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  1. Re:Hubris before the fall on Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    "Standard Oil is People!" just don't have the ring to it that Soylent Green does.

  2. Re:Self-help on Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    I ripped it years ago with wav recorder and the built in CD player in Windows 95.
    Great tune. Real shame they never sold a soundtrack for that. I wonder who the rights fell to when Trilobyte went away.

  3. Re:Forget the cells! on Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    Yogurt.

  4. Re:Poseur systems on Dell to Buy Alienware? · · Score: 1

    I dont think hard and optical drive like it much.

  5. Re:Maybe you make too many stupid assumptions. on Black Review · · Score: 1

    Maybe the area between the characters ears is a vast echo chamber.

  6. Re:Electronic Voting, on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    If you know of a better way to exchange long protein strands, I'd like to hear it.

  7. Re:Even on Battlestar Galactica... on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    E-voting requires a network for the machines in the fleet to talk to the tabulator, and we know how good Cylons are at H4X0R1NG. Imagine the chaos! Wont anyone think of the hybrid babies? I hear their stem cells can cure Mr. Reeve of his current illness.

    Sorry, when my wife described the "magical baby blood cure for cancer" episode to me, all I could think about was that south park episode.

  8. Re:The old fashioned ways are still the best on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    He said it in a private fund raising event. I don't know if he thought he was speaking only yo the room or if he knew it would get out into the wild.

  9. Re:new user notes on Exploring The 360's Crashing and Heat · · Score: 1

    Turbo Duo (PC Engine) and I think Turbo Graphics 16 had earphone jack and volume knob.

  10. Re:Tragedy Becomes Farce on Exploring The 360's Crashing and Heat · · Score: 1

    Since we are sharing experiences.
    I've had my Gamecube crash in a couple of games with disk read errors (after making funny drive noises) over the years (I bought one when it was launched).
    My 1st PS2 quit reading media (version 1) and I need to re-calibrate it.
    My 2nd PS2 (version 2) was flat out incompatible with one game (Zone of the Enders) and it would lock up while the game loaded. Media was fine, and once I started using an HDD and the HDD loader software I could read the entire legit disc into the HDD and it would play fine. During the same time Ghost Hunter would lock up from time to time (both game did not give me any kind of disc read error). Finally about 6 months later, it stopped reading media and needs to be re-calibrated.
    My 3rd PS2 (version 4 or 5) reads everything and works fine so far.

    I think that the poor design decisions and crap manufacturing of SONY products as well as design changes and component shrinking are why there are at least as many versions of PS2 as there are Cylons (Rise of the Machines).

  11. Re:Caught in the middle on The Problems With Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    "Someday we will have DRM for nature, too...because we are idiots."

    Too late. That's what the "Terminator Gene" is.

  12. Re:But which card to get? on The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series · · Score: 1

    Right now the only way for AGP users to upgrade and not buy a new system is to get a 7800GS or an X1600 (I forget the exact model).

  13. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... on IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux · · Score: 1

    I had no idea he was gay.

  14. Re:2007 Year of Linux on the Desktop ? on IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux · · Score: 1

    Don't forget "The suit is back!" BS that "Mens Whorehouse" floats ever couple quarters because people are too stupid to remember the last batch of marketing being presented as news.

  15. Re:My god the CNN article sucks on Rockstar's Family-Friendly Shocker · · Score: 1

    I was hinting at the currently running World Baseball Classic.

  16. Re:The Conclusion on Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    And if you go back before that AMD was as good as or better then Intel, depending on who you ask.

  17. Re:Shock news. on Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    You also left out that they are supposed to be adding virtualization to all processor lines (thats the rumor I read) around the middle of this year. I am not sure if this will mean anything in the performance department as I have only worked with virtualization on IBM pSeries hardware.

  18. Re:Too Little, Too late? on Intel Unveils New Chips to Battle AMD · · Score: 1

    Only?!
    Having one as well I can tell you it is probably the hottest AMD chip ever. That was like 5 years ago. Everything I have gotten since has been considerably cooler running. Pick up a cheap old Athlon XP chip (2000 will beat it out speed and heat wise) and welcome to a world where your processor can not cook the motherboard caps.

  19. Re:My god the CNN article sucks on Rockstar's Family-Friendly Shocker · · Score: 1

    We will see if that holds to be true.

  20. Re:My experience on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    I would guess (I am not a banker) that Target uses some for of check verification system and that communications with the check verification system was down.

  21. Re:Hasn't hit its golden generation? on Building Online Stores with osCommerce · · Score: 1

    I am getting ready to give OSC a try. Since you have spoken of a new release, before I get beyond the basics of it and into the "ugly code" as others have called it, should I wait for what you speak of above? I ask only because I'm not much of a programmer.

  22. Re:Phone companies are all DC powered on Was Thomas Edison Right about DC Power? · · Score: 1

    Don't many car engines use an aluminum head on a cast iron block?

  23. Re:Reminds me of another IRC trick to have fun wit on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    I have seen "Type "/join #uberfiles,0" for fserv" work repeatedly over the timespan of years. On several occasions I've seen the same person do it several times in a row, thinking there was something wrong with the non-existent fserve.

  24. Re:Happens everywhere... on Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Felony Access · · Score: 1

    Wow, thats sounds like those chat logs from Efront. I hope that people who think rape is a good "punishment" have done unto them what they wish upon others.

  25. Re:It doesn't need a sequel on Genndy Tartakovsky to Direct Dark Crystal Sequel · · Score: 1

    Mirror Mask was pretty good.