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  1. Re:Phoenix is best on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1

    You truly are a nerd among nerds.

  2. Re:Anyone Else? on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1
    Anyone else have this strange desire to listen to Stravinsky.

    Always. Shostakovich, too.

  3. Re:"Firebird" is also taken on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can't download a database to view web pages and you can't do SELECTs on a web browser.

    Speak for yourself.

  4. Re:I case modded my sports car too. on "Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra · · Score: 1

    Do you think saying "Do you think saying that makes you cool?" makes you cool?

  5. Re:Responsibility on Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology · · Score: 1
    Sorta like the guy who developed and patented the way to keep a monkey (tested) or human (untested) head alive without a body...

    Someone's been watching too much Futurama.

  6. Re:MoneyDance on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 1
    I've tried it before. People just looked at me funny and I didn't get any money. Same thing with the rain dance. Must be doing something wrong...

    Maybe you need to talk to the Dance Man?

  7. Re:GREAT! on Moneydance - Cross-Platform Personal Finance · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, my friend, all you need is love.

  8. Re:Why Not on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm, and I thought they compared them to VW Bugs because that's all scientists can afford to drive.

  9. Re:Nothing different on Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0 · · Score: 1
    I am a power user, and I am using Gentoo here on my laptop -- like butter.

    I prefer the taste of real, creamy butter on my laptop.

  10. Re:Massive backfire for Microsoft? on Is Microsoft Hoisting Its Own Copyright Petard? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aspirin, bundt cake, cellophane, corn flakes, dry ice, escalator, harmonica, high octane, kerosene, lanolin, linoleum, milk of magnesia, mimeograph, nylon, raisin bran, shredded wheat, thermos, trampoline and yo-yo, to name a few.

  11. Re:It figures... on Digital 4 Track Recorders? · · Score: 2, Informative
    So I'll post my own question, guessing what the post was supposed to be: I'm in the market for a digital multitrack, but since I'll be recording my wife's voice, a guitar and keyboard, I shouldn't need more than four tracks. I've seen lots of expensive digital 8-track and 16-track recorders, but a simple, high-quality digital equivalent of the old casette four-tracks (we own one of the casette types) would be really nice and would save some money. So what do people recommend?

    Something off this page. From what you're asking, the Delta 66 may be the right one. Don't waste your time with cassettes, digital or not, when for about the same price, you get 6 in/6 out, and virtually unlimited tracks in software (CoolEdit, Cubase, etc.).

  12. Re:Linux? on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm in. I'll take care of abandoning the Sourceforge site.

  13. Re:How Appropriate on TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?! · · Score: 1, Informative
    Virii write to boot sector
    Viruses, not virii.
  14. Re:One that always pissed me off... on Buzz Words, Catch Phrases, and Manager Speak? · · Score: 1

    Thinking outside the box is so in the box anymore.

  15. Re:my question to anyone who can answer it... on Examining Influenza · · Score: 1

    More importantly, "viruses" is plural for virus, not "virii".

  16. Re:and just how many... on Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 · · Score: 1

    I dunno....I still measure everything in football fields.

  17. Re:Random Bit Overwrite on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1
    US DoD Spec: 3 passes
    German DoD Spec: 7 passes

    It's no wonder the Germans won the war

  18. Re:No on Shareware and Unix? · · Score: 2
    That would be xv. Slackware distributed it until at least version 7, and maybe they still do. I've yet to meet anyone who's registered it, though...

    It's still there as late as Slackware 9 beta. I have no statistics on registrations, other than I won't be registering it (or probably ever using it)...

  19. Gaia on Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage · · Score: 2

    It reminds me of the planet Gaia in the later Foundation books of Asimov. Memories stored in all living things and in the very planet down to the molten core.

  20. Re:Unfortunately ... on Evidence of Chimp Developing "Spoken" Language · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your 19th century thinking intrigues me. You're just kidding and/or trolling, right?

    I'm reminded of a quote from the great Douglas Adams:

    It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
  21. Old-fashioned on What Protections Exist for Parody Sites? · · Score: 2
    The district is 30+ mil in the red but they've got the lawyers knocking on my door."

    No wonder they're so far in the red, with lawyers making house calls. Around here, the lawyers just send letters.

    Oh, yea...you may wanna put a dislaimer on your site mentioning that it is just a parody, not to be confused with the real Seattle School District site. (Maybe put a goatse.cx link somewhere on there, too. That'll put some color back into the bloodless faces of the school board members.)

  22. Re:so now... on ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wow, that sucks. Why doesn't he sue the crap out of the girl and her parents?

    I think beating the crap out of them will result in a more immediate and desirable outcome.

  23. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Will Your CD Player Tell on You? · · Score: 2

    I believe it originated with the Russian-turned-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who also gave us the famous quote "What a country!".

  24. Re:OF course Unix users are affected on Adelphia's Cable Modems Compromised · · Score: 2
    Can someone explain why this is a troll?

    The NY Times link is a redirect to http://goatse.cx, which some people think should be modded as "Troll", when it is really just "Redundant" or "Offtopic" (though some may find goatse.cx "Interesting").

  25. Re:indeed.... on HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ....anyone know his address? I'd like to send him a pizza, curry, chinese, thai, etc. delivery every night too.

    You're only hurting Anthony, Prasad, Tom (all Chinese restaurant owners are named "Tom" for some reason) and Pitak, since they're the ones who will end up eating (no pun intended) the cost of the food.