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  1. Re:Snapstream? on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    I remember throwing a lot of toast while watching Rocky Horror...

  2. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    We used to joke about the "Microsoft Paradox": how can their software both suck and blow?

  3. Re:How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    ... is Mother, is Father...

  4. Re:Put aside the ego... on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I use putty and pscp on Windows for this, and it works very well.

    Might not be feasible in the other poster's environment, though.

  5. Re:Only $1.25 Billion? on Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    The cache is a lie!

  6. Re:Get a Mac on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I bought my Dad a Mac Mini when his Windows box died. He likes it and it takes far less work for me to keep it running.

  7. Re:paper in your wallet on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    You could be much more secure if you simply take the letters of your password, and then use your scrap of paper and count, say, 26 letters left or right and use that instead.

  8. Re:Houston Has Similar Plans on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's nice. I'm talking about Houston, which has a lot more than 7,000 people... Although it probably wouldn't if they put a dome on it.

    Simply implant crystal "lifeclocks" in everyone's palms at birth, and terminate most (in practice, all) people at age 30. Problem solved.

  9. Re:Wrong. on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 1

    Vague, fading memories of my high school class "Town and State" are telling me that the distinction (in NH, at least) was based on the form of government used. I recall that the teacher asked us to describe things about towns, and things about cities, but government turned out to be the thing that defined one versus the other.

  10. Re:Houston Has Similar Plans on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't the paneling, the problem is the structure to hold the paneling one mile up in the air.

    It was supposed to be a mile across, but not a mile high. (Imagine it as a small part of a sphere much larger than 1 mile across, only part of which protrudes above the surface).

    I recall reading about a town in Quebec, which solved a similar problem by building something reminiscent of the arcologies in cyberpunk fiction. ... Ok, found the Wikipedia entry: Fermont. I'm thinking about driving up there some day, but my French doesn't extend much beyond counting to 10 :-(.

  11. Re:Rupert Murdoch eat your heart out on Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model · · Score: 1

    I believe that neither Murdoch nor the bozo quoted in the article has a soul (whether you're talking about the religious or the poetic sense...)

  12. Re:Dashboard reveals what they want to on Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the information is usefull, but last time I looked at it, there is no notification sent to Google when a search result link is clicked.

    I'm not sure that's true. When I hover the cursor over one of the links found by a search, it shows the true destination in the browser status bar. But, when I click it, I briefly see a very long Google URL appear in Firefox's status bar before the real site comes up.

  13. Re:The game that invented the headshot... on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine · · Score: 1

    Although not exactly an FPS as the term is generally used, MechWarrior 2 had hit locations before that, badly bugged at first - I remember that hits were very often erroneously scored against one particular part of the target (right arm?). I think they patched that pretty quickly.

    I'm not sure whether the original MechWarrior allowed you to aim at particular parts of opposing 'mechs - I never played that game.

  14. Re:Still feeds the beast on Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don T. Knowe and the Hoocares, I believe.

  15. Re:OT - your sig on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 1

    From the signature you quoted:

    try the "Post Humously" option.

    Seems like maybe you misread "humously" as "humorously"?

  16. Re:Oh great... on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 1

    Back in the early 90s, we used to run an update process at night to send data from our site to various customer sites. It used modems to dial up and send the stuff.

    At some point, we switched from the cheap 2400 baud modems we had been using, to Telebit Trailblazers. The tones were very different. I came in the next day and found a note from the night manager, who talked about how she liked the new way the "modems sing to one another" :-).
     

  17. Re:Fungible on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but a little bit of bleach cleans it right up.

  18. Re:Look before you leap on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    "kill -9 doesn't kill people. I do."

  19. Re:I'm surprised nobody has said this yet, but.. on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    And, with Global Warming holding off the Fimbulvintr, no need to worry about the end of the world coming!

  20. Re:Holy fuck! on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    The posts appear to be sorted by UID for some reason. The last one is 409370.

  21. Re:Robotic Evolution on Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence · · Score: 1

    CmdrTaco looked deep into our souls, and assigned us a number based on the order in which we joined.

  22. Re:Obvious on The Kindle Killer Arrives · · Score: 1

    Cookies don't pull peoples' arms out of their sockets when they lose. Nookies have been known to do that.

  23. Re:why white? on The Kindle Killer Arrives · · Score: 1

    Don't forget 'avacado' and 'goldenrod'.

    And prism-y semi-transparent plastic with multicolored lights behind it.

  24. Re:New Networking Technology on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 1

    Eventually though, the Elves, Dwarves, and Men will come out with their own competing standards, and you know what happens next...

  25. Re:Almost... on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    That's more-or-less the plot of the book mentioned in the summary ("Einstein's Bridge"), except it was the SCSC, not LHC, and the result was a simple cancellation, not a smoking crater.