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  1. I thought nothing could be cooler than GoogleEarth on Google Includes NASDAQ Results · · Score: 1

    But now after seeing a stock quote and a graph online, this Internet thing is just so freakin awesome.

  2. So your eBay winning auction translates to... on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We'll give you two thousand now, plus fifteen, when it reaches [my house]."

    Bidder's question to seller: "Why would you ever get rid of this? It's so cool, who cares what the wife says."

    Seller's Answer: "She's rich... with more wealth than YOU could image!"

  3. Now for Ben... on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Your seller wanted to have this when he was old enough, but is wife wouldn't allow it.

  4. Re:Idiots never learn from history. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and they stuck it right below the main port.

  5. Obligatory Stormtrooper Quote on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Look sir... Floyds.

  6. Re:I prefer the SpamVampire method on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    I'm just downloading pictures from the Web... don't you do that every day? Now I have to answer to YOU on what images I can download on MY connection? Who made YOU everyone's censor?

  7. I prefer the SpamVampire method on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    With SpamVampire you set your browser to continuously load images from a spammer's site. It doesn't deny service but it eats bandwidth which (theoretically) increases his/her costs.

  8. code-name "Operation Site Down" on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 4, Funny

    We may have a naming conflict here... I thought that was the code-name for any /. post that links another site?

  9. Let's see, once you're done on eBay on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1

    this calculates to... pinky ready... one MILLION dollars!

  10. Re:And people trust a firewall to them on Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections · · Score: 1

    By the way, I thoroughly proofread my html coding in my last message.

  11. Re:And people trust a firewall to them on Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections · · Score: 1

    Actually I lifted that from my regular saying, which is programmers testing their own code is like trying to correct one's own spelling test.

    But you can bumper-sticker that one too, or use it in a staff meeting or something. It's the only analogy that PHBs seem to understand when they ask me if the only person they have budgeted for testing, who also happens to be me (the developer), can be confident that a system is relatively bug-free.

  12. And people trust a firewall to them on Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why would anyone rely on a security product of any kind owned by the same people as the OS? Not only are users subjected to this kind of tomfoolery, but in general marketing a security product for your own operating system is like correcting your own spelling test... best left to a third party.

    Spyware works because Microsoft designed their softwarein such a way that lets it work. The premise of trusting their anti-spyware tools is ludicrous.

  13. Pleistocene park & Cave Women on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool... will it then be legal to pay twenty bucks, run in, and whack some prehistoric ho over the head with a club and drag her off? And I was thinking we'd have to wait for virtual reality to get better!

  14. My God, it's full of stars! on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1

    some of the most breathtaking images of the universe never seen

    Thought I'd beat someone to it.

  15. Give Credit Where Credit is Due on Hacking the Motorola v265 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The OP links to this guy's blog where he has all the seem edit info, etc but give credit to all those who worked all of this out in the past year. These are frequent posters to howardforums.com and cellphonehacks.com. This guy was "standing on the shoulders of giants" for all of his info on hacking the v265. It's basically a repost of what others had already done through trial, error, and oopsies that fried their phones.

  16. And after Earth dies we can live on the Ring on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    We can name it... Halo.

  17. Ivory Tower on Inside Hardware Design - Competing Against the iPod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where Apple was sort of the ivory tower, we were going to be the dark rebel.

    Why would anyone say those so soon after everyone saw Gandalf defeat Sauron?

  18. Bah, Blaine breaks the sound barrier on Japan Tests New Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    and has the added benefits of killing off all the various fauna that mill around under the elevated track.

  19. I turned them off immediately on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    after Dr. Atkins told me I'd get more girlz if I quit eating them.

  20. Depends on Viewer but on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 2, Funny

    Home Theater: Private bathroom (icky)
    Theater: Public restroom. (ickier)

  21. I can't imagine what they must look like on Mars on Looking at a Martian Aurora Borealis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune either I assume.

  22. Re:Quick Tutorial on Converting Dell QuietType on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention, because the Dell QuietType has two keys with opposed grooves from the rest of them, you will need to relabel four keys. Cut out stickers or use a P-Touch to reconfigure F, U, H, and J.

  23. Quick Tutorial on Converting Dell QuietType on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    1) Find a spare Dell QuietType keyboard
    2) Turn over, remove all screws from bottom
    3) Flip back over, lift out keyboard assembly
    4) Keys easily and cleanly removed by turning over leyboard assembly and using two small screwdrivers to gently press the two plastic tabs on each side of each key.
    5) Out comes key!
    6) Take out all the keys that change, put back in appropriate order, put keyboard back together but don't screw everything together yet... convert to DVORAK layout in appropriate OS, test every key in a text editor, THEN reapply screws.

    Hope this helps.

  24. I'm totally seeing a Futarama moment on Using an Old Space-Suit as a Satellite · · Score: 1

    Neat, novel satellite hardware is chucked out of the space station.

    On the other side of the Earth on the orbit path, the twain shall meet again and the novel invention rams a solar panel, causing ISS to hurtle down to Earth.

  25. Re:why the new series sucks on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    "Robbing"? "Heinous crime"? Are you talking about taking away a child's school education or taking away some minor plot twists in a sci-fi movie?

    Calling the first time everyone ever saw "Luke, I am your father" when ESB first came out a minor plot twist is a bit of an understatement.