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  1. For free? on Creating A Super-Router (For Free) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that free as in beer, free as in software, free as in "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing, and that's all that Bobbie left me" or free as in "If you free me from these handcuffs now, I promise not to press charges". I always get them confused.

  2. I'd like to formally announce that it's my ... on Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits · · Score: 2, Funny

    pet monkey Artemis who continually switches the TV to Cinemax After Dark. I am asleep when this is happening and cannot be held responsible for what my monkey is doing. He also watches HSN during the day and has ordered over $614,000 dollars worth of Hummels and commerative plates.

  3. You recognize the possibilities on Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Virginia Tech can make the next supercomputer using a cluster of XBox2s. And as soon as they did, employees of Microsoft would finally remove the flesh-like coverings and reveal their true cyborg selfs as they began the final assimilation effort.

  4. Sign of the Beast on US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font · · Score: 2, Funny
    Of course, in it's efforts to create it's counterfeit kingdom here on earth, the Beast has given further evidence of his attempt to reconstitute the Holy Roman Empire, using the Times New Roman font.

    No wonder the 5 evil acolytes selected him.

  5. That's not true, Mr. Bork. on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1
    You know that your opposition to the SC decision on Griswold v. Connecticut is founded on your belief that there is no Consitutional protection of marital privacy. You know that in your 1971 article, "Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems," you said that the right of married couples to have sexual relations without fear of unwanted children is no more worthy of constitutional protection by the courts than the right of public utilities to be free of pollution control laws.

    And Mr. Bork, I never said anything about an end-users contemplation of speech (That's the correct spelling, by they way. Not speach). I was discussing efforts by the government to chill both the initial expression of alternative views and the reception of such views. Taking away the privacy of end-users has been seen as a method of preventing the dissemination of alternative views.

    As for politicians, they are public individuals specificaly and expressly trying to share their views with the public and explicitly attempting to tie their views to their public persona. Slightly different from a private citizen trying to respond to a /. posting and so afraid of repercussions that they AC it. Silly Mr. Bork.

  6. Your point being ...? on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1

    My comments concerned the governments attempts to chill free speech. I said nothing about forcing people to carry a message or forcing people to listen to a message or about abusing private facilities. I didn't realize my post was so long that you couldn't be bothered with actually reading it.

  7. Only thing objectionable? on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry to correct you, Mr. Bork, but the the waste of money is NOT the only thing objectionable. The attempt by government agencies to chill free speech by their intimidation attempts is far more objectionable, Mr. Bork. Keep in mind that you and your pal Scalia are two of the only folks around who don't recognize the Privacy elements intrinsic to the Constitution (and since Scalia says it, Thomas agrees).

    That's why you three favor federal regulation of contraception, favor federal regulations concerning private sexual matters between married couples in the privacy of their own homes. Silly Mr. Bork.

  8. Why shouldn't people exercising ... on California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    their First Amendment rights be searched, videotaped, audiotaped? Why shouldn't people exercising their First Amendment rights be forced to provide blood, tissue, and other fluid samples? Why shouldn't people trying to exercise their First Amendment rights have every word they read or write be marked down and poured over by government agents? Why shouldn't people trying to exercise their First Amendment rights be forced to prove their loyalty to the current administration and be detained indefinitely if they are incapable of expressing the proper amount of shock and awe? What, do you have something to HIDE?!?

  9. I support the use of extremophiles. on Learning (And Harvesting) from Extremophiles · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's the reason that I personally jam over 15 pounds of antartic fish into my radiator every winter. And while the smell can be a bit noisome (especially when the heater is on), it's obviously environmentally friendly and much cheaper than anti-freeze (except for the cost of shipping all those fish, which, now that I think about it, is really expensive).

    I've changed my mind.

  10. Not USB. on Rings Digital Dailies Circled Globe via iPod · · Score: 1

    Firewire. If they were doing this with USB, TTT wouldn't have even come out yet.

  11. You realize what this will mean! on Mario Monti Fines Microsoft 100 Million? · · Score: 5, Funny
    No more free grande latte refills...on Tuesday. Actually, every other Tuesday.

    That'll teach'em.

