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  1. Re:My hammer. on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And I bet it still interfaces flawlessly with your modern computer. Today's engineers could learn from that.

  2. Re:Other bases? on New Pattern Found In Prime Numbers · · Score: 1

    You should be a journal editor for Elsevier.

  3. Re:One Resource on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    Then they beat Plato up and took his lunch money.

    Apparently, he was forced to teach in an olive tree grove, just so he would have something to eat...

  4. Re:Reccesions on New Neutrino Detector Being Built In Minnesota · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know, right? If only there were some clue in the name...

  5. Re:Boy oh boy! on Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share · · Score: 1

    We better get to work on those i18n extensions for the language of the mole people.

  6. Re:Intellectual property on The Sewing Machine War · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very funny, I'm in stitches.

  7. Re:The sooner the insecure, poor-rendering IE6 die on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My thoughts too, initially. But the people that use automatic updates will already have been forced to install IE7. Whether or not IE8 is forced will do very little about IE6.

    The 20-30% of computers that still use IE6 either have updates turned off, or they are in some company that won't switch to IE7 yet, because of outdated intranet software, or just an incompetent IT staff.

  8. Re:Slow on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    God, I really should know where Ontario is. I've played enough Risk over the years. Please ignore that comment.

  9. Re:Slow on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    The legend doesn't even go down to 3.8 m/s!

    Leave it to the Americans to make you feel insecure about the amount of wind in your country.

  10. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... what happens when weather is bad?

    You die! YOU DIE FROM RAIN!!!

  11. Re:Godwin's Law Bait. on German Wikileaks Domain Suspended Without Warning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Between the years of 1940 and 1945, the were no active .de domain names.

    Coincidence? I think not.

  12. Re:What about... on Growing Plants In Lunar Gravity · · Score: 2, Funny

    But what about if you spin it backwards?

  13. Re:Legal Issues on Developers Looking to Set Up Alternatives To Apple's App Store · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, if these stores can be set up as legitimate for-profit businesses, I wouldn't be surprised if this could lead to an antitrust case, forcing Apple to open up the iPhone.

    Or rather, another antitrust case.

  14. Re:Adapt, don't die...and even MS has the solution on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, I should have specified that I was talking about web parts.

  15. Re:The concept is more generic on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    And to think, if only he'd written this article ten years ago, he would have actually made a fairly obvious, marginally relevant point. It's just unfair is what it is.

  16. Re:Is Dreamweaver good? on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely you would want to use this more than once per page...

    I would suggest something like:

    .shut-the-fuck-up {
    text-decoration: blink;
    }

  17. Re:Adapt, don't die...and even MS has the solution on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Point Sharepoint Designer to a Sharepoint site where you have required permissions, and have fun.

    Fun? You must be joking. I've worked a lot with Sharepoint Designer and it's the most ungodly abomination of a software package I've ever had to touch. It makes the rest of Microsoft's applications look like they were made by NASA.

    The whole of Sharepoint is gargantuan mess, from the half implemented API to the ridiculous, overcomplicated, undocumented deployment procedures (restarting the webserver every time you change code, really?), to the insane use of tables in the HTML (have a look at the html on an average system page, and see if your mind can deal with five or six tables wrapped around every single design element).

    Sharepoint Designer is where you can really see Sharepoint for what it is. It has all these features that sound very nice, until you try to save an .aspx page and it replicates your previous change somewhere rather than the one you were currently checking in. You think "huh that's weird", delete, the extra code, rewrite the code you wanted to add, and check in again, and now the previous change appears three times. In the end the only solution is to delete the page and the associated content types from the site and create it again (and any pages that used it). That's the sort of wonderful behavior you can expect from Sharepoint Designer.

    I've never used the WYSIWYG editor because, frankly, I'm scared.

  18. Re:Does Anyone Remember the Star Wars Defence Prog on Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launch · · Score: 1

    What do you think happens when it inevitably cools?

    It'll smack into some Russian sattelite?

  19. Re:Way cool on Robotic Prostheses For Human Faces · · Score: 1

    That'll make such a great party trick.

    Forget party tricks, how about funeral tricks.

  20. Re:A Debian release! on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    A year and a half is an entirely reasonable amount of time to wait for an operating system release.

    I run Vista, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Slashdot slowed by google's bug? on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    Try the 'this site is harmful for your computer' link that's now under every single search result. I think the server for google's support pages CMS has melted.

  22. Re:When can I pack my bags? on First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do not interpret 'tool bag' as a euphemism. World of hurt.

  23. Re:Substitute? Sounds good on More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So when we were trying to get rid of underarm odor, we punched a hole in the ozone layer.

    This time we're trying to engineer the atmosphere.

    Yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine.

  24. Re:The Text on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    What do you think this is, wikipedia?[citation needed]
    Cultural References
    "What do you think this is, Wikipedia?" was referenced in an episode of Family Guy, when Stewie BUSH SUCK RETRADS HAHAHAH

  25. Re:Firefox actually seems to be better known on Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this is going to play havoc on people's understanding of the internet. Most people already think IE is the internet, but at least they knew that google was a thing on the internet. Now Google is going to be another internet that looks like a sort of three-colored button, next to the old internet that looks like a blue "e", and on both you can have Google, but you can't have the blue e on the Google internet.

    Expect some calls from confused family members, people.