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  1. How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos? on How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simple: 70 thousand pen drives.

  2. Fresh out of the apple tree on Two Trojans For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Worms for Apples. Can't you just smell the pun?

  3. Hazardous on RFID Tags Can Interfere With Medical Devices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dub thee harzardous technology of the week. You can now join the cellphone, TV, radio, power grid, Internet, and so on in the list of hazardous technology. Welcome on board.

  4. Re:HTTP 503'd (aka /.ed) on Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's IIS, it probably ran out of licenses.

  5. Delayed on Real Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    The service will officially launch at SIGGRAPH on August 11, 2008.
    It will probably be delayed.

  6. Re:CALL your Congress Critter on this. on New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do I get transferred to a call center in China?

  7. Perfomance on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about performance. It is a great milestone, it is, but if it is too slow it isn't ready for prime time.

  8. I didn't do it on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    I didn't steal it, it was just laying there in the middle of the street.

  9. Re:Darn it on Wii Update 3.3 Defeats Twilight Hack, Freeloader · · Score: 1

    Now where's the fun in that?

  10. Darn it on Wii Update 3.3 Defeats Twilight Hack, Freeloader · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew I would regret installing this upgrade, but I can't help myself and not install an upgrade. I have an obsessive-compulsive upgrade installing disorder.

  11. Re:Oops. on The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what is 62Gb? It is like the size of my Windows registry. But seriously I think they meant that the traffic was hundreds of gigabits/second over the usual.

  12. Points? on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    "though the page doesn't say what exactly the points are good for"
    Whose line is it anyways rings a bell.

  13. Re:unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed tr on AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters? · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. You run faster with scissors.

  14. Re:Crime is new on Games and Music, the New Book Burning · · Score: 1

    It suggests that since there was no significant increase in the overall violence in/of the society after the advent of games and rap music. If they were so importantly related to violence there would have been a discernible increase in violence. Violence has always been a part of the society and has only changed to adapt to the ages.

  15. Paper Mario on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when Paper Mario gets a power mushroom.

  16. Re:hang on! on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    So all those pen1s enlargement spams where right after all?

  17. Crime is new on Games and Music, the New Book Burning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, yes, it's all music and games fault, after all, before music and games there was no crime and no violence. "Witch" burning only happened after a Burn the Witch video-game and war and massacre only happened after we got a song telling us to do it.

  18. Achievement of what? on Fable 2 Follow Up a "Significant Scientific Achievement"? · · Score: 1

    Fable 2 will achieve the never-seen-before unsurmountable level of unmet expectations no matter how good it is.

  19. This is MS Guardian Angel: on A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Your heart beat has stopped. Ignore, Retry, Fail.

  20. Also has voice on R2D2-Shaped DVD and Videogame Projector · · Score: 5, Funny

    "pi pi ri pi ri pi pi pi ri" translates to "please insert memory stick into my orifice".

  21. YoddaByte? on A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 · · Score: 1

    So will integers be little endian or big endian in YoddaByte drives?

  22. The question is... on Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras · · Score: 1

    ... does it run Linux?

  23. Re:But does it run... on How To Move Your Linux Systems To ext4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it is too verbose, and that ends up being a problem.

  24. Wrong vote on Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shame on you Shawn Nematbakhsh, all respectable Slashdot-reading hackers know the fictitious candidate is always CowboyNeal.

  25. Misread on Nanoparticle Infused Gauze Quickly Stanches Wounds · · Score: 1

    Darn... I was so excited when I read that as shaolin clay.