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  1. Re:My failure was actually awesome success... on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 2

    In fact, the failure I mention was not my failure at all - it was the failure of the world to recognize the opportunity to exploit my genius.

    Sir Clive Sinclair talking about the C5?

  2. Re:Obvious solution. on Bloody Rag May Not Have Touched Louis XVI's Severed Head · · Score: 1

    Although even so there should be at least a small match on the mitochondrial DNA

  3. Re:Obvious solution. on Bloody Rag May Not Have Touched Louis XVI's Severed Head · · Score: 3, Funny

    One word "Bastard!"

  4. Re:So... on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 2

    Surely bearing in mind Silk Road was a website they will send in the Jackbots :D

  5. Easy to trace??? on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 1
    Weaver said in an email, while the traceable nature of bitcoin transfers means the FBI "can now easily follow the money."

    WTF I thought part of the point of Bitcoin was it's bloody difficult to trace!!

  6. Re:Runnin' on Empty... on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 2

    If you say, "During this critical turnaround period, HP needs all hands on deck," you better have an actual way to turn the company around.

    Yep most people will interpret it as "During this potential nosedive period HP needs to limit your chances of jumping ship"

  7. Re:good? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow are they hosting Apples mapping application?

  8. Re:Accounting simulator pro on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    Hmm play the all new "Sage accounting III"

  9. Re:Importation on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 5, Funny

    but produces more gas then it uses.

    You leave congress out of it!

  10. Re:What? on Security After the Death of Trust · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We never really trusted our government.

    The problem with elections is that the government always wins :(

  11. What's the difference? on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    Men and women simply bring different biases to programming just make sure it's being tested by a thirds party that's all!

  12. Re:RoI on Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet · · Score: 1

    Personally I liken these muppets to the idiots who steal Henry Moore sculptures and melt them down for scrap!

  13. Re:teach reasoning, curiosity, specificity in pres on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should add programming a calculator to display 80085 to my CV (that's a resume for those across the pond)

  14. Re:BT have been doing this for years on New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network · · Score: 1

    I always said the best way to protect an open WIFI connection from intrusion is rename it "BT Openzone"

  15. Re:Facebook and Paypal on Facebook Autofill Wants To Store Users' Credit Card Info · · Score: 1

    Facebook & Paypal mentioned in the same sentence why that hasn't happened since the took the Autor's Bio out of the Bible :D

  16. SHHHH!!!! on Pakistan Earthquake Raises New Island · · Score: 1

    Nobody mention Atlantis!

  17. Re:Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or fall back to debian.

    I'm waiting for Debian does Dallas :D

  18. Re:It's a fact. on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 1

    Not every one is a server specialist most firms have windows on their desktops and if they want bespoke software then it's normally written either for a windows desktop or for the web and tested in *shudders* IE

  19. Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 4, Funny

    So do the Sony Youth get a special knife?

  20. Re:Enforcement on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 1

    This is why for a very long time it was illegal to encrypt anything in france. Just another reason they were so slow to pick up the internet.

  21. Re:Dark Helmet's review on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yoghurt? Probably it's based on the movie "Lahsi come home"

  22. Re:Like in the old days. on Boot To Zork · · Score: 2

    And even booting from floppy most of the OS was still there it just didn't execute the presentation layer for instance on the Atari ST TOS was available as were all the other OS level API's.

  23. Re:Just a moment! on Utility Sets IT Department On Path To Self-destruction · · Score: 1

    Just remember they all have at least three jobs all of which they are outsourcing to a little shop in china :)

  24. Re:Airborne mini drones, here we come.... on "Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift · · Score: 1

    Imagine a surveillance drone that's levitated by its own antenna :)

  25. Re:Oracle gains speed on Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option · · Score: 1
    Oracle CEO promises faster than light drive

    NASA promises to stop using Russians for manned space flights

    Which of these is more believable?