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  1. Re:Old Days on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 2

    People used to pee in the street or wherever they damn well pleased, too. That doesn't mean we need to reclaim the behavior since it's easier to do than tracking down a restroom.

  2. Re:Making subscriptions worth it on Slashdot Subscription Update · · Score: 2

    My worry about that (expressed in my last journal entry) was a DoubleClick ad on /. trying to set a cookie, which (given the anti-DoubleClick stories here) seems like a Bad Thing.

  3. Re:For the record on Star Wars Phantom Menace 1.1 Editor Speaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Little kids liking it is no excuse.

    When it comes to creativity, adults not liking it is no excuse not to do something.

  4. Re:UUUHHHH....SPOILER WARNING..... on The Lone Gunmen Are Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spock DIED? When the fsck did that happen????!!!!!!

    ;)

  5. Re:User Experience on Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing? · · Score: 2
    No amount of newspeak, rationalization, and Gnome/Microsoft/Apple apologism will convince me otherwise.

    Erm, how about this: the MSIE project manager is the one who said "They optimized for user experience rather than raw performance."

    Then you said this:
    I am happy to defend Apple sometimes, but statements like this are totally silly.

    Which tells me you are either confused as to who said this (much less what Apple is up to) or got Amigandignant in a hurry and didn't pay attention.
  6. Re:Operation Flashpoint... on Unreal Tournament 2003, Now With More Ogg · · Score: 3, Funny
    The squirrel running across my street right now, on the other hand, has heard of Unreal Tournament.


    If he was carrying a Flak Cannon and running across the street towards you, I would close the window immediately and get under your desk. :)
  7. Re:IIS6 on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 2

    ohhh, so thats why iis is so unsecure, it ony has one eye! .. you would think MS would make use of two eyes instead

    Well, that would be missing the point, what with Sauron founding the...

    Never mind, I've said too much already.

  8. Re:Every time on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 2

    Why can't you have a nice human-parasable text file AND a GUI interface?

    Hmm....

  9. Re:Skeptics, *yawn* on Rare Earth · · Score: 2

    By the same token, being a staunch atheist means you will look for any reason to refute the existance of a deity.

    Bzzzt. Nope, wrong. Being a staunch atheist means there not *being* evidence to prove the existance of a deity.

  10. Re:...none of the hassle...? on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 2

    Erm, marketing ectoplasm is meant for those who actually approve purchasing, often non-hacker suits who know enough to get in trouble but who are in charge of the budget. Which makes this ad perfectly targeted.

  11. Google-ku on Google Ad-words Poetry Project · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many Google posts
    So many are repeated
    Taco is obsessed

  12. Re:OSX users should check out Navigator on Mozilla Poised for Revival? · · Score: 2

    I believe you're referring to the Chimera browser, info on which (and download thereof) can be found here. They just released version 0.2.0 a few days ago. Plugins still don't work yet, but they have Quartz rendering and native UI widgets, so they're already ahead of Mozilla. :)

    It supports tabbed browsing (a must as far as I'm concerned nowadays), and lots of other spiffyness. It's not crash-proof, as I've managed to do it a couple of times, but it's stable, quick, and full of Cocoa-goodness.

  13. Re:In Other News... on Unix Isn't Dead · · Score: 2

    I'm thinking the contributor's handle is actually "windows bias world" instead of "windows bios world." For gosh's sake, he reads *CNET*. Blar.

  14. Re:Clearly not geography majors... on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the big deal? Everything between California and New York is pretty much the same thing. ;-D

  15. Re:bass on Making Your Room Quiet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this will stop bass vibrations.

    I didn't realize they made that much noise. They're only fish, after all. I suggest staying out of the water. ;-)

  16. Re:LOTR on Slashback: Bnetd, Salmon, Towers · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure if we can trust anyone named curunir You don't have a buddy named Gríma, do you? ;-)

    Anyhow, I am in complete agreement. In ring-like fashion, seeing all that come to life was obscured by the tears coming to my eyes at seeing it all come to life. I lost my breath, it was that good.

    Which version of the DVD to get... or do I get all of them? Bwa ha ha. :-D

  17. Re:Ooqa ooqa? I think not. on Browser Becomes Billboard · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that be GNUqa GNUqa?

  18. Re:NotSlash scoops Slashdot Again! on Browser Becomes Billboard · · Score: 2

    We scoop Slashdot!

    I suggest changing the name of your site to NoLife

  19. Good Lord on Geo-Encryption: Global Copyright Defense? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Armed with Denning's geo-encryption system, which she co-patented in 1998, only people in specified locations, such as movie theaters, living rooms or corporate conference rooms, would be able to unscramble the data.

    This is going to make playing with the hanger-antenna on top of the TV look like nothing. "Honey, I can't watch the movie until you bring it in the living room." What's worse though...

    Medical records could be sent from a doctor in Peoria for a second opinion to a doctor in Manhattan--and all without the usual worries over privacy leaks to insurers or investigators along the way.

    "But doctor, I thought I *was* a Region 1 patient."

  20. Re:CmdrTaco on April Fools Wrap Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    It never ceases to amaze me how pompous and self-righteous, yet utterly clueless posters can be despite the blatant lameness of their posts.

  21. Re:If this isn't an April Fool's joke... on Blizzard removes Orcs from Warcraft III · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anything that lame and in "totally-like-valley-girl speak" has to be made up.

    Dude, don't be so, like, bogus, okay?

  22. Re:Orville Redenbacher on Linus Retiring from Kernel Dev · · Score: 2

    He's also dead, so I don't know how that might affect future kernel development. The popcorn company seems to have gotten on fine without him being, as it were, present. :)

  23. Re:This is getting ridiculous. on nVidia/AMD Merger Announced · · Score: 2

    It's that white stuff on top of the mountains that's covered up when the smog rolls in. BTW, it's 62 and partly cloudy in L.A. too.

    However, with 1/4 of the rainfall for us this year, that haze may be from all the brush fires come summer time.

  24. Re:It's all about 64 bit C programming... on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 2

    As the old saying goes, it's not how big your hard drive is, it's how much RAM you have. ;-)

  25. Re:Penguin Socks on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could have been worse. She could have asked for Penguins with socks on them. ;)