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  1. Re:Ahem... on Build Your Own 10Mbit/sec Optical Data Link · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ahh, this is great. Three or four posts discussing the "kilometre" vs. "kilometer" issue, and not one who noticed "over up to".

  2. Re:Like it'd matter on al Qaeda Hacks XP? · · Score: 2
    And just what makes you think that the very same network is spreading anthrax, aside from a cover letter that reads like a child's attempt to sound like a mad Arab?

    I'm still betting on:

    1. Small group living here (Show)
    2. Millenial Christians (Place)
    3. Aum Shinrikyo (Win)

    Sure, the last is not entirely consistent with the first, but they have members who aren't Japanese.
  3. Re:My Daddy does the Dirty 'till they took it away on Finding Cheat Codes For A Living · · Score: 2
    Well, I live in Baltimore, and while $28k certainly isn't big money here it goes further than it would in NYC.

    The folks at HomeFair say that a Baltimore $28k is a Bronx $33k, a Brooklyn $35k, and a Manhattan $77k (!)

    Besides, hardly anybody in Hunt Valley gets eaten by CHUD.

  4. Heroic bird on LinuxBIOS Gains Steam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Moving like a sleek penguin under arctic ice? I'm thinking brave but lost and alone, thousands of miles from his home at the Antipodes, almost certain to starve...is there anything we can do to help? A walkathon? A benefit concert? A herring?

  5. Re:Slashdot Sucks (No Really) on Great points in Usenet history · · Score: 2

    Don't know. Would it help if I said that we all hate you?

  6. Re:Strange canned foods? on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Quickies · · Score: 2

    No, most men have one of those.

  7. Re:It should have won the Turner Prize. on Big Berlin Blinkenlichten · · Score: 2

    Certainly. In other news of the art world, Terry Pratchett recently admitted that many of his Discworld books aren't true. "I just make stuff up", he confessed.

  8. Re:It should have won the Turner Prize. on Big Berlin Blinkenlichten · · Score: 2
    Somebody disagrees with the winner, and that's a "searing indictment"!? You must live someplace very gentle.

    If it will help, though, I'd be willing to chime in with, "Hell, my kid could've done that!" or "But it's not a picture of anything!"

  9. Re:You can be RUDE to a phone solicitor on Spam Under Legislative Attack in Europe · · Score: 2
    In fact, a phone solicitation from the PBA offers the quick-thinking solicitee a rare opportunity to safely tell off a cop.

    You really think that's a cop calling? I always figured it was just another hired hand in a basement somewhere, maybe working off his hours of "community service".
  10. Re:Huh? on Is Hacking Cars a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 2
    You want to know where your car is in a crowded shopping mall parking lot.

    From the sound of the engine? "Be vewy, vewy quiet -- I'm hunting my VW Wabbit!"

    As for the other reasons, do what I did -- have kids! They love starting the car, and they'll warm up the seat some too.

  11. Re:At least the can get their's on Fair Domain-Dispute Arbitration Firm Quits the Business · · Score: 2

    Actually I think that's the basic argument for "Manifest Destiny", and that was used to justify the taking of property and indeed a good many lives.

  12. Re:drinking reclaimed water??? on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2

    Ah, but upstream from you bears and wombats and whatnot are peeing in your spring.

  13. Re:shock absorbing power recapture on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2
    Ah, but you're assuming that I would land on my boots. Those shock absorbers would need to be mounted on my head and rump to do me any good.

    On the plus side, the noisy spectacle of my impact might distract the lizard-men long enough for you and the scantily-clad heroine to slip by them unnoticed (in spite of your boyish charm and her chromium bustierre.)

  14. Re:Even cooler... on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2
    For example, you're doing a long combat hike and you are facing a large chasm. You could use the power stored during the hike to power a super-leap via motors with little human effort.

    We'll compromise -- I'll use a hand-cranked radio to call in the transport choppers, because even if I could super-leap across the chasm, I'm too old for the super-landing on the other side. :)
  15. Re:Even cooler... on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2

    Are you suggesting body-powered power suits, so that I would swing my arm to power the device that would swing my arms for me? Can't quite put my finger on it, but I think there's a flaw in this concept...

  16. Re:It's already here, well, kinda. on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2

    I gave up on my last automatic wristwatch (yes, I'm just that old) after I spent a day working with a hammer drill -- poor little Timex never had a chance.

  17. Re:Hmmm. on Still Suits and Body-powered Devices · · Score: 2

    No, it just seems that way because we wash our hands afterwards.

  18. Re:The exodus... on Slashback: Petdom, Denial, Confusion · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, given that each new customer costs Covad some ungodly amount of cash, such that they need a year or more to start seeing a return, a whole bunch of new customers could kill them dead.

  19. Re:Why is this an argument against ID cards ? on Who Wants To Be An Oregonian? · · Score: 2

    We smelly Americans have picture ID's too, but that's only useful when you're standing there at the counter. When you mail-order something, do you enclose your face with order form?

  20. Re:None of this stuff matters.. on Who Wants To Be An Oregonian? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If she's ringing up anything Old Navy in my name, my identity's already been stolen!

  21. Re:Wolfenstein 3D was NOT the original! on Return to Castle Wolfenstein Ships · · Score: 2
    "Plot"!? "Scenario" is probably stretching the word, but yeah, I know what you mean.

    Does anybody have the manual for the Apple game? I'd be curious if it lists the names of the people involved -- I think I knew a couple of them back in the day.

  22. Re:Sorry but no one in Ireland on Iron Chef USA debuts Friday · · Score: 2

    Oh, come on. Is there any period in Irish history that isn't called "The Troubles", at least since Patrick chased out the leprachauns or whatever it was he did?

  23. Re:Interesting on Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net · · Score: 2

    Is that what they told you?

  24. Re:Don't forget about energy on NASA On Mining Extraterrestrial Sources · · Score: 2

    Massive clue wells? Let's go! God knows we could use a clue or three around here. :)

  25. Re:Thirty Years...*sigh* on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 2

    Well, yes, of course you could. I didn't mean to suggest that you couldn't, just that those IN and OUT instructions represented special cases, and the 6502 philosophy seemed to be against special cases.