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  1. Re:Cool on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 1

    "TANSTAAFL."

    Bless you.

    You should get that looked at.

  2. Re:This Is Nothing New on Ratio Vulnerability in BitTorrent Discovered · · Score: 1

    So wait. If you're just starting and have no pieces... how do you get any?

    And how do college students and similar with a VERY limited upload speed get anything at all?

  3. Re:Pfew! on IE Flaw Puts Windows XP SP2 At Risk · · Score: 1

    I hope your workplace at the very least did a test upgrade on one of the machines to see if it's actually affected by these bugs.

  4. Re:Methods on Stolen U.C. Berkeley Laptop Recovered · · Score: 1

    Who says just turning it on wasn't part of the forensics?

  5. Re:so what is the extra ~ $600 for? on Intel's Per-Chip Cost Averages $40 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was dictating?

  6. Re:Can anyone say Popular Science on Old Airlift Vehicle Concept Made New · · Score: 1

    This hasn't been modded as a troll yet? I mean, come on, it's totally devoid of all intellectual content whatsoever.

  7. Re:ESRB dupe on ESRB Demands Hidden Content Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    "ESRB's been learning from Slashdot. Unfortunately, it's been from the editors, not the posters."

    What, would you prefer the ERSB to change its name to the GNAA?

  8. Re:May seem unneeded and cruel.... on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1

    So, not shooting them and then dying from starvation in some way is not sacrificing yourself?

  9. Rising number of deaths on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1

    Saying natural disasters are killing more and more people and trying to draw a conclusion from it is about as smart as saying that new movies sell more tickets than movies in the sixties, therefore more people go to see movies, or movies are better, or really saying anything other than that there simply are more people on earth than there used to be.

  10. Re:Hmmff Faulty Apparatus... on Listening for Deuterium · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the more important ramifications for this sort of discovery aren't related to WHEN it started, but HOW it started, which helps to understand how exactly the fundamental physical forces of the universe work and fit together.

  11. Re:May seem unneeded and cruel.... on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1

    "And if you would murder someone to save yourself, you deserve to be shot on sight."

    Screw you too. What automatically makes someone else's life worth more than your own? People with the sort of moral strength that will allow them to get themselves killed over someone else should STAY here and do some damn good where they are, not sacrifice themselves for some random schmuck.

    Also, one of the earlier posts in this series... how does personal responsibility help control a mob? Do you get megaphones and shout "If you're looting, you are a BAD PERSON and should be ashamed!"?

  12. Re:please educate me, Oh Mighty /. : why is this b on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    "He's free to put whatever content he likes on his own site (provided the content itself is legal), and he's not obligated to preserve anything that someone else links to."

    He didn't change his site's content. He specifically fiddled with server stuff (notice where he says he learned about .htaccess files) and redirected them to someone else's site(s).

    The "I honestly just changed my website, it's not my fault they were linking to it" argument doesn't really work so well, now. Especially because he can't argue the moral high ground, having immediately turned around and redirected the traffic to unknowingly hammer some poor slaughterhouse websites (boy, that sounds weird...)

  13. Re:Beautiful Imagery on The View from the Top of Husband Hill · · Score: 1

    Yes, we obviously all flunked out years ago. That English requirement is certainly keeping enrollment under acceptable limits.

  14. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    I think you may have missed the point (or someone did further down the line- I didn't check your parent post). They're saving money and doing the same exact thing. They're not saving money by deciding that their residents don't actually NEED roads after all, or cutting back on anything else.

  15. Re:MMORPG addicts be thankful on T-Mobile Offers Relief for Hurricane Victims · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, none of the MMORPG players noticed the hurricane and are all dead.

    WoW kills!

  16. Re:Not my experience on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Wellll, the installation guide is pretty specific... doesn't require such extreme linux knowledge.

    It does, however, probably require the ability to learn, which I believe some older people have lost over time.

  17. Re:Damn, now I miss the ads ... on Opera Turns 10, Gives Away Free Registrations · · Score: 1

    Google ads can be pretty hilarious, though...

    Go to goats.com, then try to guess how many users of that site have bought goat products through the ads.

  18. Re:Now I can search my drive for images? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it will store where you got the file from.

  19. Re:Vista==XP on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    They don't really need to give people a reason to upgrade. Everyone buys a new computer every couple'a years anyway, so MS just has to shift the OS that's packaged on those new systems to Vista.

  20. Re:1337 on Send your name to Pluto · · Score: 1

    Read the page. It says "No 1337" at the bottom. So he is possible the least 1337 of anyone ever. Duh.

  21. Stars: Supernova on The Heartbreak of Canceled Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One word: :'(

  22. Re:If it makes you feel better... on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1

    "Because the review would be exactly the same."

    Yeah, since office 2003 doesn't include like, any new products or anything.

  23. From the article... on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Another nice thing about OpenOffice is that it is actually a complete office suite."

    You know, unlike MS Office.

    Just seeing a single line like this in an article should immediately tip you off that it's probably not worth the bandwidth you used to download it.

  24. Re:i think so on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 2, Funny

    In communist Russia, that thinks you... I mean, should that you think... uh... screw it, someone else do it.

  25. Re:Rackspace ads? on Locked-Out Journalists Turn To Podcasting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or get a browser that doesn't run slow as molasses. CoughOperaCough