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  1. Re:Excluding "list" pages on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Well, I'd try lazy evaluation first.

    But if that doesn't cut it, swap out the date pages and set the TLB & page table to FINO-mode, and overwrite the offending addresses with a mystic river of pseudorandom bullshit.

    Don't worry about getting caught up in the cut... (plus, it's not really a violation of criminal law); out of all the wikadmins I've encountered, there are a few good men, but most of them are just power-hungry wild things, yammering on about "he said", "she said," there's no chance they'll see these enormous changes at the last minute, especially if you get it done with quicksilver-like-speed while "Jimbo" is at the diner treating loverboy Mr. Roberts to a picture-perfect BLT (forty-deuce plus tax & tip).

    Really though, even if it was Friday the 13th you fell in the hole my dog Skip is digging to China and busted your footloose so bad that you had to snort crazy amounts of Novocaine, I'm talking like rails & ties of Novocaine, (let's just say, your Space Cadet "New York Skyride" would make the Apollo 13 crew look like some kinda cavedweller newbs). At that point, some Americans might say "Well, 'end of the line' for $random_var," but they'd be telling lies in America! I'm sure you could pull it off, and while we briefly marveled at the handiwork of our $random_hero-at-large, "Jimbo" Wales would be bouncing around... Not in a good way, like some kinda white-water summer on the river wild; more like a hollow man inflated with hydrogen triflubberide, who finally falls out of the air up there and goes berserk, committing murder in the first by turning his wife (while she's having a baby) and their partially-born child into flatliners in what the press will dub "The Demon Murder" case. Ah well enough speculation on the gift your project will become, I gotta *yawn* get some sleep... err... zzz....

  2. Re:Can't put that genie back into the bottle on US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    In my experience, BT is best for material that's mainstream and/or recent, and rules for speed. If I can't find a torrent because the material is of interest to few and/or "old", eDonkey/Kad are still the way to go. Yes, it might take up to a week to download such-and-such foreign/underground album/movie, but when I can't find another source to download or even buy said material, it definitely beats doing without.

  3. Re:Pidgin + OTR for *TOP SECRET* stuff [BUSTED!] on US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale · · Score: 1

    Plaintext attack: "Adium." Better assign him a one-time pad of pseudonyms.

  4. Re:Nope, sorry. on Microsoft To Pay People To Search · · Score: 1

    I switched when MS bought Hotmail.

    MS's infinite wisdom compelled them to change the login form with a newer, better, faster, shorter password text box that truncated my 32-char CS-PRNG alphanumeric password, to something more reasonably brute-forced with a Ti-83 . Embrace (web-based email), Extend (Hotmail login failures), Extinguish (my account).

    I still occasionally encounter similar website registration hi-jinx, though via bait & switch rather than MS's EEE; registration succeeds with a password of comforting length, then come login time, "Ha ha, guess what, asshole? Say bye-bye to your selected username!"

  5. Re:Why should it even crash.. on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    I had assumed electromigration was the long-term lifespan factor the GP was referring to. Are there any other non-recoverable hardware failure modes for ICs besides electromigration and environmental effects (corrosion, creep, thermal/physical stress)?

  6. Re:Mythbusters on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    Well, they'd try to kill dead pigs, the closest analog to live Christians.

  7. Re:Glorified Cattle Prod on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    This is easy to fix.

    If a copper sincerely believes that inflicting 50kV of oppression upon some person will improve the situation, he should have no qualms about sharing in a reasonable fraction of that trauma in order to get his way without getting blood-matted hair all over his boots.

    Simply outfit the Taser with another pair of electrodes that must form a circuit with the copper in order to enable its operation, and justification and quality judgment will become first nature.

  8. Re:WHAT!?! on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    I applaud your solution, and another twist to enhance your naming convention.

    "JoeBidden_[summary of female's stunts]_SeriesVol.[number].avi"

    thus: "JoeBidden_Ass2Mouth.Swordfight.&.Vomits.their.Spew_SeriesVol.[long integer].avi"

    Well, boys. LET'S ROLL! This shit ain't gonna seed itself.

  9. Re:Shitty web design is not a "blind" problem on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 1

    "- I don't need links to 'print this page'..." Well perhaps not, provided these cowards comply with your brass-balls demand for a readable page.

