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  1. I know... beowulf cluster setup, right? on New Battlestar Galactica Series Starts Tonight · · Score: 4, Funny
    ' Could similar models be networked? '

    You could not come right out and say a "beowulf cluster of boomers", could you?

  2. Re:The Reason Programmers Turn Commie on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1
    Now, can you bring this back to IP?

    "Those individuals are the hardest hit demography by umemployment from outsourcing and temporary worker visa programs."

    This has mainly to do with others being able to do better work than these individuals.

  3. Re:Again, see Title VII and Section 1981 on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 1

    You did read too much into that earlier statement, and you are making some good points about matters I have not given much consideration to lately.

  4. Mook, shmook on Make Magazine Subscription Now Available · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Their description: 'MAKE is a new hybrid magazine/book ("mook") published quarterly by O'Reilly"

    Not sure we need another dumb-sounding buzzword for something that has been around for more than 90 years. "Afred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, "Weird Tales", "Astounding"...all of those old anthology magazines so little different from anthology books. Especially the issues with a single novella.

  5. Re:The Reason Programmers Turn Commie on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1
    "If you've stolen the intellectual property of someone, thereby forcing him to subsist via employment"

    How does this apply to outsourcing in general? Or to specific and common situations where someone in India is hired to write new code?

    "If you've stolen the intellectual property of someone"

    That's RIAA-speak. IP rarely is stolen, as copying does not typically meet the "taken" part of the definition of theft.

  6. Re:Again, see Title VII and Section 1981 on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 1
    "So,you justify the violation of freedom of association by Title VII and Section 1981 by saying it is retribution for slavery?"

    No, I am trying to figure out why you blamed me for white flight.

    Retribution ideas are terrible for many reasons. Why does Lee Iacocca own Colin Powell a thing for black slavery pre 1965? The ancestors of both had not arrived in America yet by that time. (considering such retribution assumes the outrageous idea of punishing someone for what their ancestors did is OK).

  7. Stop humping the "laser" on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "You don't have an excuse now. Get the minimac"

    MiniMac, like MiniMe, is immune to spyware for now. However, if you have ever used email on a mac, you will know that spam is not a "to windows only" phenomenon!

    " people just have to have those silly apps that only work in windows, for them, the future is not so bright"

    Ir maybe you really do think that "email" is a silly windows-only app?

  8. Re:Again, see Title VII and Section 1981 on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 1
    "You still haven't bothered to look at the rulings on Title VII and Section 1981"

    I have, and know exactly what it does.

    "The reality of "white flight" proves that this is no insignificant imposition. Tens of millions in the US alone are acting to counter your imposition"

    When did I impose the importation of black African slaves? Give me back the keys to the time machine, Doc Brown.

  9. Ruined my day on MIT Media Lab Europe: An Obituary · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Strangled by the stopped river of Irish government funding"

    Thanks for putting the image of that damn Riverdance in my brain.

  10. Re:The Reason Programmers Turn Commie on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1
    "This is directly related to the issue of outsourcing ..."

    If someone can do the job better, why not hire them?

    "A system that would work would elimnate all existing taxes (although not necessarily tariffs)"

    I'd see tariffs entirely eliminated first. They are a form of tax in which the elites enrich themselves trying to meddle in personal decisions. However, if you like, I would allow for voluntary tariffs. If you want to pay them, fine.

    Tariffs are a strong form of government legislating morality. Many taxes are as well, but they do not have to be this way. You can engineer taxes so they have a minimal impact on behavior.

  11. Re:The Wonders of Globalist Panmixia on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 1
    "The imposition of globalist panmixia powered by advanced"

    Globalization is a result of a lack of imposition. It is a result of the people themselves getting more power to make decisions without the permission of ruling elites who say "You want to do this across a `border`? I don't think so. And if you do, you will pay a tariff into my greedy mitts".

    I don't demonize isolationists. Isolationism is fine. It should, however, be left as an individual choice, and not forced on everyone by a tyrannical act of the ruling elites. In that respect, isolationism is like religion and socialism.

  12. University of Phoenix Online. on Sims University Ships in March · · Score: 4, Funny
    Joe: "Dude, whassup?"

    Jimmie: "Like, I thought I was playing Sims University all those months, It, like, turned out I was accidentally connected to the University of Phoenix Online. Had no idea until this diploma came in the mail yesterday, dude!"

  13. Could be worse on Huygens Probe Lands on Titan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Eventually, there will be net-connected satellites and probes: "You insensitive clod. By posting that link, you slashdotted the probe in Uranus."

  14. Re:Scribes and Theocrats on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 1
    "with their only recourse argument with armies of decons, friars, monks, priests, bishops and popes."

    At least the rats and mice would have been eliminated.

  15. Matrix 3? on V for Vendetta Going to Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Will this one also end with journey through a version of Star Trek I's "V'ger" ending at a version of Tron's MCP made out of digital bugs, only this time the blind Neo is covered in hot grits?

  16. Some new Fox Games on Rupert Murdoch Considers Entry to Gaming Industry · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Anne Coulter Strip Poker". This one's usually over in 3 minutes.

    "Hannity Vs Colmes Boxing". Imagine the Hulk vs Woody Allen and you get the idea.

    "Geraldo's Foxhole". Fake your own war footage. When it is over, you win what is Al Capone's vaults.

  17. Re:Love Letters on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1
    "No, you're supposed to use them for spreading rumours anonymously"

    I've also downloaded many Sackett western novels from L'anonymour ftp bookz servers.

  18. Better yet: the iMote on iPods get Bluetooth, Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Better yet, let's see Apple apply their engineering to the problematic remote control, with its zillion buttons, labels that rub off within 8 months, and you need a pile of them to run your TV/satellite/DVD/etc.

  19. You can prove a negative on Mammals Preyed on Dinosaurs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Negative vs positive is just a quality of an assertion, like like green and purple are colors. Besides, any "negative" can be reworded into a "positive", which means that you can equally prove either.

  20. How is your statement relevant at all? on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1
    "If you aren't stealing on P2P then you have nothign to worry about"

    I guess no p2p user has a thing to worry about then. It is quite possible to violate copyright restrictions. However, it is completely impossible to steal using p2p.

  21. Re:A remote? on iPods get Bluetooth, Remote Control · · Score: 1

    I've got 3 remotes. One is iPod sized. The other two are larger.

  22. A remote? on iPods get Bluetooth, Remote Control · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think there is something a little amusing when the remote is not much smaller than the thing being controlled with it.

  23. Weatherbug is not awadare on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Weatherbug isn't spyware. It's adaware, which in my book is almostasannoyingware"

    Weatherbug is very different from Adaware. In fact, Adaware from lavasoft.de is a program which has identified Weatherbug as spyware. While Adaware is not perfect, i don't find it to be annoying. Adaware is not to be confused with Ada software.

  24. Here is the dirt on Weatherbug on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 4, Informative
    click here for a detailed analysis.

    If it really was not spyware, they would not feel a need to spam message boards to say it.

  25. Love Letters on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 3, Funny
    "through anonymour remailers"

    Aren't anonymour remailers reserved for letters from secret admirers?