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The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008

Posted by timothy on from the hindsight-is-much-better-than-20/20 dept.

coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best, slightly off-center stories of 2008."

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  1. Favorite Error Message of 2008 by j-stroy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had this (jpg image of my bios) displayed after a hardware failure. "Hard Dick Mode - Enhanced". I ROFL'D heavily, it was even better than the server msg "There has been an error, the error was sucess!"

    FYI m200 tablet with nvidia chip, The graphics had some lines in it, and the factory driver would bsod.

  2. Who cares? by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires, African-American KKK members, Atheist Christian Pastors, or Dotcom CEOS worth billions who still live in their Mom's basement. It just makes about as much sense as this story.

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  3. On slashdot people use the subject line... by PachmanP · · Score: 4, Funny

    to start there sentences.

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    1. Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... by Hadlock · · Score: 4, Funny

      Their.
       
      Congratulations you're qualified to work in an Indian call center!

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    2. Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know, every time I call tech support the guy is saying "there" and not "their", except when he's supposed to say "their", then he says "there".

      And those apostrophes they put in "its" are really annoying too. A misplaced apostrophe sounds like nails going down a chalkboard.

      Anyway, those are my two principle complaints.

  4. Re:Wow.. by ChromeAeonium · · Score: 5, Funny

    (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)

    -Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
     
    -Nope, I'm over here!
     
    -Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
     
    -Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
     
    Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.

  5. Re:Wow.. by db32 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two atoms are talking and one of them looks sad.
    Atom 1: Whats wrong?
    Atom 2: I lost an electron
    Atom 1: Are you sure?
    Atom 2: I'm positive.

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