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  1. Re:Nicest Shut down? on First Google Maps Hack Takedown · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think a C&D letter written in L337 speak would be hillarious.

  2. Re:Heh on Google Takes Top Spot From Time Warner · · Score: 1

    Or get bought by it.

    Just ask Atari.

  3. Re:Playing iTunes files on iTunes More Popular Than Most P2P Sites · · Score: 1

    I burn CDs in iTunes all the time. I occasionally will get a glitch, but not in a consistent place, and not every time I burn a disc.

    I am using a PowerBook and OS X to burn the discs. I get maybe one glitch (i.e. on *one* song) maybe every 3-4 discs I burn.

  4. Re:Dear India: on India Will Need to Recruit 120,000 Foreigners · · Score: 1

    How is C++ not european? (It was created by a european, Barjne Stroustrup, presumably in europe.)

  5. Re:Proving the Red Block still exists on China Forces Websites To Register · · Score: 1

    Communism is a great idea, unfortunately it has never been tried.

  6. Even a broken clock... on Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux · · Score: 1

    is correct twice per day.

    Dvorak has been predicting this for the last 20 years. He ain't no genius.

  7. Re:As long as you don't change anything: on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    They should switch to the Book of Mormon instead. The Morman Church will give you one for free if you call them and ask.

  8. Re:Torah Identification on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Could you add an RFID to the scroll?

  9. Mod Parent Up! on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 1

    That is a great idea! United should switch to it and it would probably save them!

    I already pay extra to be completely unconscious at the dentist - why not on airplanes too?

    (And, what they hey, at the barber!)

  10. Re:Because... on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 1

    I prefer that people sitting behind me in a car are using the seat belts: I do not want to be crushed between them and my seatbelt.

    Your car doesn't have seats?

  11. Re:A little demonstration on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were you sitting next to me on a United flight last week? That's exactly the conversation I had on the plane after eating some funky lobster.

  12. Re:Why doesn't this make sense? on How the Secret Service Busted ShadowCrew · · Score: 1

    Each of the members setup a fake website for the others to log into so they would get their info to rat out to the cops if they were the first caught as an insurance against going to jail.

  13. Egg Freckles on History of the Apple Newton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In a MP 120 with the 2.0 version of the OS, write "Egg Freckles" and then hit Assist.

    In the prototype MP 2000 units (code named "Q"), the first run or EVT units: Write "About Newton" and press Assist. In the DVT and production units it says "What about Newton?" followed by "What about xxx?" where xxx is the name of each developer who worked on the project (sequentially).

    In the EVT units, instead of the developer names, it uses Larry, Moe, Curly, and Shemp.

    Also, you gotta love the Area 51 Easter egg in the first 2.0 Newtons.

    There was also a Solar Eclipse easter Egg, but I can't remember what OS version/models had it. (Possibly the MP100.)

    I love the Newton.

  14. Re:Liberal bias in the media ... on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. There are far, far more Hindus than Jews and they live in many more countries than just India.

  15. Re:Why do they still say "computer"? on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    Considering that probably half of all Windows users call either their floppy or CD-ROM drives their "hard drive," (most of the others call it their "memory") I'm guessing that would be a little too confusing for Granny Average.

    Ugh. And all these years, I've been hearing people tell me that Macintoshes are for idiots.

  16. Re:Obligatory Star Trek IV Quote... on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    And then a guy who has never typed before types insanely fast because he's from the future. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

    Like the rest of Star Trek.

  17. Re:Also addicted to: on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you need help.

  18. Re:I can't check my email! on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1

    480 times a day (once a minute every minute)

    What planet do you live on? On earth, there are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day, therefore 1440 minutes in a day. Your planet must rotate much faster.

  19. Re:Are CRTs on the way out? on Are CRTs History? · · Score: 1

    as CRTs are generally at desk-level

    Everyplace I've worked, there is a pile of them on the floor - usually blocking the aisles between cubes or the hallways between offices.

    It isn't just me, is it?

  20. Re:Liberal bias in the media ... on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    Christianity, Islam, and ??? (Hinduism?)

  21. Re:I can't check my email! on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1

    If people want to reach me now, they can reach me through an invention patented by Graham Bell.

    Why would I want to talk to a jerk who won't even check his email more than once per day?

  22. Re:In my case it was the opposite. on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    For something like becoming a concert pianist, my theory is that you have to have an extrordinary amount of desire to do that task. That extrordinary amount of desire is what most people call "talent."

    For example, when I was in HS and College, I really *loved* to play bass. I can't really explain why I enjoyed doing it as opposed to some other instrument. When I started, I could barely play and it was a struggle (I didn't care - I practiced all the time in my room.) Eventually I became really amazingly good. I was in several rock bands and in the town where I lived I was sought after by people who wanted to put together bands - including people with records out, etc. (That said, it was not a huge town, nor a music meca.) The point is that it was almost like it was no effort to practice for hours on end and I have no idea what motivated me.

    Once I hit graduate school, I couldn't care less about playing bass. Instead, I got bit by the programming bug and instead wanted to do *that* with all my free time.

    (And now I'm chief software architect at a major high tech company.)

    I think there is a certain amount of inate ability (i.e. raw intelligence, having a body physically capable of doing somethig, etc.), but that getting really good at something comes down to being motivated to doing it - either by some unknown internal force or else by other reasons.

  23. Re:Pfffft on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    Oh oh oh!!!

    What if calling something "Christian" could mean that it was bad?

    Ah, that'd be perfect 'cause I hate Chrtians.

  24. Re:Liberal bias in the media ... on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    I thought that's what Christians did: lie cheat murder etc. Isn't Christianity just an anti-gay hate group? It seems like it from their actions.

  25. Re:Their own fault.. on A Coffeeshop's Weekends Without Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Because at home my wife screams at me every 10 minutes telling me how much she hates her life and hates me. Plus, I'm screaming back telling her that she is more of a pain to live with than Satan and Hitler combined.

    This slightly inhibits the amount of work I can do at home.