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  1. Re:Natalie Portman? on Security Skins: Single Sign-On with Images · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Secure connection established*

  2. Re:Side Effect on New Shoe Designed to Kick-Start Couch Potatoes · · Score: 1

    creating a kids' grey market of slipping allowances to other kids to wear these shoes ...Or just forcing future slashdot readers to wear them via liberal applications of swirlies.

  3. In France we love ze analogees on New Shoe Designed to Kick-Start Couch Potatoes · · Score: 5, Funny

    You see, in France, we have a saying. Ze allowance, she is like a shoe, no? A shoe which enforce ze TV restrictions. How can you say is not so, eh?

    Please forgive me for zees post: I am but a lowly stereoteep.

  4. Re:Darwin award soon on Mac mini Sans Wires - Batteries Inside the Case · · Score: 1

    They have porn sites online now?

  5. Re:knowledge is power on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You still haven't explained what links "pay for play" to "higher threshold of publication quality." (And I think you're going to have a hard time making your argument sound convincing to a crowd of open source advocates.)

  6. Re:Bye now! on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you talking about? You don't have an argument. You're just typing, and it doesn't make any sense.... tough guy.

  7. Re:Too simplistic in your thinking on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    So, on top of being a patronizing ass, you've clearly got mental problems. Sorry that you're incapable of logical thinking. Goodbye.

  8. Re:Science is not starndards on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Think about what you're saying. You're saying that the US should present a unified position... which happens to be EXACTLY THE SAME as the position Bush wants to present - because he just gets rid of anyone who doesn't agree with him.

    "It's about people on a standards committee." exactly. Not a REPUBLICAN standards committee, you will note. That's what "standards" means. It's about representing the people, not the president, of the US.

  9. Re:The "true" streaming pioneers (circa 1994) on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I had thought KJHK was the first, but I guess it started just after WXYC. (December 3rd, 1994) Anyway, CUSeemee was clearly being used in substantial "webcasting" efforts long before the date claimed by Real.

  10. So... on Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let me get this straight...

    You're saying that bigger fans... move more air than smaller ones?

    It's all just too confusing. Mind you, I'm an alien from a parallel dimension. In my world, it works like this:

    Step 1: Profit!
    Step 2: ...
    Step 3: Hard drive dools down.
    Step 4: Detach small fan from hard drive.

  11. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 1

    No, you're totally right. Rush Limbaugh fans are geniuses. Every last one of them.

  12. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 2, Funny

    well, that was meant to sound like a joke, but it didn't come out that way. sorry.

  13. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 1

    If you're so smart, why is it so hard for you to understand what people are saying?

  14. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the sentiment. But I fully expected the flamebait mod and I can afford the karma :)

    (...until they read the other reply i posted)

  15. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean to sully the good name of plastics. After all, they can't help whose corpses they end up infusing. They're just innocent giant molecules.

  16. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are Fox "beating the pants off" the other networks? I've got my own hypothesis: because the average-to-dumb outnumber the smart by a wide margin. This is no secret: look at IQ statistics for the general population. Got a lot of money and Want a successful TV network? Write dumb, loud, shiny content which appeals to the cross-section of the population covering "average" down to "foolish mush brain", and you are guaranteed the widest audience. And you get to perpetuate that audience by filling their heads with your mush! Bonus!

    It's the same reason that PBS and NPR historically must struggle to survive, while the Dr. Phils of the world turn into megamillionaires. There just aren't enough smart people to go around, and the dumb ones multiply faster than the smart ones to boot.

    So congratulations, stupids, you're extinguishing your best hope for long-term survival. Who wants their kids to get physics degrees, when everybody else's kids are becoming latte-slurping pinheads
    with MBAs?

    At least you can take solace in the probability that when the end comes, you'll probably all be - statistically speaking - too stupid to realize it.

    "Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!"

  17. Re:actually... on Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication · · Score: 1

    can you show that the law is either correct or not?

    I dunno... will I get a prize?

  18. Re:Dupe and a lie on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nobody said anything about ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN. Nobody but you, that is.

    And yes, Fox leans toward the side of evil. It's true. Evil, loud, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, fat, angry, dumb, NASCAR-devouring, Wal-Mart-enjoying, backyard-wrestling, idiot-haired white people. Like those who populate most of our great nation, sucking dumbly on their Mega-Gulp cups filled to overflowing with the gray pablum squeezed out of the giant plastic assholes of the megacorporations, staring glassy-eyed at the shiny wonders that float before them on their giant-[wide]screen TVs as they sink slowly down to become one with their Barca-Loungers, and finally peel off into the piano-case-sized caskets that will house their plastic-infused corpses for all eternity, or at least until they're dug up by a backhoe to make way for the future supermall their children are going to want.

    Therefore, leaning in the opposite angle should be okay. But if you think it's "most people" who feel this way, you haven't seen the same TV ratings I have.

  19. actually... on Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the 1960s, most large computers were used on a timeshare basis. In many instances, if you wanted calculations done, you bought blocks of "computer time" by the minute. Thus, twice the computing power would = half the cost. Therefore something that cost $10000 one year should only cost $5000 the next year (when the computer was twice as fast), etc.

  20. Re:+5 Funny on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    He's not mocking black people, he's mocking people who believe the CIA/crack rumor. You're the one who's making the leap from "gullible" to "black". Therefore, you're the one showing evidence of racism, if anyone is.

  21. Logic on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    If the first shuttle has a design flaw, what's to say the second one isn't afflicted by the same problem?

    er... This may get you started.

  22. Re:Spend it on What Can You Do With $100? · · Score: 1

    Hey... I'm a consumerist.

  23. Am I the only one on World's First Fuel-Cell Motorcycle · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...who read the article and saw this: The CORE.. is a radically compact and efficient fuel cell, capable of powering anything from a motorboat to a small domestic property and thought, "Why would I want to drive a house around?"

  24. Re:Now all it needs... on World's First Fuel-Cell Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    i don't think a motorcycle would make a good bomber, unless it could go fast enough to escape the blast radius in the time it takes for the bomb to fall a couple of inches to the ground.

  25. Re:Not a scam... Just a shoddy carrier. on Strange Numbers on Caller ID? · · Score: 1

    Why should the rules be different for wireless phones? Do you pay for calls you receive on your land line in the US? I don't. Why should I pay for calls I receive on my cell?