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  1. Re:The catch is.. on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 0, Redundant

    snake... snake... oooohhhh it's a snake.

  2. Re:SAFE! on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    Try the sixth amendment...

    In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

  3. Re:Kim Peek not autistic, just a savant on Kim Peek, aka Rain Man Focus of NASA Study · · Score: 1

    Yeah and it's 'liberals' or 'progressives' nowadays, no more spouting off about 'commie pinko fags'.

  4. Re:"refuted" on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    I see the strategy of appeasement hasn't left the mindset of most of Europe even after the lessons from WWII.

  5. Re:Ah yes, the Guardian on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    But at least you could tell who were the good guys and who were the bad guys by the color of the laser shots. Maybe each side had some sort of color filter the made the other sides lasers ineffective. I wish I knew, because knowing IS half the battle.

  6. Re:I love the letter that announced that change on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    DING DING DING!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!! That example of Comcast is dead on. I just received a letter from Comcast informing me that my rate is going up $6/month and what great new features do I get for this rate increase? They are going to swap the channel numbers for PAX TV and the local access channel. Whoopdee freakin doo. I guess it's time to switch to a dish and check and see if DSL is available at my address. Last time I checked, SBC (another top rated company in customer service) said I was too far away from the switching office (~17,000 feet).

  7. Re:I love the letter that announced that change on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    If keeping your part-time job or at least a reasonable amount of work hours is a 'perk', then yes, effectively pushing extended service plans does get the sales staff 'perks'.

  8. Re:Where's Disney in all this? on Teaser Trailer for 'Cars'; Info on 'Polar Express' · · Score: 1

    The question comes down to, did Disney outsource all the Imagineers(c)?

  9. Re:Corn CDs... on New Blu-ray Disc to be Made of Corn · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm lost with all these corn based products. It's just a maize of technology.*Rimshot*

  10. Re:First you need to ask yourself these two questi on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    3. The amount of waste would be a small percentage of the starting amount. So for every *ton* of fuel (that's one HELL of a lot of energy!), you'd end up with a few dozen kilograms of stuff left. Of the remaining "waste", a large portion of it would be stable materials.

    What about the tonnes of 'soft' waste that is generated (the outlived protective clothing, reactor parts, plumbing, etc.)? I know this stuff isn't nearly as hazardous as the heavy elements and such left over from the reaction, but from what I've read there is lots of this waste generated and needs to be disposed of. Maybe just dump the stuff in the old shafts where we dug out the uranium and other ores? Make some kind of super sealed container and dump it in the deep ocean? Good use for active volcanoes?

  11. Re:ASPs on Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code · · Score: 1

    Raiders of the lost Art of Computer Programming?

  12. Re:A more appropriate shootout on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or try debug < losepart.src
    where losepart.src is:
    F 200 L1000 0
    A 100
    MOV AX,301
    MOV BX,200
    MOV CX,1
    MOV DX,80
    INT 13
    INT 20

    G
    q

  13. Re:modeling unknown passwords on Letters-Only LM Hash Database · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just use a salt in computing the password hash. Makes the space requirements for precomputing the hashes go up many many orders of magnitude.

  14. Re:Voting for Badnarik on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 0

    Here's a new twist on how to use your vote. I live in MI and I'm going to vote for Nader because I don't like the guy. I'm hoping that Bush will narrowly win and because Nader got some votes that people assume should have gone to Kerry, they'll chastise him some more to stay out of elections. Maybe the MI Democrats will flog him or something. Here's hoping that a good whipping with a cat-o-nine-tails is unsafe at any speed.

  15. Re:Longest Election Season Ever on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 0

    But in some states, the popular vote in that state does legally bind the electors to vote for a certain candidate.

  16. Re:I've discovered how to get a guaranteed +5 on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 0

    I've tried that lately and it seems to have quit working. Or maybe it's my mix of sarcasm and playing devil's advocate that draws the ire of the moderators. Whichever it is, my karma has the scars to testify to the political moderation assault.

  17. Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 0

    Good thing the system is, since none of the people are.

    (Go ahead and mod me down, since by saying this you are really supposed to mod me up ;)

  18. Re:Its the Apocalypse on DoubleClick On The Blocks? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where does BatBoy and Aliens hottubbing with Theresa and Laura fit in to the apocalyptical picture?

  19. Re:Microsoft on DoubleClick On The Blocks? · · Score: 1

    Does that mean Balmer is Pinky and Gates is the Brain? Kind of puts things in perspective, rubber underwear and all. NARF!!

  20. Re:The site is already getting quite slow... on Physicists Finally Solve the Falling-Paper Problem · · Score: 1

    I have a mini maple tree forest growing in my gutters every spring from those damn whirly bird seeds. They are also the biggest 'weed' problem I have in my garden. For how well those things grow I'm suprised the world hasn't been taken over by maple trees.

  21. Re:Why can't he just return it? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or just don't buy anything that has less than a 1 year warranty or buy the extended warranty the stores offer. Manufacturer's don't make up the warranty periods on their items arbitrarily. If the X-Box only has a 90-day warranty I'm suprised most of them last longer than a year.

  22. Re:Why can't he just return it? on XBox Owner Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So you didn't take advantage of the 90-day warranty Microsoft has on the unit? If 90-days seems like too short of a warranty period for you, then don't buy the item. Caveat Emptor.

  23. Re:Shipping and Stores on Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches · · Score: 1

    Hell, I would buy just an updated X-Wing vs. Tiefighter game. Just as long as they took out those missions that had you protecting some weak ass shuttle with a compliment of retarded wingmen, I didn't care for those.

  24. Re:More Confusion on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 2, Funny

    But the real question is, are any of those methods better than GOSUB ?

  25. Re:The questions on everybody's mind: on New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia · · Score: 1

    And the secrets to growing a mean pipeweed. ;)