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  1. Re:...which proves the old saying on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    I forget which player, but one of the Russians came out later and said "Yes, some of the games were rigged"

    Some games were played to a draw on purpose, both to advance a favored player, and to ease them into the final rounds. Fischer felt, rightfully so, that this was cheating, as he had to fight and reason through every game, while others didn't. Its akin to letting some golfers use carts while the others have to walk.

  2. Re:Great... on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, it loads its own CD player into memory. Your statement fails to compare the amount of memory used by the software on the CD, and your CD player of choice.

  3. Re:Do not forget LZH !!! on Computational Origami and David Huffman · · Score: 1

    To you, sir, I tip my non-capitalized hat.

    Further digging shows that, while Haruyasu Yoshizaki is sometimes accredited as the H in LZH, he rather used the LZH algorithm to write LHarc/LHA, amongst others.

  4. Re:Do not forget LZH !!! on Computational Origami and David Huffman · · Score: 1

    Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu

  5. Manos, the Fibre of Fate on The Future of Optical Fibre · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And let us not forget Torgo, and his massively deformed WIFI access points.

  6. Re:How to use the Line In feature: on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    Ack! You're right. They do make a y-adapter that takes two 1/8" mono plugs to a single stero plug. You'd need to have two plugs, two couplers, and two attenuating cables. Or you could just buy the damned CD :P

  7. Re:How to use the Line In feature: on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    I think ideally you should use something like this if you're going from a headphone jack to line in. You used to be able to get a speaker wire-to-line level convertor for use in connecting old car audo decks to line-level-input amps.

  8. Re:Late, but ... on Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte · · Score: 1

    Wired?

  9. Re:I'd buy that for a dollar! on 'Open Funding' For Driver Development · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course... Lager! The only thing that can kill a chicken quataloo.

  10. Re:or... on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    I think it ends with Anakin waking up as the inn keeper of a New England bed and breakfast.

  11. Re:New Technique for Wireless Keyboard on The Security Risk of Keyboard Clicks · · Score: 1

    actually, thats pretty damn insightful.

  12. Re:Better than nothing on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    I think you need to have your sarcasm meter recalibrated. Here, use mine as a reference.

    E[.........../]F

  13. Re:I want one for my bedroom. on Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of "If you can read this, you're already disappointed by now"

  14. I want one for my bedroom. on Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan · · Score: 0

    ...(insert your joke here)

  15. Stupid Clones... on Amiga Sells AmigaOS · · Score: 1

    You can have a LOT of fun with people hopelessly mired in computer nuances. Watch this. Hey! Has anyone seen the mouse to my Amiga??

    Tom: Oh! Hahaha! Amiga!! Ha hah!

    Crow: Amiga? Oh come on!

    Both (hails of derisive laughter): Hahahaha!!

    Tom: Now THERE'S a machine for you...Hahah!

    Crow: Hey! Has anyone seen my FAT ANGUS drive?? Hahah!

    Joel: We'll be back.

    Magic Voice: Commercial sign in five...four...three...two...commercial sign now!

    Tom: 'Unrecoverable appilication error'?! This is really cute, Crow! I suppose we'll have to re-enter the entire spreadsheet now, huh?!

    Crow: Noooo, no, no, no. Just rewrite the 'autoexec.bat' file and stick in a memory manager, that's all. Just take a minute. Don't worry!

  16. Re:Applications to Eyewear on Philips Develops Fluid Lenses · · Score: 2, Informative

    They had a snippet about those in Wired a couple years ago -- they were filled with some sort of oil, as I recall. They look like Harry Potter glasses, but they cost, IIRC, about a buck a pop, making them ideal for distribution in Africa and other destitute areas.

  17. Re:in 250 hours you could have... on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 1

    or take 5 and a half, three credit hour, intro to math courses.

  18. Re:in 250 hours you could have... on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 1

    According to yahoo...

    Starting from: Los Angeles, CA
    Arriving at: New York, NY
    Distance: 2868.1 miles Approximate Travel Time: 44 hours 7 mins

    at 65 mph, apparently. of course, you'd have to pee into a milk jug and be cranked up on something to drive it straight through.

  19. in 250 hours you could have... on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    - flossed your teeth 3,000 times.
    - Seen 166 movies (at 90 minutes each)
    - ...but see Legolas kill the Olephant only 74.6 times
    - driven from NY,NY to LA 5 times
    - listened to 1/35064 of "Longplayer"
    - watched 500 episodes of the simpsons, ~750 if you skipped the commercials.
    - earned $1287.50 flipping burgers for minimum wage

  20. Re:Those chairs rock on Last Great Internet Bubble Auction · · Score: 1

    You can have my Aeron when you pry it off my cold, dead ass. Very nice. Leaves my butt numb a little sometimes -- I'm sure you wanted to know that. I go from this Aeron and a nice ergonomic keyboard and 21" screen, home, to my basement office where I try cranking stuff out while sitting on a wooden folding chair, on a laptop. At least I have a desk for the laptop. I like to think of it as giving my body a workout.

  21. Re:I just searched for 'blow job' on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 1

    Nice :P

  22. I just searched for 'blow job' on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 0, Troll

    ....and found ever picture *but* from my wedding.

  23. The SCO Defense on OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense · · Score: 1

    does that start out with p-qb4 or p-kb4? I can never remember.

  24. Re:fraudulent refudlicking partIE rigs ballots? on Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue · · Score: 1

    Thank you for making the most logical, coherent, and well-composed response of the day. A toast to you, kind sir.

  25. The perfect solution? on Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue · · Score: 1

    I have devised a machine that, when a user applies pressure to a compressed wood-pulp interface module, creates a permanent mark, indentation, or hole on said module with a stylus. This single-use module would then be delivered over a I.P.-over-hand network to a voting official, thus ensuring the voter that their vote has been collected. These votes would then be tallied by a separate machine that, by examining the mark, indentation, or hole in the aforementioned hole, would thus tally all votes. Providing the voter did not 'double-click' the stylus, and applied enough pressure while clicking, his vote should be tallied with correctly and accurately.