User: Wakko Warner

Woohoo!

On: Red Hat In The Black

Now maybe we'll get Direct Deposit again! I'm tired of trying to cash these "stock options" things in at the foodstamp redemption center...

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Re:US Power Grid

On: National Broadband Access

Actually, yeah. Zeke and I were pretty pissed that the people in New York and Chicago and, hell, even New Haven had electricity and "high-paying" manufacturing jobs, and all we had was a few hundred acres of dry, dead farmland.

To even begin to compare the need for electrification with the perceived "need" for www.hot-sluts.com is laughable, at best.

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Re:US Power Grid

On: National Broadband Access

In that case, it's 1975 and I demand the government buy everyone a Citizen's Band radio.

Knowledge, after all, is power.

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Re:US Power Grid

On: National Broadband Access

Explain to me why the Internet is a necessity and how you cannot live without it at this point in time.

Now please try explaining how, in this day and age, you can be a fully functioning member of society without electricity. Unibomber doesn't count.

Nice troll, though.

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A poem about this occasion:

On: Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass

By Dan Bern (a folk singer):

Neutrinos have mass.
Now I can sleep.
Now I can spend my days
loving you up.
Neutrinos have mass.
Now I can sleep.
Suddenly the veil has been lifted.

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"Have fungi always been this mean?"

On: CD-Eating Fungus Among Us

Um, yes. Read up on it.

- A.P.

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So, um...

On: Ask Robert Merkel About GnuCash Development

Any chance of getting the number of shared libraries down below 61? (At least that's what the story on "dll hell" was about on Slashdot last weekend...)

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Re:Can't wait for Disney's version of

On: Disney and Anime Plagiarism?

"can you feel the love tonight", of course.

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MP3PRO contains malicious code!!!

On: MP3Pro Released

Do NOT download mp3pro! Why do you think it's a windows-only download? There's trojan code inside the new MP3PRO executable that *deletes* every "normal" (free, great-sounding) MP3 on your hard drive, replacing it bit-by-bit with an mp3pro file!! My friends have been struck by this horrible program, and I don't want the rest of you to suffer the same fate!

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW about this!! IIS/Fraunhofer CAN NOT co-opt our MP3s!!

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Re:NASA IS NOT the bastion of modern technology.

On: Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI

Yes, I read the article.

They're using amigas.

They also use 386s.

See the similarity?

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Re:sucks to be you.

On: XFree86 4.1.0 Reviewed

Oops. My bad. That blows, dude.

Maybe you should try debian? (joke, joke...)

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SHIT!!!

On: Return of The Holy Grail to the Silver Screen

Now I have to re-memorize it from scratch!

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Re:Wow!!!!

On: Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI

It's still fugly.

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Wow!!!!

On: Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI

It looks like OSX with Motif grafted onto it, dithered down to 8 bit color and with antialiasing turned off! Dig those jaggies!!!

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sucks to be you.

On: XFree86 4.1.0 Reviewed

Ideological principles only go so far. Why not try out the closed-source drivers, or are you afraid they're relaying your every mouse-click back to nVidia's secret underground headquarters?

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NASA IS NOT the bastion of modern technology.

On: Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI

They also use 386 laptops on the space shuttle and in the ISS.

Nasa uses OLD, OLD, OLD technology because they know EXACTLY how it works.

You will NEVER see a Pentium 4 on the space shuttle, unless it belongs to Dennis Tito.

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Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead

On: Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI

what do they use them for? I guess the 1571s would make nice napkin holders. The power warts make okay paperweights once you snip the cords off.

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no, you're right.

On: Insanely Audiophile

smack is cheaper.

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my favorite line in the article:

On: U.S. Judge To Hear Yahoo! Web-Blocking Case

"Threatening the U.S.-based site with fines of as much as $13,000 per day, a sum equal to the entire 2000 French GDP,. . ."

- A.P.

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awesome.

On: Supreme Court Limits High-Tech Snooping

I can continue growing marijuana and opium poppies in my closet.

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Re:He's working full-time on this?

On: Freenet's First Employee

|| (parallels)

Um, do we get to throw Napster users to the lions?

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Re:Questions.....

On: Law Review Article Says Port Scanning Illegal

The faster they look, the more they can see. But a thief who smashes a store window, grabs what he can and walks away, is just as guilty as the thief that does a smash and grab, then runs.
Poor analogy. What is nmap stealing when it performs connection attempts? What is it smashing?

- A.P.

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Re:Questions.....

On: Law Review Article Says Port Scanning Illegal

This is similar in attitude to the "admins that dont patch their systems deserve to get cr/hacked"

What are the IP addresses of the machines you admin? I'd like to see if you patch them.

- A.P. (I have no sympathy for admins who don't patch their machines and people who don't make backups.)

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where do i wanna go after looking at VB code?

On: Where Do You Go After Visual Basic?

to church, to confess my sins...

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Re:Hemos, master of the profound.

On: Treasures Recovered From Sunken Egyptian City

It's really supposed to be ironic and facetious, because it's perfectly legal to trade and copy CDs here in the States, too. Apparently a different set of laws applies to the Internet.

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