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  1. Python Developers? on Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Got my hopes up! I thought you meant John Cleese and Terry Gilliam had new work at Sun...

  2. Damn you Clippy! on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn you to hell!

  3. Re:At first I thought he was crazy on Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet · · Score: 1

    While he's at it, he might as well call for a second telephone system, one that only allows people to say nice things.
    Only let's you say nice things? That's violating first amendment rights right? I say Fuc.... $%$%!#$%^%#^ [No Carrier]
  4. Re:Another way to charge for water...yay! on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't decide whether using bottled water as a fuel source would end up making it more expensive, or less
    BP Gas: 3.17 per Gal
    Deer Park Water: 1.19 per 16 oz
    That would be about .08 an oz... so 9.52 a gallon?
  5. Who do I cheer for? on Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming · · Score: 0

    I hate useless civil suits that tie up the legal system, But I hate oil companies. I love an underdog and cheer when they take on a giant...

    As a tree hugger I say "woo!" as someone who is going to pay for this in one way or another (read: energy costs) I'm not very happy.

  6. Re:I hear Hot Topic are already interested on Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected · · Score: 0

    Just when you thought it couldn't get any blacker
    As soon as they find something that's the blackness of an emokid soul we're all set...
  7. Damn giraffes! on Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom · · Score: 1

    With their long necks eating the best leaves! Keeping good I.T. geeks down...

    What? I got to slow down in reading this stuff...

  8. Re:Yay! on Corn Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this will lead to more corn in our diets!
    Yeah, and then they'll make another wonderful scientific break through with corn and send the price sky rocketing... /scarcasm
  9. Re:Excellent idea! on Utah Wants To Give ISPs That Filter a "G-Rating" · · Score: 2, Funny

    then we can consolidate all of them and refer to it as the g-spot....and then wait to see how long it takes for them to notice.
    If you call it the g-spot none of them would find it let alone notice it
  10. Re:ATT does it as well on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?".
    Heh... not again...
  11. Re:I;m not sure on Fish Can Count to Four · · Score: 1

    Okay, when it comes with a machine gun and lotus notes then I'll worry.

  12. I;m not sure on Fish Can Count to Four · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not sure if the can count but I think my betta fish is learning how to lift the gate that separates it from the other betta in the dual betta tank. A few minutes after I close the gate he's there at the bottom trying to lift it. I know fish are smarter than most give them credit for, thank god there not a reverse scuba suit...

  13. Re:Make a U-Turn on Open US GPS Data? · · Score: 1

    So it might ACTUALLY send you over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's House????
    I took a look at how it wanted us to go later on and I'm glad we didn't. It would of taken us over the river and through the HOOD to grandmother house... yo...
  14. Make a U-Turn on Open US GPS Data? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The funniest thing about the Garmin is that is will tell you to make illegal U-Turns.
    The story goes like this: My girlfriend got one for Christmas and we where going to test it by going to get grandmothers house. Halfway there my girlfriend went on autopilot, so to speak, because she's done this trip so many times. All the sudden we hear "Make a U-Turn... Recalculating" What the hell? Then we hear it again... The Garmin was telling us to perform illegal U-turns to work on its gps calculations.
    I wonder if that would hold up "But officer. The GPS told me to!"

  15. Worms: 2 was the best... on Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die · · Score: 1

    The First of many...

  16. Re:Curious blind spot on Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die · · Score: 0

    I have no problem with people "working their way up". It kind of makes me glad to see it, but, I feel you do need SOME kind of IT background. SQL Admin isn't just wizard ran software there homeslice.
    In my experience the SQL Admin is a bit of a developer, a bit of a sysadmin, and something all of their own. To hear that they where only ever data entry makes me shutter! I'm more comfortable with shifting from within IT than from the secretary pool.

  17. Re:Curious blind spot on Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps is it a case that the administrators of the databases are simply unaware that they can be compromised in this fashion?
    I think you, sadly, have nailed it. I find more companies have someone who is not qualified to be a DBA performing DBA tasks. I've been to too many SQL classes as refresher courses where the people are coming from data entry positions to DBA roles. Blind leading the blind.
  18. Old SQL worm's don't die on Why Old SQL Worms Won't Die · · Score: 0

    They just fade away... into am obscure mess of system tables/schema of new releases and older hardware and unpatched servers for old releases.

    Besides, you can't kill what's isn't "alive"...

  19. Little small on Kimchi in Space · · Score: 1

    Can we make it bigger next time?

    Wait? Kimchi not Katamari? Aww. I thought they finally put a PS2 in the space station...

  20. Re:Just say NO on Plants Use Twitter to Tell You to Water Them · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) Tabletop home aeroponic "herb garden"
    I actually have one of those in my apartment. It's really neat. The light is on an 8 hour timer and the water pumps up into the sponge the different plants are growing into. It adds a unique aesthetic to the apartment as a whole and the artificial sun works better than an alarm clock sometimes both on when I should head to bed and get up.

    It will be nice to have fresh herbs.
  21. I've heard of... on Plants Use Twitter to Tell You to Water Them · · Score: 4, Funny

    People talking to their plants... but their plants talking to them? What is this Soviet Russia?

    If my plants start talking to me it means I need to go away for a little vacation...

  22. Re:Dear Google on Google Interested in Wireless Bandwidth Balloons · · Score: 1

    As the Military "proved" that they can hit a fuel tank that's in space.

    Sorta like shooting swamp rats back on Dagoba, yeah?

  23. Re:Um, this is Slashdot... on Largest Hacking Scam in Canadian History · · Score: 1

    The wireless router setup I've got has integrated firewall, still have windows firewall enabled and a third party firewall on my and my girlfriends machines.
    I know we're reaching the point of overkill with all the security in place (and bragging about it, even as vague as I have, damages the security of the whole operation... I know) but we live in an urban area and I want to make it as difficult as possible for potential hackers in the area, especially with wireless.

  24. Re:Um, this is Slashdot... on Largest Hacking Scam in Canadian History · · Score: 2

    that were not equipped with anti-virus software or firewalls.
    Hardware or software firewalls? After XP SP1 the windows "firewall" would count for most users.
    Still recommend to install more than the paper tiger at the gate if you get that chance, but, anything is better than nothing for most users yes? If they mean hardware firewalls, I know very few home users that have one...
  25. Re:I total misread that on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    have you ever seen what it looks like when you shake those flashlights?
    Like you're playing the Wii right? I mean... What else could you be implying.. nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more...