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  1. Re:Heh. on Wireless Sensors Monitor Glacier Behavior · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now I don't need to worry about being run over by a speeding glacier next time the ice age comes around.

    Let me guess, you're one of the guys writing Duke Nukem Forever . . .

  2. Re:David Crosby's credibility... on The Way the Music Died · · Score: 2, Funny
    multiple drug busts, the last one involving a firearm? [snip] but it's not like it helps his credibility.

    It's not like the entire 'rap' industry isn't built on exactally this. . .

    At least the man has some character. When was the last time Hillary Duff was in a shootout with the police?

  3. Re:ice age on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 2, Funny
    going to be 90 degrees in Tampa today and they're playing ice hockey there tonight!!!!

    They play Hockey in Tampa? That isn't what I heard. :) (I'm an Oilers fan BTW).

  4. Re:Finally! I can legally download ... on Napster Canada Launched · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why do I need this again?

    Give them a ten and you can get a Nickleback.

    Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.

  5. Re:Explaining This... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 1
    None of the Above. Stargate is produced by Global Canada, and is distributed through their Fireworks entertainment branch. It is sold exclusively to the Sci-Fi channel, and not re-broadcast on my local Global station. No one else but Sci-Fi can rebroadcast it in North America. So I get downloads from the UK broadcast.

    Sci-Fi is not carried on any sat networks that are available in Canada, nor is it on cable. It is always replaced by the Canadian version - "Space". It doesn't carry Stargate.

    Like I said, I'd love to pay for it, but it's not available in my area.

  6. Re:it's not long.... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 3, Funny
    Anyone know the guys email address? :)

    I think it's DVD.Jon@guantanamo.cu, but he's awfully slow to reply :)

  7. Explaining This... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 5, Interesting
    So when a show is broadcast in my area for 5 years, and then gets pulled, but is still in production for a 6th, 7th and soon to be 8th year - How else can I follow it?

    I couldn't pay for it if I tried! I love the show, so you're saying I shouldn't download it? I should just forget the show even existed? Not my fault people edited out the commercials.

  8. Re:In other news on Monsanto Wins Case Over Patented Canola · · Score: 1
    That the second time you've posted it, and you apparently still didn't read the article.

    He sprayed Roundup around some power lines that were infested with weeds. When his crops didn't die like he expected, he kept the seeds from that area for next year, and so forth. That's why his crops were mostly Montaso mutants.

    He originally argued that he did not buy the seeds, they came from somewhere else, and took over his crop. Before the Supreme Court, he gave up on that argument, and focused on whether Montaso should be allowed to patent a plant, as the Supreme Court already ruled a couple years ago that The Harvard Mouse was a higher life form, and could not be patented.

    They found that a plant cannot be patented, but the gene could.

  9. Re:Coffee or Espresso? on Newsflash: Gourmet Coffees Have Lots Of Caffeine · · Score: 1
    I guess it depends on where you live. I was at the Vancouver Airport last week, and there's a Starbucks and a Tim Hortons conveniently located near the smoking room. The Timmies had a line that stretched to nearly the Starbucks. The Starbucks had one guy in a really nice suit talking on his phone.

    I also noted that 80% of the people in the smoking room were sporting a fresh Tim Hortons coffee, large double double, myself included. Completely unscientific, just my observation.

    Truthfully, I don't know what a caramel machiatto is. Large double double, x-large triple triple is the way you order at Timmies.

  10. Re:Gourmet? on Newsflash: Gourmet Coffees Have Lots Of Caffeine · · Score: 1
    Starbucks coffee - AKA breath freshner for people who eat shit.

    Now watch the mods who love Starbucks come out . . .

  11. Re:What's SBC? on SBC CWA Strike Imminent · · Score: 1
    From one of the linked articles:

    The union representing 102,000 employees of SBC Communications said it would stage a four-day strike beginning Friday, following a deadlock in contract talks with the nation's No. 2 local phone company.
    SBC's 13-state coverage area includes Texas, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Connecticut.

