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  1. Re:Oh... on Time on "Pirates of Primetime" · · Score: 1

    No, it was because you had already seen those X-Files episodes on the BBC.

    Maybe the fact that Christmas episodes are aired throughout the year explains why some people leave their Christmas trees standing well into the new year :-)

  2. Domestic Appliances on A Timeline of the Future · · Score: 1

    "Domestic appliances with personality and talking head interface__________2007"

    "Would you like some toast?"

  3. Re:Artificial Life on A Timeline of the Future · · Score: 1

    "AI chatbots indistinguishable from people by 95% of population______2005"

    Does this mean that humans will get even dumber?

  4. Re:Betting pool! on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1

    First: congratulations to both of you! :-)

    Lur: "This concept of 'wuv' confuses and infuriates us!"

    Heh, this fits nicely with my sig:

  5. No fair! on Quantum Programming with Perl · · Score: 4, Funny

    "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" -- Professor Farnsworth from Futurama.

  6. Re:Only good use for region coding... on Australian Commisssion Defends Playstation Mod-Chipping · · Score: 1

    I have GTA 1, but it really looks like it's situated in an American city, where they drive on the right. So an Australian version with cars in an American city driving on the left would be rather stupid, don't you agree?

  7. Re:Finally! on mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it was a bug.

    I finally fixed it by changing the master password and restarting Mozilla.

    I recall trying this with 0.9.7 once, and failing, so I assume they did something to it after all.

    Good job, guys! :-)

  8. Finally! on mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8 · · Score: 1

    I hope they fixed the annoying password manager dialog asking for the master password EVERY time a page with a stored password came up, AND when I press the page's Login button!

  9. Re:Lousy research on WinInformant Says Windows More Secure Than Linux · · Score: 1

    I recall having read on Slashdot about a statistics report where the researchers made exactly the error you're describing: counting the same hole in two distros twice.

  10. Re:Yes, another crazy idea on Space Tourist Standards · · Score: 1

    I heard the Staatsloterij is planning to do exactly that, but I guess the plans aren't solid enough yet to appear on their site.

  11. Re:Interesting! {2} on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1

    As long as you're not talking about etching the picture of the Goatse man onto a gold plate, and send it on the probe, I'm okay with it ;-)

  12. Re:Interesting! on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1

    Uhh, yeah, and don't forget to imagine a Beowulf cluster of space probes while you're at it! :-)

  13. Interesting! on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your well-informed explanation.

  14. Re:Why live on planets? on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1
    Uninhabited, but inhabitable planets are out of dicussion for exploiting.

    Those are probably the best planets to colonize!

  15. Re:this is a WAG, nothing more, nothing less. on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 1
    Earth: Smacked by a Mars-sized impactor early in its life. Debris coalesced to form huge satellite called "the Moon".

    Then why does the moon have an entirely different mineral composition?

  16. Re:Why live on planets? on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe people like those Big Blue Rooms?

  17. Re:whois on SEC on The SEC and Fake Investment Sites · · Score: 1

    Windhandel is Dutch for wind trading, like they say on the site itself. In The Netherlands, the word 'windhandel' has a negative connotation for having to do with fraudulent business.

    The title of the page is 'dot com biz card', which is pretty thick on the theme, if you ask me.

    It's a pretty bad weapon in this War on Stupidity, as it was called here in this thread.

  18. Re:Programming by building lego ? on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1

    Yes, it certainly could. It reminds me of the old flowcharts software designers used to use. Who's still talking about those now?

    But yes, I do believe the idea has potential.

  19. Re:Oh well on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1

    miniture little devices that perform one operation and perform it well, which can be combined in any numbers and any combination to produce some effect.

    You mean, just like the Unix tools?

  20. Re:Just in Case....Full Text on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    RFC 821 is obsolete, and as you might have noticed, there are about 1,001 variations in which these lines (and email addresses in general) can be written and have been written.

  21. Re:No Soap, Radio! on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    AC: if I'm using an email client, it's probably because I like it.

    Most people ``choose'' to use the email client that they're told to use by their operating system, computer manual or ISP manual / CD-ROM. Most of the time, that email client is Outlook Express. Have those people consciously decided? I'd think not.

  22. Re:Spamming for jobs is not good on Resume Spamming Redux · · Score: 1

    You really have to wonder if it wouldn't be a better world if we took action to ensure that all spammers become, ahem, eligible for a Darwin Award.

    Erm, isn't that kind of illegal (the Really Bad kind of illegal, not the gray kind) in most civilized countries?

  23. ROFL! :-) on Comcast Gunning for NAT Users · · Score: 1

    This new-fangled messaging system is pretty good!

  24. Re:They still won't know for sure... on Comcast Gunning for NAT Users · · Score: 1

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

    (Sorry, just couldn't resist ;-) )

  25. Fallout on 'Indiana Jones 4' Finally A Go · · Score: 1

    Finally, a good excuse to be playing Fallout (2) !