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  1. Rednecks? on Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart(.com) · · Score: 1

    I expected to cruise the the comments and find people bitching about how these walmart pc's only have one agp slot and no pci, or only 2 pci slots and how crummy that is.

    Instead everyone is putting down rednecks and walmart and all kinds of innane bs comments.
    well done

  2. Re:"Pirates" on NYTimes Looks at Warez · · Score: 1

    Police.

    When I was younger I had a 386 and a desire for some games. I found a guy selling his computer and a whole bunch of games that I thought sounded cool. I called him up and asked if I could buy the games off of him. He said no, but you can copy them if you want.
    I went over to his place to copy the games and while waiting for them to copy I find out that the guy is a local police officer.
    I learned that pirating was "ok" from a cop.

  3. Re:A better explanation on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1

    There was a villian in ATOC?
    I thought it was just a sparring partner for yoda.
    Very lame count dooka.

    Han Solo would have shot him.

  4. Re:Intelectual exertion vs physical excertion on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 1

    I totally understand giving up on sleep and how maybe a pill can let you code longer with no sleep or something else in the same vain.

    I'm quite curious how going without long periods of sleep would work on a marathon runner or weightlifter/body builder.

    Its not so much mental alertness these people need but muscle recovery time.
    Would this pill help these kinds of people give up on sleep or is this a drug only for the more sedentary types of people?

  5. Re:Other tools for exploring the Semantic Web... on Words That Speak a Thousand Pictures · · Score: 1

    Its broken.. I put in orange and it replied "no rhymes found"

  6. Re:Very Hoaxy feeling on Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 1

    Actually a store in Lake Placid, New York that i used to hang out as a kid and play with their guns and toys(rubber band guns) used to have one like that in the shop window. this was nearly 7 years ago. way to be on top of cool news.

  7. Re:Space Quest taught me to cheat... on New Space Quest Game Under Development? · · Score: 1

    Save games?!
    Come on people. What do you think the magnet was for? Put the magnet on the slots and you would always win. NO more timly saves!

    Although either way its cheating at gambling.

  8. Income Streams on Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network · · Score: 2

    Say I'm neighbor Bob and I get a cable modem and I set it up with wireless to share.

    My friend Jeb figures its there he might as well use it. Even though he wouldn't have bought the cable modem in the first place.

    Where is the revanue loss for the cable company?

    Then again maybe this is my rationalization for getting mp3's and pirating software. I wouldn't buy it in the first place, so its not stealing if I use it.
    Ironic how a police officer introduced me to this logic while he pirated my first game.

  9. Re:Jeez. on Friendships in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have to disagree. At my job there is a huge email list associated with the Mountain bikers. I think there are maybe 30-40 people on this list. Well all summer long I would send out a daily message telling people where i would be riding. I think maybe twice people went riding with me. And then they were kinda wussy about the whole production. I've found it best if you like snowboarding, don't ask people at work if they do it, cause chances are they are maybe a one weekend a season warrior when it comes to that. Hang out at the snowboarding shops to find people that really snowboard. Its the same with mountain biking. I've had move fun riding with the people from the bike shops that I did all summer long with people from work. Then again I subscribe to the theory that its not a good mountain bike unless I leave the trail bleeding.

  10. Authenticity? on Museum Of Broken Packets · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Now how can one differentiate between a real malformed packed or one that someone just created to get it into the museum?

  11. Re:s/390 assembler on TV Networks Sue ReplayTV · · Score: 1

    Technically wouldn't it be z/900 assembler now?

  12. Re:1984 Anyone? on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 1

    I once received as a gift for christmas a childrens dictionary. I remember reading that dictionary in class while in 3rd grade. I found plenty of words like idiot and ass.
    I don't think it made me a bad person! In fact searching for words like that probably was the best thing to get me to read the dictionary in the first place.

  13. Re:it's a child's os on Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Fisher Price gui?
    Thats it! I heard XP was supposed to be pretty and all that. So while walking through the mall I saw an xp workstation at one of the electronics stores. I looked at the sign after I played with the new os a bit, I was worried I was in the kids aisle playing with a pretend computer.

    It was depressing enough to make me not even want to see what the clerks had left open to break.

  14. Re:pervasive big business, even dairy on Net: Now Our Most Serious News Medium? · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to argue with milk is good for you or bad for you. I'm not going to read the site you gave just now.

    But looking strickly at protein absorbtion rates
    Whey protein from milk is absorbed best by the body, next is egg whites, then soy protein, and other plant proteins.

    I belive some filtering techniques actually allow lactose intollerant people to digest the whey w/no trouble.
    At least most of my Protein shakes say ok for those people.

  15. Re:Downloading new art on The America Online Protocol Revealed · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't ICQ be better to have a 3rd party client for? It didn't have ads until recently, theres probably a lot less attention paid to it, and AOL owns it too.

    ICQ has ads now? Isn't there a ton of web pages that tell one how to get rid of those ads?

  16. 1400 miles? on Deep Space 1 Completes Comet Fly-by · · Score: 1

    I wonder how close they were planning on getting to the comet?
    It would be sweet for the group if the pictures of the comet were more impresive than the asteroid ds1 was supposed to fly by for the original mission.

    anyways, right on nasa!

  17. Copyright and File sharing on Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, if they are snooping me and see that I'm sending and/or receiving a file called 01-Metallica-Black_Album-Enter_Sandman.mp3
    that is really just a renamed text file foobar.txt
    that contains directions to grandmother's house, does that mean they'll turn off my access?

  18. Re:capture the baloon? on Canadian Team Plans Balloon-Aided X-Prize Entry · · Score: 1

    "suspended 300m below a piloted hot-air balloon. " I figure that the pilot will bring it back. Unless he's just checking out the view.

  19. Re:High expectations... on Canadian Team Plans Balloon-Aided X-Prize Entry · · Score: 1

    "He shrugs off suggestions that he is a mad scientist. "A year ago sure, some people said we were crazy," Mr. Feeney says. "But now we've done a launch, tested our engines ... and there seems to be a realization that this is a serious undertaking." I dunno about you people but I would gloat at being called a mad scientist, the cool hair, the cool lab coat and of course, all the sweet toys!

  20. Re:I got someone's stock option contract... on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs? · · Score: 1

    What about getting things like that in the mail? Is it ethically better to mail it back to the person or throw it out? I received a stock option contract for someone else in the mail. It was labeled wrong. I think thats almost worse than junk mail, so i tossed it in the trash.

  21. Re:Hmmm on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this go along the lines of Stephen Wolfram's new book? The idea that overly complex systems can be represented by simple rules? -- "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller