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  1. Basic Evolution on Interstellar Ark · · Score: 1

    Monkeys were born to climb trees--
    Men were born to climb _mountains_.

  2. Grue on The Dark Side of HDCP - Why is My PS3 Blinking? · · Score: 1

    It is dark.
    You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  3. quake (the game) cripples internet on Quake in Taiwan Cripples Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I noticed that quake 4 reintroduced the nail gun. In the original quake, the nail gun was able to bring down whole subnets. (The game would generate a packet for each round fired.)

  4. Re:Harry Potter And The Slow News Day? on Seventh Harry Potter Book Named · · Score: 1

    In other news, Debian 5.0 will be named Lenny.
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    (posted from debian testing-Etch).

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  5. *sigh* on ORDB.org Going Offline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Parent needs to get a life.
    The satire in question was written by anti-spam advocates; in part to ridicule amateur, armchair philosophers; who think that their knee-jerk response is better than anything the experts have come up over the years.

    OTOH first time I saw

    (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

                                                  used. Kudos

  6. Um I think That boat has sailed... on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 1

    Because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died two whole CENTURIES ago! (cut and paste bots...grr)

  7. XML FTW on MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Store your data tree as nested tags in a flat file. This should help with searches and sorting.
    (going for + funny, not -1 troll)

  8. Damned Straight on Vista's TCP/IP Promises and Perils · · Score: 1

    This was my first thought. One of the most important part of any security system is the alarm.

    They will get in; the point is to have the cops waiting for them.

  9. No, it's the Canadians... on Vista's TCP/IP Promises and Perils · · Score: 1

    Specifically the Canadian Traditional Conservative Party.
    FYI TTFN HAND