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  1. Re:I don't on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 0

    I'm thinking of doing just that for some relatives' PCs and am wondering what you consider the downsides to be with your approach. Thanks.

  2. ur windoz boxen slo? on Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion · · Score: 0

    "Don't call it a virus, or a bug. It's feature erosion." TM

  3. Re:Surprising on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 0

    Stop This? Nonsense!

  4. Re:Seems to be automatic on Typical Windows User Patches Every 5 Days · · Score: 1, Funny

    That trojan you don't know you're running also has an automatic update feature.

  5. Re:Ewww! on The Computer That Can Read Your Mind · · Score: 0

    No kidding! How many years of nightmares for me now?

  6. It has to be said. on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 0

    F1ck Microsoft.

  7. Who's the opposite of the Maytag Repair Man? on Microsoft VP Suggests 'Net Tax To Clean Computers · · Score: 0

    The Vice President for Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft.

  8. Re:Time does not exist on What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration · · Score: 1

    Consider, fellow Slashdotters, time being empty of any independent existence; same with the past, future, birth and death. The Buddha said:

    Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
    A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream:
    A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
    A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

    -- The Diamond Sutra

  9. Re:Flawed Summary on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 0

    So you're that fellow who reads the articles on Slashdot! It's a real honor to be your first post.

  10. Read and learn it, or sleep with the fishes. on Cryptome in Hot Water Again · · Score: 0

    Global Criminal Compliance Handbook?

    It helps global criminals comply with all those pesky, but obviously important, inter-syndicate deals, capiche?

  11. Re:ffs.. the "zomg how to preserve" story -again-! on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 0

    And that story had a comment just like yours linking to an even earlier story, and so on. Slashdotters LOVE recursion.

  12. Re:Why expect companies to "upgrade"? on Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands · · Score: 0

    Three words: Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.

  13. Otherwise known as... on Life Imagined As One Big RPG · · Score: 0

    Karma.

  14. MS just hired the NRA's PR firm on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 0

    Windows 7 doesn't kill batteries. People kill batteries.

  15. Re:Patch Tuesday ahead. on Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug · · Score: 0

    So let's be clear. Every second Tuesday, until hell freezes over, will be a critical windows update event. Heck of a job Stevie.

  16. In Treatment on Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms · · Score: 0

    1. Shoot the film from the perspective of the Shaddam's throne and characterize the freemen as your basic extremist/Jihadist types. The neocons will eat it up right up until the "evildoers" win, and then again claim Hollywood is anti-'merican. 2. Shoot the movie from the Bene Gesserit perspective and get funding in Israel. Invite Joe Lieberman to the premier gala. 3. Shoot the movie from the Shai Haluud perspective in an Disney-esque animated children's classic called "Sandworm Come Home". 4. Shoot the movie from the Guild space-folding perspective as a road movie. Any of the above will suck just as much as anything we're likely to see. Unless Frank "Old Blue Eyes" Sinatra sings the soundtrack, of course.

  17. Re:Irrational exuberance, anyone? on ARM Exec Says 90% of PC Market Could Be Netbooks · · Score: 0

    M$ being strong arm-ed? Payback is a bitch!

  18. And who is spinning in their grave right now? on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 0

    That would be Billy Mays.

  19. Re:I've gotten around this... on Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods? · · Score: 0

    Sounds like a super Bowl Party. Have fun.

  20. Output=42 on Can Curiosity Be Programmed? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Somehow it always comes down to being 42.

  21. Surfing with the Alien on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 0

    E.T. here. WTF? I can't use it to phone home?

  22. Re:Multi-tasking on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 0

    If it does, I didn't see it. But then again, engadget failed on me 25 times during the presentations.

  23. Been there, done that. on NASA Concedes Defeat In Effort To Free Spirit Rover · · Score: 0

    Well, not exactly.

  24. It's not the heat... on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 0

    It's the humidity.

  25. Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 0

    Until we get there, it's all unobtainium.