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  1. It makes sense on Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia · · Score: 1

    If I was a parent in Georgia I'd be worried too because we all know that The Devil Went Down to Georgia

  2. Re:SQL to the Rescue! on Jim Gray Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Bah, someone beat me to this joke and used a join too!

  3. Re:Hm... on Jim Gray Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was MS Sql Server. You don't need semi-colons in MS-SS procedural code.

  4. Re:Was using MS Sailor 2007 XP on Jim Gray Is Missing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even if people are awake they'll never hear you through the bulkhead door and over the engine noise. When I went out at night onto the quarterdeck of an oceangraphic vessel I always made sure to stand well back from the edge.

  5. SQL to the Rescue! on Jim Gray Is Missing · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...and developer of many fundamental database technologies..."

    SELECT latitude,longitude FROM t_location WHERE ocean='PACIFIC' AND first_name='JIM' AND last_name='GRAY' AND status='F*CKED'

  6. Re:It's all in the details. on Vista DRM Cracked by Security Researcher · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is the problem? That is a perfectly cromulent sentence.

  7. Re:Yep... seen it a couple of times. on How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions · · Score: 1

    Are you a "Titanium" power commenter!?

  8. Thanks Singapore! on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    It looks like whippings for vandalism and outlawing chewing gum have lead to their natural outcome, robotic killers. Singapore, always looking for ways to make a better society...and kill them!

  9. Don't Ask Don't Tell on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    They regected my "flaming homosexual combat robot". They said it would have a bad effect on the moral of the other robots in the showers.

  10. Extra precations on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    According to the article, now they have to warn people that the sponge will be hot when it comes out of the microwave. If you weren't expecting that already please place your microwave on the curb for pickup. Thank you.

  11. It's not the heat, it's the humidity on US Military Tests Non-Lethal Heat Ray · · Score: 1

    "The weapon focuses non-lethal millimeter-wave radiation onto humans, raising their skin surface temperature to an uncomfortable 130 F."

    The fact that people still go outside in Phoenix AZ in the summer is proof that this won't stop everyone. You need to increase the humidity too. I suggest a setting of "New Orleans in August"

  12. Re:Is the Chinese Constitution a sham? on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 1

    No, it is being thankful that you only have a cold and don't have AIDS.

  13. Re:Bolshevism vs. Fascism on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 1

    I'd say it was more authoritarian (it is almost like the old imperial system but with a committee instead of 1 emperor). Every country is nationalist but your point is taken. People in China are upset because they have lost many of the social protections they USED to get when China was actually communist. Millions of rural elderly Chinese have lost their social safety nets and their children have broken the old system of intergenerational support by going to work for factories in the cities. China is now communist in name only.

  14. Defending fascism? on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 1

    Fascists never tried to control the media? What was Goebbels doing then? A talk show? Or Mussolini, or Franco for that matter. You seem to be taking this right vs left obsession a bit too far.

    I think the term you want is "authoritarianism". The desire to totally control others is truly egalitarian. It is not restricted to any race, creed, religion, class, or political ideology.

  15. Re:Is the Chinese Constitution a sham? on Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm thankfull for countries like China. Every time I get disgusted with how the US is run I can look at China and gain some perspective. It could be better but it could also be a lot worse.

  16. Re:Open Mouth, Insert Foot on 65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO · · Score: 1

    "We're not interested in computers, but rather, we're interested in the people on the other side of the computers."

    The internet. Travel to distant servers. Meet new and interesting people. And when I meet them in Battlefield 1942 I end up shooting them. ;)

  17. Re:Techno-Dystopia on 65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I used to ask my elderly neighbor (before she had to go to an assisted living home) if I could pick her up anything during my trips to the market. She couldn't drive anymore and her knees were shot from arthritis.

    "I have to try that some day."

    You should, some people really need the help.

  18. Re:www.BqLJJNJq6vL.com on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to grab all of the mispellings of those then. Just wait until I get pay-per-click $ for "www.XDmq1yw1pC3.com".

  19. Re:Not such a bad business.. on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So why are you selling them if you really had plans for them in the first place? Sounds like you never really needed them.

  20. Re:Cats are faking it on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    Good idea. I'll either put it on the unstable pile of DVDs on top of the rack or in the jumble of cables behind my computer. I know he's familiar with both places already.

  21. Cats are faking it on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    My cats acts like he can't see the food I put in front of him. I think they are scamming the researchers.

  22. Re:Oblig. on Neural "Extension Cord" Developed · · Score: 1

    One sec, I just got a cellphone fedex'd to me from some Morpheus guy.

  23. Re:Ayn Rand lurches from her grave... on Scientists Find 'Altruistic' Center of the Brain · · Score: 1

    She would label it a "brain defect"

  24. Re:A possible solution for parents on MySpace Sued by Families of Online Predator Victims · · Score: 1

    It was just meant to be a quick and dirty solution. Not as elaborate as adding a dns server.

    I've never had time out issues doing this to block ad servers though.

  25. A possible solution for parents on MySpace Sued by Families of Online Predator Victims · · Score: 3, Informative

    Technology giveth and technology taketh away. Unless your kid is especially Windows PC savvy just do this:

    Open C:\WINNT or WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad
    Append these lines:
    # block myspace.com host names
    127.0.0.1 log.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 browseusers.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 classifieds.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 collect.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 events.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 favorites.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 forum.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 groups.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 home.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 invite.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 linux.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 login.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 message.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 messages.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 music.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 mx2.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 ns1.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 ns2.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 profile.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 rio.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 search.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vids.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 viewmorepics.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta01.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta02.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta03.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta04.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta05.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta06.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta07.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta08.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta09.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta10.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta11.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta12.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 vmta13.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 www1.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 videos.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 mail.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 signup.myspace.com
    127.0.0.1 security.myspace.com

    Done!

    Hell, while you are there add this one too: 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.com

    I got this from: http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/interne t/26149-how-block-myspace-com.html