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  1. Re:Make people think to figure out your e-mail on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you trying to say that Slashdot is a professional forum?

  2. Re:For the LAST time... on Piracy Stats Don't Add Up · · Score: 1
    Do you start lecturing your girlfriend when she tells you that you stole her heart?
    Depends. Are we in a debate?
    Do you rant at friends when they ask to steal a minute of your time?
    Depends are we in a debate?
    I'm all for preventing the perversion of the English language, but if the age of a particular usage is counted in centuries then I think we can call it acceptable.
    That's all good and well in casual speech but it breaks down when we're talking about a formal argument.
  3. Re:Communism on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    Never said it was actually an improvement but that the people of Venezuela see it as an improvement.

  4. Re:Communism on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    It's not that so much as it is they recently emerged from rule by CIA-propped dictators and they want as far away from the CIA(who backed the coup) as possible.

  5. Re:When am I? on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The Doctor called, he wants his time machine back from the years.

  6. Re:Nope on Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? · · Score: 1

    Well, sure, if you have a subway that will create a nuclear explosion if it runs with the doors open...

  7. Re:More like "buy your enemies". on Samba Team Urges Novell To Reconsider · · Score: 1

    Even if they bought any of those that actually make a difference, they couldn't kill the movement.
    With one (debatable) exception--emacs--every fork of GPLed software has ended in either one branch atrophying or the branches merging. And one would probably occur if Microsoft took control of any major FOSS project.

  8. Re:Waste of taxpayer money on The Ballpark Stadium of the Future · · Score: 1

    Democratic Senator Kerry says a single tactless statement and the conservative media screams about it for weeks. Republican Representative Foley molests little kids and the conservative media tries its hardest to scrape it off. And they say the media has a liberal bias?

  9. Re:Spooky on The Ballpark Stadium of the Future · · Score: 1

    Product placement like in Eureka doesn't really bother me that much. It gives them a little bit more money and it's not like they're saying the name of the product repeatedly. The only thing that bothers me is that someone like Samantha Carter would use a Dell.

  10. Re:Intimidating Stars on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 1

    No, Hugo Weaving should be Linux. Especially if he's a Beowulf cluster.

  11. Re:Is it just me, .. on Microsoft Debuts MySpace-Like IT Site · · Score: 1

    To Microsoft, anything other than total domination is "tanking".

  12. Re:Origin, Jeff "The Prior" Bezos on How Bezos Messed With Texas · · Score: 1

    At least we're getting (at least) two DVD movies and the first one will deal with the Ori meaning that Morena Baccarin will be there(Why'd you mention Vanessa Angel instead of Morena? Vanessa hasn't been on that show for years and I doubt she's coming back since the death threats).
    I still wanna bash Mark Stern's head in though...

  13. Re:remember, this is SINGAPORE on Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? · · Score: 1
    the person is modded 2 points most likely because he/she bashed Bush.
    He was originally modded 2 because of the karma bonus default. It's 3 now because he got modded 'funny'.
  14. Re:remember, this is SINGAPORE on Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? · · Score: 1

    The fact that this was in Singapore wasn't surprising. We're talking about a country that bans chewing gum.

  15. Re:When will they stop making asses of themselves? on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw one of the Mac commercials talking about how Macs work out-of-the-box, and thinking about what happens when you want to upgrade.
    That would be an awesome parody commercial. Justin Long exits, a new Mac guy comes in. PC Guy: "What happened?" Mac Guy: "I upgraded." PC Guy: "Why are you so different?" Mac Guy: "I have to have a whole new computer to upgrade." PC Guy: "I don't need to do that." Mac Guy: "Prove it." PC Guy gets his arm screwed off and a huge robot arm put on. Smacks the Mac Guy.

  16. Re:The ads are amusing, but on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 1

    no, that's funnier than Penny Arcade.

  17. Re:What does this imply about PC's and mac's on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 1

    No wait...

    Mac and Windows are trying to figure out why their legs are crashing while Linux has his so well configured that he is on par with Wally West.

  18. Re:MSFT just doesn't get it, do they? on Microsoft Debuts MySpace-Like IT Site · · Score: 1

    Go look up one post from yours. Whoever wrote their FAQ makes President Bush look like Einstein.

  19. Re:Nothing to see here without an Live ID on Microsoft Debuts MySpace-Like IT Site · · Score: 1

    What the hell does making money have to do with required logons? All but one post to this thread has been about such. Actually, a Live ID is free to register(unless you count giving your personal information to a corporation headed by Steve Ballmer) and has nothing to do with making money.

  20. Re:isn't it slow? on Procedural Textures the Future of Games? · · Score: 1

    Not any exact fractals, but the shape of most leaves, and many other surfaces that need to maximize something(our lungs and bloodwork, for example), are fractal down to a microscopic level.

  21. Re:Should have used PostgreSQL instead.. on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1

    PostgreSQL didn't even exist when Slashdot was invented. And I don't think Rob Malda is the Doctor.

  22. Re:we've come a long way since VAXclusters... on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1

    You can take your bullshit "zero downtime" and stuff it up your ass. Oh wait, they're still trying to implement zero downtime on that without making everything corrupted.

  23. Re:Only one thing to say on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1

    Considering that postgresql didn't exist when Slashdot was invented, and Slashdot has quite a few MySQLisms in its code now, and Slashdot also has a custom version of MySQL, that's not a viable option.

  24. Re:Only one thing to say on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1

    Actually I think Mikah(whom we just learned can do things to machines) would be more able to figure out what's happening with Slashdot's server than Hiro.

  25. Re:The nature of language on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 1

    We have records of the Battle of Hastings where the French destroyed the old English. :)