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  1. Re:Easy on Web Design on a Shoestring · · Score: 1

    And will look just like all those other FP template sites :-)

    Plus if your web "designer" is lazy enough to do that, then chances are they are going to be pretty crap at creating a site more complex than a brochure.

  2. Re:Exaggerated exasperation on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1

    I re-read the book when the movie came out and, yes, Bombadil bored me shitless.

    In fact, in many areas Tolkien just went on and on and on with no apparent sense of direction. He needed good editor.

  3. Re:Another nail in the coffin of journalism. on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you ever get the feeling that there's an evil shadow government that controls everything and it doesn't matter who's president because these guys are just going to go ahead and implement their plan?

    No, me neither.

  4. Re:To address the question of performances... on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    The parts I bold here show that parties where you play music may not be legal if the invites say "bring beer and chips".

    An average invitation might say "bring your own beer and chips" (i.e. for your own consumption and the consumption by girls you wish to get drunk) but it would be a scabby host that said "bring beer and chips as compensation for listening to my cool music".

    While it may look murky legally, I have no doubt that even Lionel Hutz would get this one thrown out of court.

  5. Re:Use your head on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 1

    A children should choose his own beliefs, and not have them forced on him.

    You don't have kids, do you? Or actually have anything to do with them. If you did. you'd realise just what a stupid statement that is.

    FWIW, kids don't enter the world as some sort of omniscient beings who are able to choose their best path. It's up to us as parents to steer them through this minefield of life so they don't end up dead, screwed up, or jacking off to computer porn 23 hours a day.

    And why do parents do this? Because we love our kids and the thought of our kids dying (most extreme negative outcome), being harmed, or not reaching their full potential (least extreme, but a bit of a slow burner that one) is physically painful to us.

    As parents, we are able to take the long view. The benefit of being around for a few decades I suppose. We've seen the the fuckups of life - some of them are probably our friends, or even family. We've seen the causes so we try and keep our kids clear of them. It's not a perfect science, but it's a helluva lot better than your Ned Flanders-beatnik parents style of parenting.

    And we'd appreciate a little help. In return for not turning out tomorrow's sociopaths, we'd like a little assistance in placing reasonable limits around what our kids can get their mitts on before they're old enough to really make informed decisions.

    Laws like this are really easy to circumvent if you really think they are interfering with how you want to raise your brood. Buy your kids anything adults can get and let them at it. Go for it. I dare you.

    There is no universal truth only able to be grasped by fresh, young minds unpolluted by adult interference. That twaddle sound more like something from Shirley Maclean or some L. Ron clone than your average slashdotter. Takes all sorts, I suppose.

    For all our sakes, don't reproduce.

  6. Re:Hope he's proved right on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Saying so doesn't make it so. on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    how would you feel about the guy who throws a large house party and plays CDs he owns for everyone to hear?

    Depends. Did I get an invitation?

    But seriously ... if he is playing for invited family/friends, then all is OK. It is a private performance. If he is charging money, then it is a performance that he requires a licence for. If it's a really loud block party, he'll probably have the cops shutting him down over noise concerns before the RIAA finds out.

    IMHO. IANAL

  8. Re:iTunes on Multi-Room Wireless Sound System? · · Score: 1

    He's Basketball Jones!

  9. Re:Of course they don't know, we don't allow them on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see a video of that.

  10. Re:Nah! Let's try something better... on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you put a home stereo system in a PC case?

  11. Re:Mpeg. on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    No CLI converter, but you may be able to find something useful here:

    http://www.wildform.com/flix/

    Easier to use than Flash and you get loads of players.

  12. Re:PDF on Massachusetts Adopting 'Open Format' Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    Odd. I was expecting it to be a link to a PDF file...

  13. Re:Dead on on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    If the mini can give "VGA video output (using included adapter) to support analog resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 pixels" isn't that the same as 1080i?

  14. Re:History Eraser Button on LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online · · Score: 1

    What we need is a Big Red Button, uncovered. If you push it, a Big Blue Button pops out with a sign above it that says "Are you sure you want to activate the Big Red Button? Push the Big Blue Button for OK."

  15. Re:Think different. on PC Competition for the Mac mini? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get her the damn Mac min! Then when you ask for sex or a blow-job you'll be more likely to get one.

    "She wanted a Mac mini and I told her I could build her a better PC myself. Now when I ask for sex, she hands me the baby oil and tells me to do it myself. My name is Wayne Kerr and I wish I was a Switcher."

  16. Re:Other things that PCI is useful for on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    The Daystar one seems to capture 1/4 screen only.

    The Belkin one ("Interview") only has drivers for OS 8 and 9. IIRC drivers for for OS X and Interview are available, but then you have to buy them as well.

    El Gato, Canopus or some other Firewire DV converter would be your best bet, but they're starting to get into pricey territory (relatively speaking).

  17. Re:A buttload of Money on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    Besides, how'll you'll fit it in a rack? It'll just drop down until it lands on something else.

    Priceless. I nearly laughed out loud in the office. That would be a bad thing for me...

  18. Re:Hey! My Mom Can Build One! on PC Competition for the Mac mini? · · Score: 1

    Sure the local guys could do it ... until customers start getting RAM failures (or just constant lockups) because they bought mysterious OEM RAM, or the HDs crack up, or the CPU overheats because, although they put a fan in there, they didn't actually consider cooling dynamics.

  19. Re:Mac in the Back on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 1

    The photos were for a 1983 edition of the mag. Since the Mac didn't come out until 1984, he had a nice early edition of the Mac it seems.

  20. Re:Delicious Library on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1

    "She's a good sheila, Bruce, and not at all stuck up."

  21. Re:Amen! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    What, like Spock?

  22. Huh? on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 2, Funny

    What? Another mini?

  23. Re:Totally oil free? on Hydrogen Buses In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Water-based lubricants for keeping the sex lives lively.

  24. Re:Why not turn the tables on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that just the other week. Rather than that, how about putting them on roadside radar vans :-)

  25. That name again on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    is Mr Plow.