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  1. Re:Firefox on OpenOffice Could Soon Become Web-Based Apps · · Score: 4, Funny
  2. Re:Error! on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 1

    Glad it's not Python, then.

  3. Dupe? on Defining Clicks and Click Fraud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now only if we could join together to detect dupes...

  4. Re:Sarcasm, People! on 10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox · · Score: 1

    But seriously...the point was...how can you say 10% of consumer websites are not firefox friendly if you only test 100 websites??? I am sure the UK has more than 100 consumer websites.

    Because there's not much variability between the websites and 100 is a representative sample?

    From my own anecdotal experience, I only have problems with about 1 webpage not displaying properly every week that I visit while using firefox.

    And we all know that anecdotal experience can be extrapolated to general behavior...

  5. Re:Already ditched on Will Sun's Java Go Open Source? · · Score: 1

    You dont need the readlines() method on recent Python because a file object is iterable:

    import sys
    for line in open(sys.argv[0], "r"): print line
  6. Re:how do they work? on Floaters are the New Pop-Ups · · Score: 2, Informative

    It woulndt be hard to do a bookmarklet/favelet that checks for all elements with the z-index set and changes the highest one to a minimum value.

  7. Re:On a related matter. on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    They break the patents so government industries can produce the drugs, but only when they declare an epidemic crisis (which they might do soon, since 33% of all latin americans with HIV are brazilians). (emphasis mine)

    Why people keep saying this as bad thing? Brazil accounts for almost half of the LA population!

  8. Re:Fixed on SCO.com Defaced · · Score: 1

    I almost spit Coke all over my monitor!!!!

  9. Re:Makes as much sense... on Microsoft Replaces Your Pirated Windows, For Free · · Score: 1

    How much for AD&D?

  10. Re:Ignorance of Windows is the Best Defense :) on The Tech Support Generation · · Score: 1

    Well, if you stretch a little bit the definition of a "programming language" I can count awk, sed, shell, regular expressions, fortran, python, ferret, GMT and Makefile in a single (busy) day -- that makes 9.

    It's the only way I can imagine of coding "in between 8 and 12 languages"...

  11. Re:Stupid stupid stupid. on Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia · · Score: 2, Funny

    access from Austria is blocked too...

    Probably because GWB doesn't like kangaroos!

  12. Molusc genus on Facts on Scientific Names of Organisms · · Score: 3, Funny

    My favourite one is on the site:

    Piseinotecus divae Er. Marcus, 1955 (gastropod) "Piseinotecus" means "I stepped on Teco." ( in portuguese) Teco was a dog belonging to a diva. One of the Marcuses (Evelyne or Ernst) stepped on the dog on the way to the kitchen in the middle of the night.
  13. Re:should that be... on MGM Purchase Gives Sony An Edge In Disc Format War · · Score: 1

    If it was "Versital" from the start, they should have gone with the gramatically more sensible "Versital Digial Disc"

    Or with the orthographically more correct "Versatile Digital Disc" (I'll give you a discount on the "Digital").

  14. Re:Or... on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 2, Funny
  15. Re:Rule of equations in school on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shame on you. It should've been 42.

  16. Re:Priceless on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 1

    While you're at it, search Google for "sense of humor".

  17. Re:Michael Moore called . . . on Texas Company's Legal Troubles Hold .iq In Limbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Bush just registered low.iq for his website.

  18. Re:Best wireless card for linux? on Linux Unwired · · Score: 1

    I second the suggestion.

  19. Re:Changing the sound card is NOT the point. on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 1

    About the wireless cards. What model are them?

  20. Re:that isn't the planet in the picture ... on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 1

    ...that's no moon! It's the Death Star!!!

  21. Re:Ugh on X.Org Foundation Releases X11R6.7 X Window System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not that, but... from the release notes:

    > The name of the X server is Xorg, rather than XFree86.

  22. Re:Knife Repository on USB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The same happened to me in an airport once. I was in the line for the x-ray scan when I remebered my swiss knife was on my belt pouch. I quickly wrapped all the keys I had around it, and put the belt pouch on the x-ray... it passed!

    After that, my reaction was to scream "hey, you idiots, I just passed with a knife, pay more atention!". But I decided to keep my mouth shut.

  23. Not controversial on Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Site Finder was not controversial with users'

    It wasn't controversial at all. Everybody agree it was a bad idea.

  24. Re:screw that - give me Mac OS X on Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM · · Score: 1

    Even worse: man mount!

  25. Re:How about this? on UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was in SOVIET RUSSIA!