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  1. Re:in other news on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 2, Funny

    "MOV HerStuff, YourPlace"

    More like

    MOV DX,AH

    (yes, I know I lost 8 bits)

  2. Idiocracy on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 0

    "Go way, bating"

  3. Re: "if it's so good, ... on Advocating Linux / OSS to Management. · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you work it out, it is a lot cheaper to go to the hookers than to get married.

  4. Re:Locks are pretty much useless on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 1

    "Because doors are riddled with 0-day exploits in the frames and hinges. With even a small vehicle, you can exploit a stack-overflow in the frame, popping the entire door out. DOS attacks against hinge pins can also be used to completely bypass a lock."

    And we won't even mention windows :).

  5. Re:All the Images are Disinfo / PsyOps on Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My first thought was why would they do this as well. It is far more likely to have been western interests that doctored the images. It is the same mindset as people who rail against Bush. They completely miss the point that Bush was put there for that reason so people wouldn't look behind the scene's at those controlling the country.

  6. Re:The Internet is helping me make it as a musicia on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1

    Maybe now. My father hitch hiked down through the middle east in the sixties and ended up becoming a monk in India for a couple of years and one of the things he said to me was that Indian music (traditional) had far less repetition in it than western music. I used to listen to some of the tapes he recorded when I was a child and he seemed to be right. It was a bit like pi, you think you have worked out a theme and then it wandered off into another "almost" theme. That was 25 years ago now, so maybe I would listen to them differently now (the tapes died a long time ago). It really only sticks in my memory because it was one of my assumptions he knocked over (ie; that music had to have repetition ).

  7. Re:scofflaws on The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org · · Score: 1

    One can own an idea because we created the concept of ownership, are indoctrinated in it, and we can damn well do what we want with it. It is a concept though, and it is useful, because that is how we think.

  8. Re:Its not the number of passwords that is the iss on Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number · · Score: 1

    " remembering "tuesdaypass442" is not so easy"
    Use a pattern. It is easier to remember and harder to break. qk2mwj3n is not a bad password and the pattern isn't that hard. Keep the same pattern and then extend it for whatever password length you need.

  9. Re:The Internet is helping me make it as a musicia on Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music · · Score: 1

    Unsure whether I am feeding a troll or not, but I suggest you listen to Moonlight Sonata and then go through your music collection and throw out all the music with repetition. That would leave you some Indian music and .....errrr....? Sure the recording wasn't the finest but the song name Emergence goes very well with the music. Feel free to post some of yours though, and as a special thankyou, I will post some of mine and you can see what bad music is really like :).

  10. Errr....... on British Columbia To Charge Recycling Fee · · Score: 1

    "adding a recycling fee to new computers and TVs to pay for their free electronics recycling program"
     
    .....oh dear.

  11. Re:Uninformed: Microwaves on Public Discussion Opened on Space Solar Power · · Score: 1

    This may be my f**ked up idea of the night, but....

    Why can't we use a magnetic field to coax the suns energy down to earth?

  12. Re:First, reject the assumptions on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Imagine the reaction if they found out about breast feeding. Not only are children seeing boobies, they are sucking on them (and biting...vicious little buggers).

  13. Re:Abstract? on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 1

    It is also a New Zealand tree, but then, so is Karaka :).

  14. Re:Could be disastarous... on New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs · · Score: 1

    Most people in NZ think that OS part of Australia :). No kidding, most people are that clueless about it. I sold a computer to a man last month who came back in saying that it didn't work properly. It turns out he likes,"those sites where you can talk to the naked girls", and had never updated his anti-virus, knew nothing about spyware, and thought he wouldn't be charged for it. I spent an hour getting his comp working again, and another hour teaching him and automating as many things as I could. For most people, computers are like fancy phones. They expect them just to work.

  15. Re:Interesting on New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs · · Score: 1

    I think that stands at about $5 NZ a transaction a the moment.

  16. Re:Not so Definitely on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    Could be worse, you could be msituA like those poor mice are now.

  17. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    I think it's amazing that no one has noticed that the government is not qualified to make the decision. If they decided that intelligent design was scientific then all of /. would be jumping up and down on their keyboard pulpits. Is /. really saying that they trust their government's enough to make this decision? Why not bring it up in schools and debate it scientifically?

  18. Re:the measurements are wrong!!! on 99% of Australians With Broadband By 2009? · · Score: 1

    Why? You would still lose.

    Sorry, had to say it. I think Australia's won more games than us anyway.

  19. Re:Confused on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    My brother helped me with that one. He said,"don't bother arguing with the insane."

    As far as I can tell, most people have;

    1) A deep need for their parents to be correct.

    2) For there to be a super parent to make it all ok.

    3) The world to be the way they think it is.

    This seems to be so they don't have to be responsible for the the state of the world. Science, at the moment, isn't all that much better and lets itself be used as a force for evil just as much. At least it isn't lies to children though.

  20. Re:Unbefreakinglievable on A Geek On Everest · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I have only climbed a small mountain in the French Alps (Mont Aiguille) and I would have been buggered carrying more than a small amount of gear. The man has my respect for even being able to type in those temperatures (By Christ those rocks get cold!) let alone keep a website together.
     
    To all those criticizing, please try coding after keeping your hands in ice for fifteen minutes, and with a bag over your head to simulate oxygen deprivation (You are allowed a small hole). My uncle has been to base camp and had severe problems just doing normal things, like sleeping, because of the atmosphere. Being able to think properly at that height is a feat in itself.

  21. Re:1 GB RAM is the minimum for windows on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 1

    Yes, I did. About 10% of people I run into who want to buy a new computer get told they just need more RAM. Mostly it's because of the idiotic sale of XP with 256MB and a lack of knowledge about, fragmentation, virus's, and spyware.

  22. Re:1 GB RAM is the minimum for windows on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 1

    Actually, I ran into someone yesterday who had been running XP with 128MB for two years. He asked me whether I thought he should buy a new computer as his one was starting to run slow. :)

  23. Re:History learned on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    Careful, in New Zealand that is true!

    http://www.primeminister.govt.nz/

  24. Re:I'm scared on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1

    Bill Bryson? My god, how we have fallen.....

    P.S.- Give me a call when the ground level has changed, rapidly and consistently, and I will get worried.

  25. Re:Still not there yet.. on A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    I am using that start menu at the moment (openSUSE 10.2) and it's......ok. The main adjustment I found was that I had to know where everything was before I could find it. I am quite used to it now but I don't think someone who wasn't used to the KDE menu groupings would find it very easy at all.

    10.2 is the best distro I have used so far. It is solid, easy to use, and has a nice interface. My only complaint is that it mapped my SATA drive nvidia_bcfceabd for reasons I haven't ascertained. But I haven't had much time to look into that yet.