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  1. Re:I can help on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1
    Does your Charger also have a device for slowing and speeding up the passage of time?

    Screw that, ask the important question: "Does the horn play the first few notes of Dixie?"

  2. Re:Acronym fun! on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Tainting?
    Quick definition: Taint.

  3. Re:Buick LaCrosse, anyone ? on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Heh, got stuck behind some idiot driving a Buick LaCrosse today. Small world.

  4. ObBloomCounty on Space Shuttle Discovery to Launch July 26 · · Score: 1
    *Steve Dallas cracks open a cold one on EVA*

    Milo: Houston! We have a premature re-entry!
    Opus: In space... it's never Miller Time.

  5. Re:Wrong... on VoIP Providers Worry as FCC Clams Up · · Score: 1
    Also, since Cingular bought AT&T, they have downgraded service to the transferred customers. Dropping calls, not ringing calls through, not delivering messages for hours. Disconnecting phones from the their network without any notice; requiring users to reboot their phone to reconnect.

    Not just the transferred victims, but ALL their customers. Our Cingular Blackberries lose the GPRS network on average of once a week, Cingular makes random changes to services on our phones (called in to add international roam to a sales manager's Blackberry, so Cingular took international roaming off the president's cell phone, for example) and all the examples you cited.

  6. Re:I'll tell you what happens.. on VoIP Providers Worry as FCC Clams Up · · Score: 2, Informative
    Obviously, if you use your VoIP as a mobile phone, which is, frankly, bizarre

    Why is that bizarre? Personally, I find the idea that I should have to stop carrying my notebook PC with me after installing a software phone on it to be a bizarre idea. Seems like portability is the whole pointto me.

  7. Re:The answer is: TINFOIL! on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's neat. Not as much fun as a fork or an AOL CD, but neat.

  8. Re:Not fully usable, obviously on 100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland · · Score: 1

    Actually, DOCSIS 2.0 can reach up to 30Mbps, IIRC.

  9. Re:Dark fiber... on 100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Nibbler has been "busy".

  10. Re:Speed check on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny coincidence of careers. My high school gov. teacher got busted for speeding. Luckily, he had a friend who was a lawyer that was willing to represent him for nothing. In court, the lawyer pointed out that the cop had not used a radar detector, but rather used his cruiser to pace my teacher. Once this was out, he pointed out the the cop had not had his speedometer certified within 30 days prior to the ticket, so the case was thrown out.

  11. Re:Beem him on up... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Snottie, of course. Snottie beamed me twice last night, it was ... wonderful.

  12. Re:sad... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    Aren't you one of the Little Rascals?

  13. Re:Inconsistent Rant on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    Yes, Mr. Sherman...

  14. Re:Ethernet over Power? on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    If you find my Token, would you ship it to me? It fell out of the Ring and seems to be lost somewhere in the Ethernet.

  15. Re:A new low for Slashdot editors on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that was it. It's a faint memory from way back when, and of course the "editors" yanked it as soon as readers posted about the link behaviour.

  16. Re:One IBM developer was heard muttering on User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Well, it's because cows don't look like cows on film, so when you need to film a scene with a horse...

  17. Re:Is IBM is stupid? on User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, right. That's about as likely as Apple switching to the x86 platform.

  18. Re:Slashdot to Not Improve Story Editing Standards on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 2

    In AD 2005, grammar was beginning...
    Taco: What, happen?
    Zonk: Somebody set up us the blurb!
    Timothy: We get POST.
    Taco: WHAT !
    Timothy: Main browser maximize on.
    Taco: Its yuo !
    jagger: How are you gentlemen !!
    jagger: All your grammar are belong to us.
    jagger: You are on the way to Webster's.
    Taco: What yuo text !!
    jagger: You have no skill to edit make your copy.
    jagger: LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL
    Timothy: Cmdr !!
    Taco: Take of everp 'Backspace' !!
    Taco: Yuo no what yuo typ'ing.
    Taco: Move ,Backspace'.
    Taco: For grate readablility.

  19. Re:A new low for Slashdot editors on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1

    If anyone can top the guy who got goatse.cx posted as a front-page article, I will tip my cap to you.

  20. Re:Hmm on World of Warcraft Duping Bug Found · · Score: 0

    It's not a bug, it's a feature!

  21. Re:Paintball? on Summer FPS - Lazer Tag and Super Soaker · · Score: 1
    and pain balls, which can be rather expensive.

    I know it's a typo, but it made me chuckle :-D "Pain balls" are frozen paint balls, right?

    Yeah, there's a definite cost difference I was missing.

  22. Re:Rock paper cissors on Firefox Greasemonkey Extension Security Problem · · Score: 1

    Poor predictable Bart: always picks Seamonkey.

  23. Not quite there on TiVo Lets You Respond to Ads · · Score: 1

    Let me know when TiVo will let me stab the advertiser in the face using the remote, then I'll be interested.

  24. Re:My wife is like this... on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1
    I found it funny after a while, but the first couple of times she declared that she had ... MS was quite worrying.

    Well, Windows is diseased, if not actually a disease.

  25. Re:Who? on UC System Chooses Mindawn Download Service · · Score: 1

    And can you say "Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux" some more?