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  1. Re:Cost of living in AL is CHEAP! on Where the Highest Paying Tech Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    I'd bet you just about anything that several of the Enron guys were regular churchgoers.

    Kenny Boy sure was.

  2. Toes on Parexel Destroys Immune Systems, Not Liable · · Score: 1

    without toes you cannot remain standing or walk, btw

    Oh really? Better not let pirates read that.

  3. Re:Oblig SG-1 on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems the Goa'uld are big on apostrophes

    Those people who stick an apostrophe on every word that ends with "s" are probably Goa'uld sympathizers. Better kill them just be sure.

  4. Vote for Meco on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 3, Funny

    MECOs are rivals to black hole theory and involve plasmas that never reach the state of being a singularity.

    No singularity, but Meco did come out with that that singularly awesome Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk album back in '77. Take that, black holes!

  5. Re:Bob Dole on John Romero, the Man Behind the Hype · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. Most folks can't see beyond the bleached head and fake tits.

  6. Re:Shotgun Futurology on Howard Rheingold On Our Mobile World · · Score: 1

    I never liked reading Rheingold because he always said the most obvious things using the most buzzwords possible.

    He wears stupid hats in his author photos, too.

  7. Re:Experience with Lulu.com on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 2, Informative

    The typical paperback (what's called a "mass market paperback" in the publishing biz ) is about 4.25 x 7 inches. The 6 x 9" size is called a "trade paperback."

  8. Re:no career ambitions on EFF Case Against AT&T To Go Forward · · Score: 1

    Not all federal judges. Bankruptcy judges sit 14-year terms. They can renew if they want, but they still have to fill out some forms.

  9. Re:Insightful?????? on DRAM Makers Accused of Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    If one of them does it all the others wills cream about selling under cost

    I like it when they sell under cost too, but I wouldn't go that far.

  10. Re:Having a unique name really sucks on MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, it's one of my many, many persona's...

    Which is the one that knows how to use an apostrophe?

  11. Re:hm... on Dell Chastized Over Customer Service · · Score: 1

    And to ensure everything's on the up and up, we videotape everyone all the time.

  12. Re:Not only that... on Microsoft To Release 'iPod Killer' at Christmas? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For now.. the fact is that Apple has removed rights with every version of iTunes since the iTMS launched and they've never granted extra rights.

    Except for that bit about increasing the number of authorized computers from three to five.

  13. Re:Wha...? on Font Raid Spells Trouble for Publisher · · Score: 1

    All true. It's just that there's a huge difference between a typeface with different weights and one set for 10pt and 12pt as the original poster asserted.

    I still have my MM fonts somewhere in my collection.

  14. Re:Wha...? on Font Raid Spells Trouble for Publisher · · Score: 1

    While modern computers can do "good enough"mdash;for casual use, at least--extrapolations of different sizes and styles from a single font, professional publishers are going to use a distinct font (with appearance tweaks) for each different combination of face, style, and type size.

    Correct, except for size.

    Professional publishers use PostScript typefaces, as they scale to any size. Loading different sized screen fonts (to see things rendered somewher correctly on screen for proofing) hasn't been an issue since the early '90s and Adobe Type Manager.

  15. Re:Grinding your eyeball? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    And here's another!

  16. Re:Wireless Elevators on Space Elevator An Impossible Dream? · · Score: 1

    That's the nice thing about the elevator, it could be a very mild ride.

    But after listening to KennyG and "The Girl From Ipanema" for a couple of hours, you'd wish the acceleration would kill you.

  17. Oh, goody. on It's Yahoo Plus eBay vs. Google · · Score: 1

    A crap search engine that prefaces each result with L@@@@@@@K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. Re:It's probably just latency on Honda Robot Controlled By Brain Waves · · Score: 1

    Maybe it'll be like a Michael Crichton novel: They'll invent a working time machine and use it to go backward in time to remove the latency period, so they could use the resulting robots to build a theme park.

  19. Re:Where is the Mac Tablet on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1

    Tablets suck ass. I bought a computer so I wouldn't have to write longhand.

  20. Re:"Choose a Macbook" on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1

    Wear sunscreen.

  21. Re:The UNH Study on Bio-diesel Made from Sewage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the local level, can you image how much better the American economy could be if all the money that went into buying foreign fuels and a whole bunch of the money for the military was kept right here in the USA? Heck, imagine if only 10% of the money we spend now to secure "American interests" abroad were spent instead on paying down federal debt, a basic level of universal healthcare, educational grants, science research, and heck, maybe even helping out less-fortunate countries that really need it, as opposed to ones that we have to make nice with?

    Whoops, gotta go. My alarm clock is waking me up.

  22. Re:Just in from the AP on DOJ To Claim National Security in NSA Case · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if it was 1 or 0. The fact is, an illegal operation was performed and it's time to reboot.

    Oh, God. I'm a geek.

  23. Time for a little goose-gander sauce on Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Considering how often this sort of thing is staring to come up, I think it's time to start a bounty fund. The next time some elected person starts up with this nonsense, the fund should be used to reward any ISP or IT operator/technicians who post a list of every site and e-mail address visited, mailed to, or received by the representative, his or her spouse, and his or her children.

    After all, of they think it's such a great idea, and not at all an invasion of privacy, they won't mind, will they?

  24. Re:Artificial insects: army of the future. on Researchers Create Artificial Insect Eye · · Score: 3, Funny

    The entire war will take place in the very same shoe box currently being used for a third-grade dinosaur diorama. A spokesman from Fox news says that they'll looking forward to providing embedbug coverage.

  25. Re:A redesign is more than skin deep on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyway, let's get to that point: Changing a CSS file is not a "redesign". Saying so is just fooling yourself.

    Don't tell the folks at csszengarden.com.