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  1. Re:I'd care more if... on Google To Microsoft — Give Users Choices In Vista · · Score: 1

    Both AVG and Avast seem OK... I recently dumped Panda (total security, with firewall, etc.) for Kaspersky's suite. Panda ate up FAR too much RAM and resources. In addition, Panda's firewall really interfered with some programs I have to use, and so I had to use yet another program (Kerio, ZoneAlarm, Comodo are all OK) for firewall.
    Kaspersky has caught several bad things (and they were truly bad, not just false alarms) that Panda couldn't, and uses FAR less system resources. I was really restricted with some of the calculations/plots I could do (and that's on a system with 1+GB of RAM) when I had Panda on there.

          I recommend that Kaspersky be at least tried.

  2. Re:Imagine... on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously not the Mac, since it has only one mouse button and can't be as good as the other two...

  3. "Posse Comitatus" and "Insurrection" on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm quite certain that Bush thinks those are some conditions to be fixed with 5iaGRa.

  4. The sting's the bomb on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's getting so the only reason I shave anymore is to get the cuts, and then dash some lemon juice mixed with rubbing alcohol on there. That fucking burn will wake you up a lot faster than coffee. Plus, the endorphins released when you realize you haven't lopped off an entire lip, or that your head hasn't entirely been eaten half away are SOOOO GOOOOOOD.

  5. Re:congratulations, blizzard on Male Blood Elves Get Pumped Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oddly, I can access gaygamer.net just fine.

          Well, isn't that just... special

    (not that there's anything wrong with that)

  6. Re:Beige Alert! Beige Alert in terminal B! on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 2, Funny

    Red Bull and vodka tastes worse than gasoline.

          Ah. But what octane?

  7. Re:Overheating with new models? on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    Basically, it boils down to: "Apple, in its quest for ultra, super-duper quietness, sets the fans to run much slower than the speed needed to make laptops usable on laps."

        Very nice use of "boils down to". Kudos!

  8. Re:So that's how they do it on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this some sort of "There are only -3 types of people" joke?

  9. Re:So that's how they do it on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 2, Funny

    0 == 1, you know, so -1 == 0. For large values of -1, of course.

  10. Re:niave on DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we held all companies responsible for promises from their CEOs no company would ever stand up to it.

        Agreed. And yet, imagine if there was a company which *did* keep promises. Those promises, over time, might actually MEAN something.

  11. Re:This is another evil American Imperalist lie! on The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm ronery too.

  12. Re:how will this affect non-citizens on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you touch anything that is used in a crime, they will be right at your doorstep.

          You have a problem with that? What else are they supposed to do?

          I don't mean this as a troll.

  13. Just give it an animatronic hat... on NASA Announces Record Ozone Hole · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and tell it to let down its skirts a bit. Can't hurt, right?

  14. Re:The future of clothing? on How Animatronic Clothes Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd look at the video again, but after a description like that, you KNOW it's slashdotted now.

  15. Re:The future of clothing? on How Animatronic Clothes Work · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those hats are dumb (said Eliza Doolittle). However, the bits I saw with the animatronic clothes had no hats on the models. So apparently the hats had nothing to do with the clothes' rearrangements.

  16. Animatronic models? on How Animatronic Clothes Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully, they can figure out how to put some emotion on those faces!

  17. Re:That's easy... on Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People · · Score: 1

    I don't think 'parse' means what you think it means.

        Now you're just being parsimonious. Like the vegetable. :)

  18. Re:That's easy... on Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People · · Score: 1

    One of the things it takes to be good at math is compulsiveness to complete tasks and to pay attention to detail. Those same drives are the ones that make you unhappy in the real world, which is by its nature messy, illogical and incomplete.

            How is it that having an urge to complete tasks and paying attention to detail make one unhappy? That doesn't parse at all.

  19. From the photo... on Hubble Takes Pictures of Colliding Galaxies · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... it looks like *someone* is highly anticipating the release of Debian 'Etch'....

  20. Re:Venus Fly Trap on Longhorn Server's "Improved" Security · · Score: 1

    Mimosas (clicky for GIS) fold their leaves up at night and after touching things like my face when I'm mowing the lawn [...]

          Man, how *are* you mowing that lawn?

  21. Re:I bet it doesn't work too well. on Real-Time Computer-Based Translation in Iraq · · Score: 1

    I bet you could count them all on two hands.

          You haven't seen his hands, have you?

  22. Re:The French.... on Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath · · Score: 2, Funny

    J'accuse! I surrender to your wit.

  23. Proposed name: on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 1

    XFPortland.

  24. Re:Bloody Microsoft on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    Only ten pages if you wimp out early :)

  25. Re:Perfect? on Vista RC2: More Refined, But Still Not Perfect · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This goes beyond the beta stage because the RC is feature complete

        Erm... Like support for firewire?