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  1. hmmm on Text to Speech Software Copies Any Human Voice · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I can copyright the sound of my voice to prevent someone from using it.

    At least if I am framed using this technology I can sue for royalties.

  2. Re:Speaking of SW toys on Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes · · Score: 1

    The above line is a quote from the BBC. Not mine. Unfortunately /. doesn't have a fix after preview and post button.

  3. Speaking of SW toys on Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes · · Score: 5
  4. Re:Not again on An Amiga Round-up · · Score: 1

    Amiga Undead.

    Was dead. Still is Animate.

    Stock up on garlic.

  5. Now they know the truth on Congress Discovers Peer-to-Peer Porn · · Score: 1

    The internet is eVil

    The only thing left to do is to follow the Taliban example and ban the internet, computers, computer disks, skateboards, lipstick, catalogues, women, animals,spatulas,sporks,sone knives, bearskins....

  6. I don't understand on Renewed Crackdown On File Sharing · · Score: 2

    How can they stop me from sharing files unless they stop me from transmitting and receiving information?

  7. Re:uh oh.... on EPIC Makes Privacy Case Against Windows XP To FTC · · Score: 1

    Did you ever want to be more than one place at a time.

    Now you can with MS Distributed Identity TM.

  8. Re:I don't see why not on Senator Seeks Injuction Against WinXP · · Score: 1

    He used to be a Technocrate.

    Now he is a HPocrite.

  9. Re:Come to think of it... on IBM Research Enables Flat-Panel CRTs · · Score: 3

    There is quite a bit of lead radiation shielding. This is why monitors have to be disposed of as toxic waste if they are not properly recycled.

  10. Re:Of course it's not a bug... on Nuclear Materials System Not Buggy, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yes, the US government has been spending billions on the nuclear waste disposal problem. Microsoft has the answer. MS SQL Server will get rid of nuclear waste. Definitely a much cheaper solution. I'm going to go and buy some MSFT stock now.

  11. Damn!!! on Protect Your Computer From Theft · · Score: 3

    I was taking a swig of brew when I read the hornet line.

    I'm now typing this on my emergency backup keyboard.

  12. Just to be appropriately evil on Protect Your Computer From Theft · · Score: 1

    I need a Moores Law Insurance Policy.

    Whereby my insurance company doesn't notice that my machine gets stolen once every eighteen months.

  13. Re:Related, but offtopic... on Dimitry's company sold password crackers to the FBI · · Score: 2

    you might not like their policies, but you can't deny their software is good. period.

    Their encryption software IS really good.period. It is way faster than my HoneyCrackers Cereal Secret Decoder Ring.

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  14. Ok on Dimitry's company sold password crackers to the FBI · · Score: 4

    Who wrote that circumvention device that allows access to copyrighted information that has been encrypted in Russian?

  15. Re:Yeah, but.. on Mono Unimplementable? · · Score: 2

    To do this Microsoft would have to pay a royalty to Rambus for the use of their patented business method.

    1. Promote Standard tool/device etc...
    2. Patent standard
    3. Wait for it to become popular.
    4. Sue Sue Sue and then Sue some more....

  16. Re:Is this a water or an airship? on High-Tech Hydrofoil · · Score: 2

    Mod up (+1 Iwant1)

  17. Stacking search results is not that productive on Search Engine Payola · · Score: 1

    It is much better coke to create content. Readers will be greatly refreshed by the original coke content provided. Just retrieving regurgitated old pepsi postings is boring in a rather subliminal fashion.

  18. Re:PartitionMagic anyone? on Microsoft Case Slogs Forward · · Score: 1

    Buy a copy and honour the copywright.

    I bet you're one of the first ones to cry foul about a perceived GPL violation.

  19. Ok on Space Stations That Suck · · Score: 1

    So it really sucks to be surrounded by vacuum.

    I thought this was a news site.

  20. Dear Sir's on Los Angeles County To Tax Outer Space · · Score: 5

    We are most sorry that we cannot afford to pay the taxes that you request from our current liquid assets. However, we do believe that the current value of one of our satellites will be enough to pay our debt to you. We will be delivering it to city hall as soon as we make some minor adjustments to our targeti.. err .. I mean delivery system.

  21. IWADASN on Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest · · Score: 1

    It was a dark and stormy night in which our enemies were catching the ship we had stolen, a type 3 solar powered attack craft, according to tne manual we were beginning to translate.

  22. Hmm on Microsoft Delays New Licensing Terms · · Score: 2

    Under the program, enterprises don't need to actually deploy the software, but they must have the license.

    It's a good thing that I'm licensed for Sid so that I can use my Potatoe!

  23. Re:Dont send them dog shit on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    Awww!

    I have a St. Bernard and I was really looking forward to an alternate disposal method.

  24. Re:internal memo: Adobe on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    If this is a law firm acting on it's own initiative without Adobe's blessing can Adobe sue the law firm for the millions of $ of damages in Open Source Community good will.

  25. Re:My in-depth analysis on YAPSLP: Yet Another Private Space Launch Plan · · Score: 1

    How far underground do you think they'll get. Can you quantify your in-depth analysis.