just the bicycle has been superaccelerated (being ridden really really really fast).

    Einstein showed there is no o bjective measure of speed. Of course, if a bicycle were to travel at the speed of light, it would be very heavy and very long, but, if you were the one riding it, you wouldn't notice...

  8. Re:Moore's law strikes again on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ISO Library Of Congress is a measure of information, so LoC/fortnight is a measure of data rate.

    The speed of a bicycle is a physical velocity, of about one attoparsec per microfortnight (~1 ft/s).

  9. First in the industry? on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "First in the industry"?. Multimap has been doing it for a yonk and a half. They get their data from getmapping.com; and you can even buy framed prints of your house from above.

  10. Re:Fuck on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    "Alternatively do any of you know anything about UNIX systems?"

    This is slashdot. What do you think?

  11. Simple answer: no. on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Long answer: the title of the accused page includes words that were used in the search query. You searched for the words "traffic estimate". You got a page about traffic estimates. Google used those words, as well as similar words, to find you a page. It's called stemming. It's how search engines work.

    So you get a page in the cache where their title includes words used in the search. These words don't actually appear in the normal page. You also got a blurb at the top of the page saying "This is Google's cache..." That doesn't appear on the normal page either. So what the hell are you trolling about?

    You may just have won non-story-of-the-week.

  12. Re:translate to American please on Translation Software That Learns by Reading · · Score: 1

    cat article.txt | sed -e 's/ou/o/g' -e 's/aluminium/aluminum/g'

    American isn't a language, it's a mispelling.

  13. Re:Do they mention 42 in the movie? on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1

    6 * 9 = 42

    but only in base 13.
    While the answer isn't quite 42, because of the whole business with the golgafrinchams, the number 13 is actually a clue to the real answer.

    Which probably explains a lot.

    Or maybe the ultimate question has something to do with scrabble. Or Agrajag being repeatedly killed by the one person who knows something like the ultimate question.

    Or maybe, since the ultimate question is of life, the universe and everything, it is *impossible* for the single planet to be the only factor in computation of the answer (by Godel's incompleteness theorem), and all Deep Thought did was place that planet there in order for the Golgafrinchams to crash into it and evolve into Arthur, who then does a round trip through the other end of the universe and ends up back where the whole experiment all started, so that the ultimate question can be deciphered by trying to teach the primitive apemen of the Earth to play scrabble - so the answer is actually 42, the question is actually "what do you get if you multiply six by nine?" and the reason the universe is the way it is is something to do with base 13.

    Or maybe I'm reading too much into it

  14. Re:Ford's Thumb? on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the thumb is an electronic sub-etha signalling device and the roundabout is at Barnard's star....

  15. Re:Confused!! on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1
    Except nobody uses a Mac for real applications. You know, those systems that actually have to do something useful 24 hours a day.


    Now, here is a Linux/X11 system doing just that, with a touchscreen.

  16. Re:I thought it was something else... on In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated · · Score: 5, Funny

    Punch cards? You were lucky! All we had were toggle switches where you programmed individual bits; one at a time, until memory were full. All 512 bytes of it!