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  1. Re:They need to ditch the 'geek talk' too! on Robin's Report From LWCE · · Score: 1
    As someone with years of experience in the marketing world, I am constantly amazed at the willingness of the Linux users, the Linux Documentation project and other bodies to pollute the acronym space with their content free "TLAs".

    As someone with years of experience in the Linux world, I am constantly amazed at the willingness of marketing people to create new bullshit words like "productize" or "storage virtualisation" or practically any other collection of letters on press releases or product brochures.

    Sheesh.

  2. Re:take this with a grain of salt on 4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Found · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sheesh - how easy is it to get +5 these days?

    I call troll!

  3. Re:It's still a year... on Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head · · Score: 1

    Well it's hard to work out what month it is when you stay in your parent's basement all the time.

    Boom boom!

  4. Re:use Mozilla on Rolling Out Mozilla in an Organization? · · Score: 1

    I installed Phoenix for my Mum. She has a 150MHz AMD with 64MB or RAM and it works extremely well.

    This machine is so slow that netscape 4 has trouble!

  5. Re:Last few stories on Alpha Lives! But Who Will Market It? · · Score: 1

    Which would presumably put out the fire.

  6. Re:Old Kike on GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that's what I call a sticky situation!

  7. Re:Relating.. on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 1
    RSA is currently providing monitary awards

    monitory, n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

    Sign me up for a spanking from the pope!

  8. Re:you don't need to do any of this on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 1

    Do you have any proof that this was how it "worked for the Samba team"?

    Anyway, it's KGS!@#$%

  9. Re:first post on Linux Is Cheaper · · Score: 1

    That should be "first post looser".

  10. Re:Replacement needed for SMTP on ISP Chief on Spam · · Score: 1

    In SOVIET RUSSIA, your email sits on someone else's server!

  11. Let's hope on Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution · · Score: 1

    that this article isn't a hoax as well. (-:

  12. Re:"XML dialect"?!? on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 1

    Gag me with a spoon!

  13. Re:Read the article? No, too hard? on Because Only Terrorists Use 802.11 · · Score: 1

    Dude, these underpants gnomes trolls are getting boring.

  14. How do you play 'Pop Goes the Weasel' on The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt · · Score: 1

    on a TiVO remote?

  15. Re:Three Gorges Dam on Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World? · · Score: 1

    What's even more of a pity is that the air pollution is so bad you can't see very much of it even from the viewing area. )-:

    We saw a three gorges museum further upstream which was very nice. They misspelt the caption for the First Gorge as Frist Gorge. Hahahaha....

  16. Re:One word.. on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1
    Spoken like a true spam promoter.

    Sure - if you're not with me you're against me! Very helpful.

    If you cant handle authenticating a email (1 time), then I guess you wont be my friend.

    You've got it in one! Your scheme only works because there aren't very many people arrogant enough to force other people to jump through hoops in order to communicate

  17. Re:The future of 3rd world countries is? on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1
    Spamming is illegal throughout the European Union - I don't get hardly any spam from Europe (I get about 60 a day!), and if I get some, I am entitled to cash 250 Euros from the spammer... it works!

    Please let us know how many euros you have personally collected.

  18. Re:One word.. on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1
    If ASK doesn't know you, it simply asks (pun intended) for you to confirm your Email address.

    So your solution to spam is to send more of it? Nice one.

    If I ever get any of those automated 'please confirm' messages they get deleted without a second thought.

  19. Re:Egg Troll has $800,000 on Slashback: Drivers, Bodycomputing, Farscape · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    befriend me if you support free speach [slashdot.org]

    Befriend me if you can spell!

  20. Re:This Will Get Modded Troll on West Virginia Joins Massachusetts in MS Appeal Bid · · Score: 1
    Get off your high motherfucking horses, stop wanking to fantasies of Bill Gates losing his 'control' over the 'computing regime' (to add a nice little romantic twist to the situation) and fucking get off your dead asses and do something productive.

    Hear hear (oh hang on this is slashdot - that should be here here).



    I completely agree - go fix a bug in mozilla or write some documentation that you think needs to be written. Go to a Linux installfest and help some people install linux on their machine.

  21. Re:Clickthrough License on EverQuest/Sony Fights Code Wars With Latest Expansion · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not forced on anyone. There are two buttons: "agree" and "disagree" (or something like that).

    It's called a unilateral contract where one party dictates the entire terms of the agreement.

  22. Re:Sympathic view of cheating? on EverQuest/Sony Fights Code Wars With Latest Expansion · · Score: 1
    Sure you can say there were "legitimate" reasons to mod the boxes, but come on.



    In Australia it's still an open legal question whether modchips are actually illegal. See this
    and this

    However pirates should get what they deserve - walk the plank perhaps.

  23. All I can say is... on Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL · · Score: 1

    frungy frungy frungy!

  24. Re:Developers love him; Managers hate him on Interview With Martin Fowler · · Score: 5, Informative
    Refactoring is often about injecting the last good idea you had into working code.

    Refactoring isn't about making your project buzzword compliant or supporting distributed OLE-foo++. That's adding new features. From the article:

    Martin Fowler: Refactoring is making changes to a body of code in order to improve its internal structure, without changing its external behavior.
    Refactoring is usually saying "hey, I implemented that function the wrong way so I'm going to rewrite it properly". The right way of doing something is often obvious after coding it up the wrong way.
  25. Re:Version Numbers on Mesa 5.0 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't that be FP/S for first posts per second?