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  1. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 1

    I like to posit that Keanu Reeves is a fantastic actor, provided his character has no idea whats going on around him

    So you're saying he's a good method actor?

  2. What... is your favourite colour? on Pink, Blue, and Bad Science · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blue! No, pink [SPROING] Aarrgghh!!

  3. Re:Glad to see... on NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space · · Score: 1

    Just wait. Soon enough, they'll be modifying the Moon to look like the Death Star.

    Too late!

  4. Re:But on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    But "IF I DID" murder my wife, and I am not saying I did, for nagging me about being online all day, which would be best to clean my hands so the CSI people can't catch me ?

    Just run reiserfsck. Gets rid of dirty filesystems... er... Hans... uh... hands...

  5. Re:Ozone production FTW on New Chip-cooling Technology · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rat poison is also damn useful but I wouldn't want it in the air or eating it.

    You would if you had a reason to prevent your blood from clotting (a stroke, for example). Coumadin is just a drug company's brand-name for warfarin, a chemical used in some rat poisons (although I wouldn't want to take the stuff intended for the rats either)...

  6. Stephen Colbert? on YouTube Begins Defense, Seeks Depositions · · Score: 2, Funny
  7. Re:Go Azureus! on SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps · · Score: 1

    Since the summary says that it only run on Windows, I'm sure the virus writers are at your door to fulfill your request.

    Thanks to WINE, uTorrent is running on my Linux box at this very moment. And it's still using fewer resources than Azureus would...

  8. Re:This is one to one transactional email on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 1

    My bank pays 38 cents to send me a statement each month.

    Correction: you pay your bank several dollars each month (either in service fees or out of interest they're making by lending out your money) and then they use 38 cents of that to mail you a statement each month.

  9. Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, even The Beatles use Vi...

  10. Re:Feature Rich on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe the intent is that the Hot Asian Girlfriend will write the code for the EMACS user. Unfortunately for said EMACS user, she uses Vi...

  11. Re:If I could actually get one.. on Wii's Longevity, Competition Questioned · · Score: 1

    I believe the proper song lyric is:

    You say you want a Revolution
    Well you know
    Wii all want to change the world

    The Beatles (and especially George) were clearly ahead of their time...

  12. Re:Modding on Games of the Future - User Generated Content · · Score: 1

    Even before Quake, there used to be thousands of maps available for DOOM

    There still are...

    ID even shipped a CD, and I forgot the name, which had both a top 10 list for WADS to play, as well as a directory with hundreds of levels.

    Sounds like Master Levels, which was a set of 21 good levels (some of which were made by authors who would later be hired by id Software to work on Episode 4 of Ultimate Doom), but also a couple thousand not-as-good levels which were basically dumped from the idgames archive of the time.

  13. Re:Once again showing on Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws · · Score: 1

    Once again showing [t]hat Canadians are more American than most Americans

    This is true. I've often felt that Canada is "America as it should have been"...

  14. Re:Should I move to Canda? on Canadian Copyright Group Wants iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the software, if there were a levy to cover that like there is now to cover music. (And a bit of sarcasm, since it's unlikely OpenBSD would ever see a cent from the government, who'd be too busy appeasing large software companies.)

    But you bring up a good point... I had forgotten that they also include a song on each of their releases, so the current levy on blank media already covers OpenBSD...

  15. Re:Should I move to Canda? on Canadian Copyright Group Wants iPod Tax · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't it be grand if the people who distribute software started pulling this crap too? I'd feel obliged to take them up on their fees and start downloading away.

    That'd be great since I wouldn't feel bad when I download OpenBSD instead of buying the CDs. The government would obviously give them their fair share of the levy...

  16. Re:missed opportunity on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Great. All we need is 363 more terrorist attacks and nobody will be able to do anything anymore for fear of not being sensitive enough.

    That's okay, we'll still have February 29...

  17. Damn! on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Now how am I supposed to install OpenBSD?!

  18. Re:Redirect on Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July · · Score: 2, Funny
    And naturally that's Microsofts fault? Not the developer who doesn't know anything about their tool?

    I wouldn't worry about it, many developers have firsthand experience with their tools...

  19. Re:Corporate development OWNS the 2.6 kernel on Video Interview With Linus On Linux 2.7 · · Score: 1
    What's changed is the release cycle--we no longer have this odd-numbered fork where the kernel's half-broken for years at a time.

    Yeah, now there's an even-numbered fork where the kernel's half-broken for years at a time...

  20. Re:Open Stallman on Stallman — 20 Years of Explaining Free Software · · Score: 1
    How about posting audio streams/downloads of all Stallman recordings, and accepting publicly submitted transcripts on a Wiki?

    Make sure a Free software license is used, so we have the freedom to edit his speeches to make him say whatever we want, provided we allow others the same freedom on our edits...

  21. Re:Where are the apps? on Novel OS Drives the '$100 laptop' · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Linux desktop is getting nowhere, despite it's technical excellence, because it lacks key apps (i.e., Office).

    Bluh? Is OpenOffice.org that bad on Linux? Admittedly I've only ever used it on Windows and OpenBSD, and can't really compare it to Microsoft Office since I've never actually used that (mostly because I've never had to)...

  22. Re:Oh really? on Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie · · Score: 1
    Studies show that 100% of my employees are mouthy SOBs who don't know what side their bread is buttered on. Lie at work? Abusive relationship? You shouldn't have talked, kids; now you'll really know what an abusive boss is like!

    That's what you get for being self-employed!

  23. Re:It must be noted, though on Apple Execs Reportedly Faked Options Documents · · Score: 5, Funny
    That like everything at Apple it was very easy to do. 3 clicks and options were faked. That's it!

    Yes, but it should be pointed out that if they weren't forced to use a one-button mouse it would have only taken one click...

  24. Re:MIA: on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Makes sense to me. You have to understand, that like every other being in the galaxy in the year 1996, these aliens were forced to use Windows 95. Very easy for Jeff Goldblum to hack into from his laptop.

    In fact, that's why the aliens came to Earth; they were looking for Bill Gates...

  25. Re:even the linux experts get tired. on Why the World Is Not Ready For Linux · · Score: 1
    Distributors should try really hard to build an online, wiki-style database of ALL the hardware that a given version of their distribution supports. This should not just be by "chipset" (Atheros, ACX100), but rather, should be by actual box packaged versions of the hardware (D-Link so and so version 2, Linksys so and so versions 3-5, Logitech QuickCam Pro, etc. . .).

    While they don't list which distributions support particular hardware, or how to enable the hardware in those distributions that do, sites like the Free Software Foundation's Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux and LinuxPrinting.org are pretty good. The FSF one in particular lists not only the chipset, but what manufacturers use it and the names their products are sold under.