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  1. Re:A better title for this... on JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver · · Score: 2

    Because the editors can't remeber what stories they posted an hour ago, and repost them. How can you expect them to recognize that something is, has been, and will be obvious for the forseeable future?

  2. Ahh, word problems on 64kbps @ 40,000 ft. · · Score: 3, Funny

    An airplane traveling at 50% of the speed of light leaves Kennedy Airport in New York City at 10:16 AM EST, and is scheduled to land 4 hours 23 minutes later at Los Angelos International airport. At what Pacific Daylight Savings time will the 40-year-old pervert sitting in Seat 37C finish downloading his first 10MB S&M video clip from www.spankme.com, assuming he is able to utilize 80% of the available 64kbps bandwidth and with the satellite directly in front of him?

    With the satellite directly behind him?

    With the satellite in geosynchronous, low-earth orbit where it should be instead of directly in front of a jet flying at 40,000 feet?

  3. Re:This makes me mad on Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated PCs · · Score: 2

    Call it a hunch, but I think your keyboard might be broken.

    Actually, that's probably the beta of the Clippy replacement in the next version of Office, "Office YQ". The characters name is Gaggit, and he makes certain "naughty bits" in your writing are bleeped.

  4. Re:Alternative guide! on Microsoft's Guide to Accepting Donated PCs · · Score: 2

    It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine.

    Ironically, I just attended the MS License Briefing this morning. What they mean is, the OS license is tied to the PC, specifically the systemboard (his words). When you sell/donate/get rid of the PC, the license must go with it. You donate, the license gets donated. You trash the PC, you have to trash the license. Period.

  5. Re:more than 8bpp! on At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference · · Score: 2

    Think of all the different shades of blue they'll have in the next version of windows!

    "Oh, look! It's the New, Improved Robin's-Egg Screen of Death! Stay calm, stay calm!"

  6. Re:Hmmmmm on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 2

    Not to mention the manufacturers of Pentagon Brand toilet tissue.

  7. Re:They should have talked to me first. on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 2

    PostgreSQL for $45 million.

    Hell, I'll go one better, benefitting California taxpayers and the world at large: PostgreSQL for $22.5 million, and California arranges for a protected "meeting" between myself and N'Stync and the Backdoor Boyz at the La Brea tarpits.

  8. ObSimpsons on $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    Check out the bowl-job, Marge.
    --Homer

  9. Re:Wow... good thing they chose linux... on $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    Not to mention, they would have 1368 wasted CPU's......

    No, they'd have 1400 wasted CPUs, because, after all, a CPU (and memory, and disk, and power, and...) running XP is wasted.

  10. Re:typo! on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 2

    Yup, they hadda do'it. Young'un was a-gettin' too big fer his britches.

  11. Anonymous Coward, huh? on Internet Book Database? · · Score: 2

    Probably an agent provacateur for the Author's Guild trying to incite the Open Source community into writing a book tracking list for them to use to keep track the livelyhood-stealing activities of that awful Jeff Bezos and those bastards at Half-Price Books.

  12. Re:Worst....name....ever! on Authenticate Your Windows Clients Against... Anything · · Score: 2

    vGINA = Virtual Graphical Identification and Authentication

    Then, you could add the Security Authorized Naming Daemon as a module, resulting in having SAND in your vGINA.

  13. Between? on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 2
    the end of the 5-year contract between Apple

    Apple had a contract with itself? Reminds me of a question posed by my high-school newspaper:
    • What is the difference between an orange?
    Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
  14. Re:Truth Ads? on The Lure of Heroinware · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be fun to grab a bil fat stogie

    A "stogie" is a cigar, man. According to "The Truth" people it is cigarettes that do all those bad things. Makes me glad I enjoy cigars instead of cigarettes!

  15. Re:WTF??!! on The Lure of Heroinware · · Score: 2

    What about those of us who do both right and wrong, and don't give a rat's ass?

