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  1. Re:Fullscreen is a feature on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Idiot.

    Yeah, I can't imagine someone could be so stupid as to not have figured that out themselves; it's one of those things that is so obvious that Apple doesn't need to document it.

    Oh, I'm sorry, I just realized that was your sig.

  2. Re:Changelog? on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: 1

    who cares? Download, install, and then brag to your friends how up to date your system is.

  3. Re:Burst... on Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores · · Score: 1
    And of course 10% of all the songs you download will be the audio equivalent of goatse....

    oh, never mind; I see you already mentioned Bryan Adams.

  4. Re:Virtual PC == Cheating on 55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook · · Score: 1

    He could have at least installed ppc native versions of Linux and NetBSD. Red Hat Linux under Virtual PC seems lame.

  5. the writing is on the wall on Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's worse than it looks. In the first two weeks Apple sold two million songs. It's been seven months and they've only sold 25 million? That's a million a week the first two weeks, and then only 23 million in the next 28 weeks. If current trends continue, we're looking at a significant dropoff of song downloads. The writing is on the wall, folks; Apple is dying!

  6. Re:When OSX becomes popular... on Mac OS X Buffer Overflow Found · · Score: 1

    If OSX becomes popular, only popular people will use OSX.

  7. Re:who cares? on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Chalabi is not in the photo. A member of his militia is, and it is notable because he was known to be in Najaf the day before. It certainly raises questions.

  8. Re:start with a short story on For Us, The Living, by Robert A. Heinlein · · Score: 1

    D'Oh!!! That's right, it was Time Enough for Love that I thought we were talking about. My bad!

  9. name suggestion on Slashback: Hilbert's, Transgenic, Silicon · · Score: 1

    shouldn't these be called FATents?

  10. start with a short story on For Us, The Living, by Robert A. Heinlein · · Score: 1

    Methuselah's Children for the first time Heinlein reader? Ugh! Not unless you're fourteen and you think there's something naturally sexy about Ayn Rand in a commune. Not to mention it's like 800 pages long. If you want to dip into some earlier Heinlein to get a taste of his imagination check out his 1940 short story "And He Built a Crooked House," about an architect who builds a house in the 4th dimension. Wacky stuff. But if you really want the kind of gun-toting bare-breasted redheads and intergenerational orgies repleat with readings from the Fountainhead that a lot of his later work is known for, you should really start with Stranger rather than Methuselah's Children. The former is actually an outstanding book with profound themes, while the latter simply takes the hackneyed theme of the wise old patriarch who spews faux-objectivist dogma in plangent little aphorisms while his crew of horny naked admiring young redheaded girls polish their rifles (when they're not presumably polishing his, that is).

  11. Re:Vote logging on Electronic Voting in the News · · Score: 4, Funny
    Have you ever been to a polling place?

    "I'm not a voter but I play one on slashdot."

  12. He also forgot the last line: on Microsoft Retires Windows 98 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Which is nice."

  13. Re:Some discussions of the project and its shutdow on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 1
    Just because you can find an obscure use for a tool that has a prominent list of evil uses doesn't mean the tool should be released to the public.

    You mean like Windows?

  14. Re:Darn! on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 1
    Aren't Utah and Nicaragua on the same continent?

    You've obviously never been to Utah.

  15. Re:what was that again? on Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House · · Score: 1
    I wonder if Bush has as much use for penis enlargement pills as Clinton might have.

    Bush made it pretty clear on the USS Lincoln that he had no use for such pills.

  16. Re:Say this in a Cartman voice... on Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House · · Score: 1

    cause spam is for hippies. and hippies suck!

  17. not BSD on SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects · · Score: 1

    just look at the mascot. Sure, He wants the stability and security of the BSD core, but politically there's no way He could embrace BSD.

  18. You people can't be serious! on SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean come on, folks. Jesus uses a Mac. It's obvious. And any other view is heresy. Can I get an Amen?

  19. Re:Cool on Linux-powered Mobile Cocktail Mixer · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what they mean by "Mobile"? It's short for "Automobile."

  20. security won't be a problem on Linux-powered Mobile Cocktail Mixer · · Score: 4, Funny

    drunk admins will move on to harder stuff, using snort and even crack to improve security.

  21. More importantly on California Bans Genegineered Fish · · Score: 1

    Will this fish help me socialize with my mp3 player?

  22. hell yeah on Longest Physics Lecture in History? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the first note is already available on kazaa

  23. It can't be on Longest Physics Lecture in History? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    as long as this musical piece by John Cage, also being performed in Germany.

  24. Actually on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon? · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's just figuring we might find WMD there.

  25. Re:not a "pipe organ" on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what a radical thought, like, a pipe organ should actually have pipes. Thing is, though, this really is a pipe organ, because in linux you can actually create your own pipes.