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  1. Re:Virus vendors? on Data Execution Protection · · Score: 0

    I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
    Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
    Total protonic reversal.
    That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.

  2. Re:With a negative SNR, what's the point? on Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? · · Score: 0

    Negative signal-noise ration? Huh?

  3. Re:Great movie title! on Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis · · Score: 0

    Gao!

  4. Re:What are some other worthy computing challenges on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry. The HURD should be out by then. Maybe.

  5. Re:What a Heartthrob! on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 1, Interesting
  6. Re:And the chances... on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 0

    If you outlaw crustless pb&j, only outlaws will have crustless pb&j!

  7. Re:"After Dark" Programming on ExtremeTech Reviews Akimbo Internet-Movie Box · · Score: 0

    An After Dark Channel? Tell me when Flying Toasters is on!

  8. Perfect Solution on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever.

    Then, according to the logic presented here, if you stop using the satellites as thermometers, then they would be able to cure it?

  9. Script Excerpts on Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kaaaahhhhhhhhhnnnnnn!

  10. Re:Akamai exec on Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System · · Score: 3, Informative

    In September 2001, Akamai's stock had already plummetted to a fraction of its peak value. The price finally bottomed out about a year later and has been slowly climbing back up ever since.

  11. Brown Noise on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scientists believe it to be 92 cents below the lowest octave of E flat.

  12. Re:It's not your fault you're FAT on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. I bought an IBM Deskstar and I lost 20 GB of data IN A SINGLE DAY!

  13. Re:"Fair Use" What's that? on Draft of 'Broadcast Flag' Treaty Now Available · · Score: 1

    You fool!! Don't give them any ideas!

  14. Re:what I want to know... on John Woo & Metroid the Movie? · · Score: 1


    Metroidsexual? I hope not.

  15. Re:Mugging on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you outlaw white earphones, only outlaws will have white earphones.

  16. Re:new spamming opportunity on Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw · · Score: 1

    For those unfamiliar with the current Sould Craze

  17. Re:You know you need new glasses when... on End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory? · · Score: 1

    I read is as being killed off by Cthulhu and it all made perfect sense.

  18. Dune on CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc. · · Score: 5, Funny

    it reminds me of that cool scene in the movie Dune, when Paul sticks his hand in the pain box for a really long time and you hear that spooky voice-over intoning, "I will not fear; fear is the mind-killer."

    Yeah, it was a great movie... Now if only someone would write one of those novelized adaptations. That would be great!

  19. Re:The first step to empire on Brine on Mars? · · Score: 1

    The salt must flow!

  20. Re:I have Firstpostitus! on Cyberchondria · · Score: 1

    Back to quarantine for you, it seems

  21. Re:So Windows is now fertile ground for foul play? on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Hasn't it always?

  22. Re:A New Kind of Science on Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online · · Score: 1

    Wolfram is famous for saying "I've created A New Kind Of Science. You owe me $200,000."

    Are you sure it wasn't Darl McBride?

  23. Re:Both are replacements for MS SQL Server on MySQL: Building User Interfaces · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firebird? It can do databases, too?

    That browser can do everything!

  24. Re:Blame SCO on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I do believe that you mean litigious bastards.

  25. Name Conflit on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 1

    Now, wait. I'm confused...

    You are talking about the browser, right?