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  1. inoccuous content on Should Innocently-Named Porn Sites Be Illegal? · · Score: 1

    ... illegalize naughty, filthy names that lead only to inoccuous content ...

    There was a "bird watching" site with the domain name "nice-tits.org" (its down now). It wasn't really a bird watching site, but funny none-the-less.

  2. SQUID on Is AIM Really a Bandwidth Hog? · · Score: 1

    It is possible to monitor the traffic, make everybody go though a proxy set up for just AIM traffic, log traffic to a file.... and there you go.

  3. Re:V-Day Again? on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 1

    girlfriend?

  4. Re:Boycott? on Would a Boycott of the MPAA/RIAA Help Matters? · · Score: 2

    Even better, explain to them that the music was made for their specific age group, tell your kids (as my dad told me) why they only have toy comericals during cartoons and kid shows. As a rebelious kid, I remember thinking "hah! I'll show those people, I'm going to do things my way"

  5. Totaly on Taking High School Classes, Online? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know that in California you can take a standardized test which, aside from being a piece of cake, will make you a high school graduate in the eyes of the state. I have many friends who took this test around 16, attended community college for their Jr. and Sr. years in high school, then transferred into a 4 Year.

  6. Apparently on Canadian Astronomers Discover a Magnetar · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Apparently, if this star was located as far away as the moon, it could demag floppy disks and suck change right out of your pocket.

    Yes, and if this star was located as far away from earth as the moon, we would also be dead.

  7. Re:targeting system? on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 2
  8. Re:Statistics on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: 2

    68.5% are made up on the spot.

  9. Translation: on Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is your company doing especially well? Are there sectors that are especially exciting, where products are bubbling to the surface and companies feel like they are about to show the world just how good they are? Tell me about it.

    Translation:

    My portfolio isn't doing so well. Anybody mind helping me out here?

  10. Re:Timeline on New SecuROM Ties Protection to Physical Structure · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh wait, today is the 10th...

  11. Timeline on New SecuROM Ties Protection to Physical Structure · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oct 8, 2002 - h4x0r j03 breaks secuROM
    Oct 9, 2002 - secuROM announced

  12. Re:Not looking forward to the outcome on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 1

    Fallacy of Composition.
    What is true for the part it not true for the whole.

    We are talking about Copyright law, not in general. In general one generation has control over the next.

  13. Freenet on Wayback Machine Purged of Scientology Criticism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps something like this could be a catalyst for getting the word out for things like Freenet. Instead of putting actual content on the web. Put up a link into Freenet or the like with instructions included on how to get Freenet working.

  14. Re:Oh, right on Send Morse Code Over Stockholm By Laser · · Score: 1, Informative

    I stand corrected, that was a knee jerk reaction. I was raised on "nah you stewpid kid, them lazeers you see on Starr Wars ain't real, you cant see lazeers you idjet". A quick google confirms your hubris. Heh.

  15. Oh, right on Send Morse Code Over Stockholm By Laser · · Score: 1

    That looks real.

  16. Where Can You Find Rare Electronic Parts? on Where Can You Find Rare Electronic Parts? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come over to my house!

  17. Re:Why? on Essential Blogging · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Short of getting your own personal stalker of course

    I was really bored one day and tried to see how much information I could get from a random weblog... it was frightening, not because of the information that I got, I got next to nothing. But becuase of the mind numbing nature of the weblog. My random subject was a teenage girl obsessed with boys, and booze. I'll tell you, you could write a program to make a random post for this girl. Her posts were basicly the same.

    Point it, if you dont post addresses, or phone numbers, and stick to first names. Its pretty hard to get information based on the journal alone.

  18. Add 802.11 on Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adding a 802.11b card would make for all kinds of yummy uses, besides uploading pictures, it would be cool to run that program which sniffs graphics going over the air...

  19. Re:Good god! on Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even more scary is the thought that you can listen to her long enough to fall asleep.

  20. Use old Monitors as TVs? on Recycling The First World, in the Third · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have wondered for a long time why they dont use old computer monitors as TVs. Free (used) monitor, with the minimal cost of a NTSC to VGA converter, and you have a cheap hi resolution monitor...

  21. Re:if i were a county office, on Slashback: Disclosure, Maricopa, Telecoms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a quick google search found a page on the meaning of 420.

  22. Re:Maybe I'm missing something, but... on Cradle to Cradle · · Score: 2, Informative

    What seems to be a missing point is durability. I would think that something that easily decomposes would be less durable than something that "lasts forever", almost by definition.

    Not really a departure from the status quo, fabric furniture nowadays still need to be reupholstered every decade or so.

  23. Re:Gnoogle on Slashback: Gnoogle, PlayStation, Assault · · Score: 2, Interesting

    sigh I jumped here with excitement, an "open source google clone!"

  24. Re:Success on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or better yet, game designers could design their own cores and load these at run time, window managers could have special cores to speed up window management routines...

  25. Re:It has to be asked... on DARPA Project Babylon: Universal Translator · · Score: 2

    Awesome! Thanks