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  1. Re:SMS charges? on DHS to Send Widespread Alerts · · Score: 1

    Not for the text message, but a monthly fee for the priviledge of being able to get them call the "RERVUF Fund" (Re-Elect Repubs via use of fear Fund)

  2. Don't need Degausser on Bacterial DVD Holds 50TB · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just a bottle of Lysol.

  3. Re:cooling on Sun Unveils Thumper Data Storage · · Score: 1

    Picture gallery shows 5 hot-swappable dual fans for a total of 10. And the back doesn't appear to have any (unless there are some hiding in the power supplies, but it didn't look like it.)

    But real cool 360 tour complete with the ability to take out drives, fans, CPUs, power supplies.

  4. huh? on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    I'm so late, but I must share this at every possible chance:

    I was doing remote support for a set of PC based cash registers running O/S2. One person called and told me that a dialog box had popped up on her screen and she couldn't get it to go away.

    Me: What does the box say?
    Her: 'Press Enter to close dialog box'
    Me: And what happens when you press enter?

    Her: Oh! Thanks!

  5. Re:"Important events" on Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    Acutally, based on the picture of the device, it would be mostly shots of hot chicks pointing and laughing.

  6. Re:If so, the story will be posted numerous times. on Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly · · Score: 1

    Acutally, if the story were to be repeated numerous times over the next few days, it would be nothing out of the ordinary.

  7. Re:Racy Title on Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly · · Score: 4, Funny

    How 'bout "Kama Sutra peaks prematurely" or "Kama Sutra comes with a whimper, not a bang"

  8. Re:White House on Bush Administration to Support Nuclear Recycling · · Score: 1

    Nah, under the congress. The White House already has term limits.

  9. Re:Previously covered by "ClickZ" in 2004 on The World's First Banner Ad · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's TEN YEARS OLD. Of course it's been covered before.

  10. Re:Have GPS? on A Webserver on Your Cellphone? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or if, when the server got pinged, it rang. So when you lose your cell-phone in your house and don't have a land-line to call it to find it, you can ping it from your computer.

  11. Re:Additional Notes - I forgot in my other post on Is a Weblog a Business? · · Score: 1

    Estimated Tax payments:

    You must contribute extimated tax payments if your 2005 withholdings are less than the smaller of:
      - Your 2004 tax liability
      - 90% of your 2005 tax liability

    It's too late to worry about it now for 2005, but you can prepare for 2006. If you didn't make payments and you should have they'll tell you when you submit your statements at year end. They'll send a letter with a fine and any penalties, they shouldn't be too high if you only made a few thousand.

    If you received a tax refund in 2004 (and haven't change jobs or withholdings) you're likely in the clear. If you receive a tax refund this year and don't change jobs or withholdings, you'll likely be okay for 2006. But if you owe more in taxes than you have withheld from your day job, then you should talk to someone to calculate how much you need to pay in esitmated tax payments throughout the year. It should be easy to set up, you can have an additional amount witheld from your check throughout the year, or you can pre-pay with your 2005 tax return.

  12. Re:You know... on Your Best Exam Stories? · · Score: 1

    It was 10 years ago, and I've lost the ability to distract people with a short skirt. Well the ability to distract people positively with a short skirt. :(

  13. Re:Physics, Freshman year, first semester on Your Best Exam Stories? · · Score: 1

    Just to contrast:
    The prior semester's "Physics for Non-Technical Majors" was very different. I was taking the class because I hadn't decided on my major and a general business degree didn't need the calculus based physics. It was SOOOOOO easy.

    The first exam, I finish in about 7 minutes. When I walked down the stairs (one of those 500 seat theater-style classrooms) the TA thought I was going to ask a question. He was all, "Yes?" And I was all, "I'm done." And he was all, "Oh! Okay."

    Got 100.

  14. Re:Not just once on Your Best Exam Stories? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I loved being the girl in the programming courses doing the same thing. It was usually 10:1 guys to gals in them, and I'd wear my shortest skirt and sit the furthest from the door so that when I got done first, I'd have to meander through the tables and chairs to turn in my test.

