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  1. I got one of those on How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) · · Score: 2

    I bought one about 3 years ago. The zipper broke and needed replacement. The plastic key hook in the right pocket broke. An inside pocket has a zipper that gets caught in the fabric every time I use it.

    A look at my wardrobe seems to indicate that I'm not particularly abusive to my clothing.

    The idea is good. The execution is not.

  2. Re:Nice non-story, Slashdot on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    You didn't get it.

    The question is: What is TPB doing that's different from what they did yesterday? Hint: Nothing.

    What if they didn't "decide" to host 3D-printer files and I went there and uploaded one anyway? Hint: They would host it anyway.

    This is just sensationalism to wow the low-IQ masses, this is NOT news. "Nerds" should know better.

  3. Nice non-story, Slashdot on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 0

    How is this different from what they're already doing?

    It's just another file format. WHOA, BIG DEAL!

    Idiocy.

  4. Re:Stop caring about jurisdiction and just get the on Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    Die you Spamming Commie

    If communism was still in place, you'd get no spam from Russia. It's capitalism that begets spam, not communism.

  5. More != Better on The Curious Case of Increasing Misspelling Rates On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    As the saying goes, the more eyes the better.

    That's a myth. If those eyes aren't attached to competent people, having more of them will do no good.

  6. Re:Anyone who thinks they can predict the future.. on IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years · · Score: 1

    There is NO WAY that spam will ever be personalized enough to make it become priority mail.

    If it can be done, it will be done.

    Considering how much information people are willing to give about themselves, that outcome is more than realistic.

  7. Re:Huh? on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 1

    "...the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products."

    How do they reach that conclusion?

    Exactly. The sentence you're quoting is 100% bullshit. Watch it being applauded on Slashdot as a prime example of logical thinking.

    Thieves are often hypocrites as well.

  8. How interesting... on The Many Names of Linux Kernels · · Score: 0

    /me yawns & checks wristwatch...

    This story should have been in "idle".

  9. RMS was right on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stallman doesn't sound so crazy now...

  10. Re:How little respect on Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S · · Score: 1

    To real computer geeks, Woz will always be relevant, unlike and in spite of you.

  11. Re:True geek on Woz Is First In Line For iPhone 4S · · Score: 0

    I removed 2 cycles from his SWEET16 interpreter when I ported it to the C64

    Did you do that by exploiting some 6510-only feature?

  12. Re:Fail on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    CVE advisories include a list of affected versions... Am I missing something or are you?

    Try this example advisory: Firefox "before 3.6.20" is reportedly affected, but in the listing there's no Firefox 3.0.19, because that version included a patch for that particular security hole.

  13. Re:Fail on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    CVE tells me that there are no known security holes.

  14. Re:Fail on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    It's not that it's not tested. It's just that what the Firefox designers want is now completely divorced from what the users want. This has been clear for me since the 'awesomebar'*.

    I've gone back to Firefox 3.0.19. No known security holes, small footprint, does everything I need.

    Fuck the Mozilla foundation and their numeral wanking.

  15. Re:Frankly, that's cool on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    the project probably would have been a "run and forget" kind of thing due to the obviously low probability of it happening in his lifetime.

    Which also means that he wouldn't have managed to cheat thousands into visiting his blog.

  16. Re:A good sign on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1

    "The worse, the better" is quite a dangerous strategy, though.

  17. Wait a minute... on Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants? · · Score: 1

    modified > challenged

    no?

  18. Re:Proof that the system is corrupt on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Well, it's great that you'd be happy declaring when and how often you'd allow private parties to make mutually agreed-upon financial transactions.

    That's no more arbitrary than deciding opening and closing times for the stock exchange.

  19. Re:Pointless... on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 1

    ...as long as it works, who cares how many people use it?

    Quite a few care, obviously.

  20. This is cool and all... on Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System · · Score: 1

    ...but couldn't they take a picture while the probe was a bit closer to us?

  21. Re:command line death on Early UNIX Contributor Robert Morris Dead at 78 · · Score: 2

    God@heaven /usr/earth/RobertTappanMorris sudo mv soul.bin /heaven
    password:

    You don't exist. Go away.

    logout

  22. Re:I don't need more. on PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know what sudo does.

    If you knew what sudo does, you wouldn't have written this:

    "su -c $blah" should be all anyone needs.

  23. Re:I don't need more. on PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo · · Score: 2

    I've never seen the point of sudo. "su -c $blah" should be all anyone needs.

    You are missing the whole point of sudo...

    Sudo is for letting unprivileged users issue specific administration commands without knowing or entering the root password. Yes, it can also be used as a temporary `su`, but that's not what it's for.

    I just hope this new tool comes with better documentation, because I always hated that unsightly sudoers(5) man page with a passion.

  24. Re:cultures are living things on In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own Internet · · Score: 2

    iranian govt: you want persian minds [...] to be inferior minds.

    Well, I guess that's the whole point, isn't it?

  25. Re:But are we? on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    Apple innovated a reset key adjacent to the Return/Enter key (Apple ][). Type, type, type, *BEEP* NOOOoooooooo!

    Huh? Have you ever actually used an Apple ][ ?

    The Reset key was practically impossible to bump into, because it was HARD to press down. As if that weren't enough, for the really paranoid and/or incredibly heavy-handed lead-fingered typers, a dip-switch (or was that a jumper) on the motherboard allowed you to set the computer to only accept Ctrl+Reset.

    Also, the Reset key didn't have particularly destructive functions on the Apple ][, it was more like an interrupt key that always worked and did not erase memory.