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  1. Re:We're doomed. on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard Al Gore uses emacs and Rush Limbaugh uses vi.

  2. Re:Brilliant! on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    There really are people still using OpenSewer. They just wish that they weren't.

  3. Re:Alternative solution for a trusted LAN on Multi-Threaded SSH/SCP · · Score: 1

    That's protocol v. 1. Protocol version 2, which we should all be using, will try aes128-cbc first off, and that should be one of the fastest ciphers available.
    $ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep Pro
    Protocol 2

  4. Re:correction ;) on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    I know - I'm just jealous of the laptop keyboards that light up in the dark. (And as a security guy I love Mac users because they never cause incidents.)

  5. Re:correction ;) on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    "... I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine."
    He got a Mac?

  6. Re:correction ;) on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    I love jokes. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

    (sincere apologies to Douglas Adams)

  7. Re:In even more other news... on The Grammy In Mathematics · · Score: 1

    1. Compress dynamic range to nothing.
    2. Add 3dB
    3. Profit!!!

    Obviously the adverts on commercial radio get +6dB. Bah! Did Amy Winehouse really pick up 4 awards, or was that just a nightmare?

  8. Re:Traveling while Muslim or Middle Eastern on Examining the Search and Seizure of Electronics at Airports · · Score: 4, Informative

    UK international development minister Shahid Malik, was detained on the way back from a series of meetings in Washington on combatting terrorism. You really couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7066944.stm )

  9. Re:If it weren't for corruption and ignorance on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 1

    As a lefty, tree-hugging environmentalist, I agree. Nuclear power is the way to go, because dealing with radioactive waste in 200 years time beats being underwater in 200 years time. On the other hand, the fact that I bike to work and we only have a small diesel car between two of us is also helping. Nuclear power helps, but it's not the only answer either.

  10. Re:New Code? on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 1

    Windows is only cheaper if your sanity is worthless.

  11. Vista is spectacularly and gloriously... on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 1

    adequate.

  12. Re:Kids these days on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    I was coding for an ARM5 variant last year - only in C/C++. Though what I really want is an ARM-based laptop.

  13. Re:Kids these days on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    Spot on. But I was just doing embedded dev on an ARM5 core last year, so not entirely wasted effort.

  14. Re:Kids these days on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    Of course I've picked up an x86 manual - why do you think I was programming ARM? :p

  15. Re:Kids these days on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    ARM2 cores started at 8MHz, back in '87. No on-chip cache - that was the 24MHz ARM3.

  16. Doesn't sound very convicing... on Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why should I listen to such a bunch of no-names? I'm waiting to see what John Dvorak says.

  17. Kids these days on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 3, Funny

    In my day I had to hand-code demos in ARM assembler. On a 8MHz CPU. Without a floating-point unit, uphill, with no graphics card, both ways in the snow. We were so poor we had to unroll our own loops, write self-modifying code to build our own sprite-plot routines, and only use small SoundTracker modules. You tell that to kids these days, they won't believe you.

    PS. This is actually true, apart from the snow and the uphill both ways bit. Also, TFA is 403.

  18. Re:RTFA on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're right. It would be much better to create a law "being in a charge of a high-tech gadget while stupid", punishable by up to 3 years in jail.

  19. Re:True stateless war on Cyberwarfare in International Law · · Score: 1

    Who do we attack when the attacker is a botnet consisting of a bunch of infected PCs on some UK cablemodem network?

    Nuke LINX?

  20. Re:doubtful on E.U. Regulator Says IP Addresses Are Personal Data · · Score: 1

    That's why I read all my mail with 'less /var/spool/mail/...'

  21. Oranges are better than apples because... on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    [fill in attempt to compare fundamentally different things here]

    (When Vista comes on 14 CDs, then you can think about comparing it with the number of bugs in Debian.)

  22. That META tag is... on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 4, Funny
  23. here's a patch: on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    :0 * ^X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook /dev/null

  24. Me too!! on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    Bah! cheers, Mad - curmudgeonly netizen since 1995

  25. Re:What a "BS" degree really is on Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    Carnal maps: for those who can't find someone else's arse with both hands.