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  1. Re:You left off the second half of that. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    A well written series would not have that flaw.

    A "well-written series" would not be on cable television.

  2. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What counts as an "app"?

    Office? Probably.

    Firefox? Uhyup, I think so.

    All the different spyware/adware/rootkits/etc that your typical Windows user has clogging their machines? I hope not. Otherwise "3 apps only" would render the machine useless.

  3. Re:I know where . . . on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 1

    For throw-away hardware, check out your local thrift store.

    Also a good place to find a cheap change of clothes.

  4. Re:Lies, damn lies. on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 0

    Your wife's vagina smells like the Pacific Ocean?

    Wow, that is sooooo cool!

    Are there any starfish?

  5. Re:As my wife says, "Fuck 'em." on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    If by now you have not already amassed at least 20 gigs of ebooks on your various hard drives on your home computer(s), please proceed to the 3rd desk from the left and turn in your Geek(tm) card.

  6. Re:Why... on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Death Magnetic sucked slightly less than the previous several albums. Only slightly less.

    If Metalli-coustica keeps it up, they will probably... n/m, it's too late.

  7. Re:Why? on On the Advent of Controversial Video Games · · Score: 1

    If you want to play Elite, check out Oolite. It is freeware Elite with some mods.

  8. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    Check out Progressive.

    My wife and I are both insured on 2 vehicles, and we are both past the age of 30. I haven't had a ticket since 1994, she has had maybe 3 in the past 10 years.

    We pay less than $600 for 6 months.

  9. Re:Simple answer on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Don't keep an open mind, keep an active mind.

    If you leave your mind open all the time, the brain vandals will take shits in it.

  10. Re:Braille Quake on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The MAME cabinet idea rocks.

    Got something like that in the works for my daughter. We have a bunch of Windows-98-era driving games, a spare 900 mhz eMachine with Win98 CD and a V3 racing wheel. Marry that to 2 sheets of plywood cut in the shape of a car and a few sticks of 2x4 and you have the makings of an arcade-style racing cabinet.

    With no Internet connectivity, the fact that it is Win98 does not pose much of a security risk.

    As an added bonus, we can then convert her main desktop machine to Linux. Right now it is running XP because her Care Bears game won't run under WINE.

    Once the car cabinet is built we can move all Windows games to it and then every Internet-connected machine will be running Linux.

  11. Re:Not the programming on The Problem With Cable Is Television · · Score: 1

    A choose-your-channels model would rock. Give me Nickelodeon (for our 5 year old girl) and The Weather Channel and you can keep the rest.

  12. Re:Braille Quake on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 5, Informative

    With an external monitor, a keyboard and a USB mouse, you have the makings of a very small footprint desktop machine. Close the lid and put it under the monitor.

  13. Re:Autorun? on Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force · · Score: 1

    They should unplug the network cable and fill the USB ports with epoxy. That would prevent the other 15 percent from gaining access.

  14. Re:Here's some points.. on Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready · · Score: 1

    12 / 312 = very small number.

    Your maths are SOOOOO dum.

  15. Re:Offensive? on Should the US Go Offensive In Cyberwarfare? · · Score: 1

    Who is to say that attacks originating from a certain IP address, even from a foreign government office, are actually initiated by said government?

  16. Re:patented bacon on Biotech Company To Patent Pigs · · Score: 1

    Quick, we need prior art!

    Anybody got a movie of two pigs a-fuckin'?

  17. Re:Splog? on Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories · · Score: 1

    Don't forget "spit" (spammy shit).

  18. Re:not an attack on RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    ... would be more suprised ... to hear that's not what GPL was about.

    It's not about that at all.

    .

    ,

    wait for it...

    .

    ,

    SURPRISE!

  19. Re:Yes on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    They got directional signal markings. It's what electrons crave .

    Brawndo, the thirst-tamer!

    Fixed that for ya :-)

    There, fixed that fix for ya :-)

  20. Re:KISS on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: 1

    ...download it with wget...

    RMS, is that you?

  21. Re:They can either do it openly or covertly on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I can sum up the reason that this will never happen in two words:

    ... fair and simple...

    The cable companies don't roll like that.

  22. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! Don't make me get out my tiny platter-writing magnetic diddle sticks!

  23. Re:the warrant states a crime on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    As for the other charge of fraud, it isn't simply a matter of posting an article somewhere and saying 'so and so is gay'. its impersonating someone else and creating a gay profile for the purpose of defamation (which would be an unfair advantage). If someone pretends to be you, and misrepresents themself as you for the purpose of defaming you. This is the kind of misrepresentation that can amount to fraud.

    Yeah!
    And also he was stupid for not using a proxy.

  24. Re:Funny or an idiot? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    What about people who tend to lay out a workflow on paper and fit it into a CMS, then worry about the template after?

  25. Re:I am not sure you should blame monopoly on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    Happens sometimes to my wife's Inspiron 1501.

    ctrl-alt-backspace should restart the X server without having to reboot the machine.