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  1. Re:Funnier than the line about no toilets... on Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom · · Score: 1

    If their friends are online, they can join in to their "music session" and listen to whatever tune is playing at their house.

    I wouldn't worry too much - it will probably automatically bill you or your friends for royalties while it's at it.

  2. Re:Roget? on Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians · · Score: 1

    I tried looking in a thesaurus for a couple of the words, but to no avail - none of the synonyms began with P.

    Describing the bands was hardest... and about ten seconds after hitting Submit, i noticed Performances was plural, when it should have been "Performance". Couldn't come up with a substitute for "like", that annoyed me.

    So yeah - off the cuff, during a break at work.

  3. Re:On the mark... on Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bands like Pearl Jam, Phish and P.E., and performers like Prince, have the balls and knowledge to flip off the suits and build long, profitable careers. It seems these days that such things happen despite of, and not because of, the management of the major record labels.

    Nice alliteration, but I have a better one:

    Performances purveyors Pearl Jam, Phish, P.E., and players like Prince, possess perspicacity, preventing pandering to profiteers, preferring portraying poetry prolifically. Presently, performers procure popularity from performances; pessimistic pilferers perish.

  4. Re:Black text on black background on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1

    The man is right!

    If you're using Opera as your browser, press the handy dandy "User mode" button (next to the no images button), and see the original text in all it's glory.

  5. Re:strange on Corporate KDE · · Score: 2, Informative

    A couple of people have said this, but I can't find anything in the GPL that says the code has to be released to the public. It's only if you distribute binaries that you need to also include the code.

  6. Re:Inches? Cubits? on Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 · · Score: 1

    Originally, a cubit was meant to be the length of your forearm (from the elbow, to the base of the hand).

  7. Re:Evil is Just Fine for Google on Google vs. Evil · · Score: 2

    Searched the web for good.

    Results 1 - 10 of about 111,000,000.
    Search took 0.07 seconds.

    It will be interesting to see if these numbers change if they go public....

  8. Obligatory SL reference on Keyboarding Love Or Keyboarding Pain · · Score: 2
  9. Worse? on Motorcyclists To Get Wearable Airbags · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one that at first glance read that as:

    For the past hundred years or so motorcycle accidents have had an unfortunate potential for particularly horrific injuries, or worse; Improvements in safety gear

    Methinks I need some coffee... :/

  10. Re:Lawyers on A Twisty Maze Of Sewerbot Links, All Different · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should we put money into developing robots...

    If you think the lawyers would be cheaper, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you.

    (After you sign this 400-page End Bridge Owner License Agreement)

  11. Re:Even if the robots succeed...serviceability? on A Twisty Maze Of Sewerbot Links, All Different · · Score: 1

    How exactly, do you service a sewerpipe once it has fiber running through it?

    Actually, a diet high in fiber can help the sewer system.(Ok, that was bad. i know, i know)

  12. Re:m=milli on LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives · · Score: 1

    I find myself often pointing out to people that the closest thing that KM comes to is Kelvin megas.

    Maybe i should get out of the house more...

  13. Re:Game gear as well! But is it legal? on Sega Master System is Reborn · · Score: 2

    I have an legit cart of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Master System, I'm pretty sure it was made after the Megadrive/Genesis version, since there was still a market for the SMS at the time.

  14. Re:Come again? on Bricklin on Tablet PCs · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't mean that I should install linux on my 286...

  15. Re:Come again? on Bricklin on Tablet PCs · · Score: 2

    When i was about 10 years old, I was given a Wang computer (a 286, it had a Wang keyboard and everything).

    I'm not sure if the word wang meant then what it does today, but i used to call it (being 10 years old) the WangComputer. (Say the two words in quick succession, out loud, and let the ten year old inside of you giggle like a shcoolboy.)

  16. Re:This is ridiculous on Turning Numbers into Knowledge · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You don't seem to be aware, but this whole phenomenon was started on south park, in an episode featuring underpants gnomes. Their plan was this:

    Phase 1: Steal Underpants
    Phase 2: ???
    Phase 3: Profit!

    Point being, your second item doesn't belong in the list.

  17. Re:Yep... on Cellular and Computing Industries Finally Collide · · Score: 2, Funny

    # of cellphones:
    Italy: 45.84 mil
    US: 125.28


    The US only has 125 cell phones? Geez, that must suck. (And i can only assume the .28 is a phone that was mangled by a frustrated user)

  18. Re:C'mon, give the poor guy a break on University of Twente NOC Fire Arson · · Score: 2

    He was just trying to overclock his Athelon.

    Look, if you're going to buy your cpu's from Joe's Discount Suppliers, then at least try and get proper athlons, and not these cheap "athelon" knock-offs. This whole disaster could have been avoided...

  19. Re:Countermeasures on Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles · · Score: 2

    You've got to understand that the computers that are sending this crap are generally just some poor schmoe that got trojanned, not the actual culprit. (Sure, you may be doing everyone a favour by blasting them off the net, but you're hurting innocent people).

  20. Re:Future of advertizing on Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem with doing it this way is that search engines are less likely to index your site properly.

  21. Re:I hope the also don't care about..... on Library Censorware Blocks Own Site · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What lesson should they have learned?

    They are required by law to have these filters.

  22. Re:Not just anti-Microsoft on Opera, Microsoft, and the Mobile Browser Market · · Score: 4, Informative

    As someone who's done a fair bit of browsing on a system with 32MB of ram, (this doesn't leave much once windows takes a bite), I can assume that the reason Opera is using that much ram is because you have tons of ram free.

    Kinda makes sense, if you have ram, you might as well use it as a cache of pre-rendered pages (or whatever else they use ram for.) Notice how easy it is to press the back button 30 times in IE, then do it in Opera.

  23. Re:I'm a little disappointed... on Ellen Feiss Interview · · Score: 1

    I was moderating this comment. And then it went *beep* *beep* *boop*. And my moderation had changed. It was a really good moderation too. It was kindof a ... ... ... ... ... bummer.

  24. Re:why no choice? on Opera, Microsoft, and the Mobile Browser Market · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because there's only so many browsers you can fit into a mobile...

  25. Re:I realize most /.ers use IE, but... on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what was the security hole?