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  1. Team OS/2 Forever! on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    When's the next Warpstock? I need to check this out.

  2. I will name him George on Scientists Name 11 New Cloud Types (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him

  3. If it was Microsoft, you would have to demand $640K

  4. Crappy movie success plan: Trick people on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 2

    The plan to be successful with a crappy movie. Trick people into going to see it. The people who really want to see it will go anyway. You need to trick people with flashy previews and actor interviews to get the rest of the people to go and be disappointed with the experience. Then you need to complain about them not liking it, to trick more people into watching.

  5. Re:How about actual sunlight instead of projectors on Let There Be Light: Germans Switch on 'Largest Artificial Sun' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the DOS barrier of thermodynamics.

  6. Re:Comey to Congress: TRUMP DID IT! on Apple's Next Big Thing: Augmented Reality (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We should never have let the Cubs win the World Series. The world has gone downhill ever since.

  7. Re:Trucks With Laserbeams on The US Army Finally Gets The World's Largest Laser Weapon System (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they can become dancers for Katy Perry.

  8. Going from Kilowatt to Killerwhat on The US Army Finally Gets The World's Largest Laser Weapon System (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    You name it, we'll kill it.

  9. DMARC and Jalad at Tanagra on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Shaka, when the walls fell.

  10. First part of sentence should have been a list on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The second part of the sentence is written as a list, with a colon and semi-colons. To be very precise, the first part should have been a list, too. Clunky English, but would be accurate way to state the legal rule.

  11. Too smart for his own good on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I worked for someone with a pathetic leadership style. He would ask for a project estimate, and we would do a good job developing the estimate. The estimate might be for 3 months of work. He would do his own analysis, and decide it will take 2 days. So he gives us 2 days, and we are late after that. He might have the skills to do it in 2 days, but my team did not. The bigger problem is he thought he was so smart that that he understood the requirements better than we did. Well, everyone would jump through hoops trying to get it done quickly, and screw it up so bad it took twice as long as the original estimate to complete and fix. He thought this was a great motivational tool, since it had everyone working like crazy. Problem is they were being very inefficient, and wasting time and money. Not to mention that being constantly stressed out didn't help their health or promote teamwork.

  12. We're still trying to get our users off XP on Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one of our user groups is running Vista, don't even know why. We have quite a few running XP. Most have 7, some finally moving to Windows 10. Don't remember any of them using 8 or 8.1. It is very hard to get businesses to change once they get everything working.

  13. Yup, here's your problem on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone set this thing to "evil".

  14. Play Station Portable? on Message For AMD: Open PSP Will Improve Security, Hinder Intel · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Sony own that?

  15. Re:Too long, didn't type on Africa Gets Its Own Web Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.

  16. Frozen Flying Saucer on Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It looks like a flying saucer that iced over.

  17. Re:The one thing they didn't advertise on Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
  18. You need to read more /. Microsoft had a Facebook equivalent that no one used, so they just shut it down.

  19. Re:'fossil fuels by 1.6 million gallons per year'? on Tesla's New Solar Energy Station On Kauai Will Power Hawaii At Night (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    They burn fuel oil in Hawaii. Much easier to transport there than coal.

  20. Re:You would think Hawaii would go Geothermal on Tesla's New Solar Energy Station On Kauai Will Power Hawaii At Night (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one island is still volcanic, the big island of Hawaii.

  21. Microsoft becoming anti-social? on Microsoft Is Closing the Social Network You Forgot It Ever Launched (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I always considered Microsoft an anti-social kind of place, but they have gone too far!

  22. Re:Disable in BIOS on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    How do you think he does it? I don't know!

  23. Hide in your basement, cut the phone, cable and Internet lines and stay there for the rest of your life.

  24. Re:Disable in BIOS on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    But what if he's a pinball wizard?

  25. Re:64-bit on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they dropped Foxpro support.