    .."or 'email it to a friend'." I think you may have misunderstood the intended purpose of of that link, as the name is meant to be tounge-in-cheek. Most sites that offer it are merely proving a convenient means for removing "friends" from your real-life Buddy List. In case you're looking for it, the link actually intended for your friends is displayed in the address bar after you click "print this page."
  10. Re:Maybe hate is the problem then? on Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too) · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  11. Re:Power vs. operational on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Hard disks are arguably the components most sensitive to thermal-shock induced failure, and spinning them back up produces the greatest load on the PSU, possibly affecting the life of the PSU itself. If the machine is running in a low-power state and scheduled to run maintenance tasks during this period, the disks can be expected to suffer through multiple power cycles daily as the scheduled tasks are executed. One more consideration is the environmental impact caused by disposal and replacement of failed disks that could have otherwise remained in service longer, albeit in a continuously spinning state.

  12. Sensible sort orders, sane celebrations on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 1

    Those of us who prefer numerical dates to sort in chronological order already celebrated these chips in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Plus, we attended two-day festivals, ALU Day and FPU Day. You M/D/Y yokels have to wait another year for all three FPU Days? Crazy I say, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

  13. Re:smoking kills everyone on NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police · · Score: 1


    Golly, I'm sure you're welcome.
    Bonus!: Since the statewide driving ban was also killed, you have the freedom to pollute and cause involuntary health problems for others!

  14. Re:Is it on Google Bundles Toolbar With Adobe Apps · · Score: 1

    A voting mechanisim could mitigate artificially-boosted rankings.

  15. Re:What I want to know... on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: 1

    In FEMA's eyes, Jupiter is just as important as New Orleans.

  16. Re:Let the market decide on Fraud in Internet Dating Prompting Regulation · · Score: 1

    In this free market, wouldn't Yahoo and Match both advertise their 99.9% scammer filtering rates?

  17. To boot? on DVD Burner Comparison · · Score: 3, Funny


    "Starting at about $43US, some of them are [...] pretty good deals, to boot."

    I can't speak for other users, but I don't boot from CD enough for booting performance to factor in at all when selecting optical drives. This guy has gotta be some die-hard Windows Me enthusiast.

  18. Re:I predicted dual video cards was a fad on 'SLI On A Stick' Reviewed · · Score: 1


    Intel Xeons are headed in a similar direction. According to the roadmap described in Wikipedia's Xeon article, by the end of the year you can have eight cores on a dual motherboard. Eight cores in two CPUs, and eight cores in four GPUs, and you probably could run Minesweeper and Solitaire tiled in Aero.

  19. Re:I have one already... on Movie Burning Kiosks Coming To Retailers · · Score: 1

    "I will pirate it if I can, stick it to The Man!"

    Hey, that's my new sig!

  20. Re:I'm not completely worried... on Home Chemistry An Endangered Hobby in U.S. · · Score: 1


    "I mean, who here hasn't ... tried to make some homemade napalm from some rumor-recipe that didn't work?"

    Polystyrene dissolved into gasoline ("Napalm-B") is a legitimate recipe. The reason it "doesn't work" is due to the expense and logistics in acquiring hundreds of gallons of gasoline, hundreds of cubic feet of polystyrene, and an aircraft to dump it from.

  21. Re:Upgrade Advisor itself requires... on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 1


    Upgrade Advisor did advise you... Stick with Windows 2000.

  22. Re:-2 Flamebait the article on Sony Fakes Blu-Ray Demo? · · Score: 1


    What is this, how you say... "credibility of /."?

  23. Expectations on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 5, Funny


    From TFA:

    OnTech's launch campaign for the self-heating product is "It Does What?"

    "It takes time to educate the world to what [self-heating] is about," Weisz said.


    It takes time, no doubt in part because the answer is, "it explodes."

  24. Overheard in the War Room... on Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard · · Score: 3, Funny


    "Mr. President! We must not allow a privacy-shaft gap!"

  25. Re:Side-by-Side Comparison on Google's China Problem · · Score: 1


    On the other hand, searching for images of "tank man" bears good results from both sites. Not necessarily surprising; it demonstrates the futility of selectively censoring content.