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  1. I thought headline referred to stock on Pick Up A Piece of Enron · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, it's still traded at 3-1/2 cents per share. Which is up 75% from a low of 2 cents per share. If each certificate represents one share of stock, that's a pretty good value -- for toilet paper!

  2. Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1
    That's primarily because the original poster spelled it wrong. It's Sesquipedalianism, not Sesequepedalianism.

    So does that mean the original poster is a PC user, posing as a Mac user?

  3. Re:Hmm. on Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Funny
    No person may... Initiate any telephone call using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice...

    Obviously, this is not one of our more effective laws, eh? My cell phone company has Mr. Robot call me every month when my bill becomes past due.

  4. Re:ho hum on Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator Conference · · Score: 1
    It just doesn't feel like bona fide space travel to me.

    Oh yeah? Just wait 'til the acceleration stops. (duh-dunt--tssshhhh!) Thank you folks, I'm here all night - try the roast duck!

  5. Re:Tower of babel. on Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator Conference · · Score: -1, Troll
    Tower of Babel? Whats that? (serious)

    In a nutshell: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and so forth.

  6. Re:Playing too much Civilisation on Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator Conference · · Score: 0
    What is this obsession with living in fear all the time?

    Um, because most of us don't want to die in a horrible flaming death?

    Don't discount fear so easily - it keeps us out of a lot of trouble, individually and in large groups :)

  7. Re:Yes, but sales is different than marketing on Show Me The Money - Microsoft Money Vs. Quicken · · Score: 1
    Now THAT'S product marketing -- long term perspective, vision, eye on the goal line, pick your cliche of the day.

    "Screw the user?" As in, let's ship a product that is still full of bugs, work out the kinks later, and by the time we're *finally* sending out secure updated versions of the product, let's ship out another bug-ridden POS with the next higher version level.

    Sounds like vision all right - Dante's vision of Hell!

  8. Re:Ten Digit Computing on China Deploys IPv9 Network · · Score: 1
    Imagine my disappointment when I found out that my "Digital Prostate Exam" didn't mean that it was computerized.

    Yeah, but at least now the whole world knows that you're "open source."

    (Unless you're "open sores" - which would be way too much information!)

  9. Re:flipside on Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam · · Score: 1
    Don't talk directly to their mail servers.. talk to the outgoing mailserver provided to you by your ISP. Sheesh.

    "Sheesh!" is what I said when I tried what you recommended, and over half my emails got bounced against everyone's "no relay" policies.

  10. Re:Gave up a long time ago on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wonder if the US military network has problems with spam. Generally nothing in America gets taken seriously until it starts messing with the military.

    Wow, you're right! I haven't received a single Iraqi spam since the US took out Saddam.

  11. Re:All these SUVs are beginning to embarrass me... on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, don't forget that not all 100% of crude oil can be effectively used. A lot of gasoline is just byproduct for more valuable substances (like high grade jet fuel). I live in Hawaii, and part of our high prices for gasoline (we pay $2.60 per gallon for premium on Oahu, $3.00 on the outer islands) is the cost to ship off excess heating oil that will never be useful out here. On the other hand, heating oil would be very valuable in Alaska (I suppose they have to pay to ship off excess gasoline to... Hawaii?)

  12. Re:Namig Convention on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 1
    Maybe for OS 11 (OS X1?) they will start doing canines or something... Wolf, Coyote, Bear?

    You're very close to following the cubscout series: Cub, Wolf, Bear, Webelos :)

  13. Re:#1 thing not to say about a space elevator cabl on Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15 Years · · Score: 1

    #3: In case of fire, BREAK GLASS

  14. Re:On in the US on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1
    The "stone" is totally unknown in the US, by the way.

    To hell you say! evidence --> "Dave's not here, man."

    (Looks like you missed out on the entire Cheech & Chong movie series, DooD!)

  15. Bleeding edge tech? on ATi HDTV Tuner For The PC Arrives · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From the article: "Known for their "TV Wonder" and "All-In-Wonder" series multimedia cards, ATI is a true pioneer in the industry, being one of the first to bring TV to the PC."

    That's very interesting, given all those Amiga users who were using genlocks, VideoToasters, and whatnot to manipulate & display TV on their monitors back in 1990. I remember using my $35 garage sale genlock on my $150 Amiga 500 to use a live broadcast TV background for my desktop back before Windows had a desktop background!

  16. Re:A few corrections and revelations on Terraform Humans First, Then Mars? · · Score: 1
    It's unlikely that cruise missiles would be used to target enemy missile installations.

    Did you, like, completely not hear about this little skirmish called Gulf War I?

  17. Re:Join with me now in saying.. on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1
    The design of the EU's government and parliament... really prevents the kind of powerful central government from emerging the way it did here in the United States.

    Are we talking about the same EU that allows its legislature to vote only on the policies & laws written by non-elected EU bureaucrats? With no amendments or changes by elected representatives? Yeah, that design will keep the EU from getting a powerful central goverment, like the US has, sure... just imagine how much less central authority we would here have if OSHA, the EPA, the FCC, et al, were freed from meddling by the US Congress! After all, isn't it the bureaucrats who have our best interests at heart, unlike those meddlesome elected representatives?!? sarcasm off )

  18. Re:Why is this shocking? on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 2, Interesting
    like, at least in europe you don't get the whole nation in panic if you show a NIPPLE accidentally in the middle of a very sexually oriented dance act.

    As opposed to, say, France - where you have to show a Big Mac to get a whole nation in a panic.

  19. Re:Perhaps It Belongs in the OS on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 4, Funny
    Unfortunately there isn't a program to stop the user being stupid.

    Clippy tried; alas, Clippy was even more stupid than the damn users.

  20. Re:More information on the SCO website on SCO Slammed in Slander of Title Suit · · Score: 1
    I prefer these headlines, also from SCO's newspage:

    SCO issues warning to open-source vigilantes , ZDNet
    Revenge Of The Nerds, Forbes
    US-based software vendor SCO braces for onlsaught by Mydoom virus, AFP
    Worm Attack Shuts Down Web Site, CBSnews.com
    SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to end, ZDNet

  21. Re:From the... on SCO posts Q2 Loss, Gets $11k from Linux · · Score: 1

    But I thought all of SCO's recent activity came from their "We Made This Stuff Up Dept" -- ?

  22. Re:Already failed once on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 4, Funny
    A long time ago, in the distant past, there were Finders. Dedicated individuals that wandered around outside the camps and found stuff. Over time, it became more difficult to find stuff, and the Finders became the Searchers.

    And so it came to pass, Gentle Reader, that some of the Finders did find their fruit, and these were known as Keepers. But a few still lost their newfound fruit on the way home, and these poor souls were thenceforth known as Losers, unless they wept, in which case they were also known as Weepers.

  23. Re:This is not a first on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1
    But how can you say on which day was the day that this program suddenly turned "evil"...

    That would be the day I threw my laptop out the damn window.

  24. Re:Plans to update? on Sun To Upgrade Java Desktop System · · Score: 1
    First we get 'xxx product released'. Then we get 'xxx product beta released'. Now we're getting 'xxx company plans to release'??

    So? Everyone knows that you haven't really made it big time until you're the xxx in "xxx company has been sued by SCO"

  25. Re:Good on "Buffalo Spammer" Gets 3.5 to 7 Years · · Score: 1
    Didn't we just go through this? All this macho GW Bush "Bring it on" wannabe talk isn't going to do anything but get people killed.

    As long as those getting killed are spammers, what's your objection?