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  1. Re:Welcome to the life of a helpdesk worker. on Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then again, I work for a shitty ISP whose main userbase is the scum of the earth from every backwoods trailer park in the US that other ISPs won't touch.

    You work for AOL? I am so sorry. Humans should not have to do that.

  2. Re:The Shuttle is *extremely* difficult to land .. on Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident · · Score: 1

    In fact, nearly all the times the shuttle has flown, it has landed under manual control. The reentry is flown by computer, but the pilots take over about 5 minutes before touchdown. It's likely that the number of times a computer has flown the touchdown could be counted on one hand.

  3. Re:Been done on Soldering with a Toaster Oven · · Score: 2, Funny
  4. Re:a cliche at best on Creative Uses for 5.25" Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    And if you reboot, you'll spill your drink.

  5. What is activeX on Mozilla 1.4 Alpha To Have ActiveX Support · · Score: 1

    And why do I need it?

  6. This is a good idea on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is a good idea because it doesn't infringe on the rights of any particular party. The customers have more information to make their decision. Companies have the right to sell whatever product they want, in the form that they choose. The extra information on the box is just a rearrangement of the ink that they would have to put on the box anyway, so it's not expensive to do.

  7. Re:Telomere damage on The Lazarus Zoo: Resurrecting Extinct Species · · Score: 1

    You mean that they'll all be female? What's the reason for that?

  8. Re:Telomere damage on The Lazarus Zoo: Resurrecting Extinct Species · · Score: 1

    They'd clone more than one of them.

  9. Wars over oil on First U.S. Desalination Plant Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Are nothing. Just wait until we start seeing wars over water.

    The nice thing is that those wars can be prevented with the right technology. Desalination plants might be more useful than we think.

  10. Telomere damage on The Lazarus Zoo: Resurrecting Extinct Species · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clones have short telomeres. But, do the offspring of clones have normal telomeres? Dolly had some lambs, so the answer should be known. If the offspring's telomeres are normal, that's good news because even if the clone has problems, the offspring might not have those problems.

  11. Re:Never buy an extended warranty on Do You Buy Extended Warranties? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't have to tell the truth to get those guys off your back. I bought a laptop for my wife at Best Buy. The guy insisted that I needed the warranty. I told him I didn't and when he asked why I told him that I was very very wealthy, and I was buying this laptop to throw it out of my car window on the freeway, because that's what I do on Monday afternoon.

  12. Stacked chips? on XScale PDA Processor Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is the time for the silicon/silicone typo?

  13. Pink Floyd said it on Watching Kids Via Mobile Phone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hush, my baby. Baby, don't you cry.
    Momma's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
    Momma's gonna put all of her fears into you.
    Momma's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
    She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.

    What we do to our kids, they will eventually turn around and do it to us.

  14. Re:This just in: on Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing · · Score: 1

    You fail it!

  15. Re:This just in: on Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing · · Score: 3, Funny

    And ramzak2k teaches a course of keeping his nose out of business that does not concern him.

  16. Re:Has anybody tried... on GDDR2 Emerging As A Real Standard · · Score: 1

    That's a good rule, but it's $60 for me. Is it time to ditch my GeForce MX 400 yet?

  17. Re:Hydrogen isn't ready... check out hybrids on Increasing Fuel Mileage With Hydrogen? · · Score: 1

    Actually it did, if you stuck one of her legs out the right window, and the other leg out the left.

  18. Re:Maybe Lynksys can support another platform! on Cisco to Acquire Linksys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Back in 1996 I bought myself a pair of Linksys 10 Mb cards. Why? Because Linux was listed as a supported operating system on the box. I already know that lots of other cards would work, but Linksys put it on the box way back then.

  19. Re:Doublespeak on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Cameras, Oh yes, I forgot about them. Their cameras are really excellent, but they never managed to convince everyone that Nikon lenses were better than Zeiss. Equal, maybe, but better hasn't been proven. And when it comes to professional medium format cameras, Hasselblad still rules.

  20. Re:Doublespeak on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    I wasn't complaining at all! I'm a sushi fan myself. If all the food in the world disappeared with the exception of sushi, I would be happy. It's the one food I could eat every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of it.

  21. Re:Hydrogen isn't ready... check out hybrids on Increasing Fuel Mileage With Hydrogen? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My Geo Metro used to get 55 MPG. I would think that hybrids should be able to get more than that.

  22. I have a better idea on Automated Office Delivery with Helium Blimps · · Score: 1

    Stuff the entire blimp AND the message into a pneumatic tube. In use over 100 years ago and STILL a great idea.

  23. Re:Doublespeak on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, but your entire hypothesis rests on the assumption that "burying us economically" is the same as "the auto company that made the Plymouth Fury II going out of business".

    I don't buy it. For example, Japan never challenged our leadership in:

    -Jet engines
    -Commercial
    -Spacecraft and satellites
    -Rockets
    -Computer programming
    -Advanced microprocessor design
    -metallurgy and materials science
    -biotechnology

    and on and on and on. Let them have cars and steel manufacturing. Those are old technologies, and working in those factories is mind-numbing anyway.

  24. Re:Doublespeak on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They didn't nearly bury us economically. They drove the US television manufacturers out of business and severely reduced auto companies' market share. Not to mention the fact that they sold us a lot of sushi and made the ninja mythos more important than the cowboy mythos. Other than that, they didn't do much to us.

  25. Re:Well... on Handheld Programming? · · Score: 1

    I don't want what I could get for WinCE or Linux PDA.

    I want vi and something I invoke like this: cc foo.c, giving me a program.

    This should be possible in a small amount of memory. Certainly less than 4 megs.