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  1. 1000 emails on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They both have good points except that if you really have 30,000 people who really want to hear what you have to say each day well you should have a Blog. For the rest of us, if we send an email to 1000 people... Well, 999 of them probably don't want to hear what we have to say.

  2. No luck here on Repairing Speaker Foam Surrounds? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had no luck trying to fix a pair of speakers a couple years ago. Admittedly I wasn't using a foam repair kit but Duct Tape instead. I guess there is in fact at least one thing that Duct Tape is no good at fixing.

  3. Free travel on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Free trade is only truly "free trade" if labor is also free to seek the best deal. I don't work in India because they won't let me just move there and displace their employees. I'd be happy to make $20,000/yr and live in a place where I don't have to pay for heating (there's $300 per month right there.) I think I paid $6.98 for lunch today. 50 cents? I'll have two!

    It's not the money it's the quality of life. It's just cheaper to offer a high quality of life over there. If I can't take advantage of it then my job is being stolen!

  4. Newhart on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the desktop of Larry's other brother Darryl.

  5. Re:Make a real statement on Looking for High-Tech Watches? · · Score: 1

    I thought that pocket was for a Zippo Lighter. Mine fits perfectly.

  6. Make a real statement on Looking for High-Tech Watches? · · Score: 1

    How about a nice antique wind-up Hamilton. That will say way more about you as a person then some cheap tchochkie.

  7. Love detector on Lie Detector Glasses Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit! It's going to make it harder for us to marry for money. Oh well. Maybe if I convince her I love her money. No... That's not right.

  8. Re:Anti-cheating detectors are good on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    So you're disobeying the rules to help this student whom you've proven to be a cheat. Does your school not have a zero-tolerance rule when it comes to plagarism? I've been to 4 schools and each one of them from small state college to Ivy all made a point to let me know about their hardline position on cheating. Professors going easy on cheaters is what got us in this mess. Perhaps if every semester there was a very public expulsion you wouldn't have to waste so much time trying to detect improperly cited works.

  9. Re:Would you want such a volunteer? on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1
    3 months in a tin can would be a little hard on the psyche

    Tell that to the fine crew of almost any nuclear submarine. They don't get all 'lord of the flies' on each other.

  10. Re:Emotional Horror on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1
    Right now as we speak there are thousands of people living in small sailboats facing certain doom from Tsunami and Hurricane just to see what's going on in some atoll on the other side of the earth. Many of these people are alone and quite happy with their lives. Many of these people will die at sea and don't mind a bit. There is in humans the capacity for wonder. If you told me I could go to Mars but that I would die within 3 years my arrival I would definately go. I would spend my remaining days wandering a strange alien land with the same contentment as the sailor who finds another atoll just over the horizon. If my sacrifice means that the next man to walk on Mars may live a little longer then so be it. He'll be walking in my footsteps.

    Hell, I'd even be willing to be that second guy.

  11. Re:New World wasn't found due to curiousity on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    Why does the nation have to offer ownership of the moon to anyone who will go there. I'd like to see the USA take the moon away from... Oh let's say China when they get there. It would be like playing King-of-the-hill. I'm on the moon. Come try and knock me off. It would be the same for any individual who get's there. However, I think that NASA will try to stop individuals from taking over their turf while they're still on earth. What happened to that rocket guy? He only wanted to go up 30 miles and fall back down. FAA refused a launch permit and customs refused an export permit so he could launch from somewhere else. But if a guy like that succeeds and makes it to the moon. Well dammit if it doesn't belong to him.

  12. Re:Would you want such a volunteer? on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well actually, only the last person to die will die utterly alone. The other 3 will have someone to hold their hand. RTFA the trip will be one way but resupply will be a regular event. As will be the addition of extra crew as the surface is prepared for their arrival. This is the way to go about it. This is probably going to be the only way to go beyond our solar system.

  13. Zenith on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 1

    I have an old TV with a dial and simulated wood grain cabinet. I use it to play my Atari.

  14. Re:Hopes for Zaphod on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1
    You could get twins...

    Yeah like the Olsen twins and then CGI them together. Actually I could think of a thousand things to do with the Olsen twins and CGI.

    I would rather see them build a puppet head and control it by hydraulics then watch cartoonish CGI. But that's just me.

  15. Zebra Crossing on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, when I was a kid and saw the TV show on PBS I was confused by that. I thought he was run over by a zebra. That perhaps zebras lived in England and roamed free. Kind of like a Deer Crossing in rural America. But then that shows you the true value of an American public school education.

  16. Take out on RFID Casino Chips · · Score: 1

    More importantly, they can monitor locals who leave the casino with a lot of chips that they plan on cashing in over time to avoid paying taxes on that one big hit.

  17. Re:What happened to old lego ingenuity? on Inside the Lego Master Builder Search · · Score: 2, Informative

    The trouble with some of their sets is that licensing agreements with their movie tie-ins prohibit them from offering generic sets. There are no more Lego castle sets because of Harry Potter. They had to ditch the space sets when they whored themselves up to George Lucas to use Star Wars themes. Then there's always sets like this one that Lego will never release.

  18. Re:Sad on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 0, Troll
    class sizes at my former high school have doubled in 3 years

    Would those be the previous 3 years that Bush was in office or the previous 15 years the Big Dig has been in planning?

  19. Re:For 15 Billion... on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1

    You forgot where 95 North and 128 South run on the shame shared section of roadway.

  20. Re:Maybe in honor of its opening... on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1

    We may not know how to drive but we're Olympic Parallel Parkers!

  21. Re:Big Dig = Giant Boondoggle for Special Interest on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1

    I'm from Boston and live in PA now. TEMPORARILY! When this PhD is over I'm so going back there. You forgot the occupational tax in PA. You have to pay for the privelage of having a good job. And people call it Taxachusetts. Anyway, thanks for making me homesick.

  22. Re:Big Dig = Giant Boondoggle for Special Interest on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1
    What are you talking about? So as a resident of Massachusetts I can sue Massachusetts for the cost of the Big Dig even though it's paid out of Federal dollars? That makes no sense. Based on the number of New Hampshire plates I see in down town Boston I think it's clear the project benefitted out-of-towners.

    And who are you going to leave in charge of taxpayer money? If not elected officials then I think a diefied soverign is your only other choice.

  23. Re:Drove through this morning. on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Philly... Don't forget about The Disney Hole.

  24. Re:Drove through this morning. on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just have one thing to say. Fuck you! Massachusetts is one of the small handfull of states that pays more taxes to the Federal Gov then is recieved in pork back. This includes the cost of the Big Dig.

  25. Vice City on On The Quality Of Licensed Game Soundtracks · · Score: 1

    I think the radio stations for GTA:Vice City are very well thought out. Some rare forgotten gems that were everywhere back in the 80's but are so out of fashion now. Alcatraz and Romeo Void come to mind. Whoever chose the source music (soundtrack is all of the audio) did their homework well.