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  1. The future is so bright I need a radiation suit on Technology Sectors that are Hot or Heating Up Now? · · Score: 2

    Walmat's real hot right now. They give you a uniform and everything.

    Oh sorry, you meant coding?

  2. Be careful they like to flush them on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 2

    At my sons school, where a TI92 is required, for certain classes and exams the proctors insist on flushing the calculator prior to the exam to insure fairness. If it were a PDA he would have lost tons of critical information the school has no right to destroy.

  3. So is it Windows yet? on PalmOS 5 Turns Gold · · Score: 2

    What next, 3 buttons to click to open the menu to scroll down to the 'print format' action button?

    I can't wait until it starts to blue screen.

  4. What about the Wayne Newton bridge? on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah you know, the one they'll build in 2031 to connect The Las Vegas Islands to the Arizonian mainland?

  5. We used to have fire but the inventor died on Security Through Obsolescence · · Score: 2

    Now we securely sit in the dark.

    This is the flip side of saying non disclosure is more secure than disclosure. Obsolete means nobody knows about it whether anyone gives a shit about it or not is a different question.If we had all sorts of PDP-11's around here or Link analog computers I'm sure that eventually someone would break them just because they're there.

  6. Guaranteed punishment would not fix crime on Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you knew that you were constantly monitored against your will you would commit just as many crimes. Because you would be slowly be degraded to sub human state and in short order you would come to believe that there is nothing in your life that is under your control. As a result you would simply go out and do whatever the fuck you wanted anyway. Might as well have a good time doing bad things.

  7. Re:How is this different from corporate control? on Is China's Control of the Internet Slipping? · · Score: 2

    Go MEMRI

    One of the most important sites - see also debkafile

    http://www.debka.com/

  8. How is this different from corporate control? on Is China's Control of the Internet Slipping? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the West, about 90% of all internet activity goes through 9 portals which are controlled by a tiny cadre of huge media conglomerates, each run nearly as the singular expression of one person's ego.

    We will not be forced into oppression, but seduced by it and ultimately the internet will become a weapon of tyranny.

  9. Everyone thinks someone else will have a problem on Games in High School? · · Score: 2

    What hypocrisy!

    Everyone thinks someone ELSE will have a problem with it. Well what if they put up some Christian games or Jihad games in Arabic? Is that cool. What about a game like GTA3 where you get to mow down people and beat them with a bat. Is that cool? What about a pack that modfies Quake where all the bad guys are Rabbis. Good so far?

    "It's not that I have a problem with your anti Canadian grafitti, but I have to give you a ticket because it's supposed to be in French too - - " (Eugene Levy in Canadian Bacon)

  10. My Bablefish can your ass kick! on RTFM = Read the Funny Manual? · · Score: 2

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  11. Weapons in Space on Taking Issue With The Outer Space Treaty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's the only thing that's relevant to the article.

    The only one.

    BushCo, Inc. wants to put nuclear weapons in space and wants to be able to tell everyone about it.

    Can you dig it?
    http://members.aol.com/blckcof/cyrus1.wav

  12. Don't Cry For Me Amazontina !!! on Amazon.Heartbreak · · Score: 2

    Boo Hoo, Amazon's weird.

    So fucking what. Is it better to be one of the bazillion laid off Lucent, Siemens, Motorola, ATT, Nortel, Cisco, yadda yadda employees?

  13. Limits on market share in the government? on U.S. Asked to Put Purchasing Power to Good Use · · Score: 1

    I'm confused so I'll assume he means to limit market share of the market inside the sphere of government procurement, yes? I don't think that Mr. Nader proposes to limit market share in the external commercial world outside the world of Federal procurement contracts and other jiggering and setasides? No?

    I hope not because all MS would have to do is buy up everyone else and not rebrand anything. That Linux box you buy would have a MS owned version of Linux on it. Kind of doesn't solve anything does it?

  14. Leave your licences on the train platform on Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It will catch up with you - you are merely being relocated to the east.

    Linux uber alles.

  15. You puny humans !!!! on E3 Controller Previews · · Score: 2

    My dodecatentacle controller allows me to operate in 7 distinct universes simultaneously!!! All kneel to my superiority !!!.

    Now I need a midget to lug this shit around for me.

  16. The Crew on Manned Mars Mission Some Way Off · · Score: 2

    The hardbitten chick pilot/copilot.
    The nerdy scientist who doesn't want to go but can't not go.
    The ex husband of the pilot chick who has some kind of vague 'command' role.
    The secret robot.
    The known robot who is amusing.
    The weird vaguely ex drunk science chick who is not as hot as the other chick.
    The corporate guy who knows the real deal about a secret alien weapon.
    The black guy who dies.
    The young buck army recon type who wants to populate Mars with either chick's offspring.
    A humanly smart mammalian animal of some kind.
    The other scientist who's kept his terminal illness hidden up to now.

  17. Unfrozen Cavewoman Strippers on Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah that's what I'm talkin bout.

  18. No, it's because Spider is also a chick flick on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do not discount the chick-ocitude of Spiderman. That right away nearly doubles the market for the picture.

    Spiderman 2 will have more chickness and probably some orphans and puppies and unicorns too.

    Clones didn't do too badly considering it was the first major motion picture, aparently written entirely by a machine.

  19. Re:Good, let's drive all research out of the US on UCSF Acknowledges Tests on Human Cloning · · Score: 2

    the world is blessed by your gracious beneficience

    blow me.

  20. Yawn, another scheme to break on Unique ID Codes for CD / DVD Manufacturers · · Score: 2

    oo boy what a challenge

  21. Good, let's drive all research out of the US on UCSF Acknowledges Tests on Human Cloning · · Score: 1

    Let's drive all reproductive and cellular research out of the US. Let's ban all biomedical research too. Let's ban organ transplants, blood transfusions, electricity and the wheel.

  22. Yeah that's right you Nazis on Passwords May Be Weakest Link · · Score: 2

    Anything you don't agree with mod it down - /. used to be a nice place now it's just a lockstep groupthink prison.

  23. Nearly ZERO value, kids on Passwords May Be Weakest Link · · Score: 1, Troll

    Look. Passwords make nice window dressing and make the auditors feel all gooey and warm but Let's face it. You're getting ripped off by insiders who obey your policies whatever they are and outsiders who already have your password files to examine are already in too far. You might as well sell your own children into slavery and let you neighbors have sex with them.

    PROTECT THE DAMN DATA, THEN WORRY ABOUT THE ACCESS. COMPARTMENTALIZE AND DISSAGGREGATE EVERYTHING.

  24. Make city packs !!!!! on GTA3: Vice City Announced · · Score: 2

    Here's my choices:

    Belfast (during the 'troubles')
    Ramallah
    Bogota
    Buenos Aires
    LA (after the Lakers win)

    oh wait, is that still funny?

  25. The US Martin now depends on humans to survive on Featherless Chickens · · Score: 2

    That's right - we muck w/ the natural order-o-things all the time. The Martin, a bird that eats its weight in mosquitos everyday and is a great pesticide depends on humans to survive. Martins roost in nests that are high up and in the open. People put up Martin houses to attract them to their land and now a hundred years later the Martin has lost the ability to make a nest. Without humans constructing Martin houses the species would die out in one year.