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  1. Re:Mother and baby are doing fine on Black Hole Birth Detected this Morning · · Score: 1

    Geeky parents.

  2. Re:What tool to move to? on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    What about Arch? Does anyone actually use it? Most projects I've seen either use CVS, or Subversion.

  3. Re:Pimp my cubicle? on Inside Look at Pixar HQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Napkins and drink covers? Call that pimping your cubicle? Dude, you need 20" chrome drink covers, and 42" plasma widescreen connected to a surround sound speaker system and entertainment centre powered by a Playstation 2 in your napkins, at least!

  4. Re:Compiler on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    Actually, the word `compiler' has two meanings:
    compiler
    n 1: a person who compiles (or writes for) encyclopedias [syn: encyclopedist,
    encyclopaedist]
    2: (computer science) a program that decodes instructions
    written in a higher order language and produces an
    assembly language program [syn: compiling program]


    These days the former may also be regarded as the latter, as the compiler sifts through information (source code) and makes it into binary code (their computer database). Using this interpretation, he is right.

    Ha-ha...

  5. Re:Infection on U.S. Plans to Tighten Nuclear Power Plant Security · · Score: 1

    In all fairness, the powerplant did have to emulate the virus using wine.

  6. Re:Hah hah on Speakeasy Embraces Firefox · · Score: 1

    Well, if you can't move to Mozilla, you could always try Galeon, Camino, IBM Web Browser, ManyOne Universal Browser, Netscape or Epiphany...

  7. Re:Gillette just called. They want their razor bac on Rambus Takes Another Shot At High-End Memory · · Score: 1

    Hey, good idea. We shall be changing the name ASAP.

    Sincerely,
    Rambus CEO

  8. Re:so, how is creationism taught anyways? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1


    No one created God. He spontaneously expanded into infinity out of an initially infinitesimal lump of potency.


    So where did this lump of potency come from then?

  9. Re:Plug-ins part of the browser? on FireFox Sets the World Ablaze · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny, seeing what you get when running /. through the validator.

    Is this a cover up? *grabs tinfoil hat*

  10. Re:Monkeys on Chimp Can Hack Diebold Electronic Voting System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey! I resent that remark; I'm from Florida and I demand a banana!

  11. Re:white boy on Live Nightclub Hacking · · Score: 5, Funny

    syntax error at - line 4, near "&&}"
    Execution of white boy aborted due to compilation errors.

  12. Re:Sure, when pigs fly. on A Flying Leap for Cars? · · Score: 1
    At the very least you'll not get a date in a flying car! All the other dateless people will be jealous!
    "Look at him! He's not having a date in a spiffy flying car! Gasp, I am so jealous! Here we are, a group of non dating people without a flying car!"
  13. Re:Statistics on Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising · · Score: 3, Funny

    In related news, usage of statistics is up 60%. After a fall last year of 40% on the usage of statistics this came as quite a surprise to the Internation Statistics Council (ISC).

    "We are delighted with the increase of the usage of statistics, " said Chris Banana, the CEO of the ISC, "after the decline of previous year we have campained 150% more to encourage a 76% increase in statistics usage."

    Independent inquiries with the goal of producing statistics have also risen 45% according to an independent study issued by the ISC.

    "We are extremely grateful for the 5000% increate in funding we received from Microsoft in order to make this all possible", according to Chris.

  14. Re:Wow on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Re:Interesting "book", great read for PHBs! on A Taste Of Computer Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    12345? Thats the code for my suitcase!

  16. Re:Misinterpreted headline on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    Well, if you have a hot mail address, you're going to need some UV protection. The late commitment to protecting their users with sunscreen will only lead to the detection of skin cancer in a lot of people!

  17. Re:Left hand, meet right hand on Sun COO Schwartz Promises Open Source Solaris · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But that's how Sun makes most of its money, through support contracts. In fact, if you want to make money: support software, don't write it.

  18. Re:Email courtesy?? on World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of the POP3 TOP command?

  19. Re:Yoo hoo, I'm back! on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. My grandfather used to be a salesman for various companies. One of those companies sold electric meat cutters (for buchers). He managed to sell one to a poor butcher in a backwater province where there wasn't even electricity yet. "If you do get electricity, you'll be the first to have an electric cutter!"

  20. ObFollowUp on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 2, Funny

    Luxury.

    Back when I was a young'en, we didn't have any o' those fancy crystals, ovens or precious metals. We 'ad to make due with a bunch o' stones, manipulating the electrons by hand!

  21. Re:Oh really? on Apple's Rumored PowerPod · · Score: 1

    And how does sleeping through January 4th help?

  22. Will Use The Internet For Food on Using the internet for free food? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:At the present rate on X-43A Hits Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    I've got one of those in my back yard. All it's missing is a Pulse Dimension Wrapping Modulator and a Plot Hole Compensator.

  24. Re:2 words that shouldn't be together on AT&T Labs' Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Sort of gives you the willies, doesn't it?

  25. Re:IN CASE OF SLASHDOTTING on 1,028,000 Digital Photographs · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Canon EOS 1D is the fastest camera in its class, and the default choice of just about every reporter. The 1D has a frame rate of 8 fps (@4MP, with buffer of 21JPEG/16RAW pictures), it's follow up, the 1D Mark 2 has a frame rate of 8.5 fps (@8MP, with a buffer of 40JPEG/20RAW pictures). The D2H has 8fps, (@4MP, 40JPEG pictures).

    Of course, the EOS 1D series is environmentally sealed, unlike Nikon cameras. You could almost use it under water (if one uses L lenses).