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  1. This is too much: SiteAdvisor has adware! on MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just now installed it for Firefox, and it automatically installed the Yahoo toolbar along with it without asking. Nor was I informed at any point on the web site that the Yahoo toolbar would be included.

    F*ck that. These hypocrites need to eat their own dogfood.

  2. And in related news.... on Guido Goes Google · · Score: 1

    Google goes Greedo.

  3. Re:Security risk? on Ham Hears Mars Orbiter 45 Million Miles From Earth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As someone who consulted at JPL and helped develop a good amount of DSN protocols, I can second this.

  4. Re:The eBay 'venue' on eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud · · Score: 1

    FYI, craigslist hasn't "sold out" to eBay. Someone who happened to own a minority stake in craigslist, who hadn't been otherwise associated with craigslist in quite a while, sold his share to eBay. Craig Newmark has repeatedly stated that the sale has very little bearing on how he runs craigslist.

  5. The End Of Slashdot on The 3 Billion Dollar Typo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot: The 3 Billion Dollar Typo

    Digg: $225 million dollar typo

    It's over, Slashdot. You're slow, inaccurate, outdated and irrelevant. Digg is the future.

  6. Re:Nature will work it out on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    No? See, infectious diseases have minimal impact on our lives.

    Between this statement and your assertion that smallbox is an extinct species, you have to be the most ignorant "biologist" I have ever encountered. And yes, I have a debree in biology too.

  7. S. Korea fights anti-competitive practices... on South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million · · Score: 1

    ... when they're being committed by non-Korean companies, that is.

  8. Re:Nature will work it out on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    Smallpox:

    1. Is not a species
    2. Doesn't reproduce [by itself]
    3. Is not extinct

  9. Re:Godlike sysadmins on What Kind Of Star Trek MMO Do You Want? · · Score: 1

    And hackers who get root are Trelaines.

  10. Re:Polo on First Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    Here are the rules:

    If it ain't on ice, it ain't hockey.
    If it ain't maple, it ain't syrup.
    If it ain't Canadian, it ain't bacon.

    "Field hockey" should rightly be called "running around in the grass wearing plaid skirts." It is NOT hockey.

  11. Re:Q. Why should you never play hockey with a lepe on First Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    No problem - if it ain't on ice, it ain't hockey.

  12. Re:~Chicken and egg? on 300 gigabytes in the size of a DVD? · · Score: 1

    Only an idiot (or an amature)

    Did you mean amateur?

  13. Re:Nice.... tell everyone to do something illegal. on Star Wars Trilogy MIT Musical · · Score: 1

    Then please don't complain when I slice your heart out with a glass knife and offer it to my gods. I'm Mayan, you see, and for me it's the "right" thing to do.

  14. Obligatory Wrath of Khan reference on SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information · · Score: 1

    "Genesis? What's that?"

  15. South Korea taking a stand against monopolies? on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    That's a good one. South Korea may be taking a convenient stand against foreign monopolies, but somehow all that antitrust fervor never seems to apply to domestic companies and chaebol.

  16. Glad to see Microsoft's H1-B program is working on Microsoft Chided Over Exclusive Music Idea · · Score: 5, Funny

    The judge said Microsoft's music-player proposal -- even though it was abandoned 10 days later -- "maybe indicates a chink in the compliance process."

    Well, now we know the ethnicity of the low-level intern.

  17. I can measure my concern for this topic on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    in micro-giveashits.

  18. Okay, so, bottom line here: on Roadkill on the Convergence Highway · · Score: 1

    ... you get a dancing Scooby Doo? Awesome. Everything else is just details.

  19. Re:I've always wondered... on Cyborg Cells Sense Humidity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they're always thinking about humidity, and they focus their efforts on assimilating barometers and humidifiers, so they're not a threat.

  20. My favorite reverse 419 scam of all time: on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 1

    The P-P-P-Powerbook scam.

    Incidentally, last time I checked the guy who pulled the scam was never heard from again, at least online. Does anyone know what happened to him?

  21. Re:Really? on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been to West Virginia?

    You mean the gorgeous mountainous state with the one of the lowest crime rate sin the country? Yes, I've been there.

  22. Re:Plays music well? on Video iPod Screen Test · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Rio Karma (gapless playback, 98 dB S/N) + Etymotic ER-6 headphones.

    Thank me later.

  23. Re:Plays music well? on Video iPod Screen Test · · Score: 1

    And relatively low S/N ratio, i.e. shitty sound. I'm glad someone else understands that the iPod is not a high-quality sound experience.

  24. Re:I certainly hope you're joking on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 5, Funny

    1500 thread count is nothing. I recently upgraded to pure plastic sheets, which have practically infinite thread count - perfectly smooth, no detectable weave texture at all.

    If chicks dig 1500 thread count sheets, just wait till they see the plastic sheets on my bed. They'll go nuts.

  25. Re:And we're all like... on Manga Explains NASA Mission · · Score: 1

    (:=
    Now that I've drawn a Hitler smiley, can we invoke Godwin's law and end this thread?