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  1. Re:No kidding? on RIAA Goes After Satellite Radio · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd add that the signal is recorded in the EM waves that spread outwards from Earth.

    Geez... I guess now the RIAA can extract lost revenue from aliens as well. Have they no limits to their insanity?!?!

  2. Re:So what's new on Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Never had a crash?

    I'm using 1.0.7 at home on Windows and I crash every time I visit this url from adobe.

    http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/main.h tml

    Anyone have this problem? I haven't done much to my copy, except for the usual extensions.

  3. Re:MS keeps innovating in their spin on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1

    ... so are you saying that Bernie Eccelstone and Bill Gates are one in the same person?

    Well... they both make obscene amounts of money for starters...

  4. We can start now! on Japan Will Stage Mock Cyberattacks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just post up a link on slashdot to any of the companies needing a test.

  5. Re:tips following clean room standards (?) on Making Your PC Dust Free? · · Score: 1

    Why not just RICE up your computer by using a K&N oily air filter. I'm sure some gearhead computer geek can figure one out.

    Actually, to be serious, do any of those electronic air filters work? I'm referring to the ones where they ionize the dust particles before passing it through a metal grate. If so, why not just put one close to the intake fans?

  6. Re:Badly Written on P2P Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift · · Score: 1

    I would like a copy of this CDROM so I can bypass my ISP's bandwidth limitation.

  7. Re:Playstation 3... on Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back · · Score: 1

    "Grand Theft Auto - Whole of the damned Continenal United States" anyone?

    Interesting concept, but I would hate the mission where I would need to deliver a package from NY to LA. How long is that drive?

  8. Re:Back On Track The Moon on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Honestly, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fly a handful of people to mars for what purpose? Just to show that we can? Meanwhile, there are thousands of Americans living in poverty.

    In some ways it doesn't seem right that we don't take care of our people better than we do before spending billions on space exploration. The priorities seem mixed up to me.


    With that sort of attitude, you'll never get to space exploration. There will always be people needing assistance no matter how much money you throw at it. If you ever reached the point at which you've thrown enough money at taking care of the people in poverty, more people will join the ranks of poverty (those on the borderline of needing assistance) because at that point, it will be easier than working.

    Sure, we should help the poorest of the poor, but at some point you've got to say "Hey, you're just going to have to start looking out for yourself, we can't take care of you from cradle to grave."

    People's wants will always surpass your ability to provide.

  9. Re:How long? on Giant Squid Caught on Film · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We should fight the battle down there, so we don't have to fight it up here.

    Well, that shouldn't be too hard. I've seen some pre-emptive action already from Greenpeace videos of countries dumping illegal nuclear waste in drums into the ocean. It won't be long before they die of radiation poisoning.

    Or... *gasp*... they mutate in even MORE giant squids...

    In which case, I, for one welcome our new giant squid overlords.

  10. Re:Betamax v. VHS on Microsoft, Intel back HD DVD over Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    I'm too young to remember that format war, but I'm not young enough to learn the lesson:

    Wait until a de-facto standard has emerged. Otherwise, its a crapshoot at best.


    You were also probably too young to remember that it took a long long time before anything sorted itself out and that in order to view all the movie titles available you had to have BOTH a Beta and VHS player.

    Nothing like renting a movie and betting on which format it was before taking the cassette out of the generic plastic box.

    Good times... good times...

  11. Re:Dilemma on Solar-powered Handbag · · Score: 1

    What's a geek to do?

    A geek will buy it.

    Here's why: Marketing department will rename it to some sort of cool manly name (i.e. Manbag), add a pile of extraneous pockets, and promote it as the next "must-have" gadget.

    You'll buy it, and you'll LIKE IT MISTER! *point finger*

  12. How soon? on First modernized GPS satellite Launched · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How soon do we realize the benefit of this new satellite? Should we be able to see results right away just from one satellite? Or will we have to wait for 2 more satellites and hope that our GPS connects to the 3 newest ones in order to get the better resolution?

  13. Re:20GB of CDs ripped to mp3? on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    It could be he just has one long song that has been ripped with a pretty high bitrate. Like SUPER BIG bitrate. ;)

  14. Re:Funny, I was thinking something similar... on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1

    You have to either destroy the backup or transfer it the buyer as a backup copy. Basically, no part of the data may remain in your possession after sale.

    Damn! How the hell do I get it out of my head then?! HELP ME FOR GOD'S SAKE!

    "Hit me baby one more time... Oops I did it again..."

  15. Re:Not so bad... on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to cut someone's hands off? It's really hard.

    If the person isn't struggling with you, it actually isn't very hard to cut someone's hands off.

    Just think of a butcher, they cut limbs off regularly.

  16. Re:What about Sasktel?! Always forgotten... on Canada-Wide Wireless Broadband Network Planned · · Score: 1

    Well, if it makes you feel any better, the rest of Canada really appreciates Saskatchewan's production of wheat, barely and hops for all that beer goodness!

  17. Let me be one of the many to say... on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    We're all going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!

    *runs to spread panic and fear*

  18. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's under the tabbed browsing in options.

    "Warn when closing multiple tabs"

  19. Re:November 22 on XBox 360 Launching Nov 22 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I take it "Silent Scope 360" will be a launch title so.

    But will it be single-player, or a squad-based multiplayer???


    I believe it will have multiplayer capabilities, with a camping spot located on a grassy knoll.

  20. Re:Where is New Zealand? on Real-time Spam Map · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll be a fruit?

    (Come on... that was pretty funny and well timed!)

  21. Re:Well, let's get something straight on US Companies Sponsor Pro Gamers · · Score: 1

    "Cyberathlete"

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA. *cough*cough*cough*choke*

    (pauses to catch breath)

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...


    Your cardio could use some work. What game do you recommend to fix that?

  22. Re:My services on The Next 50 Years of Computer Security · · Score: 1

    love your sig...but isn't it backwards ;=)

    Really depends on what you plan on doing.

  23. My services on The Next 50 Years of Computer Security · · Score: 1

    Let me be the first to offer you those services as it describes my company exactly. We exchange security for a small meagre portion of your vast unused computer cycles and HDD space.

    For everyone else, Do you need mass advertising? Do you need to get your message out in a cheap and effective manner? Contact me for mass electronic messaging promotions.

  24. Re:I have cable / upload speed on 12Mbps Powerline Broadband Trial Unveiled · · Score: 1

    At least with a dynamic IP, you could always use the argument against the **AA of "You can't prove without a doubt that this particular IP was in my use at that time."

  25. Re:seems sort of risky on Old Airlift Vehicle Concept Made New · · Score: 1

    A single .22 hole would probably take tens of hours to cause significant deflation.

    If the main idea was to bring down an airship, who would only shoot once?

    There are cannons that exist that shoot 20mm shells at a rate of 100s of rounds per sec.