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  1. Re:God is Big on Evolution is a Myth in Kansas · · Score: 1

    Which leads right to the question of how do you know god (or God is some like to put it) is a male? Is this just traditional (e.g., Mankind) or did you actually get a gander at some shlonage?

    -kabloie

  2. Re:More like some script kiddie with 2 much (nt) on Chinese Government Implicated in DoS on US Site · · Score: 1

    That _is_ a terrible Haiku, and not to form anyway.

    Here is an example for you:

    Open your present
    No, you open your present
    Kazinski Christmas

  3. Re:Likely true on Chinese Government Implicated in DoS on US Site · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wonder if a Western government could ever fall to a bunch of people stretching and doing deep knee bends for Jesus.

    I'd take them over our current crop. I will start taking brisk walks in the name of revolution!

    -kabloie

  4. how about.. on Senator Proposes 5% Tax on Web Transactions · · Score: 1

    I find prices on Amazon over the web.

    Then I call their 800 number and order the part.

    That transaction was not made over the web. But of
    course, the congress-critter can't have that!

    To make this stick, anyone who advertises prices
    on the web (PC-PDA-NC-Dreamcast accessible IP
    protocol conformant computer) has to charge 5%
    on their prices. A 'catalog' could be defined
    as this by some ass-judge.

    Well, that includes WalMart!

    Screw Mr. Hollings from SC, this is idiocy.

    -kabloie

  5. Re:Hmmmmm on The High Tech Sweatshop · · Score: 1

    Using Netscape under NT reveals all. No IE necessary.

    It's a fonts thing.

    -kabloie

  6. Russian Team on Distributed.net Cracking Scheme Halted · · Score: 1

    The post by the head of the Russian RC5 team
    is recommended reading. I found it interesting and
    informative. On top of that, he uses better
    english than most goofs posting here :P

    -kabloie

  7. Re:Might be worth it on US Congress Debates National ID Card · · Score: 1

    Freedom from licking envelopes ain't quite the freedom I'm interested in.

    An electronic ID card leading to e-money? Not unless it's a 'smart' card. Which is an oxymoron if there ever was one.

    -kabloie

  8. Re:SSN and the private sector on US Congress Debates National ID Card · · Score: 1

    Interest at banks is taxed, that's why they
    say they need it. As far as schools, yeah my
    school ID was my SSN. I knew a guy who, given
    the option, picked a different number. That
    haunted him for years, with people in the
    administration CONSTANTLY assuming his SSN was
    his ID number. Completely annoying.

    -kabloie

  9. Re:Buy stock in Audiohighway now!!!!! on Audiohighway awarded patent on digital audio players · · Score: 1

    It's AWHY and they got 8% out of that news today. But they've done better.

    I had to laugh at that patent, but I've never filed one. Maybe they are supposed to sound completely idiotic. I wonder who has the patent on the kitchen sink?

    Their patent specifically said the device contains a hard drive. Well, forget anything that's
    out there right now.

    Dorks!

    -kabloie

  10. Re:What's a TV "zapper"? on Feature:The Empire Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Whatever it is, it revolutionized society as we
    know it, and is as cool as mp3s.

    Is he talking about IR remote control? "Intensely
    political"?!!? That's the stupidest thing I've
    heard all morning. Granted, I've only been up 5
    minutes, but I think it will be today's winner
    nonetheless.

    PGP is more intensely political than the 'TV
    zapper', puts REAL freedom in the hands of
    the citizen, and actually has people that
    oppose it. Was there and wave of industry
    FUD against remote control?!?!

    Cmon Katz, you're staying up too late
    to write this stuff.

    -kabloie

  11. Re:Why people Use MP3 on SDMI as Dead As DivX · · Score: 1

    dittos all over. 100% booomage. Thx for
    typing what I was gonna say, :)

    -kabloie

  12. Re:Drunken Master==Good Movie (off topic) on Revolutionary Chinese take on Linux · · Score: 1

    Well I never saw Drunken Master.
    But the sequel (DM II) is pretty amazing.
    No, Jet Lee is not in it. Jackie is. I've only
    seen it in US stores on LaserDisc. Viewed it at
    an arthouse.

    I saw the original drunken master vid sittin on
    a shelf at Circuit City :-o

    -kabloie

  13. Re:Personal Grudge? on David Brin on Star Wars: TPM · · Score: 1

    Please excuse me as unlearned and unread. This is my first run in with Mr. Brin. If he has actually gathered up some Hugo and Nebula awards as the little blurb/bio at Salon says, I daresay that jealousy is not a motivating factor here. Were it me, I'd be pretty damn happy with my career, etc. had I won acclaim like that from the huge SF community. But who knows...

    He wrote 'The Postman'? The flick that Costner did? Maybe _that's_ why he's pissed off. ;)

    -kabloie

  14. Re:Brin - hypocritical totaltarian! on David Brin on Star Wars: TPM · · Score: 1

    It seems a lot of fans in the late 70's were questioning Speielbergs vision of the future where...

    I'm pretty sure you mean Mr. Lucas.

    As far as the english accents go, it certainly made the movie(s) feel more epic and classic for me. Luke and Han serve as the grubby, hands-on counterpoint to the english types.

    -kabloie

  15. Re:Clarification on Intel Undercuts AMD · · Score: 1

    And don't forget f00f! That's still a hardcoded problem on my dual p200 and the only workaround is in the OS software. There are more errata, of course, but this one was/is highly exploitable.

