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  1. Re:In that case on Sperm Could Power Nanobots · · Score: 1

    and where might we find this, erm, energy collector? please post pics and email address or myspace link....

  2. Re:Dollars $ Dollars on LANCOR v. OLPC Case Continues In Nigerian Court · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, just STFU up.

  3. The solution was available a decade ago on 27 Billion Gigabytes to be Archived by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the idea was crushed by ruthlessly greedy band of small-minded bloodsuckers with large legal staffs.

    They called it "Napster."

  4. Re:Easily Abused? on Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th · · Score: 1

    What this means is that no matter what you search for, the top hundred results will be to porn sites. So what's the problem here? This is exactly the functionality that was once promised in the vaporware project Net Nymph.
  5. Re:Well, no kidding! on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    supervise them. You spend all of your time taking what their willing to give, and knowing that it could be better. Rare is the case where your employee actually does something as well as you want them to do it because rare is the case that your employee could care less.
    I think this is exactly the grandparent's point. He/she said treat your employees like shit and they will give you shit work. Your response only confirms that that's exactly what happened.
  6. Nobody would notice on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 1

    it's illegal to go 70 mph; nobody would ever find out about it if Ford did that since we all would obey the law.

  7. Re:Well if anyone knows... on Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    When my brother was talking about having his motorcycle SHIPPED to the Sturges rally, I nearly exploded with internal laughter!
    Does he at least know how to spell Sturgis?
  8. yes definitely scum on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    I agree. You should not do things to gain an unfair advantage for a competition. That;s why taking steroids is outlawed in professional sports. They should also outlaw eating right and getting exercise and practicing because those things also give an unfair advantage! Pro football games should be played by dumpy looking bald guys who spend their time on the couch in front of the TV like the rest of us!!

  9. you missed the point completely (again) on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    Coke, meth, heroin are illegal now. And yet they have still caused all the misery you speak of. The drug war has not resulted in any decrease in the misery or addiction. In fact, the drug war has made these things worse; that is a documented fact of history that keeps repeating itself.

  10. Re:balance on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    you're missing the point entirely. What you say would be relevant if the drug war actually reduced the use (or even increased the price) of hardcore drugs. But it doesn't. It won't stop a single person from sniffing coke or shooting smack or speed or freakin' ayahuasca. If anything, it made hardcore drug use more common, cheaper, and deadlier. The war on pot in the 70s led smugglers to turn to cocaine, which was far easier to transport in larger quantities. The war on coke in the 80s was successful in hitting the major cartel but guess what? The drug economy became a hydra-headed monster and new smugglers popped up all over central and south America ... the coke trade continued to flourish after a brief setback when the price went up but it quickly came back down (it's now cheaper than it was in 1979), and in the meantime Mexican smugglers decided to start dealing meth instead because they didn't need to rely on Colombian sources. Meth has since become a brutal epidemic. I don't mean to boil everything down to a single cause - there are a lot of other issues involved - but it is resoundingly clear that the drug war has been an absolute failure it achieving its goals. There's a great article in a recent issue of Rolling Stone that discusses some of this historically if you care to learn about this. But I think we're past the point where we can make the statement with a straight face that a particular drug is particularly bad, therefore it should be illegal.

  11. Another thing Lincoln said on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    This is going to be a great play!

  12. Re:They're in an old movie too on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    I remember first seeing these in an old movie, which I remember as being in black-and-white. So black was 0 and white was 1?
  13. I agree on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    All these semaphore fanatics have been completely duped by the Claude Chappe Reality Distortion Field.

  14. Re:Absolutely. on Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? · · Score: 1

    Very true, but that doesn't, in my opinion, negate the consumer's right to have their drive back if they so choose. It does negate data security as a valid argument in favor of this "right."
  15. Re:god on Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs" · · Score: 3, Funny

    apple seems WORSE than other companies when it comes to this legal bullshit

    thats enough for me to say NO to future purchase of any apple products! yeah, me too!!

    At least, until the iPhone comes out in lime green...
  16. duh on RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV · · Score: 1

    Holy crap! How'd the pirates get the grappling hooks up to the dirigible? Given that it was made out of lead, it pretty much sunk down to where the pirate ships where.
  17. Re:As a longtime OS X user with one Ubuntu machine on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    Where the f did you get a 10 button mouse? Here we call that a keyboard....

  18. shame on them? on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, though, no, Linux is a clone of a clone of UNIX, and shame on them for it. Shame on them why exactly? They made it work and it seems to serve a lot of people's purposes. What exactly is lost by it not being UNIX?
  19. Awesome on CSS Pocket Reference · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to read this book and start encrypting DVDs....

  20. great name but on Flying Humans · · Score: 1

    In fact I name it Aneurysm's law :) Aneurysm Slaw? It sounds like a side dish made from cabbage and bulging blood vessels.
  21. My bad on Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry folks, this was my fault. The folks were out of town and I figured I'd take the solar system out for a spin. I took a hard right to dodge a black hole and one thing led to another... Anyway, sorry about the dent; I'll pay for the damage.

  22. enough with the fish on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 1

    Do people seriously believe that the reason people are starving is because they don't know how to catch fish? Starvation is a distribution problem, not a problem due to lack of skills. These computers are not primarily designed for people who are literally starving to death - there are much bigger problems in those areas than a lack of internet access.

  23. Next interview on Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    They ask Bill Joy and Richard Stallman which text editor is better, emacs or vi.

  24. yeah no doubt on Pleo Review - A Toy Robot Triumph? · · Score: 1

    Wake me when this thing can play the violin.

  25. yeah... what a geek on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Professional photography jokes, what a riot. Personally I would have gone for the cheap blind date advertisement joke... you know, "PDF is ISO 32000 ... likes tango dancing, long walks on the beach, and platform-independent compression of digital documents..."