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  1. Re:a tax reduces gas AND miles on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    which, as it has been said, makes sense for the people with low paying jobs. "Hell, too bad you can't afford a new fuel efficient car, now we're really going to stick it to ya 'cause you can't even buy gas to get to work AHAHAHAHA!"

  2. if compared to the value of the dollar... on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if you compare the price of a cd to the value of the dollar, the cd is the only thing I can think of that cost $16 in 1995 and in 2008.

  3. Cell mate conversation on Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal · · Score: 1

    inmate one:hey
    inmate two:yea, what are you in for?
    inmate one:I murdered my family. You?
    inmate two:... DOS

  4. Re:Cool, corporate webmasters' on Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer · · Score: 1

    This is why anyone with a little common sense would have FlashBlock.

  5. My guess on what every tape sounds like: on Car Owners to be Notified of Blackboxes in Vehicle · · Score: 1

    *cell phone rings with Black Eyed Peas, My Humps ringtone*
    "Hello?"
    ...
    AHHHHH!
    *crash*

    Not much evidence for what happens.

  6. What about the alpha and beta testers? on Skin Sensing Table Saw · · Score: 1

    I would have HATED to be one of them!

  7. Re:I bet it seemed insane at the time on How the IBM PC Changed the World · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn, all out of moderator points... SOMEONE MOD THIS FUNNY!

    Really, I thought it was hilarious :)

  8. Malware... on The Ad-Supported Operating System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Right now, I get paid to remove ads from peoples computers

    In the future, I'll be getting paid to install an OS with ads preloaded.

    /not gonna happen

  9. Everybody loves the wii... on Everybody Loves the Wii · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris doesn't love the Wii, nor does he love Raymond.

  10. Well, given the situation... on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 1

    Would you rather chase the serial rapist, or arrest three little kids?

  11. Re:Welcome to Communist America! on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, true. Maybe I should have said Collectivist?

  12. Welcome to Communist America! on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    The worst part of all this? Most people out there are willing to let it happen.

  13. sooo on Nintendo's Next-Gen Arsenal · · Score: 1

    Where in the article am I supposed to find something new that I haven't seen already? Everything on this page is available on the wii Wikipedia page.

  14. Re:Netgear on OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking · · Score: 1

    Wow, I didn't quite expect the to erupt into a flame war...

  15. instructions on IE7 to be Pushed to Users Via Windows Update · · Score: 5, Funny

    to get the new update, simply remove this:
    msi http://microsoft.com/xp ie6 main

    and replace it with this:
    msi http://microsoft.com/xp ie7 main

    in your c:/etc/apt/sources.list file. then do:
    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade

  16. Netgear on OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just in case anyone was wondering, there are other routers that are open source. I think all of Netgears routers firmware is open.

  17. Job security, for me on Microsoft's Security Meeting Causes Unease · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsofts poor security and anti-virus is what keeps bills paid for me and a lot of people I know. If you ask me, malware can be a good thing in a capitalist run country like USA. If it wasn't for malware, the entry level jobs at a lot of IT companies would be gone.

  18. ghost on Will Image Installs Benefit Vista Adopters? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    how will the new installer differ from using Norton Ghost?

  19. Re:Cincinnati on Extensive Coverage of Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006 · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but it seems too far away. That'd be nice to go to though.

  20. Cincinnati on Extensive Coverage of Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006 · · Score: 1

    How long until we have one of these in the Cincinnati area? Nothing ever happens here except shootings.

  21. Slashdotted on MySpace Down Due To Power Surge · · Score: 1

    I think it's because it was Slashdotted...

  22. unfortunately... on Firefox Usage Climbing · · Score: 1

    There is a such thing as anti-firefox. My friend work at a place that sells laptops on ebay, and he was installing Firefox on all the laptops becase he had to deal with tech support. People would call saying, "How do I set up my internet connection, Internet Explorer won't open right" amongst other things. Well, when his boss found ot he was sending out Firefox with the laptops, he got pissed and told him not to send it out agains. Direct quote: "No one needs tabs, why use tabs when you can open seperate windows?" Some people will just never learn, I guess.

    On a side note, he was also recommending people to get OpenOffice and a lady gave him a negative saying they had "Suggested using their bootleg software they made themselves" He told her he wished he could make software that damn good.

  23. Quote on 'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly · · Score: 1

    "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork."

  24. the other 50 on GPL Causing Problems for Derivative Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    'I think, of the 500 distributions tracked by DistroWatch, probably 450 of them are in trouble right now per this position.' and the other 50 are BSD variants.

  25. suggestion on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about adding something about how OpenOffice is the first app to support the newly standardized Open Document Format? That's seemed to have worked a few times for me.