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  1. hey, new hampshire, bite me on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    it's in the public domain when it gets put on the net in a chatroom, your law is no longer valid.

    oh, by the way, your mountain face fell apart, too. ya gonna try and fine God for that?

  2. which job is outsourced? on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 1

    I would ask, why should this production job be outsourced, when YOUR senior management position is hundreds of times more costly than one in (Russia, India, Malaysia, etc.) and should be flushed out of country if it's really fiscal efficiency you're looking for.

    Bet they don't answer THAT ;)

  3. eek! recognition!.. Re:Nothing to see here. Move on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1

    oh, NO, script weasels have discovered the mac! and one of them actually downloaded some tips on programming one! we are all doomed, DOOMED!

    guess I will have to click update on the antivirus package, then.

    apparently nobody remembers the "brain" and "cascade" days when there was just as much shitware generated for classic macs as for MS-DOS boxes.

    almost nap time. wake me up when virii, trojans, spam, flyers under the windshield wipers, rain on weekends, and allergies become urgent matters of national defence. I'll keep practicing safe hex and not opening unsolicited slop from electronic, as well as physical, sources that don't know me and propose to do abnormal things.

  4. Re:MOD PARENT UP !! Re:IBM First Post on IBM Snags Leading Indian Outsourcing Firm · · Score: 1

    still the funniest thing I've seen all week. and five folks agreed it was a fine story, it's now at 5 points.

    as for the dull life... what is life? I have heard of it, and would like to get one. is there one downloadable? :-D

  5. MOD PARENT UP !! Re:IBM First Post on IBM Snags Leading Indian Outsourcing Firm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't care if it's off-topic, it's the best laugh I've had all week!

  6. Re:Question from the ignorant. on Happy 35th birthday, RFC 1! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Connected Internet was operated by committee of the users. engineering details were worked out through the mechanism of issuance of RFCs (request for comment) and comments thereto for the filer and /or committee. the IETF (internet engineering task force) was the body that governed the RFC process, and it just sorta grew out of some chats by the detail wizards working on the Arpanet at the time.

    what we have now is not necessarily The Connected Internet as it was known and loved in the 80s and early 90s. but it should remain as such, controlled by the users, not a bunch of pinheaded goddamned government know-nothings pushing alternate agendas.

  7. OK for the kids' room, but what about the theater? on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    notice that this was all powered by single-ended triode tube amps, and they rejiggered the output of a marantz CD player for essentially SE triode amps (for that is what you get out of a junction FET.) they used 300Bs in the back channels.

    dudes are somewhat obsessive with their victolas,wot?

    that should be a reference room to judge other stuff by.

    oh, it used to be ultra-common to build echo rooms in sound studios for enhancement of dead-miked voices. while it is not so common now, that's how you avoid creating artifacts and bogosities, big quantities of very dense building material. hope they used acoustic concrete, with extra deadening fibers. otherwise, I'd hate to have to fix the buzz in the bass if a chunk of concrete fell of the brick wall and left a crack.

  8. Re:Old Technology on Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage · · Score: 2, Informative

    they were in new orleans' downtown in the 80s.

  9. regieme change begins at home on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    I do like the poster who has the following sig...

    "there are four boxes used for liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. use in order."

    it is appropos to the topic at hand.

  10. where's the coin slot on Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage · · Score: 1

    and the selector button? it's stupid, stupid to build a vending machine for cars and hide them. especially when I have quarters.

  11. oh, come ON, people on Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    it's April Fools Day. this is the obvious bogus article. it ain't gonna happen. not even

    divide by 0
    Abort, Retry, Ignore ?

    asdlfkaep(*&Y(*&^F(*PEUIREH
    --no carrier

  12. evil cable companies on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    unbundle everything except the local channels now! McCain is right.

  13. Re:Easy to abuse.. but not a new list anyway. on HomeSec Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies · · Score: 1

    "deer mr. Security:

    I know a bunch of peeple who is terrorists, they terorize me all the time in 8th Grad. shoot them all, maybe by friday, so they can't mess me up in taking the tests again................"

    just how many of those bogus "tips" are they going to get? and after fifty years of fighting, how many "skanky Sue" and "billy bob of 666 Nowhere Lane, East Bottomsup, RI" types are still going to be blacklisted and chased like diseased rabbits?

    the plan to allow anybody to tip the list directly sucks.

