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  1. Re:Reality on When Forced "Upgrades" Bring You Down · · Score: 1
    No kidding, look what happened when Talkie Toaster became popular!

    Howdy doodily doo!

  2. The solution to getting removed... on MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us" · · Score: 1
    "Due to security reasons we do not allow nor do we have a feature to delete Passport accounts. Rest assured that if you do not access your account within 12 months our system will automatically delete your account."

    Get your local Dewey, Cheetum and Howe to pen them a letter.

    Dear Sirs, our client, Joe Leenooksyuhzur, has continually asked to be removed from your database, and, due to some 'rule' you say you are unable to. By this letter you are hereby instructed to remove all information reguarding Mr Leenooksyuhzur from your system by midnight on the 21st, or we intend to persue this in a court of law.

    Signed
    Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe, Attorneys at Law

  3. Havent any of you noticed... on OS X · · Score: 1

    its an april 1 joke?

  4. Re:Deja e-vu on Is The Internet Growing Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    Cellophane factory gutted by fire. No film at 11!

  5. Re:Welcome to April Fool's Day on Seven League Boots · · Score: 1
    Sort of like skis?

    Just because youre a clumsy oaf that falls down in a stiff breeze, doesnt mean that these wouldnt become the next extreme sport.

  6. Re:A rather silly "Ask Slashdot" on Slashdot During War? · · Score: 5
    Reminds me of the following from the reader's Q&A column in TV Guide:

    "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"

  7. Re:If more people would fight back on Day In The Life Of Net Scam Artists · · Score: 5
    I got a spam the other week that lead off with this gem: "This isn't spam. This is a legitimate business email, and I got your address from a list that I purchased"

    Sounds like spam to me.

  8. Re:he's had one pancakes too many on Amazon Veteran On the Record and Off the Leash · · Score: 1

    Yea, no kidding. I was gonna say "lighten up", but I figured it would be in bad taste....

  9. Re:This is about responsibilty. on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 2

    Yea, I did a bit of digging, and found out a few interesting facts. Yes, they are required by law to own a gun, and 75 rounds of issued ammunition. Its checked every year. BUT, even given that law, 18% of Swiss households have a gun in them, compared to 29%. Odd...

  10. Re:This is about responsibilty. on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 2
    Look at Switzerland, every male over 18 is required by law to have an assault rifle in the house, and they have a really low crime rate

    Do you have any statistics to back this claim up, or even a place that will tell me if the gun ownership is really a law? This smacks of an Urban Legend.

  11. Im in Mass on A Study on Regional DSL and Cable Speeds? · · Score: 2
    and my house is 28000 feet from the CO. I get 128k, with the occasional burst to 144 if the phase of the moon is right. During the summer, I get crap, cause there's a break in the line somewhere that is heat sensitive.

    My *NEW* place is 700 feet from the CO, and they claim I can get a 7.1m/768k line to that...Ill let ya know monday...

    -=Bob

  12. Re:WTF? on RIAA Wants Opt-In Filtering For Napster · · Score: 1

    Then they need to visit this website for proper instruction...

  13. Re:Ahh, memories of blowing cash.. on Series on Wizard Of the Coast · · Score: 3

    I always loved it when someone would play against me, with my original cards. They'd scream "Do you know what that card is worth?" "Yup", Id answer, "17 cents, exactly what I paid for it"

  14. MTG on Series on Wizard Of the Coast · · Score: 2
    I dove into MTG early on, I still have,and occasioinally play with, original cards, black border and all. They're tattered and torn, and give the collector weenies fits whenever they see them. Full sets of Moxes, and everything...

    I stopped playing a bit after the artifact expansion sets came out, cause the rules were in flux, and it seemed like every game I played turned ito a rule bickering nightmare.

  15. Re:only one thing to say.... on William Hanna Dead at 90 · · Score: 1

    Cellophane animator dead. No film at 11!

  16. Re:Do we need to clone humans? on Cloned Animals Show Grave Health Problems · · Score: 1

    Yea, but we're gonna need SOMETHING to put in the Soylent Green factories...why not clones of yummy looking people? Presentation is everything, just ask as chef!

  17. Ebay auction on Mir: Rest in Pieces · · Score: 2

    Look at the timestamp on the start of the auction, versus the actual splashdown time. I doubt this is a legit auction....

  18. Re:140 tons of spinning metal... on Mir Deathwatch · · Score: 2

    Its a sad day when decent references go un-noticed....

  19. Re:When will we see the WebToaster? on 3Com Drops Internet Appliances · · Score: 1

    Nooooooooo! Not the Talkie Toaster!

  20. Removing ads on Salon Sans Ads, For A Price · · Score: 1

    Junkbuster, or one of it's derivatives, a decent set of rules, and a tweaked hosts file is alot cheaper....

  21. Re:Free = Freedom, not "No Cost" on No More Free Updates For Red Hat · · Score: 1
    Sure, but they can, (and probably will) make this arbitrary difficult.

    Right, then they lose much of the user base thats using RH, as they try out Mandrake or Debian or ___. Doesnt sound like a good business move.

  22. Well we had it tough. on Slashback: 2600, X-Many Bytes, Results · · Score: 1
    Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

    But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

  23. Re:Good for him on Georgia Teen Stumbles On New Theorem · · Score: 2

    Damn, where are my modpoints when I need em?!?!

  24. For those of us outside DSL/Cable Range on DirecPC USB Satellite Modems Available for Linux · · Score: 2

    What kinds of services are available, besides this one? I do alot of work from home, and my new place is well out of DSL range, and cable is coming 'soon'....

  25. Re:Random Numbers on Security Hole In TCP · · Score: 1
    2) It is not possible to prove that X does not exist.

    Ah, kind of like what the Face On Mars Loonies do...