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  1. Re:Parental Paranoia on MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you tap your teenagers phone calls?

    I don't have to. Like any good parent I smothered my daughter in bubble wrap and then crated her. Nice and safe. Nothing's too good for my princess. She can come out when she's 21. If I think she's mature enough.

    Oh, wait, shit, she's 26 now.

    Hoooooooney? Where's the crowbar? And what's that smell?

    KFG

  2. Re:Left vs Right? on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 1

    There's always the much-maligned Political Compass - with not one but two axes to look at.

    I have, in the past on some other forum, criticised it for not having three axes (as well as for being missaliged by 45 degrees). By only having two it places some individuals who were highly individual in the main sequence. Ghandi comes to mind, who was far more libertarian socially than he was politically.

    It's an interesting exercise anyway, even if you don't agree with its results.

    Well, I admit I'm not thrilled by sharing a data point with a notorious, deposed theocrat, but at least it got making me an outlier right.

    KFG

  3. Re:Wonderful! on New Rocket Engine Successfully Tested · · Score: 2, Funny

    Methane gas is utterly renewable. You can make it from shit

    Petroleum is utterly renewable. You can make it from plants.

    KFG

  4. Re:No on New Rocket Engine Successfully Tested · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a small engine mounted to the back of a trailer.

    Are they contemplating the Final Solution for trailer trash or something?

    First they came for the trailer trash and I didn't say anything because I wasn't trailer trash.
    Then they came for the phone sanitizers . . .

    On the other hand it's a free ride into space. Maybe I'll get a mullet and rip the sleeves off my t-shirts or something. Take that Ansari.

    KFG

  5. Re:Little bit disingenuous on New Rocket Engine Successfully Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    . . .meeting the targetted design goals.

    Holy Christ, are we still allowed to do that? Why didn't I get the memo?

    Now all we have to do is do something about the design goals and we're set.

    KFG

  6. Re:entertaining! on Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    What I really want to know, though, is whether he requires his guests to lean dramatically back and forth during chase scenes?

    All I can say is that if he invites you over to watch a movie do not, I repeat, do not wear red.

    KFG

  7. Re:56k Modems? on Skype Founders Develop Media Streaming Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    No problem. You just need to install the And Here a Miracle Happens plugin.

    KFG

  8. Re:Shows it... on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Boy, it sure would be great to be smarter than the guy who wrote Linux, wouldn't it?

    It has its pros and cons.

    KFG

  9. Re:What's wrong with tubes? on "Series of Tubes" Metaphor Implemented · · Score: 1

    Or is it just that the rest of the Senator's speach that was ignorant, and people just latch onto tubes as a one word reminder.

    The dude more or less said that it took him two days to get an email because the tubes were full.

    KFG

  10. Re:Fifty one! on Toshiba Touts 51GB HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Everbody; sing!

    "A silly millimeter longer, 101."

    Perhaps you have to be of a certain age for that one.

    KFG

  11. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot on Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    Yes, you initially have to take time to figure out where things are, but when you know it's quicker.

    vi.

    KFG

  12. Re:The Boxen on Ball Lightning Created In the Lab · · Score: 1

    . . .is this based on some other lyric?

    You must new here; and I don't mean at Slashdot.

    It's a parody of Paul Simon's "The Boxer":

    The Boxer Lyric

    Normally I just toss these things out as stream of conciousness fragments and then forget about them, but I might save this one and do a proper workup of it. It seems to have potential.

    KFG

  13. The Boxen on Ball Lightning Created In the Lab · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am just a Sun Blade and my story's seldom told
    I have squandered my existence on some packets full of numbers such are data files
    All porn and jest
    Still the NAT hears what it wants to hear
    and access denies the rest
    Oh yes, access denies the rest

    In the NOC there stands a boxen
    and a server by its trade
    and it carries the reminders
    of every luser guest that logged on
    and downloaded till it cried out
    in its full Slashdotted shame
    "My CPU is burning, but the hard drive still remains"
    Yes, the data still remains . . .