  14. yah, size matters on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 1

    size matters if you're using it on, say, the rowing machine or the recumbent bike machine or the elliptical machine. I figured the iPod v.2 was large enough so it would be bumped off when the fat ^H^H^H muscles kept pushing on it. the mini iPod can hang on the gym shorts elastic and not get knocked off, provided you pick a spot where you have less fat ^H^H^H muscle.

    if they packed the armband geegaw with 'em, it might not matter as much, provided you aren't working that fat ^H^H^H muscle in your routine. but they don't. and the armbands didn't ship when the minis did.

  15. for your viewing pleasure, TiVO suggests... on Tivo Plans Commercials On Demand · · Score: 1

    infinite spam channel, 24 hours, channel 37

    budweiser, "rolfing," 0930 - 1145, channel 40 (r)

    kerry for president ads, 24 hours, channel 87

    bush for president ads, 24 hours, channel 83

    TiVO features channel, 24 hours, channel 66 ... oh, boy, I can't wait to get one of those....

  16. the DOJ is at least consistent on DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate" · · Score: 1

    the best feature of washington-captured systems and institutions is that once the are bought off, they STAY bought off.

    and the DOJ was bought off on the "settlement."

  17. can we all spell C U S T O M S ?? on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    short definition is that customs service in your country is there to protect its businesses. if you can get a dell there, it's because you have a local importer. to determine whether your machine will be confiscated and destroyed at the border check, or whether you pay something close to the "savings" in duties, you should check with your domestic customs agency. check on each brand you are likely to try and bring back home.

    you are out $2100 plus airfare and hostelry if you are stripped of the machine at the border.

  18. Re:protecting from viruses on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 1

    you also have to strip the zip, tar, etc. types of files, too. if you need one from somebody (a vendor, for instance), you tell them to rename foo.zip to foo.zap, or foo.tar to foo.goo, or whatever non-protocol you decide to use in your shop, and it's smooth sailing. helps keep the foo.bar outside the firewall ;)

  19. AOL has something MS wants on Microsoft Eyeing AOL? · · Score: 1

    yes, it's ........ NETSCAPE !!! MS is tired of working on IE (done with it on the Mac, no new standalone versions,) and somebody figured out they can do a GM on this, and insure "competition."

    it's loony enough to be true. help spread the rumor :-D

    (( no proof that they are looking to purchase Casablanca from Morocco, and thus ingratiate themselves with the french, and thus the EC. hee, hee, this is addictive! ))

  20. Re:Honestly, I think this is what O'Keefe wanted on O'Keefe Under Fire for Hubble, ISS Decisions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you can get a machine to do that, in fact, it only takes a pull-down resistor to lock out options.

    o'keefe is just a doorstop. he needs to go.

  21. Re:And in other news... [Supplementary Article] on Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hell, photoshoppers have done that for years already. you don't need reality when you have fast rendering.

    wait, that is on-topic!

  22. the next MPEG may be WM, folks... on Windows Could Lose Media Player in Europe? · · Score: 1

    mayhaps you missed the article last week saying that the MPEG working committee had tentatively approved windows media as the basis of the next generation of DVDs. this could be the hammer that forces proprietary code off the next generation of media grazing. IMHO only open standards with minimal licensing fees and access to all comers should be defaults. which means the EC is saving the world here if they go through with it.

  23. fix that wackbar law on Do You Have A License For Those Facts? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you can probably copyright an organization system, but you can't own a fact. facts are just THERE. "the sky is blue"(r) is not property.

    in fact, until there are some competent reviewers, I suspect it would be good if all further patents, copyrights, and laws regarding digital matters just freakin' S T O P.

  24. NASA discovers mission on NASA Mars Press Briefing & "Significant Findings" · · Score: 2, Funny

    uh, thank you for coming, folks. we have, ahhh, found a place to send things today.....

  25. two words on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 4, Informative

    metallic ink. same thing will happen if you microwave checks, I expect, around the numbers, which are printed in magnetic MIRC ink.