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  1. Re:A true geek? on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1

    I helped design a Female Urinary Incontinence Device with the brand name Innova. Ever thought about changing your name? Oh, yeah, you're stuck with it, so long as you cling to that 4 digit ID for crediblity here. . .

  2. Re:ST:TNG, Your charecter exit on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1

    Bizarro Star Trek?

  3. Re:Homoerotic Fan Fiction on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1

    Oops, that's Wesley Crusher. Never can remember character names in shows I didn't watch much...

  4. Homoerotic Fan Fiction on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any favorite work of homoerotic fan fiction? There's quite a library of it out there on the 'net, and much of it features Wesley Yarrington.

  5. Re:Hydrogen grid? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 1

    At 1 pm on a hot summer day, you want that power for yourself. Unless your lifestyle is radically different than the demographic, you're gonna blend into the averages and come out the same as everyone else. And in terms of power usage, we're all mostly the same.

    A 'cheating the odds' get-rich scheme mostly just makes money for the people selling the nifty new equipment. I.e. these Ballard folks.

  6. Re:doom 3 on Impressive Half Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    The Doom mod is a snappy new 486 with 16 megs of RAM.

  7. Re:it can be... on Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture · · Score: 1

    There are as many different 'distros' of Linux as there are people with the whim to produce one. Most of them are NOT people who have copies of the various standards on hand.

    Homework assignment: Compare and contrase our uses of the word whim.

  8. Re:What kinds of cards are they / where to find? on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    Telecom switching hardware. Not computer boards or networking equipment. It's a separate category. I sold a few telephone switches on eBay last summer (they had been abandoned at the dumpster at a local auction house by someone who must have gotten them in a big lot of stuff, and since they weren't easy-to-understand consumer electronics, the numbskull bidder pitched them).

  9. Re:Dead Fish on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    I can spell principle better than you, obviously. So can the grandparent commenter, I would guess.

  10. Re:That's different on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    Can you cite a few specific examples of this?

  11. Re:Help, call 911 on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    Stealing is such a strong word. Shouldn't it be 'someone is at the front desk trying to Human Engineer the receptionists computer away from her.'

  12. The Hardware for I/O is all exposed?? on Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can you really 'add a keyboard' and 'disk drive', etc?

    To do that, I would think this device would need a lot of exposed I/O hardware, i.e. pins, etc.

    I suspect that rather, this is all embedded in some sort of an ASIC or FPGA.

    Can anybody add more info?

  13. Re:This is good on PalmOne Commits to Treo Fix · · Score: 1

    I got a free hard drive from Microsoft for buying Office XP, years ago. It was a 30GB drive. Have sold the Office XP, the drive is still fine.

  14. Re:You fell for it on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    You prattle off a bunch of info about the current (as in, this particular moment's) state of processors, like some sort of 'Intel has lost' celebration, and are 'backing your opinions up by facts.' Which you repeat over and over.

    And say basically nothing new, that hasn't been said before.

    There's no arguement to be 'winning' here. I've just noticed that you are one of the gleeful ones at this particular moment in time. Almost like your ego is invested in AMD 'winning' or something.

    Tomorrow may be a new day. Intel might never again make an innovative next-gen processor. Or they might come out with something new and cool that 'competes.' What's the big deal? Is the fantasy of dancing on their grave really that important?

    I could give a shit either way. You're being a fanboy for AMD. Case closed.

  15. Re:Valid investigation techniques? on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 1
    Seriously, if they don't have any concrete leads, what are they supposed to do? Just stop investigating?


    And stop getting a paycheck? No, they're not likely to do that.
  16. Re:You fell for it on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    What was the puppy's name?

  17. Re:Important to note on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 1

    You don't have to do that. All you have to do is call it Red Hat Linux and the boys at RedHat will come after you. Ask a business entity like this one who have to sell something they brand as 'Pink Tie Linux' because of RHAT's legal muscle.

  18. Re:Important to note on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nobody 'sues' a 12 year old girl.

    The parents of a 12 year old girl were sued, as they are legally responsible for said girl's actions.

    A few days later they were seen at the Borders bookstore picking up a copy of 'Spanking for Dummies.'

  19. Re:Important to note on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 1

    If you want security, run Linux.

    Ding ding ding.

    Wrong.

    If you want security, understand how to secure your systems. Blindly slapping Linux on your hardware to get 'security' is beyond idiocy, it's almost felonious.

  20. Re:You fell for it on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    You're starting to seem like the king fanboy for AMD. Did Intel kill your puppy or something?

  21. Re:Itanium2 on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    Shit, I paid $600 for my first 486 processor.

  22. Re:Intel should know better... on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    Nothing from Microsoft ever ran on the Alpha in a true 64-bit mode.

    That says enough.

  23. Re:You fell for it on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    They won't (need to) be using x86 chips, either.

    At least we should be hoping so.

    Isn't it time to move on?

  24. Re:cringely is not always right on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    His psuedonym probably had a Ph.D. Well, at least maybe it did when it was a shared psuedonym and a number of writers used it.

    Really, though, those days are long gone. He's simply the guy who stuck around longest and got to keep the sock puppet. Nothing more, and it's pitiful that anybody thinks otherwise.

  25. Re:You fell for it on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's like claiming 'well-tuned, expensive design projects with high software budgets will be the early adopters of the new architecture.'

    'Looking at what people are actually using' translates to: Looking at what was designed yesterday. I mean, come on.

    Maybe Itanium won't gradually scale up. But the glee people have about this is really just depressing, nothing more.

    Can't you fanboys fight about your brand of motorcycle or something else for awhile?