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  1. Re:It's not over yet? on The Lone Gunmen Aren't Dead? · · Score: 1

    Of course it's still on: how else could they keep spoiling the endings?

  2. Re:'scuse my language, but on Trojans and Popups and Slimeball Business · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    * Flowgo
    * eUniverse
    * IntelliTech Web Solutions
    * KoolKatalog
    * Volton Technologies
    >>>>>>>>>>>>

    Drat, Voltron is in on this too???

    If you get infected by all the spyware, do they combine into one massive, privacy-invading program and take over your computer to fight giant monsters (uhhh, I dunno, maybe Mozilla?) or something? :]

  3. Re:Computing tower of Babel on PC/104 Linux Minicluster - miniHowTo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, it'd just get knocked down & you'd all be forced to speak different computer languages afterwards :]

    I pity the guy who gets stuck with brainf*** ...

  4. Re:Spiderman very underhyped on Review: Spiderman · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be under-hyphenated? :]

    Grammar nazis unite!

  5. Re:Staying true to original? on Spider-Man 2002 vs. Spider-Man 1992 · · Score: 1

    Not quite, but from spinnerets, which are located in that region...

    IMO, I very much agree that they should've kept the wrist-shooters & the intelligent entomologist (scientist who studies insects) angle of the original... He fought villains based on intellect & strategy--most of the time he was *badly* outmatched in strength, but made up for it with the gadgets he invented & strategy.

    OTOH, I haven't seen the movie yet & will try to keep that from detracting from the movie. Hopefully I can still enjoy it even if it's not quite the Spider-man I remember... :]

  6. Re:Pinky and the Brain on Remote Controlled Rats · · Score: 1

    Sure, but who is controlling *them* ... ? :]

  7. Re:Anyone using this instead of folding, sucks on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 1

    You're right--we're doing it all wrong.

    The search would be *much* faster if we searched for alien *stupidity* rather than intelligence... :]

  8. Re:Hellooooo? Spoiler warning! on CIA Warns China Might Be Planning Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they usually compensate by posting the stories long after everyone else has run them :]

  9. Re:and next week.... on G4: The Pong Channel? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can watch people play nethack on this one server... It was posted on /. or rec.games.roguelike.nethack a while ago, but I've lost it... :[

    You only seem to get to see what they're up to for a few minutes, though, but it was kinda cool. I think I watched some poor arch get killed by a kobold on level 1 or something... *shrug* :]

  10. Re:Just like the NRA? on Hardball Tactics For The Geek Lobby · · Score: 1

    But does that mean that we have the right to /. whomever we please? :]

  11. Re:Stone cases? on Black Is The New Beige · · Score: 1

    ... and then, in the far future, after unearthing an episode or two of the Flintstones, future Discovery channel narrators will theorize that such computers were used by primitive cavenerds... :]

    Still, someone obscenely rich might want a marble computer... :]

  12. If you really want to make it less offensive... on Dartmouth Student Invents A Carnivore Leash · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... convert Carnivore into Herbivore (e.g. something that's not going on a legal 'fishing expidition')

    Otherwise, only criminals are entitled to [or get any] privacy...

  13. Re:I can see it already.... on U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID · · Score: 1

    According to the (Latin) lyrics of the music they were playing in the commercial where they came up with that, the answer is "hell."

    You have no chance to survive make your time :]

  14. Re:So? on Microsoft And The GPL/LGPL · · Score: 1

    Let's just say that you're not alone :]

    But I had to parse by evaluating
    $_ =~ s/\$/s/g;

    I guess that I've just been using Perl too long... :]

  15. Re:Wrong topic. on Patent Granted on Sideways Swinging · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, I have laid claim to both :] and :[ and leave them available under the LGPL :]

    You just have to think ahead...

    Now, I'm off to lay claim to wiping one's posterior with legal documents... It may become important to have as a viable option in the future...

  16. The voting record on the DMCA is obvious... on Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns · · Score: 1

    Ummm, there are 100 representatives in the Senate (2 per state; it's the House where representation depends on the state's population) ... If it passed 99-0, there was one person who didn't vote & everyone else voted yes on it.

    Ergo, you can safely assume that your local congressperson at the time voted for it, or at the very least, abstained. None of them can claim to have voted against it, after all.

    While this does hide their vote, I have to say that on this vote, their views are rather transparent...

  17. Re:From the article... on Time Travel · · Score: 1

    Hey, I can beat that one :]

    I can make a "free energy" machine... unfortunately, it requires you to put in more energy than you get out... but that's merely an "engineering" problem, right? Not something to do with that annoying thermodynamics class, right? ;]

  18. Re:OpenNIC will never catch on on Slashback: Deception, Fusion, Membership · · Score: 1

    > I don't accept thisismynewwebpagenamebecausealltheothersaretaken. com as a valid solution.

    Yeah; that forces people to give their site silly names like "slashdot" and "freshmeat" ...

  19. Re:That's "Mister Karma Ho'" (how to remove it) on CEO of Brilliant Defends Sneaky Installation Practices · · Score: 1

    Well, the only problem is that I couldn't do that as a male human Wizard; I kept starving to death and stuff. OTOH, I don't think I ever died of exhaustion from sex with succubi; perhaps that's just as well--I shouldn't have much trouble keeping a 'celibate' conduct at this rate.

    Now, there is a way to complete those instructions, but it requies a few modifications. For starters, you have to get Xena (neutral human valkyrie) to do it. Hopefully soon she will find her Mojo and since she's Xena, she's buff enough to throw it at any nasty critters who come your way. She also will need to borrow your credit card (the PYEC) so that you she charge everything on your way down to Gehennom (which is where the instructions tell you to go if you want to remove this thing; though they mistakenly refer to it as "hell" at times).

  20. Re:Desktop Advertising System on Browser Becomes Billboard · · Score: 1

    You mean like TV used to be before VCRs?

  21. Re:Game/Film conversions on Sci-Fiction Channel To Do Myst Miniseries · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, isn't that the one they blame with starting the idea of 'raves'?

    How else would people have come up with the idea of munching pills in the dark while listening to techno music? ;)

  22. Re: Metered service on 2.4 Megabit Cellular Modem · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Umm, you do realize that in places like the UK, unmetered access like we enjoy in the US doesn't exist--you don't even get unlimited local calls, for crying out loud :[

    E.G. we *already* have a very real reason to make spam illegal. Granted, this may not affect many US users, save to waste their time, but just because it doesn't affect the US doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people with a very real reason to make spam (UCE) illegal.

  23. Re:Looking..... on April Fools Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    LOL! You looked it up??? :]

  24. Re:NT on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 1

    It's 'zero' administration because you're supposed to expect a friendly hacker to break in & fix if for you :]

  25. Re:It's a slippery slope... on SedSokoban · · Score: 1

    No, next it will play nethack; just like autorogue & the Angband borg ;]