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  1. Fashion... on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Is a form of ugliness so intolerable it must be changed every 6 months. I can't stand fashion. I dress nicely...i look good, professional and all, clean, well groomed. But i don't see the point of fashion.

    My $0.02

  2. This would be GREAT.... on Preview Of The $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    If they ever became available here. I work in an American school system (Charles County, MD) and I would love to know if these will ever be commercially available. We've been looking for a solution something like this for online text books, etc for our students for a while. This would be a dream. If they ever decide to sell them commercially to American and other countries that don't need the boost from the charity bit of this effort.

  3. Re:Great Disturbance.... on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    I felt a great disturbance in the Apartment Complex, as if millions of neighbors suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced by my giant subwoofer.

    You must be confused...I think This is the Woofer you're looking for.

  4. Re:But they're different companies now! on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not just next door...According to google earth, the distance is 36 feet between the 2 addresses.

  5. Re:Wiki is Wonderful because.... on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. I'm going to go get a botanist and have him tutor me in quantum mechanics. A Scientist is a scientist right?

  6. Pretty much every comment... on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can be put into 4 categories.

    1. Arrr, MacDownaldz is teh suck and ewww! Who'd go there just for wifi?

    2. How will they keep laptops from connecting?

    3. They're gonna make people fat!!!

    4. Kids will get fat playing DS and eating Bigmacs

    Let me adress these.

    1. McDonalds, although i know a lot of people don't like it, is wildly successful and profitable, and there are a ton of people who go there anyway.

    2. From what i read, DS's don't have TCP/IP, so there won't be any TCP/IP for laptops to connect to the internet with. they'll have to translate back and forth between ni-fi and TCP.

    3. People make THEMSELVES fat. People think for themselves and make their own decisions. You can choose to have the Big Mac, you can also choose to have the McSalad.

    4. Parents are responsible for the eating and play habits of their children, not Nintendo and not McDonalds.

    That is all.

  7. Re:Go Samy! on Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a fun channel. But Who's Olsent, and why has he won?

    I just hope the channel is legal by now.

  8. Re:Too many choices? on New iPods on the Horizon · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no such thing as too many choices. Perhaps grannies and parents will get confused, but that's why we have salesmen to hear them out, listen to their needs, then help them select the most expensive model in stock.

  9. Wiki is Wonderful because.... on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Just about anything anyone ever cared about can be found in it, or will be in it soon.

    It's user-editable so that people from a wide variety of occupations and experiences can contribute what they know.

    it's Free as in Speech and as in Beer.

    It has come to replace the Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of knowledge in the known universe.

  10. Re:Harriet Miers, the geek Justice on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    When being able to perform integral calculus allows you to be a good Judge, i'll care about her undergrad degree. There are smart people out there who are intelligent, but to whom math does not come very easily. I'd care more about her real world experience than about her Math degree.

  11. Damn Browncoats.... on Debian Core Consortium Releases First Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Always poking fun at the Alliance. Why is it that I always find myself drinking in an alliance friendly bar on Unification Day?

  12. Re:Other Versiona on Dvorak on Microsoft Confusing the Market · · Score: 1

    There's no WAY microsoft would make the "Infect Me" Edition. I can cite 2 reasons for this.

    1. Their anti-spyware tool is free, so they wouldn't make any money that way.

    2. No way in HELL would they give out free licenses for Outlook.

  13. That's going to be real funny.... on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 1

    The remotes are coded #1 and #2. Depending on which one enters the car, it chooses one of two sets of driver seat position, side-view mirror positions, steering wheel position, radio station presets, cell-phone hands-free directory (it uses Bluetooth to communicate with my phone, but doesn't have access to the phone's directory), and navigation system settings.

    I can't wait for someone 6'9" to get in their car with their 5'2" wife's key fob and get squished Christine style.

  14. Re:Wales Needs Vowels on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    Actually, the concept of your post comes from an Onion article about Clinton sending vowels to bosnia. It's in the onion book "The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume One".

    I thought your post was funny. Don't worry, i have mod points, i can.....D'oh!

  15. Seems like a real problem.... on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 1

    We should get this worked out as soon as we get that whole Y2K thing licked.

    Seriously, don't computers already have to deal with this every year? Haven't we done this stuff before?

  16. I think it will... on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work for a school system in Maryland (Charles County) and we're implementing system-wide IP telephony at all 30-something of our schools (20 elementary, 7 middle, 7 high, plus several education centers and other facilities.) All our IP phones use PoE, so half the ports in each school are PoE capable.

    BTW, First Post.

  17. Even older than 8 years. on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    My buddy and i got Windows 2000 Server to run reliably on a P150 with 128MB ram. Win2k does well on old hardware indeed. People still think they NEED to upgrade though, and people switch computers cause the old one gets screwed up with spyware/etc even though the hardware's fine, so they will buy anyway.

  18. Re:It's all about the hamsters on Wil Wheaton Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the power of hamsters.

    Indeed not. As you can see Hamsters are a perfectly viable power source.

    http://melonpool.com/ship.html

  19. Re:It's best backwards... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Most Obsolete Parts Are Reused, or DODGE: Drips Oil Drops Grease Everywhere.

    For a full list, go here:

    http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/humor-09.html

  20. If it ain't a Boeing... on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: -1, Troll

    I ain't a Going. I can't wait to see how long it takes the A380's tail to fly off like it did on the plane's younger siblings.

  21. Re:Sombody's Got A Bone To Pick on 'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the HUGE inaccuracies in the technology and facts of WWII.

  22. Re:There is more than meets the Eye on 'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    An electrical transformer changes the voltage and amperage of an electric current by induction between 2 dissimilar (usually different winds) spirals of copper wire.

    Much, much more info here.

  23. Re:Another solution on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    Maybe take a step back from that. Just have it display a random time. I have no problem leaping from bed like a cheetah when i see i was supposed to be at work an hour ago.

  24. Getting Mono is easy! on Miguel de Icaza Explains How To "Get" Mono · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....Just don't wipe off the glass before drinking after someone else.

  25. I've really gotta wonder.... on PowerBook As A New Kind Of Human Interface Device · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much good all this tilting and stuff does the hard drive. I'd think it caused some undue wear and tear, if not a head crash. Plus, to be picking up the whole laptop for use as an interface device seems a bit risky. Especially a Powerbook (you're talking around 2 grand there, Slim.)