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  1. Re:Now. on DVD-Jon Completely Clear · · Score: 1

    A movie. "The Two Towers", the Peter Jackson film based on Tolkien's novel.

  2. Re:Can't Wait! on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    versus just relying on some international megacorporation to release a binary-only patch that one has to trust doesn't contain any more report-ware or additional bugs.

    You forgot stealth EULA changes in that list (W2KSP3 anyone?)

  3. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Is that by The La Brea Tar Pits?

    (for those who don't know, "La Brea" literally translates as "the tar");

  4. Re:Now. on DVD-Jon Completely Clear · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdotter: "We have the power in our wallets. If we, collectively, avoid copy protected products like the plague, the message will get across to the powers that be - they can not make us buy what we don't want to buy, after all."

    Then...

    "Oooh! A Two Towers DVD! Cool! I want it!"

  5. Re:Return ticket not guaranteed now on Dreams of the Moon · · Score: 1

    And political upheaval... Remember, the cosmonauts got stuck up there during the fall of the Soviet Union.

  6. Re:Laughable on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1

    98SE was not bad at all. It was definitely the best of the 9x kernel versions.

  7. Re:Production Line on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    t would be nice if L-Mart can start a production line

    Is that one better or one worse than K-Mart?

  8. Re:In other news.... on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    It's the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modula-tor!

    Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!

  9. Re:3G on Pricing and Internet Architecture · · Score: 1

    You're with Sprint, aren't you. Not only won't they let me buy an unlimited time ringer, I can't download wallpaper from my computer!

  10. Re:hijacker checklist on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    I suspect that A is easier said than done. Assuming the air marshal is a trained law enforcement officer, he's not going to be afraid of some terrorist with a box-cutter. He'll just shoot the bastard. (With his fuselage-safe gun).

  11. Reverse on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use it when I need to get through to my daughter from work. Typical teenager, she has a phone glued to one ear and her KB stuck on AIM. So I IM her and tell her to hang up, I (or her Mom) needs to talk to her.

  12. Re:you can't hover in orbit... on India Plans Hypersonic Space Plane by 2007 · · Score: 1

    It's not economical to do so. You have to carry the weight of that fuel into orbit, and it's deadweight for most of the flight.

  13. Re:Typo in the Zeitgeist on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004 · · Score: 1

    Beat me to it.

    The All England Tennis Championships are at Wimbledon in the late spring. The French Open is at Roland Garros.

  14. Re:Persistance of information in a changing societ on OnStar Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    The problem is as follows:

    Define "no longer than required".

  15. Re:This is wrong on 10 Ads The US Won't See · · Score: 1

    I have to Tivo-triple-fast-forward all the ones I *do* get on TV because they're such a tripe.

    <SARCASM>
    You, sir, are obviously an Evil Content Pirate(tm). Please remain where you are, and the Copyright Police will be there to arrest you soon.
    </SARCASM>

  16. Re:You have GOT to be joking! on Microsoft at the Tipover Point · · Score: 1

    I guess I need to add or tags.

  17. Re:Oh shit! on Microsoft at the Tipover Point · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're missing the point. MS, Phoenix, and the TCPA define 'secure' as "The Consumer [what we call the end-user] can only do what we allow him to do".

  18. Re:You have GOT to be joking! on Microsoft at the Tipover Point · · Score: 1

    a.o.l. may *think* it is the Internet,

    You mean AOL isn't the Internet? But... but... I saw on one of their commercials, and this person said "AOL is the Internet!" They couldn't say that if it wasn't true, could they? I'm so confused!

  19. Re:Why Fax Machines Are Popular on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    So... what we need is a good format for e-mail transport of fax data, one which will include information like "it's 8.5 / 11, just print it don't fuck with it".

    It's proprietary, but wouldn't PDF fit your description?

  20. Re:Technology for technology's sake on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 1

    But, unlike email, IP Telephony requires the other party to maintain a valid address for a reasonably long period of time -- otherwise, how does the responding voice data know where to go?

  21. Not always code or dollar$ on Do Companies Take Software, And Not Give? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not all support needs to be financial or code.

    I would argue that IBM, while it has contributed a great deal to the Linux kernel (RCU, JFS...) is currently making a much much greater contribution with its (admittedly in its own interest) staunch defense of the SCO suit, and it's countersuit claiming GPL violation (as well as patent infringement).

  22. Re:Camcorder Law on MPAA Fights Pirates with Gentle Threats · · Score: 1

    I am a criminal.

    I carried my Nokia phone with video capture into a movie theatre.

    Come and get me.

  23. Re:Vandenberg shuttle launch. on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded · · Score: 1

    Isn't Edwards in Kern County?

  24. Re:Everyone is talking about the problems on Earth on Jodrell Bank Telescope Gets No Signal From Beagle · · Score: 1

    become ww2 fighter piolets

    That's WWI fighter pilots. Snoopy "flew" a Sopwith Camel biplane.

  25. Re:Technically not mine, but... on First Computers · · Score: 1

    Sorry... forgot to mention, cards sent out through the school office, and the printouts came back a week later.

    Does that count?