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  1. Joel Robinson: Master Builder on Robot Hall of Fame · · Score: 2, Funny
    Using just spare parts, gumball machines, vacuums, and the parts that would have enabled him to control the movies that the scientists beamed to him from Deep 13, all the while stuck on the Satellite of Love, Joel Robinson created his robot companions: Tom Servo, Crow. T. Robot, Gypsy, and Cambot.

    Also, a nod to Mike Nelson, who maintained them when Dr. Forrester shot him up to the SOL.

  2. Since SBC has relatively deep pockets, ... on SBC Getting Aggressive With Frames Patent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    will any big entities threatened by these astonishingly silly actions join together to get this permanently invalidated?

  3. Definitely help Mozilla migration on New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced · · Score: 1

    Every browser with pop-up killing capabilities tuned at these ultra-annoying ads will take market share. The least technologically savvy will be driven to "peaking under the hood", installing new browsers that prevent such invasive, annoying assaults.

  4. Oh my! on 2002 US Wiretap Report · · Score: 1, Funny
    Does this mean that my ROT 13 phone is not the security answer I was looking for?

    Am I going to have to filter everything through my Swedish chef filter? Bork bork bork, bork, bork bork?

  5. The only hope for privacy: on Reading Lips In Software · · Score: 5, Funny
    Thick mustaches.

    Men and women, boys and girls. All with really thick, dirty, obscuring mustaches.

    What is this world coming to?

  6. Securing your networks supports terrorism on Securing Your Network? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Patriot, Patriot II, the DMCA and the individual state SuperDMCA acts all provide that any efforts you take to "secure" your networks are illegal.

    "Securing" your networks hampers our efforts to roam freely through them, searching for any files/activities/writings that contravene the "Freedom from Thoughts" act, thus directly supporting terrorism.

    Trying to get advice on how to secure your networks interferes with our self-described legitimate efforts to make sure you aren't doing/listening/reading/thinking/considering thinking about things we've decided you shouldn't.

    Now just stand over there in the corner and wait. We'll be by to pick you up in a little while. And remember, running away supports terrorism.

  7. There are a quite a few ... on Micro-Helicopter Fun · · Score: 2, Funny

    commercially produced Ernest Borgnine figures out there. I personally have in my collection The Wild Bunch Ernest Borgnine, The Posiden Adventure Ernest Borgnine, the Marty Ernest Borgnine. And I'm waiting for delivery of the Single Guy Ernest Borgnine!

  8. What else has he decided before? on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What else has federal judge Stephen Wilson decided before this? Anything else of note?

  9. Your comments, while insightful, ... on Positively Fifth Street · · Score: 1

    don't seem to have anything to do with putting together a team of geeks to break the bank, live like kings or get access to real live awake girls. Therefore, I will be respectfully ignoring them while I plot how to live the dream.

  10. I believe that is spelled on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1
  11. News flash: MS takes care of 1 well-funded company on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    for publicity angle. Spits in soup of eveyone else while laughing, steals their wallet, and defecates in their living room. Film at 11:00.

  12. "Are you looking at search?" on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful
    But for traffic, Yahoo is doing quite well and we are doing quite well.

    Gosh, could that be because any not found address put into an IE browser redirects to an MS search page? Could that drive up traffic? Is that innovation? Like Arthur Anderson innovation?

  13. Yes, but what about ... on Positively Fifth Street · · Score: 2, Funny

    the concealed wifi wearable computers hooked up to beowulf clusters of advanced servers so that teams of geeks can use the latest technology to break the bank, live like kings and get close to real awake living girls who don't have court orders against them? What about them, living the dream?!?!

  14. Let me get this straight: on Positively Fifth Street · · Score: 3, Funny
    a sex-and-drug-saturated rendition of the murder of Ted Binion

    So it isn't a rendition of the sex-and-drug-saturated murder, but was written during a sex-and-drug binge by the author?

    he had the misfortune to marry the one ex-stripper who would later face murder charges for his death

    As opposed to all of the other ex-strippers who were responsible for his death but have been overlooked by prosecuters?

    Anybody else a bit confused?

  15. Passed is one thing. Used/Abused, another on 1996 Economic Espionage Act and DirectTV · · Score: 1
    Passed and not enforced without specific Justice Department permission during the Clinton years.

    Blatantly misused as a sledgehammer to try and "shock and awe" the satellite TV community now.

    If it still don't make sense, then you're not paying attention. Of course, I'm still not sure what blash is.

  16. Solid-State DV? You're lucky. on Solid-State DV Camcorder · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I was young, we had to get up at 2:00 am, have a hot cup of gravel, crawl to work on broken glass and when we got there, we had to record our video on granite CDs in which we carved the individual pits with our teeth.

  17. You forgot the part about considering: on Windows XP EULA Compared to GPL · · Score: 2, Informative
    1) The EULA they'd send would not be the final EULA. Even the one present during installation wouldn't be the final EULA because as mentioned, the EULA reserves for MS the right to change the EULA at any point that they want.

    2) The GPL issue you raise is misleading. We were talking about the license for usage, not for distribution. The GPL is not concerned with how you run the programs under it on your computer. MS can (and has) altered EULAs about usage.

    3) If you've paid for MS products with your own money, then you've already gotten it. That's why you're walking funny. If you're a user on someone elses dime, then they have been and you've watched.

  18. Various points to consider: on Windows XP EULA Compared to GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful
    1) The final binding EULA is on the disk in the box. Nothing on their literature, nothing on their web site, nothing that their salespeople tell you represents the final binding EULA. You don't see the final binding EULA until installation

    And since MS reserves the right to alter the EULA at their discretion, the one you have during evaluation and the one that they give you when you buy (or even after you buy) can be very different things.

    2) People's requirements change.

    3) What sort of moron buys MS at all?

  19. Of course it makes sense for MS on Windows XP EULA Compared to GPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not the point. It doesn't make sense for the end users. They're the ones being forced to pay extra for a different license when there is no technical reason for them to not print/file share on the OS they have. Forced, you say? Yes, forced by MS's civil lawsuit recognized monopoly.

  20. You're not thinking like an MS business person: on Windows XP EULA Compared to GPL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A person buys XP Pro. They open the box, install it and read the EULA. They note that it doesn't allow them to do the necessary file/print sharing (That the software is capable of doing them is irrelevant. The license doesn't allow it.). So they have to go out and buy a new version of XP that does allow them to file/print share. And of course, they can't return the old XP Pro because they opened the box and installed it (Good luck on convincing the seller that you rejected the EULA and have uninstalled it.). Two sales, one code base, all the work on the buyers side. Good day.

  21. One major problem none of you have considered on Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups · · Score: 1
    Where will you find a judge who is remotely computer-literate that hasn't been spammed?

    The marketers will demand that any judge who has been spammed recuse themselves.

  22. Let me get this straight: on Wing Seals Blamed in Columbia's Demise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If we had only clubbed those wing seals when they were young, we would never have had this problem in the first place?

  23. The answers are: on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1
    False
    True

    What's to discuss?

  24. But please keep in mind: on Practical Cryptography · · Score: 4, Funny
    All of this is now officially illegal.
    Cryptography supports terrorism.
    Reading about implementing cryptography supports terrorism.
    Reading reviews about books about implementing cryptography supports terrorism.

    Now turn off the computer, stand over there in the corner and we'll be by to pick you up in a little while. And remember, running supports terrorism.

  25. What is to stop a captured FBCB2 from being ... on Military Tech: GPS and Networking · · Score: 1

    used to target the friendlies that it is supposed to protect?