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  1. Re:I prefer +R on DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In my opinion, you're best bet is DVD-R/C, it has the best options for preemptively embedding multifaceted architectures, not to mention the error-checking. It's DVDFTR-approved, so it not only runs Linux, but it can align datastructures with any palm-based handheld computing solution platform. If you want something to standardize your SMAX PaTA layout, you probably want DVD~F, but that has problems penetrating grids, not to mention the 6% ADSU rate.

    In conclusion, just use CDs. By the time you figure out the best option, you'll be boycotting the entire recordable DVD concept out of spite.

  2. Re:Social Event on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Ah, but it's very social for those of us who go just to piss you off. We have after-parties and everything.

  3. Re:How much is enough? on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you don't have the work ethic to support your family with a series of daring bank heists like us honest working Americans, you can just move to Soviet Russia and let their daring banks heist you, filthy communist.

  4. Re:Who cares on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Really? Then why did I spend over $180 on the Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD discs when I already owned bootleg copies of the subbed VCDS?

    Because you're an idiot?

    I'm only partially kidding. I bought the DVDs too, but I only just now realized that I actually spent almost 200 fucking dollars on that box of plastic. Jesus I'm a moron. I could've bought a chair with that kind of money...

  5. Re:Two words: Metered Bandwidth on P2P Bandwidth Hogging the Net · · Score: 1

    I've done it. Once cable showed up to compete with the shit DSL, I got that, but if cable starts to suck too, I have no problem with downgrading again. Yeah, I know, I can quit any timesh I want, but it really isn't all that bad. Instant gratification isn't worth that much when it's only instant up to an arbitrary limit.

  6. Re:I think it's a good thing on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    Hey, we wouldn't need Hobbes if everybody wasn't inherently evil.

  7. Re:It serves us right on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Prediction: Liberals will hysterically blame this on Bush, conservatives will hyserically defend whatever the liberals attack on the grounds that the liberals are attacking it, and libertarians will celebrate this healthy competition and continue to remain confident that the demand created by an incoming space-laser strike will allow for the quick roll-out of a planetary defense shield in the .005 seconds before the lasers hit the ground.

    Don't even need to read the rest of the thread.

  8. Re:*Yawn* on U.S. Government To Get Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    But a lack of proof of existance isn't proof of non-existence, donchaknow...

  9. Re:bad news for the greatest spammer of them all.. on California Could Get $500/Offense Spam Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Sue over spam
    2) Become millionares
    3) Use millions to buy X10 cameras and penis mightiers
    4) Repeat

  10. Two words: on Build Your Own ECG · · Score: 1

    Free. Market.

    Why the hell should they let you afford to keep your house after they save your life? What are you going to do? "Chemo? Oh, no thank you, I'll just go home and die." Ha! United Healthcare's gonna take you and everyone that doesn't want you to die to the cleaners the first chance they get! Boycott, if you can, but they've got the only biological imperative more persuasive than sex on their side! Face it, little man, until you're ready to go crawling back to Hilary Clinton and her "better idea", you better be ready to put up with pharmacutical companies that value Viagra over cancer cures, scale their pricing to insurance+your bank account, and steal from their customers and investors at the same time!

    Yeah, I recently talked to my HMO's "customer service contractor" on the phone for 3 FUCKING HOURS, can you tell? They don't even let you talk to their own fucking company? They have to hire ANOTHER company to keep them from having to hear my screams of anguish? Fuck, even the checks get sent to an independent contractor, how do I even know if these mythical "UHC" people even exist? For all I know, my money could just be going to some Frenchman at a resort in Bermuda. Shit, I could probably get some Sicillians to rough up the doctors until they treat me for half as much.

  11. Re:loopholes on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I almost agree with you too, but until we have a government with a sense of decency, or a population with a long enough attention span to play disciplinarian, this is what we need. Look at Linda Tripp. Is it right that prosecutors can dangle participation in a book-deal-worthy case in front of somebody, and then "casually" mention things that they *wish* they knew about people but were unable to legally find out, and then prosecute based on evidence gathered by people that are *technically* not police? This is why they have those laws, you can't depend on prosecutors to be above this shit.

    More specifically to the honeypot stuff, it's clearly entrapment being performed by private citizens. This is generally legal, but I think most people would get pretty pissed if their company started a policy of stationing fake drug dealers around the city and then turning in everybody who bought. It's the same thing here, only, like everyone, /. only takes those great idealogical stands when it suits them. Once you get to play secret agent and fuck over the life of some script k1ddi3!!1LOL! by being a prick, suddenly it's only facist opression when they try and shut you down. Well, I'm all for this "opression". Maybe it'll get some sysadmins to go back to that boring old patching stuff instead of setting little booby-traps for stupid kids.

    If we've learned anything from comic books, it's that vigilante justice ends up being caried out by guys in leotards who never get laid (alright, it's implied that Batman gets laid, but he also lives with young boys). Nobody wants to see sysadmins in leotards.

