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  1. Re:Boss got this yesterday on Fake Subpoenas Sent To CEOs For Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    I got a spam email the other day that actually had no spelling errors in it. I didn't check the grammar, because it was TL;DR, but it looked ok.

    Click if you want to have a read.

  2. Re:Poetic justice on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course the bike won... Not only that, but the car lost by a significant margin. Having Captain Slow driving it probably didn't help though.
  3. Re:IT IS NOT A THEORY!!! on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    And besides, String Hypothesis doesn't sound nearly as cool.

  4. Re:Do your part, don't use Google on Jaiku Bought By Google, Some Fear Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    And in the case of Wikipedia, writable (666)

  5. Closer than we thought... on Orion Nebula Gets New Milepost Marker, Now Closer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Measured incorrectly, or has the Orion Nebula just been sneaking closing over the last 25 years?

  6. Re:Blimey! on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great... You have no power over me*fnzownt*eeeeeyaarr!

  7. Re:Customers. on Microsoft Sued by a Beijing Student Over 'Privacy Violation' · · Score: 1

    Ob Joke Reference - "They're made out of meat"

    http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html

  8. Re:Tracing Of Users? on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Cue calls of "It's a dirty job..." for the poor guys/gals who have to serve and execute those warrants.

  9. Re:Pwned by muscle memory on A Flawed US Election Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    Oh good, I'm not the only one that does that.

  10. Re:Artificial blood for my cat on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your cat has been in training and is out looking for that damn raccoon to exact vengeance.

  11. Re:I Win! on Schneier On the US Crypto Competition · · Score: 2

    Nooo... 4 8 15 16 23 42

  12. Re:Chosen? on The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, no, pipes, the internet is made out of pipes.

  13. Re:Come on people, give the moon a break... on Moon's Bulge Explained · · Score: 1

    So that must mean she's "retaining water" (instead of beer).

  14. Re:Oh great on Kiefer Sutherland Headlines Dragonlance Movie · · Score: 1

    http://www.larryelmore.com/images/art/color/lg_co_ 150.jpg

    Tanis Half-Elven, Goldmoon and Sturm Brightblade.

  15. A warning for those wanting to install it on IBM Sets DB2 Database Free (Beer) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You need GLIBC 2.2 to use it. If you are using GLIBC 2.3 (as I am), then you're out of luck.

    DB2.EXP
          IBM_db2cliv81...
    error: Failed dependencies:
                    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by IBM_db2cliv81-8.1.2-97 /bin/sh is needed by IBM_db2cliv81-8.1.2-97
    The installation logfile can be found in /tmp/db2_install_log.15124.

    db2_install program terminated prematurely.

  16. Re:Flashback on Classic Game Endings Online · · Score: 1

    Flashback was one of the first games I completed fully (most other games I get bored with long before the end). I didn't really pay much attention to the music, but overall the game was awesome.

    I'd be cool if someone could do a remake of it for newer generation computers.

    I haven't played Another World personally, but a friend showed me the ending, and I have to say it just blew me away. I mean, that's not how it's supposed to end, is it? :)

  17. Re:block all traffic from Bell South subnets on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 1

    Or BellSouth can block all traffic to Google... and try to avoid getting lynched by their customers.

  18. Re:Pimsleurs on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    http://www.simonsays.com/content/index.cfm?sid=128
    (redirected from http://www.pimsleur.com)

  19. Re:Mile High Club? on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    Cyber Mile High Club

    Person A: So, where are you at the moment?
    Person B: Flying Luftansa, seat 3B
    Person A: Really?! I'm in seat 10D! Wave your hand!
    Person B: ...

  20. Re:And the compile contest? on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    I've tried to use Dropline on a few occasions as well, but the big thing that annoyed me was the mime type to application mapping got thrown out the window (meaning that opening a jpeg in Firefox wouldn't choose Eog or The Gimp to display it by default)

    There's probably an easy fix to that, but I couldn't find it

  21. Re:Offline games require online reporting = BOGUS on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 1

    Dave Taylor, co-founder (or founder) of crackdotcom, used to work for id software. Bit of a flimsy connection, but it's there :)

  22. Speaking of faces doing things... on 3D Biometric Facial Recognition Comes To UK · · Score: 1

    according to a police officer who talked to BBC News for 'How your face could open doors.'

    If you happen to be a Helen Of Troy look-a-like, could you use this tech to launch a thousand ships? (or open a thousand doors?)

  23. Re:To head it off at the pass... on GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Informative
    I just wanted to point out that the lack of support for PNG Transparency in Internet Explorer is NOT a bug - according to the spec, it's optional...
    Viewers can support transparency control partially, or not at all.
    (Note: I'm not pro-Windows, I use Slackware on a daily basis, but I'm just tired of people claiming the above as a bug)
  24. Re:one of two methods... on TransGaming Tagging Downloads to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    Alien is the util you're looking for, though I'm sure it's not from Slackware itself.

    Slackware does come with rpm2targz and rpm2tgz, but (obviously) neither can handle .deb files.

  25. What would I do with that much bandwidth? on Ethernet at 10 Gbps · · Score: 1

    Depending on the cost (and advertising capability), I'd think about running a Slashdot Cache...

    Somewhere that you could prefetch a web site before an article gets posted so you could take some or all of the brunt of the Slashdot Effect (tm).

    Or perhaps hook it into the Akamai network to distribute the load even further. Give each site a 24 hour TTL, should be enough for most topics.