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  1. Re:Cool on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    Really? I'm trying to do that for work, and I'm having a hell of a time. Our product is based on RHEL4/5 (depending on version) and I wanted iptables -m random or -m statistic, so I could do some network failure testing... Cue decent into hell.

    The 2.6.18 kernel we have in our RHEL5 version has the right iptables in the kernel to support -m statistic, but the iptables RPM at 1.3.5 doesn't have the module, I need 1.3.6. I figure, no problem I'll just grab the newer RPM from somewhere on the net. No such luck, can't find it anywhere. So I grab the source RPM, but it wants 'kernel-source' installed before it'll build. So I grab the SRPM for the kernel, but installing that and building it doesn't provide 'kernel-source' so iptables still won't build... I'm ready to toss it to IT, just requesting a 2-nic fedora box with NIST-Net installed (which also looks like a kernel-compilation nightmare waiting to happen, but that's another story)

    On my home NetBSD box, it's all in the one CVS tree, and 'build.sh' with a few options 'just works' (unless of course someone recently broke the build :-)

  2. Re:Don't use them on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    A 401K pushing lady gave a presentation at our company and covered this "feature". She made the comment that you wouldn't want to use a question many people would know the answer to, like "What's your favorite color?" I responded from the audience with "Fish"

  3. Re:Meh on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    You fuckers, always working for cheap!

    Looking at someone's computer is a 6-pack of _good_ beer for me. Fixing it is negotiable, but usually involves a couple of nights with their wife!

  4. Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    That's too bad, you probably prevented the guy from being able to sue for lots of money...

  5. Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was wondering about that... My name is Robert. In college, when I moved into the dorms, there were 3 or 4 other Rob/Roberts, one of which was my roommate, so I went by another name. I was wondering if I could give that out to the officer. Of course, it might not be a great idea because I went by "Phread the Terrorist", the character in Doonsbury.

  6. Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    From my very briefly looking at the SCOTUS cases, that seems to not be the case. States may have laws requiring people to identify themselves, but not to produce identification.
    http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5554.ZS.html talks about the recent upholding of the Nevada law and a bit about why other laws were struck down.

  7. Re:You just defined smartass on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    Free Kayak hell... a friend/former-coworker got arrested for driving while black, sued the department and got $250K for her trouble...

  8. Re:You just defined smartass on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    There was such a law in Nevada, and IIRC, it went to the SCOTUS, and it was upheld.
    http://www.papersplease.org/hiibel/
    http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5554.ZS.html

  9. Re:That's "dilithium" on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    Pineapple Trees?

  10. Re:Time will tell on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was the first movie I saw that got time travel anywhere close to right:
    "I need dad's keys right now, so in my perceptual future, I'll go back into the past, steal my dad's keys and hide them right here in this planter."

    Brilliant. Of course, that's the trouble with introducing time travel, especially voluntary time travel. If it's accidental and not easily (or at all) repeatable, then it may be an ok plot device.

  11. Emacs.... on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    And 1 kill-ring to rule them all!

  12. Re:What's next? on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    You fucker! I crashed Mtn. Biking last week and it still hurts when I laugh.

  13. Re:Judging by the recent trial of TPB on Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info · · Score: 1

    I got out of a traffic ticket, and I was guilty. I hired flesh-eating bacteria to infect the leg of the officer so he couldn't show up in court. Ok, I'm making up the 'hired' part, but flesh-eating bacteria is why my ticket got thrown out. (I think I would have won anyway, because the signal was defective, but it really was red when I went thru it...)

  14. Re:10,000 years on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 1

    Actually, the interval of large eruptions (from memory) at Yellowstone is ~600K years, with the last one being ~670K years ago....

    Of course, the world is older now, and possibly less active on the whole, or the hot spot under Yellowstone could just be cooling off. "Past performance is not a predictor... blah blah blah" :-)

  15. Re:Sp3ll2ng Naugzteez! on Apple Promises Mother Lode to Billionth App Downloader · · Score: 1

    My mom said that to my dad. His response?

    "Poor planning"

  16. Re:That silly Constitution on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, I'm certain the Crown felt they were 'terrorists', or they would have if they were like our recent govt. But I still think it's a stretch for historians to claim so :-)

  17. Re:That silly Constitution on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not all that up on the history of the Boston tea party, but I don't think it was intended to terrorize anyone. Sure, the people guarding the tea on the boats might have had violence committed against them, but the goal wasn't terrorism.

    The other two, yeah, they were designed to produce terror in the populace and get them to work to change their government's stance.

  18. You computer geeks are all freaks! on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 1

    Eunuchs and Code Swapping and incestuous distros!

    http://www.netneurotic.net/mac/unix/timeline.html

    It's immoral I tell you!

  19. Re:My Thoughts on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    If you think exposure is bad, try having to _use_ them for your job. That drops IQ points at a huge rate!

  20. Re:I love TED. on Cracking the Code of Bacterial Communication · · Score: 1

    Not if there is someone else selling a cure...

  21. Re:Epic Security Problem in My Opinion on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 3, Informative

    No the point of DNS was to replace the unmanageable /etc/hosts issue.

  22. CME on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.businessinsider.com/could-the-sun-destroy-the-earth-2009-3

    Coronal Mass Ejection, a big enough one could wipe out all life on earth, and fry all the electronics.

  23. Re:So it helps to be.. on Coders, Your Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could you redo that in a Word 2009 doc, that I can't read and am forced to upgrade because of?

    Thanks,

  24. Re:Guidelines = Religion? on Cisco Router Hack Inspires New Patching Religion · · Score: 1

    liquors the best solution

    "liquor's".

    liquors are the best solution.

  25. Re:Guidelines = Religion? on Cisco Router Hack Inspires New Patching Religion · · Score: 1

    If you judge Christians by that rule, there _are_ no "true christians", they're like "true scotsmen"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman