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  1. Fewel, ZModem is teh shiznit on BBS Documentary Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    It has sliding windows. Just remember to ARJ it first and turn off modem compression.
    +++ATH0
    OK
    ATDT teh.intarweb
    NO CARRIER
    wtf???!! Hey Mom, get off the phone!

  2. I mean to say, these resources exist on IBM and Red Hat Offer College Prep · · Score: 1

    No need to reinvent them in the context of IT. Once you have the basis, you can clue yourself into the domain specifics easily--just like computer science/programming itself.

  3. Riffs, yeah, I can dig it... on Alan Moore Pulls LOEG From DC Comics · · Score: 1

    I also like the disco sound, hey!

  4. Or how about port 80? on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    My previous post makes more sense that way.

  5. How about blocking port 40? on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    It seems many Trojans are installed via this port.

  6. You don't need a class on licensing and ethics on IBM and Red Hat Offer College Prep · · Score: 1

    FFS, if you can't figure these out on your own, you probably haven't figured out how to get that Logo turtle moving yet, either. BTW, ethics are taught in a different department; you know there is more to the school than the CS lab and the UC. It would be a good idea if ALL college graduates were required to have exposure to such non-trade knowledge domains as critical thinking, logic, history, and philosophy. Fancy that, a well-rounded education! You might even meet the ever-elusive "girl" in the other departments while you're out and about.

  7. Wouldn't Java be more portable? on Write Down Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Usually you can just run 'java myprog.jar' or double-click it to run (if Java is available). Perhaps he was concerned about the unverifiable security of the Java VM? Also, I know Bruce did Blowfish, but wouldn't AES/Rijndael or even his own Twofish be a better choice?

  8. Warner Bros must be Republican on Classic Cartoons Marred by Digital Restoration · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reporter: "What is your administration doing about the deficit?"

    Republican: "A marriage consists of one man and one woman, it's in the Bible. It's 'one nation under God', not Allah or the angel Moroni. We must stop these activist judges from contaminating and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, and replace them with good old fashioned reactionary judges."

    Reporter: "Uh...what are we doing to stabilize the situation in Iraq?"

    Republican: "We must never forget the lessons of 9/11. We have Osama bin Laden pinned down in the vicinity of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Once we figure out how to tell one raghead from another we'll be able to inspect everyone in the region and imprison anyone who isn't Osama. Then, the only guy left ducking into caverns will have to run from our bunker busting bombs and attack choppers. Bring it on!!!"

  9. It's called a Standard of Living on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want to live like a Mexican peasant in a maquiladora. Neither does he; he would rather live like an American. We will BOTH be forced to enjoy the peasant lifestyle if wealth becomes too polarized, and that's what's happening. The rich are only rich at the sufferance of a populace that either cannot or will not give up its wealth to them. Democracy is the great pacifier in this regard. However, with the present oligarchical manipulation of democracy, it is failing.

    Rich people tend to use their money to take money from other people (consolidation of wealth), and fundamentally this activity is antisocial and evil. Disguising it in layers of Adam Smith pie-in-the-sky theories about invisible hands and shareholders' value doesn't justify activities that harm many for the benefit of few.

    Geez, these bleeding heart conservatives...

  10. Perhaps SMS is a better medium on Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Certainly a uuencoded signature block at worst.

  11. Spain?? on Physicists Uncover TV Show Biases · · Score: 1, Informative

    Uh...according to the CIA Factbook even Mexico has a bigger GDP than Spain. The top 4 in Europe should be Germany, UK, France, and Italy. Italy, not Spain. Spain was and ever is a bucolic backwater, sort of like the southern half of Italy.

  12. Re:Don't blame me on MATLAB Programming Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    This was 1996 or 1997. Oh crap, my anonymity is creaking...

  13. That's what I hear on The Problem with DHS's Plan to 'Buy American' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Americans don't want to work, that's why they have to keep bringing in Mexicans and Indians. Even El Presidente de Mexico concurs. I laugh at the world, making our products for us while we sit around unemployed, living off the fat of the land.

