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  1. Re:Napster != OpenNap on Why Offshore Napster Won't Work · · Score: 1

    Napigator?

  2. As an experiment... on Is Crypto Solely for Criminals? · · Score: 5

    ...about 3 years ago, a bunch of us started pgp-ing our email at work, both internally and externally. Within a week, an email from the IT department went around asking people NOT to use encryption, as 'it is causing an undue load on the mail server'. Baloney, they just couldnt read our mail any more....

  3. Gee... on CDDB No Longer Allows Grip Users to Connect UPDATED · · Score: 4
    ...use a service that requires a license fee, dont pay the fee, get cut off.

    and the problem is?

  4. Re:Cell Phone Jammers on Canada Considers Cellphone Jammers · · Score: 2

    Nah, aluminum foil hats rock for keeping the CIA out of your head..

  5. Re:Anyone tried to run... on Linux On Windows - The Thin End Of The Wedge? · · Score: 2
    No more than running VMware on a box and running a few copies of Extreme Linux on it...Get the worlds slowest cluster...

    Not that we've done anything that silly, no, not us...

  6. Re:Namespace collisions? on New Domains Delayed, Open to Corps. First · · Score: 5

    Thunderdome! Two CEO's enter, one CEO leaves...

  7. Re:but the question is... on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    There's this nifty device called a Microwave oven. Perhaps you've heard of it...

  8. Re:Aluminum Foil for Rioters on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 2

    I thought aluminum foil was used against the CIA mind control satelites?

  9. I dont get it... on P2P Will Lead To Higher ISP Charges? · · Score: 2

    I read the article, and all I see is the quote that P2P "will break the ISP business model". I dont see how me having some sort of P2P running off my DSL line is any different than me being on IRC with files offered, or surfing, or anything else.

  10. Re:Dunno about profits... on Apple Patents GUI Theme Engine · · Score: 1

    Its Aston Martin and Austin Healey, you heathens. Get yer British cars right...geez

  11. Well... on NEAR Lives On; Balloon Doesn't · · Score: 1
    ...not exactly popped.

    The balloon developed a leak not long after launch and fell slowly back to Earth near its launch site in Alice Springs in central Australia's remote and inhospitable outback, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio said.

    Sounds (or rather, doesn't sound) like it didnt 'pop', but deflated.

  12. Get the worlds... on NASA Launches Largest Single-Cell Balloon · · Score: 1

    ...biggest pin, and create the worlds largest pop.

  13. Re:Live by the comet, die by the comet. on More Evidence For An Extinction Comet · · Score: 1
    ironic, since comets are also thought to be the source of the complex organic molecules that eventually assembled into life in the first place.

    Probably all delivered in one big hunk....WHAM!

  14. Unfortunately.... on Getting The Most Out Of Co-Op Programs? · · Score: 2
    ...thats how many businesses look at co-op students.

    Boss #1 Hey, we need someone to do this drudgery

    Boss #2 We won't be able to get anyone to do that work, its menial and crap

    HR Dweeb Hrm, I just got this information from WestNorthSouthern University, and they have a co-op program. They earn 'credit' for doing work for us, if we give them good reviews, and its dirt cheap!

    Boss 1&2 in unison Brilliant!

  15. Re:Not necessarily on Human Genome Confirms Evolution · · Score: 1

    Yea, dont we all copy and paste from other projects, and then add tweaks to make it how we want the new one? Who's to say God didnt do the same thing?

  16. Re:Proving the obvious on Water/Complex Carbon Found In Distant Solar System · · Score: 1

    Yea, they came from Golgafrincham on the 'B' Ark...

  17. Re:Coding as an outlet for creativity on Where Is The Line Between Programmer And Artist? · · Score: 2
    Programming is an art form with many different mediums. I wish more people understood that.

    I prefer to think of programming as an art form that fights back.

  18. Re:Pity the website for the second half sucks... on Berkely Breathed Interview · · Score: 1
    I too was amazed that Mr. Breathed consented to the interview. Just goes to show what an amazingly froody guy he is. (Zero points for catching the reference.)

    I would have said "What a hoopy frood he is"...more gramattically correct...

  19. Re:But more importantly on Napster Users Being Arrested In Belgium · · Score: 2
    LISTER: All right then, a time machine. She can invent a time machine, and we could all pick whatever period in history we wanted to live in.

    RIMMER: Well, it'll be the nineteenth century for me. One of Napoleon's marshals. The chance to march across Europe with the greatest general of all time and kill Belgians. Marvellous.

  20. Wonderful... on Bacteria to Destroy Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 2

    ...instead of fixing all the pollutants that are causing an increase in greenhouse gases, we're gonna unbalance things more by introducing this into the environment...

  21. Re:Do they have these rights to with snail-mail? on Ask Carl Kadie About Censorship and Privacy at Colleges · · Score: 4

    The answer to this is no, because federal law prohibits them from opening your mail, but there are no laws reguarding your email. Thats the problem. Email spread has outpaced the government's ability to regulate the delivery of it....

  22. Re:Someone get larry wall on the phone.. on Symantec Patents Virus Updates · · Score: 3

    Its fairly obvious that many of the patents being granted these days have prior art, or violate the "obvious" rule. The patent examiner is noted on the patent. Someone should run through all the silly patents and see if there is a pattern of certain examiners not doing their due dilligence. OR, see if the examiners are being paid off.

  23. Re:Wow, TV's get thinner on Sony's OEL Thinner And Better Than Today's LCDs? · · Score: 1

    I thought that was Leon?

  24. Re:Open-source multiplayer on Full GPL Game Company - Nevrax · · Score: 1

    Ah, right, the old security-through-obscurity model that works so well with the security holes in Windows...

  25. Re:What's with the fezzes? on Mason 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I used to work with a guy that was a Shriner. I dont remember his name, but his fez is familiar...