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  1. Re:This happens everywhere on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    How exactly were they defecting to you?

  2. Re:Thuggery on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    If you could make boats go where you wanted to from the comfort of your own home, wouldn't you?

  3. Re:Bluetooth replacement? on "GiFi" — Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip · · Score: 1

    Hmm, something like a rectenna?

  4. Re:But why on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    That would be a GNOME troll. KDE would be "greasy gear".

  5. Re:detention for disobedience on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Stars don't come in green. Or black. Or (technically) white.

  6. Re:No longer required.. on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 1

    Gee, maybe I'd just stop by the side of the road and use a fucking call box, as those are intended for use in emergencies.

  7. Re:Like Linux and Windows... ORLY? on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    That last one was true way back when this was first on the internet (1994?). I've seen OS/2, Windows 3.1, and other versions as well. Now the seat comes pre-installed, and shapeshifts to fit your body. :)

  8. first on Woz Still Misses Homebrew Computer Club and Apple · · Score: 0, Redundant

    woz rocks. I miss the old "proprietary architecture and homebrew" days too.\ even though I wasn't alive then.

  9. Wait... on STriDER, a Three-Legged Walking Robot · · Score: 1

    Where the hell is Gordon Freeman?

  10. Re:0.9 TB / 4.8 Gb/s = 1500 seconds on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 1

    Indeed. (they probably mistook 0.90 for 0.09)

  11. Hah! on School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers · · Score: 1

    Funny, at my high school we get two gigabytes of space, inside which we can keep any program we need to (mIRC, sunbird, Pidgin, etc.). In addition, we get a VPN connection. Although I sure wish we got Tablet PCs, as my laptop just stopped working. :(

  12. Re:Or Lightning Fusing Hydrogen? on Gamma Rays From Thunderclouds · · Score: 1

    So would that mean that the Z-Machine at Sandia National Labs imitates nature, or the other way around?

  13. Nature's own linear accelerator! on Gamma Rays From Thunderclouds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just fling electrons at the blue planet where the electricity is, and see if you can hit the little dust-specks. Like billiards! Anyway, it's fun to know that each time there's a thunderstorm, and a random electron flies in from somewhere in the universe, you're getting bombarded with braking radiation. Although, considering that I'm doing experiments with X-rays in my garage, I probably shouldn't worry about that. :) also, first post (if my calculations are correct).

  14. Re:At last! A story *made* for slashdot! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    He said Treo, not laptop.

  15. cat /dev/mem /root/ram on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    Then print out that "document" and turn it over.

  16. Re:Pfft. on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this destroy the servo information on the platters too and make the drive unusable?

  17. Re:I'd still call it a good thing on Censorware Not Good, Just Better Than COPA · · Score: 1

    I have also never found him viewing it.

    1. Alt+tab, hidden taskbar.
    2. Tabbed browsing.
    3. Bosskey/ window hiding or other virtual desktop program.
    4. Turning off the monitor.
    5. Closing the window.
    6. Any combination of the above.

  18. Too bad we've already got gmail on Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've tried Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail Beta. They were actually my first email accounts. Somebody sent me a gmail invite a few years ago and I've never looked back. The yahoo interface is AWFUL.

  19. My school is already doing this on Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    My English, Science and History teachers (this is 9th grade) have banned us from using Wikipedia. My solution? Use the MediaWiki software to mirror Wikipedia (from a database dump) on my own computer! Failing that, you can use answers.com, which shows Wikipedia articles.

  20. If they used ITS, it would be much better on Behind the Scenes at MIT's Network · · Score: 1

    Everything was better with ITS! Just get a DECnet hooked up between a few PDP-10s, and... TADA! No viruses! (Not that I'm old enough to remember ITS... :P I'm a retrocomputing geek.)

  21. Because on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People drop them, spill water on them, http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 8764 put them in the washing machine, etcetra. People are stupid and careless. In addition, capacitors and other parts DO have a limited lifetime.

  22. Yes, but.... on iPod To Eventually Hold All the Video In the World? · · Score: 1

    The MPAA and RIAA would sue you for pirating every music video and movie ever made, as you would have to be unbelivably rich to buy a copy of all of them. Even if you were, you'd probably be near-broke aftarwords, and the MPAA and RIAA would claim that you owed them $2,000,000 for each song because that's the money they lost when you pirated them.

  23. Re:Fusor on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1

    Yeah,fusors are supposed to be relatively easy to make.

  24. I'm not going to get it on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll use Firefox (and OPera, if a plugin for Stumbleupon is released for it) for the rest of my life. Failing that, I'll use the worldf's most secure broswer: Mosaic 1.0!

  25. Someone has to say it on Largest Object in the Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    I for one, welcome our new 200-light-year-wide enourmous amoeba like structture composed of galaxies and large bubbles of gas overlords!