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  1. And furthermore on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 1

    they should enable the technology for the DVRs to keep our eyes from blinking through ABC's commercials! So you can't even shut them out! Or the cuffs on the barcaloungers, so you can't go for a snack or beer while they're showing the commercials about (yikes!) snacks or beer!
     

  2. Re:Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield on Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield · · Score: 1

    If this is war...

    Where do I suit up? With an appropriate codpiece, of course.

  3. Re:"The mst complex machine ever built, blaah, bla on Shuttle Launch Success · · Score: 1

    which reminds me of the story that took place in the early days of the Space Race. The US and Russia were keen on topping each other at the time. The US was spending lots of money to design a pen that would write no matter what direction it was pointing, if there was no gravity, whether you held it upside down, whatever.

    The Russian solution? Use a pencil.
     

  4. Re:Yeah but can he see the future? on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    ...when you wake up, you mean.

    Because it wouldn't be something if you were psychic while in a coma, for 18 years. I mean, who would you tell?

  5. Why he speaks the truth on Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    denied that WGA will kill pirated copies of Windows

    Because it's not going to kill pirated copies of Windows, it's going to F***ing Kill (TM) pirated copies of Windows.

    Jeebuz, a thousand odd posts and nobody came up with the Ballmer.
     

  6. Re:FUCK! on Microsoft Releases IE7 Beta 3 · · Score: 1

    Don't hold back, now. Why don't you tell us how you really feel?>br>
    /joke
     

  7. Re:Hand holding. on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to sign up for the Geek Squad Special Forces, where you Tokyo-drift your car onto the customer's lawn to a skidding stop, take out your soldering gun before breaking down the door, or rappel from the rooftop and smash through the windows, flash your badge and shove his face onto the carpet taking him down. All for using Windows.

    Instead of reading him his rights, I'd be saying, GO ahead, gimme an excuse...

    OH, you use a Mac?!? My bad...

  8. Re:Those CPU stats in full... on Hurricane Simulator to Destroy Full Size Building · · Score: 1

    Hate to rain on your parade Mr Engineer Sir, but that whoosh whoosh sound isn't coming from your hurricane machine, but the joke flying over...never mind.
     

  9. Listen on Hurricane Simulator to Destroy Full Size Building · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you guys in Western Ontario want a hurricane so bad why don't you just come live here in Key West, Florida?
     

  10. Re:And if you are hit by lightning... on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 1

    can lead to much more severe internal injuries

    For the guy with the phone, that is. Eyewitnesses and bystanders can then enjoy the ensuing quiet.

  11. Re:Long Term Storage on BumpTop, Pushing the Desktop Metaphor · · Score: 1

    More importantly, where is the match to fire up the cardboard boxes you've thrown the stacks in?

    Let's just hope nobody writes a plug-in so that Clippy crosses over into BumpTop.
     

  12. Re:Not worth it. on SCO to Unix developers, We want you back · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you could pick up chicks with a car like that.

    Oh, wait this is Slashdot...
     

  13. Re:AOL Triton?? on Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a link to that Mac video where they had an application (beta, IIRC) that lets you use iChat to do whiteboard stuff, but the app used translucency to show, say a diagram, and your chatmates (still visible even with that backdrop) can scribble on the image or point or highlight it?

  14. Re:direct download links on Windows Vista Beta 2 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered what 32-bit English would sound like on my hardware.

    Couldn't resist.

  15. Re:use decent names! on Fedora Core 5 Re-spins Available · · Score: 1

    Ehrm...Fedora Core...The Director's Cut?

    Or Fedora Core ... Episode 6?

  16. We've seen this tactic before on Lenovo To Shun Linux · · Score: 1

    Lenovo is playing hard-to-get just to get Linux to lower his price.

    Oh, wait...
     

  17. Re:Acronym soup. on The Time Has Come to Ditch Email? · · Score: 1

    Go back, think about it and then write a real article.

    Did you have to go out there and say that?

    Now you know what's going to happen. Slow news day, last item was milked dry, but wait...there's still hope! Typical journalist will come up with

    "List of Top Ten Things to Hate About Email"
     
    ...and it's all your fault.
     

  18. Re:Death sentence an option? on Teens Arrested in MySpace Extortion Scam · · Score: 1

    This is the one pointed out by Homer:

    'Oh, the internet is on computers now?'

    You must have been on the other one, invented by Al Gore.
     

  19. Re:if the story is factual on Teens Arrested in MySpace Extortion Scam · · Score: 1

    Before they were arrested, they were asked to read a note aloud, which said:

    Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker.

  20. Why the price point on PS3 to Sell at Over $800 in UK · · Score: 1

    It MUST come with its own booth babe.
     

  21. Re:Middle click on Advice for Linux on a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    You know, I have an old Thinkpad but I would like to configure the 'middle' button (mostly ignored it). How did you set it up to scroll? Or links please, thanks!

  22. And if Novell built it, will they come? on Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hope it's not a case of a tree falling in the forest, and nobody to hear it...

    FP?

  23. Re:He's sorta right, but mostly off target on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Wait...is this mother mother as in Happy Mothers Day or mother as in Mother mother as in the Alien movie Mother decides-crew-is-expendable-Ripley-goes-postal type of Mother test?
     

  24. What the article left out on Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Search Offer · · Score: 1

    What makes this different from all those other boasts?

    It was spoken in Klingon, in a tone usually reserved before the drawing of bat'leths.
     

  25. Why, Denise Richards, of course! on Favorite Film Scientists? · · Score: 1

    In The World Is Not Enough, she happens to be a green-eyed nuclear scientist. Oops, wrong picture.