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  1. Re:...or not on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Both of the websites I've been linked to today, morgellons.org and morgellonsusa.com, are registered by anonymous DNS-by-proxy companies.

    It reeks to high heaven of marketing hoopla.

  2. Re:So, is that a race or a specific space tyrant? on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it's a viral campaign for an upcoming Robert Downey Jr movie ... :)

  3. Re:...or not on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah HAH. The movie Scanner Darkly is coming out soon. It's a viral marketing gag. Although I guess in this case it's a parasite, not a virus ... ;-)

  4. Re:Better late on Microsoft May Delay Windows Vista Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You underestimate Microsoft's ability to push out a product that is both late AND hideously full of bugs.

  5. Re:Obvious on The 'Hairy Guys' Vs. Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bill Gates doesn't have money for haircuts either - that doesn't stop him from cutting it himself.

  6. Re:nice! on Flawed AMD Chip Can Lead To Data Corruption · · Score: 1

    Caught that already. Sorry for the disinformation. :)

  7. Re:nice! on Flawed AMD Chip Can Lead To Data Corruption · · Score: 1

    Ah, I believe I may be incorrect - the longer description sounds like an unrelated FPU bug:

    FXSAVE and FXSTOR

  8. Re:When you assume... on Test Drive Your Dream Job · · Score: 1

    India ... Indiana ... it's all the same. ;-)

  9. nice! on Flawed AMD Chip Can Lead To Data Corruption · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, that was fast. FreeBSD already has a patch for this.

    Judging from the posting date, I *really* need to be updating my sources more often. :)

    20060419: p7 FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu
                    Correct a local information leakage bug affecting AMD FPUs.

    (could be an unrelated correction, I guess, it doesn't provide much more information in /usr/src/UPDATING)

  10. Re:can you? on Microsoft PowerShell RC1 · · Score: 1

    Not even WinFX? Hmm. I find that kind of surprising - although I guess I shouldn't, because I'm sure the command line has all sorts of fancy tricks going on so that programs like Oregon Trail can draw properly. :)

  11. Re:Does genetics make our choices? on Scientists Find Brain Cells Linked to Choice · · Score: 1

    yes, but just because it's "you", doesn't mean that the signals it gives can be relied upon. Look at disorders like Schizophrenia and such - they radically alter the way people perceive the world, to an extent that they can't trust what they observe.

  12. Re:Does genetics make our choices? on Scientists Find Brain Cells Linked to Choice · · Score: 1

    If your brain tells you you have to do those things, how do you know any different? Or, think of it this way:

    Imagine you're sitting on your toilet, about to do your business, and you're struck with a scary thought - "What if I'm only dreaming that I'm here, and what if this is going to make a horrid mess in my bed?". How do you know for sure that you're awake? Because your brain tells you that you're awake?

  13. Re:Quick, bury it! on Organic LED Could Replace Light Bulbs? · · Score: 1

    You might know them better under their Supervillain name - "The Idea Men".

    SPOOOOOOON!!!

  14. yay! on Britain's 400 Years of Cyber Law · · Score: -1, Troll

    By reading this comment, you are legally bound to wire 10% of your savings to my personal bank account in Switzerland.

    The transit number is 123456789-42.

  15. Re:How do we unstick our fingers? on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    What good is the shedding of skin cells, Mr Anderson, if you are unable ... to ... breathe?

    yes! score one for the mafia cleaners and government interrogators. Excellent torture technique. :)

  16. Re:"Time to get rid of the duct tape?" on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 2, Funny

    He'd make some out of bubblegum and a piece of cloth ripped from his shirt.

  17. Re:The Original UMPC on The Future of the PDA · · Score: 1

    I think you just described the UTStarcom 6700. It's shiny.

  18. Re:Yay for Ponies!!! on The Cure for Information Overload · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Just wondering... on Amazon CTO Rips Blogging Authors a New One · · Score: 1

    Probably around the same time they get a Chief Chair-throwing Officer.

    (Hmm ... wait a minute, I think I'm wrong - most companies already have a Chairman.)

  20. Re:Time to drag out this old chestnut on Amazon CTO Rips Blogging Authors a New One · · Score: 1

    I'm going to borrow the most applicable television quotation for this response ...

    As Red from That 70s Show would say,

    "You're a dumbass, dumbass."

  21. Re:Great, look at what you just did. on Slashback: Vista Rewrite, Tuttle Travesty, Mac Botnets · · Score: 1

    #1: there is a very, very big difference between harassing someone, and letting a public official know what you think of the situation.

    I'd just like to point out that he is *A* public official, not *YOUR* public official. The only people who really have a say in this are the townsfolk of his own electorate.

  22. Re:so... on Quasars Used for Encryption · · Score: 4, Informative

    The KGB used CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation) to produce reams and reams of codebooks/ciphers. They would create two copies, and dispatch one of the copies to the remote location for encryption, then keep one copy at Lubyanka Square.

    Obviously, if one side of the cipher was intercepted, then the communication would be suspect - but for most communication, it was the most secure available to them. I don't see this quasar issue as being much different than that.

    Now, if they were using quantum states to dynamically generate the ciphers in two seperate places at the same time, THAT would be something to behold.

  23. Re:Wal-Mart intendes to run the brand into the gro on The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every higher organism on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but Wal-Mart does not. It moves in on a brand, and it consumes and consumes, until every shred of credibility is destroyed. The only way it can survive is to spread to another brand. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Wal-Mart is a disease, a cancer of this planet, a plague - and hippies are the cure.

  24. Re:Hey on Idea Stock Exchange · · Score: 3, Funny

    They call that "marketing".

  25. Re:The atmosphere is less harsh? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    It's easier to defend against no wind than it is to defend against 300KM/h+ winds.