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  1. Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 1 · on ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains

    While you battled with your 7-figures about a single world, I registered every other word in the dictionary and created new niches of porn.

    You should check out our wildest newly added categories: categories

    (while joking, that list does sound like it could be made into a porno.)

  2. Re:OH THE HUMANITY! by flynnternet · · Score: 1 · on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline
    You need to give Daniel Miller
    http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/ian.simpson/ian.simpson/warm%20leathertte%20lyrics.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Leatherette
    a credit for those lyrics.

    (I have the 45, although it was from the '80s. so it might be a lil' fuzzy, B'more being a port city and all...:)

    Saw his show @ the 9:30 Club in DC (IIRC). TVOD...

    And then there was Tiny Desk Unit. One of the BEST Bands I ever witnessed!! (Next to Black Flag (DC?) & the DKs @ the Marble Bar in B'more.)

    Good Times!

  3. Re:Elephant and Mouse situation by iminplaya · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Afraid of Harvard

    Yeah, they're real cool cats. Let's hope they give the dog a bad name and hang him.

  4. Re:How Enlightening! by FranTaylor · · Score: 1 · on Does DRM Enable Online Music Innovation?

    Ha ha.

    This is not Guitar Hero.

  5. Why should hacking be limited to computers? by falconwolf · · Score: 1 · on Everyone Is A Hacker In Training

    I don't take hacking as being about only computers. To me a hack can be most any unusual trick like what phreaks did with phones. At one tyme, in the early 1900s writers and reporters were called hacks or hackers. Here's a website for Horse Hackers. This site, Expressions & Sayings, on etymology or the study of words says:

    Hack-work
    In Old English a hackney was an ordinary horse (i.e. not a thoroughbred) suitable for general use, especially for riding by ladies; the name may have come from Hackney in London, where horses used to be raised. Shortened to hack, the word is still in use for a horse of this kind. By the 16th century, a hackney had also become a horse available for hire: this enabled the word to become a metaphor for a person hired to do low-grade work. This contemptuous sense is found, again abbreviated to hack, in such terms as hack-work (drudgery) and hack-writer as well as in hack in the sense of 'low-grade journalist'. The modern meanings of hackneyed can readily be traced back to the idea of a hired horse worn out by overwork.

    The Online Etymology Dictionary has more info going back to c.1300. I see at the bottum of the second entry it says that it was reputedly first used in computer programming at MIT in 1976 and goes on further:

    Hack (v.) "illegally enter a computer system" is first recorded 1984.

    Falcon
  6. The next thing you know... by neurojab · · Score: 1 · on PDAs For Kids

    It's interesting the way americans force materialistic attitudes on their children at a very early age... So many toys represent items those kids tend to purchase later in life. Toy guns for boys, silicon implants (barbie) for the girls.

    Now it's PDAs...Before too long yuppie parents will be buying their kids minature working BMWs... wait.