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  1. Re:oblig on Coming Soon, Roadcasting · · Score: 1

    LOL! Too bad the general sashdot population is probably way too young to get that reference.

  2. Re:Sure it's a joke... on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1

    Old African Proverb:

    There is no truth, only stories.

  3. Re:Active Directory on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    Novell supported LDAP long before MS. Also Active Directory is just a very poor clone of Novell's superior NDS (Novell Directory Services)tech.

  4. Re:So, for us old fogeys who don't do rap... on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    mc = Master of Ceremonies or alternatively Microphone Controller. In any even the mc is the person with the mic, i.e. the rapper.

  5. WTF does fracking mean? on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    What the fuck does fracking mean? Is that some kind of gay joke?

  6. It's a civil suit not a murder trial on Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill · · Score: 1

    This guy is not defending any one and there is no prosecutor. This lawyer is merely trying to capitalize on a tragedy.

  7. I wish I had wasted more time in High School on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 1

    I worked pretty hard throughout High School and College I always took a full class load of the most advanced subjects they would let me take. Meanwhile my friends were out partying and generally having a much better time than I. In the end after bustin ass through High School and college I really don't see what the purpose of any of it was. I could have skated by with average grades and still be making the same amount of money I make today. In fact after 12 years of being in the job market no even one employer has ever asked for me to even prove I went to college.

  8. Re:Wooden computer? How silly. The real answer: on Robot Building for Beginners · · Score: 1

    Pigeons! So you managed to sucessfully implement RFC 1149?
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt?number=1149
    Congrats to you!

  9. Re:Spyware / spam prevention on Spyware Removal is Big Business · · Score: 1

    In addition to the above mentioned utilities check out HijackThis http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html. It is an extremely handy tool for getting rid of those annoying search bars and other browser helper objects that embed themselves in IE. The ones that AdAware and Spybot for some reason refuse to recognize as spy/spamware. Requires a bit of savy to use though, not for the novice.

  10. Re:Balloons and Children's Hospitals on 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D · · Score: 1

    Oh, boo hoo. oh, and you spelled asinine wrong.

  11. Re:Come to DC! on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    Where did you get those numbers? To my knowledge we have less than a year before the program runs out of money and a major increase in the tax, i.e. 40% of your total wages.

  12. Re:My eyes are filling with tears for the labels.. on Wal-Mart Squeezing Record Labels to Cut CD Prices · · Score: 1

    What are you yelling about, the whole point of complaining about Wal-Mart is to warn others of their practices so that people will be informed and can make their own decision about shopping there. Just because you think their shit don't stink doesn't mean people shouldn't complain about their bad experiences to warn others. I hate Wal-Mart, I never go there and I'll tell that to anyone who listens so that they too might be spared the agony that is Wal-Mart.

  13. Re:We should not go on Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars · · Score: 1

    Care to back that up with a reference? According to this site, http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/iceland_h istory.asp , Iceland didn't not become a democratic republic until 1944.

  14. Re:Demographics... on You're Watching Less TV · · Score: 1

    Then you believe that all votes are a waste unless you get something from the politicians who are in office.

    What you must realize though is that in order for a politician to give you something, he must first take it from someone else. You may not have a problem with that at first, but in time, you will realize that eventually they will start taking from you.


    All I want from any politician is my freedom, which crazily enough seems to be the one thing both parties agree should be limited, not expanded.

  15. Re:Dammit on Asteroid to Make Closest Recorded Pass to Earth · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it suck if the world was really going to end and no girls showed up to your orgy-party? Order your REALDOLLS today while there's still time!

    Realdolls? It's the end of the world dude, spring for some whores.

  16. Re:GIMP plugin? on Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with this five dot pattern. Could you tell me where I could find an example of it? Either on the web or on the currency itself.

  17. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Umm.. no. Bob can still distribute the work as he sees fit; Alice isn't preventing him.

    Alice does not equal thief

  18. Re:Questions on China Sends First Taikonaut To Space · · Score: 1

    A quick google brought this up. Facts on China's Shenzhou spacecraft

  19. Re:Back at MPAA headquarters.... on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    After reading the article I really don't think these new "Crap Codes" are intended for uniquely marking the film. The original "Cap Code" system developed by Kodak was meant to uniquely mark the reels but that system was invisible to the movie viewer. I believe the purpose of this new system is try to foil people from distributing compressed copies of the film on the internet. As I understand it these spots are only partially noticeable at the theater, but when highly compressed for internet distribution really mar the film. If that's the case i think it would behoove the studios to make sure that every film print has the spots in the same place. Otherwise I think it would be trivial for someone to get two different copies of the film and merge and filter them to remove all of the spots.

  20. Re:Connections on Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System · · Score: 1

    IP sucks and is Evil.

  21. Re:Idle on Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway · · Score: 1

    Do any of the really classic Python quotes or scenes have Idle in them?

    Well the first that comes to my mind is the Nudge, Nudge Sketch, a classic and funny sketch.

    A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

  22. Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. on Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway · · Score: 1

    Ha Ha Ha Ha, It's funny cause it's true, now where did my sack of Twinkies go to?

  23. Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. on Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway · · Score: 1

    "Do you want to come upstairs ?" becomes "Do you want a blowjob ?" in the US version of the travel agent sketch.

    I have to agree with them then. As an American I find the change makes it quite a bit funnier.

  24. Re:It's not because of Sony's GTA exclusivity... on Take-Two Interactive and Sony Sued Over GTA · · Score: 1

    It's called conspiracy to commit murder and in the US is considered just as serious a crime as actually committing the murder. For example Charles Manson was never proven to have actually killed anybody himself, he was convicted for conspiring to commit murder, do you want to let him out of jail?

  25. Re:Well, duh... on Open Cable Standard Not So Open · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is illegal for your complex to charge you a deposit in order for you to have an antenna on your porch if it is a private area that you rent. You cannot legally put your dish in a common area without your aptartments permission but any private area you rent is fair game and it is against the law for your complex to charge a deposit as this causes an avoidable delay in you installing an antennae. Check out this site [http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html] for more info, this is a ruling that the dish networks bought specifically for apartment and rental home dwellers.