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  1. Re:the shit hits the fan! on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 1

    you must be new here...

  2. Re:Whoa whoa whoa. Hold on a second. on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I don't drink what comes out of 'champion dairy bulls'.
    emphasis mine

  3. Re:This steak... on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    Well if you came back for another steak, then that's good, right?

  4. Re:Freerange/Organic more important imo on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    I used to only eat named meat, it makes it alot easier to tell that it's had a happy life. Algernon the pig loved apples when you fed them to him, Dinner the cow romped around with siblings Lunch and Breakfast. and yeah, they taste a lot better, and lived a longer time.

  5. Re:Looking at the screenshots... on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Apple have your back there too. http://www.apple.com/safari/

    Your browsing is your business. Which is exactly why Safari offers private browsing -- to keep your online activities private. Turn on private browsing and Safari won't store your Google searches, your cookies, the history of sites you've visited, your download history, or information from online forms you've filled out. porn porn porn. I think I'll install Safari at home.
  6. Re:wrong order on Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trust me, they are completely different, never try to keep a politician as a pet, the mess is horrifying.

  7. Re:Who needs evolution with technology on Recent Human Evolution May Have Been Driven By Self-Selection · · Score: 1

    With humans cold means another log on the fire and wet means fix the roof. The roof evolves. I do not... And the one who can fix the roof better is more 'fit'.
    or the one that can afford (through prowess in another area) to get the good roof fixer to fix his roof is more 'fit'.

    I see no problems with us evolving.

    I for one welcome our new roof-fixing overlords.
  8. Re:Maybe I'll join back up... on Army Opens New Office of Videogames · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always felt AA was different from real combat in that in one of them, you don't respawn. You don't respawn in AA? man, no way am I gonna play that game.
  9. Re:good news for bio grads on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 1

    50 - modulo 70 ?

    well.. assuming the mod70 is 50%70 (as it's the only other number mentioned) then it'd be 50-50 all up... starting salary of $0k
    or the '-' might be a spelling mistake so starting salary of $50k... why bother with the mod70?

    brought to you by the Comp Sci majors of the world, criticizing your spelling mistakes

    cap: surreal

  10. Re:Get off my lawn on Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google · · Score: 1

    Trucks! not Tubes!

    wait..

    captcha: courting

  11. Re:Don't know about the UK... on UK Music Retailers Beg, Drop the DRM · · Score: 1

    Actually... a free buggy whip _would_ get me to buy a new CD.

    I've always wanted a buggy whip.

  12. Re:Was it just me? on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was thinking of paying $1-2 and seeing if I liked it.. ended up going for the $0 option as their cc info area just looked suspect :p didn't like it that much either..

  13. Re:So the big question is... on 38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough I count as 2 no-pays.

    I grabbed the album, but didn't realise that my download manager was spawning 3 connections to the radiohead server... so my download was killed at about 30%.

    I fixed that but the download was still unavailable, so I again paid nothing..

    Odd thing is, I prefer some of their older work, I've only listened to each song about 1.6 times, and I've gone back to other things.

  14. Re:Why ?? on Note To Criminals — Don't Call Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Because the desktop is behind 2 reception desks and one swipe-card door and weighs 12kg and someone will notice if you walk out with it.
    The laptop is 2kg, and in a briefcase next to the guy in the cafe, he's the one sitting just by the door busy looking at the hot punk coffee girl.

    Which of these two computers is easier to pick up in a spur of the moment theft... and which is easier to pick up in a planned theft?

  15. Re:Oh hammer... on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know the old saying...
    If all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a messiah.

  16. Re:I agree on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    Except that no matter what you are looking at on your computer, your eyes are focusing on the same distance, holding the muscles/gooey bits in the same position for minutes/hours at a time.

    Going and looking out the window, or even across the office makes your eyes focus on a different distance, which sure can't hurt.

    I had my optometrist recommend this to me once, I can't remember under what circumstances the topic came up.

  17. Re:Why I am a (Mac/Linux/Fill-in-the-Blank) user on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    I tried replacing your blank with "Windows" and "Sausages" neither seemed to make much sense.

  18. Re:Here's Listening to You, Kid on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued · · Score: 1

    The autoidentify is already taken care of, in NZ there is a service from Telecom where you can ring a certain number, and hold your phone up and they will tell you what the name of the song you are listening to is.

    It can't do live or classical music though.
    http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4562
    google "telcom NZ song id" fore more info.

  19. Re:Damn straight! on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    remember, Less is More!

  20. Re:Finland.. on A Reprieve for Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    We know you, we thrust you That's an .. interesting relationship between the music associations over in your country.
  21. Re:No Way on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    Sweet! I've always wanted to insure my client's happiness, I've never found an insurer that would cover me though.

  22. Re:Heh on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 1

    Show me yours and I'll show you mine.

  23. Re:How did they crack my network!?! on Residential Wi-Fi Mapping Database Revealed · · Score: 1

    I believe that the SSID is still viewable if you send a blanket "I am dissconnecting" notification, APs in the area will reply with a "thanks for dissconnecting from router" message.

    I think I read something about that a while ago.

  24. FreeBSD 6.2 Released to Minors on FreeBSD 6.2 Released To Mirrors · · Score: 1

    That's what I read at first.

    I don't know what a child would have to do to deserve that.

    now, did I mean that as a reward or as a punishment? Let the fanboys decide!

  25. Re:Thanks for the proof on Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted · · Score: 1

    But they advertise themselves as a pushdown automaton with two stacks!!.

    __
    Thats funny to people that know that multiple stacks doesn't increase the power of a PDA.