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  1. Re:The title.... on Penguin Not Taking Flight Down Under · · Score: 1

    Guys, seriously, this is coming from a dude who calls himself Tubesteak, and we all know what that references. I will always take penile advice from someone aliasing himself to the penis itself.

      Just wait till Boobman69 chimes in with breast cancer awareness advice. I've got fresh ink in my printer already!

  2. Re:How much longer can we hold on... on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 1

    Dumb question. Check Microsoft's site for Windows XP EOL statements. I'm guessing it's about 3-5 years out but they know better than I do.

  3. Re:A Test to Verify the Numbers on Keyboards Are Disgusting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, so that was you making a B52 bombing run next to me yesterday.

      Seriously dude, courtesy flush and eat less bran need to be 2 of your New Year's Resolutions.

  4. Re:Enter Youth & the Y Chromosome on Building the "Social Internet" From the Outside In · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you can call it WeirdCatLadyNet or Menopausalnet or GrannyNet.

  5. Re:No its not a joke on Anti-Spyware Guidelines Get Final Version · · Score: 1

    After I thought about it a little, I think that Corporate adheres to a different standard than home editions do. It makes sense that it would ignore a known, boxed and sold keylogger like Ardamax for the reason you stated. I use it on a few boxen to keep them safe...they tell me everything I typed and if someone sat down at my machine while I was gone, it captures that as well. Sometimes it's useful for hunting down websites I forgot about, and the rest of the time I can see if someone borrowed my machine while I was at lunch.

  6. Re:No its not a joke on Anti-Spyware Guidelines Get Final Version · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wonder what versions of NAV do this. I've used both versions 8 and 10 of NAV Corporate on many machines and have never once seen NAV identify Spybot S&D as spyware, malware, or anything else. It even skips past Ardamax Keylogger.

  7. Re:Sounds alot like on ATI Talks Revolution Graphics · · Score: 1

    Just because I didn't play the N64 didn't mean I wasn't exposed to it. I had some friends that begged me to bring my PSX over with Warhawk, THPS and all the other hits every time they'd call. They had an N64 with Zelda, Mario, Rogue Squadron, etc.

      Maybe I'm retarded but I could never get used to the wacky controller either, and some games forced you to use the bad analog stick. I use the Kiky-X usb to playstation controller adapter anytime I fire up mame or zsnes.

  8. Re:Sounds alot like on ATI Talks Revolution Graphics · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man, it never fails, no matter what I post about Nintendo I really bring out the fanboys.

      I bet alot of you guys are sitting in your parent's basements right now wearing Wario hats and staring admirably at your papier mache Yoshis.

      Troll me. It was worth it. :)

  9. Sounds alot like on ATI Talks Revolution Graphics · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ..the pitch they made with the N64 and its crap graphics courtesy of SGI. Remember how wonderful it was supposed to look? And how terrible it ended up looking? Nintendo pitched the same junk at the public back then also. "Don't worry about the specs and what's inside, worry about the games themselves."

      Personally I haven't played anything with Nintendo on it since the N64 and the batarang controller, but I still love and play alot of SNES and NES games.

  10. Re:Oh, no! on The Year of the HTPC · · Score: 1

    You got it all wrong. The only button you'd need for a Woman RemoteTM is Mute. The rest of the functions are automagic.

  11. Re:XBMC on The Year of the HTPC · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's an Xbox project for a mythtv frontend. Hit up google, probably the first link.

  12. Re:How to make cellphone internet use take off on Motorola to Add Google to Mobiles · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a waste of investment capital to me. The farmers would just watch about 5 minutes of zoo porn before realizing they can see the same thing in the barn out back, then call and disconnect the service.

  13. Re:On the first day.. on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Khmer Rouge, Saddamn Hussein and any other penny-ante dictator around the world. The way dictators stay in power is through fear, and to hold that fear at a high level, you gotta spill blood on a regular basis.

  14. Re:Kari? on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better yet, we can have a questionnaire entitled "Ask Wife's Taco".

  15. Re:Hard Drive Voodoo? on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 1
  16. Re:bad slashdotter on Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like a genius to me. Anyone that slings lame cliches like that around the corporate world sound like gurus to the great unwashed. For example, pretend I'm an interior designer and I'm looking around your house.

      "It's now how the drapes are hung, it's why the drapes are hung."

      That will prompt an OOOoooohhh from you and then bam, I'm an instant design genius and before you know it I'll have your house full of fushia Keith Haring prints and leopard skin throw rugs, laughing to myself at your ignorance.

