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  1. Re:don't panic... on Douglas Adams Back On Radio · · Score: 1

    And here we though tit'd be irrational like pi or e.

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  2. Re:HGTG is cool, slashdot is not on Douglas Adams Back On Radio · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally "None at all" is exactly the amount that ape decendant arthur dent thought that his friend was actually from a small planet in the vacinity of betelguice, and not from gildford as he originally thought.

    Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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  3. Re:Do the good guys get enough attention? on White Hats Take NASDAQ Through MS IIS Hole · · Score: 1

    That example is like saying "Who was cooler, Vader or C3P0"

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  4. "So is this a good thing, or a bad thing?" on H-1B Visas Increased In 96-To-1 Vote · · Score: 1

    Marge: IT's a thing. that's all that matters.
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  5. Re:Quake Bugs on Slashback: Quakery, Lifespans, Barcodes · · Score: 1

    YEs it does. Mods don't work with 1.25 so he can't play Rocket Arena on 1.25.
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  6. "Unlike the Star Wars games" on First Great Star Trek PC Game? · · Score: 1

    Does Force Commander ring a bell?
    How about Rebellion?
    What about Shadows of the Empire for every stage but the first one?
    Let's not forget the Episode 1 game, either.

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  7. Re:Don't Believe the Conspiracy Theories on Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats · · Score: 1

    I wonder what browser we're supposed to use.
    MSIE is Microsoft,
    Netscape Navigator basically just sucks
    Opera isn't free
    Mozilla is bloatware..
    Neoplanet is just MSIE or Navigator with a skin..

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  8. Re:Totally a matter of opinion. on Top 10 Most Important Tech People of the Decade · · Score: 1

    Did Saddam Hussein write an operating system? Did he ever do anything big, computer-wise?
    No?
    Then why would he be on a top 10 tech people list?
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  9. Re:Beyond the rhetoric on Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats · · Score: 1

    And besides, Nintendo of America is also a Redmond company. The english versions of stuff like Legend of Zelda: OOT come out of Redmond...
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  10. Re:Don't Believe the Conspiracy Theories on Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the other day of how Microsoft actually helped everyone. At the beginning, they knew to licence DOS, therefore starting the 'techie road', creating 'home users' and allowing 'mass market alternative' OSes like Linux to exist.

    And as much as you might hate MSIE, you must be aware that it's existance is really a very big thing... before MSIE Netscape was 'shareware', you offically had to pay for it. then Microsoft released a browser for free... eventually making it 3.0 which was feature-for-feature competiting with Netscape pretty well... you had one free and one $30 browser that did the same things.. so Netscape had no choice but to make thier browser free... and then, things stagnated a bit, as Microsoft added features netscape did nothing, then released the source code.

    Bing, here comes Mozilla. a direct result of Microsoft's policies.
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  11. Re:A little concerned on BT's Hyperlinking Patent Refuted · · Score: 1

    The more troubling thing is that this has happened several times in the last week or so. In fact, once the same story was posted twce in the same /24 hour period/

    It's becoming reslashdot.org

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  12. Re:HHGTTG on New Material Responds to Touch Pressure · · Score: 1

    Please Do Not Press This Button Again.
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  13. Re:That would be difficult on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    Considering that it's not even on the planet it should be considered to be the same as say, space itself IE: not under UN juristidiction because, really, it's in space. It's not even a GLOBAL historic site- it's an INTERPLANITARY historic site, and we don't have an Interplanitary Historic Society yet.
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  14. Someone should on Inside the CueCat Hardware · · Score: 1

    Someone should definately send a C&D letter to DC telling them to stop infriginging on your personal rights and postal regulations.

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  15. Re:I'd rather spend those bucks... on Would You Pay $1000 For Windows? · · Score: 1

    if you decide to go for the 16-bit hos you can get many more colors and paralax scrolling!
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  16. Re:I doubt it. on Would You Pay $1000 For Windows? · · Score: 1

    So p being "windows is $1000" and q being "Linux becomes the OS of choice" then your saying that p or at least p -> q is a tautology?

    ... Why do I have descrete math on the brain?
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  17. Re:From money comes power. on British Telecom, Hyperlinking And Mr. Englebart · · Score: 1

    BT would have to prove that 1976 1968, which would be rather difficult.
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  18. Re:No moving parts... no truly "magic" b on 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I thought it just worked 'vertical line by line' scanning it along x and y and then moving it along z.
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  19. Re:No moving parts... no truly "magic" b on 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I saw a thing on this on one of those TV tech shows on discovery that were popular a while back.. it was like 4 or 5 years ago, though, and never heard about it since. It basically hardned plastic as it raised up, and was to be used to easily fabricate parts to replace and brace bones.
    It showed on the show a skull being made of plastic, raising inch by inch out of a bunch of liquid plastic. It was very interesting.
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  20. Re:MpoweredPC on On the Reliability of DSL Providers... · · Score: 1

    Oh, and this is the URL to mpowered -it's a nova scotia thing
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  21. MpoweredPC on On the Reliability of DSL Providers... · · Score: 1

    I used Mpowered for a year before going to university. Blazing fast, great latency, even if it did go offline every once in a while.
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  22. Re:What laws are they mangling now? on CueCat At It Again · · Score: 1

    Just be sure not to play with it like a frisbee with a dog, because then DC will sue you.
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  23. Re:Too much room for abuse on Ex-NSA Analyst Warns Of NSA Security Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I prefer to look at it this way: If they're watching you ANYWAY, and your doing 'illegal' things, and haven't been caught yet, chances are that they aren't going to crack down on you unless you take it to the next level. They already KNOW you have all that illegal copyrighted stuff, but havnen't beaten down your door yet, have they?
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  24. Re:Nice prize, guys on Don't Believe The Quickies · · Score: 1

    You can get a huge metal spike rammed up your (insert oriface here) for free, but nobody is out waiting in line for it.
    (sarcasm) Hmm, I wonder why (/sarcasm)
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  25. Re:Nice prize, guys on Don't Believe The Quickies · · Score: 1

    Irony, noun, the effect of being made of iron.
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