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  1. Re:Become a porn secret santa on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quite right. Whoever gets around to lists. Why procrastinate? Utterly destroy people at the earliest opportunity.

  2. Re:Simple on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    But if there was not a discrepancy in the sizes, we may not have had the Hexaflexagon

  3. Re:This seems strangely familiar on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 1

    That would be partners in the "I know the bruises look bad but he's promised not to do it again, he really loves me" vein

  4. Re:Rumor has it.. on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    That link does noth...

    Hold on, I just have to answer the door...

  5. Re:The Real Reason Circuit City went under on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    This is the keen insight that keeps me coming back for more.

    I'm sure someone wrote this as a witty response to an inane comment submitted by a previous poster.

  6. Re:Never liked CC stores on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Maybe, when someone is staring intently at the back of a box they have just picked up and is reading the tiny print on the back, ingesting and processing and comparing information against the boxes they were reading earlier, BACK OFF!

    CC lost a sale after I had been hassled in a similar way six times. My response to the final one was "Yes, you can put this CD back for me. Cause I'm not buying anything from here because you keep annoying me". I was about halfway from the CD section to the register at the time.

  7. Re:Really? on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Alanis?

  8. Then Again on Film Piracy, Organized Crime and Terrorism · · Score: 1

    If you purchase a movie legitimately, a good chunk of the profits end up in the hands of terrorists via rampant drug abuse anyway.

    Conclusion: If you love America (/country of choice), use p2p

  9. He's Rich on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    He'll be paying someone to download his music for him.

  10. Re:The article is blocked by my proxy... on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    And now he feels kind of dirty and doesn't want to talk about it and thinks he may have caught a virus.

  11. Re:I agree with you, hiring mangerman on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Just say that you practice voodoo and as such, you are constrained from passing bodily fluids on to anyone and if they make a fuss about it, you'll sue them for religious discrimination.

  12. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    The best I got was a request for a second interview letter four months after the first interview and three months after I'd got a job and settled in to it quite nicely.

    In retrospect, I probably should have gone to it anyway. Oh well.

  13. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Potential employer

    Fixed that for you.

    Fixed that fixed that for you for you.

    Unfortunately, the reality is that potential employers almost literally never give any sort of reason, and very little useful feedback anymore, even if it would be positive or useful.

    Fixed that "Fixed that fixed that for you for you" for you. Potential employers don't even send rejection letters anymore it seems.

  14. Re:advisors on Yahoo Spent $79 Million To Fend Off Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You know, it's hard to put a price on such things...

    I mean, if you're a manager using other peoples' money to make sure the blame falls on someone other than you, that is.

  15. Re:Ridiculous on Without Jobs, Will Open Source Suffer? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Collaboration is often beneficial to the individual even when it also enriches others. Open source is a kind of unilateral collaboration. Is barn raising something only possible in a state of relative wealth or was it just a way of getting stuff done for people who didn't have much material wealth?

  16. Re:Amazon on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    You don't have to pay. Only if you want to be uploaded to your kindle automatically. Use their free service and load it over USB.

  17. Re:Stupid=Kindle, Stupider=2 on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    It can also do some of the third thing and, hence, potentially the 4th too.

  18. Re:While good in one way on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    It may cost the NYT much more than that to print & deliver the papers though (it may actually say if I RTFAed). Don't forget, their income is based on subscription *and* advertising.

    Maybe they could retrain the printers as fact checkers. God knows they could use them.

  19. Re:The right answer to this on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    Bad choice of device. Unless you hunt down alternative software, you have to install Apple's itunes to access the ipod under windows so an additional driver for the FS would not be a big deal.

  20. Re:if you think it's over... on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 1

    OK, Here's a thought experiment...

    A website that would, for google only, return pages with magnet links such that google would display the link in the search (one link per page) but for the rest of the world return blank pages only. The only way to search the site would be via google. In fact, you could even take the site down and, for a time, google would still return the links.

  21. Re:So.. the Video Game is the Computer? on In-Game Web Browser Round-Up · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep. With the way the economy is going, the user interface will be a rifle or shotgun.

  22. Re:The TX sucked on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 1

    I understand your frustration with those issues but if Palm had been on the ball, they would have release a newer, shinier TX2 within a year or two which would have addresses those issues and added 802.11g and a decent browser and I would have rushed to it. Instead they just kept charging the same price for the same old junk.

  23. Re:To hell with them! on Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal · · Score: 1

    Although when we start getting into encoding of information, we have to be wary of pitfalls, I would say that the inky lines you are describing actually are text. So you are distributing paper and ink arranged in a textual display.

    This post exists as bits on a server somewhere. It only creates text when it causes pixels to be arranged in a certain order on the screen. Unplug the monitory and it is text no more.

  24. Re:Motley Fool CAPS? on Collective Intelligence in Action · · Score: 1

    Meh. Even Investors don't use the investor's intelligence

  25. Re:oh-so-special? on Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports · · Score: 1

    The new Nanos will not charge with firewire either.