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  1. Re:My watch does this too on The USB Wristband · · Score: 1

    Well yea, that slashvertisement went over so well that this company figured they'd try the same thing on the same crowd.

  2. Re:USB wristband? on The USB Wristband · · Score: 2

    I still say it would be more userfriendly if you stuck Barbies head in the slot, rather than her body.

  3. Re:The Terrorists are putting Dumb in the water? on A Unified Theory of Animal Locomotion · · Score: 1

    I have begun to wonder if perhaps the dumb articles are getting posted just so we can discus the level of dumb out there.

    As a nerd though I would much prefer to read people discussing smart.

  4. Re:The Irony on Ambient Findability · · Score: 1

    Unless the stuff that was worth finding yesterday is disappearing then no there is not less stuff worth finding. There will always be more, and more, and more.

    The signal to noise ratio may seem high, but that may just be because that over time the noise of yesterday dies down and the signal starts getting though.

    To really find out whats worth finding today, wait a couple weeks and it will come though much clearer.

  5. Re:Presenting myself for the slaughter on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    K, so you see a large userbase for your message board. Way to fill a niche, um bravo? /golfclap.

  6. Re:Most Effective Subject Line on AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005 · · Score: 1

    Where's the link?

    I clicked, but there wasn't a link.

  7. Re:Sadly... on AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it means that the spammers are being employed by businesses that are falling for them.

    Doesn't necassarily mean that it is bringing in more business to those who employ spammers.

  8. Re:Ugh. on Technology-Based Social Change · · Score: 1

    Although grammar checking is a technology that still lags, and is being worked on, you mind pointing out the grammatical errors to those of us who lack in grammatical skills?

    I mean, if your going to be a grammar nazi, go all out!

  9. Re:Other way 'round on Opera Purchase Rumour Control · · Score: 1

    Of course, all they have to do is sell their company boat.

    http://www.opera.com/swim/

  10. Re:Kari? on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Actually I can imagine that being rather interesting, in a very morbid kinda way.

  11. Re:Fahrenheit, feh... on U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits · · Score: 1

    Yea, not all of us overclockers can remember what temperature our cpu is at.

    ok, actually I get worried when mine hits 50. This actually relieves me abit.

  12. Re:Slashdotted on Ham Hears Mars Orbiter 45 Million Miles From Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which one?

  13. Re:Be definition, never on E-Paper On Cereal Boxes · · Score: 1

    Well, cool will be more enviromentally friendly in 10 years anyway.

    What exactly do you need the 2.3 Billion dollars for?

  14. Incompetence 1984 on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    Just cause the government has the worst of intentions there doesn't mean they could pull this off yet. Just think of how messed up this kind of project will get with the government beuacracy.

    Do you trust your government to find its ass with both hands?

    I don't.

  15. Re:twisted? on The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the memory be stored in the head?

    And haveing a Barbie body sticking out of ones computer is just a tad too much, now haveing a Barbie head sticking out is more managable.

    Though then again, those heads always get lost.

  16. Re:twisted? on The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh C'mon, like who hasn't ripped off Barbies head?

    Though I think they have it backwards, the head should be the drive, pluggin the body in is just absurd.

  17. Seven on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 1

    Seven, I've always liked Seven.....

  18. Re:Problems with the Police? on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 1

    Saw the same thing in Cannonball run.

    Started out as a white lamborghini, hit some water, then was red. Watercolors have been around for quite some time.

    As for the Temp based stuff, people have made enough comments for me to not be redundent.

  19. Re:As quickly as they could? on Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like the metal detectors I had to go though to leave the production floor when I worked at Dell. They are there as a sign of theft deterent, not to provide real theft deterent. Oddly enough when I worked there the security staff was slipping servers out the backdoor.

  20. Re:Obligatory on Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap · · Score: 1

    When B=A and C can cost upwards of $100,000 but more likely $100 not including legal fees I really really have to wonder how much X was going to cost for the recall coordinator to not issue a recall earlier.

  21. Re:Wrong targets on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 1

    Naw, Mixed as in a mixture of artists. He did no actual mixing.

  22. Wrong targets on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've known two people who made money off of pirated money. Now, one of them the RIAA isn't going to go after since all he did was trade pirated cd's for weed, but the other one is the type of person that the RIAA should be going after instead of all this p2p bullshit.

    I had a co-worker who used to burn couple hundred cd's a week of pirated music and sell them online. He'd sell though amazon or whomever, would list them under mixed cd's. Now wouldn't it make more sense to go after the people selling pirated cd's rather than those who download stuff? After all there are people buying music, money exchangeing hands, without the artist getting anything out of it.

    Strangely my co-worker quit doing this cause he got tired of burning cd's, not because he had any problem selling them or had any legal threats, he just got tired of trying to keep up with demand.

  23. One reason to like IBM on IBM Develops New 3D TV Technology · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Quote:
    IBM tends to develop cutting edge technology and then license it to third party manufactures rather than build and sell finished products. This strategy allows them to keep pouring funds in to basic research and cutting edge technology. It also permits wide dissemination of it's technologies throughout the industry increasing chances for permanent adoption over competing technologies.

    An IP based business that actually trys to use its head.

  24. I may not know much about this subject. on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 0

    I may not know much about this subject, but weren't most of the terrorists hiding their information in hotmail in draft emails that never got sent, not on their harddrives? One person writes up the plans, saves the draft email, next person checks drafts, no emails get sent, nothing saved to harddrive. I understand that that probably no longer works, but I imagine a varient of it is much more likely in use than storing information on the harddrive in an Openly Encrypted manner. Hiding in plain site makes alot more sense to me. Encrypted files would just be a red flag.

    Also, now, I understand there are a fair amount of tinfoil hat wearers (shiny side out) here, but how often do you keep encrypted data on your computer that is not job related? That you can't just tell the cops, yea thats for my job, here is the passphrase this is what I'm working on, now give me back my harddrive.

    What would you keep on your harddrive that you would stay in jail, being interrogated, for 14 days over? Let alone 90 days?

    Goddamn, I can't believe I understand the government for once, and to think I used to call myself an anarchist. I still don't agree with them, but I think I understand them.....and they're dumb.

  25. Re:Where is the antithesis of metallica here? on Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1, Informative

    I honestly haven't been keeping up on top of it, but the media always talks about Phish when talking about the other side of the coin.

    http://www.phish.com/

    I just listen to internet based radio stations myself.

    I wonder if Metallica has ever figured out that Load didn't sell well cause it was a Load of Shit, not that people were actually downloading that crap?