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  1. Re:ipod mini.. on Apple Updates iPod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not with my cheese grater you don't! Go find your own.

  2. Mount spots in walls on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 1

    With hay bale and plaster, you might want to make sure you have some good mounting materials in the walls for things like 80 lb-100 lb flat panels that will be wall mounted. One other way to mount flat panels against the wall would be to have them suspended by wires from a ceiling mounting board, similar to museums and such. That way, you're not putting any more holes than necessary in the walls.

    I'll be starting a rammed earth home later this year and one thing I'm thinking of is coming up with some kind of flip up chair rail that will provide easy access to wiring channels. Maybe some fold out molding around doorways as well and hollow vegas for ceiling wiring channels.

  3. Re:Gee... on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    Back in '97, my friends and I were laughing at an ad for a 'Web Master' with 10 years experience.

  4. Re:Nothing like a good controversy... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the teacher would notice if there was only one nerd kid in their class, duct taped to his chair and bound with 35 RFID tags.

  5. Re:Google Groups on Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? · · Score: 1

    You mean Godswin's Law?

  6. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    Sure it wasn't the Cat Detector Van? Never understood that Python bit as a kid. Thank god for the interweb. I learn all sorts of kewl things now-a-daize.

  7. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    I think my car would look cool with a giant tinfoil hat. Will have to make it in a pyramid shape so that I could sharpen razor blades in the car and see auras.

  8. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    But, if my rear tires are spinning and my odometer is clicking over but I'm not really moving that far down the road, all I'm really using up are tires.

  9. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    The odometer in my '70 Impala w/7.4L hasn't worked for years. It just clicks trying to move from 5/10ths a mile to 6/10ths a mile. I think some gear's stripped in the dash unit.

  10. Re:Intel's new business strategy on Intel to Market PCs as Home Entertainment Hubs · · Score: 1

    Aren't at least one of the current consoles run on a PPC processor? Would it be that difficult to create a software layer or application that could run game files on a Mac PPC system as if they were running on a console?

  11. Re:form factor on Intel to Market PCs as Home Entertainment Hubs · · Score: 1

    I just wish I could find a cheap 17" wide black a/v style case with a small lcd touch screen built into it. Would make it easy to incorporate a pc into my a/v rack.

  12. eBay! on Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise · · Score: 1

    They could sell vials of Vulcan sweat or something. The geeks would line up to pay.

  13. Re:Bad idea on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Which brings up why there aren't any British computers; They can't find a way to make them leak oil.

  14. Re:Bad idea on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Which is one reason you'll see 'grease pencils' being used in Sky Lab. Much more professional sounding than calling them crayons.

    I wonder if the Russian's electronics was built on such a scale that carbon particles weren't a problem?

  15. Re:Bad idea on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    NASA - where using a pencil is just way too obvious a solution.

    And getting carbon dust in your electronics is just an idle worry.

  16. Re:Pipe Dream on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    If we build a conductive ring around Mars and run a current through it, we should be able to get it's core spinning, assuming it has a nickel-iron core.

  17. Re:Original NASA Article from Feb/2001 with more i on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1, Funny

    If Mars can be made to look anything like Frank Cho's vision, I'm all for it.

    NSFW

    (scroll down for Dejah Thoris drawings)

  18. Re:mod parent up on Grand Unified Theory of SIMD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cavett, Sargent, or York?

  19. Re:Cooking != Art on Sushi Prepared on a Printer · · Score: 1

    And some mechanics would fill the crank case with Hershy's chocolate syrup?

  20. Re:Good sushi doesn't taste fishy on Sushi Prepared on a Printer · · Score: 1

    The sushi I've had (the good stuff) always tastes like good fish to me. And our chef (once a year private party) brings the fish in fresh from the dock. Nothing like good fresh grouper and tuna.

    Now, if you mean that good sushi shouldn't taste like canned cat food, well, then, yes. Sushi should taste like fish. At least the sashimi.

  21. Please, please, please... on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    Don't let SciFi pick it up!

  22. Re:I wonder... on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    Duh. I should of googled it:

    speechless: unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"
    www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

    lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
    www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

    unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
    www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

    Not revealing flavor or aroma; closed; typical of wines that are too young or too cold.
    www.sallys-place.com/beverages/wine/wine_gl ossery. htm

    Characteristic description of a young wine with yet-to-develop aromas and flavours. A synonym for "closed-in". Named so because it seems "unable to speak".
    zebra.biol.sc.edu/smell/wine_glossary.htm l

    Characteristic description of a young wine with yet-to-develop aromas and flavours. A synonym for "closed-in". Named so because it seems "unable to speak".
    www.radanovich.house.gov/wine/tastingglos sary.htm

    ADJECTIVE: (Offensive) A synonym for mute, or unable to speak, now considered offensive. In its nineteenth-century usage, it did not reflect anything about mental or intellectual abilities. An example of its continuing use is the expression "dumb struck."
    www.disabilitymuseum.org/glossary.php

    Describes a phase that young wines undergo when their flavors and aromas are undeveloped. A synonym of CLOSED. The cause and lthe duration of this phase is a subject of great controversy, and one which seemingly lacks scientific explanation.
    128.200.136.180/ea/wine/tastings/glo ssary.html

    implying the lack of a programmed in intelligence
    www.netprivacypower.org/glossary/

    from natural infirmity (Ex. 4:11); not knowing what to say (Prov. 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Ps. 39:9; Lev. 10:3). Christ repeatedly restored the dumb (Matt. 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14; Matt. 12:22) to the use of speech.
    www.jesuscaresaboutyou.org/ebd/T0001000.h tml

    Describes a phase young wines undergo when their flavors and aromas are undeveloped. A synonym of closed.
    www.judgedolph.com/Generalpages/WineGloss ary.asp

  23. Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up on Top 10 Apple Flops · · Score: 1

    What? I like looking at PlayBoy and Hustler in the news stands at 7-11, while sucking down an all syrup 7&7 Slurpee!

  24. Re:I wonder... on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    Is this that place that didn't want to conflict with McDunelds?

  25. Re:I wonder... on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    Damn, Apple didn't hire me 10 years ago, when I dropped out of college to fix Macs. Why did I ever buy another Mac?