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  1. Re:why are the only interesting materials only flu on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 1

    God, I feel like a dope.. I didn't read the enough of the site and see the name Bob Lazar. My bullshit detector just went on high! Thanks for the update!

  2. Re:why are the only interesting materials only flu on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 1

    They don't make it, they sell it. The guy that runs United Nuclear works at Los Alamos, and has for years, and has contacts that get him some scraps that he can sell.

  3. Re:Melinda Messenger on When Celebrities Speak on Science · · Score: 1

    Like Joanna Lumly complaining about cancer while smoking like a fiend. (look at the yellow teeth!)

  4. Re:Big deal.... on Microsoft Using Personal Data to Target Ads · · Score: 1

    Companies like DoubleClick, etc. have been doing it for years.

    I'd love to see philanthropic hacker create a worm that updates the host table to 127.0.0.1 DoubleClick, etc.

  5. Re:I am happy they are doing this... on Microsoft Using Personal Data to Target Ads · · Score: 1

    Adblock is a great firefox plugin, but still...ads are everywhere.
    If you are still seeing ads, you aren't using adblock correctly.

    Unless they make them serve from the same server the content is from and don't have the path different from other graphics, or just make them text that is part of the normal served page, I see no advertising at all.

  6. Re:Mmmaaaat Daaaamon on Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome · · Score: 1

    Damn.. And fresh out of mod points too!

  7. Re:Which cars are overrated? on Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    Good point.. I always got around sticker with my Saturn as well. Maybe the new ratings fit California and their shitty traffic better now.

  8. Re:Netcraft confirms it: Windows 2000 is dead. on Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users · · Score: 1

    EPA says bullcrap.. elantra is 24/33 and 14.5gal, crossfire is 21/28 15.9gal. And the crossfire requires premium gas.

  9. Re:and this is different from life how?? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    According to Stephen Jay Gould.org...
    Was Hitler an atheist as some Christians say he was? Hitler's own words make this claim rather dubious. Scholars are still unsure whether or not Adolf Hitler was a believing Christian or just a politically cunning theist, but what is certain however is there is no evidence he was an atheist. This page documents some of his religious views, as he personally described them. Articles which examine the evidence in further detail can be found at the bottom of the page.
    http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler. html

  10. Re:and this is different from life how?? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    You go back to the dark ages to bring up an example for Christians, yet I can go to yesterdays newspaper to find murdering atheists. Does this mean all non believers are like that and can be fit into a neat little category like you so kindly did for religious people?

    Hitler and Bush were/are christians. 'Nuff said..

  11. mice men on Independent Benchmarking System for Mice · · Score: 1

    Linkman: Perhaps we need to know more of these mice men before we can really judge them. Perhaps not. Anyway, our thirty minutes are up.

  12. Open Office...Star Office on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the vulnerability situation would be like if Open Office...Star Office were more common.
    I personally am glad that I don't use Microsoft for my Office needs.

  13. Re:Robust? on Intel to Make Cheap Flash Laptop · · Score: 1

    Three. The three weakest links are the disc, the screen hinges, the battery and the keyboard.

    Amongst the weakest links are such diverse elements as the disc, the screen hinges, the battery, the keyboard and the nub thingy pointing device. Don't forget an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms...
  14. Re:Firefox Adblock on Consumer Ad Blocking Doubles · · Score: 1

    The article linked had approximately 35 items blocked in my current adblock configuration.

  15. Re:Westinghouse LVM-42W2 is great on What Gamers Need To Know About Buying an HD TV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is cheap - finding it for $1500 is not hard, I think.

    What frame of existence do you live in that says $1500 for a TV is cheap?
    When my current TV (27") dies and I can replace it for $300 I'll do it.

  16. Re:Don't do it. on Tim Bray Says RELAX · · Score: 1

    Frankie goes to Sunnyvale....

  17. Re:Indeed on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva · · Score: 1

    Think Torchwood and rat jam.

  18. Re:Pigs in space on Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    International Space Crackhouse.

    Ground control to Major Tom....

  19. Parody? on Bar Performer Arrested For Copyright Violations · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently parody is not protected under Japanese law.

    An old geezer on harmonica and a underage Japanese school girl on piano? ;)

  20. MST3K on Power Loader Halloween Costume From Aliens Movie · · Score: 1

    Joel did the power loader costume on MST3k.

  21. Re:no one really knows on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    "User swaps the motherboard and CPU chip for an upgraded one, swaps the video adapter, adds a second hard drive for additional storage, doubles the amount of RAM, and swaps the CD ROM drive for a faster one.

    I pretty much did all of that, and never had to re authorize. I even swapped the primary HD with a bigger one.

  22. Re:Twenty years from now... on An Ode To Al · · Score: 1

    After Yakov passes away. Al will buy his place in Branson. Busloads of geriatric "Nerdy White Boys" will make the pilgrimage to relive their lost youth and enjoy the all you can eat vegetarian buffet.

  23. Re:innovation? on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know that Opera has an ad blocker, and it works really well. FiltersetG allows my blocking to be updated automagically though. Not a big deal for me, but a huge deal for the non techy types I set up with Firefox.

    Thanks for the filter set for Opera though, I installed it, and will try it out.

  24. Re:innovation? on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Opera might be better, and IE might be improved, but as long as Firefox has Adblock and the filtersetG updater, Firefox is the browser for me, my family, and anyone else that wants do do away with annoying (read all) advertising.

  25. Open Office... on Microsoft Warns of PowerPoint Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I open and create all of my presentations in either Open Office or Star Office. So I don't see and issues for me. I don't do anything esoteric, so I have never had a MS Office user have a problem with my presentations.