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  1. So what? on Big Mac achieves around 14 TFlops with 128 Nodes · · Score: 1

    IBM has 49 of the top 100 from the last list. Who cares whose on top if you make almost half of the 100 fastest computers in the world?

    Yes, this is a troll post. I am pissed the submission after the Napster 2 one wasn't the itunes4Windows announcement.

  2. My New Businessplan on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Develope color printing technology that is cheaper than ink-jet.
    2. Make scads of money
    3. Buy one of the really prestigious Champagne "Houses" - they are so funny...they do not call them estates, but houses!
    4. Hire the best chef in France to make lots of Hot Grits
    5. Invite Natalie Portman over
    6. Enjoy 3 course meal of Fine Champagne, hot grits and Natalie
    7. Print out pictures of #6 on cheap color printer
    8. Sell copies of pictures
    9 Profit!!!!!

  3. Re:"Can you please turn off the filters?" on US Supreme Court Upholds CIPA · · Score: 1

    Funny...you are against gay rights, but in another post you seem quite delighted you can stare at women's breasts. Now, as a devout Christian you must realize the should said breasts belong to the wife of another you are committing a sin?

  4. Re:I can't wait... on Mastering Light · · Score: 1

    No, not quite....reprinted without permission (cause I dunno who made this up).

    As the old cow herder prepared to leave for the retirement home, he asked his three sons if they had come up with a new name for the ranch. They said they had, it would be called the "Focus Ranch". The father asked them why they chose that name. They replied - simple, it is where the son's raise meat.

  5. Re:Meh, sometimes you look a little TOO deep on The Gospel According to Neo · · Score: 1

    Yes...but read a little deeper...the book in the movie ("Simulacra and Simulation," by Jean Baudrillard), a real book Reeves was told to read before shooting is for one thing, about copies without originals.

    What is a symbol but an artifact that depicts something else. Finding "real" (to you at least) symbols in something where they were not envisioned by the creator of that something is much like making a copy without an original.

    Good art is all about evoking thoughts/feelings/images in the mind..and I think really good artists make us see things they never even intended.

    Is that post modern enuff fer ya?

  6. Re:I remember saturday mornings on The Disappearance of Saturday Morning · · Score: 1

    Heck with me it was Johhny Quest and Nestle Quik - right out of the box with a spoon, no glass no milk. Yipeeeee!

    Now its Everquest and multiple pots of strong coffee. Still fun.

  7. Re:I know what was behind this: on Matrix Special Edition Cancelled · · Score: 1

    An incredible movie...I thought when I first saw it anyways...and hey, to see Victor Newman (Eric's character on the Y&R) as a young man in a sci-fi-ish movie is bonus.

  8. Re:Okay on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    "Thunderbirds are Go!"

  9. Have we been duped by J2EE? on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare · · Score: 2, Funny

    All these .WAR files I work with....makes me wonder. Web-ARchive they say, yeah right!

  10. EverCrack must be banned too! on Grand Theft Auto Still Banned Down Under · · Score: 1
    I can identify with that...last night, when I went to the mall to do some Xmas shopping and saw some large blueskinned creatures dressed in studded leather, I could not help but gather all my magical powers around me and cast Word of Dismissal .

    Well, needless to say, those nasty orcs were done for...and I did not have to line up once to pay for my purchases. Of course, it was rather unpleasant having to slip and slide through what was left of those nasty orcs (and the remains of the rest of the shoppersand shopkeepers), but I did manage to get some nice loot from the corpses.

    Oddly enough, though I killed hundreds if not thousands, I did not get to the next level. Hmmmmm, maybe there was some negative xp gain for killing all those innocents? Damn.

  11. Re:I got my seat reserved! on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 1
    Dude! What are you thinking?? When she sees that emotion on your face, it's instant score! She'll be all over you for the next week... Take her!

    LOL!!!! I promised to take her that weekend, if it lives up to my overblown expectations, I am sure I will be displaying enough emotion to have her all over me. And anyways...I really don't need that to get her going, one phrase whispered in her ears is all it usually takes: "hey babe, how about a beowulf cluster of natalie portman doing the hot grit thing?" YooooMAMA, that sets her off everytime!

    Eeek, now I am gonna lose karma for a comment in my own thread?

  12. I got my seat reserved! on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 1
    Okay, so its general admission...but I have a ticket reserved, for the secvond showing on the first day. It harkens back to the day I skipped school to go see the first Star Wars film...except I won't be sitting in the fornt row with a bunch of buddies smoking chillums of hash before the lights go down. I'll just have to spark one solo on the way to the theatre.

    I was thinking my gf would be peeved I am not taking her, but I told her there is no way...I am gonna be overwhelmed with emotion...LOTR is about the only friend I had to get me through a couplf of years of my adolesence.

    I can barely wait, I find myself watching the trailer over and over (it's right there on my desktop, just begging to be clicked again), and getting goosebumps everytime I hear Gandalf say "You shall not pass!". I just hope I don't pass out with excitment before the 4pm showing on the 19th....

  13. Re:Timely Question on Whatever Happened to Internet Redundancy? · · Score: 1

    There were two outages, a week apart. The first, we are told, caused by thieves looking for copper, who sliced a fiber cable (on purpose? who knows), the second when they buggered up a week later perma-fixing the first cut. Or so my addled brain recalls the annoying loss of connectivity.

