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  1. Re:right...so thats were my money goes.. on UK Record Companies Suing File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Don't forget old Tony following the Shrub around on a little (very failed) empire building mission despite the vast majority of the public . . . . . .

  2. Re:I'd rather on Original Lightsaber Goes For 3x Expectations · · Score: 1

    I'm sure medical science can fix that for less than the cost of a lightsaber.

  3. Re:New Scientist Coverage on Planet X Larger Than Pluto? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yours is less sensationalist and requires thinking about numbers. Numbers are bad. Sensationalism is good. Better luck next time. :p

  4. Re:Unemployed Software Engineers on Patent Examiners Flee USPTO · · Score: 1

    We'd stamp so much "denied" out of some combination of reason and spite that any of us would get fired within a day. Don't want to get Congress, Inc. on our backs about denying too many patents . . . . .

  5. Re:Pirated on Microsoft To Begin Checking For Piracy · · Score: 1

    I found a really convinient (and legit) solution to this. The early XP restore CDs that the OEMs shipped didn't have, or check for a key. My current primary box got its XP from such a source. (Intercepted the disc when my grandmother was throwing out her dead $300 Gateway.)
     
    Sure, you have to firewall it before jacking in, and have to install like a scillion updates, but it will patch all the way up and pass muster with the Microsoft legititude tester.

  6. Re:Nostalgia Nausea on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Gah. Gah! RAAAHH!

    *Dives for volume knob.*

    I hate you and I hope you die.

  7. Re:It's just an old map on Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    So maybe it's no conspiracy, but it does mean that Microsoft is using ancient, shitty image sets for MSN Earth.

  8. 49% on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    49% of America you mean. 95+ percent of the world hates Shrubby.

  9. Self incrimination? on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the UK have some sort of protection against being forced to disclose information that would cause you to incriminate yourself? In the US we have this as part of the constitution. (For what that's worth . . . . . )

    I would think disclosing the key to your encrypted data would qualify.

  10. Re:Peltiers on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    In this case 400% efficiency is referring to heat moved over work done. I'm not sure if a car system is actually that good, but moving more heat than you put in is typical behavior for a modern refrigeration system.

  11. Re:Of course on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, he's oftopic, but as for how:

    This nonsense is coming from American morons and Shrubby is their moron king. Bush has become basically the avatar of everything we, as non-nationalists hate about American culture, politics, and foreign policy.

    Personally, one of the first things that popped into my head when I read the summary was "fucking Shrub . . . . " but, I didn't post that, because it was offtopic and added nothing useful to any kind of discussion.

  12. Re:priorities? on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good question. Basically it all boils down to the larger issue of American culture fetishizing violence and demonizing sex.

    Why this happens . . . . who knows, but it does serve as more proof that Americans are, in general, completely out of their minds.

    (First person to post "GO BACK TO FRANCE!!!111one" will get beaten to death with a dildo.)

  13. Re:Non-default Port on Rundown on SSH Brute Force Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only that but changing the port really helps with spotting a real attack. Dumb scripts always try port 22. Since I run SSH on a different port all that random noise falls away. If I see failed login attempts I know I'm looking at something with some intelligence.

  14. Re:What would happen to UnixWare and OpenServer? on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Not to mention being several kinds of hillarious when former SCO code ends up in Linux.

  15. Re:Look at his site using the wayback machine on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    Agreed. In this case this guy's not being victimized and the Aussie courts aren't out of their minds. What did he really expect to happen? A search engine for http downloads of copyrighted songs? That sort of thing hasn't been tollerated since like, 1998.

  16. Re:HFS Compatability on Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s · · Score: 1

    I've put drives out of Macs in x86 Linux boxen before and had no trouble getting at the files. Apple had damn well be able to do at least as well with their own filesystem.

  17. Re:Fuck the record execs. on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if the BBC paid for the performance and did the recording they can do whatever they want with it right?

  18. Re:Here's a head-scratcher... on Falling Window Cover Damages Discovery · · Score: 1

    Plus, the foil type probably makes a decent substitute for thermal tile. ;)

  19. Stuff that matters indeed . . . . . . on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 0, Troll

    OMGWTF! 15 copies of a shitty children's novel leaked!

    Interesting . . . . .

    No wait, the other thing: tedious.

  20. More of America being retarded: on GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Woo! Shooting things! Reckless driving! Killing bystanders! Killing cops!

    Wait, is that a boobie?! OMGWTF!!!!!1111one WE MUST PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THIS CORRUPTING INFLUENCE! THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!

    Where do we get so many morons around here anyway? Have they been putting a moron virus in lunch meats for the past few generations or something?

  21. Re:mp3 player on Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails · · Score: 1

    Google found some 1GB flash earrings.

  22. I think these things should be scored a new way: on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wasted brain cells. Whoever can tie up the most brain cells storing useless information wins.

    Of course, there's plenty more ways to waste brain cells, some of them right here on this board. (I'm thinking nerd trivia.) Those don't make the news.

    Oh well. Memorize on!

  23. Re:Closed network? on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    Not a problem. "You need routing to the outside for business purposes? Okay. Done. Keep your employees in line unless you want to lose your internet license."

  24. Closed network? on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    How long before they just give up and cut routing to the global network for public internet connections to make it easier to clamp down?

  25. Re:Insult! on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, a 10 year old can realize this, assuming they've not already been indoctrinated by then. When you were ten you hadn't been brainwashed by religion. If you had been you'd probably still be.