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  1. How come on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: -1, Funny

    Apple is unable to have a lowercase 't' in any product name? Examples include iTunes and QuickTime. is the shift key bound to the 't' on those apple keyboards.

    I mean "is The shifT key bound To The 'T' on Those apple keyboards"?

  2. can someone explain on Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what eating peas has to do with encyprtion? I'm totally lost.

  3. web page irony on Learning About Full-text Search · · Score: 3, Funny

    He writes about seaching technology, but you can't easily search through his writings.

  4. Re:wtf on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 1

    I ran it on my abacus, using my astrolabe for input.

  5. something for summer time on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    prices are dirt cheap for anything that is primarily used in the summer, like golf clubs or swimming pool accessories. Geeks will enjoy the practicality and thoughtfulness of long-term planning, even if they can't use the gifts for another 6 months.

    Oh yeah, on the tech front, a wireless access point detector is cool.

  6. not good in rush hour on Smart Billboards · · Score: 1, Interesting

    imagine driving down the street, and the bilboard is getting signals from lots of cars, and practically turns into a strobe light from the constant changing. actually that would be pretty cool, but I could see some epileptics complaining.

  7. hmmm.... on The Life of a Spammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    day 1: send emails
    repeat

    not that difficult, in my opinion

  8. Re:It was obvious on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    I saw that, and then when I refreshed the page, it was modded down to -1. I'm sorry. In retrospect, I should have put something like myth 9: "open source developers do not die as virgins," but since I was on the phone at the time, I typed the most obvious thing. I'll let you get the earlier post next time.

  9. myth 9: on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 5, Funny

    writing open source software will get me laid!

  10. Re:Who? on For Us, The Living, by Robert A. Heinlein · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Robert A. Henlein invented the toilet, the clapper (but not the Clap), and the coal-powered computer monitor.

    Ok, I don't really know either

  11. oh crap! on We Are All Nerds Now · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some broad examples of my taxonomy: Nerds get A's in AP classes. Dorks play D&D. Geeks set up LANs

    all these year's I've been calling myself a geek, when now I finally realize I'm a dork. That's both scary and depressing. We'll at least all the money I spent on Magic cards wasn't in vain.

  12. obligatory Simpsons quote on We Are All Nerds Now · · Score: 1

    Milhouse: "I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart"

  13. an analogy on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    If I started up a burger franchise called Licdonalds, despite the differences in name and products, it would be an obvious attempt to cash in on the name recgonition of McDonalds.

  14. Damn! on Electronic Voting in the News · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had $500 on Diebold!

  15. nothing is definitive, remember... on The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how after episode 1 came out, people said that episode 2 has to be much darker in order for the prequels to have continuity with the originals? And remember how light and fluffy it was? George Lucas isn't necessarily going to wrap up all plot points for a cohesive story. Sure, stuff has to happen, but that doesn't mean it will happen on-screen.

  16. I've got this great email idea!! on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1, Funny

    A big problem with email is that there is no way to verify that the person actually received a message. A hardcopy could easily solve this. And to prevent spam, you could charge for each message sent, maybe with some sort of stamp of authenticity. to speed up delivery, you could route each message through one of many central locations, and they can all work together, to ensure that once a message passes through one of these locations, it gets delivered to the appropriate recipient. And since encryption is important, hiding the contents of each message in some sort of wrapper could prevent unwanted reading. What do y'all think about this?

  17. akin to... on Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unix Network Programming is akin to reviewing the New Testament for a Christian audience, or The Elements of Style for English majors.

    would it also be akin to reviewing Battlefield Earth for Scientologists?

  18. intelligent beings from other galaxies using radio on SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects · · Score: 5, Funny

    damn, i didn't think clearchannel had THAT much influence

  19. yet another missing language on 108 Ways To Do The Towers of Hanoi · · Score: 1

    where is the quakec implementation? This would make quite the interesting demonstration.

  20. seasonal noise differences on Europe Begins Noise Mapping Effort · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope they take into account the noise levels from different seasons. For instance, around where I live, summer and fall are much louder, simply because of the massive amounts of non-stop construction. And I can personally attest that you can hear a jackhammer from farther away than you can hear a police siren.

  21. The end of CD-R's? not likely on New Low Cost DVD Burners Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    not unless traditional cd players can read audio cds burned onto dvds.

  22. In honor of this retro computing on Return of the Space Invaders · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    40 megs is all my first harddrive held, so I will only download 40megs of mp3s today.

  23. Re:Funny? Yes. on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    This stuff is both funny and tragic, in the fact that it is tragic that people think this stuff is funny. And tragically funny. Like when a clown dies.

  24. that's a good start to the computer problem on AT&T Wireless Fumbles Number Portability · · Score: 1

    now let's give a good ol' fashioned homestyle slashdotting. Make 'em weep!!

  25. elephant analogies on The Blind Men and the Elephant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Schmaltz is saying that your project is an invisible elephant. It's standing in a room, waiting to be revealed by a group of groping teammates

    I thought the analogy was that each blind man felt a different part of the elephant and they couldn't reach a consensus on what it was, since all the parts felt different.

    a different elephant analogy is that there is an elephant (a large problem) in the room that no one wants to acknowledge, so that no one has to deal with it.