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  14. Oh NOOOOOOOOOO! on The End Of The Paperclip · · Score: 1

    They killed Clippy!

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  15. All the poor little guy needs... on The End Of The Paperclip · · Score: 1

    is a little Viagra, then ther problem would be getting him to stay down.

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  16. ACk on Sex.com Returned to Original Owner · · Score: 1

    I don't think I implied any such thing, I'm pretty sure that I stated it. Given that pornography is designed to help men spill their seed, and that any man with a wife won't have any need to debase themselves in such a way, it therefore follows that pornography is for people who are unable to find themselves a wife.
    Are you stupid or just naive? I happen to know quite a few women who throughly enjoy erotica. And wow, even some married couples who enjoy viewing it together. And what about gay men and women, do they not even exist in your perfect little god-built world? Next!
    ...if there is anything I hate more than a troll, its a bigotted sexist closeminded misogynistic bible thumping a**-hole troll. Do you have some masochistic streak that forces you to display your small minded ignorance here, or do you consider yourself some kind of martyr? Sheeez, give me a freeking break.

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  17. WTF? on Secret Service Raids Gold-Age · · Score: 1

    "Defenestration" is deforestation??? Huh? in French, the word for window is fenetre (sorry I can't do the accent). Me thinks your brain is a bit woody friend.

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  18. The Stray Bull Law on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 3

    Could a farmer bill another for letting his seed contaminate his land?

    If you read the judgement, there is a section towards the end where the judge mentions the "Stray Bull Law", which basically states: if your bull loose, and has its way with my cows, I own the offspring, but if it causes me any harm that your bull banged my cows, you owe me.

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  19. Monsanto: the Baron Von Frankensteins of Farming on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 1

    The truly frightening thing about this whole story, is the particular type of seed the farmer was charged with stealing.

    This is a genetically modified form of canola which was created in a lab to have resistance to:
    A) pests
    B) fungus
    C) disease
    D) drought
    E) all of the above
    F) none of the above

    saddly, F is the answer. This genetically altered form of Canola is resitant to: Roundup. and what tis that? Monsanto's flagship Herbicide...is it any wonder the stuff is spreading around? If a Herbicide can't kill it, what can?

    I feel there is real danger in this sort of thing, the loss of "natural" populations of plants, and hence seed, could lead to catastrophy. Why? Because artificial gentic manipulation could lead to unforseen weekness in genetic structure. What if we came to the day where EVERY canola plant in the worl was grown from seeds "made" by Monsanto. And what if some virus/fungus/whatever mutated slighty, and found it did real well attacking these plants. Where would we be then? all the f***ing Roundup in the world won't save us. Maybe I am being alarmist, but recent news regarding sever genetic weakness in clones (along with the fact that when cloning certain plants for personal use - the clones eventually die due to mutiplying gene weaknesses).

    All I can say is I don't like it one bit.

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  20. Oh...that gives me an idea... on Mouse Begone: Use Head Movements And IR Instead · · Score: 1

    A net connected app, the people place reflective dots in certain strategic positions on their bodies, and voila! Let's dance (or whatever ;-)

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  21. Re:Who cares? on OS/390 Replaced By z/OS · · Score: 1

    Um, well, there is already an OS/400, that's what runs the AS/400...it's heritage is system 36 and system 38, not sure if those were OS or hardware monikers. So, maybe they are trying to not confuse those who run AS/400s, by naming a new S390 OS in a confusing manner.

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  22. Re:Holey Fibers on New Fiber Development · · Score: 1

    damn! That was what I was gonna say, you stole my thunder!

    *ponder*

    Well, while the core of your argument contains a fiber of truth, there are quite a few holes in it.

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  23. Re:What about a slightly different name? on Don't Trust Code Signed by 'Microsoft Corporation' · · Score: 1

    It should be possible for me to get a Verisign certificate for 'the Microsoff corporation

    ...and therein lies half the rub: lazy and ignorant folks, not paying attention (hello, Mcfly!...). The other half is split somewhere down the whatever by Verisign and MS....I mean, it was Verisign who handed it out, no where does it say MS was compromised in some way, and information/access control was taken in order to facilitate this bit of social engineering...from what I read, the fault does fall on the acquisition and acquicesion(sp) of/to electronic certificates...

    Yes, we can trust, if it's signed by Bill, it won't always make things better, in fact, it will as likely add a few more bugs, but at least they are not issuing deliberately malicious code... maybe just crappy code.

    Now there is someone out there who can pose as MS electronically, and that's even worse than crappy code.

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  24. Re:Sorry on Broadband From On High But Not In Orbit · · Score: 1

    or...if your ISP crashes, it takes out more than just the net: like your house, your kid's school, your place of work, the local hospital...this almost makes me think April Fool's day came early this year.

    Check this out....Calvin and Hobbes have all their base owned by her.

    and on another offtopic note...what is the max number of comments a /. story ever garnered? Has the Cof$ story won that honor yet?

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  25. Re:MMmmm on New Holographic Storage Medium Doesn't Shrink · · Score: 1

    ... I don't know if I need to see a Psychic or a Psycologist.

    Ah, what is a Psycologist? Is that someone who psychoanalyses your lower intestinal tract?

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