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  1. Re:Another good point for ASCII, HTML email? on Evolving Phishing Attacks Using Web Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    That's true. Since I don't use HTML reading mail programs, I can easily identify a phisher by the messages I get.

    Most of them say: "Get an HTML capable mail reader" and usually have a text/html type attachment.

    Instantly trashed, regardless of who you are....

  2. Good... on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Now maybe the camera and news crews will stop driving back and forth on my street everyday. Maybe I can finally get out of the driveway without waiting...

  3. Re:Downsite? on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps there will be a steam-electric-fuel hybrid (tribrid?) at some point...

    We'll go straight to Quadbrids. Steam/Electric/Fuel/Gravity (for when the other three, through a loose screw somewhere, interact themselves into a tangled mess). You can use the fourth drive method to coax it home. Wait, maybe it's a Pentabrid. Add the Biomechanical drive to push it home.

  4. Re:Ten mph? wow ... on Slashback: Quinn, iBackups, Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    the dollar-second, one of the most useful compound units known to man.

    It's useful in measuring the US Deficit(tm)

  5. Re:Oh God No! on What Makes a Good Web Font · · Score: 1

    It's like a video editing app with hundreds of cheezy transitions.. all they do is make the video look horribly amateurish.

    What's wrong with "My Island Vacation" using a thick font in bright yellow and orange border with a green shadow effect over top of a scenic tropical (reddish) sunset originally recorded on a VHS-C camera with the sun directly centered in the frame? Add to that the "crumpled paper" or "folded paper airplane" wipe to the first scene and you have a potential Academy Award winning masterpiece.

    Don't forget to leave in the soundtrack containing colorful words yelled by a father on a nearby beach towel to his noisy children.

  6. Re:Here's what I don't understand... on Review of WidowPC Sting 917 Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    So for you, NJ stands for "No Juice"

  7. Re:Or attempts at "Privacy" on Many Domains Registered With False Data · · Score: 1

    In all my life, I have never received a piece of postal mail or a telephone call related to any of the dozen or so domains I own

    You mean you never got letters from these guys?

    Lucky you.....

  8. Re:Bad metric on Most Home PC Users Lack Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how many people open the front door to their house when the doorbell rings?

    I don't. I just replaced my doorbell with one that plays a nice pretty version of Westminster Chimes. I want to get my money's worth out of it. I don't answer the door in order to get a chance to hear it again several seconds later.

    The nice thing about this doorbell is that it's protected from the "Rapid Button Pusher"(tm). It won't respond to a ring attempt again until it's done playing the first tune.

  9. Re:lol no this is not a virus on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    euthanizing AOL users

    No. just deny them use of computers until after rehabilitation. Now those who get broadband access AND STILL BUY AOL because it's the Internet, those are the ones to use your tactics on.

  10. Re:I don't think it'll be cheap on First Cell Phone for Dogs · · Score: 1

    I've seen FAR more "lost cat" posters than "lost dog" posters

    When you move out of the apartment sector to the rural areas, where dogs are more feasible as pets, then you'll see the difference.

  11. Re:I don't think it'll be cheap on First Cell Phone for Dogs · · Score: 1

    people mangle existing words, and use them in contexts where they don't apply

    I thought that was a required action for all the litigants on Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, et. al.

  12. Re:99 Cents is Cheap For Me on Digital Music Stock Market? · · Score: 1

    extended dance remix

    Won't happen. Yes music is too complex to be boiled down to a looping backbeat for a Britney or Eminem song.

    Heck, even Yes written extended remixes of their own songs (as found on "12 Inches on Tape") sound more complex than the originals.

  13. 99 Cents is Cheap For Me on Digital Music Stock Market? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?

    I like listening to classic Yes. It appeals to a few people. Due to the average Yes track length, at 99 cents a track, whole albums only cost me about $2 or $3 each.

  14. Re:An intriguing challenge for mathematicians. on Robots With Square Wheels? · · Score: 1

    Isn't there even a possibility for a solution in a non-euclidian geometry?

    Only in LSDian geometry. Wait, that's showing my age... It's in Extacian geometry. But then again, you forget about it by morning.

  15. Re:funny department on Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots · · Score: 1

    What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader

    You should watch a weekend's worth of '80s "Teen Angst" movies. You will find your answer there.

  16. Re:funny department on Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots · · Score: 2, Funny

    Same here...

    But on mine, I have a well preserved sound effect of a thumb flipping across the edge of a stack of cards.

  17. Quantum Data Storage on First Quantum Byte Created · · Score: 1

    FTA: With a trap using magnetic fields they captured eight calcium ions

    So, I guess floppy disks would be ruled out at this point.

  18. Re:Why is it so difficult... on The ESRB Gets An 'F' · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised how many mommies & daddies are standing there with Timmy while he picks out a game. Timmy hands it to them, they look it over (front & back):
    "Is this what you want?"
    "Yes."
    "Okay, let's go."


    If I could afford to buy the stuff without thinking, I'd buy something for myself first. That way, my kid won't get a chance to be exposed to the wrong influences in a video game. :)

  19. We need finger removal..... on Refocusable Plenoptic Light-Field Photography · · Score: 1

    My Aunt(-in-law) has a HUGE collection of family pictures. But more than half of them have her finger in the middle. She can't be convinced to get an SLR or digital camera. She likes her instamatic. I think she buys her film by the three-pack so she can get a full usable (one roll) set of prints from them.

  20. Re:Title Misleading on British Spammer Gets 6 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is that "terrorist" is a heavy word nowadays.

    Actually, it's used more like Kleenex is used for a tissue, or Scotch Tape is used for cellophane tape, Band-Aid for bandage, etc....

    Criminal == Terrorist

  21. Unique, but not the best selection.... on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 1

    I want to see shows like Ark II, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Shazam, and Isis.

  22. Re:Free but more details needed on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 4, Funny

    Throw in advertising for Smallville and Sex and the City, track download/share stats, Profit!!!

    Congratulations!!!! You just solved for the mysterious '???' of the three step Profit mantra.

  23. Re:organization? on A New Biopaper for Organ Printing · · Score: 1

    But if you're trying to grow an organ in a tank, without any surrounding complex bath of growth factors et cetera, it's not likely the environment will be right to direct the growth of the cells, so you're just going to get a pile of unorganized flesh, not a fresh gleaming liver ready to plug in.

    Hey.. Stop talking about that! Can't you see I'm eating a scrapple sandwich here?!?

  24. Re:The "Moon" is a ridiculous liberal myth. on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 0

    Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950

    It isn't often I feed trolls, but here goes....

    A copy of this book was passed down through my family before it was sold off at a book exchange sometime in the 70's. It was printed in the late 30's.

    Of course I understand that the original post may have been sarcastic, but then again, so was my response.

  25. New website..... on A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Backslashdot

    Specializing in Unix bashing (somewhat of an ironic statement)