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  1. Re:not only "no" but "hell no" on Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs · · Score: 1

    Just wait until they tax you because you have speaker wires run to your "home entertainment" center. Maybe even tax the "home entertainment" center itself because you're not going to the movies.

  2. My question is on Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    9% of what? Two computers in an office times 9% doesn't make any sense. Typical legislators - educated way beyond their intelligence.

  3. Easy on Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    Just memorize it. It's all ones and zeros anyway, so it should be simple enough.

  4. I say let on Control the Camera on Mars Global Surveyor · · Score: 1

    Richard C. Hoagland of the Enterprise Mission and Art Bell decide where to take the photographs. If there's really something there, great. If not, then they'll have to shut up.

  5. What? Would everybody on Watercooling Drifting Mainstream · · Score: 1

    please speak up! I can't hear you over all the fans in my computer!

    I've thought seriously about using my ex-wife to keep the system cool - that was one frigid bitch.

  6. Re:the best thing is... on Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    Actually, Sony just announced MemorySticks of 256 and 512 MB capacities.

    From dpreview.com: Memory Stick PRO Duo with capacities of 256MB and 512MB will be available in the UK during October and November 2003 respectively. Nothing said about when they'd be available in the U.S..

    If you take your photos using the fine jpg setting, the file sizes will average about 2.4 MB.

  7. Re:my only complaint: it's Sony on Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    The new F828 uses CF cards in addition to memorysticks. Granted, the battery is proprietary, but it is the same one they used in the F717 and they are relatively cheap. What I like about it is that it uses USB 2.0 to transfer the pics. Firewire would be nice, but we can't have everything.

    Being able to use CF cards may put me over in the Sony camp.

  8. Okay, Sony on Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    You've nearly got me convinced to switch from Nikon. The specs look really good and the price is not too bad.

    Now let's see the photographs.

  9. Re:Power outage related to Microsoft on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    Just send that personal check for several hundred billion dollars to:

    You wish.

    After administrative costs, several hundred billion would leave only $29.85 for your proposed update.

    --
    Head Guy In Charge U.S. Department of Energy

  10. Re:FDA + Wheelchair on iBot Self-Balancing Mobility Device FDA Approved · · Score: 1

    My main complaint about the FDA is that they move at a snail's pace. Devices and treatments that have been available for years in other countries still take forever to be approved here.

    Case in point: I have avascular necrosis in my left hip joint. There is a treatment called shockwave therapy that works in the early stages of the disease. It has been used successfully in Europe for years, but is still in trials here in the good ole USA.

    By the time it's approved I'll have already had my hip replaced. If anybody knows of a treatment that will work now, I'm all ears.

  11. The bottom line is on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 0

    that only God can choose a random number.

    Random to us, not to God, of course.

  12. Re:Did anyone else think... on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 1

    The first thing I pictured was Santa in shorts and a tee shirt. Not a pretty sight.

    Maybe Mrs. Claus in a bikini?

  13. Re:As a father of school kids...NO WAY on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I agree completely. And I would add that the best way to improve schools is to put discipline back in the classroom - better known as corporal punishment. Schools started going downhill when students learned that they could do almost anything without any consequences.

  14. I'm in favor of on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 2, Funny

    cameras in the girls' dressing room.

  15. Priorities, priorities! on Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    3 months ago. . . 3 months of emails, 3 months of code, 3 months of NeverWinterNights save games . . . who cares?

    3 months of porn. . .Where's my screwdriver!?

  16. Re:See, I told y'all on Following the Spam Trail · · Score: 1

    Aha! And all this time I thought that smell coming from my computer was Windows.

  17. See, I told y'all on Following the Spam Trail · · Score: 5, Funny

    we do have computers in Alabama.

    And electricity.

    And indoor plumbing.

  18. As usual, why bother? on Florida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A total waste of time, unless you're a lawyer. Don't expect things to change any time soon; most of our state and Federal legislators are either lawyers or rented by lawyers (ABA).

  19. I don't care about the math. on There Is No Single Instant In Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    My money is on Achilles.

  20. I'm not in college! on Universities Mull Official Role In Music Distribution · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Yale University hosted a conference on... on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absolutely right. They get together to discuss something like this because it makes them "feel" better. The problem they are focused on is so far down the road that even our great-great-grandchildren won't have to deal with it.

    But, I guess the main reason they go ahead and discuss the problem is that, in their minds, they are on the "cutting edge" and thus are superior to the rest of us common folk.

    By definition it is very hard for people who are full of shit to realize that they are full of shit.

  22. Re:File Sharing Copyright Violation? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    You mean that I can't buy books, CDs, and DVDs to give to my friends and family this Christmas? Damn! Now I'm out of ideas.

  23. I wonder on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    how many musicians they'll sue in the next 2000 years. Musicians are among the worst violators of P2P music sharing; just ask one. Betcha there won't be one sued.

  24. I just knew on iTunes: Don't Leave Home With Them · · Score: 1

    there had to be a worm in that Apple somewhere.

  25. I wonder if on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    the RIAA will nab any musicians?? Remember the old TechTV show, Audiofile? Just about every musician they interviewed admitted downloading music. I heard one (can't remember his name) bragging about how many GB's of MP3s he had on his MP3 player. Yeah, sure, he bought all that music.