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  1. Re:... where's all that bandwidth going again? on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as to much bandwidth.

    Or too much bandwidth.

  2. Re:coming next on Let Goofy Track Your Children · · Score: 1

    What about the part of the brain that produces hallucinogenic sights and sounds? Not the LSD type of hallucinations, but the part of the brain that can produce paranoia, delusions including voices and sights, similar to what sleep paralysis victims say they encounter. I would think that would be the temporal lobes, but I may be wrong. Anyway, that ought to keep 'em in the safe zone.

  3. Re:What would you demand from your IT users? on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    "What would you put in our meeting room to kill as many people as possible?"

    Calymores, lots of claymores.

  4. Encourage breaking Windows? on Inventing the Telephone, Independently · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already broken?

  5. Re:Name matters on Novell Returns to the SUSE Name · · Score: 1

    sorry, i don't have time to tell you how stable our netware servers are, i have to go patch our windoze boxes; again...

  6. Re:Name matters on Novell Returns to the SUSE Name · · Score: 1

    Simply misspelling something could abend the server

    And any other OS has spell check on the command line and the ESP module loaded so it KNOWS what you intended to type?

  7. Re:Gee whiz on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    February 23, 2006 Microsofts latest patent covers the process of executing or not executing a piece of software at any given time on a piece of hardware that may or may not be powered on.

  8. Re:Yet Another Bogus Science Story on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new perpetual motion... aw screw it!

  9. Re:Global companies VS Local Laws on Yahoo Allegedly Sells Reporter Out to Chinese Authorities · · Score: 1

    Hell, you can do it in the US and just not return. Ask Truman Capote....

  10. Re:Good news on ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots · · Score: 1

    I hope this doesn't stop the development of Komodo. It's a pretty darn fine IDE.

  11. Re:120? on Super Bowl Footballs Get The DNA Touch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What?!
    (2 * 30) + 1 = 121?
    where did you get your degree in applied mathmatics?

    Tell you what; I will sell you 256 MB RAM chips for $30, but just for you, 2 for $120...

  12. Re:It's only fascism when the government is doing on UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors · · Score: 1

    The peddling of influence sufficiently blurs the line as to just where the government stops nowadays.

    That works for the left as well as for the right...

  13. Re:Facts? on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 1

    In a related story, Micro$oft announces it has patented the word statistics as well as any system recording historical facts that may allow for interpretation or analysis through the use of said empirical data expressed in quantitative form.

    The World Series and Super Bowl will be held in Redmonton until the patent expires. Tickets will be sold only to those holders of a valid XP, W2K3 or Longhorn serial number. There will be no jumbo-tron displays as the video drivers continue to blue screen...

  14. Re:Let's just get them out of the way... on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    And of course:
    Trees with frickin lasers

  15. Re:Here is one they won't ever implement on Share Your Most Dangerous Idea · · Score: 1
    Based on the idea that all humans are created equal and have inherent rights that man cannot by right take away ... I propose the ideas:

    Craig Venter, founder of the J Craig Venter Science Foundation, said [...]"The danger rests with what we already know: that we are not all created equal," [...]
    The Bible says (pooh pooh on it all u like, but it does make some good points) .. and how is it in the national interest to piss off God ..he can take down nations can't he? .. It's one of the proverbs (16:8 I think).. look it up.:

    That's the old testement fire and brimstone God you speak of. Eye for an eye, etc. God gave us frre will to do whatever we wish, even if directly against his wishes. Why don't you look it up yourself.
  16. Re:Lack of imagination kills species, story at 11. on Samsung Shows Off 3.6Mbps Cellular · · Score: 1

    And come on, don't you think that one of the primary intended uses IS to connect to a laptop?

    I assumed the the primary use would be streaming pr0n...

  17. Re:why do they have SSNs for customers? on Marriott Discloses Missing Data Files · · Score: 1

    I had a couple of Visa cards that had the same first and last digit, so just those two may not be enough. Maybe the last 4 would be better.

  18. Re:Meeting Chicks on Do LUGs Still Matter? · · Score: 1

    All the chicks you will meet at LUGs are lugs...

  19. Re:May I be the first to say... on Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera · · Score: 1
    Dvorak is a dickhead.


    Agreed:
    Dvorak = PC Magazine = Ziff Davis = A subsidiary of Microsoft...
  20. Re:Wow. on Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation · · Score: 1

    Living in Atlanta myself, I have to agree with you 110% Thank god for Vonage! As for cell companies here, Verizon is the worst of the worst for service and coverage.

  21. Re:we had this years ago on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    I remember the girls would put their hands all over you just to see the color change :)
    That's why I had hypercolor underwear!

  22. Re:~Chicken and egg? on 300 gigabytes in the size of a DVD? · · Score: 1

    what interfaces will let us copy data at those speeds?
    How about BCVs on the SAN?

  23. Re:Additional supplement to the hydrogen? on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    For "virtually all" read "Indy Cars"
    F1 cars run on unleaded petrol.
    Nascars run on 110 Octane gasolene

    And everyne knows only F1 counts as real race cars...

  24. Re:Well... on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 1

    Depends if it's an election year.

  25. Re:Boo! on Another Victim Countersues RIAA Under RICO Act · · Score: 1

    We're the RIAA. Boo!

    No, no, no...
    In Soviet Russia, the RIAA is you!