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  1. Re:Occam's Razor on Fooled by Randomness · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're not dead because nothing has killed you. Life (like death) is an effect, not a cause.

  2. I say, ask the Move Answer Man! on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination · · Score: 1

    I submitted question about the creation of a new Oscar category (as is being discussed in this thread) to Roger Eberts Movie Answer Man column and hope to have a response in one of his upcoming columns. If you want to follow up on it, check here peroidically.

    Unfortunately, my dumb ass forgot to copy the body of the letter and, as such, have lost my wonderfully worded question.

  3. Don't be so hard on yourself on Larry Page: Google Was an Accident · · Score: 1

    Tell you what... I lost my keys. Maybe you can find them for me!

  4. Re:What the hell was I thinking yesterday on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    Thank you for clarifying that for me, but I meant to imply that those who are doing the arresting (and keeping me from taking control of such dire situations) need not wait for the incident to occur before acting upon it as some in this thread would like to have us believe.

  5. I propose a new addage on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 1

    In order to clone a human, you have to kill a few sheep.

  6. Re: Goodbye, Dolly on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hello, Obscurity!

  7. Same here on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    if you are on the internet, then id say your chances of being out of range of any kind of cable provider are slim to none.

    My apartment building is so old that coaxial isn't dropped into any of the buildings. They do, however, have sattelite dishes that we can use to get a signal. This, despite the fact that I'm damn close to the dead center of Phoenix. Oh, and I also have a dial-up at home.

  8. What the hell was I thinking yesterday on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    I punched the sht out of some poor schmuck because I THOUGHT he was going to kill me. Seems he had a gun in his hand (it was loaded, by the way) and it was aimed right at my face with his finger on the trigger. Hell, I should have waited to see if he actually fired BEFORE assuming his guilt.

    Come to think of it, I might have been a little harsh on his pal, too. I kicked him several times in the neck because he was holding a big bomb with a lighter. Sure, one can ASSUME he might be behaving legitmately as easily as one could assume he might actually blow up that school bus full of children. There's really no way to know until that bad-boy Kablooeys all over the place

    Use your damn head, people! It's called Probable Cause for a reason

    And for those who don't know...Probable Cause Noun: Reasonable grounds for belief that an accused person may be subject to arrest or the issuance of a warrant.

  9. Begs the queston? on Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple · · Score: 1

    Do your research

  10. Re:Rendezvous ROCKS on Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple · · Score: 1

    Li'l help here? The company I work for is trying to use iChat to give us Graphic Artists the ability to talk to each other, but when we launch iChat, we can't see anything. In fact, the only person that can see ANY of us is our boss. Is this a firewall problem? Or something else entirely?

  11. 2.52 TB?! on Apple Updates Xserve, Announces Xserve RAID · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SWEET FANCY MOSES!

  12. c'mon on Latest Columbia News · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent up. I'm an apple user and I can't stop laughing.

  13. No, no, no on Hic Hic Hooray: Hiccups Explained · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you yawn, you're readjusting the pressure inside your head. It's why your ears pop. When someone else yawns, they've just altered the pressure around your head so now YOU have to calibrate your pressure to match the NEW air pressure.

  14. Re:HP to discontinue printers on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    While you have a good point regarding their press release reason for departing from the floppy, it is, none the less, infantile, unreliable and incapable of meeting the needs of growing file sizes. I use a mac (Surprise!(TM)) and haven't used a floppy in four or so years and don't miss it one bit! (Surprise!(TM))

    My hat is off to Dell! Let us all discard the Tuppence(TM) of storage media!

  15. Re:PDA market? on Listen To Your Game Boy Advance · · Score: 1

    I never said it would be a slam-dunk (or even easily fought battle) for the iPod's highly sought after foothold in the marketplace. It is, none the less, an attempt to breach that marketplace and if there is an icon of the MP3 handheld arena, it is the iPod. I merely used the product to draw a simple correlation.

    Eventually, the company hopes that this technology can be used for study aids, advertisements, museum guides, or digital comic books,

    You expect the average GameBoy user to use PDA's to keep their noon Luncheon with the boss? Or to manage their numerous clientel address book? This alternative sounds more like a PDA I can enjoy!

  16. Re:I'm sick of this. on Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    so......you want to put a rating system on parents?

  17. Re:How about... on Mobile Phone Abuse and AbUsers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While that's a nice idea and I'm in favor of it, it's still a sad state of affairs when we need to enforce what should be proper ettiquite.

  18. Re:Why would you buy this? on Mobile Phone Abuse and AbUsers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe Slashdot should develop a keyboard that zaps people who obviously don't read the article before they post their thoughts.

  19. But you can't stop at one! on Computers Not Working In Education · · Score: 1

    You wanna drink ANOTHER WOMAN!

  20. Maybe on Finns To Use Cell Phones To Monitor Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Maybe people in Finland should play Hot-Potato with their phones to pass time in the traffic jam. That would really screw with those boys trying to understand the traffic patterns!

  21. Re:If we really wanted to, we could *know* easily. on Top 10 Unsolved Space Mysteries · · Score: 1

    Let's try to not ignore the ramifications something like this would have on the stability of the moon's orbit and, thus, our ocean's tides.

  22. Re:Women in Crichton Books on Prey · · Score: 1

    Just because someone is a writer, doesn't neccessarily qualify them to write great women characters. Look at David Mammet. A man who has single handedly reshaped the way we look at dialogue ('Everyone wants money. That's why they call it money' -DeVito) and plot twists. He's nothing short of brilliant.

    He and William H. Macy have even gone so far as to create their own character based acting style. Yet, despite all of his insights into human behavior, despite his incredible ability to write truly inventive dialogue, he cannot write a female character to save his life!

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  23. Is it just me....? on Danish Anti-Piracy Organization Bills P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Or was anybody else distracted when 'quilty' popped up?

  24. Re:It's Mine, .... on Global Warming will Open Northwest Passage · · Score: 1

    (until you tell us to give it to you)

    Give it to me!

  25. um on Music and the Internet Reprise · · Score: 1

    That wasn't a question.