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  1. Re:Annoying ads on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    If it moves, it goes on the list.

  2. Oldschool Monopoly ... on London Turned into Giant Board Game · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oldschool cardboard-and-paper Monopoly is boring as hell. This sounds much more fun, since you can just get out of the cab and go to the pub.

  3. Re:Been there, done that! on Forget GPS, Hello WPS · · Score: 1

    Apparently, your truck doesn't look like this guy's

  4. Re:Article is not particularly insightful, really on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    The problem is not, "you should have had three deadbolts," but rather "shouldn't your company have a vault?"

    If a company has my information or, more importantly, my money, they damn well better have the network equivalent of a vault. If they don't, then yes it is their fault when my information/money gets stolen.

  5. Re:Every man's dream.... on How to Build a Mainboard: ECS Production Tour · · Score: 1
    And they've got some test hardware that I'm jealous of

    huh-huh... huh... hardware...

  6. Re:and the reason... on Kazaa and Skype Co-founder Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Another reason for getting broadband is so that I can help Slashdot a site just a little bit faster.

  7. Re:The Grid Will Soon Take Care of It on O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures · · Score: 2

    On a larger scale, it spells an evolutionary move towards a decentralized global self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting nervous system. Since Autonomic Computing can look for patterns in data and extrapolate to predict future events, deployed on a global scale, the spin-offs would be very interesting...

    Then at 2:14 a.m. August 29th, Skynet will become self aware.

  8. Re:2.4 GHz on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get out of the house! The support guy is calling from your bedroom!

  9. Re:huh? on Meaningful MD5 Collisions · · Score: 1

    obviously your "enourmous todger" is fake. It's easy to hide something tiny with something enourmous.

  10. Perfect /. fortune on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    I just got to the bottom of the page and read the perfect fortune: If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way.

  11. Kinda... on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1
    http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/images/manual/THON G---Inside-3_f.jpg (probably not safe for work)

    Almost nudity. But the guy on the right really creeps me out.

  12. Re:Older versions? on Drafting GPL3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most GPLd software has the phrase "or, at your option, any later version". However, some state explicitly that only a specific version applies. For example, WARNING: hping2 is covered *ONLY* by GPL version 2, and *NOT* any others.

    So it's really up to the author.

  13. Re:When will we see.. on Simpsons Film in Preproduction · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for The Simpsons: The Flamethrower!

  14. So this is how... on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So this is how Liberty dies--to thunderous applause.

  15. Re:Smart? Yes. A Nut? Perhaps. How about both? on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 1
    From http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/usmck1 102vaind.pdf(pdf)
    The defendant then obtained administrator privileges and transmitted codes, information and commands that: (1) deleted approximately 1300 user accounts; (2) installed RemotelyAnywhere; (3) deleted critical system files necessary for the operation of the computer; (4) copied a file containing usernames and encrypted passwords for the computer; and (5) installed tools used for obtaining unauthorized access to computers.
    This guy is not all that smart. The first thing a real hacker does is attempt to hide her presence, not broadcast it by deleting crap. He's a script kiddie that got lucky.
  16. Re:Google is a fine company, but not worth $80B+ on Google Takes Top Spot From Time Warner · · Score: 2, Insightful
    selling off the assests of Daimler, Ford, and GM (dozens of huge factories, countless acres of land, ships, airplanes, etc.) would produce larger revenues than selling off those of Google (dozens of thousands of old PCs).

    But those dozens of thousounds of old PCs happen to be running the best search engine in the history of the Internet.

  17. Re:The cult of UNIX strikes again on Linux Growth In The Workplace Slowing · · Score: 1

    make Linux easier to use,(that means NO CLI)

    I'm a student at a fairly small university. Our computer center has a hundred or so machines running Fedora and KDE that by default never requires touching the keyboard except to login. For things like checking your email and surfing -- the stuff Grandma and Joe Sixpack want to do -- there effectively is no CLI.

  18. Re:Why not? on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Any changes to the laws to support 100 years or more are unconstitutional and would be struck down.

    Unconstitutional? Nope.

    From the Constitution (linked above): To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

    One hundred years is "limited Times". It may be absurd, but as I understand it (though IANAL), it's not unconstitutional. Congress has passed a number of unconstitutional laws in the few years that I've been paying attention that the Supreme Court has ignored. Why would they care about this? Going further back, Congress has probably passed thousands of unconstitutional laws. Just about everything FDR did was unconstitutional. Welfare, WPA, CCC. None of those powers are "delegated to the United States by the Constitution" [1].

    Congress and the President have been usurping powers little by little for 200 years.

    If Washington and Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton could come back, the first thing they'd notice would be that the federal government now routinely assumes thousands of powers never assigned to it -- powers never granted, never delegated, never enumerated.
    http://www.sobran.com/tyranny.shtml
    [1]http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution /amendment10/