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  1. Re:Questions on Cross Country Solar Race · · Score: 2

    Don't you mean "Cannonball Run" instead of Smokey and the Bandit? You get Burt Reynolds either way.

  2. Re:Only EFNet Users Will Get This on EFNet on the Rocks Again · · Score: 2

    Interesting you mention umn.edu. *.umn.edu seemed to be quite the popular ban mask for LOTS of EFnet channels. Gah. I remember whe #warez(or #warez2-300, #warez5 had a limit on x users on) wasn't +i.

  3. Re:dammit on Deciphering Windows Product Activation · · Score: 2

    Nope, I'm the only one on my network, plus I actually do read all the other comments before posting.

  4. Re:dammit on Deciphering Windows Product Activation · · Score: 2

    Funny you mention that. I get the "slow down cowboy" when in fact it was ONE WEEK since my last submission.

  5. Re:Webvan on Webvan Out Of Gas · · Score: 2

    You can ski down their stock price chart!

    Consequently, why am I being told to "slow down, cowboy!" when the last time I posted was about a week ago? Argh.

  6. Re:I can't wait on Bringing Quantum Chips To The Assembly Line · · Score: 2

    Maybe Digital Convergence can jump on this and give away QuantumCues. All they ask is for a little processor time, otherwise its for you to play with.

  7. Re:Worse... on Sweat-Eating Bacteria to Live in Your Clothes · · Score: 2

    There would be a lot of naked hippies?

  8. Re:As evil as this sounds.... on Embracing Digital Photography · · Score: 2

    You can go one step past the digital camera software altogether if you have something like a SanDisk compact flash card reader(via USB). I just drag files in Explorer to my hard drive effortlessly.

  9. voices on Two Sci-Fi Legends Slated To Return To TV · · Score: 2

    HOw did they do the Cylon voices in BG? I want to do voices like that. Yes, and I do want to hear a Cylon "HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!?!?"

  10. Re:Is anybody surprised that this happens? on Eco-Terrorism · · Score: 2

    Are you referring to VolksWagen?

  11. Like on images.google.com · · Score: 5

    THe one thing that I like this over images.altavista.com is a frickin' DIRECT LINK to the image in question.

    With altavista.com, you have to go to the actual web page, which sometimes doesn't even have the iamge. I'm assuming its because the web page in question has changed over time(since it was last indexed by altavista), or is such a heavily dynamic website, you'll have to scrounge thru the site to get it.

    With google, it's just TWO clicks away to steal someone else's work. I'm happy. Again, google rules for search engines.

  12. stop on Napster Bans Non-Native Clients · · Score: 5

    I stopped using Napster when the most popular song online(and the only one was) was by some band called "No", with their hit single "Matching Files Found!"

  13. ECMA script on Microsoft Plans "Shared Source" .NET · · Score: 2

    I'd like to give that ECMA script compiler a try. That way I could make SVG more interactive(like Flash) without having to do it by hand and reading debugger messages from IE.

  14. Re:However... on The Speed Demon That Is Tux 2.0 · · Score: 2

    I thought the Osprey was doomed(minus computer failures) was that if one of the props/main rotor setups got blown up, it was basically screwed.

  15. Re:60,000? on Eyeballing the Future of Retina Scanning Lasers · · Score: 2

    No, but I'd say you're not too far off from the Nintendo Virtual Boy graphics quality. Wonder if that gives you a headache after 20 minutes of playing.

  16. so on GCC 3.0 Released · · Score: 4

    So how did they compile the first version of the GCC compiler? Seeing is that there was no prior GCC compiler first?

  17. Re:Seinfeld is better on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 2

    The best Itchy and Scratchy episode was the cloning machine. The cat(scratchy?) was dead, so the mouse found an old axe with his blood on it after reading an article on cloning.

    He builds a cloning machine, and out comes a new cat! He then kills the cat. This repeats over and over, until he gets tired. So he builds a killing machine so any new cloned cat gets killed shortly therafter.

  18. Re:My take on Really Targeted Advertising · · Score: 2

    Didnt Kryten say that in Red Dwarf 7?

  19. heh on NEC Announces 61-inch Monitor · · Score: 2

    Now would be a good time for someone to start selling computer desks that this monitor could fit in.

    Seriously, I'd like to get a better resolution than that spec so I could use today's apps and just push all the toolbars/palettes around AND have a great canvas size.

    Of course I could just go multi-mon, but that's not as cool as this TekWar-like monitor.

  20. technobabble on UV Nanolasers From ZnO Nanowires · · Score: 3

    Who wrote this? Michael or Geordi LaForge?

  21. Re:Windows on Elegant Email Encryption for Everyone? · · Score: 2

    The PGP toolbar integration with OE is great, unfortuantely, nobody but me seems to use it.

    Is there a near-seamless integration with WEBmail clients(I use IMP at work since I can send/recv over SSH) with PGP? I'd be all over that. That is, if my friends were paranoid enough to use PGP.

  22. wow on Surfing With Your Commodore 64 · · Score: 2

    First a kid builds a nuclear reactor out of household parts, and now people are making web browsers for the C64.

    There are some people with WAY too much free time on their hands, and I salute you.

    I gotta get back to working on my Honda CVT entirely out of LEGO now.

  23. Max on Madrid's HiTech Shanty Town · · Score: 4

    This sounds like something out of Max Headroom, where even homeless people had TVs lying around.

  24. Radio controlled plants? on NASA Wants To Invade Mars With Glowing JellyPlants · · Score: 2

    You mean those plants that wear sunglasses that dance around to nearby music? Imagine a REAL plant that can do it!

  25. don't worry on What Do You Do To Relieve Lower Back Pain? · · Score: 2

    Don't worry, the next Ask SLashdot asks about who's the biggest bankruptcy attourney in all of Minnesota?

    (anyone who watches channel 9 in the daytime knows what I'm talking about. Nothing but commercials for the ComfaRest adjustable bed and dial L-A-W-Y-E-R-S)

    mod me down accordingly