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  1. Re:CLINTON administration, not Bush administration on Secret Court: Government Lied to Get Wiretaps Approved · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Louis Freeh was far from a saint. Nothing to do with the administration: it was often pointed out that Freeh paid little heed to the desires of the president or attorney general.

  2. Re:Missouri doesn't say that Junk Faxes are illega on Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion · · Score: 1

    You expected help from a Nixon?

  3. Re:just out of curiosity on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    And then get hired first. What a gas that must be to the people without the diploma/secret diploma decoder ring.

  4. Re:What to look for on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    That's because nobody likes anyone associated with Domino.

  5. Re:It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter on Microsoft and Wireless Authentication · · Score: 1

    They do not have all the good fonts, my good sir. I suggest you look at the faces that come with Mac OS X. That Microsoft package of fonts looks like a 1985 Mazda next to the slick fonts (in several character sets) that Apple provides.

  6. Re:Breaking news: *BSD is dying on Microsoft and Wireless Authentication · · Score: 1

    I that post, too. You didn't it?

  7. Re:Well, good. on BT Loses Case Over Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't mistake this followup for a sign that I care, but how can the first post be redundant? It just doesn't make sense!

  8. Re:you'd think on BT Loses Case Over Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 2

    That they lost isn't obvious. The courts (in all countries) make dumb decisions every day. That they should have lost is obvious, but anything else shouldn't be taken for granted.

  9. Well, good. on BT Loses Case Over Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think anyone sensible who saw their claims shook his head in wry humor.

  10. Re:Unfortunately, they got one thing wrong. on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2

    Rightfully so. The users who buy the family pack would probably have otherwise used their upgrade CD 5+ times. It's better for Apple in that they get the extra cash and the extra statistics. It's better for the end user because he gets the glad-I'm-fully-legal warm fuzzy feelings as he falls asleep.

  11. Re:I see... on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2

    So give them fake information and come up with something reasonable about which to whine. Trust me, there are many greater issues on my mind than the NYT selling my address to a telemarketer.

  12. Re:Linux... on Mac OS X Switcher Stories · · Score: 2

    I'm not a graphic designer, either, and I use Photoshop quite a bit. GIMP just isn't a very good program. Sorry. The UI is beyond annoying.

  13. Re:Linux... on Mac OS X Switcher Stories · · Score: 2

    "Nobody really needs to do it" is not an answer to "why is this so hard to do."

  14. Mod parent up on Cremation? Burial? How about Diamonds? · · Score: 1

    Funniest post of the day.

  15. Re:Picking your nits! Re:nit picking on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 2

    Right, right. I've seen the show. That's why I said "ship of the sort."

    This thing's experimental, a prototype. It, to me, just looks too much like a finished product. That's all I'm trying to say. It has the same sleek lines of Starfleet vessels hundreds of years in the future. I'd expect that the first high-speed experimental ship would by ungainly or peculiar-looking in some fashion.

  16. Re:Picking your nits! Re:nit picking on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 2

    I think we agree, but our preferences lie in slightly different places.

    I totally dig the movie Enterprise. I think outside, it's the classiest looking ship I've seen in the ST universe. The inside look they chose for ST:VI is pretty nice, too. I think the designers for Enterprise should have started there and worked back, instead of starting with DS9 and Voyager and working back.

  17. Re:Picking your nits! Re:nit picking on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 2

    I agree with the need to make it realistic, but on the new Enterprise, things seem to work too well. The Enterprise D had more failures (computer, holodeck, etc.) than this Enterprise has had. Additionally, the ship itself looks a little too sophisticated. They've done well in the past at making vessels look low-tech without looking cheap or lame. I just don't fully believe that this ship is the first thing of the sort that humanity has put into space. It's just too "complete" looking.

  18. Re:WTF? on Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves · · Score: 2

    Or the computer system that Joe hacks into while sipping his iced chai.

  19. Re:Childless intellectuals... on Violence, Video Games And Donahue · · Score: 2

    The South Park movie was about just that topic.

  20. Re:Picking your nits! Re:nit picking on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 2

    I rather think that plot continuity is different from makeup continuity. Like why the current Enterprise is a lot more high-tech looking than the one in TOS (which I actually think is kind of an error.)

  21. Re:#1... on Fully Endowed FW Olin College of Engineering Opens · · Score: 2

    You'll have to talk to other people in the real world. You'll have to go to a cocktail party. You'll have to be capable of interacting with your boss to get a raise. That's why you take humanities courses.

    And you really think you can be a CS student without math courses? Yikes.

  22. Re:That's wonderful. on Jaguar Brings Back AirPort Software Base Station · · Score: 2

    I applaud your spirit, but comments like this bug me. There are a lot of fans out there, but people seldom put their money where their mouthes are. It's like walking down the beach and seeing someone drowning and saying, "Gosh, I hope you get out okay" and continuing to walk.

  23. Re:You forgot Ultraman on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1

    Never forget Gamera!

    Gamera!

  24. Re:tar ball? on Sandia Labs Creates "Sim-Terrorist Attack" · · Score: 1

    I that that makes you a terrorist.

  25. Re:tar ball? on Sandia Labs Creates "Sim-Terrorist Attack" · · Score: 1

    If you believed everything you read on /., you'd know that Macs are for gays.