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DId you hear that?

On: Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?

That was the sound of the joke going right over your head.

You should probably get used to that sound...

No,

On: Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?

Yoda said,

"By Grapthar's Hammer, avenged you shall be!"

HA!

On: Advanced System Building Guide

Good one. :)

Thank you.

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see subject.

A Real Question

On: Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed

What gains are made when someone hijacks a web site? This has probably been discussed before, but I'm too lazy right now to look it up. Anyone?

I'm sorry,

On: Advanced System Building Guide

but I will continue to go on my personal experience. Thanks for the info, though.

I also agree.

On: When Would You Accept DRM?

Not to go all Roswell on everyone...

Now, let's just wait and see if the ubiquitous "THEY" start trying to apply some DRM-like techniques to books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, speech, etc...

Hmmm

On: Advanced System Building Guide

It has been my personal experience that the armature fails on drives much more often than the rotational assembly.

Your experience may vary, but I'll stick with seperate drives for temp and swap.

Yes, reducing

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wear and tear. Each time the machine has to swap or write temp files, the physical moving parts of the hard drive experience wear.

If you can reduce the amount of this wear on your OS and data drives by placing swap and temp on a physically seperate drive, you may prevent major data loss.

I would think this would be obvious, but I guess not.

Disposable income doesn't really

On: PSP And DS Duke It Out

matter when it comes to devices like this. I mean, how many times have you gone to on of your buddies' houses and seen the following setup:

Big Wire Spool table

Milk crate entertainment center

Couch that was obviously picked out of the trash

Nothing on the walls but old beer spray

No stove, just a pizza oven

65" TV

800 watt subwoofer

XBox

PS2

Gamecube

Like I said, price isn't going to matter if the PSP kicks enough ass.

We should all get together

On: Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

and create a Doom level where all the weapons are the gadgets on the list.

Oh man

On: Cyrix Hotplate Howto

The rhythmic thumping noise you hear is an FCC compliance officer banging his head on his desk.

THAT was funny.

This reminds me

On: Cyrix Hotplate Howto

of some hardware we cooked with in the Army circa 1990...

5 cavity HV Klystron (satellite transmitter)

TSSP unit (shouldn't have gotten that hot, but did)

Hang some grub in front of the dish and crank 'er up to 7200 watts

Manifold of a diesel generator (obviously)

Ah, those were the days...

At least this time

On: Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2

we have a list we can refer to. So many times in the past it was just a "try it and see" situation.

Easy solution

On: The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV

We inject the modified HIV virii with nano-time-bombs so that they "expire" before they can reproduce. In fact, it could be set up that the beginning of cell replication kicks off the "expiration" mechanism. But, IANAB.

Oh Really

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If you really want a level playing field, then lobby for removal of government requirements on hiring people with disabilities. The current regulations make it so that if you want to hire 10 workers in the same capacity, you can't just hire the 10 best candidates. 1 must be a woman, 1 must be black, and 1 must be disabled in some way. It is BS.

I say if all 10 best candidates are women, hire them. If the 10 best candidates are in wheelchairs, hire them. If the 10 best candidates are black or hispanic or white or red or yellow or whatever, hire them. Just don't make me take a lesser candidate to fill some damn quota.

[End of Rant]

I hope we don't

On: BBC: 2005 Looking Good for Gadgets

start seeing more X10 popups...

*ducks*

Don't worry about it.

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How can we possibly trust a statistical study that was conducted by Americans anyway?

*ducks*

Nice

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Best.....sig......ever......

Seriously. Great sig.

Re:See only the Bible for answers.

On: Live to be 1000 Years Old?

I would still say though that there are a number of oddities that are contradicted by what we know now.

Like the 3 headed dog and the Minotaur?

Oops, wrong fable. Sorry.

*ducks*

I wonder if

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we could get Union Carbide to open facilities in Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.....

I have but two words for this technology

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So what.

Just one additional question.

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Can they attach it to my...

Nevermind.

I stand corrected.

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Quick google check would have helped me out, eh?

Wheel keeps turning

On: Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO

Next thing you know they will get a patent on the whole "One or Zero" thingy.