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  1. Re:What other horrible parts of life can be added? on In-Game Advertising Makes Games Better? · · Score: 1

    I spent crazy amounts of time in Ultima6 making butter for free, and Dupre was my butter carrier. Every time I sat down to rest, it was: You make camp...
    Avatar eats butter...
    Iolo eats butter...
    Shamino eats butter...
    Dupre eats butter...
    Sherry eats butter...
    Beh Lem eats butter...

    Most memorable portion of that game for me. If only adequate nutrition was part of the game. Maybe for a sailing game...

  2. Re:Next year Myth Buster get the nobel prize on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Totally thought you were going to say the Mythbusters were going to try to confirm myths surrounding the peace prize.

  3. Re:A little Chinese wisdom on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    There is a _lot_ of light and shadows just before sunrise. Atmospheres are funny things.

  4. Re:proletariat on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Affordable? So every young married couple without employer insurance is forced to pay a fine of $2000 per person per year versus $1500 if they were unmarried or versus $0 from the current situation? Remember that "Freedom" is paramount in the American mindset. Why can't I be free to not pay anything when I'm young and starting out? Properly invested, that $4000 a year can grow to pay all of the medical bills a couple will face in old age, and buy a sailing boat.

  5. Re:I think he may possibly deserver the prize on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Which is why as a sitting head of state he should rejects the honor.

  6. Re:Typical Bullshit on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see a good Linux/Unix distribution that offers centralized patch management in an easily administered manner to compare with WSUS.

    You've never run your own rpm/apt repo or RHEL Satellite server? Copy files from source repo; done.

    Kernel issues still require a reboot.

    Yes. In just about every OS including Windows. Not necessarily Linux though (although realistically, yes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice

  7. What happened Bioware? on Dragon Age: Origins To Get Paid DLC Expansion — On Launch Day · · Score: 1

    You used to be so cool.

  8. Re:It's "cyber-*" again. on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    I answered, that he then might not like my new "CyberCyber Virtu@l e-Cloud Turbo CoolClick iNetExplorer 2000 XFX GTX - Ultimate Social Web 2.0 Gold Edition"... or something like that. But strangely, the comment vanished from the face of the net. I searched Google, and even manually went trough all recent articles here containing "cyber". Especially "cybercyber". It's gone! How can that happen? Anyone care to explain, or find it, even if it's OT? Because this is really strange...

    Because Taco has plans for a new CyberCyber Virtu@l e-Cloud Turbo CoolClick iNetExplorer 2000 XFX GTX - Ultimate Social Web 2.0 Gold Edition Slashdot and he doesn't want there to be a record of any prior art.

  9. Re:How far does the liability go? on AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    Wasn't ICANN responsible for something?

  10. Re:OMG they did nothing on AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well if the Obamacare Act passes, and your neighbors don't buy health insurance..... oh never mind. That's too easy.

    Heh. The ad on the front page was for this. It was a skyscraper emblazoned with the words "IT'S A CRIME TO DENY OUR CARE" with a subtitle of "Call your senator now." I can imagine it with a subtitle of "Pay the fine, citizen!"

  11. Re:uber lolz on Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released · · Score: 1

    So paypal violates their own privacy policy by not using working encryption

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with Paypal's encryption. There is nothing wrong with the CA that paypal uses for their SSL cert. There is technically nothing wrong with the CA that allowed a null-prefixed SSL cert to be created, although they were stupid to do it. Microsoft needs to fix their ^$@&#.

  12. Re:What about the CA that issued it? on Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released · · Score: 1

    With CNs like www.paypal.com\0ssl.secureconnection.cc

    Shouldn't the CA who issued the certificate bear *some* of the blame here?

    So I can't have a .paypal.com\0ssl.secureconnection.cc subdomain of secureconnection.cc?

  13. Re:Awesome. on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Now how about my desktop?

    Might I suggest teak? I suppose you could go with faux finished MDF if you are on a budget, but teak is beautiful and will last forever. Then if you have any money left over, nothing says "I have arrived" like a porcelain fountain.

    But if he wants to put his computer on or near his desktop, I'd skip the fountain.

  14. Re:Dune on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "books"? There is only one Dune book!

    To be fair, there's the "Dune Cliff's Notes" and other books about the one Dune book. I hear someone made a fanfilm on youtube to see what a Dune movie would look like if it were ever to be made.

    That said, if anyone says the computer game "Dune 2" never exited, you're a loony.

  15. Re:Whoa.. stop! on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SF is about the tech, not the people.

    Technical documents are about current tech. Scientific American is about fictional future-tech. Science-Fiction is about the people living in a "Scientific American" world. If it's not about people, there's no _story_.

  16. Re:Welcome to denyhosts. on Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Too lazy to look it up; is the IP pool daemon still a closed source project?

  17. Re:The Genie is out of the bottle. on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    I thought "Do as I say, not as I do" was stupid when I was a child, and I still do as an adult.

    Why does a police officer tell a suspect to hold his hands high when the officer has a gun pointed at him? To make sure the suspect doesn't draw a gun (or that there's enough time for the officer to shoot before the suspect finishes his drawing-motion). It's "do as I say, not as I do", but notice that *intention* is the difference between the identical actions. Hostile countries spewing "We want to wipe [your friend] Israel off the map" are told to put their hands up, far away from nukes, and if they start drawing, shots will be fired.
    Now, about countries that already have nukes, including North Korea: If a suspect has his gun already in his hands, and has a hostage, or maybe is even alone but there's a really good chance that a police officer might be hurt, then it's time to play politics. Also let the suspect know that if he starts shooting, snipers will kill him fast.

  18. Poor Logic on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't get vaccinated for multiple strains that are more deadly because it makes you twice as likely to catch only one strain?

  19. Re:Good for Rio (good for Chicago) on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    The Olympics belong to the emerging economies, not the first world.

    That is why you fail. The Olympics has, since its ancient roots and its modern inception, been centered around "first world" nations.

  20. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That story sounds really fake. Why would the border patrol ever set up an "apparently unmanned checkpoint"? How many other people would have been passing through? And if it wasn't fake, then they've got the manpower to stage a block-truck and police, but not to sit someone in the checkpoint?

  21. Re:Recipe for disaster? on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    She should put tattoos on her neck and wrists explaining her condition.

  22. Re:Pigs will like this on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To a cop there are three kinds of people: Cops, cops' families, and suspects.

    To Infernal Affairs, there is one kind of person: suspects. This includes themselves!

  23. Re:Three Words on The Nickel & Dime Generation · · Score: 1

    Used cards bins, my friend. For a $10 limit, I built four awesome, custom decks.

  24. Re:Glory? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    When I hear IT I think of my corporate support staff. As far as I am concerned there has never been any glory in that thankless job.

    Fifteen years ago or so there was. Whenever a company got their first intranet or first internet connection, they gaped in awe at the IT guys. Of course, they were still social pariahs, but they were *cool* social pariahs that were performing magic.

  25. Re:Not really... on Apple Pushes Unwanted Software To PCs, Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's no reason to make it harder than it has to be, which is what Apple's doing by presenting users with an option they didn't ask for and don't know how to answer.

    It's almost as if Apple is trying to make Windows look hard to use...