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  1. Re:Get out more on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    My company has snacks galore. I think they are trying to fatten us up for Thanksgiving.

  2. IT Workers Are Doomed To Morph on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    It is a fact of life that if you work long enough in IT you will slowly morph into THIS.

  3. Re:Good overall but... on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Same here. I hope to visit every preBC instance at least once just because they are there and exploring is a big part of the game's fun. Even low level quests can be entertaining for the odd places they make you go. I've just recently been able to go to Outland for the 1st time but I'm in no rush because there is still so much to see preBC wow.

  4. Re:What about those from the sun? on ET Will Phone Home Using Neutrinos, Not Photons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Plus you'd need about a light year of lead to make sure you didn't miss most of the message. Even Supernova 1987A didn't produce more than a few detection events. Any alien civilization able to produce more neutrinos than a supernova probably has better ways to communicate.

  5. Info From Black Holes on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    Information can come out of black holes? So what you are saying is, is that black holes are essentially giant fortune cookies?

    "You will be going on a trip soon." - Cygnus X1

  6. Re:LHC on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    I look forward to the attempts to test this. "OK, we toss Dr. Benchley into the black hole and according to this new theory he should pop back out eventually."

  7. Re:LHC on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    Don't worry! We have an ark for you and your friends all ready to escape earth before the giant star goat comes and eats us. You'll be leaving first of course.

  8. Re:news.com domain valuation ... on CBS Acquires CNET Networks for $1.8 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Going to a website called "news.com" for your news is like the products in the movie Repo Man that were labeled "Drink", "Beer" and "Food".

  9. Re:Inevitably.. on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A church keeping secret documents and threatening people over them? Hmmmm, sounds a lot like some other group I can think of.

  10. Re:Nudge Nudge Wink Wing on Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc · · Score: 1

    Installed SP3, reboot, no problems (so far).

  11. Best Way to Protect Data Against Data Recovery on Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The best way to protect a supposedly cleaned hard drive against someone later trying to read the data is this or this.

  12. Re:At the risk of being arrested... on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1

    We saw you say that.

  13. Re:Cleary on Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen · · Score: 1

    The "intruder" used a "sledgehammer" to break in and has hidden it at "Solsbury Hill". A ransom note was sent "through the wire".

  14. Re:Feh. on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what happened to me after playing WoW when I started swinging a sword at people who reminded me of gnomes. But I did get some decent green items off of them!

  15. Re:Hmmm... on Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper · · Score: 1

    I'm not looking forward to Xerox self-erasing toilet paper.

  16. This Is Nuclear Physics on First Superheavy Element Found In Nature · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can see the interview now.


    Scientist points at periodic table. "See it goes up to 292."

  17. Re:heh on New Attack Exploits "Safe" Oracle Inputs · · Score: 1

    Plus, anyone using this method of injection would probably cause widespread failures across the board in any app that depends on db procedures. The app would probably crash immediately. This isn't a very subtle way of hacking a db.

  18. Re:Public has a short attention span on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    9-11, Iraq, 9-11, Iraq, 9-11, terrorism

    There, distracted yet? Now leave the man behind the curtain alone.

  19. Re:Fool! It's a trap! on Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! · · Score: 1

    Soon I'll have this great list of 1 million names and email addresses I'd like to sell to any interested spammers.

  20. Re:Global Warming! on Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined · · Score: 1

    It is "Steve"

  21. Re:news.. on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I lost my original reply when my neighbor turned off his wi-fi router. Some people are so rude.

  22. Re:Wait a minute on New Spam Site Found Every Three Seconds · · Score: 1

    I know you're joking but actually when I was in Turkey it was mostly lamb and chicken. Call it a Muslim country all you want but I never had trouble getting an Efes beer or Kapadokyan wine.

  23. Re:In Useful Dollars on Game Designers Earn More In UK Than In US · · Score: 1
    I live in New England, USA. Walking around New Hampshire in the winter IS like Lapland. Hell, you could go from Mt Washington to Ben Nevis and have trouble telling them apart with your eyes closed.


    Then again I've been in the White Mountains in Feb with just a t-shirt on in Feb one year and it was -30F the next Feb so that's New England weather for you.

  24. Re:That's nothing on Fake Subpoenas Sent To CEOs For Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    Sure your partner, or an ex, isn't a spammer?

    You might want to ask what all those checks written out for Russian banks are about.

  25. WHERE is extremely important on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    I never RTFA or even the summary but let me tell you, anyone who says WHERE is not important doesn't know what they are talking about.

    For example:
    SELECT employee_id FROM empdata.employees WHERE emp_last_name='GOLDMAN';

    VS:
    SELECT employee_id FROM empdata.employees;

    How would you ever limit your results set without the WHERE?

    Idiots