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  1. Re:How are the media companies losers on Tech Titans Prepare to Battle Over Next DVD Format · · Score: 1

    I would bet on a caddyless format, too... but only because caddies add to the cost of the product.

  2. Re:Linux on Best Original Games of 2003? · · Score: 1

    Which was in turn a part of the Wolfenstein franchise from the 8 bit Apple/Commodore days.

  3. Hollywood on Computers Paraphrase English · · Score: 1

    Now, correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't Hollywood beem using this system for some time now? If a movie isn't a direct rip of something that was made in the past, then it takes familiar characters and tosses them in a blender with a dash of CG effects and frappes until smooth.

    Television uses this system, too. The formula there seems to also involve borrowing a successful British TV show's concept, just to keep things a little fresher.

  4. Re:Valuable metals...? on Proper Disposal Of Old PCs? · · Score: 1

    Seriously... I once bought a 9GB full height SCSI drive from an eBay competitor. Shipping wasn't god awful, but then I was buying this drive to use, and may have overlooked shipping in favor of the price difference vs. a new drive. I still remember that drive... a pound per gigabyte, according to the shipping label.

  5. I miss my Commie64 on First Computers · · Score: 1

    I was the biggest software pirate in my grade school... well, second biggest... I got my wAreZ from the science teacher :)

    And before anyone tries to sue me, I don't have a single floppy of it, or any of the hardware to run it on... a damn shame, I LOVED the crack intros, most of them had better gfx/sound than the games themselves.

  6. Re:Sunglasses on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    Yes! Buy Ray Bans now! Lots of them.

    PS: I work for Luxottica, and Ray Ban is one of our brands.

  7. Re:Monster Emulators on 55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are so high. Share?

  8. Re:Send her a Christmas card! on The Life of a Spammer · · Score: 1

    It is good to see that I am not the only one sick enough to wish ASS CANCER upon people I hate. AIDS is also a big favorite here.

  9. Re:Slippery slopes on Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners · · Score: 1

    I know a sex offneder, too. He was 18. She was 17. Her parents were not amused when they found out. He gets his picture taken and posted on the state's web page regularly.

  10. Question on Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really recall hearing about lots of pedorapists stealing children from schools. Am I just not paying attention or is this a solution looking for a problem?

  11. Re:oh... on A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation · · Score: 1

    Mayhaps the poster meant appreciable fractions of lightspeed. 1/1000000000th the speed of light doesn't seem too impressive, but 1/100th the speed of light is a whole other story.

  12. Re:3D Control on Simon Phipps Looks At 'Looking Glass' · · Score: 1

    Hey! I love the Power Glove. Its so bad.

  13. Re:sounds nice on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    Vi?! You're going to spoil them! They get a tty, echo, and cat. Anything more will make them soft and weak! And even cat is pushing it.

  14. [OT] Your sig on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    You may want to mention something more than "disgusting" in your sig... like "pops up a bajillion moving goatse/rotten.com images."

    Just a thought.

  15. Re:One of the most important things here on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    My CPU still complains about the XFree86 compile. Whenever I emerge something I can hear it, "Oh hell, I'm compiling something. This had better not take all week like that XFree86 bullshit I did that one time."

  16. Re:How to hide files in windows on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    That is in XP on up... its what they use on your machine if you mess with the activation system :)

  17. Re:The great thing about being disorganized... on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Shortest path and strange attractor combine to form one argument: LAZY SLOB. For instance, my computer desk has piles of empty cans and papers on and around it. They were close to me when I needed them, drinking the Coke or reading the printout, but they got shuffled off when I no longer needed them, and started to form pyramids on the floor and stacks on the desk.

  18. Re:Pragmatism on Linux: the GPL and Binary Modules · · Score: 1

    Pardon my stupididty, but do SPARC boxes or RISC PC's even have AGP slots?

    Sun's site sells a couple EXPENSIVE graphics cards, but they are 64bit PCI cards.
    Acorn is the only RISC machine vendor I know of, and they ship with an OLD PCI Nvidia card. They also mention that X doesn't work on their machines at all, so I wouldn't be too worried about a lack of video drivers.
    Mac drivers I will give you, I didn't see any, but I didn't see any for OSX, either.

    Based on a quick look around the web, these cards seem to be designed and marketed for the x86 platform. NVidia is doing a decent job of supporting them on it. Linux and FreeBSD support is much more than they had to do. Let's not forget these OS's are gaining ground as SERVER OS's, not desktop/gaming OS's, at least in the eyes of the people making the decisions about where to put the money. Better ROI to get improved Windoes performance, rather than shoehorning a video card where it wasn't designed to go.

  19. One word... on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thundercougarfalconbird

  20. Re:Ah legos on New York City, LEGO Style · · Score: 1

    Estes model rocket engines.... 1/2A or whatever the hell they were, would make a decent basis for a Lego SAM. As for a jet, I doubt it, but maybe a Lego airframe with a regular RC plane motor. The technology is here, all that is missing is the creative application of said technology.

  21. Re:I try to avoid them altogether. on Fake ATM Fraud Expose · · Score: 3, Funny

    SPECTRE did it in Never Say Never Again! And then they killed the poor bastard with a snake! But good old 007 fucked the murderess and then killed her!

  22. Funny on Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As much as I hate spam and worms and such, that is too funny. Some dumb bastard tries to get the free pr0n from the email, gets infected, then gets scared to death because they lock you up for a LONG time for possessing kiddy pr0n.
    Maybe this is vigilante spam, using the scared straight theory. Next time Joe Sixpack tries to look at the free pr0n, a little voice will pop up and remind him of what happened LAST time.

  23. Re:So the new law is? on Intel Researchers See Moore's Law Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Yeah... laws and diseases are two things you do NOT want named after you.

  24. Re:Names make a difference! on Linux 2.6.0-test11 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    I much prefer "Wide Open Beaver."

  25. Re:Thats what we get for tolerating advertisements on FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm · · Score: 1

    Indeed! And don't forget about all the walkin' around money you can get selling pencils!