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  1. Re:Do-gooder on Hillary, GTA, and High School Football · · Score: 2, Funny

    c'mon now, she just knows it will take an act of law to help delay or prevent development of more of these "smut games that Bill is so fond of."

  2. Re:Replacing? on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    well, if too much research means reading the first few words of the first sentence linked to the first mention of the program in the post - then yes, I am going to go ahead and verify that you first clause is bang on.

    lucky for you, it appears that not many mods did their "research" either.

  3. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    silly troglodyte. having friends was so pre-9/11. the politically correct term is now "potential terrorist acquaintences." they are not to be trusted.

  4. Re:Simple Solution... on Sharp's Double-View LCD TV · · Score: 1

    eh, if you could convince someone to buy this uberannoying, anti-social, 3 way TV, I bet you'd also be skilled enough to sway them into buying some crappy sounding speakers.

  5. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. on Flying the Wiretapped Skies · · Score: 1
    Call me crazy, but if the FBI needs 10 minute wiretapping on a WIFI setup to keep my plane from being blown up by a bunch of Islamic radicals, then so be it. It's better to be a live chump who's email was intercepted by the feds than a dead one who's viagra spam remained a secret.


    crazy.


    This is posted a lot here, but my imaginary hundred dollar bill has some words for you; "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Ben Franklin

  6. Re:Conflict of "Gizmo" name? on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 1

    yeah, this confused me. I have a sunrocket gizmo and was excited that that perhaps it was going open-source. The folks working on the software gizmo must have come across this fact - probably why they're changing the name soon.

  7. Re:Yeah, thanks a lot NAT on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny
    FTP is a fucked up protocol to start with. If NAT causes its demise, I know I personally will be nothing but smiles.


    fascinating.

    Does that scare you? Since FTP is nearly dead as it is, are you partially smiles now? Does it work like that, or do you turn into smiles all at once? Does it hurt/tickle?

  8. baby steps don't always cut it. on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 1
    "Anything you can do all at once, you could do with incremental changes," said Robert Kahn

    /me slaps Robert Kahn upside the head with his quantum mechanics textbook

  9. only one thing can explain this post. on The Neuron Drive · · Score: 5, Funny

    did taco have a kid?

  10. Re:Software Encryption (or Destruction) Instead? on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 2

    A good point - Seagate is working on this on the hardware side:
    http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,1215 22,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

    Although it isn't nearly as cool as toxic mist spewing out all over the place as conjured by a phone call, it makes a lot more sense and would not bear an annual fee.
    Besides, a HD could be copied 100s of times over before you had a chance to make that phone call. In fact, there are relatively simple workarounds for all lines of defense on these destructive drives - they rely heavily on obscurity.

  11. Re:Natalie Portman? on Security Skins: Single Sign-On with Images · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey! Who the heck photoshoped me out of the picture where I was putting my hand down Natalie's pants!?

  12. pahh on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1

    this is obviously a poor excuse to try to make a working model of a death star.

    I for one think they should indeed shift all efforts to getting that coin in the parking meter from 40miles away instead - that would be so cool.

  13. has anyone considered on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    that some alien races monitoring our analog television broadcasts from afar will assume the earth has been destroyed when this happens?

    they will then likely be inclined to build an intergalatic highway right through this space considering the earth is presumably no longer in the way.

  14. live eb tonod on Google's Impact on the Internet · · Score: 1, Funny

    that's right folks, donot be evil backwards looks a lot like latin or something for "destroy the earth". And let's not forget that google backwards looks a lot like el Goog which is probably spanish or something for "the Goog".

    really though, honourable or not, "dominion over the world's information" is inherently evil.

    beware.

  15. Could google save toby? on The Philanthropic Arm of Google · · Score: 1

    forget kittens, if google really cares, they will save Toby.

  16. Re:Still Risky Indeed on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I may just be losing my mind.

    uh-oh Were you in the military? If so, get cranial CT-scan, check for five equidistant holes. =)

  17. beleleleleeep.... blehlehlehlehloop on What Dirty Tricks Did You Use for April Fool's? · · Score: 1

    "we use instant messenger as our primary means of communcation"

    please tell me that none of your systems have soundcards

  18. Re:Still Risky Indeed on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1

    what diameter? this sounds like it would still leave much of the data intact.

  19. Re:RTFA on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    err, I did, hence the second part of my reply.

    I could have said that I wished the author of the article hyperlinked it (it was after all a reporter saying it, I'm sure one savvy enough to be playing on the general Mattis story), but I guess I hold /.ers to a higher standard.

  20. link missing on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    it's probably a pretty obvious reference, but I still think that the submitter should have hyperlinked shooting people is fun

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    additionally, the article concludes with "we can put in smells and vibrations" what kind of smells?

  21. Re:From the press release... on NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record · · Score: 1

    but they'll have to wear gloves, I imagine this puppy will be hot.

  22. high tech on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Awesome on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 1

    agreed. some of the video footage on MRN was really superb. Some of that stuff was completely mezmorizing - I specifically recall a tour of a tri-cycle assembly line that was beautiful. watching robots work is like listening to a good drum machine rhythm.

  24. Re:Let me be the first to say on Man Sells Baby to Pay for Gadgets · · Score: 4, Funny

    hey Seumas.....

    pull my finger.

  25. Re:Not universal on Your Face On the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    I found Europe and Asia, but I've been pouring over my world map for a few hours now, and I just can't find whities, blacks, hispanics, or Native America!

    Do you have a newer map than I do?