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  1. Re:Don't they... on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, they were designed to withstand a 707. And they did withstand the impact. What got them was the burning fuel.

  2. Re:Seriously on Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reflections on Trusting Trust is by Ken Thompson, not Brian Kernighan.

  3. Re:Pax on AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    In other news, the Australian government was found to have enabled thousands of crimes by providing roads for getaway cars.

  4. Re:And how far we have not come on The First High-Definition TV, Circa 1958 · · Score: 1

    I had that at my last job. The portrait monitor was great for web browsing and document writing. The landscape monitor did email, VxWorks, and Visual Studio.

  5. Re:Too Much $Fav_Author on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    Lin Carter's Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings has an excellent couple of chapters tracing the history of Heroic Fantasy from Roland through LoTR.

  6. Re:Stop making a fuss. on Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! · · Score: 1

    No it isn't!

  7. Re:Verizon are just protecting you on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Does IPv6 have the Evil Bit?

  8. Re:win-win on Honda Makes Nanotube Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe the PC term is "gravitationally enhanced"

  9. Re:Am I the only one... on Herschel Releases First Images of Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Damn... someone beat me to it.

  10. Re:30,000? Junk! on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 1

    Really? If 60*500 != 30000, then what does it equal (assuming base 10)?

  11. Re:HP on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    LJII's rock.

    My father-in-law had one. During the Northridge quake, it fell off the table it was on, and onto the floor. We picked it up, plugged everything back in, and it Just Worked.

  12. Re:"By coating an entire room..." on Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Aluminum siding!

  13. Re:Dramatization on Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Who needs a PSA? This guy was a popular fast food joint owner. Key word is was. Some dickhead was texting while driving and killed him.

    Any other SFValley people ever go to El Pollo Amigo?

  14. Re:Plex on Google Project 10^100 Reaches Voting Phase · · Score: 1

    Remember, it's respectable, relative to rhyming reprobates.

  15. Re:Kudos to him! on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uh, you do realize that you are agreeing with Shuttleworth? He wants the developers to STFU and watch how the end-users use the software, so they can see that their UI sucks.

  16. Re:Blow more smoke up our posteriors... on Nominum Calls Open Source DNS "a Recipe For Problems" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!

  17. Re:Swinging back our way on Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Confirms Climate Cycles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mars is as warm as it's going to get. There are no pirates there, so it can't get any warmer by losing pirates.

  18. Re:Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer on Finding the First Trillion Congruent Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it doesn't look like there's much hope for anyone resolving BSD in the foreseeable future.

    Of course not. Netcraft has already confirmed that BSD is dead.

  19. Re:Call me sexist but... on Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected · · Score: 1

    Arr! And she be just my age, too!

  20. Re:from the make-it-memorable dept. on Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected · · Score: 1

    Don't forget - Apollo 12, struck by lightning on launch.
    Gemini 8, near fatal spin. Armstrong and Scott came damn close to blacking out, which would essentially have been a death sentence.

  21. Re:from the make-it-memorable dept. on Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gemini 8 had the crew closer to death than did Apollo 13.

  22. Re:Arr on Taking Free Software To the Streets · · Score: 1

    Arrr... Ye scurvy scalawag! I be a-celbratin' t'day! An' if'n ye're sayin' else-wise, ye'll be walkin' the plank for sure!

  23. Re:"You have been poked by the Police" on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 1

    Worse. Scranton.

  24. Re:Bets on how high? on Gene Roddenberry's Mac Plus Is Coming Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, who the heck modded this one "Informative"?

  25. Re:Here is an off topic case question on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1

    Bingo! I'm looking for a new case -- my old case has no front USB connectors, etc.... Most of what's out there is aimed at the modders/games. Glass/Plexi windows, fluorescent tubes, etc... I don't want that shit.

    Give me a good looking plain black or beige aluminum (or steel -- I'd pay the premium) case, for a reasonable price.