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  1. Re:Should have used a patent... on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except that prior art doesn't seem to mean shit these days thanks to first to file.

  2. Re:BC Comic on Heavy Duty Electric Unicycle Maker Takes On Segway · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not enough ham-fisted christian proselytizing.

  3. How might it have looked? That's easy! on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    Imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

  4. Re:Craigslist? on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Man, from Teller's ass to his puppets' gaping mouths. For all their pride in independent thinking, militant atheists are about as unique in their talking points as the Christians they so love to deride.

  5. Re:My hobby on SEO Via DNS "Piggybacking" · · Score: 0

    Excuse me, but might I point out that SEO is not spam. Some spam tactics are used by the less scrupulous SEO firms out there, but the two are very different beasts.

    I, for one, direct my clients in proper selection and placement of keywords on their sites and assist them in optimizing their content so that it can be more easily browsed by their users. The end result of this process is typically a site that is accessible to search engines and end users alike, with reasonable rankings in relevant searches. No spam, no bullshit, no need for you to be an asshole. I'll be sure to forward all my v1agr4 spam to you from now on, now that I know where it's coming from.

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    *ahem* FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

  6. Where to now? on Canadian Government Seeking New Net Snooping Powers · · Score: 1

    So for those who always play the "Baw, I'm moving to Canada" card... where to now?

  7. Re:Why "exotropy"? on Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything · · Score: 1

    I can understand your frustration with What Technology Wants. Having come to similar conclusions as Mr. Kelly on my own, I find the way that he relates the idea rather slow and repetitive. However, the idea that he is asking you to take in and think about is so difficult to explain without sounding like it's taking place in a dorm room that I appreciate what he's trying to do. I find even the name Technium kind of silly, but he could have puzzled over what word to use for years. Better to go with a silly name and try to float the idea. Also better to go with a slow, repetitive explanation than jumping straight to some of the ideas on offer.

  8. Re:Agreed on Review: Captain America · · Score: 1

    "No truly stand out lines that I will be quoting."

    This is very good news. I don't mind movies coming out that I don't give a damn about, but when the insufferable quotes start bleeding into conversations it's like second-hand stupid. So it pleases me very much to hear that there's nothing worth quoting from this one.

  9. Re:Commerce among the states on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 2

    I think the Founding Fathers would be horrified by the idea of crowding into a metal tube and being thrust through the air at over 500 mph.

  10. Re:A good summary on Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam · · Score: 2

    But did it read better than that sentence?

  11. Re:Will anybody buy this lemon? on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    I imagine that you have a "Calvin pissing on" decal on your rear window.

  12. Re:The Bickering on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    I appreciate your taking the time to tell me the meaning of portmanteau. You really did not need to go to the trouble though, good sir.

    I would also like to salute your use of "fucktards". Such a deft shortening of "fucking retards" displays a high level of imagination and love for word play.

  13. Re:Dumbest Idea Ever on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    I love that story.

    I think the best part is where your purhased a lot of games that you really hated just to screw with them. Boy, I can just imagine the looks on the publishers' faces when they realized that they sold software to someone who not only did not like their products, but was not even using them as intended.

    I raise my coffee to you, techsoldaten. You are a punker of the old school.

  14. Re:The Bickering on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 2

    That's really clever how you executed a portmanteau of the words "Capcom" and "crap" in order to express your displeasure with the company and/or its products.

  15. Re:Sounds like a great engine on An Entirely New Class of Aircraft Arrives · · Score: 1

    For the same reason that dogs can't look up.

  16. Re:Is it just me... on Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Your car-analogy fu is strong.

  17. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    What in the hell do you use themes for?

    Do you really need a bunch of manga characters or flowers peeking around the edges of your browser?

  18. I've heard of this. on New Alureon Rootkit Takes Malware To New Level · · Score: 1

    I hear that the new version has some behaviors that make it harder to detect and also more difficult to analyze.

  19. Re:$200 million? on National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    Not to be a grammar nazi or anything, but have you finished that thought yet?

  20. a memetic view? on Model Says Religiosity Gene Will Dominate Society · · Score: 1

    The meme of the need to procreate is far and away the most successful of all.

    If the idea of the need to procreate in the face of what can seem to be less than ideal situations does not grow legs, that meme dies within a generation or three. Lesser memes (that is to say those which manifest in the mind of the individual less as instinct and more as concepts) will rise up to compete for mindshare and find the best way to keep themselves spreading. A meme can only survive as long as it has an audience. It is very difficult for them to survive the process of being archived and then resurrected.

    Ask Isis about it.

    It behooves a meme to encourage people to come together and continue to stoke the fires of attention.

  21. Re:Why do they need to do traffic shaping? on Is Net Neutrality Really Needed? · · Score: 1

    What the hell?

    If you're going to make an analogy around here, you need to work a car into it somehow.

  22. Re:In 3000 years.. on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    I did not mean to imply that an EMP would wipe magnetic media, but the devices used to read said media might have some problems working.

  23. Re:6 arms... or more... on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    Entirely subjective.

    I think those are beautiful. Pain in the ass to service, perhaps, but visually beautiful. The fact that the design varies for longitude and latitude makes them even more appealing.

  24. Re:In 3000 years.. on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 1

    That book is still readable, though.

    A few strategically scattered EMPs and all of those tapes and discs could be as valuable as the plastic they're printed on. If the devices to read them are lost, the information on them is lost. With a clay tablet, all a person has to do is crack a code which can be seen by the unaided eye.

  25. Re:Scientists: on Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look around you.

    Look... around you.

    Look... around you. ...

    How DO scientists sift through this data? They insert the assembled facts into a wave function graphing device.

    Note that down in your copybook.

    The device is powered by 2 icktoms of intelligent calcium and a green anole.

    (addressing anole, paper lab jacket is visibly taped to the lizard's back) Hello, Professor!

    When the functions display a wave on the screen of the osomoscope, the scientists interpret the signal. How do the scientists interpret it?

    We may never know. Scientists have very intelligent brains, and it can be quite a challenge to even guess what they want for lunch. ... ...back next time when we learn about wood.