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  1. Re:Why does anybody care about this? on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    Why does it matter that the airline told the government that I took flight 3142 from Topelo to Sheboygan and sat in seat 14E? What difference does this make to me? Post the information on a website, for all I care.

    Hey, Joe, he's out of town. It's time to empty out his place.

  2. Re:EULA's are no longer valid? on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    When I watch a DVD, the only thing telling me I can't copy it is the FBI warning that comes on in the beginning.

    Actually, there is that copyright notice on the media and at the end of the movie. That is actually the legal notice of copyright.

  3. Re:Nut job? on Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations · · Score: 1
    It's not like he bought the ranch and turned it into a landing field for UFOs is it?

    Buying an existing landing field for UFOs is a better business plan.
    Apparently his ranch wasn't actually one.
    Or his spaceport's publicity people are doing an awful job.

  4. Re:Screw this. on Phoebe Pictures Released · · Score: 1
    Whoever modded this -1 has a sense of humor that I normally associate with dead wombats.

    Well, maybe their sense of humor is Underrated.

  5. Re:Gideon's in Spaaaaaceeee... on Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations · · Score: 1

    This wall brought to you by Gideons In Space and surface printed by volunteers:
    In the beginning...

  6. Re:Oh no, not more features that look like faces! on Phoebe Pictures Released · · Score: 1
    I prefer:

    • Was the dot already known when Clarke wrote about it?
    • Did Clarke guess it might be there? (there might have been an oddity which could be explained by a dot, but in fiction he doesn't need to prove his explanation is the only one)
    • Did someone look closely for the dot because Clarke wrote about it?
    • Was the dot discovered later although nobody was looking for it?
    • Did someone fake the dot because Clarke wrote it was there?
    • Did someone create the dot on the surface because Clarke wrote it was there?
  7. Re:That's no moon on Phoebe Pictures Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...at least the dot is off-center so it's not aimed directly at us.

  8. Re:Screw this. on Phoebe Pictures Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every Hummer will soon have a nuclear plant to power the electric armor. Yes, I mean the civilian version, to protect against shopping cart attacks and door dingers trying to use the half parking space left on each side of one.

  9. Re:Oh no, not more features that look like faces! on Phoebe Pictures Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In order for life to imitate art, someone had to see the art and imitate it. I didn't put the dot there, so who did?

    Life resembling art is either a coincidence or due to the art using designs similar to what happens in reality. In this case, the symmetry of a dot in the center can be due to several natural processes.

  10. Re:Um...great? on Super Maps for the 21st Century · · Score: 3, Funny
    There's a flip side to this. If one side uses software to determine a transit route, the other side can use the same software to guess where enemy combatants might try to transit. Position dusters, quad 50's and claymores as appropriate and remember that the side marked FRONT TOWARD ENEMY points away from you.

    So, knowing the enemy would know the recommended path, and that is where the enemy will be sending troops to set the traps, send troops or munitions to hit the trappers.

    Of course, troops sent to trap the trappers have to be wary that the trappers would know they would be hunted and would have set traps for the trapper trappers.

  11. Re:Does this really apply? on Linux PVRs Highlighted · · Score: 1

    Well, Tivo could provide the data services and get income from users of various hardware platforms, including free ones. Selling everything in one package is convenient, but getting money while someone else pays for the hardware also can help with the cash flow.

  12. Re:Going back to her homeland... on Rowing the Pond Again · · Score: 1

    She had to return the rented boat.

  13. Re:parking meter money on Microsoft's EU Appeal is Ready · · Score: 5, Funny
    I dont know about you, but if someone tried to fine me 497.2 million i would be happy to wait three more years before paying.

    OK, I fine you $497.2 million.
    I'll be happy to wait three years for you to pay.

  14. Re:Patents.. UCK on BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network · · Score: 1

    Ah, but if I think that your last message was "Send 43 tons of coal to Newcastle." then I can act based on that information. As you said, there may be false positives, but I can attempt to guess your last message. Maybe my buying the Newcastle port and raising unloading fees will not affect you, but maybe it will. But trial and error is always available, whether it is likely to be successful or not.

  15. Re:Should disaster strike... on Don't Smudge The Sensor When You Press 'Play' · · Score: 1

    If your identifier is severed but not misplaced, the RIAA requests that you give them the finger.

  16. You asked for it... on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can't wait for a full page of javascripted user-initiated pop-ups.

    Thank you for opting-in to our popup service.
    Your requested level of service has been configured.

  17. What's wrong here? on FTC to Examine Patent Application Process · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it an indicator of system problems when a British government-sponsored news organization is providing good coverage of American federal trade overseers examining an IP service organization?

  18. My Work Is Done Here. on BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network · · Score: 1

    They have a dandy network, but they don't know what it is doing. It is working, because each time they connect to it they get an error, so it obviously is detecting that a listener is present and making the data unavailable.

  19. Re:Patents.. UCK on BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network · · Score: 1

    You can always do trial and error.

    Is your password "banana"?
    JiffPortxy32?
    oi7ytb87t?

    Was your last email "Sell the stock at $43 and buy eggs"?

  20. Hayes Triple-click on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    What about the Hayes modem command patent 4,549,302 which uses a pause, three +, and another pause? Close enough to a multiple click with significant pauses?

  21. BumperCam? on SpaceShipOne 100 km Attempt Slated for June 21 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any chance there will be a camera on the nose?
    Maybe with the video slowed down so the flight will take as long as a drive to Oregon?

  22. Re:glowbull warmongering funds to be redirected? on Colossus has been Rebuilt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that is the Mother of All Trolls, but Babelfish couldn't quite handle it properly.

  23. Re:Imagine... on Colossus has been Rebuilt · · Score: 1, Funny

    Back then, you have to imagine an Odysseus cluster of these things.

  24. Re:Get non-descript containers on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 4, Funny
    metal laptop case. If worse comes to worse, you can swing the thing at a mugger's head

    "The dummy brought a briefcase to a knife fight. Lucky me, it was metal and the blood was easy to wipe off."

  25. Re:Yet more black hole contradictions on More Blackholes Discovered... · · Score: 1
    What I'm wondering is what they mean by "galactic matter".

    "Galactus ate here."