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  1. Re:Have him apply to Microsoft on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    Do I really have to whoosh you?

  2. Have him apply to Microsoft on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    If he gets into Microsoft, you've got your man. Um... let me get back to you.

  3. What happened to October, Oracle? on Oracle Patches Java 7 Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    Now my patch cycle is going to be screwed up! /sarcasm

  4. Dude, he played himself in an episode of Stargate SG1!

  5. Re:put yourself in a sodomites shoes on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    How would you explain that Lot raped his own daughters? Gen. 19:36

    Lot is a sicko.

    Read that again. His daughters raped him.

  6. Re:Ditch Java entirely. on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    More like
    1) Ditch Java
    2) Prevent potential catastrophic loss
    3) Profit!

  7. Re:Duh on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's used as a browser plug-in by big names a lot. Some times, they're smart enough to restrict sites, but that's rare.

  8. Re:They missed the most important thing on Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them · · Score: 1

    Have you tested his eyesight?

  9. Re:It does on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A friend of mine transfered his VM instances out of New Orleans datacenters yesterday.

  10. Re:First post! on Scientists Find Gene That Predicts Happiness In Women · · Score: 1

    In the US, there are more women with 4 year degrees and more women with advanced (Masters, PhD, MBA) degrees than men, in the age cohort below 40. This is a recent phenomenon you may be unaware of, but it is real.

    Thus, it would be normally true to state that, for most people 40 and under, it is in fact lower paid men who get their way paid for them by higher paid women.

    You're assuming that these higher paid women are with men, or only one man. For a small pool of highly paid men, there may be a larger pool of slightly less highly paid women who are playing musical chairs, or preferring to stand. Also, advanced degrees don't always translate to actual earnings.

  11. Re:Oh great on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    Not just Iranians. Wanna bet which country US will attack next?

    Azeroth?

  12. Re:When I was a kid we thought America was free on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    Nevada Revised Statute  171.123(3), which allows an officer to detain a person to ascertain his identity when there are circumstances reasonably indicating that person has committed a crime

    In this case, a witnessto an assault, plus potential reckless driving. Also:

    "[a]s we understand it, the statute does not require a suspect to give the officer a driver's license or any other document. Provided that the suspect either states his name or communicates it to the office by other means -- a choice, we assume, that the suspect may make -- the statute is satisfied and no violation occurs." - Justice Kennedy

  13. Re:When I was a kid we thought America was free on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    I was stopped more than once while walking down the street. I wasn't even crossing the city limits. [...] some of the roads are billiard table smooth.

    I see what the problem is. You were stopped for looking too British. We call it pool on this side of the pond (unless it's straight-rail, but no one plays that).

  14. Re:When I was a kid we thought America was free on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    In the US you are required to carry ID if you go out in public.

    No, you are not.

    And they will detain you until it is verified.

    Maybe if you do something illegal and get arrested. Otherwise, they won't even check. I just ate lunch near a table of four cops yesterday. Not one of them stopped anyone in the restaurant for ID.

    And really, try traveling near the border without going a checkpoint.

    South of North? I've driven by (not through) the northern border and never gone through a checkpoint.

  15. Re:So what about the absolutely awful SSL error pa on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Then verify the cert and accept it permanently. ie Get your certs in order. Do you complain about SSH yammering about changed certs too? The warning is there for a good reason.

  16. Re:well ... on NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well I have the first Twinsen reference.

  17. Very poorly. Without the proper graphics card, it uses Mesa, and thus is clunky.

  18. Re:Vendors shipping custom Java versions on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    No, but they are susceptible to MitM attacks if they download anything. Hopefully they sign and check the files they download.

  19. I rather think the offer of the virgin daughters to the prospective rapists was just as wrong.

    It's a point of middle eastern honor. Guests to the home are to be protected above all else. The Vikings had a similar custom; harsh environments seem to engender holding guests with respect. And frankly, when everyone in town is threatening to storm your house (or potentially kill your whole family), it's time to start looking at the lesser of two evils, and "marrying" your daughters to the mob was what Lot came up with at the last second. Keep in mind that Lot isn't held up as a paragon of virtue. In retrospect, t would have been smarter for Lot to let the guests stay in the town square, then his honor wouldn't have been in jeopardy.

  20. Re:Epic biblical mistranslation: You didn't build on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    After the king james version some one translated "Bring them out so we may know them" to "have sex with them". Yikes. The ancient hebrew/aramic word for know is Yeda and it means to know well. Of the 47 places yeda is used in no place does it strictly mean sex. In fact it is written that David knew god. Was david but fucking god, or did he just, well, know him.

    I think the new translation gets it right. Context is key.

    "Bring them out so that we may get to know them; have a little chat, and welcome them to the city"
    âoeNo, my friends. Donâ(TM)t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But donâ(TM)t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.â

    So you're saying Lot didn't want to introduce the strangers to his neighbors, and that's it? What's with the "protection" talk, and the attempt to appease?

    If this were on CSI-Gomorrah today we would find out that actually lot got paid off to open the town gates to an invading army that razed the place and Lots wife was going to spill the beans so he killed her and told everyone she turned into a pillar of stone. Then he just recycled the story from Book of Judges when asked what happened.

    If Lot could recite from the Book of Judges, then he's definitely a prophet. Or a time traveler.

  21. Re:Nonsense on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 1

    Wave your hand back and forth eleven times per minute. Hear it? I didn't think so.

    How many elephants do you think read slashdot?

  22. Vendors shipping custom Java versions on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Lots of vendors like to ship custom Java versions which their programs use (installed in their applications' subdirectories), and they rarely update the Java versions when a vulnerability is found for the version they based their custom job on.

  23. Re:Welcome to 2006, Cory Doctorow on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    It will now. Thanks a lot.

  24. Re:Businesses.... on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    Where do you go to buy electronics parts?

    I go to Fry's. It's like an old Radio Shack+++. It still sucks when they're sold out of something but Internet shops are a good fallback.

  25. Re:Hunting analogy on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Role-Playing Games To the Uninitiated? · · Score: 1

    I like to use the hunting analogy because, to me, role-playing behavior has a lot in common with ancestral group hunting patterns. The game is oriented toward acquiring goods (treasure) by a pack of hunters (adventurers) who track their prey (monsters) and bring them down through the use of weapons (+magic) and tactics. There's other aspects of hunting in play: group bonding, sharing of war stories, exchanging food and drinks, discussing tactics, and so forth. So you could just tell her it's like a hunting simulation. If I may be so bold, the likeness to hunting may even be why we enjoy it so much.

    Wherefore comes an Anonymous Coward by such insight? Nay, I say. Thou art an Anonymous Brave.