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  1. Re:Spam? on E-Mail Snafu Sparks Spam Attack On Journalists · · Score: 1
    Er. Go back to the origin of spam before it became a synonym for commercial mass-mailing. Try "Any large, annoying, quantity of output". Yeah, it's spam.

    Spam from the Jargon File.

  2. Re:This is really cool on Oceanic Sounds of Last Year's Earthquake · · Score: 1
    'more realistic' ?

    Please elaborate.

  3. Re:Worth it on Another Internet Stock Price Bubble Building? · · Score: 1
    YHOO's currently doing about $35 where GOOG's doing $300. Sure there's a premium on perceived Google's tech superiority, but it's probably worth 2x or 3x YHOO. 10x does not make sense, long term.

    Well, the first thing is that comparing raw stock prices isn't particularly meaningful. You're not taking into account, say, the number of shares floating around. So let's look at these numbers normalized...

    Given that GOOG has more than double the EPS of YHOO I'd expect GOOG to float around twice YHOO's price on that alone. You say that GOOG's technical superiority doubles or trebles it again. This makes a target price of about $200/share on GOOG -- which is about 30% under what GOOG is actually trading at, and don't seem that far out of line.

  4. Re:The real winners on Rate Your IM Popularity · · Score: 1

    Fucktard.

  5. Re:Backups online on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's this really, really neat thing called 'encryption' you might want to look into.

  6. Re:Software yes, hardware no. on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1

    Hell, most VCRs sync off the time signal coming down your cable anyways...

  7. Re:Donation on Gates On Future of CS Education · · Score: 1

    You had a wall socket? I had an amber rod and a cat.

  8. Re:Torrent, good thinking! on How Episode IV Should Have Ended · · Score: 1
    Man, something's fucked with your system. I finished the download with a .38 share rating averaging a 120kB/s down...

    You did unblock the ports used by your torrent client on your firewall, didn't you?

  9. Re:Nice try, Darl, but... on SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    I sure hope you didn't pay very much for that degree...

  10. Re:Redundant system on NASA Scrubs Launch Due to Faulty Fuel-Tank Sensor · · Score: 1
    Something like sawing a women in half trick

    Suuuure.... Tell me it's supposed to be a trick after I spend 10 months in the can for manslaughter.

    Fucker.

  11. Re:They're felons, they have no rights. on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    So riddle me this, batman... What if the worm takes out 911 service and someone dies because of it?

  12. Re:Vulnerable on Falling Window Cover Damages Discovery · · Score: 1

    I see you're not advertising about your less-than-stellar new user retention rates. Is the new game any better?

  13. Mmmm! on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 0, Troll

    I gave a chick a harry potter once. Bitch couldn't walk without limping for a week and a half.

  14. Re:Hurray! on T-43 Hours and Counting · · Score: 1

    And you know what, man? I'll crouch face down in the mud barely able to breathe to support the men standing on my back who will make this bird fly...

  15. Re:Hurray! on T-43 Hours and Counting · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    OK -- I want to give a shout-out to whichever fucktard decided to mod this offtopic. You might not like it -- you might not even care -- but this is entirely topical.

    Listen up and there's a small chance you might learn something. There was a time when an astronaut was a superhero and more. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "An astronaut" -- not a powerpuff girl like you're all into now. So you, spongebob, and patrick can go back into the corner and have another circle jerk together. Myself, when Discovery lifts again I'm going to raise a glass to all of my heroes from the shuttle program... And I'll take a drink for every name on the roll of honor for Challenger and Columbia.

  16. Hurray! on T-43 Hours and Counting · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
    And death we never can doubt.
    Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
    Reminds us that all flesh is grass
    And history's lamps blow out.

    But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
    And people and planets age.
    Life's crown passes to younger lands,
    Time brushes dust of hope from his hands
    And turns another page.

    Yet the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    But we who feel the weight of the wheel
    When winter falls over our world
    Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
    To a silver moon in the opened skies
    And a single flag unfurled.

    For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    We know well what Life can tell:
    If you would not perish, then grow.
    And today our fragile flesh and steel
    Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
    With all of the stars to know

    That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again.

    From all who tried out of history's tide,
    Salute for the team that won.
    And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
    The wave that carried us up the beach
    To reach for the shining sun.

    And the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
    Time won't drive us down to dust again

  17. Re:...yes... on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you missed the part where I told him that he'd missed the joke, fucktard.

  18. Re:Forget Dvorak on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry, but this portion of your comment struck me funny: "choose one of the layouts specifically designed to help RSI."

    Mmm.... Do you mean to help prevent RSI so he can continue typing or help cause RSI so he can pick up a big fat L&I check?

  19. Re:Kinesis and Dvorak on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1
    I have to remember that my hyperlexic reading-at-two was the abnormal situation

    You might be surprised. My brother was dyslexic and although he was eventually able to sound out all of the letters he had a very hard time forming them into words. My mother responded by labeling everything in our house. He came home one day and asked, "What is this d-o-o-r doing on our doOR! WOW!" and ran through the house -- "c-a-t on the CAT! f-l-o-o-r on the FLOOR! b-r-o-t-h-e-r on my BROT-HER! No!! BROTHER!"

    So I picked it all up with him (even though he was much much older than me)... So if you deal with kids a lot be on the lookout for other early readers. I'm certain we're not all that rare.

  20. Re:Kinesis keyboard on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1

    One of these days I'm going to convince myself that I actually need a datahand. The big win for coders is that you no longer need to leave homerow in order to hit the symbols...

  21. Re:...yes... on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1

    Well even though you missed my winky-face which should have clearly indicated that this was a joke I'm going to reply to you anyways: I have never plugged a dvorak usb keyboard into a system and had the system use it as qwerty by default....

  22. ...yes... on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yes, you can switch back and forth, quite readily. Yes, you might make sme goofs on whichever keyboard you're not using full time.

    Have you considered carrying a USB dvorak kbd with you to your client sites? ;)

  23. Re:Soup on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1
    Front loading washing machines have been available in the states for as long as I can remember. Top-loaders are popular because they're less likely to ruin your floor from spillage. It's easy to stuff in "that last sock" or whatever a few minutes late, and that has a lot of value...

    Now tell me where to get the combo washer/dryer. PLEASE!

  24. Re:Aged on Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you advertising that 70% of people thought your game sucked?

  25. Re:Special because... on Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned · · Score: 1

    My favorite experience was being the only plane using 32L at Paine Field in a Cesna 152. (For those who don't know a Cesna 152 is like a Yugo -- and Paine had to extend and widen one of their runways in order to accomodate test flights of the 777, so it feels like an eight-lane highway).