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  1. Re:best noise to signal ratio ever! on Interview With Gaël Duval of Mandrake Linux · · Score: 0

    ...and yours aint one of them

  2. Re:Well, I'm Canadian... on How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You? · · Score: 0

    If that happens I'll be taking pilot lessons

  3. Re:I don't like it .... on Free Internet Access Is Profitable In Egypt · · Score: 0

    According to the article (which you of course read), the $0.25/hr charge is for the PHONE CALL, not the internet service (which is $0.00/hr).

    It sounds to me that you just proved the parent's post....they are actually paying 25 cents an hour for internet access.

  4. Re:Oh no... on Keep Playing With AI · · Score: 0

    For the record, I don't play MMORPGs.

    For the record, I don't know WTF MMORPGs stands for.

  5. hmmmm.... on What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters? · · Score: 0

    My current skill set ties me to only a handful of major cities, so I am trying to figure out the best path to prepare myself for being uprooted ...divorce...

  6. Re:solution on Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you beat me to it
    Now I frown as I am sad
    tried first to haikus

  7. Re:Go IRA? on First Man To Mars? · · Score: 0

    You may not want to wear those next time you visit Belfast... Not unless you happen to have any sort of attachment to your kneecaps. ...depends on what neighourhood you visit...

  8. Re:Take a little getting used to on Gyroscopic Mouse · · Score: 0

    It plays DVD's and browses web...

    A mouse that plays DVD's. Cool

  9. Re:Actually 665 is across the street... on Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Bill Gates?

  10. Re:patch after patch after patch on Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install? · · Score: 0

    That part I hate the most about installing W2K is not the installation itself. It's all the post installation crap.
    ...like having to use Windows.

  11. Re:Isn't it odd... on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    actually I haven't, living in the United Kingdom, I don't really follow sports where the Amercians have a 'world series' without letting an other countries play :-) What about Canada...the Toronto Blue Jays won the world series twice in a row.....please don't say we're 'America Junior'....I might cry.

  12. Re:GNUDVD on Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players? · · Score: 0

    I see a need for someone (how about GNU?) to write a nice DVD player on top of DeCSS...

    I nominate you! :)

  13. Re:to be expected on Copyright as Cudgel · · Score: 0

    Is there any legitimate use for a P2P network....the way they exist today. MP3's, movies, software, all being downloaded "illegally". This isn't meant as a troll. Enlighten me, about a legitimate use and I'll modifiy my tune.

  14. Re:Why would Mozilla be more secure? on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 0

    I'd be interested in reading about the security issues in IE....is there a link you can provide?

  15. Re:Economic reasons to scare John Q. Public on What, Me Worry? · · Score: 0

    We are at war with asteroids. we have always been at war with asterorids.

  16. Re:Australia's inventing all the cool stuff. on Scramjet Success in Australia · · Score: 0

    You auzzie's are lucky you are half a world away from this kind of stuff. Me, i just drive a couple hours south and I'm surrounded by these people. egad!

  17. Re:confused as usual (big surprise) on Scramjet Success in Australia · · Score: 0

    It's not a rocket.

    Ha. I kill me.

  18. Re:Two things on Australian Federal Court Finds Mod Chips Not Illegal · · Score: 0

    A least he didn't call it Washington D.C. junior.

  19. Re:MS's original intention. on Gates Tries to Explain .Net · · Score: 0

    The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 from msdn

  20. Re:Google removing listing big stink on Bruce Perens Plans On-Stage DMCA Violation · · Score: 0

    I'll send a buck as well...although it's only worth 60 cents American.

    Stupid Canadian dollar.

  21. Re:Monopoly on Transmeta Lays off 40% of its Workers · · Score: 0

    lol...the guy has a spelling mistake on the first line of his resume. ha!

  22. Re:an alternate view QWZX on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 0

    lol

  23. Re:These guys must have read 1984 on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 0

    ya, you're right.

  24. Re:These guys must have read 1984 on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 0

    self enslavement
    I read this as I sit in my cubicle all day. Every day.

  25. Re:2008 headline - MIT Optimistic, Orwell Right on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 0

    I thought 'Exactally' had been offically removed from the language.