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  1. Re:RadioShack just followed money orders, anyway.. on RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots · · Score: 1

    If RS is listening, they should hire you as Director of Cluefullness.

  2. Re:What is the next step? on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 2
    You think the President is going to attempt to fix this problem? From TFA,

    The only people Obama has prosecuted are the whistle-blowers.

  3. Re:Whoops on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    ...we PC repairmen are like plumbers...

    While working you give out free views of your ass crack? No thanks.

  4. Re:Don't Worry on Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors · · Score: 1
    Please pay attention to the causality problem: that which you supposedly fix now will only be delayed 30,000 years; and the currents of time will draw you back to the problem. Only 30,000 years from now the lack of proper literacy will cause the universe to be on the cusp of a multidimensional implosion.

    You should pay closer attention the The Doctors lessons.

  5. Re:To mainstream lit, sci fi is like comic books on Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors · · Score: 1
    And thus, to quote TFA

    ... in a world where more and more employers are complaining about school leavers departing education barely usefully literate for their adult lives, UNo w@ I mean, mn?

  6. Re:But how... on Lasers To Replace Sparkplugs In Engines? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shark injectors, obviously.

  7. Re:Job Change on Promotion Or Job Change: Which Is the Best Way To Advance In IT? · · Score: 2

    The gaping whole...

    The look on the face of every person in manglement in the conference room when you pull out the really old email which places responsibility on manglement for the current clusterduck they are trying to hang around your neck. Generally characterized by slack jaws, rapid mouth breathing, and rapidly shifting eyes.

  8. Re:Victimless "crime" on DOJ Seizes Online Poker Site Domains · · Score: 1

    Please stop giving them ideas. Next thing you know, Las Vegas will be replaced by the LVSE -- Las Vegas Stock Exchange. And the shows and music and other entertainment will suck.

  9. Re:I have absolutely no problems with govt shutdow on No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week · · Score: 1

    No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives...

    Not paying the Legislature does not violate the law. By failing to pay, compensation is not being varied. But, like all other government workers during a government shutdown, compensation is not being delivered . Once a budget bill has been passed, all compensation will be delivered without variance .

    I propose no person in the entire Legislative branch receive compensation after January 15th until a budget bill is passed....let everyone else in government get paid.

  10. Re:not sure who they represent on No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week · · Score: 1

    You have surrendered to common sense. Properly standing up in a public forum about people whining they have no choice; and denigrating these people for surrendering their choices to suits. You whine about how few Americans vote; yet fail to take up arms to corral and herd these voters to the booth. You have surrendered your initiative to the insurmountable barriers of cost, lack of applicability to your life, and the lack of necessity to fulfill this mission. I expect less from the French; you disappoint my unrealistic expectations.

  11. Re:Not exactly on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. I expect the Blackberry users will ensure the RIM tablet is not a complete failure. Whether the RIM tablet will expand the user base is another question altogether. Blackberry marketing basically hinges on the security and compliance elements of the platform. Heavy handed security compliance concepts are not the best way to market a product to a new user base.

  12. Re:A 'higher' idea? on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    Those tablets required a lot of power to be effective. Not designed for continuous everyday use.

  13. Re:Snail Mail vs. E-mail? on FBI Overwhelmed With 'Solutions' To Encrypted Note · · Score: 1

    Send them 7G of data on a DVD....encrypted.
    Just to be safe, send the key by an independent method -- email them the decryption key. Use a subject "Use this key to solve the mystery".

  14. Re:Officer! on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    Baste yourself in teriyaki sauce and dare him to eat you.

  15. Re:Double dipping? on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Tax the tires used on all road vehicles: autos, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, mopeds, skateboards, roller skates, mopeds, unicycles, SUVs, etc. Abusing everyone equally is the only way to make it work. Plus, it promotes the government policy of making the constituents fight among themselves and distract attention from the real problems.

  16. Re:Awsome! on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    It's OK so far, I guess, but it doesn't have an OMGPonies plugin yet.

    But it does have a Side Saddle plugin. Is that close enough?

  17. Re:yay on ICANN Approves .XXX · · Score: 1

    You really need to learn how to make it last longer.
    .orgasm

  18. Re:Drizzle? on Drizzle Hits General Availability · · Score: 1

    Was the development team trying to infer that if you get in bed with Oracle and try to pull away, you will be left with an untreatable and nasty systemic problem?

  19. Re:Silly. on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    Oh dear, you just gave them an idea. Stop that before you get promoted.

  20. Re:Yes absolutely on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    So you're the crazy SOB who decapitated the neighbor kid's snowman!

  21. Re:DRM on Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money · · Score: 1

    Because carrier pigeons did not have GPS back then, packet loss was significant, so getting the license key initially was environmentally unsound due to excessive, accidental pigeon depletion. So we had to find another network.

  22. Re:Updates to story on Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but I stopped using Trumpet Winsock when I installed OS2. But, if I could just find that 9600 baud modem again, I could dial up my old BBS ...oh, they don't have a modem bank anymore. And why don't these kids use punctuation anymore in the chat rooms? Can we have 1994 back again?

  23. Re:computers are good at repetative work on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 2

    ..people want something interesting that always changes,

    No, not all people want interesting challenging work. Many people want work which makes them feel safe and secure. Many others want work which is redundant and repetitive so they as an individual never have to take any risk. Many others want work which never changes because change makes them afraid. Many others don't want interesting or changing work because they are incapable of change themselves.

    Just because your work environment is composed of people who want interesting work don't equate that to all other work places. Some of us have to work with the other 86% of the population.

  24. Re:'bout time on Timezone Maintainer Retiring · · Score: 1

    A grand illusion where one assumes 1000ms = 1 sec -- more or less.

  25. Re:Nostalgia ain't what it used to be on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 2

    +1 disillusioned
    -1 realist
    +1 why-does-he-expect-things-to-just-work?
    -1 lacking-a-sense-of-random-unnecessary-adventure