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  1. Re:gmail on Yahoo Tries to Improve Your Inbox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, but I find I don't have to search/sort because all the emails are threaded for me automatically. So, I don't have to sort by subject--all the emails that have that subject are threaded.

  2. Re:The most interesting thing about this controver on Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief? · · Score: 1

    What makes my invisible friend any more or less real than 'God'?

    You can neither prove nor disprove that God exists, just as you cannot prove or disprove that my invisible friend exists.

    QED

  3. Re:The most interesting thing about this controver on Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief? · · Score: 1

    Arguing over religion is like arguing over who's invisible friend is better.

  4. Re:Doh! on Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is what happens when you cross the streams. DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

  5. Re:isn't democracy great? on FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership · · Score: 1

    The newspaper was one of the LAST remaining sources of relatively untainted news.

    TV is entertainment. Not news. Internet is for information, research, and entertainment. Not news.

    Newspapers are for -gasp- news. It's not News-Television. It's not Internewsnet. It's NEWSPAPER.

  6. Re:awesome! on Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries · · Score: 1

    Nono... that's "AAH! My Balls on FIRE!" a spinoff. not as good, I think.

  7. Re:The tighter you clench your fist... on Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights · · Score: 4, Funny

    No need to apologize. He went and turned into a money-grubbing asshat too.

  8. Re:elementary, my dear watson on QR Codes - Internet to Cell Phone via Camera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have noticed that since the advent of the 'dollar menu' that the overall quality of the rest of McDonald's has dropped a LOT.

    Double Cheese Burgers ($1) used to be a decent burger for the price (1.45 when it was off the menu here back in 1999) but it seems that now they have started to use 'cheaper' meats with more fat in them... I mean, I have gotten burgers that were DRIPPING fat. And they were cold. How is that even possible? I had to eat it of course, because I was hungry. But I only go to McDonald's if I am so hungry and broke that I can't stand to go to Wendy's. Which has, IMO, the best burgers for the price and convenience.

    1.00 for a Double Cheese--comes with ketchup, mustard, onion bits, and two half-slices of cheese.

    Or... .99 for a Junior Bacon with Cheese--comes with leaf lettuce, slice of tomato, some real onions, with mayo being optional. Oh, and BACON.

    Yea. Real tough choice there. Hmm... Greaseball burger or something that has real veggies on it,

  9. Re:Biggest roadblock? on The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development · · Score: 1

    Users. Their unwillingness for change is holding everybody back.

  10. Re:Elephant and Mouse situation on RIAA Afraid of Harvard · · Score: 1

    I was so shocked when that actually happened with the Mythbusters... Another groundbreaking achievement made by the duo.

  11. Re:Four graphics cards! on THG Labs In Depth With AMD Spider · · Score: 1

    You won't be using them 24/7 so you'd hardly notice a difference between 1 of these videocards and 4 of them.

    And your 1KW powersupply is usually a 'peak' measurement, not a continuous output.

    And I have space inside my case for two power supplies, so I'm all good.

  12. Re:hmmmmm . . . on A Giant Step in Cloning · · Score: 1

    The joke, "Making an obscene clone fail" is a play on words of the phrase "Making an obscene phone call". the 'ph' sound makes an F sound. Phone sounds like 'fone'.

    An obscene phone call is when someone calls up and starts to breath heavy into the phone (perverts) or when someone calls up and starts talking in a very sexual manner.

    Now that I have squeezed every last bit of funny from the joke, it's time to get back to work.

  13. Re:31784 on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I get on mine is '8675309'

    Damn you Johnny Two-Tone!

  14. Re:You kids had wire-wrap GUNS? on DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix · · Score: 1

    The screwdriver ones work better than the guns, which would break the wires a hell of a lot when I used them.

  15. Re:a "Mr. Watson. Come Here. I need you." moment on Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio · · Score: 1

    Nonono... Howard left terrestrial radio a looong time ago.

