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  1. Re:Not flamebait on Baseball Cracks Down on Fan Sites · · Score: 2, Informative
    And they still can't hit like Ruth.
    Hmmm. Barry Bonds 2001 -- More home runs, more walks, better SLG%, better OBP%. Not necessarily better than Ruth, but certainly Ruthian.
  2. Easily solved on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 1

    If they take you to court and you really are a jedi, just give them the old "I'm not these defendant you're looking for. Case dismissed" version of the Jedi mind trick...

  3. Beautiful on Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats really beautiful: a list of people who don't want to be linked to, and each entry is a working link to them. I wonder how many letters they get saying "Please do not link to us from your Do not link to us page"?

  4. Oh, the irony... on Forty-Speed CD-RW Shootout · · Score: 3, Funny
    please check your bandwidth first to see if it can survive the Slashdot effect [bnl.gov],
    Slashdot effect eh? I wonder what that is:

    TCP connection to 'ssadler.phy.bnl.gov' failed: Connection refused.

    I guess I'll never know.
  5. Re:No practical applications? on Fields Medals awarded · · Score: 1

    He also said that about relativity, IIRC, and this was only a four years before mass-energy equivalence had a pretty dramatic effect on two large Japanese cities.

  6. Re:a doughnut into a coffee cup on Fields Medals awarded · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but now the dough is all soggy and the jam has leaked down your shirt. As ever, theres more subtlety to advanced maths[0] than laymen appreciate.

    [0] That maths with an s. Math is a Roman Catholic servith.

  7. Re:Japanese art... on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 1
    And you're making the assumption that gets everyone mad at Americans
    Actually, I was just trying to be funny...
  8. Re:Japanese art... on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 3, Funny
    SKY have just won the rights to screen the World Origami Championships from Tokyo.
    Unfortunately it's only available on Paper View.
    Very funny joke
    But Americans won't know
    What SKY TV is

    For more clarity
    Replace with US channel
    such as HBO
  9. Re: Liberal Groupthink on Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux? · · Score: 1
    But what do you suppose would happen to the "compliance rate" if there was no force to back up the tax laws?
    Oh I see. Thats a fair point, but its equally true about taxation for (say) the armed forces, whereas I (mis)read your post as implying that force was necessary because it was for social welfare expenditure. You're right, some people just don't like paying taxes.

    I won't. I think that [publicly funded sports arenas are] scam of outrageous proportions.
    I think you're right.
  10. Re: Liberal Groupthink on Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux? · · Score: 1
    can't do it without using force
    Course you can. Its called taxation. If you can raise money for the common defense, you can raise it for welfare.

    Americans are strange people. They'll vote for local taxation to build a group of already-wealthy businessmen a new baseball stadium, but suggest the same thing to pay for the healthcare of the poorest sections of society and they'll call you a socialist.
  11. Re:I don't think I am in error on Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux? · · Score: 1
    But most constitutional scholars do not consider the Bill Of Rights to have been an attempt to provide an exhaustive list of the role and responsibilities of government. Allow me to quote "The West Wing" to you:

    Seaborn:In 1787, there was a sizable block of delegates who were initially opposed to the Bill of Rights. This is what a member of the Georgia delegation had to say by way of opposition; 'If we list a set of rights, some fools in the future are going to claim that people are entitled only to those rights enumerated and no others.'"

    Harrison: "Were you just calling me a fool, Mr. Seaborn?"

    Sam: "I wasn't calling you a fool, sir. The brand new state of Georgia was."
  12. Re:Wernher von Braun on Man Conquers Space · · Score: 1
    I guess the (approx) 2700 killed and 6500 people seriously injured might
    Well, duh. Its called "Humour".
  13. Re:Wernher von Braun on Man Conquers Space · · Score: 1
    Don't call him hypocritical
    Say rather `apolitical'
    "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down,
    It's not my department" says Werner von Braun.

    -- Tom Lehrer
  14. Superfluous recommendation of other comic strip on User Friendly 1.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And its not sluggy-bastard-freelance, either. Try PhD, although I'd imagine the recognition factor of the comedy requires you to have done at least a few months in graduate school.

  15. Re:The Archive on User Friendly 1.0 · · Score: 1
    but beware - this can really screw up your productivity!
    Indeed it can.

    You'll spend the rest of your day showing the strips to your co-workers and saying: "Is this supposed to be funny?"

  16. Re:Windows Media Player?? on The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful
    not disabling the 'Personal Protection'
    And what a splendidly Orwellian bit of double speak that name is. I can't see which bit of the users person such a feature might be used to protect. I guess "Corporate Protection" just didn't have the right ring.
  17. Re:I get it... on Tracking Your Employees, Children · · Score: 1
    There's this little thing called kidnapping. ... Now, I'm not sure of the exact number of missing children in this country, but I do know it's at least 6 digits.
    And only a tiny percentage of them have anything to do with kidnapping. The vast majority of missing children have left home voluntarily, and I'd imagine that very few of them would choose to take their electronic tag with them.
  18. Re:What a heap of crap? on Dell To Offer Windows-Less PCs · · Score: 1
    That loophole exists in the "dumbass" form that it exists in because to do otherwise would be a clear exertion of Monopoly power.
    Well, all they'd have to say is "The OS provided with the machine must be *installed*". I can't see why that is a greater breach of antitrust law than their present licensing arrangement...
  19. Re:What a heap of crap? on Dell To Offer Windows-Less PCs · · Score: 1
    How much space does FreeDOS take? Perhaps only one CD, or less?
    About 3 floppies last time I used it.
    The FreeDOS is just a maneuver to get around a loophole in Microsoft's licencing agreement
    Yup. And I'd imagine some highly paid contract lawyer is getting carpetted over leaving such a dumbass loophole in it right now...
  20. Re:HERE is a good use for a firewall. on Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System · · Score: 1

    No bother, just put the code where the free world can read it, but satisfying the American governments need to protect its citizens from themselves and go on laughing up our sleeves about how the Bush administration loves to suck corporate cock.

  21. Re:Handling by Justice Department on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: 1
    So far, Rubin is the only compromised politico related to Enron that anyone's been able to find.
    Well, only in the sense that VP Cheney has been hiding under the desk in his office for the past 11 months.
  22. Re:Damn you Order on Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002 · · Score: 1

    I prefer this one
    net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:
    goto hit; /* You sunk my battleship! */

  23. Re:My goodness, You are all illiterate! on What Good Linux Debuggers Are There? · · Score: 0
    Is it just me or did the original poster say that they did not want to hear people say 'use printf' or 'use a gdb frontend'.
    Well, yes. But its a funny way to phrase a question that finishes "... and, by the way, I don't want to hear the right answer."
  24. Re:The interface *is* a problem on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 1
    Dave Hyatt [has] savaged the current interface.
    Right, like I'm going to take user-interface tips from a guy whose blog comes as black text on a black background on non-CSS browsers. (Note to Hyatt: Use Cascading Styles or don't, but make your bloody mind up.)
  25. Re:Open computing ending? on Gates Tries to Explain .Net · · Score: 1
    I actually have no cell phone, and am actively opposed to having one. There's no need for everyone in the world be able to bother me whenever they want to.
    Fear not, even as we speak scientists worldwide are struggling with the thorny problem of the "Mobile Phone OFF Switch". Due Q3, 2003.