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  1. Re:que 500 stupid M$ sux0rs posts on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you mean: Cue or Queue?

  2. Re:The race... on Discovery Launch a No-Go, Again · · Score: 1

    I guess we'll have to see how that pans out in the next two years. China may very well win the upper hand while NASA remains grossly under funded.

  3. The race... on Discovery Launch a No-Go, Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would seem that NASA is not as serious about the new space race as China. Someone will end up controlling the skies, just got to wonder whom.

  4. Re:Significant aniversaries on The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    And we'll all have to wait a year, in breathless anticipation, to find out why it's such a significant number for you.

    How will we ever survive?

  5. Re:I have a sixth sense. on Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pity KDawson doesn't have that ability.

  6. Rocket fuel for thought... on Europe's Biggest Amateur Rocket Completes Test-Firing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this cute and interesting when done by a group of European amateurs and a global threat when done in North Korea?

  7. Re:OOOH, that West Texas Fireball... on Meteorite Hunters Find the West Texas Fireball · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've updated my calender, I'll give this a laugh a week from next Monday. Until then...

  8. Employers aren't Interest in /. on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Post whatever you'd like, no one reads /.

    Well no one important.

  9. OOOH, that West Texas Fireball... on Meteorite Hunters Find the West Texas Fireball · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry I was thinking this was a post about a small taco stand that kept me up 'till the early morning last Saturday.

  10. 5 yr plan on Netflix To Offer Streaming-Only Service Plans · · Score: 1

    Considering that he went on record in the end of the year shareholders meeting to say that in 5 yrs Netflix will be completely done with physical media of all types, I don't find this to be remotely surprising or even eyebrow raising.

  11. Re:Free Ride on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 1

    At scuba shops, airgas suppliers and industrial suppliers. And, oddly enough, since they do sell bottled air it comes with a certain set of guarantees. Not entirely sure what your point was, since this is a prime example of getting what you pay for.

  12. Re:Free Ride on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 1

    Or don't ever use something free, in the end there are NO guarantees and since you paid NOTHING you have no loss.

  13. Free Ride on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the end, this is like a hitchhiker bitching when their ride only takes them part way. If it's free, you don't have much to complain about. If you'd like complete freedom, host your own blog, but do it on your own server... with your own lines... etc etc...

  14. Re:Is she related? on Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    She's not. However, she is related to Jane Hathaway. And she's got my vote!

  15. More security on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somehow just does not make me feel more secure.

  16. Do No Evil on Privacy Group Calls Google Latitude a Real 'Danger' · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just facilitate it more easily for others.

  17. Hey good lookin'... on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 2, Informative

    we'll be back to pick you up later!

  18. Please hold... on PwC Auditors Arrested In Satyam Fraud Inquiry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your call is important to us.

    Press 1 if you'd like you're information stolen, 2 if you'd like to participate in a pyramid scheme, 3 if you would like to speak directly to a lawyer.

    Thank you.

  19. Re:My favorite part on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope this means that very flexible displays are coming soon!

  20. Spy vs. Spy on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since Obama said OK to Warrantless Wiretapping it kind of put a kink in the whole Spy v. Spy thing permanently. Now it's just sorta ___vs. Us.

  21. Obligatory on Downadup Worm — When Will the Next Shoe Drop? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, would like to welcome our new Ukrainian Worm Overlords.

  22. 50 yrs is not that long on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Keep multiple systems and monitors.

    In 50yrs I think you'd have more problem porting the video out than anything else. Remove the batteries too.

    Why not store 3 complete systems in 3 entirely different ways. Hoping that one of them will survive intact. Or components from all three will have enough intact to make a complete system. Let's assume that whoever finds it, even in a century will be intelligent enough to turn it on. Unless this ends up being an Old Man in the Cave sort of scenario. Then you've no hope anyway.

    My uncle still fires up his Apple LISA every few months to do his accounting on it.

  23. predictions on NASA Releases Video Tour of the ISS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brittany Spears/NASA Mashup in 3... 2... 1...

    Youtube is the cultural paradise you always thought it could be.

  24. Re:And... on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 1

    No asshole, I don't even own a cell phone.

  25. And... on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 5, Informative

    RIM gets an unlimited amount of free advertising over this being headline news for a month!