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  1. Re:hmmm on Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember the Hampster Dance tune being used on the Disney radio station for a while. Not that I actually listen to that poor excuse for a crappy radio station, though...

  2. Re:Slashdot has a large pool of users on iDownload Tries to Silence Spyware Critics · · Score: 1

    Exactly. A slashdotting of C&D letters. Send them in Word format to make the slashdotting even more effective.

  3. Re:say wha? on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    but they don't buy bad TV on DVD.

    You've never met my roommate...

    Have you ever been forced to watch several DVDs of "Unsolved Mysteries"? Followed by "Frasier"? And then "Cheers"? And "Golden Girls"?

    It's enough to give nightmares for weeks...

  4. Re:The FCC Is Folding With Four Aces on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    You may think paying for HDTV is worth it, but I do not, and I'd rather not be forced to pay for it. See, I don't mind it if it's just an option; you can have your HDTV, and I'll stick with my old TV, but if I have to buy a new TV just to continue watching TV, then why bother at all? I barely watch the crap that is on TV anymore anyway. It's certainly not worth it for me.

  5. Re:Gasp! on Blockbuster Sued Over Late Fees Claim · · Score: 1

    If you lie in an advertisement, you should face stiff penalty.

    Like, not being able to advertise for a year. That'd be sweet.


    A world in which all companies can only advertise once a year? Too good to be true.

  6. Re:cat food /dev/cat on Linux-Based Cat Feeder · · Score: 1

    meow-~ $ echo "Meow meow meow meow" > food
    meow-~ $ cat food
    Meow meow meow meow
    meow-~ $

  7. Re:MS interoperability on Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Well, just checked it in Mozilla suite 1.7.5 in FreeBSD, and Hotmail works fine...

  8. Re:I nominate on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo · · Score: 1

    Because if you believe enough, God will protect you from those evil computer viruses.

    Or something like that.

  9. Re:Duh. on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 1

    He's probably referring to XP Home, which by default doesn't have an Admin password, while XP Pro does ask for an Admin password.

  10. Re:This makes me think about... on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, Netscape, long before the Mozilla web browser, identified itself in the UserAgent string as "Mozilla". So, back when the majority of people used Netscape, other broswers (such as Internet Explorer) identified themselves as "Mozilla compatible".

  11. Re:This makes me think about... on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1

    Mozilla: 34,200,000
    Internet Explorer: 26,900,000
    Firefox: 26,400,000
    Safari: 17,300,000
    Opera: 45,800,000
    lynx: 8,200,000
    links: 650,000,000

    Clearly, Mozilla is better than Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer is slightly better than Firefox (Recount, please??), but Opera is better than all of the other graphical browsers. Links, however, is apparently the best web browser of all.

    Please note that these statistics are completely unscientific, and may be contaminated by the fact that Opera and Links mean other things than web browsers...

  12. Re:www.msn.com won't even try to render in Safari on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    I have also seen that happen in IE6, so I don't think it's browser-specific.

  13. Re:Hmm... on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    All people who use Linux are communists: Bill Gates
    All communists go to hell: J. Edgar Hoover
    I use Linux.

    Therefore, I am going to hell.

  14. Re:Hubble on eBay on No Money For Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is that eventually, the gyroscopic stabilizers will wear out, and it will be unable to move.

    Not really unable to move, but unable to be controlled.

  15. Re:So what on Scalable Enterprise Buzzword Solutions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So, in other words, the target audience, the CEO/CIO/board of directors, is an audience that wants to be blown over with meaningless bullshit.

  16. Re:Summer? on Build Your Own BSD Beer Brewing Control System · · Score: 1

    Just yesterday it was 70F here, while it is normally closer to 0...

  17. Re:Weatherbug? on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1

    There is KWeather in KDE, but IMHO, it isn't quite as good as Gnome Weather.

  18. Re:voice commands on In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.... note to self: Find office that uses voice-recognition software. Buy megaphone.

  19. Re:As long as the keyboard? on In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated · · Score: 1

    What if you dream in the programming language that you are using?

  20. Re:not that obscure on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, the problem in our society is not illiteracy, but aliteracy: nearly everyone can read, it's just that they don't.

  21. TechTV was once a very good TV station, but... on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't watched TechTV since it was bought out by G4, and, to be honest, I don't intend to start. It was excellent before the takeover, but afterwards, the focus changed, and it became clear that the new management didn't want the "geeks" that watched TechTV. So be it. But don't expect me to watch G4/TechTV anymore.

  22. Re:$9940 on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    it's not a pyramid scheme (if it were, you could bet it would be shut down by now), it's a multi-level marketing (advertising?) program.

    "This is not a pyramid scheme, this is a triangle plan!"

  23. Re:Less subscribers? on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    So... that means 42% of the people on the internet from the US are using Windows...

    No, it means that 42% of the people running Windows are from the United States.

  24. Re:Worse (cyber) crimes in the world. on Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but it's sort of a false analogy. You can't get 15 years for speeding.

  25. Re:Party like it's 2099 on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    Oddly, the Java applet on NASA's website shows the asteroid not hitting Earth. Of course, it isn't meant for modeling the asteroid's motion over long periods (as indicated by the disclaimer on the page), so it's basically meaningless.