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  1. Name a Tech Company That Isn't on HP to Layoff 15,000 Employees · · Score: 1

    Tech companies biz model seems 2b 30% H-1's, 40% outsource, and the rest of us schmucks.

  2. They Kill Bats, Too!! on How to Build a 17-ft Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    Environmental Disasters I tell you!! Fire up the coal burner.

  3. Remixers Have No Talent on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    At least musical talent. Burrows is right about one thing... any moron can buy Logic or DP and load in a few files and become Mix Master Flash... and basically that is what has crippled the music industry today.

    The endless mind-numbing drum loops... the ripped off bass lines droning on and on... and of course the obligatory MS20 squeek.

    Christ... enough is enough!!

  4. Re:What will the EU do? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you rather fight them on their ground?

    You engage them on your terms.

  5. "Damn Bikini"?? on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Sheesh... the one costume that attempted to transform the sex-less, boring, midwestern house wife lookin' Carrie Fisher into something more desirable for Harrison Ford?!?

    It was the highlight of the trilogy!!

  6. Women Had Used Baby Oil! on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    I remember in the early 80's my girlfriend and other women used baby oil of all things when they laid out.

    I guess some study will prove this to be healthy to? The oil lubes the pores? LOL

  7. Sic Who? The 9:30 Flight to Newark? on Sony Aibo Hacks Increase Functionality · · Score: 1

    I thought there was already a story on slashdot about the guy with the laser pointer whom the FBI mistook for Al Qaeda operatives.

  8. System Bus, etc. on Apple Moves to All Dual-Processor Power Mac Lineup · · Score: 1

    167 for the PB, 133 for the ibook. Video cards are different also. Does it justify the cost? To me... no.

  9. "If It Can Succeed In Columbus" on Big Retailers Timid About Selling Linux Boxen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ROFL! Columbus is nothing but a bunch of West Virginians... except they have jobs.

  10. "At a time when"??? on Steve Jobs In Praise of Dropping Out · · Score: 1

    Uhh... look at your economics history book. The late 70's was a time of high inflation, followed by a series of recessions that rocked the business world. Capital was *expensive*.

    If there was ever a tougher time in recent history to start a business... it was when Steve Jobs took the risk.

  11. Huh? on Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has USB/USB 2.0 led to the undoing of the mac? Has the move from SCSI to ATA led to the undoing of the mac?

    Then how can anyone predict this will hurt the platform?

  12. Confusion Is More Like It on Rob Pike's Excellent Adventure · · Score: 1

    When I worked there, they had so many competing products... I lost track of the alphabet soup project names.

  13. I Guess This Leaves Consoles and Mac Gaming? on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Mac gaming ain't going anywhere!

  14. Screw Midge Ure! on AOL Open Sourcing Audio & Video Technology · · Score: 1

    John Foxx is the *real* UVox singer!!

  15. Good Point and Chemical Weapons on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If Hitler was a complete madman, you would think he would have used chemical weapons on the invading Russians. The 2 sides had basically brutalized each other, themselves and anyone who got in their way for 4 years... the only answer must be they lacked the means of delivery?

  16. You Got That Right on A Coffeeshop's Weekends Without Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Anything with "Free" associated with it... the aholes will take advantage of everytime/anytime guaranteed. I guess these coffee shops figured their clientelle was above this. HA!

  17. Nice and You're Anti-Semitic Too! on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1

    I guess since the Jews were driven to near extinction by a bunch of luncatics from a country who now professes to be the world's moral leader doesn't affect you since it happened before you arrived on the planet.

  18. How Do You Know Those 2 Lines... on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    Came from Lucas and weren't an adlib from Harrison Ford. I bet it was the latter.

  19. Justices Vote Was Surprising on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kennedy, Scalia, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer... what a majority.

    John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas against!?! When was the last time they were on the same side of the fence?

    Maybe this court isn't as political as some seem to believe.

  20. Ever Hear Of Xenix? on Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft's UNIX in the 1980's? Based on AT&T's license and they basically killed off the product a few years down the road.

  21. BS on Open source Java? · · Score: 1

    I *daily* move Java source from Windows, Solaris, and Linux. I have not encountered anything in Java that breaks. A third-party lib like MQ... maybe. But then again, this is the REAL world and MQ doesn't play with LISP. And neither do I since I graduated from college.

  22. Another History Major! on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 2

    Brilliance of the founding fathers... I forget, Devry doesn't teach history.

    There were parties back then. Does Federalist ring a bell? And the anonymous bashing in the press was as rampant as any discourse today. Washington was accused of affairs, corruption, etc.

  23. Obviously, you DON'T Remember Nixon on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Nice spin attempt. No mention of Reagan and Iran-Contra scandal either?

  24. We Need a Good UML Eclipse Plugin! on Rapid J2EE Development · · Score: 1

    We use Enterprise Architect - and even though we are too cheap to buy the full featured version - it gets the job done and we access it daily.

    We point others (PM's and other dev groups) to it and they seem to have no problem interpreting it.

    And we dont' have any committee's blessing it - it is written by development for the development process.

    What it does need, is better tools. Then again, my company is too cheap to buy Rational or some other integration tool. A EA -> Eclipse plugin would be ideal.

  25. Re:I think he lost a bit more than that... on Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker · · Score: 1

    Director of Software for whom? BitTorrent? ROFL