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  1. Re:S.E.T.I on Is SETI Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Our planet has been observing your puny species since your planet was created 5000 years ago... by God.

  2. Re:What? on FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies · · Score: 1

    So my love of Lebanese food will make me a marked man?
    I am impressed, sir. It's usually pretty hard for a male to get to eat Lesbian.
  3. Re:How long on Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1, Includes Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Unlikely unless they're playing solitaire since the graphics hardware the Windows VM will see is not the real system hardware, and thus none of their apps will be accelerated.

  4. Fedora ISOs via FTP on Fedora 8 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a fast FTP connection w/o having to look for a mirror, try ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/ Torrents are nice and all, but they're not for everyone...

  5. Re:Where are the authoritative SHA1 values? on Fedora 8 Released · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Next set of tests on Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance · · Score: 1

    Simple:
    round 1 emacs
    round 2 vi
    round 3 (pico or binary editor) binary editor

  7. Re:hey, screw you guys! on Top Inventions of 2007 · · Score: 1

    The archaeologists willen not being confused at all. They willen having correctly identified his bones as those of a time traveler, along with the mammoth.

  8. Re:Wow on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 1

    But you had your data to sort through. Without a backup GP lost data. There should be a blatant warning that files are going to be removed from the filesystem during a simple move operation.

  9. Re:Xenu on Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? · · Score: 1

    Did dinosaurs fly B-52 shaped spaceships?

  10. Re:And we trust the FTC since? on FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority · · Score: 1

    "Essentially, the FTC wants the ability to impose fines that are not directly tied to consumer loss or company profit."
    Actually, this would help to dry up several "IT" positions (a la geek-squad). Also, I know companies are less profitable because of spyware a place I worked at had at least 60 machines reimaged a month because of spyware alone, and that's not counting the machines that were left on the floor after a "successful" cleaning with adaware or spybot.
  11. Re:OpenDocument Foundation? on OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF · · Score: 1

    You could have a format which is a limited version of the other, which supports some data, and have your application ignore the extra stuff in a file created in the larger format as garbage.

  12. Repackaged Satellite on FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments · · Score: 1

    My apartment complex has been selling me cable that is really repackaged satellite. We often get Satellite commercials saying "change to channel FOO to get pay per view BAR". Sometimes late at night, the channels start ghostly surfing through the satellite menu system, reorganizing channels, and it's definitely not a computer program doing it; too human. I'm hoping that it accidentally leaves on some of the better channels (I don't get SCI-FI). I've been getting Internet service from the same folks, and if they didn't block VPN ports et al, it would be nice internet.

  13. Re:Retail theft, and not the kind you're thinking on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Forget the Attorney General. Contact your local District Attorney. The Manager committed robbery, possibly [guessing at this point] coerced via store security. The customer returned the item. Best Buy accepted it. The customer purchased a new hard drive, and the Best Buy Manager _Stole_ the harddrive, then cursed at the customer. I'd love to be there when this Manager is escorted out in handcuffs.
    IANAL, but if Best Buy fully supports this Manager's theft of private property, does that make the corporation criminally liable?

  14. No handheld supercomputers on Handheld Supercomputers in 10-15 Years? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We won't have handheld supercomputers ever. If you have a handheld supercomputer, you can have a cluster of them, or better yet, a desktop sized computer so you're not wasting space with screens, batteries, and casings. Until the input/output problem for tiny devices is solved, handhelds will be PDAs and game devices (maybe doing neat things that today's desktops do, but very few will use them to try to crack the latest encryption algorithm).

  15. Re:Fair Use? more like Fair Unuse! on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    Documenting history is news reporting. Just because she doesn't work for big media doesn't mean she can't document history, even while the worst music in the world by the worst "artist" is playing in the background.

  16. Re:But ... on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    By all means please tell me how copying Prince's music into her home video is "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" (17 USC 107).
    Bad Assumptions cause bad results even when reasoning is sound. She did not copy the music into her home video as an extra layer. It's playing in the background. She was documenting history, not creating art. Documenting history falls under news reporting, or research easily. As well, she was asking her child what he thought of the music, and received an (assumed) favorable response via dancing, thus the music was being critqued, ergo criticism/comment, but this point is ancillary; documentary is enough for fair use.
  17. With apologies to Futurama on America's View of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Don't Date The Internet !

    - The Spacepope

  18. Re:WTF? on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: 1

    YOU control what gets pushed out to the clients.
    Not lately unless your WSUS server has no internet access.
  19. Re:A very simple solution. on Storm Worm Strikes Back at Security Pros · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was a time in England when a bloke could talk about the gay time he had passing a fag around amongst his friends behind the school (fun/happy time passing a cigarette around) without any double entendres. Language evolves. Change your manner of communication or prepare for misinterpretation.

    string Hackers="hardware hobbyists"
    string Crackers="Saltines, safe-crackers, computer-criminals"

    ...
    Hackers="computer-criminals";
    Crackers="Saltines";

  20. Re:Contact the users on Storm Worm Strikes Back at Security Pros · · Score: 4, Informative

    then you need fail2ban http://www.fail2ban.org
    just in case they might eventually get lucky...

  21. Re:LOL on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    Mild inflation of artificial things is good when the population using them increases. Otherwise, the artificial things will rise in value as the population increases, and hoarding occurs.

  22. Re:Cheapskates on 'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' · · Score: 1

    The conversation probably went something like this:

    "So, I got the data you wanted, and I promise I didn't falsify any of it"
    "Good, Good. What was the price we agreed upon? $15,000?"
    "What? You promised me millions!"
    "You could always go to the press or police, but you'll have to disclose what you did to earn those supposed millions. Ha Ha Ha!"
    "Ok."
    "Wait, what?"

  23. Re:IU Mirror on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    If you're on I2, the torrent is slower. Also, I know that for me at home, the torrent is slower than downloading the iso from ftp.ussg.iu.edu too.

  24. Re:Obligatory and most likely ignored... on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    I'm curious what SWAT teams have to do with "The War on Terror (TM)". We had them long before, and this sort of thing could have easily happened before. Now, in terms of money, and how it would have been spent w/o "The War on Terror (TM)": I can guarantee it would not have been spent auditing CID security. It would have been spent building that fence down south, maybe a fence up north, and auditing Shipping Dock security. This would have been the first year... a couple years after 2001, and it would have been spent taking down the fences, and drilling for oil up in Alaska. Then it would have been spent on vote-buying for 2004 and 2008. "The War on Terror (TM)" has, for all the distraction it has done on the local scale, has at least focused our eyes abroad.

  25. Re:So what state is the crime? on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    Actually, quite a few USians have firearms, or some form of deadly weapon. It's a reason why semi-crazies (criminals) are targeting "soft" targets now; if they know people aren't allowed weapons at event X or location Y, they go there because it's safe for them. The real crazies (insane) don't care; they just get taken down where they are because they don't care that everyone else might be armed. Criminals enjoy a disarmed populace. Corrupt governments demand a disarmed populace.