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  1. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    I thought I might say something and that maybe Slashdot had evolved into something beneficial for society.

    Instead I learn that as far as tools go Slahsdot still doesn't get up.

    C'mon guys. I miss SL. Get with it already.

  2. Re:Wanna know something Scary... on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 1

    If this were DIGG I'd DIGG your comment!!

  3. You obviously don't live in Flordia! on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    I understand I'm supposed to put comments here.

  4. Re:Oh yeah, targeted indeed. on Chinese "Cyber-Attack" US Department of Commerce · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Look! They're clever.. They even get the nerdy Star Trek logins too!

    Oct 8 12:03:30 myHost sshd[31961]: Invalid user data from 203.177.166.137 Oct 8 12:03:32 myHost sshd[31961]: Failed password for invalid user data from 203.177.166
    Oct 8 12:03:39 myHost sshd[31965]: Invalid user jane from 203.177.166.137 Oct 8 12:03:42 myHost sshd[31965]: Failed password for invalid user jane from 203.177.166

  5. Re:Ho Hum on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1

    Hopefully someone else will downgrade who doesn't think my preferred distribution method is a rathole.

    How long before skymaker ranch is doing remakes of Seinfeld? :)

  6. Re:Extra cash on Hollywood Says Piracy Has Ripple Effect · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tom Cruise gets fired. . Stops buying his Prozac and Ritallin at the little pharmacy over by Paramount. . Pharmacy goes belly up. . The person that used to put the labels on the bottles at the supplier gets the pink slip. . Doesn't take that vaction to see Grandma.. Doesn't win the lottery. . Doesn't donate to the school that produces 2075's US President..

    So, Tell me again what all this has to do with Piracy?

  7. Re:Thanks Steve on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    Funny! I sliced my finger open on some limestone just yesterday while swimming in waters that are inhabited by alligators. I showed someone the cut and they asked what that other big scar was on the same finger. Sliced it open while removing an ISA card from a case years ago. The edge of the slot got me real good!

    That guy was cool! gonna miss em!

  8. Re:Or not... on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about mini-itx as I responded! Fortunately those usually use the smaller 2.5" drives too. Maxtor doesn't make those yet I don't think :)

    In all honesty though if there's really "fire" involved then there's probably something that won't protest lighting up in most machines. Data centers/server rooms DO catch on fire!

  9. Re:Or not... on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    TFA's image confirms that the problem drive was a 3.5" drive which you wouldn't find in a laptop. Laptop drives wouldn't likely be positioned directly over or under a battery either and their ICs aren't exposed.

    Definately overblown!

  10. Re:Well, you know... on Unlock Internet or Risk Losing Staff? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but those nasty application level firewalls inspect your packets to make sure it's material worthy of port 80.

  11. Re:From: Andy T. on The Thalamus - The Kernel in Your Mind · · Score: 1

    He would have dropped seeds all over the earth while he was burning.. .

    Oh. . thank you god!

  12. Re:Quick ? on TiVo Wins Permanent Injunction Against EchoStar · · Score: 1

    I'm with the parent. I don't think they would be able to disable the DVR functionality without a significant update.

  13. Re:I agree-CyberTorch. on Server Consolidation Guide via Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Agreed! The parent to which you replied has grasp on paper virtualization concepts but has aparently never tilted other VMs or the host or used a host that wasn't spec'd by NASA with excessive IO. Changing the IO elevator to deadline seems to be really helpful when VMs just absolutely stop due to IO overhead.

  14. Re:Some numeric speculation on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then it won't come as a surprise that 300 people seems too much while you're on the plane as well.

  15. Goal achieved with YOU maybe on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    "Will the new restrictions make *you* feel any safer to fly?"

    You bet they will! If the only way can smuggle a quart of liquid explosives onto the plane is in a "Body Cavity" surely the resulting "Herbal Essences" commercial impersonations from the lavatory will give them away.

    Fear isn't always a bad thing and it may just save your life one day. It could even make someone think less passively about those other mediums you mention.

    Kudos to Scottland Yard!

  16. Re:waste on Does the NSA Need More Electricity? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the interweb made out of a series of tubes too?

    I say they move the whole thing to cheyenne mnt.

  17. Re:Not Cool... on More Massive Layoffs at AOL · · Score: 1

    I've been laid off before (funny that the three letter word "off" is so negatively significant in this context) from a fortune 500 company before and I would have modded your comment as "Normal" or better. :)

  18. Re:Does this mean... on More Massive Layoffs at AOL · · Score: 1

    You forgot the cardboard boxes. You know, the ones that UPS delivers three days prior.. followed by HR persons chasing the UPS person around parking lots shouting "They aren't supposed to see those!"

  19. New Facility on IBM Opts for AMD · · Score: 1

    it's where the new fab facility is.

    Planet ... . Chrome E Eye Purr Si Eye Opertron Eight.

    Kip! Grab the nail clippers. I have an invasive infection on toe unit 16.

  20. Re:A dupe solution? on Text-Mining Technique Intelligently Learns Topics · · Score: 1

    Ha! I only clicked this obvious dupe to see what witty things everyone else had to say about it's being a dupe!

  21. Re:black cloud w/silver lining... on Mozilla Partners with Real Networks · · Score: 1

    "Real has a poor reputation only because their Windows client was once a hotbed of malware and kludges. It isn't today, hasn't been for years, and it's hardly the only benchmark you can judge them by. "

    That's just it. It IS the only benchmark I/We judge them by. If instead of Widgets I get dog turds year after year from the Widget shop why would I expect their Whatsits to be any different?!

  22. Plate the carbon w/ ion engine? on Catalytic Carbon Extraction in Fuel Cell Production? · · Score: 1

    Put a gaseous carbon in a balloon.. dip it into liquid nitrogen... the balloon will shrivel like cojones in alaska. . Not you could achieve that without using more energy than the fuel provides like you said.. If it were a liquified metalic salt you could plate it. . Isn't that kind of what those "Ionic Breeze" things do? Is carbon plated on the "collection grid?" It's just an ion engine right?

  23. Re:Darl's book "How to make big money fast" on SCO Accuses IBM of Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 1

    ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

  24. litte kid asks.. "how did you loose your leg" on Lithium-Ion Batteries Linked to Airplane Fires · · Score: 2, Funny

    The War? No. . Motorcycle accident? No. . Slashdot? YES!!!

    "Here's something you can try at home if you're a total skeptic" ..

    Skepticism. . like exploding batteries. . is dangerous. .

  25. Re:dying industry on AMD Admits To Slowing Sales · · Score: 1

    "I don't know who's out there snapping up the multi-GHz multi-core 64-bit CPUs, but I can't imagine what they're doing in today's software ecosystem "

    I'm snapping up said processor so my "social network" can reside on a single machine.

    AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core 512K w/ PCI-X mobo (bitch to find!) $25 u160 raid controller and plethora of scsi drives.

    Thanks VMWARE!