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  1. "Supermarket flowers" on Strangest Valentine's Day Gifts? · · Score: 1
    One year I bought my gf flowers that I then proceeded to carry on my bicycle, which mangled them some. They weren't particularly fancy, but they were nice, or so I thought. She proceeded to complain that I had only bought her "supermarket flowers" and wasn't that terrible.

    Needless to say, she's my ex now.

    (I actually had a lovely valentine's day this year, enjoying a gourmet dinner with my sweetie, and before that helping out with same sex marriages at SF City Hall. So it can be a good day.)

  2. Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    Typical traditional-male comment.

    The rest of us, who actually want a partner who's not fooled by De Beers...

  3. Re:No step 2 necessary for step 3 on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean *BSD is finally, after all that, dying?

  4. 1999 called, they want their PR back. on Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Remember when every little press release advertised that something "would profoundly alter both the way the Internet is delivered and used in homes and businesses?"

    And remember what happened to these bright new ideas? (well, most of them?) Oh yeah, jack.

    So I wouldn't give much credibility to these either. VoIP and power-line internet aren't exactly front page news.

  5. Linux and DRM? on Linux and DRM? · · Score: 0

    No!

  6. Re:Patently absurd? on TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature · · Score: 3, Informative

    I remember using that very feature of the Win95 beta. Also, Mac OS 7.x supported autoplay - here's a model from 1992 that had a built-in CD-ROM drive and used this OS.

  7. Opera makes you pay, or view ads on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While Mozilla doesn't. End of story.

  8. Huh? on WiFi Free-For-All · · Score: 1
    It's not difficult to run a VPN. Just run IPSec over the wireless to a VPN gateway. Then the sniffers won't sniff nuthin'.

    Anyway, it's not as if the pay-per-use guys aren't also transmitting data in the clear now. Unless they are also running VPN (which, again, they should be).

  9. Re:Frist Prost! on The 100-Million Mile Network · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're supposed to be leading the Senate Republicans or something. Get back to work.

  10. WHOM do you trust? on Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted · · Score: 1

    Someone who uses proper English?

  11. VB? on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, Visual Basic for Applications. Nothing like Excel macros to learn computer science!

  12. Exactly. on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    GNOME 2004 = Macintosh 1984.

  13. So on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I copy and paste between apps now?

  14. Re:Lots. on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    No doubt. I mean, Muhammad Ali is The Greatest and all, but he is a terrible spokesman. (Remember when Gil Amelio rolled him out at Macworld, just before he was fired?) Get someone who is intelligible and we might have something.

  15. fsck 'em? on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    don't you mean rm -rfP 'em?

  16. Re:Double your electrons back! on Would you Warranty Your Email? · · Score: 1

    But think of all the emails sent just before the Super Bowl, and returned the day after! The cost and hassle for the stockroom crew would be huge.

  17. Re:I agree, there is no problem. on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    I have noticed this on OS X - the vast majority of spams that goe through SpamAssassin get filtered by the latest mail.app (OS X 10.3).

  18. Re:The thing I hate most... on The Impact of Technophobes · · Score: 1
    7337 hacker

    That's Justin Timberlake.

  19. Re:Toilet Paper on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Tech #11 That Refuses To Die on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    *BSD

  21. Microwave = Ick on Which Instant Coffee? · · Score: 1
    Boiling water in an office microwave is grody to the max. This is because the previous 100 users have put their disgusting Atkins-friendly leftovers and bags of vending machine popcorn in there, and you can never, ever get rid of the smell once a microwave is poisoned with that crap.

    To the asker: Go to Walgreens and get one of those little hot-pots; then go to any coffee chain and get a French press. Starbucks now has these hybrid press/mug thingies that might be very useful for the situation you describe.

  22. WTF on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If I own a cybercafe, my house, my rules. Why would it be even remotely considered illegal to put up a few security cams?

  23. Status report, boiled down to three short words on October-December 2003 FreeBSD Status Report · · Score: -1, Troll

    "*BSD is dying"

  24. Re:Yet another Pentium joke on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1
    Next several elements:

    116 - Ununpentium Pro
    117 - Ununpentium Pro with MMX
    118 - Ununpentium II
    119 - Ununpentium !!!
    120 - Ununpentium !!! without unique element ID
    121 - Ununpentium IV

  25. DVD rental distances on Disney's Disposable DVDs Deemed Duds · · Score: 1
    Don't know where you live, but there are two video rental shops within walking distance of my house, plus a Blockbuster (ick), so there's no problem getting to them at zero fuel cost. Now this is San Francisco, but this is true in many suburban locales as well.

    Anyway, these days I'm buying, not renting DVDs, as Virgin and others keep putting classics on sale for $10 per. So to accept some bizarre disposable DVD to save a few bucks just makes no sense.