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  1. Re:this could be Tipper Gore's dream come true on Bell Labs, Preserving Delicate Sensibilities · · Score: 1

    Wait, why can't you just read through the lyrics? It's much easier to search text than audio.

    And if your post was meant as a joke, well, it wasn't that funny.

  2. Re:Assume the position on The Worst Of Times · · Score: 1

    Why, so people can properly moderate your post?

  3. Re:This Just In: on Review: The Mummy Returns · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's meta-crappy.

  4. Re:better off understanding ancient Mandarin on Apocalypse 2 · · Score: 2

    My guess in the distant future our descendants will see Perl as this cryptic cult of demon worshipers or something.

    Umm, hello; isn't that how most people think of Perl hackers already?

  5. OT: Unix commands referencing AYBABTU on On Call and Underpaid in IT/IS? · · Score: 1

    I like:

    cats$ chown -R us:us yourbase/

  6. Re:Power Imbalance on ICANN Sneaks In Reserved Names For Existing TLDs · · Score: 3

    How would you define legitiamte use? Is this: http://www.orangepurple.com/? I register the name, but I just don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. Am I a bad person?

  7. Re:Where's Grammar Nazi? on ICANN Sneaks In Reserved Names For Existing TLDs · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. We don't even permit you to read the article before posting.

  8. Re:So let me see... on Threatening Online Tablature · · Score: 1

    Okay, please remit US$5000 to the estate of Martin Niemöller or prepare to face charges of copyright infringement.

    I think the AC did a fine job quoting enough that we got the point. He also (surprisingly enough for a Slashdot poster) correctly spelled "Nazis" without an apostrophe.

    And your version is not necessarily correct:
    http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cda/niemoll.html

  9. What's with these color comments? on Slashback: Toast, Cube, Light · · Score: 1

    With all these "witty" comments after each story, timothy is starting to sound like the Locker Gnome. Here's a hint guys: very few people are any good at riffing. Just because Dennis Miller and Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of MST3K are funny, it doesn't mean that your half-ironic puns and fast-paced delivery of malformed jokes is worth reading.

    I'm sure timothy is a very nice person, it's just that his special take on stories always fall flat.

  10. Re:It has to be said... on Slashback: Toast, Cube, Light · · Score: 1

    You are a meta-dork.

  11. PNG on Financing Growing Websites? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Quicktime stole my PNG association from Netscape and does a really crappy job with them. (If you just look at a PNG, it auto-scales it to fit in the window -- very bad.) And IE 5 on my laptop can only show PNGs if they're referenced as IMG tags in a document. This is 6 year old technology; what the hell is wrong with the people who develop browsers?

  12. Re:Only removes actinides. on Fission in a Box · · Score: 1

    Moving at a foot a year, itll be 20 feet underground in maybe 30-40 years, and thats plenty of shielding.

    By my calculations, moving at a foot a year, it'll be 30-40 feet underground in 30-40 years.

    Whew, math is hard. I need a beer.

  13. Re:So where does the information come from? on A Map to Nowhere? · · Score: 1

    Hey, when is God going to release a Security Update to disable virus propagation by default? And while He's at it, I could use a wireless networking protocol update.

  14. Scare Quotes on Ask Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    (nor "State" for that matter)

    Good call.

  15. Re:Alcatel/Closed Document Formats on Slashback: Flesh, Porn, Smells · · Score: 1

    Yep:

    <Ctrl-A>
    <Ctrl-C>
    <Ctrl-N>
    <Ctrl-V>
    <Ctrl-S>
    filename
    <Enter>
    <Alt-F4>
    <Alt-F4>

    Who says you need a mouse in Windows? :)

    This is also good for fixing strange formatting errors that you just can't seem to get rid of.

  16. Re:Some simple guidelines on WIPO Seeks Comment On Domain Name Process · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone could check how many people with the name "George Walter Bush" there are in the US...

    Why would someone do that?

  17. Re:next thing you'll see... on In-Game Advertising Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    Great, so it won't fire if you drop it, but when your kid finds it, he "can fully concentrate on the tactical tasks required" to point it at his friend and blow his head off.

  18. Re:Who cares? - hehehe on Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy · · Score: 1

    Thank you, thank you, I will be here all week.

  19. Re:OS X software on OS X · · Score: 1

    $7 case? Don't forget the $17.50 shipping and $20 for the power supply.

    So it comes in at maybe $550. This computer will be total shit and not worth using. Regardless of the architecture and OS, if you pay less than $1000 for a computer, you are buying crap.

  20. Who cares? on Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy · · Score: 1

    I wanna hear what the Pips have to say about it.

  21. What I want to know is... on Series on Wizard Of the Coast · · Score: 1

    was BethMo hot? I remember her dispensing wisdom on the CompuServe forums back in the day, and with the company's rampant sexual freedom... WOWZA!

  22. Re:MOD THIS UP on Ask Congressman Boucher About Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    Dude, you can't use quotes like that.

  23. Re:As A Web Designer on Earthlink's Extra HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    1. It's more expensive to design 2 sets of pages. That money should be spent on more content.

    Duh, you put the content in really plain HTML files and use Perl or PHP to use the right template as the page goes out.

  24. Re:Oh, a question to another Vx user... on Palm Teases With Slim, Pretty New Models · · Score: 1

    Get a hard case that doesn't touch the button.

  25. Re:Wh00ps! on ACLU & EPIC Will Challenge CIPA · · Score: 1

    Bull! There are no words in Polish that don't have a "z" or "w" in them.

    :)