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  1. s/Linus Torvalds/The deRaat/g for the perfect April Fools story?

  2. Matrix? on Celebrating The 19th Anniversary of Nmap (phrack.org) · · Score: 1

    What, no mention of it's use by Trinity in Matrix 2?

  3. Corydoras == scum sucking bottom dweller? on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Corydoras == cory cat catfish == scum sucking bottom dweller patent troll.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydoras

  4. Massachusetts used to have a green series of license plates a couple of decades ago that consisted of solely a rear plate. They are no longer issued, having been replaced by the red plates that have front and back plates. The green plates are held on to by those that still have them, for various reasons such as not destroying the looks or aerodynamics at the front of the car.

        There have been several stories alleging that the RMV has "informally" informed the inspectors at the state inspection stations to begin failing cars with the green rear-only plates to force them to "update" to the red front and back plates. Usually they claim it is for lack of readability. Given the age of the plates, sometimes they are hard to read, but often they are quite readable, but are failed anyway.

  5. Martin? on Hitchhiking Robot's Cross-Country Trip Ends In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    Martin? Is that you? What are you doing in that timeline? Hurry up an get back on the Heart of Gold before Earth gets blown up to make way for the hyperspatial express route. Gosh, you'll probably go on and on about how you were mistreated for years....

    -Zaphod

  6. Speed of light? on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 1

    Cue the speed of light jokes....

  7. Decisions.... on It's Time To Open Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    I'll take the RED pill.

    No, BLUE!!!!

    arrrgghh!

  8. Re:Kernel Panic!!! on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    Now that I've dusted off my memory, I believe this was actually from a pascal compiler.

    -john

  9. Re:The error no one wishes to hear. on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there one that basically went:

    "Error: printer is on fire"

    ???

    -john

  10. Re:Kernel Panic!!! on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that the C compiler for the old Commodore PETs (can't remember the compiler's name) was fond of issuing:

    "Missing semi-colon near or before end of file"

    Really narrows down the search space...

    -john

  11. Re:3, 2, 1 on Subversion 1.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Let's be Rational about this.

  12. Re:Busted on Illustrated Guide To Home Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Or you can buy the 300 day supply at costco for around $11....

  13. Re:Just use Identity... on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1
    The problem with identity is that it's easily reversible: not a good quality for a hashing function.

    Yes, I know the OP was a joke.

  14. Re:The Matter of Privacy on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    I guess it was just easier to say than "The Bill of Restrictions on the Government".

    The BORG act?

    Somehow seems appropriate

  15. Re:CSV == Comma Separated Value on Google Launches Online Spreadsheet System · · Score: 1

    Is this the world's first Comma Separated Haiku?

  16. Re:What about DNS lookups? on SSH Tunnels How-to? · · Score: 1

    From the little bit of poking around that I have done - NO!
    all the http traffic is sent through the proxy, but DNS requests aren't.

    One solution is to use pppd over ssh to do a "poor-man's VPN", then
    set your resolve.conf to use a DNS server over the "VPN" rather than
    the local one.

    This seems indirect, and there may be a better way, but it works.

  17. Re:TiVo could simply change their software a bit.. on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1
    Yeah, that's bugged me for a while too.

    What I ended up doing is having:
    1) a season pass for CSI,
    2) then a lower priority repeating manual recording from 9-10 for ER,
    3)then a lower prioty season pass for ER in case they decide to run in a different time slot some week

    seems to work pretty well.

  18. Re:Changes? on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    >He acknowleges it was done and suggests doing it >MORE (eg, taking Throne of Blood as the Ep3 model)

    Why don't we just cut out the middle man and call it Ep3: MacBeth in Space.

    Sure. Ep IV was a re-interpretation of hidden fortress, but many of Kurosawa's movies were re-interpretation of Shakespeare (e.q. King Lear -> Ran)

  19. Re:Revelations 13:16 - 18 on A Number For Everything · · Score: 1

    Hey, what about 668, the neighbor of the beast?

  20. Re:Hidden Fortress on A Host Of Star Wars Bits · · Score: 1

    The Kurosawa film you're thinking of is Yojimbo. The Eastwood film is 'a Fistful of Dollars'. It was also done by Bruce Willis as 'Last Man Standing'.

  21. Re:Only supports Windows clients, though. :( on Another Distributed Computing Effort: CSC · · Score: 1
    Check out: http://nodezero.distributed.net/beta/

    it lists Linux glib2, FreeBSD, and solris clients.