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  1. Re:GNU Prairie Home Companion on Patrick Volkerding Interviewed by The Age · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That'd be Minnux now wouldn't it?

  2. Most people don't make a decent living on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 1

    "Like most people, I make a decent living, ..."

    On what planet? Sorry, off topic and all, but the Buzzer of Cluelessness is sounding.

  3. Re:Spreadsheet? on Lego Addictions · · Score: 1

    My God! You're right! Ideally, the barcode will be inside each brick so as not to destroy the esthetic.

  4. Re:Anybody want to venture a guess on Purchase Your Personal Gene Map · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your jeans are more likely to be pantsed.

  5. Survival of the bad assest on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 1

    "Gaak made its bid for freedom yesterday after it had been taken out of the arena where hundreds of visitors watch the machines learning as they do daily battle for minor repairs."

    That's brutal. They have to fight each other to get repairs. Dang!

  6. Re:Actually what about... on USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning · · Score: 1

    It might prove useful to send food and other materials into orbit but not much else.

    If that food is pudding.

  7. Re:Am I missing something? on Filing a Domain Name Dispute? · · Score: 1

    Maybe yes. Maybe no.

    FM (frequency modulation) is a mode of radio broadcast. The given frequency is expressed as a number. 88.1 for example. Compare to AM.

    In the US, radio stations can be assigned "call letters". KDHX would be a typical example of these "call letters."

    .org is a high level domain, for use by non-profit pornographers.

    Thus, with a little imagination it can be supposed that kdhxfm88.org was meant to serve as a useful mnemonic for an FM radio station, found at 88.n whose call letters are KDHX and which may have functioned as a non-profit of some sort.

    - The Nattering Pedant

  8. Verbiage on Knights of the Limits · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    vergiage

  9. Re:my solution on How Can I Make More Of My Cubicle? · · Score: 1

    Your roof seems a bit massive. A parasol of opague material might work with less risk of being crushed.

  10. oh, THAT Design Office. on Three Russian Space Shot Deaths-- Pre-Gagarin? · · Score: 1

    Oh well, if it came from Experimental Design Office 456 then it has to be true.

  11. Ultimate Early Adapters or Adopters? on William Gibson On Japan · · Score: 1

    A typo?

  12. Re:Your home, fine, but NOT public places. on Canada Considers Cellphone Jammers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the expression you're looking for is "pissers".

  13. Re:IPv6 why? on Bind, Safer DNS, and IPv6 · · Score: 1

    A napkin calculation shows that there is a rough equivalency between IPv6 addresses and nanometers on the surface of the earth. Someone should check my math.

  14. Re:Yet another reason why encryption is important on New Tech In Data Retrieval · · Score: 1

    AHHHH! He said purple monkey dishwasher!!! AHHHHHH!

  15. Re:But Mattel _asks_ if you want it! on Mattel Spyware · · Score: 1

    Argh. Read the article. There were several iterations of the install routine. One of them asked and installed even when the answer was no.
    The last iteration was the Brodcast software is no onger even shipped. Who's the alarmist?

    (Oh no! Someone said something mean!)

  16. Pot Kettle Black on Fuji TV Shuts Down Iron Chef Fansites · · Score: 1

    It has been conjectured on rec.music.movies that some of the soundtrack music that is used on Iron Chef may not have been licensed from its owner, Universal.

  17. Re:Something to be said for mail on New, More Destructive Love Bug Variant · · Score: 1

    To usurp the moral time traveler's dilemma: What if the baby is Hitler?

  18. Re:They had to do SOMETHING, but not that. on Netpliance Ban I-Opener Mods · · Score: 2

    "A contract is a contract,"

    And the contract says (when I ordered mine 3/17) that for $99 +shipping hey would sell me an i-opener. There was no obligation to use their ISP. Ever. For any period.

    So I don't have any payments to default on. Our exchange has concluded - the contract satisfied.

  19. Really made a monkey ... on Tim Burton To Remake "Planet Of The Apes" · · Score: 1

    Taylor: (sings) You really made a monkey out of me!
    Chorus of apes: Yes, we really made a monkey out of ...

    (Big Finish!)
    Taylor / Chorus: ...me / you!

  20. Re:Living like Cat and Dog on Competition for AIBO: Robo Cat · · Score: 3

    What kind of a cat responds to its name? A proper robot cat will learn its name, but will not respond.

  21. Re:McDonalds in Scotland: Urban Myth? on Court Tells Disney to Pull Go.com Logo · · Score: 1

    This McDonald's in Scotland story has characteristics of an urban myth.

  22. Re:What happens over time. on I Want Names for my Servers! · · Score: 1

    Just like James Burke's Connections column in Scientific American

  23. Re:Da Man on Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books · · Score: 1

    It's not just Wookies that suffer:

    http://www.uexpress.com/ups/comics/bo/pages/bo99 0704.html

    http://www.uexpress.com/ups/comics/bo/pages/bo99 0926.html

  24. Re:Why not .us? on Henley.com, Reznor.com. Is Your Name Next? · · Score: 2

    This is where I found info:

    http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr/

  25. respectful badges no doubt on I Am Not a Student, I Am a Number · · Score: 1

    This is the same state that legislated courtesy. So when they threaten to expose the numbers they have to say sir or maam.