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

    ^better^worse

  2. Re:easy? on Google Engineers Say IPv6 Is Easy, Not Expensive · · Score: 1

    Bah, if Google had done it right in the first place, it'd have taken one guy updating a couple/few libraries!

  3. Re:WTF is the problem with the penis? on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 1

    My problem wasn't the blue penis, it was the blue balls. It reminded me about what I don't like about being married!

  4. Re:The most important missed out feature on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's a park in Japan (Nagoya?) where the deer are 'tame' and grandma types make some money selling crackers to the tourists. The parents buy the crackers and hand them to their children to feed the 'cute' deer. The deer (if the kids are small enough) then nock the kids down so they drop the crackers and proceed to go about eating all the crackers, not the trickle that was coming out of the kids' hands. Then the grandmas come and kick the deers' asses since when they misbehave it cuts into their income.

    Ah the circle of life.

  5. But... on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    My phone is stoopid, you insensitive clod!

  6. "Excessive Portable Storage" on A Look at Excessive Portable Storage · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that and I think of a C-5A Galaxy full of 2TB drives...

  7. Re:Hmmm.... on First Pwn2Own 2009 Contest Winners Emerge · · Score: 2, Funny

    heh, my memory had conflated pcre and perl. That'll teach me to look shit up.

  8. Re:Hmmm.... on First Pwn2Own 2009 Contest Winners Emerge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but from what I read, the attack was via a PERL regex library used by the javascript engine. So it was in something Apple just used and not something they wrote from scratch. <sarcasm> I'm sure had Apple written the whole thing from scratch, there'd be no bugs...</sarcasm>

  9. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Right, but as a parent, shouldn't I be willing to spend eternity in hell, to guaranty my children get to heaven? Or, maybe I'm using the wrong axioms for how I live my life...

  10. Re:Death is never dignified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    If life is to preserved at all costs, then you must work very hard to earn money to send to Africa to help keep children there alive, live simply, eat as low on the food chain as possible so as to leave resources for other life, right?

  11. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't parents who believe that all abort their children then, so they're never born and go straight to heaven?

  12. Re:Y2K... on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: 1

    I think we were living in So Cal back then.

  13. Re:Y2K... on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, they'd crash and auto-reboot, but it would take awhile, so she'd go inside to pay.

  14. Y2K... on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somewhat OT, but my wife was one of the early recipients of a credit card which expired after 1999. She used to crash gas pumps whenever she tried to pay at the pump.

  15. Re:Build your own Quassam at home! on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Whenever I watch a horror/thriller movie, I'm always screaming at the TV, "Don't assume they're dead, until you've given them a double-tap to the head!"

  16. Re:OT: your sig on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    "Theists": "You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means..."

    I don't have "faith" that there are no gods, I've used logic and evidence to discount the claims which people like you have made about reality. Show me some good logical arguments or evidence for your claims and I might take them seriously. Until then, I'll continue to discount your claims as a delusion.

  17. Re:Can't light an LED on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    Size matters, but make something 3 inches long, the diameter of a human hair out of lead or gold, then convert the matter completely to energy and that'd probably power your car for some time :-)

  18. Re:still pissed at Intel.... on OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what an idiot, no one would ever buy one of those.

  19. Re:Lets boycott the thing I was never gona buy! on Amazon Uses DMCA To Restrict Ebook Purchases · · Score: 1

    I thought about buying the kindle2 after I saw the XKCD comic on using it as a free anywhere in the US 3G web-browser...then I realized I don't need one of those. If I was still bike touring a lot, it'd be great for checking email and maps and keeping in touch, but I don't have time for that now. Now when I travel I tend to drive or fly, and take my MacBook.

  20. Re:And You Wonder Why Amazon MP3 Only Works in the on iTunes Gift Card Key System Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, given that he _was_ Mark Freaking Twain, he got to choose where he was born!

  21. Re:Toss 'em on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    OT, but far less than 1/2. Not all women need them due to age, and even women who periodically menstrate only need them about 1/4 of the time.

  22. Re:oh, _that_'s the bug? on Dan Bernstein Confirms Security Flaw In Djbdns · · Score: 1

    I have to agree there, as a user of tinydns/dnscache, this bug doesn't affect me because I don't let other people serve their records from my install of DJBDNS. If I did, I'd likely ask them for a 'data' file, look it over manually and manually install it. yeah it's more of a PITA than AXFR, but for my needs it is fine.

    Even the other bug with the 200 outstanding requests for a record would be problematic to exploit on my network, since I only allow trusted computers on my network and you have to be on my network to get to my dnscache server. So, the exploit would have to trick a resolver on a client computer on my network to make those 200 identical requests. I think breaking a window and taking my server would be easier :-)

  23. Re:More affordable? Prices sky rocketed in many on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    The justification for it is at the demand level. People are still buying them at those prices.
    http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Apple-Mac-Mini-1-83Ghz-Core-2-Duo-1GB-RAM-80GB-HDD_W0QQitemZ280317872335QQcmdZViewItemQQptZApple_Desktops?hash=item280317872335&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A13|39%3A1|240%3A1308

    New in box Mini (from before today's upgrade), only 1.83 GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB drive, and it went for a premium over apple prices...though the lack of tax probably makes up for it.

  24. Re:Eh on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    My lament for things like this is, "Sadly, I am not a market"

    I often wonder why someone doesn't make things I'd pay good money for... it turns out I'm not the only one, but I'm one of few enough that making whatever it is would cost too much at that quantity.

  25. Re:There was a bigger mistake: on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    Terminate them with ',' (comma):
    http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt