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  1. Re:How soon? on Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 2

    How soon before that system is cracked and you're walking down the street with a picture of a guy f%^king a chicken on your back?

    Or you have a full-scale rendition of the goatse applied to your back.

  2. What?!?! on Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean we'll have to pay both Comcast AND the White House to view the content?

  3. What's next? on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 2

    I propose solving the ID10T problem.

  4. Re:Weapons still illegal? on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sitting on a plane with people all around you talking to their phones and not being able to whack them may get a little frustrating...

    Easy. Just tell a stewardess that you heard them talking in Arabic. She'll take care of the rest for you.

  5. Re:Good. on NASA Has Plans for 2nd Space Station at L1 · · Score: 2

    Now if they could also implement R1 and R2.

    And 3P0, too.

  6. Tonight on FOX!! on NASA Has Plans for 2nd Space Station at L1 · · Score: 2

    "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Build a Space Station at Lagrange?"

    FOX's special Investigative Coorespondant Mitch Pileggi speaks with experts who reveal that radiation in spce cannot possibly be conquered, and that the whole thing was faked in Lagrange, North Dakota.

  7. Easy-peasy on Notebook Battery Chargers? · · Score: 2

    Use the special cable Dell has to connect the floppy to the floppy-connector on the back of the Latitude.

  8. Few points on Moving Strategies? · · Score: 2
    • 1. Bottled beer. Drink a lot of it. Beer bottle (returnables) case boxes are the best, bar none, for easy handling or reasonable sized loads.
    • 2. For light, large things, break some monitors at work. Use the boxes from the replacements to move your shit.
  9. Re:Probably not news to most of us on Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone' · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    In 1975, how many people would rather take a sturdy, well-engineered Chevrolet than a quickly-slapped-together Honda?

    It's 2002, and I still feel the same way. Hell, I'd rather PUSH my Chevy than drive in a rice-burner.

  10. Re:Trojan Horse? on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow! You could be a /. editor!

  11. Re:For the Blind? on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 2
    3rd reason:
    • 3. You can walk up to a drive-up ATM. They don't arrest people for doing that.
  12. Did they buy Atari? on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple is giving away Jaguars?

  13. Dirty Fritz? on Kramnik and Deep Fritz Draw, Tied Before Final Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Go ahead. Make My Checkmate!"

  14. Clawhammer platform? on THG Looks at ClawHammer Mobo · · Score: 2

    They've been around for a long time. Here's one that's component-based, so you can "roll your own".

  15. Re:code on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 2

    Thou shalt not be caught after doing any or all of these things.

    "... it is also standard procedure to blame any problems on a scapegoat or sacrificial lamb."

    What if Ms. Mallinson was to obtain for Ballmer these animals?

  16. Re:Microsoft wraps up two days of debate on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 2

    Addressing Microsoft today on behalf of the Trustworthy Computing, Mokhtar Lamani hailed Wes Rataushk and Associates's decision to re-admit Microsoft ad inspectors, calling this a "first step" towards a settlement of the issue leading to a lifting of the sanctions.

    Lamani further noted that admission of said inspectors was permitted only as long as they made no attempts to look at any ads.

  17. Re:Microsoft's code of behavior? on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 2

    What does Microsoft's code of behavior have to say about employee conduct that gets the company convicted in the Federal court system for multiple violations of the Sherman Act?
    ...lie under oath...
    ...manufacturing evidence...
    etc.


    JUST DO IT

  18. Re:Sah Dah Tay on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 2

    Me fail English?!? That's unpossible!

  19. Re:From the article.. on Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep · · Score: 2

    it may be necessary to "weed out" employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour.

    No more talking to Mr. Nice Guy, huh?

  20. Re:Medical uses? Bah! on Using Microwaves to Drill Through Glass · · Score: 3, Funny

    What else is a silent, dustless, precision glass cutter good for?

    An easily escaped, slow-starting, elaborate death-machine for the next Bond film?

    "Vell, vell, Meester Bont! Vonce dis meecrovawe emitter has reached your krotch, it vill begin to heatink it unt den ve vill be pushink a rod into it. Dis process vill be takink about tventy minutes to begin. Ve vill be leavink you to your fate now."

  21. Re:Heh, we've been getting this.. on Windows/NetBIOS pop-up Spam: · · Score: 2

    One of our gateway boxes is terribly insecure

    Maybe you should try IBM, or HP.

  22. Re:Too bad on Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC · · Score: 2

    Where's the stress relief when the damn thing Blue Screens?

    Try here. Or here. Or here.

  23. Re:Upgrading...... on Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC · · Score: 2

    Bit of a problem upgrading 'Desks'.

    PHB: My PC locked up.
    Dilbert: That's not a PC, that's the cardboard cutout that came with your desk.
    PHB: So, do I need to upgrade the CPU?
    Dilbert: No, you need a new desk.


    Best as I remember.

  24. Color on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 2

    Will Palladium feature the original, "classic" BSOD, or will it get a new, innovative color like the X-Box did with its Green Screen of Death?

  25. Re:Tried in absentia? on Sklyarov Denied Visa to Return to U.S. for Trial · · Score: 2

    ...the death penalty in America. The circumstances are quite different than Skylarov's.

    They're taking it one step at a time. Keep your eye on the RIAA, Adobe and all the other DMCA supporters.