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  1. Re:The same Empire...? on Old Games that are Still Alive and Kickin'? · · Score: 2

    Yes, the one and only. I think the first incarnation of that game was written in FORTRAN or something.

  2. Re:Ferrari is the only company. . . on Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes · · Score: 2

    You cannot copyright a shade of a color. You cannot trademark a shade of a color. You don't know what you are talking about.

    The color of red that Ferrari uses in their paint at the most is enforceable with a set of legal agreements with their suppliers. If you want to supply paint to Ferrari and their dealers/shops, you've got to agree not to sell that same color to anyone else.

    It has the same force as any other contract. If the supplier thinks that they can sell a lot of paint to other people, enough to pay for the legal costs of breaking the Ferrari contract and losing their business, then they will do that.

  3. Re:You can all recognize me, I've got SPAM! on Exodus Files For Chapter 11 Protection · · Score: 2

    That address forwards to my other addresses.

    If I start getting too much spam on that address, I will just point it at uce@ftc.gov and go get another one.

    So, I don't really give a rats ass if the spammers get that address.

    Bet you didn't think of that, you retard.

  4. Hey, how about this option? on U.S. Treasury Freezes InfoCom Accounts · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead of just chalking this up to a case of overzealous and underpaid federal gestapo goose-stepping all over the rights of the peeps, why not just say that you don't know what's going on?

    The monies seized were $70K, and one of the investors was the wife of a terrorist. Husbands and wives share money. If my Canadian wife fails to pay her credit card bill, those credit card companies can come after me to collect. This is no different. The wife of a terrorist invests money, so they seize the money. Because they are married, it's the same as if he invested it himself.

  5. You can all recognize me on Exodus Files For Chapter 11 Protection · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll be the one dancing, cheering, and urinating on the grave of Exodus. Those cocksuckers there filled my e-mail box with so much spam that my only reaction to this story about their misfortune is great happiness.

    So to Exodus, those mega-whoring spam bitches, I say GOOD BY AND GOOD RIDDANCE.

    Yes, I know this is flamebait, but it feels real good.

  6. Re:What have we learned so far? on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if we're both right??? His hand on a big hardon? I've got to check my TiVo again...

  7. /. reference? on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could be. I know definitely I heard a lot of people trying to get "first contact".

  8. Where is sex.info? on Dot.info is Live · · Score: 2

    I figured that would be the very first one. But it's not there yet.

  9. Re:What have we learned so far? on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 2

    If you look closer, you'll see that's the profile of his hand. My wife and I started laughing when we both saw what looked like a big old hardon when the dude was getting his back washed by the Vulcan.

  10. Empire on Old Games that are Still Alive and Kickin'? · · Score: 2

    I still play empire. I think that is from 1978 or even earlier. There's a Linux version now.

  11. Re:Glad I'm not a gamer or running Windows on Motherboards with i845 Chipsets · · Score: 2

    1) I've tried overclocking. Random lockups at any speed over 75 MHz. Too bad. It's an IWill BX motherboard, and I've got the PC-100 RAM.

    2) The laptop is a thinkpad with 320 megs of RAM. Once the compiler is loaded into the cache, my hard drive light barely flicks. It's also a top of the line Thinkpad, so it's NOT a slouch in that department anyway.

  12. Re:Tools are never evil on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 2

    Good and evil are not relative. Moral relativism is a weak and wrong idea

    You're right. The idea that morals are absolute is without question the most evil idea that I ever heard of.

    You think you're right? Prove it. Give me f (x) such that for any given X, f(X) resolves to a 1 (good) or 0 (evil).

    Can't do it? Might I suggest that you ask Jesus to make you tolerant when you grow up? Night night.

  13. Re:Terrible Sense of Levity on Mapping Ground Zero with Lasers · · Score: 2

    You know, normally I'd disagree with you. When the shuttle blew up I was getting a real kick out of all of the jokes that were circulating almost immediately. (What color were Crista McAuliffe's eyes? Blue. One blew this way, and one blew that way.)

    But this one is different. I haven't heard a *single* joke about this one. I don't believe in respect for the dead. They are dead, so what do they care about jokes? Respect is for the living. 7 people and their families were affected by the space shuttle accident, a relatively small thing. In this case, our whole nation is depressed about it. Somehow I sort of doubt that we're going to see many jokes once that depression lifts. It really is just too awful to joke about.