    Dee oh Ees *kissssssh*
    Dee oh, Dee oh, Dee oh Ees
    Dee oh Ees *kissssssh*
    Dee oh, Dee oh, Dee oh, Dee oh, Dee oh Ees

    KFG

  14. Re:Excellent video on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1

    Extrapolating current trends, in the future - we will all be Elvis, playing Pachelbel.

    KFG

  15. Re:Well you know what they say,,, on Canon-Toshiba Joint Venture On SED Collapses · · Score: 1

    . . .ditch 'em for somone else"

    Someone they'll now have to subcontract at a flat rate to handle the manufacturing instead of getting cut in on the deal.

    Gee, I wonder who has that sort of capacity?

    KFG

  16. Re:Well you know what they say,,, on Canon-Toshiba Joint Venture On SED Collapses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except in this case it isn't taking over your enemy, it's ditching your friend. Canon didn't beat 'em, they capitulated, but made it good to their patner instead of dragging them down a hole.

    KFG

  17. Re:producer != writer on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1

    The producer usually deals with overseeing the recording, orchestration, mixing, etc.

    Which is exactly the phase of the recording process at which this issue occured. This isn't a song writer issue, the producer lifted somebody else's work and included it in the final mix as part of the orchestration.

    KFG

  18. Re:Excellent video on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . .sing the Marine Hymn (Halls of Montezuma) to the tune of "Oh, My Darling Clementine." Just hum a few bars and see how well it fits. . .

    . . .over Pachelbel's cello ground.

    KFG

  19. Re:you know.... on Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The children themselves certainly weren't scarred for having seen it.

    I take it you didn't get the memo.

    If they're scarred at all, it's because they were raised to take offense to the material.

    There is that, of course, but there is the corallary as well. It is my observation that kids that are scarred by the experience get this scarring from having to deal with all the fucked up grownups around them going completely apeshit about their having seen a little exposed skin.

    It's a self fullfilling prophecy that kids are harmed by it if you insure they come to harm yourself.

    Yo! People. Under our clothes? We're naked. Get used to the idea, 'k? I'm getting a bit tired of living among psychotics.

    KFG

  20. Re:Ummm, on What is Apple Without Steve Jobs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the same IBM that let the clones out of the closet...

    If you jump in front of a parade that doesn't mean you organized it.

    KFG

  21. Re:"standardized spots" on AMD Aims At New Standard for Motherboards · · Score: 1

    You still can't tell which way is up with USB.

    But at least they wobble around and then fall out, so you've got that going for you.

    KFG

  22. Re:What's up with the code names, anyway? on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. I might actually have to take the trouble to watch that someday. The reviews seem to run better than the trailers, which is unusual.

    Normally Ferrel just annoys the piss out of me, but I happened to catch Elf by happenstance and thought it was adorable.

    Or maybe I just have a crush on Zooey.

    KFG

  23. Re:what were they thinking on Cisco VP Explains Lawsuit Against Apple · · Score: 1

    If you don't mind bending over and getting fucked now and again there is power in that. It's entirely concievable that Jobs knows exactly what he's doing.

    Cisco has run straight to the courts as a pressure tactic, expecting Apple to eat the worm and settle on onerous terms, but if Apple believes they can break the mark. . .

    KFG

  24. Re:Space Shuttle, CEV, and Failed Sats on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    it almost certainly cheaper to build and launch a new satelite

    Ice Station Zebra.

    KFG

  25. Re:Terrorism? on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The military knows that it is a target and is capable of responding, and so it's generally considered a valid target. The world gives a kind of grudging acceptance of your right to do it.

    Tell it to the people talking about the U.S.S. Cole.

    Terrorism comes much closer to Clausewitz's "total war".

    Beware of leaving your opponant without options.

    KFG