  12. Re:Heh. on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I like hot coffee too, except for those times when it BURNS MY FUCKING GENITALIA OFF. McDonalds was being a cheap-ass fucker, decided to sell a hot beverage (of indeterminate nature, they sure as hell don't use any kind of coffee I've ever seen to make that shit) in an uninsulated dixie cup, and compensated by making it potentially fatal at the time of purchase.

    Did you ever actually buy McDonald's coffee before she sued? It was fucking awful. You couldn't actually touch the cup, since it'd burn your fingerprints off even through the shitty paper-foam, so you'd have to get that carboard cupholder thing, and since nobody ever buys 4 drinks, it's always unbalanced, so you're trying to cary this shit that's making a fucking mirage in the air above it like you're in an egg-carying race or something, and it's still going to be freezing after 20 minutes unless you pour it into a cup that's actually designed for hot beverages first.

    No matter how stupid, anything that gets that shit out of the market must have been sent by Jesus him-fucking-self. Halleluja, neutered-by-coffee lady.

  13. Re:Good One for Weta on Evangelion Live Action Movie · · Score: 1

    Think Weta has any writers, directors, producers, actors, gaffers etc. hanging around? They look like they need some of those, especially since they've started making it already. Whatsa meesa sayin? Dis is the 21st century! We don't need nona that shit!

  14. Re:I hope this doesnt suck! on Evangelion Live Action Movie · · Score: 1

    No, I think the only question is whether it'll suck "real bad" or "wicked bad".

    On the other hand, they could just shave it down to a 20 minute demo reel of giant robot effects and make everybody happy.

  15. Re:Why is it on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    Hells yeah! If I can stone the rest of you fuckers to death before you can call up my files, I get to keep all your stuff!

  16. Re:Why is it on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    It's so great Poindexter's back again. I thought I'd never need my Iran-Contra trading card set again, and now I get to tape Poindexter's card to my car window! He always had the best card, too, burning the Congressional investigation findings in his pipe... he looks like a Bond villan, it's great.

  17. Re:The clue train pulls in! on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    Oy vey, the people we have to share this country with...

    I'm Feeling Lucky: "iran-iraq war" "nerve gas" anthrax Rumsfeld

  18. Re:Why is it on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    Shit, he's got a Lenin too? What the fuck did I just pay 6 G's for then? One-of-a-kind frozen corpse my ass.

  19. Re:Mind Reading Technology on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    No, no, this is the world of military contracting! We get to ignore the ??? and skip right to Profit!

  20. Re:Can someone please explain... on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    Oh, and congratulations on making "Pretentious Art Fag". Don't worry, in a few months you'll be able to have fun again, you just have to adjust to enjoying things for their value as ironic social commentary. Oh, and hold off changing your wardrobe, you can make that ironic too.

  21. Re:Can someone please explain... on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    Please, Adam West must be rolling in the creepy coffin-bed he sleeps in to be compared to Ben fucking Afleck. It is possible to do a good-but-corny movie, but you need way more talent than ever got near that turd. Just like good real ham, good movie ham is only available from peculiar old men living in the deepest woods of New England, who rarely venture forth from their hermit shacks, and hardly ever help produce your adaptations of second-string Marvel characters.

  22. Re:Can someone please explain... on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    I never liked Cheers that much. Maybe there's drama somewhere in there or something, but I never found it all that funny, at least. M*A*S*H is definately #1 of all time and space, but I'd put Invader Zim or something ahead of Cheers, to be honest.

    Buffy's big thing for me is dialogue. I'm not big on mythos or whatever, I always liked the funny one-shot X-Files episodes better than the conpiracy ones. Buffy has a bit of the West Wing/Sports Night sickness where the characters all talk like scriptwriters, but I like that. I can see where it gets annoying, though.

  23. Re:really, I'm not trolling, but on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    I saw that fucking show once! That shit rules. It has a creepy-ass midget baby, and they had a portal to hell or something in the closet. The only problem was they went to a wedding or something halfway though. That was even pretty good though, because I think they decided not to rescue somebody's daughter from this big demon thing because they were late for it, and I think somebody asked them about the daughter at the wedding, and they pretended not to know anything. So fucking high.

  24. Re:Huh? on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    As scifi, the first was pretty pedestrian. It was a great action movie, and it works pretty well as a geek masturbation fantasy and as something for first-year philosophy students to bore us to fuck with, but it really had negligable scifi value. WW3, man-vs-machine, post-apocalyptic nomads, the world isn't real... all that's pretty basic. It's a good framework for other stuff, but in terms of scifi, it walks a lot more than it jumps.

    Using people as a beowulf cluster would've been good, nothing Douglas Adams hasn't done, but at least it would've been something that's at least underexplored. If you erase Morpheus's battery speech, the next two movies stand to be pretty new.

  25. Re:What's that? She was a ghost all this time? No! on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    24, now there's an overrated show. Everybody's so fucking humorless all the time. I watched most of the first season, and it felt like they were just sucking my soul out through my eyesockets. That show alone probably accounts for 78% of Viagra's business, for fuck's sake. Who can get it up after being violated like that?