    I know you don't get Sirius in Your Mom's Basement(TM) but just toss it out the window, k?

  16. Re:2.0? on Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow... 110% you say? that explains the email from 'unbornfetus33421@gmail.com' I keep getting.

  17. Re:Jalapenos on Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds · · Score: 1

    The resulting effect of the nerves being affected by the pure-cap will still work no matter if you are Thai and have eaten Thai-hot food for your entire life.

    Unless you eat with a gaping wound someplace on your body... But then you are just freaky.

  18. Re:Internet, Head on America's View of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Ditto. But I want 4E rules... Wireless is where its at!

  19. Re:Metaphor please on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 2, Funny

    No... it's more like this:

    You have many tubes going one way, with the internet flowing through them. If one fills up (it's not a truck!) then it spills over into one of the other tubes, or sometimes if a similar amount of internet is flowing in two tubes that are next to eachother then they spill over randomly.

    Now, cross-tube-spill makes for slow internet--more so than an email from your coworker--and this guy here figured out how to send the internet through the tubes in such a way that there is no spill over, and the tubes never get full, and that allows him to send more internet through the tubes at a faster rate.

    There. Happy?

  20. Re:But they wont achive much on Nintendo Cracks Down on Copying Devices · · Score: 1

    Yea, because I can always find a Wii at any store that sells electronics... And I can never, ever find a 360 or PS3.

    This comment brought to you by the word SARCASM... and the letters S, T, F and U!

  21. Re:What? on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    No, this is akin to people who buy iPods and expect them to be any good with software other than iTunes.

    iPod has one thing going for it: iTunes. Other than that, the actual hardware is mediocre at best when it comes to MP3.

    *** AND NOW FOR THE JOKES ***

    I record on water. It is the most natural, pure, analog sound. It's also the most brutal format know to man.

  22. Re:You seem to know a lot about this stuff on Amazon EC2 Open To All · · Score: 1

    No.

  23. Stupid subject removed on Bionic Commando Returns · · Score: 1

    it's not that they were wussies, it was their standard and practice at the time.

    Remember: Japan was part of the Axis--which included the Nazi's--during WWII, so it is a part of their culture. Over here, its a bad thing to ever mention Nazi's. Ever.

    Also... What's the protocol for an argument that starts out with nazi's?

  24. *sigh* on Bionic Commando Returns · · Score: 1

    Why would he need his arm, if he could jump? Oh, right--because the gaps he was jumping across would be like 20-50 feet wide. Yea, you can't jump that far.

    And besides, if you read the story (Yes, there is a story) you would know that he lost his arm in combat and they replaced it with the bionic one. The book even went so far as to have a bunch of things that the game didn't have. For instance, his pinky could heat up things by touching them.

    I am so looking forward to this. I can see this being on the Wii easily.

  25. Re:Time to switch on Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records · · Score: 1

    GSM standardizes everything. From the wireless signal from your phone, to the way that the towers communicate with each other.

    That is a good thing, to be sure. However, the area where I live and the area where I work have very poor GSM coverage. high-density population areas are terrible for GSM. They have a much wider coverage area (good for tower building, as it requires less towers to be built) but it sucks for people, because once a lot of people get on a tower it starts to get overloaded and then your call quality suffers (they switch to a lower-quality codec) and then your calls will start to drop.

    CDMA is much smaller radiation of signal, and therefore requires more towers. More towers mean more more people can use the phone. More towers also means better signal coverage. I can look out my window at work, and see 7 mobile phone cells. My coworker has AT&T and I have VZW. If I hold both phones next to eachother I have full bars, and he has 2.

    More bars in more places? Hardly.

    I don't care what works, only that it works. Standards are great, but if my un-standard protocol works better for me then I am going to use it. I could care less what Europe has, or what Cupertino has (check out the coverage map of Apple's office for AT&T.) or what anybody else has. I want my phone to work. Verizon has worked for me, with no issues.