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  1. Re:What's the recourse? on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    If you allow your kids to play with an unsafe computer, or worse yet, with administrative rights, I would imagine that's your problem, not mine. It will certainly teach a lesson, which is the whole point.

  2. Re:No on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Your name is almost an anagram to Xanax, which, by the looks of it, you need a lifetime supply of.

  3. Re:No more!! on NVIDIA Targeting Real-Time Cloud Rendering · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed. Here in Soviet Russia, the power phantoms have hitherto unreported you to science.

  4. Re:naturally on High Tech High 2.0 · · Score: 1

    *bow*


    Plase, don't! No need for it and it goes somewhat against your sig (which I loved it, btw :)

  5. Re:naturally on High Tech High 2.0 · · Score: 1

    .25 cents (that's a quarter for those keeping score).

    .25 cent is 1/4 of 1 cent. You need 100 of those to make up a quarter. ".25 dollar" is a quarter.

  6. Re:"God Says it" on Kansas Adopts New Science Standards · · Score: 1

    If you were God in that position, what would you do?

    I would come down to Earth as a black lesbian atheist Linux lover and run for presidency as a republican. Just to watch the fireworks.

  7. Re:The problem is... on SpamArchive.org No More? · · Score: 1

    Well, consider reading /. before taking viagra...

    What is that... something like buying a lawnmower in Iceland?

  8. Re:I'd say more than 35% on Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you've figured this out yet, but you've just delayed all incoming email by 45 minutes. I guess you don't do anything too time critical with your email.

    Only the first email from a given address. It's then cached and no longer subject to the bounce.

  9. Re:Correction to Last Sentence on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    In the context, they do have the majority of the world population. The world total land area comes to about 150Mkm^2. China (9.3Mkm^2) and India (2.9Mkm^2) have a combined area of 12.2Mkm^2, or 8% of the world land area. While the world total population comes to about 6B, China (1.2B) and India (1B) have a combined population of 2.2B, or 37% of the world population.

  10. Re:Junk Food on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Britain (where the evidence and plot look thin and absurd)

    Funny you bring this up. I see little notice regarding the plausibility of such plot, specialy considering the country it came from. England? Come on... Who are these terrorists, the Moron Liberation Organization? Their next country of choice for planing and origin of execution of these attacks is probably going to be what, Israel? Isn't it also so convinient that both Blair and Bush are in a bit of a need to ratle the cage in their favour right now?

  11. Re:Sure! on China Buys Google · · Score: 1


    You're more likely to get pooh pooh platter today though...

  12. Re:Overkill Dragging Customers Along on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1


    What could possibly be "flamebait" about that? For the history impaired, here's a link: "640 K ought to be enough for anybody."

  13. Re:Overkill Dragging Customers Along on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well...

    Bill Gates himself once said no one would ever need more than 640k memory...

  14. Re:So, on the other hand on Stress Inhibits Brain's Ability to Grow · · Score: 1

    That's just too funny! Got to love those takoyaki :) Crap... Now I will be all stressed out just thinking about it and my brain will shrink to oblivion. I wonder if there is any correlation to the White House...

  15. Re:Fourth estate? on Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The parent exposes a point beyond political leanings. It makes sense. It's not about left or right rather, it is about demographics and ratings. The "news" are packaged to a demographic that interests advertisers, the so called 18-35 male audience. This is a tough crowd to attract given the variety of "entertainment" options available. In order to "sell" the news, it must be made entertaining and easy to consume. The antithesis of well researched investigative reporting.

    If you bring a piece of information that makes one side or the other "bad", you are making half of your audience to reach for the remote. That's bad for ratings. Instead you bring two people of opposing views and let them talk about without ever reaching a conclusion.

  16. Re:In other news... on Adobe Universal Binaries... in 2007 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not exactly. Not having anybody left and outsourcing the entire thing to India will do that to you. It took them that long to get the engineers in India up to speed in OSX.

  17. Re:They need to dig a little deeper on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 1

    That was funny... unfortunately you were hit by the MS Nazi squad...

  18. Re:Most disturbing..... on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    it's nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig

    I will keep that image imprinted in my head for the rest of the week... :)

    genius...

  19. Re:Most disturbing..... on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    Funny to think that this whole business around ID started with aliens. It was then "conviniently" adapted to religious purposes.

    Check this out."
  20. Re:Talk to those that wrote it down? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

    World's first EULA

  21. Re:Just like the USA... on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    why should other drugs be banned and not tobacco?

    Because the marijuana lobbists are too stoned to be effective in Washington...

  22. Re:Piracy hurts the small guy on Universal to Offer its Movies Online · · Score: 1


    - intelligent Troll

    Is that like a Compassionate Republican?

  23. Re:What about Apple? on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Funny


    Vista? For this crowd, a much more appropriate name for something coming from Redmond would be mallochio.

  24. Re:Sorry, you again are making a relative judgemen on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the number of troll moderations you got today, it should be clear you're speaking to the wrong crowd. I find it really funny that they all get up and arms about free software, fair use, bad patent laws, etc. but if you mention something bad about Bush you get wacked in the head within seconds.

    The topic in question has to do with people not getting along, wars, etc. What greater example can you get?

  25. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess his point around sports matches how I feel about this. It's not that exercise (true "physical education") should be eliminated. It's the absurd emphasis on sports such as football, driven more about the money it generates than any intrinsic value. The local [high] school cut both the arts and the band programs due to budget shortfalls but the football team got new lights for the field that cost 10 times what the art and band programs required.