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  1. Row row row your boat... on Court Rejects Winklevoss Twins' Facebook Appeal · · Score: 1

    ...and quite yer whining you rich wankers!

  2. Re:Sleep on The Brain's Secret For Sleeping Like a Log · · Score: 2, Funny

    Buckminster Fuller devised a system (called Dymaxion sleep) where he slept a half-hour every 6 hours, sleeping 2 hours in a day. That gives an amazing 22 hours a day to do stuff

    This is all well and good until you end up in a bag in the Hudson River http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheFriarsClub.html

  3. Re:ah... on ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally · · Score: 1

    If you store anything on the internet, what you are storing is a number. People most certainly are allowed to recreate the number 462826674840809873425894986513859764213550 even if I have declared it to be my own and stored it in a house with unlocked doors.

    That's the same combination I use on my luggage! Takes me forever to get into my suitcase though...

  4. Horrible idea... on Crowdsourcing the Department of Public Works · · Score: 1

    There was also one case of an arrest. The New Haven Police Department attributed initial reports on SeeClickFix to a sting operation that led to an arrest of two drug dealers selling heroin in front of a grammar school

    Surely it's better for the kids to be able to get their heroin from the safety of their school steps than to make them travel to a seedier part of town, isn't it?

  5. Also announced... on Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49% · · Score: 5, Funny

    Starting immediately, CBS and ABC will now only be available as pay per view for all Comcast customers!

  6. Re:No shit sherlock on Judge Rules Games Are "Expressive Works" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your analogy is close, but just a little off. If the movie marketed itself as having Natalie Portman starring, without her permission, then they are in trouble. If they used a digital likeness, but at no point said that it was Natalie Portman, then you've got the same situation as the games.

    In these games, they have nameless players, that just happen to look a lot like, play a lot like, and wear the same number as a real former/current player for that same team. This allows the hypocritical NCAA to license the game without breaking their own rules that players can't be used to endorse products.

  7. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who? Who doesn't want to use the ribbon?

  8. Re:What do you do with extra copper? on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Even I laughed on this one!

  9. Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    • The copper is not worth that much.

    I definitely wasn't thinking of ripping the lines out, it's more of making use of them since they're already in the walls.

    • The jacks are probably daisy-chained together. A PBX (what we have in our house) normally requires home-runs from each jack, so that isn't going to work for you.
    • /ul>

    From what I can tell, they are not daisy-chained together, it looks like they ran a separate 4 conductor line from a terminal strip in the basement to each room

    • There are charging cradles that will allow you to use your cell phone to supply dialtone to your TwenCen phones. That way you don't have to run all over the house looking for the cellphone.

    This sounds like a good possibility...

    • If you ever sell your house, the new owner may say WTF?

    Good point, although we're hoping to stay here!

  10. Re:up 300%? on IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years · · Score: 1

    But increased by means add to the additional amount.

    For example, if you had $1 and I said I'm going to increase the amount of your cash by $3, how much would you expect that you have? You'd expect that you'd have $4 total, not $3.

    So when they say, increased by %300, that means take the original amount and add 300% of that amount to the original amount...

  11. Re:And in today's episode of "guess the acronym" on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 1

    What does "look it up" mean? I've been staring at my ceiling for 30 minutes and I don't see the answer. Can you help me?

  12. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    Oh SatanicPuppy, what's wrong with you? Don't you know that the first post is reserved for phrases like "In Soviet Russia, IT unionizes you!", or "Frost Pist"? Shame on you for posting a well thought out argument that is on topic...

  13. Re:I hate... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or maybe I just don't like it when a character's actor changes between movies (same with Dumbledore in Harry Potter, I liked the first guy better; he has a much better voice).

    You do realize that the second Dumbledore actor, Michael Gambon was only brought in because the first, Richard Harris died, right?

  14. Keep a lookout for Lex Luthor on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    'cause there's no way I want a real life version of this. Really, the movie was bad enough...

  15. Re:Which is worse? on New Legislation Could Eventually Lead to ISP Throttling Ban · · Score: 1

    I feel the same way. As a Comcast customer, the first thing I think will happen if the Government passes this is that Comcast will turn around and say that they need to raise my rates to expand their network to the capacity they need to support everyone running peer-to-peer apps. So it wouldn't really be much of win to me...

  16. Hey! on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Is that a jawbone in your abdomen, or are you just happy to see me?

  17. Different sets of numbers? on BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures · · Score: 5, Funny
    He stops short of describing how Auntie arrives at these two widely different sets of numbers and how their initial estimate is two orders of magnitude out.

    English to metric conversion?

  18. Obligatory Homer Simpson quote... on OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index · · Score: 1

    "Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that."

  19. Re:Porn industry on FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1

    Trying to put porn on the C-block portion of the spectrum would be a total waste! Every time you'd try to look at a naked picture of hot chick, her fat friend would pop up and tell her it's time to go home, either that or the picture would pop up on your buddy's computer instead...

  20. Re:Threesome on A Three-Way AMD Opteron Server · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what kind of doe will this Opteron Threesome run me? Probably a couple of bucks at least!
  21. Re:missing on Project Arcade · · Score: 5, Funny

    North Americans are more interested in being frugal than social. This is such a lie! Why, if I could afford a plane ticket to wherever you are and wasn't afraid of leaving my house, I'd come over and kick your ass right now!
  22. Does he hate blind people too? on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems like the iPhone (which I'm still drooling over!) seem pretty hard to use for the blind. Some sort of non-visual feedback is pretty much required for them!