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Comment Re:homeowner fail (Score 2) 536

... hm... my next home purchase might just have to have a conditional clause that if I can't get broadband, the deal is off...

You know, like how you can back out once you get an appraisal and learn that there are termites.

That's right. It's called a "contingency" - it's a rider on the contract. All contingencies must be addressed to close escrow.

Disclosure of all facts (such as no broadband available) must be clearly stated by the seller or else there are grounds for a lawsuit, should an unhappy buyer care to waste even more time and money in court.

Comment Re:Hahahahaha....But Wait! (Score 0) 129

I was thinking just about the same thing.
Why don't hackers call their projects "8d 7d 6c 05" or "33 02 ba 9c" in source code constants?
Why would they even include any non-essential things in the code at all?

Remember nimda virus ? (thats admin backwards)

  NIMDA was a polymorphic plague of a virus that hit out network right after 9/11/2001.

It would write itself all over every file on the disk drive until the drive was full and everything came to a screeching halt. It exploited the NT web service that was active by group policy default on client boxes with NT and or Win 2000. Anyway, our software engineers looked inside the Nimda.dll and there was some jihad "Death to America, Death to Israel" crap commented right into the file!!

I'm sure that was the NSA's earlier work, as they took over most domestic networks just to be on the safe side....

Comment Who would have guessed male dominance? (Score 2, Insightful) 356

After all, traditional marriages are arranged by the parents, per dowry arrangements and negotiations. Parents of the bribe, I mean bride, must pay life's savings to marry off daughters. You must avoid getting stuck with feeding her and her illegitimate children for your entire life. If you can manage to marry her off, then even if her husband dies first, the custom dictates that she must throw herself on her dead husband's burning corpse as part of the ritual funeral ceremony, If he can't feed you you're better off burned alive then left over to the throngs of dudes. Many female babies seem to suffer greater mortality for some reason that defies standard statistical deviation....

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