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  1. Re:Mogul Mogul on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: -1

    The Olympics on NBC have always been a human story. It was never about the sports.

  2. Re:Stacker! on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: -1
  3. Re:Notes as a form of delivery device? on Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics · · Score: -1

    I imagine he was trying to wipe out the human race.. which is still a bit of a non-sequitir, but anyways. If it didn't kill the men they could unwittingly spread it to more women. And without women the men couldn't reproduce.

  4. Re:What exactly is going to be blocked? on More Napster Than You Can Shake A Copy-Protected MP3 At · · Score: 1

    The point isn't to actually block them, but just to make napster a giant pain in the ass (moreso than it already is). Forcing users to rename files in order to share them, and by that also making them difficult to search for, is one way to effectively decrease the usability of napster.
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  5. Re:Whew! on Secure Digital Voice Communications In World War II · · Score: 2
    I would like to first point out that I do not know any and certainly do not speak Klingon.

    Now, as Klingon was likely contrived by English speakers I would imagine it would have a fairly simple to decode structure, idioms (if there even are any), and all verbs and nouns would probably have 1:1 equivalents, with the exception of stupid star trek shit.

    As such, I doubt Klingon speakers would make very good code talkers. Although putting them in the line of fire is not necessarily an entirely unattractive proposition.

    Now once again, to reiterate, I may be wrong, as I do not know any Klingon, nor do I ever intend to.
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  6. Re:the link on New Planetary Systems Stun Astronomers · · Score: 1

    username: slashdot2000 password: slashdot2000
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  7. Dumbass on Misleading Web Page Cons Conference Organizers · · Score: 1

    this isn't offtopic, it's NYT login. If you can't moderate nicely, don't moderate at all.
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  8. Changed my mind on What is 'IT'? · · Score: 1

    It is money.
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  9. Well, on What is 'IT'? · · Score: 1

    if I remember correctly, IT was some sort of clown/arachnid hybrid.
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  10. Hey.. on Free Books Online · · Score: 1

    ..Apparently, it also has a calculator.
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  11. Re:Why Baen lost Bujold and Moon on Free Books Online · · Score: 1

    They died?
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  12. WOW on The Object Oriented Hype · · Score: 1

    The guy who wrote this article just trolled the shit out of all of you. I bow to him. Goodnight.
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  13. Well "No Shit" on A Pair Of Quantum Computing Articles · · Score: 1

    Quantum computers are inherently reversible. This is not a special property of being a quantum computer; classical computers can be reversible too (and thus consume "no" energy). Duh.
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  14. Easily on Paying For Content In The Future · · Score: 1

    This is easily the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
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  15. Conflict of Interest on Kernel Pool Is Back For 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't certain people be in a position to rig this thing? I mean, there are the obvious ones, the few people who directly control the code, but couldn't tactics be used by other contributors to delay the kernel?
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  16. Re:"Benefits" of the War On (some) Drugs: on "Traffic" · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is a "Usian"? There is only one country with the word "America" in its name.
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  17. Re:Fraunhofer on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 2

    That page is more disgusting than goatse.cx.
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  18. Re:fuck WIMPAMP!! on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm a Window$ programmer (really). What's wrong with that?
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  19. Re:SHUT UP TROLL!! AND KEEP USING WINDOW$ on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    Well that depends, was it Aliens Ate my Babysitter? I heard that has problems with 2.1.X
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  20. Oh, shit. on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    I've been spoiled by my previous accounts -1 default score. Now I've gone and posted a bunch of sure-to-get-modded-down comments. Well, I guess I will not be posting for a few days. This should bode well for productivity for my many open source projects, on the plus side.
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  21. Re:Ominous. on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1
    I am interested. Do not be fooled by my boyish charm. Drop me a line c/o NBC Studios.

    Sincerely, Bob Costas
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  22. Re:Well, is it?! on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1

    Algorithms cannot be patented.
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  23. Re:Ominous. on Ogg Vorbis Update: Thomson Trouble · · Score: 1
    There is no question the .OV format has been influenced by the .MP3 format. All layer 3 adds is joint stereo, variable frequency range segments, and huffman compression. .OV files have all these features.

    By the way, I have several friends who are aesthetes, and I myself was one for a short period of time (ca. 1973-1976) but I don't believe I've ever heard of you. Have you published yet in the New Journal of Aesthetics?
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  24. Re:No partners or channel required on Will .coop Be Regulated Better Than .com Et Al? · · Score: 1

    Good call. This is the first post I've seen in this thread that deserves to be modded up. (Note: But NONE of them deserve to be modded down!) Anyways, at first I thought they were doing virtual hosts but apparently not. partners and www are different ips than channel. Why wouldn't it work with a proxy? Doesn't it check hosts first?
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  25. Re:Let the Battle of Lawyers be joined! on Will .coop Be Regulated Better Than .com Et Al? · · Score: 1

    I don't think he really said that.
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