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  1. Re:Problem? on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Given a replicator, I would be amazed to find a drug that cost billions to develop. You would never need to run a reaction larger than what fits in a lab, and you would never need to worry about running out of rare materials or difficult to produce intermediate steps -- just replicate everything you need.

    Forget that, just find 2 people who don't have the disease, and replicate them.

  2. Re:Pipe dream on A Private GSM Cell? · · Score: 1


    Don't waste your time.

    The SIN card you have in your phone is tied to your provider.


    Really? I didn't know that place in the cellphone business too (although looking at the contract again it doesn't surprise me). How's the thermal insulation on these cards?

  3. Re:Pseudo-Written Password on Write Down Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Hey, the parent already did admit to having rot-n password security.

    (Sorry, couldn't resist)

  4. Re:From TFA on Apple Powerbook and iBook Battery Recall · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Contest site is flawed on Contagious Media Showdown · · Score: 1

    Welcome to aaaaaaaaaaaaa.com!

  6. Re:I want a room temp condensate on Exploring Superstrings in the Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    A liquid or solid condensate at room temp exhibiting BEC properties will be nice. I wonder if liquid helium can be made that way.

    If you can flow liquid helium up your arm at room temperature, it's time to talk to your landlord ASAP.

  7. Re:Tradeoff on Symantec Launches Anti-Spyware Beta · · Score: 1

    Terminate and Suckup Resources?

  8. wasn't digitally signed, not our fault! on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1
    So when it does crash, will they try to blame it on bad drivers?

    /duck

  9. Re:so what? on One-Third Of Companies Monitoring Email · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, where do you work?

  10. Re:Automatic or manual? on One-Third Of Companies Monitoring Email · · Score: 1

    X-SpamAssassin-Results: +1.5 HTML_OBFUSC Mail contains words obfuscated with HTML

    (heh, depending on your company's filters, that could show up as X-Spam******in-Results...)

  11. Re:Real Solution -- Signetics Write Only Memory! on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 1

    And something to generate the 6.3VAC filament voltage :-)

  12. Re:Two words on Spitzer Sues Intermix Media for Bundling Spyware · · Score: 1

    I see it going to spyware-nuking bootdisks... many of the newer pests are finding ways to autoload even in safe mode.

  13. Re:That's my uncle's company! (Captains of Industr on The Institute for Backup Trauma · · Score: 1

    Are they affiliated with the United Appeal for the Dead?

  14. Re:Anyone know... on Blockbuster Settles No Late Fee Suit · · Score: 1

    Were they sued by all 50?

    Heh, you've gotta be pretty questionable to get sued by every state in the union, I guess.

  15. Re:Oh I See! on Professor Finds Fault with MS Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    Because of all the new people, of course.

  16. Re:In Soviet Russia... ("defective instructions") on Faulty Chips Might Just be 'Good Enough' · · Score: 1

    Not just Soviet Russia. You haven't lived until you've added good-luck NOPs to assembly code to clear up strange errors manifested by known-good code.

  17. Re:New LED tail lights... on Flickering Curiosity? · · Score: 1

    Many times LEDs are pulsed on the assumption that doing so can increase their perceived brightness; i.e. at 50% duty cycle, the circuit designer can pump a bit more current through in the on-phase without roasting the die, and the eye will 'fill in' the off-phase like it does in the movie theater. There is some debate over how effective this actually is.

  18. My personal favorite... on FTC Shuts Down Fraudulent Antispyware Company · · Score: 1

    "Your Computer Is Broadcasting An IP Address!!"

    "Your House Is Broadcasting A Street Address!!"

  19. Re:....FP. on Of Ants and Robots · · Score: 1

    A Beowulf cluster of them, even.

    (ducking)

  20. Re:Battlefield VR and the Quantum Gate on Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet · · Score: 1

    At least the music was good :-)

  21. Information loss on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: 1
    Is it really possible to infringingly 'reproduce' a 3d object in two dimensions?

    /me runs off to delete md5sums of copyrighted software

  22. Re:Self-policing (was: Re:And who) on French Court Orders Google to Stop Competing Ad Displays · · Score: 1

    It goes further than that, the purpose of advertising is to make you unhappy, then offer you a product/service to take that unhappiness away. ("95% of all Americans don't know that their faces are too shiny. But luckily, our new...")

    Advertising exists to give away a disease and sell the cure.

  23. Re:Congrats, Einstein on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    She also found that if she stopped buying him hard pack ice cream, a lot less spoons got bent.

  24. Despamming blogggs the drastic way on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    I took a somewhat more drastic step to combat the rampant comment spam on my bloggg. Spammers insert their target URLs (the payload) randomly in comments presmably to increase the target site's Google Pagerank by giving the appearance of thousands of sites linking to it. Block the payload and you remove the incentive. So I have my bloggg detect URLs and present a message saying that URLs are not allowed in blog comments, blocking the post. (I suppose humans can post their URLs in a more creative, although non-clickable way, but spambots aren't likely to catch on.) A little drastic, but it's been highly effective.

  25. But... on Build Your Own MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    PIC18LF452 running at 20mhz (For v2 the crystal has been changed to 29.4912MHz

    But.....but....mine plays 320Kbit/s at 8MHz! :-P