    I guess they are a communications company. Since one of the states listed isn't 'intoxicated' I guess it doesn't affect you or I. ;)

  12. Re:A message I posted to a friend a while back... on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1
    Since Volkswagen lists it's 1.9l Diesel engine in the Golf at 47mpg, why aren't more Hybrid vehicles using Diesel engines?

    A biodeisel powered hybrid would get outrageous economy and be the best overall for the environment. (although, diesel engines hate being stopped/started often...)

  13. Re:Not for you to decide, sport. on Privacy in the Woods? · · Score: 2
    If I ran across anything like this in the woods that was public property...

    if you do that on land that's not your own, then you're a vandal.

    Public property does belong to you and I and to him. We are 'the public' after all. If I see garbage in the woods, I pick it up. If I saw signs nailed to a tree, I would tear them off.

  14. Re:Cool Easter egg on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you go into a corporate office, sit at the desk and type "iddqd" it will run an Excel 97 demo.

  15. Re:Maybe it's not just me. on Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction · · Score: 1
    something with no practicle use.

    No use? It's my yearly review time, and it would be perfect because I'm thinking of asking for a raise!

  16. Re:Shocking! on Rambus Files Antitrust Suit Against Memory Makers · · Score: 3, Informative
    Rambus doesn't make anything, it's a collector of patents and distributor of licenses to use those patents. It is the SCO of the dot-bomb.

    SCO probabally learned all there is to know about patent litigation as a revenue stream from Rambus. There have been many /. stories, around 1999 - 2000, about Rambus.

  17. Re:Old news... on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 1
    Actually, the effects in Van Helsing are quite good! Mr. Hyde looked quite good, and the transformations into werewolves were quite impressive.

    Yea, I saw it last night.

  18. Re:Sound Effects on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Downloading drive-tones for your car, hmmmm, untapped business opportunity!

    Why not an electric toothbrush, or electric mixer? Come on, the Enterprise is in space, it doesn't actually make sound! ;)

    The Shadow vessel scream from B5! That'll wake you cyclists up!

  19. Re:Yeah..you're telling me... on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Strange this in the logs for my firewall I keep getting "portsentry[]: attackalert: connect from host slashdot.org/66.35.250.150 to TCP port 1080".

    Several times during the last couple days. Seems someone at Slashdot hasn't patched their two year old RPC hole.

    And recent patches for XP actually break SSL connections - so patching right away isn't always the best thing to do.

  20. Re:Avoiding Cars... on Robocones · · Score: 4, Funny
    And what happens when you stop in the closed lane - then they suddenly have you surrounded because some worker has a really twisted sense of humour? :)

  21. Re:None to trial? on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    If you think the proper size for an MP3 is 3,000 - 4,000 bits, or that Madonna recorded "Sympathy for the Devil" then you're too stupid to be stealing music.

  22. Re:None to trial? on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A good rule of thumb is "if you are not sure if you have the right to redistribute something, don't."

    I have thousands of MP3's, named the same as albums, artists and tracks. They are 3k-4k of random noise. eg: "Madonna - Sympathy for the Devil.mp3"

    As was pointed out during the original hearing to release names of users here in Canada, the CIRA had no proof of what was actually in the files that people were sharing. No one downloaded the files, then listened to them. There was no trail of evidence, so it was dismissed.

    Share junk - let them download it - maintian CD backups of the originals - maintian download and connection logs - and countersue for racketeering. Get rich quick.

  23. Re:Techology has gone full circle on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    How is it that a Canadian like me knows American history bettert han you? :-P

    I believe the previous poster answered your question - 1959 when Alaska was admitted to the union. Some people get confused about the whole Guam thing too.

  24. Re:And yet... on Andromeda And Mutant X Cancelled · · Score: 1
    Canwest Global also produces Stargate SG-1, but it is not part of their 'Fireworks' entertainment brand. I think they are selling the rights to SG-1 to the Sci-Fi channel. Strange, because I get Global as one of my local stations, but they took Stargate off the airwaves locally 2 years ago. Thank $deity for suprnova.

  25. Re:Techology has gone full circle on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: 5, Informative
    One Japanese balloon landed in Oregon, killing 2 people. The only casualties by Japan in the continental US during WWII.