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  1. Re:Here's an idea... on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    my dad got our first pc in 1978. when i was born (in 1983) we had gotten a commie 64. i simply can't remember when i first used a computer, because it's been my whole life. i don't know what you're doing with the computer, but my hands feel fine. i think i evolved past carpal tunnel syndrome somehow. the first "OS" i remember using was Power Panel which was really just a DOS gui (and pretty slick, free with a Mouse Systems mouse). then we put in a BNC network and got Windows For Workgroups since dad wasn't actually a tech-head, he was a mechanic. now i use XP primarily with linux on a box i don't actually use for anything except uptime (currently about 2 years i think). so that's what having a child being raised on technology from birth is. not a mozart of computing, just a geek.

  2. What's it like being Kirk? on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Do you like it or take offense that most people remember you or know you as Kirk? Would you rather be remembered as Kirk or as William Shatner? Etc.

  3. ok, i watch too much star trek on Next Generation Fans · · Score: 2

    i thought they were talking about me

  4. gotta love the US on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i can't read rhat release notes, but i can read all the white power bs i want.

  5. Step backwards to the future! on THG Looks at ClawHammer Mobo · · Score: 2

    gotta love those big honkin vacuum tubes on the AK86. mmmmmmmm.... heat...

  6. I have something like this. on Floor Vacuum Robot for $200 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's called a cat. It roams around the house eating anything on the floor and depositing it in a box that needs to be emptied every few days. It was even free!

  7. reminds me of futurama on Space Junk Tracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    amazing, a stench so powerful it's straight off the funkometer!

  8. too expensive, but cool nontheless on Ultra-Strong Nanotube Composites · · Score: 3, Funny

    nanotubes are of course still too expensive to produce, but still, the idea to make something 6 times stronger than traditional carbon fibers just makes me really want these science-geeks figure out how to make a computer chassis out of it so i can throw it at someone at my next lan party.

  9. Costume that got me kicked out of school one day on Halloween Costumes for 2002? · · Score: 2

    i took a big white trash bag, cut holes in it, and went as white trash.

  10. I wish I had this condition on Seeing Sounds and Hearing Colors · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could save thousands on drugs. When you start hearing code and seeing machine cycles, though, it's time to slow down.

  11. Velcro on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i think velcro might actually (no fooling) be the official way of bundling cable runs according to the IEEE. we learned this in my Cisco class in high school. i just use tie-wraps :)

  12. What He Needed on GameToo Much...... And Die! · · Score: 2

    Quoting witnesses, police detective Oh Myong-sik in Kwangju said the man had been virtually glued to the computer since late last Friday and had no decent sleep and meals.

    All he needed was a mountain dew IV drip and he would have been fine.

  13. It's probably Nate on Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States · · Score: 2

    Burning down Hemos' house wasn't enough. Now he's trying to burn down Colorado.

  14. More Naming Crap on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto · · Score: 2

    Astronomers named the new object Quaoar, after the creation myth of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers.

    To the indigenous peoples, Quaoar was the great force of nature that summoned all other things into being.


    I guess they ran out of Roman gods already.

  15. 10mbps For The Healthy on Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but in order to reach full 10mbps you have to have a diet rich in copper.

  16. Re:Yay for corporations! on Apple Shuns DRM Efforts So Far · · Score: 2

    Windows XP is hard to pirate? My acquisition of XP came like this:

    Me: Hey, do you have a Win2K cd? My computer disintegrated (yay for MS.)
    Guy: No, but I have this copy of XP with no activation.
    Me: ok, whatever.

  17. Re:In the Matrix... on Parity Code And DNA · · Score: 2

    dude, when this thing compiles, we're screwed.

  18. Not only does God play dice on Parity Code And DNA · · Score: 3, Funny

    but he uses a d2, apparently

  19. Even Still on The Little DVD Driver That Could Change Movies · · Score: 1

    despite the hooha about the hardware region controlling, now that /. has said something about this, the powers that be are going to hear about it, and it's probably going to get slapped hard with a lawsuit or a c&d order. get it before the MPAA opens up again on monday!

  20. I don't remember who said this on New York Times Staff Editorial Promoting Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    UNIX is user-friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are.

  21. Kudos To /. on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 1

    As the events were happening, most of the major news sites were getting knocked down or were being sluggish about things. At my college, I had mentioned to my RA that www.slashdot.org had good coverage and speeds. Word quickly spread and next thing we knew, an email from the president of the college was sent out to all the students and faculty about things to do and web sites to go to, and sure enough, slashdot was listed. Kudos to you guys for keeping up with the coverage and again for having a nice fat pipe to push it all out on! It really helped, and I'm sure my college wasn't the only location where /. became a main source of coverage as cnn.com etc got knocked down by a hundred million people surging onto the net.

  22. make it smaller and stronger on Electric Armor · · Score: 1

    adapt it to lead, and equip it on the grunts. better get a headshot.

  23. Merciless Quote-Whoring on The Square Kilometer Array · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ska sucks
    -Propaghandi

  24. Re:Bad weather on Solar Surgery · · Score: 2, Funny

    you die

  25. Ironically enough on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 1

    It's 18.5 minutes of static. Nixon was in the can.