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  1. Re:Playing it in the dark... on Game Boy Advance RGB LCD Project · · Score: 2

    Here, too.

  2. Addendum to your sig on ADTI Whitepaper Released · · Score: 2

    if it doesn't make sense, it's economics.

  3. Your 9/11 sig on Used Books: An Actual Internet Success Story · · Score: 1

    Remember, remember, the ninth of November
    Aeroplanes, treason and plot.

    ObL will be treated better than GF, I suppose.

  4. Re:Wife's dorm-mate jilted geek, geek rm -f her dr on Universities Creating Computer Discipline Offices · · Score: 2

    I attempted to run over a woman who turned me down once too often. I underestimated the height of the curb she was standing on and bent the frame of my car.

    I think her brother was in the car with me at the time. He thought the whole thing was hysterical.

  5. You can't legislate morality. on Universities Creating Computer Discipline Offices · · Score: 2

    This man says "you certainly can".

  6. Re:Misses the point? on The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay · · Score: 2

    Feeble justification for missing my native currency follows:

    Pence rhymes with cents.

  7. Re:Misses the point? on The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay · · Score: 2

    Sometimes. Everything that I've sold on eBay has gone for much more than it's worth. I'd get all depressed about day 5 that I wasn't going to make any money, then the bots kick in and the price doubles or triples.

    How much was postage on that $0.75 NIC?

  8. Re:Murder on Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallax · · Score: 2

    pe**philia was practically unheard of in the US until 10 years ago.

    It happened, it's just that no-one talked about it.

  9. Intentional? on 'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll · · Score: 2

    hacking is a cleaver way to solve a problem

    I like problems that can be solved by hacking with a cleaver.

  10. Re:naked chicks??? on ICANN Releases Reform Plan · · Score: 2

    :-)

    It's kind of sad that, even on Slashdot, the first comment on a story about the dismantling of the free internet is a pun. Hopefully, the rest of you are too busy crying to reply quickly.

  11. Re:Strike one for the advant of spyware on TV on Judge Says Sonicblue Doesn't Have to Monitor · · Score: 2

    No, I think you were right the first time. My little brothers tell me that TT was quote popular among students when they were in college.

  12. Re:"Viral" computing on Is the Universe its own Largest Computer? · · Score: 2

    Deb-deb.

  13. I want to nuke France on EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty · · Score: 2

    Screw anyone that says I can not

  14. No I'm not on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    And yes I can. Or are you claiming I can't read a book aloud in front of my son's kindergarten class?

  15. Re:All they need now... on Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal · · Score: 1

    Give that man a karma point!

    That is what I understand it to mean, too.

  16. Re:It's just a vehicle for theft on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    You're right. A better analogy would be:

    The markup on Humvees is outrageous. They should sell them at cost, or better yet, give them away. That means it's OK for me to drive one off the lot so long as I leave a cheque for the cost of replacing it.

  17. Re:All they need now... on Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal · · Score: 2

    According to Jim Allchin and GPLTrans:

    Krebs

  18. Property rights on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    But the point is that it's their property, and they get to decide what to do with it.

    Except once they sell it to me, it becomes my property. That's what selling means.

    Of course, we have copyright laws to make sure I don't sell multiple copies of the work, but within those laws, it's my property, and I get to decide what to do with it.

  19. Misuse of the word "literally" on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll let the misspelling go, because this is Slashdot. However, you buy "litteraly tons of DVDs". A DVD weighs about 15g. Let's be generous, and assume you were including the packaging in your wight calculations, which would put it up around 150g per DVD. A ton of DVDs would therefore be ~6600 disks and packaging. You have tons, i.e. at least two, so we conclude that you have at least 13,000 DVDs.

    Where do you keep them all?

  20. Re:Thank goodness he set me straight! on Valenti's "Boston Strangler" Testimony · · Score: 1

    s/on/only/

    OK, so I waited the 20 seconds between Reply and Submit. Then it told me I had to wait two minutes since my last post. Why couldn't it tell me that first? And why does it count *attempted* posts rather than successful posts?

    Grrrfssrwssr.

  21. Re:Thank goodness he set me straight! on Valenti's "Boston Strangler" Testimony · · Score: 2

    Windows XP Home Edition is on $199+tax if your time has no value.

  22. Re:the biggest difference between VHS and DVD is on Valenti's "Boston Strangler" Testimony · · Score: 2

    So if the VCR is the Boston Strangler, then internet pirates are 20 million thuggees prowling the streets of America?

  23. Re:Kids & porn on ACLU and ALA Victorious in CIPA Challenge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Public masturbation is a misdemeanor in most states.

    If their own mothers can't control them, then the software developers at NetNanny can't do much to help.

  24. Re:RMS' philosophy on RMS Condemns "UnitedLinux" per-seat License · · Score: 2

    I don't think RMS cares much about uses of software. A more accurate statement of the philosophy would be:

    You're free to distribute it any way you want, so long as the people you distribute it to can redistribute it.

  25. Jabba the Hutt on Transmeta Unveils 256-bit Microprocessor Plans · · Score: 2

    In EpI he his seen moving forwards onto the balcony overlooking the pod race, apparently under his own power.