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  1. Re:LUGs? on Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I think Lesbians Until Graduation would be more effective.

  2. Re:Yeah... on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 1

    My point was that the technology exists to produce green electronics. Of course, the rub being that it would be more expensive. I suppose a decent analogy would be the relatively narrow appeal of 'free-trade' coffee.

  3. Re:Yeah... on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dude, there is such a thing as market failure. If there was a market for 'green' electronics, it would already have been exploited. Sometimes, government needs to pass a law to compensate for market failure, which in this case can have disastrous effects for everyone else, even the few who would actually spend extra cash for 'green' electronics.

    It wasn't the market that demanded an end to child labor, after all.

  4. Re:hmm on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    It means that the people with the power claim that they act in the name of the people instead of divine right. It doesn't mean they use their power any less arbitrarily. Same shit, different animal.

  5. Re:Why do this? on New Atomic Clock 1000 Times More Accurate · · Score: 1
    That's crazy. See, an implicit assumption of Einstein's theories is that smaller timepieces are inherently more accurate, that's why they're called Atomic clocks.

    It's also why women are less likely to be late for meetings, as their watches tend to be smaller.

  6. Re:Starting from scratch on The CPU: From Conception to Birth · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't trouble you. I'm very secure in the knowledge that a comic book super-villain could never exist because, in our world, he would only know enough to write condescending articles on slashdot.

  7. Re:Not as cool on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    There's another good reason. You can't be a hacker if you don't hack.

  8. Re:don't use ext2 on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're a geek, it's a given that you'll have to wait forever for fsck.

  9. Re:That's just fine... on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hope Bush gets reelected so he can launch cruise missiles at anyone/anything that disagrees with him. Schmuck.

  10. Re:Would someone be allergic to it? on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric · · Score: 5, Funny
    First off, fullerenes are strong enough to build a space-elevator with, I don't think they'll come apart so easy.

    Secondly, if you are eating fabric on a regular basis, cancer risk might be the least of your problems.

  11. Re:Record? on Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    It's not a dupe. This article is about how Mike Judge has declared live performance copyrighting unconstitutional.
    First, Beavis and Butthead, then Office Space, now fighting for fair use rights... Is there anything this guy can't do?

  12. Re:The solution is to move money over from welfare on Order in the e-Court! · · Score: 1

    Many people throughout history have been absolutely dead-convinced that they have the answer to societal problems. Their failures should give you pause.

  13. I think he meant to say... on The Living Room Candidate · · Score: 1

    "I represent the American Museum of the Moving Image, and I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a museum curator. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank."

  14. Re:odd background for a presidential candidate. on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    He's a democrat in the same way that North Korea is democratic: in name only.

  15. Re:To bad for the rest of us. on Did You VoteOrNot.org? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:News? on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because these are bigger and, uh, really expensive?

  17. Re:Insights on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The problem was not that the sanctions harmed the Baath Party. The problem was that the sanctions harmed Muslims. The Baathists are Kemalist-Socialists with a healthy bit of Stalinism thrown in. Muslim fundamentalists absolutely hate Baathists.

  18. Re:odd choice on BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel · · Score: 1

    Why did they retire the Corporate Rap Guy? Don't copy / Don't copy that floppy!

  19. Re:Regarding RF Leakage to Space on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    You will not mock the Machine that goes PING!

  20. Re:...can generate 3.8 watts of electricity... on Clear Solar Panels Double As Projection Screens · · Score: 1

    Hell, let's have reflective ones! Everyone in the city would have an instant tan! There may be some minor issues with cataracts and skin cancer, but all the corpses would look just great!

  21. Re:That's 90% on Alabama IT Whistleblower Fired For Spyware · · Score: 1

    It would be more interesting if the screenshots were arranged like time-lapse photography. A game of solitaire would morph into a rapid staccato of pornography...and back to a pleasant game of solitaire.

  22. Re:The story behind the story on DVD-Watching Driver Charged with Murder · · Score: 3, Funny

    I initially thought that the headline referred to a software driver for watching DVDs.

  23. Re:Balancing act. on The BookMachine: On-Demand Book Printing in 3-5 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Professors get sent free books all the time. The book companies send out copies to them hoping they'll use it in their courses. It's much like the pharmaceutical reps that hang around doctors offices.

  24. Re:One in the same on Napster Strikes Deal With GWU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He never said he was a pirate. It's people like you that think security through obscurity is a sound policy.

  25. Re:Cool on Bethesda Licenses Fallout Franchise, To Make Fallout 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never been much of an RPG gamer, but I happened to get Morrowind bundled in with my new video card a few months ago. I'd never heard of it before, but I decided to try it out since, hey, it's free. Don't let it get you too. I went to check the mail yesterday and I suddenly felt like Gollum emerging from the dark. I shrieked, "the yellow face, it burns ussss!" and shook my fist at the sun before I realized what I was doing.