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  1. Re:Pwncakes! on World of Warcraft, the Restaurant · · Score: 1

    Cumberland Farms sells these. (AKA Jimmy Dean)

    They're great for diets! Right mix of low-medium grade carbos, sulphur from the egg, and protein sausage packaged at 4 oz a piece so you don't overload on 17 Oz of large bad pepperoni pizza at lunch.

  2. Re:Always how reporting works on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    M$ $UX! BALLMER DOES!
    APPLE IS ROTTEN! STEVE KILLS JOBS!

    .

    .

    Ahem. Now then. Nice smaller type correction.

    Microsoft appears to be making progress towards Windows 7.
    Apple has clearly innovated in several consumer areas.

    I'm betting this becomes +1 ConfusedMods.

  3. Re: Think of the Liberties! on Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans · · Score: 1

    After Esther Dyson's semantically loaded Mauve Herring question a couple of days ago, I want to know what side she is on. It was clearly designed to get the Right Wing, who already hates abortion, to now hate Anonymous Friends (which they may not yet have had a clear opinion on.)

    I seriously have to get a couple books and review the Logical Fallacies. It's becoming a survival imperative.

  4. Re:COPPA! on Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations · · Score: 1, Funny

    Her name was Lolita
    she was a showgirl
    with yellow feathers in her hair
    and a dress cut down to there.

    At the COPPA ... COPPA cabana
    The rights of kids online should matter.
    at the COPPA-COPPA cabana
    music and passion were always the fashion
    at the COPPA
    says she's not allowed...

  5. Re:Anonymity Overrated on Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    +1 Slashdot Gambit

    "You have a positive Karma greater than the cube of your IQ. You sacrifice about 7 of those points to make one fun comment that only works with your name visible."

  6. Re:"Oh Jeez, not this shit again!" on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    Come on! We're the Mighty Dot community!

    I forget the latest legal rulings on deep linking, but What if we made a modular database of the arguments and strung them together like a cross between madlibs and Star Trek's Binars?

    "12A152!!!!"
    "No, no. 37H11 PART TWO!!"

  7. Re: Location Challenged on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    Now we just need to forget the antecedent.

    "You know that media company, um, you know, the big one. Yea. Them. Well, I hate them."

  8. Re: Information speed on Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz · · Score: 1

    So if someone finds a way to transmit information faster than the speed of light, we win?

    Just for revence, please advise:

    What's the expected time for light to travel once around the globe as if it were flat and didn't have to slow down by bouncing off something?

  9. Re: Preventing Drowning on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the problem is that much of what passes for normal in politics falls under what we call Troll or Flamebait.

  10. Re:Scandals! on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 1

    Sure it's appropriate.

    Make an Idle section!

  11. Re:more like abuses google moderator system on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 1

    ...Similarly, the "flag as inappropriate" tends to be abused due to an overblown sense of justice and being too powerful of a tool, with no penalty to use it. ...

    I know!

    (Richard Garfield)
    You can earn one vote for every question you submit. Then you can mod down once per vote. To untap your votes you have to mod something else up, intelligently as measured by some statistical eval of your overall mod history.

    Every 4 years we get a new expansion pack!

    (/Richard Garfield)

  12. Re: Kids! on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    You got my joke.

    I tried for a cross between "Think of the Kids" and the NKOTB.

    However the RIAA is absolutely that cruel, because that's who gave them to us in the first place.

    Their backup act is Hanson.

  13. Re: Can the RIAA? on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    Borrowing prior art is the highest form of flattery.

    "Hello, this is the RIAA. We have snail mailed every person in town accusing them of piracy. Please send $2740 to: Save The Newest Kids In Music Foundation. PO Box 90210. Las Profitas, CA.

    P.S. If you don't comply we'll strand that busybody IAAL guy in every Non-NewYork city in alphabetical order according to our playlist, beginning with Boston and Chicago."

  14. Re: ... to the head on IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship · · Score: 1

    You mean a BootToTheHead.

    (Now with a choice of cultural variants!)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0

    or

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y6231uAmo&NR=1

  15. Re: Crab Nebula on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Is Kerrigan Mahan available to do the voices?

  16. Legal Innoculation? on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    ... Why him?

    Why does some second tier fast food owner bring up one of the biggest precedent setting cases ever?

    Can he be bringing up a weak version of a precedent setting case to angle for a pro-rights victory?

  17. Someone Post Pictures Now! on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The question of the state of cleanliness is a material fact in the issue. Someone please post ZoeTroped pictures of the restaurant so that we may see its condition. It's only defamation if it's false."

  18. Elephant in the room attack! on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    "We don't like your comment about some random Dunkin Donuts. Please turn over your entire internet history so that anyone on the planet can sue you for defamation."

  19. Re:Real time machine! on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 1

    Can the International Date Line help?

  20. Re: another ... on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Followed by Microsoft announcing "Tropz"!

  21. +1 Sinatra! on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 1, Funny

    You did it your way.

  22. Nerd Mashup! on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone photomorph tubgirl with a Klein bottle.

  23. Re: UnRickRoll! on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 1

    "Be careful what you wish for. The Internet might grant it." Modern Chinese Curse.

    UnRickRoll
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4bn5pp32w

    Goatse SFW (at least top level)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070806010246/http://www.goatse.cx/

  24. Re: used mp3!? on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    But is it legal?

    Besides the "We say it's legal" bit, the **AA strongarmed so many protections for themselves I don't know.

  25. Re:Question for Hurricane78, the Web Designer on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    Thank you for submitting a patch to his post.

    The rest of it was fine. Welcome to Open Source.