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  1. Re:Jones? Is that you? on Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, at leats that didn't work ;-)

    George Lazenby always reminds me of the guy trying to replace Peter Sellers as the Pink Panther. Same odd experience.

  2. Re:Jones? Is that you? on Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With Bond, they were lucky to have Roger Moore, who already played The Saint. The character of the Saint is not very different to Bond's (especially within the hands of Moore, of course), so I guess that the audience could quite well get used to it.

  3. Re:old tech? on Aural Heaven -- iPod And Analog · · Score: 1

    I'm 23 and it is my personal opinion that playing Creedence Clearwater Revival on anything more than a pick-up (that's a record player) should be considered audio rape.

    And no, I do not have a beard and moustache (though I should shave).

    Wonder what good Tindersticks would do on tubes, though...

  4. Re:Um, okay Sun... on How Can Companies Profit While Giving Code Away? · · Score: 1

    That's a rightly wonderful business model.

    I suggest that you zap yourself back to the nineties and try to make a Profit of it...

  5. Life story of my abused TV on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    I used to have a TV that I've picked off the streets one day. Never knew why I did that. Maybe I was naive and thought I could make a change. But she worked for me all right, and whenever she didn't, I used to smack her with the back of my slippers. That used to keep her up for at least half an hour extra. Eventually, it got her into such a sorry state that all I had to do was point at her to make her try suicide.

    Yes, this is a true story. I eventually killed the thing by pointing at the off button, causing a spark. It happened twice, then it was dead.

  6. Re:Toddlers banging a drum? on 'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK Public Domain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, I think we'll more likely see some spectacular monetary-driven killings instead.

    All that old artists that are still alive do is claim their copyright from their Good Ole Days. Yet those same artists, dead, will give you all their work for free within the timespan of a few years!

    Which, of course, leads us to our Business Plan for the next few years:

    1. Alter Copyright Law
    2. Kill Metallica
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

    I thank you all.

  7. Re:The fa link says to contact Microsoft Support on Using AI for Spam Filtering (w/ Source Code) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should send them an email.

    And you, and you, and you...

  8. I voted... on Dutch Parliament Reverses Software Patent Vote · · Score: 1

    ...for the EU council.

    For a party other than VVD (which contains many stupid cows, but not the least of them Bolkestein, who came up with the shitty patent idea in the first place).

    For a party which had an explicit statement on the Software Patents issue (SP), thereby being one of the very few with more than just general statements concerning the EU.

    This certainly feels like my vote was worth it.

  9. HTML "source code" on Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Am I nuts or did I just today accidentally find out that their index page's HTML is pretty low on W3C?

    39 errors for such a small page which happens to be your business card for thousands of people... wonder what the rest looks like then ;-)

  10. Re:wma? on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Weapons of Mass Applications?

    I lost you there.

  11. From X to Xfree to X in ?? years on Mandrakelinux Goes X.org · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny how Xfree86, which started as a liberal spin-off of the "de jure" X Foundation, only to become the de facto standard for this foundation later on, now finds itself buried in bureaucracy and licensing problems, and getting passed by, no other than, the "new, exiting" X.org foundation.

    (Lots of letters and commas in that sentence :-)

  12. Re:What applications are there on Mono Beta 2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could care less if Microsoft.office.NET looks like gnome when run on gnome.

    Dude, in the UNIX world we call this a major accomplishment!

  13. CCD? on Fermilab Builds 500-Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    And here I was thinking that CCD technology was inferior to CMOS and that other thingy, and that the actual sample rate is only half or somethingabout of the given number of Megapixels?

    Could be wrong, though, having a hard time finding my way to the megapixel forest.

  14. Re:Middle mouse click on MacOSX on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, is it in the middle?

  15. Re:What everyone is interested in... on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah nice, but you just tell me what my upgrade path on Debian is if I just want to have a *newer version* of Mozifoxwhatever that won't crash on half of the Internet's websites.

    Branding? My ass! Said the cow.

  16. Quick! on Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They See? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody place a mirror on the other end!

    Then we can look into the history of our own Earth!

  17. Re:The public likes to get screwed on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1

    We had a CEO of a big international medical corp visiting, and he started talking about how genious Hillybilly Gates was, and where the world would be without him (as a response to the news about the EU fees).

    I simply responded "on another OS" and made sure we abandoned that discussion ASAP. Meanwhile, the fact that each and every virus goes right through our whole hospital thanks to win98 still kind of disturbs me.

    But hey, everybody his own opinion, especially when they came over to bring a bag with money...

  18. Re:Hope they remove testicals so he can't reproduc on Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo Interview · · Score: 2, Funny

    you mean the kind that can spell testicles?

  19. Wrong net number though! on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1

    Wrong net number though...

  20. Well folks, it's working already! on Making IE Standards Compliant · · Score: 1, Funny

    I open the page in my IE browser, and it says "The page cannot be displayed", as would be the expected reaction for this browser. Tonight I'll check on Mozilla at home, I'm sure it will render correctly then! :-)

  21. Better name on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should call it "Orc".

  22. Re:Ping? on Hubble Snaps Farthest / Oldest Galaxy · · Score: 2, Interesting



    The problem is, when you have your reply back, you have no guarantee whatsoever that the galaxy is still up. Who is telling you that it hasn't exploded a million years ago?

  23. Provinciale Zeeuwsche Courant on New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections · · Score: 1

    Who would ever have thought that the Provinciale Zeeuwsche Courant beat Slashdot at this news topic.

  24. Just don't send our criminals... on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    ...or the Martians would develop an even more awful accent than the Australians did... :-)

  25. Re:Do we care? on SCO Expands Licensing Money Chase Worldwide · · Score: 1

    But this translation proves the original poster to be very well known with the Dutch language!

    My, even the inhabitants of 't Westland couldn't express this better!