    -kabloie

  16. Re:15 minute impression sucks too on Browser news · · Score: 1

    Comments on netomat

    Dittos on " I downloaded JRE for this?"

    Good thing: It worked on 'sex'.
    Bad thing: It crashes constantly.
    Good thing: It does do images.
    Bad thing: Images only mode did NO images.

    Basically, nice idea, sorry it didn't work out.

    -kabloie

  17. Re:The Internet is international, not American on North Carolina bans spam · · Score: 2

    Inasfar as new international laws are needed, who is going to enforce them? Nobody goes around blatantly breaking air traffic laws. Your average 15-year old miscreant does not have the resources. It takes quite a bit of organization to break international shipping laws. Organized crime perhaps. The point is, don't make laws that every other dope with a modem is itching to test.

    Local laws like the one discussed here, though on the surface absurd, state that residents of North Carolina cannot spam the rest of the world. If you want to spam, move to Georgia. The fact that they might even enforce the law is rather altruistic of them, or could be interpreted as such. They are doing their small unappreciated part to make 'the world, yours and mine, a better place'.

    WWF- Wrestlers from all over the world flex and grunt in the WWF. They come here because only in the US is this art form appreciated :)

    We have the best players from around the world playing basketball and hockey here cause we pay. A lot of (evil corporate) money is at stake. These leagues are extremely competitive. We certainly have the world's best football-american and baseball teams cause nobody else understands the rules. Winners of the Stupor Bowl and World Series are the best in the world. Yes I know they play baseball in Japan. Damn fine Little League team :P

    -kabloie

  18. Re:What the hell... on K7 Renamed "Athlon" · · Score: 1

    Dis 'k' en Francais
    puis dis '7'

    Tu viens dire cassette!

    -kabloie

  19. Re:For those of you use 40bit encryption on Germany Frees Crypto · · Score: 1

    Yep, Fortify is cool. I'd forgotten you could wrangle any 40 bit quickie install of Netscape into a 128 bit monster. I think I was using fortify way back in 3.02 dayz on win32. Gonna try the unix version now. Thanks for the reminder!

    -kabloie

  20. Re:Whoa on BellSouth denies ADSL for Linux users · · Score: 1

    That's the most pitiful thing I've read today. 95/98 only; no NT support, even. God knows why not. And they only 'support' IE 4.0. Who cares!?

    And to think some dork got paid 60k a year to come up with those specs.

    Well, it looks as though many of their areas have real options from which to choose (DFW, LA). But Bloomington IL is screwed ;)

    -kabloie

  21. Re:Remote Shutdown Exploit? on Software Licenses Get Worse · · Score: 1

    The shutdown exploit is a good idea.

    And guess who will get blamed when hackers (uhhh, did I get it right) figure out how to do it? The software house? HAH! The FBI and State 'Computer Crime' Task Forces will be out in force. MS (for example) will be making money hand over fist as money that could have been spent by MS on programming shows up in law enforcement agencies pockets. Tech Support with M-16s! Bah, it's already happening.

    I'm having paranoid episodes again! Whee!

    -kabloie

  22. Re:Flawed Reasoning is behind most of this. on New York Times profiles John Romero & John Carmack · · Score: 1

    Trolling for the gun nuts, eh?

    GOT ONE!!!

    The real problem, IMHO, is the fact that US Culture is a JOKE, our cities are overcrowded and PAVED, people are raised by a glowing BOX and spoonfed the most meaningless junk ever. We emulate Hollywood LOSERS on TV.

    People blabber about Europe having lower crime. In Europe, your family gets set up in a region and stays there. You don't to school and blow away all the friends of your FAMILY that you just had dinner with! People have centuries old customs, one of which is hospitality. In the US, that's gone.

    A serious problem is that people think by starting up some military backed gun confiscation program we can stop the violence. Erm, don't even go there. Can you say 'resistance'? How 'bout 'armed'?

    The REAL problem is that it's not going to stop, but as our media gets more sensationalized and we move from town to town more and more, we lose touch with everything that makes up a culture. Star Wars is the closest thing we have to culture. Nice. And our pres gets blowjobs at his desk. That's pretty American, people seemed to approve of that.

    my 2 cents

    -kabloie

  23. Re:The problem with that argument on New York Times profiles John Romero & John Carmack · · Score: 2

    Why shall we sacrifice all these lives just for the right to own a gun?

    Just who exactly is sacrificing lives? Dirtbag criminal murderers, in my book.

    It's not like we have chosen to sacrifice virgins by cutting their hearts out. It's criminals who are responible for murders, period.

    Your question might be better phrased as, Why Oh Lord Why do people kill one another when it is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN right here in this book and that law and that statute, etc.

    There is no right greater than that of self defense. From that stems the right to own a gun. What is the problem with that?

    -kabloie

  24. Re:Way cool... on Quake3 to go SMP · · Score: 1

    Aww, taping pins would be fun!

    Seriously, Tomshardware has the lowdown on that. If you can get the teflon tape they talk about there, it doesn't look too bad.

    Beats drilling pins, anyway.

    I don't know of any pseudo slot to do the voltages.

    -kabloie

  25. Re:Way cool... on Quake3 to go SMP · · Score: 1

    Got two 466MHz Celerons going on a Tyan Board.

    Who needs to overclock!? Like someone said
    earlier, the chance that BOTH CPUs will over-clock
    just fine is not enough for me to risk getting
    stuck with 2x333 which are immediately at the
    bottom of the pile.

    Except in Quake3 :)

    -kabloie