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  1. This concrete boat stuff is cool on Cement Canoe With A Contrarian Approach · · Score: 2

    I'm off to register boatse.cx right away!

  2. Re:Two questions, one solution on Embedding Chips Into Paper Money · · Score: 2
    should we require that the RF tags be produced (licended to) by an American company

    I propose Micro$oft - they've already been granted a license to print money.

  3. Yes please on Embedding Chips Into Paper Money · · Score: 2
    So I can confirm that I really did spend it all in the bar last night.

    If you're not spending money on anything you're ashamed about (or anything illegal), then the benefits outweigh the paranoia.

    Imagine being able to track where your money went after you spent it on dot com stocks.

  4. Re:Copyrights and trademarks on Copyrights and Copywrongs · · Score: 2
    Are you trying to tell us that you are not a lawyer,
    but by some Freudian slip, in fact telling us
    "I AM ANAL"?

    Or both?

  5. Re:Like cancerman said, on Scully Leaving X-Files · · Score: 3
    Will Ann Robinson be the new Scully?

    She's got the hair for it.

  6. Text only, please. on New Douglas Adams Book Planned · · Score: 1
    We are also looking at his PC to see how much he had completed of the novel he was working on when he died

    This is going to be the most explicit book ever published if 'they' peek into the browser cache.

    I do like the idea though of spending my life partially completing work, running up huge debts, and then paying them off after I've died, when all my work gets completed.

  7. Evidence already reported on Panel Recommends Mars Samples Be Quarantined · · Score: 2
    There's already been a report of bugs found in material from Mars here.

    Scary, huh?

  8. Secret construction in space on Home Improvement · · Score: 4
    Given Russian Mission Control's combativeness, the table became "a stealth project," according to Shepherd, a 51-year-old Navy captain.

    This paves the way for Son of Kitchen Table.

  9. Re:1 Year ago? on What 1.7Ghz Is Like · · Score: 1
    Does the name Moore ring a bell with you?

    No. That would be Pavlov.

    And why accept a so-called 'law' anyway? Why not simply marvel in the unrelenting exponential growth of technology?

    Or if you don't like that idea, send me 1 cent today. 2 cents tomorrow, and keep doubling it until you understand how important this really is.

  10. At last on Is The Internet Growing Too Fast? · · Score: 2
    Maybe everything should go back to text mode

    Then /. would have to switch off the lameness filter once and for all.

  11. Re:So map A to B to A again, already... on Getting Tech Law Info Past Filters The Eezy Way · · Score: 2
    What the monarch sort of a stupid idea, you clueless oak-tree.

    I've never heard such a ridiculous load of donuts in my sorry-monkey feather-ruling life.

    This is just kebab! Please island off.

    Translation: I agree, it's a good idea, and can be used in everyday office chat, if you can remember a small vocabulary of mappings.

  12. Re:Or... on OS X · · Score: 2
    With a BSD core

    This is an Apple joke, right - you pipped me to that one.

    Also, is the next NeXT the same as next^2?

  13. Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy on Supremes Hear Case of Publisher Piracy · · Score: 2

    Why are Diana Ross et al involved?

  14. Re:Is that an African or a European dog sled? on How Many Hamsters Does It Take To Pull A Dogsled? · · Score: 2
    Does it matter?

    I think 1 (one) would suffice, in the case of the sled passenger being Richard Gere.

  15. Re:Carrot? Not if there are no leeks (sic) on Biodegradable Car Parts From Grass · · Score: 1
    Elephant grass ... is a quick-growing, low-maintenance woody plant akin to bamboo

    I've got loads of stuff that's made of wood in my house/garage/office, and it ain't rotting. Ok, you've got to keep it dry, but that doesn't mean sealing/varnishing the part itself, just containing it.

    I had a wooden car once. Wooden wheels, wooden windows, wooden engine - wooden go!

  16. At last - a money making scheme on Electronic Pricetag Alteration · · Score: 1

    Could you set the price to a negative number, amass lots of credit and use the money to finance a foolproof way of stopping spam that tells you how to make money?

  17. Hale-Bopp has a 4000-year period on Comet Hale-Bopp · · Score: 2
    Hale-Bopp has a 4000-year period, so savor it while you can. :)

    That's gotta mean mighty bad PMS!

    Seriously, why do we need to see it again at such reduced quality when we saw it only 4 years ago?

  18. Re:Don't agree to a blanket non-compete on Fair Compensation For Non-Compete Clauses? · · Score: 1
    You don't need to sign stuff to agree to it.

    It's true. Apparently (and IANAL) the fact that you continue to work for an employer (and happily take the pay they give you) can be construed to mean that you agree with any terms and conditions they wish to enforce.

    Of course, you must not forget that the law is an ass.

  19. Trinary systems are beyond some people on Rebooting The World? · · Score: 1
    2^32=4294967296

    3^16=43046721

    (2^32) / (3^16) = 99.774551841010143374218909728339

    So only an order of two there. Damn close!

  20. Shock! Canada publishes definition of blank media on Canadian Copyright Board Quadruples Levies on Blank Media · · Score: 2
    Surprise, it includes printer/copier paper, photographic film, photons, retinas.

    These guys are scared of something. 21c ain't much of a barrier tho'

  21. Someone noticed on Claude E. Shannon Dead at 85 · · Score: 1
    that Shannon did a lot of work on entropy.

    Does this mean that research into perpetual motion would be a way of cheating death for the scientists involved?

  22. Talking of patents... on Claude E. Shannon Dead at 85 · · Score: 1

    Claude Elwood Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan on April 30 [1916]. One of his childhood heroes was the inventor, Thomas Edison, whom he later learned was a distant cousin. Both were descendants of Colonial leader John Ogden.

  23. Re:Anyone who cares about performance on Who Still Codes In Assembler? · · Score: 1
    But if you're going to have a calculation running for several months, it is worth it.

    If I want a calculation to run for several months, I'll code it in Visual Basic and run it on Windoze 2000 - assuming the pc stays up that long.

  24. Who uses assembler? on Who Still Codes In Assembler? · · Score: 2
    On x86:

    0CA5:0100 B402 MOV AH,02What does it take
    0CA5:0102 B249 MOV DL,49to convince the
    0CA5:0104 CD21 INT 21lameness filter
    0CA5:0106 B44C MOV AH,4Cthat this is ok?
    0CA5:0108 CD21 INT 21(Too many caps indeed)

  25. Re:OUCH! on Is Computer Sex Adultery? · · Score: 2
    I'm sorry, Dave - I can't let you do that.

    And quit calling them Bay doors!