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  1. Re:If you don't know what this is about on GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory · · Score: 1

    At least someone realises that we're not all Americans.

    Someone had better tell the French.

  2. Re:That's funny... on Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Outlaw laws, and only outlaws will have laws!

  3. Re:OK, another data point on Spam Hits 95% of All Email · · Score: 1

    Then how would he brag about getting 51985 emails per day?

  4. Re:Alternate headline on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 1

    How about: "Geek sets record by breaking the law and endangering innocent men, women, and children in selfish quest to do something pointless"

    I think we're all tired of hearing about Iraq.

  5. Re:Ahh crap on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 1

    Including the figures after the decimal point?

  6. Re:Why don't people care about their data's safety on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    No I'm not very trusting.

    But...you are trusting everyone you send emails to and from to not forward them, not to have a court demand access to their data, not have their login credentials compromised, etc. And you are trusting their email providers and their ISPs and the ISPs' backbone providers, etc. not to sniff your packets (chuckle). In fact, the only thing you are bypassing is your ISP's mail server. You aren't even bypassing their network. So, unless you are encrypting all network traffic from end to end, pretty much anywhere in the chain is a point of easy compromise. You probably should just get a cheap but solid VPS (GrokThis/VPS Village, Server Axis, Quantact, etc.) and move your mail setup there. It will be as secure as what you have now, but you no longer have to worry about hardware or having your net block on every RBL because you have a dynamic IP.

  7. Re:Cmdr. Sisko wants to know -- on Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery · · Score: 0, Troll

    Battered women. Sounds delicious.

  8. Re:This will go nowhere. on Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery · · Score: 3, Funny

    And what about stupid teenagers that run out of gas in the middle of the atlantic?

    That'd be like so embarrassing. Stuck three thousand feet in the air, waiting around until dad gets there with a gas can.

  9. Re:Cmdr. Sisko wants to know -- on Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Of course this was back in the day when 'it wasn't so bad to drink and drive'

    ...and when women really knew their place, or were taught to learn it with a few smacks across the mouth or the sting of a leather belt.

  10. Re:Realistic? on Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery · · Score: 4, Funny

    you were eplanning on bringing a little luggage?

    Dude, that is sooo 1999. We now call it iPlanning

  11. Re:Er, what? on New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film? · · Score: 1

    Ummm....you guys do realize you're arguing about walking, talking trees?

  12. Re:Gmail doesn't support IMAP on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    I think you misread the OP. He is saying to use IMAP to move your locally stored (or stored somewhere other than GMail) to your own mail server, mark those messages unread, then tell Google to use POP to pull those messages into GMail. This preserves sender info and timestamps.

  13. Re:That reminds me of someone on Stem Cells Change Man's DNA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing stops me from that. Nothing.

  14. Re:That reminds me of someone on Stem Cells Change Man's DNA · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They don't have sex, either.

  15. Re:New Movie Title on Indiana Jones Gets Robbed · · Score: 4, Funny

    He actually wanted $200,000 until he read the script.

  16. Re:Terminology on Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've never had a hinge break on your Windows laptop because you installed Linux.

  17. Re:We don't have progress. on 50 Years Ago, Sputnik Was an Improvised Triumph · · Score: 1

    Ah, so what you're saying is anything that causes your argument to fail doesn't count?

  18. Re:The music industry sucks on Why AnywhereCD Failed · · Score: 1

    We had the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplen, etc. Want to know what high school kids listen too today? The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, etc.

    When unsure of the spelling, try several ways - you're bound to get it right eventually. But at least I've now solved the mystery of the guy from 6th period who kept writing on my desk. Also, it's not Lynryd Skynryd - it's Lynyrd Skynyrd. ;>)

  19. Re:I don't want to be like BIll Gates on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    I'd buy 333,333 cups of coffee or a million $1 hookerbots.

  20. Re:I don't want to be like BIll Gates on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've probably mostly heard that from lottery losers. Though...I'd imagine someone who counts on the extremely unlikely combination of some bouncing plastic balls as their key to financial freedom already is unhappy because they have no goals or purpose in life, and is also rather bad at handling finances.

  21. Re:Demand Not There on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Everybody wants to be King, but there is only one thrown.

    How many times I gotta tell you? Stop throwing kings around the house!

  22. Re:I have to ask... on GNOME 2.20 Released · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the power and speed of molasses in January.

  23. Re:Distinction w/o a difference. on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    Have you tried rebooting your computer? Please do so, and call back when you are done.

  24. Re:Distinction w/o a difference. on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those are cached versions of the pages. Keep hitting reload until you see the updated versions.

  25. Re:Distinction w/o a difference. on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gullibility is indeed a negative concept

    So negative, in fact, that the word has been removed from dictionaries and other reference works.