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  1. Re:Don't put it in stocks - buy beer! on Investing Tips for College Students? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the study of a few years ago, pointing out that you could have done better than the market by investing in beer.

    Not stock, but cans - save the cans, turn them in for recycle fees, and you would have made about what typical savings accts were paying.......

  2. Re:We can intercept it all, understand none of it. on Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War · · Score: 1

    American foriegn lanquage skills are notably crappy

    But the Senate is just about to fix that - once English is declared our One True Language (TM) - the rest of the world will surely start conducting all of their nefarious planning in english - no need for translators!

  3. Re:It's Too Hard!!! on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    Now I program in linux.

    Care to explain just how you "program in linux"?

  4. Re:Favorites on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    ..........The only problem with it is that you're left with a salty residue on your beer can/bottle. The first few sips are salty unless you wipe it off.

    And don't forget that you should use a wedge of lime to wipe if off.

  5. Re:Why not make it a crime... on Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    So when the constabulary asks for my password, and I reply "noneofyourbusiness", I get arrested?

  6. Re:Robot.txt on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 5, Funny

    .....and get AsianHookers.com, etc.

    couldn't you have made that a link so I can just click on it?

  7. Re:Do you want FREE (BEER) or do you want OSS ? on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    I'll second the plug for TaxAct - I've used it for the last several years, and find it quite easy to work with.

    If they would only put out a Linux version, life would be nicer......

  8. Re:Why, indeed! on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bet you show your receipt at the door at Fry's too...

    At HD and Fry's here, the checker also marks the receipt. Has anyone who skips the check ever had occasion to return anything? Can you return an item without a valid, annotated receipt?

  9. Re:Top 7 Myths of the New Cell Processor: on Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell · · Score: 1

    X. This architecture is "brand new"

    See also ILLIAC-IV, ca 1969

  10. Re:How do I code this thing?? on Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell · · Score: 1

    ...how I would code for this thing?

    Surely there must be some old ILLIAC-IV programmers out there who have some ideas. Maybe Glypnir will live again......

  11. Re:Unofficial Explination on Air Force Launches Encrypted IM Service · · Score: 1

    Hmmm---kinda like what US intelligence was doing prior to the Iraq offensive? Emailing Iraqi soldiers to indicate that they should not resist?

  12. Re:The difference between the Air Force and NMCI on Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah - but there is a Linux version (RH AS 2.1) of the COE......

    And developing for COE is actually very easy - it's just misinterpreted/misunderstood by some developers, as a means to jack up contract costs.....

  13. Re:SAFE! on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else notice the boob is back in plain view at the Justice department?

    The one in the foreground, or the other one?

  14. Re:Is this news? on Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the desparate tactics of the people whose candidate is starting to slide

    Interesting choice of misspellings - I can't decide whether desperate or disparate fits better here.....

  15. Re:Public Rights on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1

    ...so they cannot legally do a single thing to you.

    You left out that one word....

  16. Re:Prediction on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    Should I be surprised that NONE of the respondents to this post seemed to have noticed the total number of votes?????

  17. Re:Our gov't at work on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the Copyright Police collected so many names via BugMeNot that they won't be able to prosecute them all?

  18. Re:Microsoft's "generosity" on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    Could anyone just walk in off the street and pass an MSCE?

    Probably not - you need to learn the MS marketspeak and history of computing a la MS to do well on the test...

  19. AP reports no increase in Opera downloads... on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 1

    Article this morning's Daily Breeze cites Opera ASA as saying they have seen no significant change in downloads, and goes on to quote a statement that user apathy rather than loyalty to MS.

  20. Re:Always Ask for ID on Pentagon Seeks A Loophole In The Privacy Act · · Score: 2

    ....he'll be the toughest one to find.

    You do mean after he's taken away?

  21. Re:This is a usability problem... on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-C is bound to interrupt on any modern terminal; trying to use that for copying would be evil.
    ...and there's the old conspiracy theory - that MS (or IBM) specifically chose Ctrl-C, knowing that if one of their captive slaves ever tried using Unix, they'd not be able to complete any task; thereby making sure that users would never migrate.....

  22. Re:Man, I can't wait for the 8th version of this r on DARPA Grand Challenge Updates · · Score: 1

    ....a prisoner or something

    So PV HS, since their entry hunts down principals, could do quite well?

  23. Re:Autozone Success? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    4. Get more customers amoung Linux users

    Autozone sells computer components???

  24. Re:$1 Trillion debt and counting.. on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    If we didn't have those nasty laws against drunk driving then there wouldn't be illegal driving

    So we should be burning the Jack Daniels warehouses in Tennessee, and sending the CIA after liquor store owners?

    I suspect that the money used to fight the "drug war" might be enough to provide a limo to each of those drunken drivers.....

  25. Re:can't have been written by lawyers on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, we live in a country where one's political views don't generally affect the validity of the contracts we enter in.


    Yet. How much longer will that be true?