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  1. Re:Grr... on Nanoscale Optical Fiber From Spider Silk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahem.

    The parent's parent was a joke.
    Sorry if I pissed off you foreigners with no sense of sarcasm.

    That being said, I am, in fact, an inbred West Virginian. I drive my fat ass to work everyday in an (SUV|pickup truck) with a gun rack. I eat five pounds of lard everyday. I am also stupid and arrogant.

    This, too, was sarcasm. Thank you.

  2. Grr... on Nanoscale Optical Fiber From Spider Silk · · Score: -1, Troll

    nanometres

    Friggin foreigners. ;)

  3. Well... on Handheld Programming? · · Score: 1

    It may not fit your requirements to the letter, but I find that Palm's Tungsten T runs like a dream. Mmmm...color.

    It's got a fast processor, a "universal" keyboard port, SD card slot, and (yummy) bluetooth. I love my tungsten.

  4. Oxymoron on Sandia's Laptop Heatpipes Closer To Market · · Score: 1
    Of interest to the military (to whom small moving parts are a potentially life-threatening annoyance)

    ...Guh?

  5. Re:Holy smokin' joes... on Revealing Hidden PDF Services in Mac OS X 10.2.4 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'd have to agree. I used to bitch about XP's instability, but then I found out that I had installed with a DVD drive that liked to randomly corrupt things. Go figure.

    I do like being able to have 30+ day uptimes, though. =)

  6. Re:This is good on Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they can consider the MS server software nmap response to be copyrighted. I mean, it COULD be construed to be a derivitive work.

    If they can, then any attempt to change it to a IIS server could be piracy (!) and you'd get slapped with a hefty fine. Which would suck.

  7. Re:Aaargh! on AMD Moving to a 400MHz Bus? · · Score: 1

    Errr...is it just my imagination, or is there actually no /6 divisor on the KT400? I'm running at 200 FSB, but it's got the PCI running at 40 MHz. Unfortunately, I had to go buy a chipset cooler for my northbridge and put the sink from the northbridge on the south =\

  8. Re:Gaming is the next frontier on The Future of PC Games, According to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    don't require a $500 3D card and a liquid-cooled processor.

    *sniffle*
    SHUT UP!
    *sob*

    *laments his Hercules 9700 Pro purchase and his Innovatek watercooling kit*

  9. Re:MOUSE damnit, MOUSE!! on The Future of PC Games, According to Microsoft · · Score: 4, Informative

    What you want is a Nostromo n50 Speedpad.

    This thing is positively orgasmic. Four toggleable modes for every control. Ten keys. A D-pad. A wheel. Completely configurable. Any set of keys. For example, my D-pad does jump+forward, jump+back, etc etc, one key mode does movement, another mode does orders (while holding down the previous key pressed), yet another mode does taunts, and still another mode does acknowledgements.

    Hot damn. I love this thing. A Speedpad positively screams "awesome" when you bring it to a lan party. I nearly pissed myself when I saw it at the Belkin booth at MacWorld New York.

  10. Konfabulator on Mac OS X Innovators Contest · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I sure as hell hope that the makers of Konfabulator submitted their app. They're hands-down a winner in almost all of the categories.

    Man, I LOVE Konfab! So....COOL....must....register......

  11. Re:Graduate study in Something Else on Internships in the Post-DotCom Era? · · Score: 1

    OMG.

    For the love of god, tell me these don't exist:
    UBW 105: Extreme Weather Underwater Basket Weaving: Hurricanes
    UBW 106: Extreme Weather Underwater Basket Weaving: Tsunami

  12. Hmm. on Feds Move to Secure Net · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wonder if they're testing the TIA project on their intraweb ;)

  13. Re:Already done...? on Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music? · · Score: 1

    Um......does it even matter?

    OK, you're ripping off the musicians and the company that rips off the musicians. Do you really think another layer of ripoffage is going to matter?

    And another thing, Kazaalite is a lot better than kazaa. I love knowing that I don't have gator installed. Thank god.

  14. Re:Note to self on New Zealand Looks at Internet Censorship · · Score: 2, Funny
  15. Re:analogous to water/electric company IMHO on Bad Behavior on the 'Net - Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the service provider was nice at all they would provide a log or usage stats via email to the customer stating they are coming close to max bandwidth or a warning that they've exceeded their bandwidth.

    "Hello, this is your credit card company. You're credit card's been stolen."
    "Huh? Oh, crap, it has!"

  16. Re:analogous to water/electric company IMHO on Bad Behavior on the 'Net - Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill? · · Score: 1

    Um...hopefully my understanding of DNS isn't that far off when I rebut you.

    When you type in www.somedomain.com you actually send off a request to your DNS server to translate www.somedomain.com into an IP address. Then, your computer goes to access that IP address. You can't tell by the connection whether they've looked up the domain or not.

    Therefore. the ISP treats all packets trying to access your computer/server/whatever the same, instead of giving the priority to ones that have looked up the domain, because there's no way to tell the difference between a "guessed" IP and an actual DNS-lookuped IP.

  17. Re:Plenty of games for =$15 on CT Lottery to Offer PC Game · · Score: 1

    NO! Alpha Centauri isn't old! NOOOOOO!!!

    *sob*

    *sniffle*

    Well, you might be right. Humph.

  18. Re:No wait, you don't understand it on CT Lottery to Offer PC Game · · Score: 1

    Yes, the indians are bad.

    At least the friggin mohegans helped pay for that nifty highway shebang. The Mashentuckets are bitching because noone wants to pay for road widening required for their drunk patrons to safely get there, lose money, and leave.

    I'm sorry if this is flamebait, but my house lost about $100k value when the Mashentuckets moved in. It was originally worth somewhere around $200k. That's half of what my house was worth when we bought it. Plus the ghetto blaster music, the dog fights, the drugs, and pretty much all the signs of the poor that recently got rich.
    Yah, I'm sorry, I'm just bitter.

  19. Re:Verified details? on Apple to Launch Music Service? · · Score: 1

    Well, Apple's policy has always been never to comment on upcoming (or even fictional) products.

  20. Re:Still a little pricey. on Apple to Launch Music Service? · · Score: 1

    Only works with a Mac? Now that's a problem. 'Cause whether I'm running Linux, Windows, or god forbid both I still can't get the music I want for a decent price.

    Exactly. See, it's another selling point, much like iTools of the pre-.mac days. It won't make macs fly off the shelf, but it's another bullet point in the "pro" column when making a comparison.

  21. Re:Broadband on International Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Guh?

    Would someone explain to the ignorant american how the hell a cable phone works?

  22. Re:Some Info on International Connectivity · · Score: 1

    ...just out of curiousity, how do they tell how your call is data and not voice?

    And if something makes a sound similar to a fax or modem, does the call disconnect?

  23. Re:Deutsche Telekom on International Connectivity · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they are getting a lot better.

    Sure, as in "Torture feels better without all the acid."

  24. Re: your sig on X With No Mouse Cursor · · Score: 1

    But...but...square roots are always positive!

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! /me self destructs in a cloud of high school algebra II

  25. Re: your sig on X With No Mouse Cursor · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be:
    |1|=|-1|; 1=1
    ?

    Just curious how you got -1^2 = -1.