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  1. New Initiatives? on The Return Of Microsoft: Part Two · · Score: 3

    The company is also launching a mind-boggling series of sweeping and expensive new initiatives:
    .Net services, software that permits unrelated Web sites to talk with one another and with PC programs, without the user having to open new programs or visit new sities. This is the company's wedge into Web services.


    Umm, Microsoft is repackaging Back Orifice?

  2. Re:IBM System/36 Coal Bunker on 101 Uses for an Old Server · · Score: 1

    Either that or someone briefly opened up a doorway using a TARDIS-like device, allowing the passage of the S/36 down the stairs.

    Oh, and you owe me $2,065 for recovering your cat. Saving the universe was free.

  3. Oh yeah! on Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Offline, Now Back · · Score: 1

    If you come around my place with GPS, I'll have you charged with "Interfering with a religion" like $cientology did.

    What religion? Umm, I told Census Canada that I was a Jedi. That's it. Better not mess with the Jedi buster! We have the Force and Tom Cruise missles too! (It's too bad that most judges are related to Jabba the Hutt, otherwise: "These aren't the patents you are looking for, move along")

    But seriously, didn't the phone companies vs people who put directories on CD settle that you can't copyright the data in a list?

  4. Re:Part 2 of Katz's Review on The Worst That Can Happen, And Something Better · · Score: 1

    Worse than Battlefield Earth??

  5. Re:Wanna build a bomb? Look at the FAQ!! on Duct Tape · · Score: 1

    Now, with the internet, a 15 year old can probably design one themselves.

    Oh great! Nuclear-armed script-kiddies...

  6. Borgwulf Cluster! on Paperweight or Computer? You Decide! · · Score: 1

    They need a case with a texture and colour like a Borg cube.

    Then you could build them up in a larger cube. Cabling might be a problem however. Add some sort of data/power buss with connectors on each face?(You'd have to feed power in at various points of the cube.)

    It would certainly bring back some of the dominating impressiveness that old Big Iron had!

    "And this, gentlemen, is the company's Borg Super Cube Computer." "Oooooo!"

    I like it!

  7. Re:IBM System/36 Coal Bunker on 101 Uses for an Old Server · · Score: 2

    I have to ask... How did they get it in the office in the first place? And how did the landlord get it out?

    This sounds like a case for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!

  8. Re:Yeah, that enduring stupidity saved the world on Building a Plutonium Memorial · · Score: 1

    Provided power to lots of deep space probes (Galileo I believe, amongst others).

    Well there ya go! Build space probes. lots of space probes!

    There shouldn't be any problem with security, at least until some terrorist gets a Dean drive working.

  9. Re:Yet another DSL "horror" story... on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 1

    Heard of dhcp, yes. Just not in mid-session.

    I get a new Sympatico IP adress when I reboot once a week. (Windows, gotta love it.)

  10. Re:Maybe a cheque failed to clear? on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 1

    No, $600 million. Sigh! You're going to make me dig for this, right? Okay.

    Try http://www.latimes.com/business/20010526/t00004396 2.html

  11. Re:Ah, the American Way -- Blame Canada. on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 1

    The local provider of @home is Rogers cable.

    Please forgive me if I have no wish to be "Rogered" for my Internet access.

  12. Re:Yet another DSL "horror" story... on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 1

    And this guy in a black suit with black sunglasses gives you your new IP address each time, right?

    Okay...

  13. Maybe a cheque failed to clear? on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 3

    Maybe a cheque from Reed Slatkin, co-founder of Earthlink, failed to clear?

    He's only in the hole for $600 million in a massive pyramid scam.

    Favourite cult involved, film at 11.

  14. Re:Not quite on Flywheel UPS · · Score: 1

    You know, I think I'd notice the laser before the five minutes were up. :^)

    That's the thing about kinetics: a 150# washing machine spinning at 2-5 rps is a whole hell of a lot less dangerous than an 850# disk spinning at 1000+rps.

    Drop in one red crayon and tell me that!

  15. Re:1.5 Kilo TNT ~ 4 Hours washing machine ????? on Flywheel UPS · · Score: 1

    No wonder that Maytag repair guy was always so depressed! All those kilotonnes of cleaning power ready to go off at any moment.

    Even notice that they slipped a new guy into the commercials? What happened to the old guy?

  16. Re:Usenet Posting on Longest Email Disclaimer Awards · · Score: 2

    Sorry to follow up on my own post (and off-topic to boot), but I met Keith Henson on Monday.

    He's doing as well as can be expected exiled to the wilderness of Toronto. :^)Visual inspection revealed no nuclear weapons.

  17. Re:Usenet Posting on Longest Email Disclaimer Awards · · Score: 1

    Guilty as charged.

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=al t.religion.scientology.*&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1&selm =2xtO6.4836%24uh2.480408%40news20.bellglobal.com

    And someone else posted it as well, but it's not on Google yet. Message-ID: 3B0A8C59.25494DFD@spam.com

    I hope you didn't mind too much. I thought it was very funny. (And so did a lot of other people what with that five funny and all.)

  18. Re:Jesus Christ! on Longest Email Disclaimer Awards · · Score: 1

    Well they sure have most spammers beat!

    Spammers almost always include a disclaimer that says that it isn't spam because you were on the opt-in list they bought, it's okay by non-existant U.S. laws, it's a one-time mailing, it's a one-time mailing, it's a one-time mailing, and how to remove yourself from their list by sending "REMOVE" in the subject line to a (usually non-existant) email address, etc.

    But Warburg's disclaimer makes them all look like the pikers they are.

    The really sad part is that I actually understand why they have to CYA like that. (Not sad that they have to do it, but that I understand it. I have gazed too long into the abyss...)

  19. Re:$18k on IBM Gets 30 Days Community Service · · Score: 1

    I'm not in favour of vandalism, but at least their TV ad was pretty cool:

    http://www.adcritic.com/content/ibm-linux.html

  20. Re:My Thetans will not allow it! on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    by mocking-up and inaking pictures of bad experiences

    Um, are you talking about Battlefield Earth here??

  21. Re:What was Mark's lawyer doing? on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "gorrila litigation"?

    So far, $cientology has spent millions in legal fees to try and get Keith Henson.

  22. Re:Live action Tick? on Lone Gunmen Get the Axe From Fox · · Score: 1

    What about The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight?

    I use him for my "You've got mail" sound effect...

  23. Re:I can see it now... on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 2

    It should have been called Dentarthurdent!

  24. Re:Why Jedism isn't a religion. on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 1

    Strange visions of Jed Clampett (Beverly Hillbillies) with a light sabre...

    My head isn't always a fun place to live, but it's definitely an E-ticket ride!

  25. Re:Why NOT Jedi? on Slashback: Things, Stuff, Items · · Score: 1

    Religion is a deeply held system of beliefs, not semantic tomfoolery.

    No it isn't! I'm sorry, is this the five minute argument, or the full half-hour?

    Quibling leads to bickering, bickering leads to arguments, arguments lead to flame-wars, flame-wars lead to moderation.