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  1. Re:Old school hackers vs. new school hackers. on Good Bad Attitude · · Score: 1

    Any moment now, the coffee will kick in, more brain cells will come online, and you'll realize you've been trolled.

  2. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to charge you with copy trespass, and by copy trespass I mean that you made me spit my coffee.

  3. Re:Bah on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 1

    Monkeys make everything better.*

    *Overheard in Muy Thai, Gto.

  4. Re:Great work guys on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 1

    No, not consultants, but partisan hacks out to protect the companies that make evoting equipment and possibly to protect the fix, if the fix is truly in.

  5. Re:Well it's true on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 1

    Now show us your O face.

  6. Re:Same here in Texas on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 1

    It's just that the privacy of the polling booth makes it a perfect and convenient place to fix.

  7. Re:Indemnification. on Tiger Early Start Kit · · Score: 1

    coughcough

    SCO

    coughcough

  8. Re:science fiction in the class room on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Read Kicking The Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan, a science fiction author.

  9. Re:iPod and music piracy... on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    It depends on bitrate and compression. I've got a friend that has all .wav (actually aiff) files on his iPod. I do know people with hundreds of CDs, but I don't know if they have as many as 600. However, you only need a collection of 401 CDs to find a 60 GB iPod useful (using your numbers).

  10. Re:Half an iPod on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    "Forbes is carrying the story that U2 and Apple will be releasing a custom black iPod that comes preloaded with the band's new album as well as portions of the band's 25-year back catalog."

    A portion? Only a portion? For the price this thing is gonna cost you, you better get their entire compilation of music.

    --
    You want a Free iPod too, dontcha? [freeipods.com]


    Cost? I thought they were free?

  11. Re:Very slick marketing... on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight. You're not going to buy one because you're afraid to be identified as a U2 fan? or because you're afraid Proteus will make fun of you?

  12. Re:Custom if each iPod has a unique copy of songs on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    If it's a unique version, can you really call it a copy?

  13. Re:Dear Neal, on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you can say that about Zombocom. You can do anything at Zombocom. The only limit is yourself.

  14. Re:science fiction in the class room on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently, you haven't heard of the movement to teach Intelligent Design in public schools alongside Evolution.

  15. Re:Second Amendment on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    Or whether the bandits are the government.

  16. Re:uh uh on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    He did say that he uses OS X, so he's probably using a mac. As we all know, there are no games for the macintosh.

    Can you be more specific in the probablilty? Would you say highly probable? Do you think there's a chance he's running OS X on Pear PC? =)

  17. Re:OSX.. on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    If you want to go purely by what Neal has written, we can deduce it's the least shitty of the OSes. So, if by "pretty good" you mean "relatively good", yeah it's pretty good.

  18. Re:Gotta disagree here on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    I'll make a more believeable and less grandiose statement about the state of things: 'Unless the education system is improved to better train programmers in applying mathermatical techniques developed by computer scientists, the advances in hardware will not be fully utilized'.

    So basically, you're saying software is shit. =) It took you 41 words to say what was already said in 3.

  19. Re:Shatner he ain't on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    How does a cereal eat characters?

    You have to purchase the Soviet Russian translation to find out.

  20. Re:Hang on... on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1
    He pulled off his wireless mike and began to whirl it around his head


    No, most of the time the transmitter and the battery compartment are built into the handle.

    It's generally only the little condenser mics that you wear on a headset or clip to your lapel which need the transmitter to be in a separate box.

    By implication it's a lapel mic, since it's "pulled off". One doesn't wear a hand held microphone.

    P.S. I noticed that you and the parent of your post used alternate spellings. Just for the record, both "mic" and "mike" are correct. One is a more clear abbreviation, the other is more clear to pronounce. Which one you use is a matter of taste. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

    Gee, Mr. Golias, thanks for the seal of approval. The world has been a better place since you appointed yourself. . . whatever it was that you appointed yourself. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up about alternate spellings. Who knew?
  21. Re:Superb on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you might want to just buy Quicksilver and see how you like it. Or try Quicksilver and one of his older sf books.

    The Baroque cycle hasn't been everyone's cup of tea, though I've loved it so far (I've read Quicksilver and am partway through The Confusion).

  22. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you want to go back in history, you brits invaded Iraq twice, was it? =) It must be amusing to watch us would be imperialists play at the game you gave up so long ago.

    7 Habits of Highly Effective Imperialists

  23. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    But what's to stop him from doing worse, if he doesn't have to worry about being re-elected? And what's the worse that he could do? I don't know, but how about let in another terrorist attack, possibly one using nukes, and then declaring martial law? Yeah, tin foil hat time, but unfortunately, it's no longer something I'd put past these people.

  24. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    The standard joke is that Howard is so far up Bush's ass that he can see Blair's shoes.

  25. Re:Would Karl Rove do a thing like that? on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    While it doesn't concentrate on Rove, but on Bus administration secrecy and dirty tricks in general, you should also read Worse Than Watergate , by John Dean.