  14. Glad I'm not a gamer or running Windows on Motherboards with i845 Chipsets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got Linux on my Celery 300 (overclocked to 333 - couldn't get it any higher without cooling and it's more hassle than it's worth). With 320 megs of ram and a lot of disk space, I can't imagine what I'd do with a bigger computer. I also have a Thinkpad laptop with an 800 MHZ Pent III and as far as system usability goes, I cannot tell the difference at all. X is fast, compiles are very fast on both systems.

    So, I will just sit back and laugh while I use my trusty Celery 300 for the next 5 years or so. Maybe then I'll pick up a real cheap antique Athlon or something to replace it.

  15. Re:Maybe it's just me, but on Robots Go To War · · Score: 2

    I really don't believe he only travels by camel as the pictures would suggest

    Oh you are mistaken. He doesn't ride the camel. It's his wife, you see.

  16. Re:Not the only target on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 2

    Dude, you write too much. OK, OK, something constructive here...

    Obviously if you take what I said too far (please disregard the fact that I was using argumentum ad absurdum which is a logical fallacy in itself) (yes, that's a joke) my logical fallacy breaks down. Into what, I have no idea.

    The whole basis of my fallacious argument rests somewhat unsoundly on the fact that the Wrights had the intent of doing good with their plane, just as Zimmerman had the intent of doing good with his codes.

    I can't prove that though, so my fallacy might also be a non-sequitur.
    But most of all, my fallacy was just a simple mockery, not an actual argument. I apologise for making the mockery look like an actual argument, in fact, making a mockery of my mockery.

    Good day sir.

  17. Re:Not the only target on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 2

    Blame the friggin' Wright brothers.

    No, blame dinosaurs for allowing their rotting corpses to turn into jet fuel. The scaley bastards!

  18. Re:National Infrastructure Protection Center warni on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 2

    All threats, or just viruses that contain a threat? I would hate to think that saying something against the government would be considered an act of war.

  19. Re:Remember on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 2

    OK. I was waiting for someone to ask for it. I forgot that the versions that talk about drinking your own urine also talk about eating your own shit.

    From the KJV version:

    References to drinking urine and eating shit:

    2 Kings 18:27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you.

    Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

    The promise that god will rub shit in our faces unless we comply to his will:

    Malachi 2:2-3 [2] If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
    [3] Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

    Guess you've never read your Bible, huh?

  20. Re:What's the difference? on Do Modern PCs Need Swap Space? · · Score: 2

    Sure, I agree with that. But the article is about the cheap prices of RAM, and why not just do away with swap. On my machine I've got 320MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap. I never run out of memory. If I put a gig of RAM on my box, then I shouldn't need swap, because that's more capacity than I currently have.

  21. Re:Remember on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 2

    The Bible that I read had two references to drinking your own urine, and also says that god will rub shit in our faces unless we do what he says.

    No, I'm not making this up.

    So much for the Bible.

  22. What's the difference? on Do Modern PCs Need Swap Space? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Numerous people here have suggested that you need swap to prevent the problem of running out of memory.

    Now, for the sake of argument, let's pretend we have two machines, identical in every way, except that one machine has 320 MB of physical RAM and no swap, and the other machine has 64 MB of RAM and 256MB of swap.

    Are people suggesting that the machine with 64 MB RAM and 256 MB of swap can handle more than the other machine? If not, then why should there be any need to mess with swap if you've got a gig of RAM to play with?

  23. Re:My essay on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 2

    Western thinking does not allow us to understand any military organization other than a hierarchical chain of command.

    Bullshit. I can understand it just fine. You comment reminds me of two other things:

    1) The idea that programming in BASIC damamges you for life and

    2) The idea that if you take words out of the dictionary, you can't conceive of the idea represented by the word. (1984)

    I repeat. Bin Laden has an organization. It is the set of people who are willing to perform terrorist acts because of his leadership, existence, or influence. That set has a life of it's own too, so after Bin Laden is dead, you can still associate terrorists with a particular set of terrorists. We are all aware that this is not heirarchal, but has a network topology.

    We can all understand the structure of the internet, so why can't Westerners imagine the structure of Bin Laden's organization? Hell, I think that we INVENTED that structure.

  24. Re:My essay on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 2

    I was born on December 6th, 1968, just three hours before NBC aired the episode of Star Trek called "The Empath" for the first time. That should clear things up for you.

  25. Re:Middle East Wire -- Interesting on A Tale of Two Media:Tragedy and Images · · Score: 2

    Oops, my wife's name is Alexandra, and the library was in Alexandria.