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  1. Re:Moving parts are the main problem on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    A lot of that dust probably came out of the vacuum's exhaust. If air molecules can be rammed through the filters, so can little bitty dust particles.

    If you use a vacuum cleaner, you don't have to go outside. A soft, natural bristle brush is also helpful in urging the dust into the hose.

  2. Re:Moving parts are the main problem on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Pull the cover from the old machines, take an air compressor to them to clean them out...

    Make that compressor a vacuum cleaner. You want to remove dust and crud and stuff, not drive it in deeper.

  3. Re:Exactly, women love cute and adoreable. on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but at least she let you watch!

  4. Re:Obligatory Serious Answer on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    ...one's androgynous and one's fat. Nothing like the Internet.

    Oh, I don't know. The Internet's always seemed fat and androgynous to me.

  5. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    That must be why I have no free time in which to read and post to Slashdot.

    Oh, wait...

  6. Re:I discovered a better one by accident on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    You left out an adjective: Frigid

  7. Re:Not us. on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 1

    What baffles me is that online radio used the same argument and lost.

    Online radio didn't have the National Association of Braodcasters expensive lobbyists and lawyers working for them.

  8. Re:Not us. on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How did you get modded up for not reading the parent's comment?

    This is Slashdot. The next logical step after not reading the article on which you are commenting is not reading the comment to which you reply. :-)

  9. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    If your goal is to save power wouldn't you just turn off the monitor?

  10. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Why would a monitor that is turned off need a screensaver?

  11. Re:Well, It Seems You Have Already Taken It Down on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 1

    How do you answer that one if evil spirits possess you *all* the time?

  12. Re:Tsarkon Reports Obama bent on bankrupting USA on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a lot of people would love to fire Cox, but I don't see that that has to do with this discussion.

    You're talking about Christopher Cox of the Securities and Exchange Commission, right?

    As long as this thread is so far off-topic, here's a question for the original poster. If Obama wanted to destroy the U.S. economically, wouldn't the easiest way be to just do nothing about the economy and let it continue to self-destruct?

  13. Re:Bastards made piece with the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 1

    Have they considered it? Don't you recognize a graduate of the John Bolton School of Diplomacy when you read their posts?

  14. Re:I think they should skip this name... on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    Burn Notice is coming back...

    ...and not a moment too soon.

    (I don't really care if "Eureka" is on 'skiffy' or some other network, as long as I get to see it, but I'd just as soon they quit trying to adhere to Sturgeon's Law and either tried for nothing but good stuff or "all crap, all the time".)

    It's really a sign of sad things when two of the best shows on TV are USA's...

    Well, technically "Burn Notice" is off TV right now and "In Plain Sight" hasn't started back up yet. (but soon)

  15. Re:I think they should skip this name... on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    And when BSG wraps up they can just change the name to "Trailer Park Theater".

    (and let USA put any new Eureka episodes into Burn Notice's now open time slot)

  16. Re:Trailer, Really? on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 1

    He's got that dude in the trailer screaming "FIRE EVERYTHING!".

    Doesn't everyone know by now that fire and trailers are a bad combination?

  17. Re:Windows Users Beware... on Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec · · Score: 1

    People pirate Norton?

    Just because they're stupid enough to use it doesn't mean that they're stupid enough to actually pay good money for it. :-)

  18. Re:not Verizon on Verizon Wants To Share Your Personal Information · · Score: 1

    This is not about Verizon. It is about Verizon Wireless...

    So which one bought Alltel, and are Alltel customers who opted out with Alltel going find themselves "stealth opted-in"?

  19. Re:Read the Complaint on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    i don't know about you, but when i'm watching porn, i don't instantly think, i want a job right now!

    Not even a hum job? You are kinky.

  20. Re:Here we go again on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    "30 minute for 75 kisses".

    Only 24 seconds per kiss? That doesn't sound like very much fun.

  21. Re:Has anyone read the Complaint??? on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm all conflicted. You got "different from" right (a rarity, these days), but not "copyright". Unless of course you were referring to the writing of copy (like ad copy), which may be governed by some laws or the other, depending upon the medium (once upon a time the FCC said no advertising lotteries on radio or TV) for which it is intended, and upon the governing jurisdiction.

  22. Re:Here we go again on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Craigslist is 'the single largest source of prostitution in the nation,

    'Old school: Go undercover/hit the streets to round up prostitutes.

    Yeah, you'd think they wouldn't bother going after Craigslist after the failure of their earlier lawsuit against street corners.

  23. Re:Greenspun's Tenth Rule on Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh · · Score: 1

    Some of us had to file our teeth rectangular in order to bite IBM 360 punch cards!

  24. Re:PowerShell on Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh · · Score: 1

    Windows on its own is useless.

    That's why they include Free Cell. :-)

  25. Re:PowerShell on Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the noise of a beowulf cluster of washing machines

    They're called laundromats.