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  1. Re:It's worth a shot... on Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO · · Score: 1

    You're really hoping she goes for balding overweight IT professionals with posters of Slave Leia in their room, huh.

    OMG you know everything about me!....

  2. If you think it's ugly, fix it yourself on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? · · Score: 1

    Create a user CSS stylesheet and change the way you think it ought to look.

  3. Re:Time and Place on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    Well technically Scotland and England have entirely different legal systems, and police/ law enforcement are not an issue for the House of Commons, but a matter for the Scottish Parliament. Mainly defense, foriegn affairs and taxation are matters for the House of Commons and most other things are the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and legal system. If you want a more exact answer then read Wikipedia

  4. I'm looking forward to when... on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    the scanner is combined with Google Glass and dirty old (and young) men everywhere will rejoice!

  5. Re:Fortran is better. on What's To Love About C? · · Score: 2

    Go ahead. Argue. I dare you.

    v same sig since 2002. v

    If a man shouts "Fortran is better" and no-one hears him, he is still wrong.

  6. Simples on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    Download all the crap you want within a single calendar month, then get one letter. Wait 6 months till you need more stuff and repeat, getting 2 letters in a year and not enough to trigger the restrictions.

  7. Even worse on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 1

    He wasted a liver that would have tasted great with some fava beans and a nice Chianti....

  8. You lucky lucky bastard on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 1

    When I use Lynx I get offered cardboard box in the middle of the motorway...
    [/python]

  9. Re:Yammer is renamed!! on Microsoft Buys Yammer For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Hey at least I came up with my own twist on it. No joke is truly original

  10. Fir incredibly cheap deals try on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 1

    User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.7rel.2 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/1.0.0a

    or:

    User-Agent: NCSA_Mosaic/3.0 (Windows 95)

  11. Yammer is renamed!! on Microsoft Buys Yammer For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 2

    Office 2013 Communicator for Windows (Premium|Business|Home) Edition 1.0 for Windows 7/8.

  12. Before anyone says anything on Lonesome George Is Dead At 100 · · Score: 2

    I'm not going to let the minor differences between turtles and tortoises get in the way of bad jokes, so don't flipper out.

  13. And there's more on Lonesome George Is Dead At 100 · · Score: 2

    is everyone sure that he was turtally dead?
    Yes?
    Turtle bummer, man!

  14. It's just turtles on Lonesome George Is Dead At 100 · · Score: 2

    ...all the way down.

    [/pratchett]

  15. Office Starter Edition on Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    Made me download LibreOffice

  16. Re:offtopic - sig on Microsoft's Surface Caught Windows OEMs By Surprise · · Score: 1

    The answer to this is in my My journal entry

  17. Scorpion and the Frog on Microsoft's Surface Caught Windows OEMs By Surprise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Once upon a time a scorpion needed to cross the river and asked a frog to carry him across.
    "No, you'll sting me", said the frog.
    "I promise I won't", responded the scorpion.
    Somewhat dubiously the frog agreed and they started to cross the river, the scorpion riding on the frogs back. However, halfway across the river,t he frog felt a siny sting and noticed the sting of the scorpions tail sticking into him.

    "Why have you done that?", The frog asked as he died agonisingly.
    "Because it's in my nature", returned the scorpion as the waters swallowed them both.

  18. Harry Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat series on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 2

    Always good for a starting point into sci fi.

  19. Re:My only beef with the Samsung Galaxy phones is. on Samsung Galaxy S III Launched, Hands-On Testing · · Score: 1

    The fact that the plastic casing may take some damage may be a plus. Only old cars have metal bumpers, as plastics are impact absorbent, and its not the end of the world if you have to replace one.

  20. IE7 and before on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    Another issue is that I am sure that some people still use Windows 98,95 or maybe cough 3.x. These operating systems won't be able to get current versions of IE. Of course Linux users never have this problem.....

  21. I use lynx on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    Do I have to pay anything extra?

  22. Re:Donning flameproof underwear in 3...2....1 on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Technically, IIRC Britain owned Hong Kong plus some other bits, but the New Territories were leased and Hong Kong had expanded to the point where it could not function without them.

  23. Explanation on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    I was surprised to find he actually has a katana as a result of the original XKCD Cartoon

  24. Donning flameproof underwear in 3...2....1 on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whichever Argentinian stole it is probably claiming that it is theirs as a result of their ancestor looking after the cow that the bag was made from between 1828 and 1832.....

  25. Whats with the 883 (repeated) on Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations · · Score: 2

    Is this some kind of mystic number in contract value?