  15. Physics, Freshman year, first semester on Your Best Exam Stories? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It sucked. I didn't really get it. I hated the prof, he was an idiot who didn't teach. Okay, it's quite possible that he wasn't an idiot, but he sure as heck couldn't teach. When I can't respect a teacher, I don't learn. So it's the final, and I've spend hours upon hours cramming for the test. I'm waiting with friends outside the room and the whole thing totally comes down on me. I'm smart but doing poorly in college, I'm 1000+ miles from home and I most don't want to admit defeat, or be convinced to go back home. At best I can get a B in the class, but I'm totally scared that I don't know enough to pass the final. I'd not gotten a B in a science class since 8th grade (and it's because I had no respect for the teacher then either). So, being a girl, start to cry. I hate the fact that it's so easy to be forced to tears, but there they are, dripping and slipping down my face. My friends (both guys) attempt to comfort me, and I manage to pull myself together and walk into the room dry-eyed.

    Then the professor hands out the test.
    Page 1, damn.
    Page 2, shit.
    Page 3, WTF? I hardly recognize anything!
    Page 4, tears.

    I sniff and snurffle my way through the exam. It's multiple choice, but the way they do the exams, if you don't answer the question you 0 points and if you answer it wrong you get negative points (so guessing is not going to work, even educated guesses are a risk), and the answers are all plausible (which is the most frustrating part.)

    I finish, and dry my eyes long enough to turn the test in, the professor totally oblivoius.

    A week later when they post the scores, I scroll to my ID, and I got 69%. SIXTY NINE PERCENT? I run to the top of the page to see the average (they grade on a bell curve). 31%. THIRTY ONE PERCENT??

    Holy Mother of Physics, I friggin' doubled the AVERAGE? Only three people score higher. Sweet. (Of course, I probably didn't think "sweet" back then, it was over a decade ago.)

    Oh, and I cheated on 4th grade spelling tests by sitting on the spelling book and looking at the words between my legs. I can't spell too well these days, so I suffer from that. And I told one person at the time, and somehow she managed to nearly fall out of her chair with the book while attempting to do the same thing. I stopped after that.

  16. Re:The Dumbing-Down Of America, part XXVII on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    More likely a handle and a draw than a doorknob. They didn't really have the mechanisims for door knobs back then.

  17. Re:As a devout christian... on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Who says you have to believe in everything in the bible to believe in the general ideology of Christianity. The bible was written by scads of people from stories they heard and letters they wrote thousands of years ago. THOUSANDS of years ago.

    The capabilities of understanding that man held in those times was likely only able to understand the parables and not the more complex and seemingly unfathomable details of evolution. Man now doesn't fully understand the information that we have acquired over the millenia; how can we expect that the information given to the people that wrote the bible was not simplified for understanding?

  18. Re:Most disturbing..... on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, if a company came forward and said, "We will not donate because we don't believe in evolution" that would be a stand.

    Withholding funding because it might offend someone is the pansy-ass way to handle the situation.

  19. Re:Here's a silly thought on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Well, for one, faith-based intelligent design is not natural history and therefore not worthy to be in a natural history museum. It's story telling to convince people to be good little boys an girls so that they are not punished.

  20. Re:Best Collection Method? on Faster DNA Testing · · Score: 0

    hands?

  21. Re:And the world spirals further out of control... on Malaysia Gamers Face Night Curfew · · Score: 1

    Actually I believe Civ was one of the main reasons...

  22. Re:Civil Disorder in Paris on French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs · · Score: 1

    You would think with all of the wine resources, they wouldn't need entertainers... oh, wait....

    There seems to be a flaw in Civ...

  23. Okay. on YouTube Receives $3.5M Funding from Sequoia · · Score: 1

    Troll.

  24. Re:Uh, guys, hang on.. on Game Worlds and The Law Collide · · Score: 1

    They forgot to mention in the header that the "killing someone" was RL, not in game.

  25. Costumers? on Game Worlds and The Law Collide · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is that because all the lawyers want to look like the on-line criminals (and need appropriate armor)? Or do they just like to dress up in general?