    "Dinseyous" - Making wonderful children's fare, then lobbying to make affordable watching of said fare illegal.

  16. Re:My favorite quote on War Driving Version 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, there's something about middle-aged, overweight Venezualan women that just doesn't do it for me

    Thank you! That got the image of Robin Williams in women's underwear, wearing the Mrs. Doubtfire wig and makeup right out of my head.

  17. Re:What about a movie based on a website? on Burrough's Martian Tales Optioned · · Score: 1

    A movie about Slashdot? Hmmm...

    Hemos: "Someone's pointing out /. editor hypocrisy!
    CmdrTaco: "To our WinME PC!"
    --stops for game of Warcraft 3 Beta, on Official Battle.net Server--
    Hemos: "Oooo, shiny!"
    CmdrTaco: "I am a Priestess of the Moon! Worship me!"

    Woman in Audience: "What a piece of garbage!"
    Man in Audience: "Well, what do you expect? They're Internet Poseurs."

    CmdrTaco: "My Hippogryph just shit on your little pussy peasant!"

    Stan Marsh in Audience: "Where do they come up with this stuff!"

    --167 minutes pass--

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    Hemos, CmdrTaco: "BitchSlap!!! All who question our ethics, and all who moderate them up! They shall never Moderate again!"

  18. Re:Various Reactions... on Sharing the Airwaves: Spread-Spectrum Broadcasting · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Bill Gates: Can you imagine the size of the PaperClip we could push down to XP .NET users with this?

  19. Re:Double barrel Mossberg? on Slashback: Favoritism, Alternacy, Moo · · Score: 2

    I prefer weapons which load from a box or clip. That way, I can keep the firearm unloaded in storage, but be ready for action in less than two seconds. *Slap* *click clack* (no safety on my KT P11).

    I keep my Mossberg 590 uncocked, empty chanber, full magazine. Nice, loud *clack-clack* that is instantly recognizable. Great physcological edge. 8 rounds of heavy bird or light buck without having to worry about loading, and I am very confident that I am effectively armed if there is an intruder in my home.

  20. Re:Double barrel Mossberg? on Slashback: Favoritism, Alternacy, Moo · · Score: 2

    Insufficient stopping power in the .410; you're better off with a 12 gauge and triple-ought buck (use 2 3/4" shells, not 3" magnums).

    Actually, for home defense, a large bird-shot shell is quite effective. Ranges are very short inside your house, and bird-shot is less likely than 000-buck to pass completely through walls. The .410 offers a lightweight long-gun with less noise and lower recoil. Follow the same tactics as a .22: Two in the chest, then one in the head. Plus, .410 handguns are available that chamber .45 Long Colt as well.

  21. Re:Funny.... on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 2

    Try that with USB.

    Well, the cable is more than $5, but USB cable would serve very well as a garrote.

  22. Re:How about a BIOS revolution? on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 2

    Upgrade to the next version of Windows.

  23. MP3? on Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA · · Score: 2

    Does Gateway actually HAVE an MP3 of this song, rather than an unplayable .ASF? Anyone know of a mirror?

  24. Re:ok let's see WHO they will be working for!!!!! on Gov't Wants Techies to Play Musical Chairs · · Score: 2

    Kind of makes me sick.....he is going to have PKI crammed down his throat then take it back to the military!

    Don't knock PKI until you've tried it. I still consider The Beast to be the best coaster around this part of the world.

  25. Re:Why is spam treated differently? on Another Go At Making Spam Cost Money · · Score: 2
    When was the last time Pizza Hut put 140 door hanger flyers on your door knob in one day?

    Then charged you, with no way to decline the charge, the associated materials and printing costs for said hangers, and a surcharge to cover the paycheck of the kid hired to hang them. And put a return address of
    • PapaJohn's

    • Yahoo.com
      Beijing, Vietnam 25840-2474
    With a picture of a naked, supposedly underage teenager with a 92-HHHHH bust cramming a breadstick into $LOWER_ORIFICE.