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  1. What application? on AOL Hacks Subscribers' Computers · · Score: 1

    This begs the question: what legistimate applications use Windows Messenger Service? (Assuming that messenger popup ad exploits are not legitimate)
    Then, why use Windows Messenger Service?

  2. Re:AHA! on More on the Versalaser · · Score: 1

    Maybe michael is envious of CmdrTaco's story dupe status?

  3. Re:Best Spam Recently on Senate Passes Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 1

    that would be more funny if it were "Enlarge your Penis - Half Off!"

  4. Re:Oh god not again on Branding Mozilla: Towards Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it like Mod-zilla rhymes with Godzilla, or is it more like Mozzerella, or is it something else entirely?

    I hear most often pronounced Moe (of the Larry and Curly kind) and zilla, like z then illa as in gorilla.

  5. Re:This is getting ridiculous on SCO Selective About Linux Licensees · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, their backup plan is to sell land rights like this to other planets. Except that the moon is already taken, so SCO is going to sell plots on Uranus.

  6. Re:FCC Disabling VCRs in 2006 on Broadcast Flag All But Approved · · Score: 1

    I also expect that when Joe Six-Packs T.V. stops working, the general populace might just get a might bit fired up over this whole issue and start calling for the folks in Washington's heads.

    I think you are too optimistic. Sad, I agree, but Joe Six-Pack is going to roll over and play dead and either buy a conforming TV or rent to own one. As a statistical average of the US population, he is going to gripe and whine and then conform.

  7. Re:BOOM! on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the robosaurus

  8. sliders on Sci-Fi Channel Looks for LGM in NASA Files · · Score: 1

    Even though I've watched the show, every time I hear the name, I can't help but think of the little greasy white castle burgers.

  9. Small portable reactors are nothing new on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it's impressive that reactors are this small
    Accoring to the headline, the reactors are about the size of a big spruce tree.
    Why is this impressive? US subs and aircraft carriers are powered by nuke plants which are in the same rough size, if not smaller as a spruce (which, according to this pages stats are roughly in the range of 30-60 ft tall and 20-30 ft wide). And the boat and ship nuke plants have been around for many years, too.
    What would be impressive, though, is if they CAN indeed run trouble free for 30 years.

  10. Only if on Warfare at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    that smallest possible discrete change causes a significant improvement, advance, or breakthrough.
    Then it would be a quantum leap (or quantum jump)

  11. Re:Selden Patent on Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Doh, I meant to insert this instead
    They had acquired a strategic property right very much like the recording industry's copyrights on recorded songs.

    But go ahead and mod me into oblivion anyway for my error.

  12. Selden Patent on Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy? · · Score: 1

    ASs the article states:
    It was called the Selden Patent and it gave its owners the exclusive right to sell a very basic invention: self-propelled vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. Many people in the car business thought this patent was an outrage - much as some online retailers today are angry that Amazon.com received a patent on its "One-Click" checkout system. But the U.S. Patent Office had issued the Selden Patent and a group of powerful incumbents had purchased it and formed an association to enforce it.

    I don't see the relationship between an over encompasing patent, as the Selden Patent and a song copyright for a specific song. I think it is a weak analogy.

    In addition, its nice to see that the US Patent Office hasn't changed much in 100 years.

  13. Re:well... on Disgruntled Fan Arrested, Indicted For Spam Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He did more than just spoof. According to the story, he hacked into accounts:

    Meehan's office charges that from about November 2001 to December 2002, Carlson, "a disgruntled Phillies fan," hacked into computers of unsuspecting users and from those computers launched spam e-mail attacks with long messages voicing his complaints about the Phillies management.

  14. Re:Congrats China on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 1

    There is a chance that the US may go back to the 60's too. And one could say that with the Russian capsules, they never left the 60's.

  15. Your privacy, maybe identity is at stake on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    about swiping

    So one little question which might be important is: Who do the bars sell their consumer lists to? Only organization altruistic who have YOUR best interest at heart?

  16. Re:big brother? on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right, since it is the pubs, how about we call this phenomenon Big Bartender?

  17. Re:She needs to watch more TV .... on TV's Tipping Point · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny you should say that. I used to watch TLC before it became what seems to me to be a lot of BBC one-offs (ripoffs?).

    Also, the article mentions 50% of UK residents have internet connectivity and digital TV. A couple of questions: is this the same 50%? As I live in the US, what is the US %'s. When we moved, we did not bother to get cable. Currently it is too much money for too much stuff bundled that I will not watch that I don't want to pay for. So we watch some PBS and read a lot.
    So our household falls into the group that does not have digital cable and probably will not until and unless (if ever) the price for selective programming drops to dial-up prices.

  18. Look on the bright side on Realtime Concert Program Notes on a PDA · · Score: 1

    With an increase in pdas, the guys tuning into sports (whatever the wireless tech) when their wives take them out to get some culture won't stand out so much in the crowd now.

  19. Dont forget on Extreme Programming Refactored · · Score: 1

    That XP is just fashionable
    Take that you XP sealot!

  20. Re:YIKES!!! on Software Fashion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you know? She's your next XP partner.

  21. Reminds me of an old virus joke on Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? · · Score: 0

    - YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS -

    This virus works on the honor system:

    If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward
    this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your
    files at random.

  22. Hey Fred, on How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization? · · Score: 1

    the server was full so I deleted all the files.

  23. Re:Applix and Track on How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization? · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is it ok and sucks?

  24. Air bag is a poor analogy for this feature. on IBM Introduces 'Air Bags' For Laptop Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    The only similiarity is that it uses an accelerometer as a trigger to park the head.
    But it is an analogy that will probably stick because it is easy to visualize, even if it is wrong.

  25. Re:Okay, let's wager. on Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective · · Score: 1

    If you're serious about wagering, you could post a bid on tradesports.com

    I have no affiliation with them, I just remember visting the site after reading about Saddam Futures