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  1. Re:Mmm... versions on MS Unveils Office 2007, Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Nah... Office Nukem Forever. ;-)

  2. Re:Lamest Myths Ever on Interview with One of ENIACs Inventors · · Score: 1

    Saluting is more akin to doffing one's hat than a handshake.

  3. Re:OK lets stop before it starts on 20th Century Warmest In 1200 Years · · Score: 1

    "seashells from Europe, Asia, and North America"

    Clearly, these scientists do not know how to use the three seashells.

  4. Nick... Burns? on Time Management for System Administrators · · Score: 2, Funny

    ;-)

  5. Re:Default option? on EFF Warns Not to Use Google Desktop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm strongly tempted to say that if you are putting new Dell systems (with the default Dell disk image and all its assorted cruft) into production, you deserve to be surveilled, and should probably also be forced to wear a padded helmet for your own protection. But maybe I only mean the protective helmet part. In a production environment, it is incumbent upon those responsible for the machines to know what is on them. The drill is as follows: receive the box, wipe the fucker clean, reinstall the OS without Dell's extensive fluff and mung (or better yet slap your organization's own custom OS image onto it), and THEN put the machine into production. If you are responsible for the machines, be responsible.

  6. up 44% on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 1

    And this increase only reflects the cases in which warrants were obtained - who knows what the actual increase is under presidunce "we don't need no steenking warrants" saviorbush?

  7. Re:Raised eyebrows on Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure · · Score: 1

    "Now, back to Pharma. Your typical marketing strategies won't work here."

    Which is EXACTLY why direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs by pharmaceutical companies is a BAD BAD BAD thing. The industry wastes massive amounts of money (I suspect equal to or greater than their R&D budgets) to partially inform people about products those people can't even access without their physicians' prescription.

  8. hate to tell you... on Verizon Threatens Google's 'Free Lunch' · · Score: 4, Funny

    that's not mud.

  9. 'rock stars such as Johnny Hallyday' on France Moving Forward on Legalized P2P · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Hasselhoff was unavailable, then?

  10. Connected to the interwebs?!? on 19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot · · Score: 1

    Are you jacking on in there? ;-)

  11. Western Union telegrams sucked, anyway. on Western Union Ends Telegram Services · · Score: 1

    The strippers couldn't dance or sing, and rarely took their clothes off.

  12. Re:What would Steve McQueen say? on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Jeebus Cripes! Get that girl to watch some pr0n! ;-)

  13. diesel motorcycles on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1
  14. out of curiosity... on Microlensing Uncovers Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there a non-chronological context for the word "ancient?"

  15. Re:obgligatory ballmer... on SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server? · · Score: 1

    A shirt that comes in hat form... a shat?

  16. Re:Useless information on DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes" · · Score: 1

    I always thought that "legitimate torture" was an oxymoron, too. But you get a different view from the shrubhumping bushbots out there. As long as it's done "to fight terra" or "to protect the children," anything goes.

  17. Re:Imagine you were Bell South... on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um... kick a puppy? Push a little old lady out into traffic? Apologize to my dark lord for having failed to do his bidding this time?

  18. Re:Domain name - so 1999 on Domain Name Sold for Millions · · Score: 1

    "You woudn't search for University of North Carolina by googling 'University' would you?"

    The search term you are looking for is "tarhole." :P

    GO DUKE!

  19. Re:Will this work off of a car 12V? Some other lin on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 1

    The article claims 96% efficiency (page 2).

    I am impressed with the little gizmo.

  20. Re:Read: Lawmakers try to replace parents entirely on Lawmakers Try to Protect Kids From Spam · · Score: 1

    "Like it or not, religion has an extrememly positive effect for many people."

    Prove it. The negative effects are plain as day to a nonbeliever like me. The positive effects not so much. In fact, the "positive effects" of faith appear to be entirely subjective. Aside from that "opiate" thing some famous philosophy guy once mentioned, but then for whom is THAT really positive?

  21. Re:Constitutional crisis brewing on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    Third in the line of succession of Speaker of the House - Hastert. You remember him, right? Another "honest republican" who gets his gravy from Turkey, if ya know what I mean...

  22. Re:Obligatory... on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. There is an always has been a cure for cancer. It's called "death."

  23. You forgot on Burned CDs Last 5 years Max -- Use Tape? · · Score: 1

    microwaving them to seal in that delicious data goodness.

  24. Re:snipe on Jaron Lanier on the Semi-Closed Internet · · Score: 1

    "blook" - what nonsense! Go stone-age and chisel it out on blablets.

  25. Re:Fire on Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil · · Score: 1

    "the first diesel computer!"

    only if they enable compression. ;-)