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  1. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1
    or as bob dylan said, "i'm going where the weather suits my clothes."

    Are you sure that wasn't Fred Neil in "Everybody's Talkin'"?

  2. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1
    " PLEASE, stop calling it North Dakota."

    Well, it's either that or Baja Canada.

  3. Re:straw? on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I have a friend who is planning a straw bail house."

    Anyone attemping to use straw for bail will probably soon discover that the government only takes cash or property bonds.

  4. Re:Passive Repeaters on Using a Cellphone in a Basement? · · Score: 1
    Dipoles are 300 Ohm (that cheap wire antenna you get with an FM receiver is a dipole made out of 300 Ohm twin-lead), monopoles around 50 to 75.

    RG-58, the stuff they used to use for Ethernet, is 50 Ohm.

  5. Re:placeholder on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 1

    You're being a spelling nazi about "sentence" in a thread with an AC grammar nazi who spelled it "gramer"?

  6. Re:Twisted "inspirational" posters on Piimpin' Out Your Corporate Office? · · Score: 1
    Demotivation, get yer demotivation here.

    http://www.despair.com/

    Happy now?

  7. Re:Other Networks Follow Please on Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom · · Score: 2, Funny
    " That's cool. I wish they gave Enterprise the same freedom."

    First thing I thought of was maybe they could develop the next Star Trek series--as a comedy. Seriously.

  8. Re:Please on Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom · · Score: 1
    " And look at the prime age of wrestling viewers, and the sex. Same groups. Perhaps Slashdot should start covering WWE?"

    The Daily Show appeals to Slashdotters more than does professional wrestling because they prefer believable fiction.

  9. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on XBox Power Cable Fire Hazard and Recall · · Score: 1
    " MOD PARENT DOWN...and then beat him with a heavy, sharp object."

    Why bother, look how he spelled "cord", he's already suffered brain damage.

  10. Re:My Users Don't Want It on Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? · · Score: 1
    Can you recommend a news client with the "look and feel" of the Google Groups net-based thingie from about a year ago (I hear they've screwed around with it since then)?

    (I'm assuming that the one that comes with Outlook Express was specifically designed to kill Usenet)

  11. Re:Hmm on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    So does that mean they'll have to start calling it NSSHA (Not So Secure Hashing Algorithm)?

  12. Re:Not an expert, got that right on Transgenic Mustard Cleans Up Soils · · Score: 1
    " Selenium is actually a p-type semiconductor..."

    All by itself? Without doping?

  13. Re:And the astronomers are going to hate it. on First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads · · Score: 1
  14. Re:From an 1890 on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 1
    Good one.

    I'm assuming that you're aware that Don Ameche played Bell years ago in a movie, and that "ameche" became a slang term for a telephone.

  15. Re:Bandwidth? on Undisclosed Markets to Participate in IPTV Trial · · Score: 1
    "Anywhere from 4 to 37mbps."

    What does that work out to in cycles per second (Hertz)?

  16. Re:From an 1890 on The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? · · Score: 2, Funny
    " Speaking of him, didn't the Italians bitch that one of their citizens invented the telephone first..."

    You kids today don't know anything that happened before last week. The Italian who invented the telephone was Don Ameche.

  17. Re:Hardly on MPAA Developing Digital Fingerprinting Technology · · Score: 1
    1. Technically infeasable and economically ruinous for ISPS to scan all network traffic (unless you want to pay them for their trouble, MPAA? you could indemify us all for the resultant Internet slowdown perhaps?).

    Unless, of course, the **AAs start buying up ISPs left and right. They could even continue to offer service at the same price, using any failure of revenues to cover expenses as a tax write-off.

  18. Re:McCarthy - triumph of mediocrity over reality on Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed · · Score: 1
    If you don't get to make an accusation without documentation you don't get to repeat someone else's without something with which to back it up either.

    For what it's worth I am a fan of neither Joe McCarthy nor Communism and the mere existance of something called an "Anti-American Activities Committee" is the most anti-American thing I can think of. None of which has anything to do with whether McCarthy's military record was accurately portrayed or not.

    "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.", as Senator Moynihan used to say.

  19. Re:Conspiracy Theory? on Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed · · Score: 1
    "and that there was talk of cutting the pensions "a lot" (by 2/3 is what I remember)."

    Sounds as though the real conspiracy is to make the pension fund disappear and then claim that it never existed.

  20. Re:McCarthy - triumph of mediocrity over reality on Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed · · Score: 1
    "...while McCarthy was hiding behind the couch..."

    You should probably provide some documentation for this, as other sources seem to indicate that he had a quite respectable military record of service as a Marine during World War II. Even if the nickname "Tailgunner Joe" had something to do with shooting coconuts, he had to be serving as a tailgunner in order to get it.

  21. Re:Did the fired workers make a mistake? on Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "I didn't admit that I had non-existing Weapons of Mass Destruction and because of that, some country invaded me."

    And, of course, if you had admitted to not having those weapons all the enemies you made over the years, both in neighboring countries and within your own populace, not to mention anyone else in the neighborhood that wanted your country's petroleum for themselves, would have known that you were in a position of weakness and would have quickly moved in for the kill, so it's a simple case of "if you don't hurry up and commit suicide, we're gonna kill you".

  22. Re:Be Methodical on Reverse Engineering of a Graphics Format? · · Score: 1

    Is that a non-USB scanner by chance? You can email me at coastalnet.com.

  23. Re:Why is Microsoft Making its Own Life Difficult? on Why is Microsoft Making its Own Life Difficult? · · Score: 1
    Except that it wasn't arrogance on the part of the Beatles. John Lennon, commenting on the phenomena of their fanbase made the observation that they were more popular than Jesus. He didn't say that there was anything wrong with Jesus, he didn't say they were better than Jesus, he didn't say that they deserved to be more popular than Jesus, he wasn't bragging, and it wasn't based on a world-wide scientific survey. He was just making an observation based on his own experiences. Perhaps he should have chosen his analogy more carefully. If he'd realised the extent to which people would go out of their way to mis-interpret what he said, I'm sure he would have.

    Could it, however, be arrogance on the part of Microsoft? Probably.

  24. Re:Reasonable Service Rate $50/hr on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Are you and the other people using Spybot S&D and getting paid for it donating anything to the author?

  25. Re:There is always a way... on Microsoft Licenses Analog Anti-rip Technology · · Score: 1
    "I had to buy a Macro scrubber so I could watch my legally purchased DVDs. HOW does this help *anyone* ?"

    Manufacturer and retailer of scrubber tentitively raise hands from seats in back row whilst counting their profits.