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  1. Re:First and Last Post on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just hope that Cowboy Neal is not found in the gutter with a bottle of wine in a year. Why do you want Cowboy Neal to be thirsty? What kind of a monster are you?

    Once you're in the gutter the wine doesn't really hurt you since, let's face it, it can't much worse once it's gone that far.
  2. This is what happens ... on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when your Principal is Microsoft Bob and your school mascot is Clippy.

  3. Re:Uhm on The Roadmap to Leopard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's basically ALL that changed in Desktop: the menu and the dock. I believe your forgot about the dewy grass Desktop image.

    Won't somebody think of the dewy grass!
  4. Re:Opt Out Link on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 1

    It means that it doesn't set one in Safari and that the ones it sets in FireFox/Mac are 'session' cookies (as in they expire as soon as you quit FireFox). Oddly, they seem to last until 2039 in IE/Mac.

    Just remember to set that OptOut page as your home page so you get a new cookie every time ;-)

  5. Re:No surprise here on Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can anyone seriously believe that this warrantless wiretapping, an abuse in and of itself, isn't being used for political purposes? Of course we can ... but would you rather read something like that or a half decent cheap shot at the expense CmdrTaco/Cowboy Neal/Zonk?

    This was modded Funny because my posts are generally laden with humor or heavy sarcasm (meaning no one ever takes me seriously). You should worry when posters like myself are rated Insightful because it's at that point that the real thinkers (aka 'Da Brains') on this sight have fled.

    Reasons the Da Brains might flee:
    * NSA is wiretapping Da Brains' posts
    * Da Brains are wiretapping the Senate Judiciary Committee's phones and learned of their own subpoenas
    * Da Brains have stumbled upon some of my poorer posts (such as this one)
    * Best two out of three options
    * All of the above
    * Da Brains' restraining orders against Cowboy Neal have expired and they have been forced to move to locations without intertubes access
    * In Soviet Russia, subpoenas wiretap you!
    * Profit!

    If I'm ever rated as Interesting then you know it's a slow day on /.
  6. No surprise here on Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet the NSA knew these subpoenas were going to show up since they're probably already tapping the Senate Judiciary Committee's phones too. ;-)

  7. Re:But... on Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nine mouse buttons? Must be one of those new fangled two-handed mice. That's a button for each finger (a la Twister) with one thumb leftover for the traditional "thumbs up" when you finally complete that complicated multi-mouse buttoned maneuver in Duke Nukem Forever.
  8. Re:What does it matter? on Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? · · Score: 1

    If every website told IE users to fuck off and come back with a real web browser the world would be a much better place. Please replace IE with Windows and web browser with operating system and repost.

    Thanks,
    The Intertubes Fairy
  9. Safari Beta 3 on Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the 43 selectors 25 have passed, 9 are buggy and 9 are unsupported (Passed 346 out of 578 tests) Not great, but a lot better than I ever did in school. ;-)
  10. Re:confusing on Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Disclaimer: IANACD (I Am Not A Crack Dealer). DYKOWTV? (Do you know one who takes vouchers?)
  11. Woe is them on Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now · · Score: 1

    Pleading with your customers to buy your product? Who do they think they are, "Head On"?

    And it's no surprise they changed their mind about changing their mind about virtualization. Anything to forse, um, get a customer to upgrade to another level of Vista ...

  12. Re:I'm betting ... on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 1

    Don't get your hopes up; this is a google.org initiative, so I'm not sure they are looking to make money off it. Google is Google is Google. That '.org' is just an acronym for Our Revenue Grows.
  13. Re:I'm betting ... on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they are offering development money to help spur on new technology. Google is a branding monster. Don't doubt for even a second that there will be a GPS (Google Positioning System) with a GPS (Google Powered Search) in any car produced with Google investment capital.
  14. I'm betting ... on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... every Google Car will have Google Maps built in ... complete with Google ads based on your GPS derived location.

  15. Re:Is it just me on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Among other, more dire things... I don't know about you, but I can't think of too many things worse than having my legacy associated with a meal of the vegetarian variety.
  16. Re:Breaking privacy news: on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just pooped my cute little pants. (P.S. Since my karma went down recently, I am unable to post as much. Thanks for your patience.) It's not your posting, but you pooping that's affecting your Karma. Just ask Earl ;-)
  17. Re:Is it just me on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 4, Funny

    too bad they didn't read the history books to see what happened to him. He had a salad named after him?
  18. Re:Is it just me on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 5, Funny

    or has this whole "Czar" thing been way overused. Yes. Yes it has.

    I believe Czar is a Native American word meaning destined for failure.
  19. Re:This is going to be interesting on Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be happy to share it, but would probably be banned for life from here for the language I'd use. Dad!? You post on /. too?
  20. Re:This has been available for a while on Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All kidding aside ... would the FBI (or some other government or law enforcement agency) ever be able to request (wink wink) your DNA from ancestry.com? I doubt there's a 'web site/client' privilege to contend with. Is there any real expectation of privacy if you voluntarily submit it to them?

  21. Re:This is going to be interesting on Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doctors calculate that about 5-10% of all children have a different biological father than they (and their "social" fathers) think. I know my dad is my "biological father". He's a miserable asocial misanthrope just like I am. It's true what they say that the apple doesn't rot far from the tree.
  22. Re:Breaking AT&T news: on AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just pooped my cute little pants. Then I guess right now DSL means do some laundry to you.
  23. Re:I think you're confused on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong, but I don't see a mention of a copyright anywhere on that label. They do mention all their patents, the name of the guy who holds (nowheld) them, and that "violation of any of these conditions will be considered as an infringement of our United States patents".

  24. Re:Common on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your apartment lease declares that just because you paid some money, you don't own the building and you can't tear down walls. Crap and a half! This explain why I keep getting evicted. Where was this post last month when I needed it? ;-)
  25. Hmmm ... on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1
    FTA

    However, admitting I have an unlicensed copy of a record will certainly put me at risk of a lawsuit. I'd be willing to bet a $1 that those patents are long expired by now. If not, I'll just send that $1 directly to the RIAA on your behalf.