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  1. Re:STAY OUT OF OUR PERSONAL LIVES! on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    but does it not strike anyone else as odd that a certain level of competency must be demonstrated before you can get in an automobile and drive, but not to have a child.

    Ewww. Would you really want your parents to supervise you while you and your partner have your learners permits?

    On the other hand, the "road test" for this license would be memorable.

  2. Re:Oh I See! on Professor Finds Fault with MS Grammar Checker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes they're laughing, but at the notion of hearing slashdot and grammar in the same sentence.

  3. Re:Guideline Number 1: on Draft Guidelines for Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    "Excuse me! Yes, right over here. Did I hear you correctly? Place the metal flap and insert it into the buckle? or wrap the metal end around the buckle? I'm a simple man. I possess neither an engineering degree nor am I mechanically inclined. Now please continue with your wonderful safety lecture."

    -George Carlin

  4. Re:Does your school have a judicial board? on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    J-board was usually staffed by the same insufferable kiss-asses in student government. Mostly a kangaroo court of R.A.'s who wouldn't overturn a punishment handed down by a fellow R.A. if their lives depended on it.

    A complete waste of time, IMHO.

  5. Re:I'm not a trek nut.. on Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released · · Score: 1

    They'll probably do the total St. Elsewhere ending and explain away the entire show as the fantasy of a retarded Klingon.

  6. Re:Risky Business on UK Report Suggests Designer Offspring · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Due to their one-child policy, many families had sex-based abortions.

    Isn't every abortion sex based? Sex is why they needed the abortion in the first place!

  7. Re:The love/hate relationship with Knoppix... on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 1

    If his company is a government contractor or works around other sensitive information, its not completely out of line.

    Boot into Knoppix, files on the hd set to read only by administrator can be read/copied with ease since Knoppix doesn't respect windows file permissions.

    If their workplace is like mine, the usb ports are disabled to prevent people from filling up a thumbdrive and walking out with licensed software or sensitive data. Knoppix enables these ports, allowing data to be copied from them.

    Machines can be locked down so people don't install spyware ridden crap or "security testing tools". With a knoppix like KnoppixSTD, all of these tools can be used and no record will be left on the hd.

    If I were a sysadmin in a place like that, I would give Knoppix people the heave-ho too. A non-IT employee using this is likely up to no good.

  8. Re:One of the many reasons to keep a POTS line. on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 1

    How can you dial 911 if there is no dial tone on a disconnected phone?

  9. Re:In Related News... on CSU Chico Identities Compromised · · Score: 1

    They knew they had access when they punched in the secret password and the duck came down.

  10. Re:A serious solution to a serious problem.... on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Theres a household hint you won't get from the back of Readers Digest.

  11. Re:audience on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    With apologies to Gil Scott Huron, the revolution will not be smashed with a sledgehammer on an HBO special.

  12. Stay tuned for scenes from next weeks episode on TV Show About The Scene · · Score: 4, Funny

    where they leave their basements and deal with THE SUN! Aieeeeeee!

  13. Re:Bummer on General Motor's EV1 Electric Cars Scrapped · · Score: 1

    After all, if they were really worried about liability, why would they have allowed them to be purchased in the first place.

    Toward the end of the EV1's lifecycle, SUVs and other large vehicles became more and more common on the roads. Liability suits stemming from such accidents are a certainty given how badly the EV1 would lose out to a Ford Expedition or Dodge Ram.

  14. Re:A former EDSer (thankfully) on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    When those of us who were using Sun boxes asked "What about us?", the reply was "We have Sun users?"

    Sounds like a real bunch of winners. I'm surprised they didn't ask your group how they got their work done if it was cloudy.

  15. Re:Ooohhh.. Leters! on GPL Violators On The Prowl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember kids, read before you post!

    Ahhh, I remember being a young slashdotter once...

  16. Re:British Phonographic Industry? on European Piracy Crackdowns · · Score: 1, Funny

    Crazy kids! Downloading Phonographs!

    Today, their main purpose is giving the derring-do to the chinamen selling pirated phono-graphs from the boot of their tin lizzies. I refuse to dance the Charleston to a counterfeit phono-graph. Huzzah!

  17. Online on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    I used TaxSlayer online this year. No problems with the site using Firefox for Linux. Free processing if you're 25 or under, 61 or older, or an active member of the military.

  18. Re:Overheard in a squalid housing estate... on UK Record Industry Starts Suing Filesharers · · Score: 1

    Better than attempting suicide with laxative pills...

  19. Pot, on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lawyers call such experts 'whores.

    I'd like to introduce you to kettle. Kettle, Pot would like to make a humorously ironic statement about your coloring.

  20. Devils Advocate on FCC Fines Company for Blocking Access to VoIP · · Score: 1

    Why should the telcos be forced to carry a service that undercuts their own telephony operation? It's like movie theaters being forced to allow patrons to bring in their own food.

  21. Re:HDTV? on Star Wars Sith Trailer and the O.C. · · Score: 1

    Is OC broadcast in HD?

    If HD stands for Horrible Drama, then yes.

  22. Re:So.... on More On Save Enterprise Donations · · Score: 1

    The Honeymooners, of course.

    Bang, zoom!

  23. Re:Old school rap on Ask mc chris · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

  24. Re:Old school rap on Ask mc chris · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't glorify that shit here. At the scene of Biggie Small's drive-by shooting in Las Vegas several years ago, police found tracks from a late-model brontosaurus as well as a high-powered rockvolver with the serial number filed off. The case remains "unsolved".

    You do the math.

  25. Re:Recent biases on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the sextant and chronometer arguably affected long-distance travel more than Bose noise-canceling headphones...

    Hell no. Ships back then were very loud. The noise cancelling headphones allowed the likes of Magellan and Cortez to listen to their Ye Olde 50 Pence albums in peace.