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  1. Thinkers on Engineering School Grads - Tradesmen or Thinkers? · · Score: 1

    I thought they said Tinkers.
    I'll just go back to the shed now.

  2. You're kidding right? on Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge · · Score: 1
    A house is just a place to live. If you want to make money, there are a few hundred thousand other things in the world you can pour money into that will have a better return.
    Real estate is one of the best investment mediums. So far my wife and I are about 1500% up.
  3. Don't want to pay $4.99? on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1
    This capability can be unlocked via an update Apple distributes with the new AirPort Extreme Base Station.
    Buy an AirPort Extreme, unlock your wireless card and return the AirPort Extreme. But then you are going to need a .n base station so why not just upgrade to the AirPort Extreme?
  4. Re:I Would Have Signed Up... on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1
    Adblock might be of use. The first line blocks all *.js from running; however, the second line is the white list that will override the first line. Not the solution to your problem; perhaps it will help someone else.

    *.js
    @@My.WhiteListedSites.com
    I use NoScript for that.
    I also use Adblock + Filterset.G
  5. Re:Discover, or try to discover? on Is It Illegal To Disclose a Web Vulnerability? · · Score: 1
    I could just as easily use the analogy, "looking at the windows of houses to see if they are open or unlocked is not a crime, but climbing through a window is."
    While I appreciate your intention here, I'm pretty sure that a Law Enforcement Officer discovering you casing a joint would disagree.
  6. Re:Wow on The Twilight Years of Cap'n Crunch · · Score: 1
    you will not be able to keep a job if you smell like 2 week old dead fish
    Unless you're the Admiral of the French Navy.
  7. Slightly OT on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 1

    Hey Steve, I like your music. The link to riot fuel on your psytrance page is broken, any chance of getting a copy?

    Cheers

  8. What's njkewjdkewd? on The Need For A Tagging Standard · · Score: 1

    I guess that's the point.

    BTW: I find it amusing that CmdrTaco uses the slownewsday tag

  9. Re:Filterset.G suckage explained on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you guys are bashing Adblock + Filterset.G, they work fine for me.

  10. on his honeymoon on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 1
    Herf was on his honeymoon when he did this sleuthing. Now that's dedication.
    I imagine he's not going to be let to forget that any time soon.
  11. Re:Good Idea. on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    Well it means two different things, depends on if you're a Guy or Girl.

  12. Three words on A 3D Printer On Every Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Broken battery covers.

  13. Re:Amazing on A 3D Printer On Every Desktop? · · Score: 1
    >You wouldn't print out freeware Barbies

    The fuck I wouldn't!
    Sure, but suzie sure as hell isn't going to want one of those lame free ones. You could always mod the design first though.
  14. Re:We need something like this for transistors on A 3D Printer On Every Desktop? · · Score: 1

    The RepRap can print metal tracks on the objects it fabs and it looks to be very similar to this device, I see no reason this couldn't be adapted to do the same.

  15. Re:We need something like this for transistors on A 3D Printer On Every Desktop? · · Score: 1

    People have been etching their own circuit boards for ages, or you could just use Veroboard.

  16. Re:Soo.. on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Um, it's called a quarter-pounder in Australia even though we mainly use metric.

  17. Re:Soo.. on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1
    Whether or not he missed the reference, he's got a point. A quarter pound of anything on Earth will weigh one sixth of a quarter pound on the Moon... so you couldn't call it a quarter pounder even if you were using English measurements.
    or it were the earth equivalent of 1.5 pounds
  18. Re:I don't see the biug deal on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1
    The point of a stylus is less than 1/4 inch. My fingertip is an inch or so.
    Are you sure you got your units correct? That's a mighty big stylus/finger print. I would've thought more like 1mm & 1cm respectively; apologies if you have unusually large fingers.
  19. Re:Obligatory on Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible · · Score: 1
    ...as a .net geek...
    Um, I think you're on the wrong forum.
  20. Re:Help for the RIAA on Cringely's 2006 Results, 2007 Predictions · · Score: 1

    Or use a scalpel glued to a speaker as a cutter head and record your discs on acrylic.

    :)

  21. Re:Excellent on End of the Blu-Ray / HD-DVD Format War? · · Score: 1

    What about HTML entities?
    ± = ±

  22. Re:Fake on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    This raises an interesting thought experiment: If intelligent tool-using lifeforms have been created/evolved anywhere else in the universe, it was possible to create intelligent machines and intelligent machines have the desire to explore space; then it would probably have already happened and there should be evidence of It out there somewhere.

  23. Re:Not much has changed, really on Predicting the Internet in 1995 · · Score: 1
    --
    If only we could make stupidity more painful...
    We could, just take the warnings off of everything.
  24. Re:A good one for a good programmer... on IOCCC 2006 is now open · · Score: 1
    Make a C mutator: It takes C, parses, and applies a bunch of randomizing but semantically preserving transformations. Make it small, and compact.

    Then run your code through it a few times and submit it.
    That's probably a good way to lose since creativity is one of the key factors, not just plain illegibility.
    Well if you ran the mutator through itself it may count as an interesting entry.
  25. Re:You heard it wrong on Seventh Harry Potter Book Named · · Score: 1
    Mendel Quoth:
    Deathly Hallows

    at the blue river valley

    your babies left swinging, in the boughs.

    a fly grasping warmth while perched on an integrated circuit