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  1. This is already Patented... on Bacteria Used to Create Nanowires · · Score: 2, Funny

    >
    >nanowires it excretes while working.

    and Microsoft will vigorously defend its patented ability to turn your PC into excrement.

  2. 95% my arse!! on An Open Letter from Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    If SCO owns 95% of UNIX, why does Novell get 95% of the license fees that SCO collects FOR Novell?

  3. Re:This was inevitable on Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL · · Score: 1

    > stuff that works fine in current versions of Windows.

    Don't leave us guessing, what works fine in windows?

  4. Re:right to privacy on FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have the right to be secure in your "persons, houses, papers, and effects"

    You have the right to assemble.

    You do not have the right to be secure in your "persons, houses, papers, and effects" while being added with you PC to assemble in a timely and organized fashion. This new efficiency would give you the ability overthrow a tyranny. We can't have that.

  5. worn out brake pads on Retail Fraud on the Rise · · Score: 1

    My favorate spectacle was watching someone in pep boy yelling at the clerk about brake pads that wore out in only one month. I new damned well that the customer was just returing the old brake pads as if they were the prematurly worn new brake pads. I almost said something but decide not to get involved.

  6. Re:Short on Details on Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    At the very least, keep your exploits quiet until Monad is a release product. thanks.

  7. Re:A Linux "Porter"? on Where Can I Find Linux Porters? · · Score: 1

    >Black people?

    No sir, I think he meant this:

    http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70

  8. Re:sourceforge.net on Where Can I Find Linux Porters? · · Score: 1

    >this is a commercial project, so Sourceforge is obviously not where he should be looking for help

    Neither is slashdot! :)

  9. Re:Hyperbole? on Annual Cost of Microsoft Monopoly: $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean to insult you...
    M$ = Micro$oft.
    $ is the symbol for U.S. currency.
    You have paid for a Microsoft Windows license that you will not use. Multiply that by the number of servers and workstations sold with windows and converted to linux and what you have is a racket, fraudulent behaviour. A forced tax paid to someone who offers NO service. Microsofts activity needs to be halted. The poor souls who are locked into these contracts or "deals" (dell, hp, etc...) need to be set free from the convicted monopoly called Microsoft. Legal action should be taken on a congressional level to allow escape for these companies if they choose.
    Analogy:
    It's like a vegatarian being force (against there principals) to buy the Beef, Potatoes and corn when they want the potatoes and corn only.
      "We will kill the cow and put it on your plate, You will just have to eat around it if you don't like it."

  10. Re:hey baby. on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 1

    > I've got your dangling gap filler right here! *grabs crotch*

    But Mr. Jackson, I thought you only grabbed your own crotch!

    Sorry, this post could not be averted.

  11. Re:hey baby. on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 1

    > I've got your dangling gap filler right here! *grabs crotch*

    But Mr. Jackson, I'm only 7 years old. and we haven't watch that Thriller video you promised.

  12. Re:Soylent Green is DOGGGGGGGGGG on South Korean Scientists Clone Dog · · Score: 1

    There again, we eat the ugly fish and keep the cute ones in a fish tank as pets. It all comes down to a popularity contest.
      I've cut down my meat intake but if I go a couple days without meat i sure do feel like killing something. (ok, buying something thats been kill by someone else.)

  13. Re: Fight with your mind and dollars on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1

    If you stop buying from the **AA and Microsoft, they will go broke very fast.
      If you publish everything in CreativeCommons and GPL you can pry your freedom out of the perverted hands and take it home with you.
      It's so very simple, do it instead of just talking about it. I can't remember the last time I purchased multimedia or software.
      DRM and the DMCA only works on protected goods, do not buy DRM'd goods.

  14. Lame excuse for RFID in people... on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    >>upset by the amount of time it took to confirm a relative had died.

    Govt. is pushing RFID as opposed to just diggin faster? Lame.

  15. Re:Maybe I'm an asshole, but... on Grandma Sues Over Hot Coffee Mod · · Score: 1

    She can take her lawyer and grandson with her too.

    -AHole2

  16. Re:More than $100... on The State of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    Yep, horrible, misleading article summary. You're better off just adding more ram and using a ramdrive. leave your machine on all the time.

  17. Re:Hyperbole? on Annual Cost of Microsoft Monopoly: $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    So you admit to paying the M$ tax before loading linux? ...and act like this is a good thing?

  18. Re:10 Billion? What? on Annual Cost of Microsoft Monopoly: $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    >numbers pulled out of asses

    Well i just pulled a number two out of my ass. would you like to buy it for a buck fifty?

  19. Re:Better leave your wok at home too... on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1


    Looking for a better WiFi antenna? Like asian cooking?

    wok this way...
    http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.n/

  20. The PSU Fan on Beginning Of the End For PC Noise · · Score: 1

    Why do they keep putting the fan on the "outer wall" of the PSU next to the power switch. I like moving the fan to the opposite wall of the PSU (dremel or sheet metal nipper required). Now the hole where the fan was is just a vent hole and the PSU is a muffler. It does not matter if you suck from one side or blow from the other as long as you have air flow.

    please try to refrain from "RE: suck from one side or blow from the other" jokes. thanks :)

  21. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    >I mean, what are friends for,

    A true friend will, on very short notice, help you bury the body before sunrise.

    "Joking" aside, a person who would blow himself up is going to share his encryption key with the Scotland yard? nah.

    "If you don't give my that encryption key NOW! I will be forced to ask you again."

  22. Re:sperm or 'eggs'? on Pig Sperm in Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    sperm, sperm, sperm, sperm, sperm, eggs, beacon and sperm.

  23. Re:Cue the bad puns on Pig Sperm in Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else just picture Ms. Piggy wiping off her chin?

  24. Re:All I want to know... on AI Allowed to Create Their Own Culture · · Score: 1

    Maybe they invent Satan first and quickly realize they need to invent God because there is no Mr. Darkness with Light or something like that.
    hmm. "Prince of Lightness" just doesn't have the same ooomph.

  25. Re:So how is this going to kill fair use? on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 1

    >much of the cultural production of your day.

    You over estimate the utility of the **AA and such.

    Culture happens outside your front doors.
    You can make culture and share it with you friends. Culture itself is free.
    What you see with TV, Radio and msn.com is fake culture mixed with thought guidance and selective news. It's a profit motivated culture with a motive as opposed to a culture motivated culture.
    I'm all for profit of course but profit should involve w-o-r-k.