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  1. Re:I am not a lawyer, but... on Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites · · Score: 1

    It was sealed under Executive Privilege.`

  2. Re:Should be interesting... on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 1

    FFS, the phrase "I could care less" is sarcasm, as in, "I could care less... if I really tried hard."

  3. Baen on 17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales · · Score: 1
  4. Re:14 pages... on Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All but one comment on the site itself about the article were bitching about that. I, like many of the posters there, decided to forgo pages 2-14.

  5. Re:follow the money. on Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet · · Score: 1

    I think it's SP3 you mean about the tampering with IE. It'll install IE7 if you want it or not unless you already had it installed.

    Oddly, the reverse seemed to happen to me. I had installed IE7 on my daughter's box. When SP3 went in, it reverted to IE6.

    Go figure.

  6. Re:5...4...3...2...1... on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    Sample spin...

    "Why do you hate America?"

    or...

    [NIGEL-POWERS]
    Damn Dutch!
    [/NIGEL-POWERS]

  7. Re:furthermore... on Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    But the other -17% do!

  8. Re:With Circuit City and CompUSA all but gone... on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    At which point you go to Target or WalMart and buy the $30 inkjet special.

  9. Re:Main mistake they made? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    Mervyn's, too.

  10. An Open Letter on RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised · · Score: 1

    Dear sbeckstead,

    I represent the ACAL (American Cockroach Advocacy League). Please take this as notice that you have been served with a lawsuit for ONE BILLION DOLLARS (please visualize me holding my pinky to my mouth), for defamation of character.

    The ACAL resents any comparison of the RIAA to cockroaches, as it is insulting to cockroaches. See you in court.

    Sincerely,

    H.M. Dewey, for
    Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, Attys at Law.

  11. Re:Linux on the desktop on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    No, this one, which is still in the firehose.

  12. Re:Montalban! on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Phaser-fest, prosthetic chest

    Actually, according to Nimoy in "I am Spock", that wasn't a prosthetic, it was all Montalban.

  13. Re:I love it. on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    I loved it too. For the reasons you specified. We were subbed to a major aerospace firm who was also on 9/80, so it actually worked out better for us, in that we didn't have to remember, "Is this the week they're off?".

  14. Re:google does on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    Obviously different groups within Google have different requirements (shock!). Let's agree to disagree.

  15. Re:Opening for discrimination lawsuit? on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    I always used to wear a jacket and tie for an interview. Nowadays, instead, before I come in, I simply as, "What is appropriate dress for your company?"

  16. Re:google does on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I call BS. I interviewed at Google, for a dev position, fell through at the final stage of things.

    I never had to take a personality test. Lots of technical interviews (four levels, if I recall correctly), but no personality test.

  17. Re:Can anyone explain the link? on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    Groklaw has an in-depth discussion. Click their search link and look for "Peter Quinn".

  18. Re:Waterfall on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Actually, a spiral model is better. Each delivery has smaller scope, and the results of the previous spiral feed into the requirements phase of the next spiral.

  19. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    C wasn't invented till I was 18, you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:Perfection Has a Price on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Yep. A buddy of mine wrote a CGI script for internal use, and another guy broke it immediately by entering greek characters (script was written for ASCII only).

    My rule of thumb is... Anything -- ANYTHING -- from the outside world, be it file, socket, or console input; is not to be trusted, and it must be validated.

  21. I, for one on Implant Raises Cellular Army To Attack Cancer · · Score: 2, Funny

    welcome our new cellular overlords.

  22. With apologies to Mary Poppins on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 1

    Superhypertechnobabble really is so bogus
    Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
    If you say it long enough you'll always sound precocious
    Superhypertechnobabble really is so bogus!!

  23. Re:the term "katrina-like" makes me angry... on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 1

    Look, if I've told you once, I've told you a million times, not to exaggerate!

  24. Re:Only thing to do on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, dude, you're almost 30 years too late.

    When I was WUSTL.edu in 1981, the no-nukes movement was in full swing. Their slogan was "Any Amount of Radiation is Dangerous".

    So a bunch of friends and I started a movement called "Stamp Out The Sun", to point out how silly that slogan was.

  25. Re:He's not the first... on Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny · · Score: 1

    I know they're pointers, but I happened to notice that the each pointer value consisted of 4 ASCII characters.