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  1. Re:Rumors on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    "Were I unable to walk, I would cheerfully take out a loan if I had to..."

    Amen to that one. I'm currently wheelchair bound, and I'd sell my fucking soul for something with greater mobility. I have a whole new empathy for people in this situation. Thank God mine is only for another couple months.

  2. The real menace to the Internet on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1

    Is the damn squirrels. Why the heck do they feel the need to eat my fiber? Is fiber optic cable peanut flavored? I wish they would make the shielding for the cables out of cyanide. Little monsters.

  3. Re:Similar on MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware · · Score: 1

    We run a squid proxy for 10 local schools. We recently added a spyware category for blocking. It's kinda weird now -- you'll see individual frames on web pages with the "access denied" message from the proxy, while the rest of the page appears normally.

  4. Yeah, but on Yahoo IM Translator · · Score: 1

    Can it translate teen to English?

  5. My Vision on Firefox Commercial Contest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Involves thousands of paniced Japanese running through city streets screaming "MOZIRRA!!!!!! MOZIRRA!!!"

  6. Re:This is unfair on Seagate buys Maxtor for $1.9B · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree with you. Maxtor has been rock solid for me. Seagate has been a dismal failure. Although my experience with Seagate has been alomst totally on the SCSI side in servers. Very high failure rate. IBM doesn't make drives anymore. Hitachi bought that division out.

  7. Hey Google! on Google to Buy Opera? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you interested in acquiring one aging, slightly flabby, fairly good tech? I'm cheap!

  8. Re:Good or Bad? on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about significantly less commercials and NO product placement?? Try the UK! Over here the ITC have strict rules on when networks can and can't show adverts, how many can be shown and so on.

    Oh, yes! More government control of EVERYTHING in our lives is the answer! Thank you! What an insightful idea! (note to self, make sure and post this as AC)

  9. Re:Good or Bad? on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    Do you think Ford paid to have the "Ford SUX 2000" featured so prominently in Robocop? It wasn't exactly complimentary! Still, could they have used the Ford name so prominently without at least Ford's permission, not to mention advertising dollars?

  10. If you want free TV on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    You gotta understand -- they MUST find a way to try to sell you something. It's only fair, isn't it?

  11. Re:But on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 1

    Just yesterday, I caught a couple of minutes of a show on grizzlies. It blew my mind! At one point, a HUGE bear took down and began to feed on an even huger caribou. I had no idea they were such capable predators.

  12. What is it about having a gajillion dollars... on Indian Tycoon Sets Balloon Flight Record · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that makes people want to get in balloons?

  13. Re:"Intergalactic war", huh? on Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget fusion weapons...

    Yeah, you're all forgetting all we'll need is a copy of Sasser on a diskette! Wait -- they're an advanced civilization, after all... better make that a flash drive.

  14. Re:Brunner's Shockwave Rider on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    I read The Adolescence of P-1 when I was 12 years old, by accident. It was in this big discount bin, and it was one of the few books I could afford. I had no special interest in computers at the time, I just needed something to read. It changed my life.

  15. Where's Cory Doctorow? on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    OK, ok. I'll give them a couple more years before I insist. But, believe me, he's going to make the list someday soon! Check out his ebooks at www.craphound.com. My favorite is "OwnzOred," which is actually a short story in "A Place so Foreign and 8 more."

  16. Re:Limiting Internet Access on Is Wi-Fi Ruining College? · · Score: 1

    "Only works if your classrooms are a few hundred yards apart."

    You're assuming the network admin is totally clueless? I could segregate the APs myself, and I'm hardly a pro at wireless setups.

  17. From Cyric's FA on Glide Effortless to Compete in File Sharing Market · · Score: 1

    Penn State "remains committed to working closely with the RIAA and other law enforcement entities"

    I suppose it was inevitable that soon even erudite institutions like Pennsylvania State University would start thinking of the RIAA as a "law enforcement entitity." How sad.

  18. Dang, my mistake on Nestle Patents Coffee Beer · · Score: 1

    At first I thought it said "coffee *bar*" as in energy bar. I was INTO that idea! Edible coffee? Hell yeah!

  19. Re:Doesn't the Chief Justice set the Court's agend on Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Eolas Appeal · · Score: 1

    Wow, thanks for the link! I was wrong.

  20. Doesn't the Chief Justice set the Court's agenda? on Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Eolas Appeal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And all the libs said Roberts was in the pocket of Big Business... Guess they were wrong?

  21. And? on India's Bollywood Opts for Low-Cost Digital Cinema · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've been hearing about Bollywood for years. Anyone ever HEARD of a Bollywood movie? So who the fuck cares, then?

  22. ye olde two factor authentication." on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    WHAT is your quest? WHAT is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  23. From TFA on PSP Firmware Downgrader Released · · Score: 1

    "The next one who will say shot about him or any respectable devlopper will get my kick on his ass."

    True, true.

  24. Re:Hackaday? on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 1

    I'll give you one guess as to where the link in the story summary takes you. Ya know, most true stories are reported elsewhere first. Otherwise, we'd just have to make up stuff to submit, and hope that turns out to be true.

  25. the Reasonable Person standard on Stolen U.C. Berkeley Laptop Recovered · · Score: 3, Informative

    Man, hard to find a good link to a legal concept. This one should do: http://www.duhaime.org/Tort/ca-negl.aspx.