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  1. Re:Let's not on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, science doesn't take too kindly to being anthropomorphized.

  2. awesome on Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker · · Score: 1

    Considering the high cholesterol content of spam, it's probably already wreaked its share of havoc on heart monitors... it's about time the heart monitors gave something back.

  3. Big deal on Reports Say Apple May Manufacture Its Own Chips · · Score: 1

    People have been designing Apple chips for a long time. Wake me when they make an edible iPod shuffle.

  4. me too on Sink Your Balls Quickly With Pool-Cue Robots · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just assumed it had something to do with the teabag protest last week.

  5. bah. on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What you really need to keep your data secure is use a secure password like the one we use at my company -- 23$wu!x6 -- we've been using that password for a while now and never had any problems.

  6. Re:Bad Science on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 1

    and if it ever fails to work, at least you can pick it up and throw it at the tiger's head.

  7. Re:CME on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    a big enough one could wipe out all life on earth, and fry all the electronics.

    yes, yes, but how will it affect the Internet?

  8. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    Cool! What's the URL?

  9. Re:Pipe dream on Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use" · · Score: 1

    At 150,000$ per mp3 it would cost $28,597,527,272.73 to fill the drive. Or around 3 times the GDP(yearly) of Jamaica. Oh and with a 45$/mnth connection you can download that every two days.

    yeah, but just think about all that great reggae you'll be able to listen to!

    So... with 150$ and a month you can steal 460billion dollars worth of mp3s. Or the yearly gdp of Sweden.

    Oh come on. Like I really want a drive full of "bork bork bork..."

  10. Re:Jon Stewart? on Diagnose Conficker With Web-Based Eye Chart · · Score: 1

    No; the real question is, how many other tags do we need to add about what this is not? Clearly there should be a !stephencolbert tag as well as a !billmurray and !torquemada. Better add !natalieportman too, and of course !dmca. What else isn't this story about?

  11. Re:An excellent quote on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Harry, however, opposed it,[17] famously wondering, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

    ...Just goes to show that managerial idiocy is hardly a new invention...

    Actually that's not idiocy at all -- it just shows how ahead of his time he was. I mean, seriously, have you watched E! lately? *shiver*

  12. Re:awesome! on Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak · · Score: 1

    actually tabbed browsing appeared on a different version of IE about 2 years before Opera. It wasn't MS who introduced it of course -- it was an IE "shell" program, but it actually was a version of IE.

  13. Re:ATM on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow - I had no idea cocaine was that cheap in Europe!

  14. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Really? I could have sworn the ATM I saw a while back sitting in an "altered" state was running a customized version of OS2.

    Look, man, if you were in an altered state when you looked at this, you can't really be sure of what OS you saw, now, can you?

  15. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    The only things I have running right now are WoW, BT, OOo, Thunderbird, Outlook, Pine, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, 9 VMWare sessions, DreamWeaver and Photoshop.

    HELP!

    Try quitting pine, then try again.

  16. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Some universities may, in fact, be causing their students to learn false information.

    Which universities are causing this to happen, to which students, with what false information? When such statements are made without answering these basic questions, it's pretty clear we're dealing with a fundamentally useless (and somewhat pathetic) knee-jerk anti-intellectualism.

  17. Re:I think its infected my car. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    That was a funny April Fool's post! You really had me going there for a minute.

  18. Re:Not funny when it's obvious AND predictable on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    The slashdot editors don't write most of this stuff; they just link to other stories written by other people. On April 1st, most of the stories out there tend to be jokes since that's what everyone's publishing. I suppose slashdot editors could ignore the huge amount of joke stories out there but they probably find this to be way more fun. I think the problem is a lot of people expect slashdot to be a news site when it's really basically a blog.

  19. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that a laptop is a) less painful, b) less maintenance, and c) creates less shit.

    That really depends what OS you're running, doesn't it?

  20. Re:Linux and osx on Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak · · Score: 1

    Is the osx version available for download yet? The website says it is still in development.

  21. awesome! on Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that, but it's perfect for me. I didn't know I had the option of keeping IE 8 and removing Windows 7 completely. Sweet!

  22. we have both kinds, country AND western! on Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China · · Score: 3, Funny

    the library includes both Chinese and foreign artists

    But ... but ... but Chinese artists ARE foreign!!

  23. Re:Does the law have the right direction? on Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics · · Score: 1

    I actually meant that child pornography is obscene and not all obscenity is child porn.

    I understood what you meant and showed that you are wrong, at least according to the legal meaning of the terms.

  24. Re:Conficker and friends are great. on Fears of a Conficker Meltdown Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Well then do us all a favor and quit posting to slashdot and get back to work!

  25. Re:Does the law have the right direction? on Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity (at least, if you're a healthy individual it is).

    Well, if the UK law is anything like the US law, it's not a subset of obscenity -- in fact, child porn is another category entirely precisely so that prosecutors don't have to meet the "obscenity" standard in order to prosecute child porn (because, as the GP noted, child porn inherently exploits the children in the porn). This was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court a few years ago when dealing with "virtual child porn"; this case raises the same issues.