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  1. Oh good. on New Nanofab Tech Developed by UMass · · Score: 1

    Now, you can lose your music and videos easier than ever before! "Rover, what are you eating..? aww, MOOOOM, Rover ate all the movies again!"

    Or maybe... "Honey, where's our licensed copy of Gone with the Wind?" "Damned if I know, isn't it on the disc with the Matrix and Dr. Zhivago? Check under the sofa cushions..."

  2. Re:It's a shame too... on Chernobyl (Finally) Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    IIRC nuclear fusion is a far more efficient energy generator. IANANP either, though.

  3. Obligatory Guide Reference... on Fugu May Be Key To Human Genome · · Score: 2

    Just remember... you're not really studying the mice. They're conducting incredibly subtle experiments on YOU.

  4. AOL's Winamp... on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    ...The technology is supported in the popular Sonique player, and a plug-in is available for America Online's Winamp player, for example...

    AOL's Winamp. Even if it's true (now) I still can't get used to hearing that...

  5. Sheesh on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    This is the height of arrogance. Of course no one could possibley develop a competing product without use of ours.

    Or maybe they have a patent on "A method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage."

  6. Re:Limitations on Software Copywrite on Warez and Abandonware · · Score: 1

    Whether it was legal or not, Hasbro would sue you for it, and they would win, because they have more money than you.

  7. Re:Bastardization of a great work on Dune Scores Huge Ratings · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are a troll. And if you're not then you really ought to read the book some time.

  8. Re:Text of the article. on The "Glory" Of Tech Support · · Score: 5

    Here's a mirror of the text.. formatted a little better. *grin*

  9. Re:Place this in a proper context on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Two · · Score: 1

    I remember that game. It came with the IBM(I think)-DOS 2.1 BASICA. I used to write text adventure games in BASICA when I was 7 or 8... ah, the memories...

  10. Yeah, and there's this bridge... on Programmers work 47 days per year · · Score: 2

    47 days a year performing the tasks that're in our job description, I can believe. However, I'd bet a big stack o' money (that I don't have) that we spend, and are expected to spend, a lot more time working than most other professionals.

  11. Re:Power Disruption? on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I'd very much like to be able to cut myself off from the power grid.

  12. The ultimate... on The Oldest Known Life Keeps Getting Older · · Score: 4

    Curiously, the shape of these organic mats seems almost to form the letters of two english words, "First post". Of course, no conclusions can be drawn from this, and it has been attributed to mere happenstance...

  13. Re:3D Realism is becoming dangerous. on Nvidia's NV20 · · Score: 1

    HAH! Yes, someday we'll ALL be obsolete, and our kids will run the world.

  14. Re:Power Disruption? on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 1

    What system?

  15. Re:Magnetic Storm on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 1

    I forget the exact year, but in the early 60's I think it was, there was a solar storm that blacked out half of Canada and drove the Aurora B. so far south that it was seen from Texas. So you never know!

  16. Re:So the Terminator and Luke Skywalker finally.. on Successful Bionic Hand · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one I posted about.. Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness...

  17. Obligatory Evil Dead reference on Successful Bionic Hand · · Score: 3

    "Groovy" -- Ash

  18. Re:What I would like to see on It's Official: MS Office 10 Subscription Version · · Score: 1

    Or possibly in those funky {782492734296598278496257292587134642748167382-do- not-look-here} registry keys.

  19. Re:Correction on Ian Murdock On 'Pure' Vs. 'Commercial' Debian · · Score: 1

    So's it deb-EYE-en or DEB-ee-en? I always said the latter, until I was correct by a Debian fanatic friend of mine.

  20. So? on Ian Murdock On 'Pure' Vs. 'Commercial' Debian · · Score: 4

    Not to be flamebait, but what's the big deal? One of the nice things about open-source operating systems is if you don't like one version, you can use a different one. No matter what happens, some people are going to use the commercial version, and some aren't; that's a given.

  21. Re:All right! on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1

    Great. I spoke too soon and jinxed it.

  22. All right! on Election Wrapping Up (Part 2) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we won't have to live under a theocracy after all...

  23. DUKE NUKEM FOR PRESIDENT! on The Politics Guillotine Descends · · Score: 1

    Yes, I shouted. 'nuff said.

  24. Re:Uhmm, Sure.... on Quova Inc. Completes Trace of 4 billion IP Addresses · · Score: 2

    I simply smell the sweet stench of easy bucks through advertising... a world where people will pay for the chance to show a 5-second image to 1 out of every 1000 people to walk by an obscure location. And most of THOSE people will ignore it.

  25. Re:Who cares? on XFree 4.0 Moves into Woody · · Score: 2

    I didn't have much luck with Debian... Redhat is nice, but moves too much stuff around IMHO.. Slackware was the very first distro of Linux I ever installed on any system, and it's still my favorite. I snagged XF4.0 a couple days ago and installed it, haven't had a problem yet.