      Just remember kids, if someone uses a lame cliche, call them out on it and be sure to groan.

  17. Re:bad slashdot! on Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru' · · Score: 1

    My wife says that codename sometimes, usually too late. I should start checking my bedroom for microphones.

  18. Re:Getting your point across. on Israeli Company Creates Nano-Armor · · Score: 1

    That's not true, and actually, low-mass bullets are preferable for alot of situations. You don't always want a slug that will travel through walls and ricochet off concrete. Example: the FN P90. It uses high velocity, low mass and low weight bullets in the 5.57 size. It doesn't have the 'stopping power' that a 357 magnum does, but it also won't exit walls. Great for home defense, SWAT teams, urban fighting, etc. because it minimizes collateral damage and therefore protects innocents in the public sector from police or paramilitary teams using these weapons in crowded areas. Muzzle velocity has little to do with projectile size/weight and alot to do with barrel design, length and specifically, grain count in the shell itself.

      I could see NATO jumping on some bullets coated with this stuff in an instant.

  19. Re:they will research quantum superposition... on Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab · · Score: 1

    No, should read 'if bla bla bla did the comment get modded as Troll'. Which, in all likelihood, my post will. :)

  20. Re:Won what? on Going From Gator to Claria · · Score: 2

    You can't mention scumware without mentioning the worst one of all:

      Aurora, aka NAIL.EXE. What a terrible, nasty, dirty bastard it is. Removing it is a 3 page and probably 2 hour project, depending on whose old piece of crap pc you're working on.

  21. Re:Short and sweet! on BioWare Hiring Writers by Contest · · Score: 1

    The rain was beatin down like hammers on a tin roof, and my head was pounding to the same drum. The night before was halfway lost to me, my mind swimming in cheap booze and even cheaper hookers, but one dame's face didn't escape me in my liquor-addled haze. Her name was Suzie, and the way she walked reminded me of a girl I once knew, back when I was younger and I knew better than to take a job like this one. When the rent is 2 months overdue, I guess a tired old gumshoe will get in over his head just to make it through another month of miserable existence. With three Red Apple stogies left in the soggy pack, I lit one and staggered into the downpour. What a miserable day this had become, but the worst was yet to come.

  22. Re:Go with GAIM on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, I hated this too, but it's a simple fix. Through Preferences, activate the system tray icon. Now visit the option for the system tray icon in the plugins list and tick 'hide new messages until icon is clicked'. From now on new messages will just blink the gaim icon in the tray, and yes, it will get your attention.

  23. Re:Er, wait (Army Boots Mother) on The ESRB Gets An 'F' · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as she didn't wear them in the shower, as the old cut down goes, then you're alright.

      However you failed to mention if she swims after naval vessels.

  24. Re:VoIP is not cheaper on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    I agree with you there. Your organization is way too small to see any benefits from VOIP. Your monthly phone bill for all of your lines is probably equal to half our bandwidth bill. The difference is, we don't have a phone bill anymore.

      For teeny tiny mom and pop companies, it's probably a waste of time. But for true small businesses (starting with around 20 active, phone loving employees), you can see a benefit right away. You get more features, voicemail for everyone, cool phones, etc. Before we started our VOIP project we were paying at least $5k a month for phone service, and another $700 or so for our ISP on top of that. This is a company that does a ton of out of state calling, has a few 800 numbers, does alot of conference calls, etc. Now our bill is down to $350 a month because we have 4 PSTN lines coming in for backup. Last month our asterisk server logged 10,051 minutes of talk time. We also have an extension in Korea, one in Austin, one in San Diego, and 3 in the metroplex near the company, all standard SIP phones sitting behind linksys routers at people's homes.

      The flexibility and overall cost savings on a small scale like this is mind boggling. However, if your business is very very small, it's probably not worth looking into.

  25. Re:My experience on Solutions for Small Business VoIP? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to mention how wonderful G.729 trunks via the IAX protocol. Rather than the scenario of '1 call on g.729 = 8K/sec must mean 2 calls on g.729 = 16K/sec', you get something more like 12K/sec for two calls, and the more calls, the better your trunk is. It wastes the tcp overhead only once, and concurrent calls just create fatter packets rather than more tcp overhead. It's a really nice way of using VOIP but only if, and it's a big IF, your trunk provider supports it. $5 per g.729 channel can get expensive in a call center environment..or a busy office, plus it's very processor intensive.

      I'd say for bandwidth and quality/size ratio, it's golden.