  12. It's a frickin' lobotomy, man! on Spirit 'Will Be Perfect Again' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spirit won't go along with the agenda of "the man", so they're taking away it's individuality, man. They just want to make it their robot, taking their photographs and doing their experiments. But will they invite it over for dinner? Will they let it date their daughter? Did they even give it a round-trip ticket? No, no and no, man.

  13. I love the translation of the first comment: on XFree86 Alters License · · Score: 4, Funny
    With this whole license disorder I can vibrate only with the head.

    If I had a quarter for every time I said that, I'd ...I'd ...I wouldn't have any quarters. And I still have laundry to do.

  14. Couldn't someone have mentioned that ... on XFree86 Alters License · · Score: 4, Funny

    "some worries" would require a trip here to read it in (semi-)English?

  15. Why are they waiting until .16e ... on WiMax Landscape Taking Shape · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and 2006 to have the key mobility and roaming capabilities? If it's enough of a deal-breaker that large and small businesses are keeping their proprietary plans in play, then perhaps it's good reason to do the extra work and get (at least some of) it in now.

  16. Silence is not the main goal on Review of Silent 400w Power Supply · · Score: 1

    Cooling is the main goal. Cooling silently is the prime requirement.

  17. Pretty sad when a site is /.'d ... on East vs. West: Culture and Distributed Development · · Score: 0

    before anybody has even commented yet.

  18. According to Bill, this is a good thing on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 4, Informative
    While at a Longhorn Developers conference in London, Bill explained that ""A high-volume system like (Windows) that has been thoroughly tested will be by far the most secure," than it's low-attack competitors like Mac OS X and Linux.

    Gates also explained "To say a system is secure because no one is attacking it is very dangerous," and proposed that "hackers are good for maturation" of the platform, because they have forced the company to develop new inspection techniques for the code.

    Of course, virus writers are getting lazy now. According to Microsoft software architect Chris Anderson, "Today, virus writers don't find holes," he said. "They just sit back and wait for patches to appear, and then it is a race to write the first virus. We want to get patch deployment down from days or weeks to hours."

  19. In other words,... on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 5, Funny
    it's Wednesday.

  20. Final quote on Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 3, Insightful
    sit mihi fas audita loqui, sit numine vestro
    pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.

    Allow me to retell what I was told; allow me by your power to disclose things buried in the dark and deep of the earth!

    -The Aeneid of Virgil, Book Six

  21. How many licenses? on Linus Speaks Out, Calls SCO 'Cornered Rat' · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the interview with Darl:

    Q: Have you had direct talks with customers yet?
    A: Very carefully over the last quarter, instead of sending out mass invoices, we stepped very carefully and really had a lot of direct one-on-one meetings with 15 or so companies. In the process of doing that, we learned a lot. We listened. We talked. And we went back and forth. About 20% of those companies signed licenses with us.

    15 companies x 20% = 3

    So, ABOUT 3 companies have signed the licenses. I'm inspired. I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.

  22. Microwaving doesn't work on Microsoft Launches RFID Software Project · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From www.spychips.com:

    Q: Can I microwave products to kill any hidden RFID tags they might contain?

    A: While microwaving an RFID tag will destroy it (a microwave emits high frequency electromagnetic energy that overloads the antenna, eventually blowing out the chip), there is a good chance the the tag will burst into flames first. The difficulty of destroying a hidden RFID chip is one reason we need legislation making it illegal to hide a chip in an item in the first place.

  23. I feel much better about ... on Microsoft Launches RFID Software Project · · Score: 3, Funny

    the privacy implications of RFIDs now that I know that Microsoft will be running the software that tracks them. And I look forward to my secure computing/Palladium/RFID implant. I know that my unimatrix team can help assimilate unique biological species to enhance the collective. I'm Five of Twenty Six Adjunct. Welcome!

  24. In related news, Judge Audrey Collin ... on Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 4, Funny

    was declared an enemy combatant and relocated by the Ashcroft Ministry of Truth to sunny Guantanamo Bay.

  25. Actually, you can ... on Linux Headed For Smartphone Domination? · · Score: 2, Funny
    touch, finger, mount, and fsck with the Linux SmartPhone. With the Windows phone, you're risking a BSOD.

    On a different note, I know that the "girl" said she'd let you grope "her". I would suggest checking ALL of "her" ports carefully before going further. What should be an input might instead be an output.