User: sharkey

Re:Then what?

On: CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft

ISS is just a suck-ass product

Maybe, but we're committed to what, 8 more shuttle missions to complete it? And getting humanity out into space is a good goal.

Re:and in other news still...

On: CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft

Hello Fifedom!

An entire country playing fifes? Owwww.

Re:QNX

On: Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future

Tivos aren't mission-critical, (except during ... sporing events)

Man, you REALLY need to take sex ed again.

Re:By Coincidence...

On: New Dell Clickthrough Software License

They use an in-house software installation applet called RIATA (don't ask what it stands for, I never knew)

Rammed In Ass This Afternoon.

Re:This is my advice.

On: Cubicle Etiquette?

If you are listening to some good tunes, don't withhold its enjoyment for your own personal pleasure, crank that stuff up! Let everyone enjoy!

Remember, everyone loves hampsters.

Re:Thank you - If I had mod points, you == +1

On: Blaster Writer Caught

Sounds like high school gym class. The high school I went to, anyway.

Re:Best defense is a good offense

On: DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists

So when do we get to launch our DDoS against the spammers again?

When the next issue of magazines come out. All the subscriber cards have been stripped from the issues currently on the newsstand.

Re:Ho, you think so?

On: Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park

Sure, but has he Walt killed and tortured as many?

Well, only one in two million people has what we call the "evil gene". Hitler had it, Walt Disney had it, and Freddy Quimby has it.

Re:Microsoft Fetish

On: Big Company on Campus

C'mon slashdot, what is with this Microsoft fetish lately? Get with it and keep up the SCO bashing for goodness sake!

It's more of a return to traditional Slashdot roots, rather than an abadonment of a life-giving mainstay. We've been bashing MS for years, SCO's a new target.

Re:The landmark effects...

On: Movie Landmarks for CGI Effects?

I'm sure there are more but I haven't seen it in awhile.

IIRC, the ping-pong balls in match against the Chinese champion were CG.

Re:Case of the Mondays

On: MIT Robot Walks On Water

frogot itself

I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds nasty. And quite possibly painful, too.

Not Mars

On: Mars at Opposition - Earth at Transitition

the gravitational forces are going to rip the earth apart or cause massive earthquakes.

Sounds more like the handiwork of Ming the Merciless.

Re:Other brands of phone - Siemens

On: Flaming Cellphones

"A spokeswoman for Siemens said a GSM (cellphone) of the Siemens brand exploded last year in Germany."

Exploding Siemens?

Was she wearing a blue dress?

Re:Hell, I'm on the fire brigade -- (volunteer)...

On: Flaming Cellphones

How did Helen Keller burn her ear?

Re:Good News / Bad News

On: Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly

Imagine a 80-year-old Japanese lady running at 80 mph through Tokio, all the while randomly kicking through people.

Don't forget the tinny PC speaker squawking, "ispell!?!? We don't need no stinking ispell!"

Re:Mmmm, deep bot

On: IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2

From the team that brought you Deep Blue, now comes the ultimate challenge, Deep Bot.

By the company that brought you Deep Blue and Deep Bot, SCO has been chosen to beta test Deep Shit.

Re:Can you?

On: IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2

I for one welcome our new Grid Bug overlords.

Re:The instant messanger that works!

On: Gaim Speaks Out on MSN Ban

linpopup is a part of the Samba project, IIRC. Check their docs for the exact usage.

Valentine Michael Smith

On: Control the Camera on Mars Global Surveyor

You grok?

Re:Cost Benefit Analysis

On: SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come

If they had done their job properly in the first place, they wouldn't have to fix anything at all.

Because they would already be running on OSX?

Re:Oy.

On: RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5

I wonder if Big Oil will like the competition.

Why don't you ask? Try president@whitehouse.gov

Re:Torvalds's's Comment's

On: SCO: Code Proof Analyzed, Linus Interviewed

I can't figure out where the apostrophy goes.

Thi's is Slashdot'. Just cram it's in anywhe're you want's it b'e.

Re:Go to the junkyard instead

On: Watercooling Drifting Mainstream

My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop moddin' that Hot-Rod Lincoln!"

Nope, just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Re:That card is way too big...

On: Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card

que the anti-voodoo5 and anti-geforce5800 zealiots.

That bang you just heard was a Grammar Nazi's corrective sense shifting without a clutch.

It stops on Saturday!

On: Network Blackout

We don't get to see ask.slashdot.org fall off the Internet from this morning.