  14. Don't blame me on MATLAB Programming Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    My team made 11th in the ACM contest; my teammates choked, or we would have probably made top 5 at least (this from a no-name American university). I, however, was outstanding. Yet still I have no job...shoulda taken IBM up on its offer.

    Seriously, though, it was PC games that got me into programming. Back then, one guy could write a game and sell it. Not so nowadays. Most kids are playing on closed platforms, playing games that take dozens of people to write. I remember fiddling with the EGA barrel rotator...nowadays its all thick, poorly documented (and often broken) API. Ten years ago, you had to sign an NDA and pay $20-40k to program a console. I had Turbo Pascal with a No Nonsense license at $99.

  15. I don't buy hardware for the firmware on More on OpenBSD 3.7 Release · · Score: 1

    I wish HW manufacturers would just release the specs, because it's usually possible to hack it anyway, and closed firmware doesn't give them an edge in the marketplace, for the reason I state in the topic. I think one obstacle in their minds is that if the HW dies while using untested (by them) firmware/drivers, they might be liable. Simple enough--just state in the warranty that it only applies to officially released firmware/drivers. Maybe then we can all get on with our lives instead of living in paranoia.

  16. I blame the Internet, personally on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1

    By enabling pernicious technologies such as BitTorrent and AOL Instant Messenger, the Internet serves as a vehicle for thieves to steal from the starving executives of RIAA/MPAA. We must litigate and legislate until the owners of the Internet are forced to shut it down. Now all we have to do is pin these villains down...maybe we should start with Al Gore?

  17. Solar power should be plentiful on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    since the Moon is closer to the Sun. ...what's that? Copernicus? Never met him.

  18. This is plain un-Amurrican on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should be using good old American cockroaches instead of them hissy Madagasgadooian roaches. Must outsourcing take away all our jobs?

  19. Quit calling a yen for simplicity stupidity on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1

    I want a phone that does what I want (talking to people in other cities) with least use of my time and money. Everything else is a waste of my life. Both the parent and TFA refer to dumbed-down modes. They aren't dumb, they are (or should be) inobtrusive, efficient, and worth a lot more than a camera with basic functionality bogged down with SMS, Top 10 ringtones, and a crappy digital camera. I would gladly pay double for a phone that does just what I want, and does it well. Well, double nothing ain't much, but you get the idea.

  20. They know who you are on Lycos Germany to No Longer Store IP Data · · Score: 1

    They know you buy batteries. Perhaps to power your instruments of terror? I hear Osama bin Laden uses batteries. Coincidence? That's for the judge to decide.

  21. Offer them candy, sweet candy on Eat Right, Earn an iPod · · Score: 1

    I bet the kids would eat their greens if they could have a big chocolate bar chock full of nougat, caramel, and peanuts. Kids love candy, I like to keep my van well stocked when I cruise by the schoolyard.

  22. Re:J2EE support is nice on Netbeans 4.1 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've evaluated JBuilder, Netbeans, and Eclipse. I prefer to use Eclipse, which seemed by far the best for vanilla code crunching. I had to download the in-development web tools to do J2EE, it was kind of messy to set up. It currently doesn't support the Java 5 language enhancements either, IIRC. Netbeans looks to be the best for J2EE currently (of the IDEs I looked at). The Eclipse Web Tools in their current (pre-release) state are clumsy and unstable, but generally effective. I was just doing a small servlet/bean application, so the real pros might be aware of deeper quirks or deficiencies.

  23. Memo to Morgan Stanley: Use a phone. on Deleting Emails Costs Morgan Stanley $1.45B · · Score: 1

    Preferably one of those encrypted types. I will only bill you USD100 MILLION for this advice, and you will thank me for my generosity.

  24. Phooey--good old American know-how at work on Phantom Console May Never Materialize · · Score: 1

    Companies realize they can maximize their profit margins by not having to muck about with "product" or "content". It worked for the dot-coms!

  25. It's all good--just sex offenders being busted on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 1

    We all hate them sex offenders, so anything we do to track them is OK. So what if a few innocent people are inconvenienced. What are you, a child molester? Or worse, a liberal?