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  1. Re:More pictures on 3D Display, No Glasses Required · · Score: 1

    5' 8" for anyone who can't do metric.

  2. Re:Assholes. on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    You are correct. If I could sum it up and hopefully we could agree, the premise was: "Seeing the truth and believing a lie."

    That was my strongest impression.

  3. Re:Assholes. on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    No, if it were 1984, the hosting company would rather hand over the data in exchange for not being punished, harmed themselves.

    Remember room 101? The moral was that most people will fuck someone else over if they themselves can go free of harm. That works on many psychological levels too.

  4. Re:More to the story on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    Well then who said it???? I've always seen it attributed to Voltaire.

  5. Re:Huh? Aren't humans 100%? on Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans · · Score: 1

    Mine is smart enough to log in first, and is patched with humor-1.22-irony.wit :-p

  6. Re:Well... on Defending Earth From Asteroids With MADMEN · · Score: 2, Funny

    The other half of China will shoot them while they are in the air.

  7. Re:Well, now I'm depressed on Singularity Sky · · Score: 1

    ... or you want to join the elite .0726% of /. that actually reads the articles.

  8. Re:Anyone who intimately knows 5 on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Learn 5, because it will probably take a few months until 6 is standard. Either way, in a few years you will look back on whatever you coded today and shake your head in shame. /used to printf() every line when he learned PHP

  9. Re:Deodorant joke, anyone? on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Easy enough for a woman, made by boys in their mom's basements." /cliche

  10. OT: It's the Clinton-era criminals. on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is offtopic

    Guess where the bad WMD info originated.

    Italian Intelligence delivered the BS yellow cake story.
    British Intelligence delivered an 11yo dossier that was plagiarized from a student and updated.
    The DoD stove-piped their own intelligence based off statements from ex-patriated Iraqis who had not lived in Iraq for years.

    The CIA warned that these were all shoddy and suspect, so Cheney met with them daily for months in order to make them "see the light.

  11. Toys Don't Make Linux Work on Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The toys made it fun, but the coders made it work. I think marketing droids are also to blame for overhyping linux to some extent during the dot com boom and causing a lot of companies who had good products to die young because they thought they were bigger than life.

  12. Re:This shouldn't change anything on Worried about Digital Evidence Tampering? · · Score: 1

    30 years ago it probably wouldn't have taken photo manipulation in order to get you picture taken with Bush and Clinton in a bar.

  13. Micro, Nano... Tecto? on New Microscope Shows Nano-Fibre Formation · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just taking a wild guess with the subject, but does anyone know what comes after nano? Eventually we're going to get there and I wanted to know what the name was, maybe it's something cool like hyper or jigga.

  14. Re:Totally brutal... on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pfft, don't piss on Opera, fanboy. It's just as standards compliant as your beloved FreeBird or whatever.

  15. Re:NOT mozilla-lite on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Japanese name was Gojira. You really think they would be able to pronounce the L?

  16. Re:Saturated? on Smog Busting Paint Breaks Down Noxious Gasses · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'll go point by point for your list, starting with cars and trucks (which are identical to SUVs in the eyes of the Govt), then going down your list:

    cars: increased safety requirements (full passenger cage), increased CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) restrictions

    Trucks: lesser safety requirements (no passenger cage, body is a rigid steel frame with an engine and wheels), decreased CAFE restrictions to be leniant to the numerous companies that use them for work-related activities (which is fine by me).

    SUVs: same as trucks, many are built off the same frames and do not offer the same protection as cars, but are "safer" because they are larger.

    mini-vans: newer than 1996 falls under same safety and CAFE statndards as cars.

    full size vans: same restriction as trucks due to business usage, also built on truck frames.

    RVs: Recreational vehicle, same as trucks and actually have lesser safety restrictions. Higher ad valorem taxes due to pleasure usage only.

    semi trucks: higher safety standards than trucks (regulation on license, stringent inspections, etcetera), CAFE standards are more lenient due to commercial usage

    buses: same as semi trucks, except school buses which are actually inspected as little as feasible on many occasions due to county control and wavers.

  17. Re:There's always worse. on Dream Jobs of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Piss on the floor.

  18. Re:prior art on Analog Approach to Displaying Data · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had a feeling i had that wrong. Ah well, I suppose we'll all be modded offtopic anyways.

  19. Re:prior art on Analog Approach to Displaying Data · · Score: 1

    gecko != iguana

    18...19...20

  20. Re:When people ask. on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1

    Hey, since you work in computers, can you get my AOL to work, I am having problems with it not connecting. I have tried holding my phone up to the screen but it still does not connect.

    Plz help!

  21. Re:foxpro on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    I fucking hated foxpro. VFP was even worse since I was now able to code for 3 hours just to make a stupid button from some inheritence class using OOP. And don't get me started on "views", whatever the fuck that was supposed to be. That language pissed me off.

  22. Re:Impressive technically but ... on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man them with pundits. They we are overstocked here on terra firma anyways.

  23. Re:Purposeful Flame War post on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fucking space terrorists. Thank God we're being proactive with this looming threat.

  24. Re:What happens when you type "make on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 3, Funny

    iraq# make weapons-mass-destruction
    error: uranium.so is corrupt or could not be found
    error: anthrax.so has corrupt header (possibly expired)
    error: compiling anyways, program may fail to install properly

  25. Re:The 12 Year Old... on Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe you are an idiot.