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  1. I'm wondering... on Tracking the Password Thieves · · Score: 1

    Who the one guy in Southwest Utah is. My Dad lives there...

  2. THEY control the horizontal on Who Controls Your Television? · · Score: 1
    THEY control the vertical. You know, THEM. THOSE guys in the black helicopters.

    But I control the power switch! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

  3. Windows can be as secure as Linux on Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not by default, and not as easily, but just as secure.

  4. Item 5 IS a correct statement. on The Dozen Space Weapon Myths · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's talking about a boost-phase anti-missile weapon.

  5. Virtualization Is Not All Roses? on Virtualization Is Not All Roses · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is some of it crocuses? Or at least daffodils?

    Please tell me it's not daisies.

  6. Especially since Germany has similar laws on Turkey Censors YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except those laws criminalize different speech. I fully expect YouTube to be banned in parts of the EU for hosting either old Nazi propaganda films or Holocaust denial.

  7. Going over the falls on 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood · · Score: 1

    I've done that once or twice. I think I've left claw marks on waves as I've gone over.

  8. the dawn of a new age on Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? · · Score: 1

    AKA: The Infocalypse!

  9. Dammit. on Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery · · Score: 1

    There was a link to this place when I posted that. I blame the comment filter.

  10. Re:I thought you'd on Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery · · Score: 1

    P'Neer, coming soon to a clown in P'nsylvania near you.

  11. P'neer on Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something I'd pick up at the Indian joint down the street.

  12. Dude! You can't talk about that! on Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn · · Score: 1

    The only reason Saturn, Mars, and Earth would all warm up simultaneously would be from changes in solar output, which would endanger the grants of hundreds of atmospheric scientists who've bet their (and their grad students) careers on the cause being atmospheric CO2!

  13. For larger missiles (ICBMs), on Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle · · Score: 1

    a reusable launch site isn't the top priority. Especially as it is assumed the silo is going to get hit by an incoming MIRV, which will do more damage than any launch would do.

  14. What would happen if Deutsche Telekom said on EU Wants German Telekom Fiber Open to All · · Score: 1

    "Well, we can't make a profit on these lines, or even break even, so we're just going to shut down the whole project."?

  15. OMFG! Communism is just like the society on China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously · · Score: 1

    laid out in Orwell's 1984! What a coincidence!

  16. HOWTO:Avoid Text Messaging Spam on Verizon Wins Injunction Against Text Spammer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have your cell carrier turn off text messaging on your account. Worked for me.

  17. semi-colon's on EMI — Ditching DRM is Going To Cost You · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Preview is my friend...

  18. It's the smei-colon's fault on EMI — Ditching DRM is Going To Cost You · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once she left him for that fancy nbsp, it was all over.

  19. I heard it from reading on Windows For Warships Nearly Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the article. Scroll down to Big step forward and read the bit "anyone who has spent time in an RN warship is entirely accustomed to seeing equipment on which he may depend for his life occasionally throw a double six for no good reason. Windows may be unreliable, but it's hard to imagine it being as failure-prone as the kit which is out there already."

  20. If you'd read the article on Windows For Warships Nearly Ready · · Score: 1

    You'd know that Win2k, however bad, is far better than what they have now.

  21. I found that bit about on Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing · · Score: 1

    "requiring special dispensation" to be funny. The dispensation isn't all that hard to get, otherwise the last Alcoholics Anonymous International Convention wouldn't have been in Toronto in '05. I know a guy with 4 DUIs, all less than 2 years old and all within a year, who had no problem. He just contacted the embassy, told them why he was going to Toronto, and got the stamp on his passport.

  22. Microwave yourself! on Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    That should fry those pesky chips!

  23. Ummmm. Ok on Mash Apache Derby with New OpenOffice 2.0 feature · · Score: 1

    So you use Apache Derby plus java to do what can already, IIRC, be done with n other document/version control systems. Why is this better? Why should I register with IBM to read a document created by a guy from Northrop Grumman (We Build the B-2 Bomber!)?

  24. Infantry proof on Army of Davids Beats Pentagon Procurement · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's what we called it when I was in the Army in the mid-80's. The PRC-77 was the size of a briefcase, carried on your back, and fairly pricey. Cost far more than handheld walkie talkies that operated on the same freqs. But the PRC-77 was far more robust. When it's raining artillery, robust is what you want.

  25. I wonder if this has anything to do with on Dell Laptops Have Shocking New Problem · · Score: 0

    the weather? Dry air == lots of static electricity. I ground myself before I touch anything electronic at this time of year.