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  1. Thieves on Apple Drops Mac OS 9 · · Score: 0
    "'We can do things in X that we just can't do in 9..."

    Like steal from the Open Source community, no doubt.

  2. Holy shit.. on The Plague of Frogs · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..when I first read that headline, I thought the French were invading!

  3. That is completely insane! on Spidey Knocks Out Harry Potter at Box Office · · Score: 0
    "Yes, there is presentation and discussion of evolution in this film. Indeed, some pictorial display of DNA sequences being completed to form a new species is shown. But it's a movie. It is not proof."

    What was the point of THAT remark?!
    Christian people were never very subtle when it came to pushing their own agenda.
    Man, he didn't say a word about a guy dressed like a fucking spider and climbing walls being fictional, but he goes out of his way to refute the theory of evolution? Geesh.

  4. Holy shit.. on 21.3" LCD Monitor Reviewed · · Score: 0
    "...we hope to see the price of the 2110 come down even more as even the 22" Apple Studio Displays are priced around $2,500, and the 23" at $3,500.

    I hope this thing is gold plated. A thousand dollars for an extra inch of screen real estate? Give me a break.

  5. Re:bigass ad on Reason Magazine on DRM · · Score: 0

    My mom moves from server to server.
    You were one of seven others hosting her ass last night, so your guess is a good as mine.
    But then, her ass is so fat, she usually sits on three mirrors at a time.

  6. Re:bigass ad on Reason Magazine on DRM · · Score: 0

    Didn't you hear? They need revenue to host this steaming pile of shit.

  7. Re:Finally... on Quantum3D/NVIDIA technology: Military Applications · · Score: 0
    "...you don't even WISH you had higher-tech toys like we wished back then.

    I don't know about you, but I'm glad I had simple die-cast transformers, or He-man figures, or GI-Joes when I was a kid.
    Kids these days have no imagination because their toys are doing the thinking for them. Everything is just point and click these days.

    Because they see more special effects and detail on screen, they're not forced to use their imaginations the way we were playing in the back yard with our GI-Joes, plotting to take over the Cobra tree fort 15 feet away.

  8. Re:The Original Solid State is Better on PDAs For Kids · · Score: 0

    *SMOOCH*
    Hey baby.

  9. Re:The Legality Of Spyware on An interview with Ad-Aware's Nicholas Stark · · Score: 0

    You sir, are a complete and utter dumbass.
    Do you spend all of your Sunday afternoons looking for little typos or idiosyncracies you don't like about other people and nitpick about them on a has-been geek message board where no one really cares?
    You really need to get laid. By a woman.

  10. Milestone? on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 0
    "This is a major milestone for both the project and distributed computing as a whole.

    And yet they still haven't done dick all in way of contacting an ET. Way to waste your CPU cycles and bandwidth, guys.

  11. Re:Software licenses on An interview with Ad-Aware's Nicholas Stark · · Score: 0

    This was before they changed it...Back when abusing Metamod could get you past the negative cap.
    But since then, they changed it again so that people below a certain karma level couldn't use metamod at all. That's when I was stuck at -110.

  12. Re:Software licenses on An interview with Ad-Aware's Nicholas Stark · · Score: 0

    You think this account is bad? My other count is sitting at -110 right now. ;p~

  13. Re:The Legality Of Spyware on An interview with Ad-Aware's Nicholas Stark · · Score: 0

    Actually, a lot of virii (and especially trojan horse clients like BO) have license agreements stating that the author will not be held responsible for what a user does with his software.
    It's not quite in the same league as an agreement stating that the user gives up the rights to his idle CPU cycles, or bandwidth, or privacy, etc... But it's still a binding agreement nonetheless.

  14. Re:Software licenses on An interview with Ad-Aware's Nicholas Stark · · Score: 0
    "...not only will they keep that sidewalk clean for you, but you agree to give them 50% of your salary for the next year."

    "...is there any reasonable person that would contend you agreed to this contract?

    No, but hundreds of thousands of people are doing it everyday. It's called paying taxes. ;p~

  15. Only five times?!? on PCs Pilfered, Paralyzing Populace · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Amateurs.. That's pathetic.
    I can choke that sucker at least 8.

  16. Re:offtopic, but necessary on New Preview of Neverwinter Nights · · Score: 0

    And the only thing more annoying than people who complain about Slashdot are people who complain about people who complain about Slashdot.
    The fact that you even wasted your time to rant about this(ironic, considering I'm replying to you) is a testament to human stupidity.
    You, sir, are a dumbass.

  17. Good fucking lord... on Shuttle's SS50 reviewed · · Score: 0

    ...the site has been Slashdotted, and it's four o'clock in the fucking morning. Don't you people ever sleep?
    Oh, don't give me that crap about Ukians on the other side of the world. We all know the earth is flat and that Ukians are a shameful Liberal myth.

  18. Who would watch this? on G4: The Pong Channel? · · Score: 0

    The same people who would watch a game as boring as golf or tennis.
    Okay, at least tennis gets you in shape. But golf? Please, I'd choose pong anyday.

  19. Re:I sure hope they got a license from LEGO on IBM Developing Lego-like Storage Brick · · Score: 0

    Surely brick layers have prior art on this so-called patent?

  20. Re:Terrible company on Spyware Fights Back · · Score: 0
    "What the Hell do they have on that page? It crashed my Netscape 4.7 twice!

    Man, everything that isn't plaintext crashes Netscape. You should be used to this by now.

  21. -1 bad taste on Worst Buy · · Score: 0
    "Hill informed police that Abraham Cherian, an Indian American, was trying to rip off the store...

    Are you insinuating something, Michael?
    Quit trying to play the race card. No one gives a flying fuck what race/nationality/sexual preference/whatever the guy is/has. "Indian American" has nothing to do with the reason they had his ass hauled off. The manager made a judgement call. He felt someone was trying to rip off the store, so he did something about it. Plain and simple.

    "...the same store that had conceded to give another customer his video card as requested 10 days earlier.

    The same store, perhaps. But was the manager notified the first time it happened? Selling one video card at a marked down price is one thing. But when people start coming out of the woodwork, employees start to notice that something isn't right.

  22. It would be cheaper... on How to Build a Computerized Android Robot Head · · Score: 0

    ...just to cut someone's head off and fit his bloody eyesockets with x cams.
    Not a bad idea if you ask me.

  23. It would be nice to see a review... on GeForce4 Ti 4200 Preview · · Score: 0

    ...of one of these cards to see which ones fare best in the 3d rendering and animation scene.
    Who cares if I can run Quake 3 at 200fps? I want to know how quickly the card can render a 16.5 million polygon scene(my last project, to be exact) with raytraced shadows, ansiotropic/blinn/metal shading, and reflections with 9+ levels of tracing.

  24. Re:ABOUT TIME on Net Phones Taking Off in the Third World · · Score: 0
    "In fact, a few years ago the phone monopoly was "broken" by the Mexican government and competition was introduced. Both MCI and AT&T entered the market, and we even have competition in local service in many parts of Monterrey. However, Telmex is still the monopoly. Since most people get their phone lines with Telmex they generally get new subscribers to sign-up for their LD service. AT&T and MCI are at a distinct disadvantage and have even considered leaving the Mexican market because Telmex maintains its monopoly in fact, if not in law.

    This sounds all too familiar.
    I'm sure you're aware of who Bell is. Well, Bell Canada sounds a lot like Telemex. They own the lines, but they have been forced to open up to competition. And although they have very good rates (unlike Telemex), the advantage is clearly theirs. I was a customer of a rival long distance carrier for a while, and everytime I made a LD call, I would get a call from a Bell rep a few days later telling me how much I spent on the call(including the duration), and how much I could save if I signed up with them.
    My first thought was, "Why the fuck are you people spying on my phonecalls?! And with a rival, no less?". Well, apparently since they own the lines, they have this advantage over their competition. I have never received a call from a LD competitor telling me that they knew how many calls I was making and what they were costing me, so obviously it's not just coincidental timing on Bell's part.
    Eventually, I switched to Bell anyway because they had a much better rate with no strings attached. So I guess it worked out fine in the end.

    On a brighter note, I don't have some annoying rep calling me everytime I make a LD call anymore. ;)

  25. Fine, let them... on U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID · · Score: 0

    ...As far as Microsoft and the government is concerned, my real name is Harry Feltersnatch.
    Seriously. How can this possibly work? How many of you are using your *real* name in your passport account?