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  1. Re:No dead cats, gargbage! on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 0
    I'd like to use my gargbags for pan-galactic gargleblasters as intended for..

    and remember.. no cats we're killed in the production of the gargbags (tm) although the occasional human might have jumped in

  2. Re:Around the neck on USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement? · · Score: 1

    well I have a Diva Gem mp3-player w. bluetooth
    doubles as a bluetooth headset so Yes I have my mobile cord in my ears very often.. but poeple don't begin to stare until somebody calls and I begin talking with the mp3-player in my instead of the phone :)

  3. do washingmashines dream of electronic sheep? on Robots That Serve Beyond The Vacuum · · Score: 1

    a very wide definition of robot is something that makes your labour.. but come on,this is like calling a new cylinda washing machine for a robot just because it can tumbledry your clothes after it washed them, or something.. come back when it picks clothes from the floor, washes them if they need it (electronic nose,washing instructions by embedded rfid?),irons them and then folds or hang them into the closet and all that for just $1700 (batteries included)

  4. Re:Consider this on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't want no stinkin' plants living in my body!

  5. dude they're gonna get so sued by SCO :) on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager · · Score: 1, Funny

    since Darl thinks pagers are a derivate of unixware

  6. There it goes on Kiss Technology Counters MPlayer GPL Arguments · · Score: 1

    I was playing with the idea of buying a Kiss-dvdplayer but this really turns all arguments for a such a device over.. ain't touching that with a 10 feet pole!

  7. open filesystem standard on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 0

    hopefully this would create the need in the industry for an open file system standard supported on all os:es..

    but thats probably why the cap isn't more than $250.000

    and the obligatory joke is:

    I for one welcome our FAT overlords :p

  8. Re:Sure I would on Google Considering IPO Auction Online · · Score: 1

    You loose! Cause it all works because of the secret Goo (patent pending)

  9. Re:Erm, radio carbon dating huh? on Stonehenge Discovery using 3D Laser Scanning · · Score: 1

    sticks and bones will break those stones

    http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/stoneh/start.htm#methods
    hopefully the people that erected stonehenge left other findings in the area.. what has been dated has been from other archeological findings in the area..

    they couldn't been eating rocks during lunchbreaks could they?

  10. Re:bah on Universe Shaped Like A Soccer Ball? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I predict that in a few weeks someone probably will say it's shaped like a mushroom..
    and in a few years a madman in a Utah asylum will say he has the rights to the sourcecode of the universe

  11. to bad... on Slashback: Lamo, Trilogy, Searching · · Score: 1

    to bad the extended versions aren't released earlier..
    I'm going to watch Two Towers Oktober the 26:th in Stockholm with special guest Andy Sserkisss holding the forewords, probably it'll be the short version :/

  12. Re:DNA would enjoy... on Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Greenlighted · · Score: 1

    late post.. but anyway..

    he talked about the movie when he was in Stockholm
    (when Starship Titanic was released)
    and said that he had bought back the rights to the film since he wanted it done and that in a properly manner.
    I think that there was mentioned that someone from SNL could be playing Zaphod

  13. the multiversity of chocolate on Measure The Speed Of Light With Your Microwave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah.. I'm waiting for chocolate wafer-transistors.
    think.. eatable cpu's! or better.. eatable storage for the paranoid

  14. gadget grandmother and typos on Slashback: Card, Fortran, Legibility · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the first thing that got to my mind reading todays slashback is the movie Brazil.. where a man gets taken away by government agencies for being a suspected terrorist because of a typo..
    (a bug gets squshed in a teleprinter and the name tuttle becomes buttle)
    I wonder if someone at RIAA did read the wrong ip-adress?

  15. otherwise.. on File-Sharing Ethics Taught In Classrooms? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they could submit their music to mp3.com and maybe even make some money instead and see that the market is shifting..

    btw. most of the records I bought the last few years I wouldn't have heard of if it wasn't for p2p-software..
    but then.. I'm the kind of the consumer the RIAA doesn't want.. one who choses what he wants to listen too.

  16. Does this sound familliar? on SCO Volleys to Red Hat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First, the CSOF contains literally dozens of paragraphs relying exclusively upon indisputably inadmissible material -- hearsay statements taken from books, magazine articles, letters and purported testimony of third parties who are not witnesses in this action
    [cut]

    Second, Caldera's CSOF contains many misstatements. Many of Caldera's assertions simply are not supported by the cited references. In other instances, Caldera selectively quotes from exhibits, whose full text plainly gives a different meaning than ascribed by Caldera. In alleging certain events, Caldera omits known related facts that convey an entirely different understanding.

    [cut]

    Finally, although Caldera attempts to rewrite 15 years of computer history, it oddly never mentions that it was not even a bystander to these events. In a 1996 transaction that closed on the same day that Caldera filed this lawsuit, Caldera paid less than $400,0006 for DR DOS and the right to pursue claims against Microsoft that Caldera now says are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This explains why the CSOF is not based on personal knowledge, and is not limited to admissible evidence.

    taken from the following page:
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/caldera/ 05-05re sponse.asp

  17. Re:in other news.. on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    and of course typing fast is cheap too.. saves a letter now and then :)

  18. in other news.. on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    resarchers find that it is cheaper to replace a fuse with a nail than bying a new fuse

    oh.. and kids.. don't try that at home!

  19. Re:hey now.. on Cybersyn And Early Uniminds · · Score: 0

    Hey.. and I thought Seven had a lot on impact on trekkies!?

  20. Re:So... on Armageddon... in 2014. Almost. · · Score: 1, Funny

    that should have been fixed by then since it's one of SCO's claimed "trade secrets"

  21. Wonderful on SCO Fined in Munich For Linux Claims · · Score: 1

    I wonder though where this fine will go?
    would be nice if a larger amount found it's way to the open source community :)

    Hopefully this will result in companys thinking before buying licences from SCO's FUD-factory..

  22. Re:A bit of math on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah sure we can calculate the ip's per person but hey, you seem to forget something!
    it's not only private persons that use adressspace, businesses and governments and so on do it too.
    I myself use 1 ip at home and two at work and then we have all the servers that we're accessing or using (some are very transaparent, you don't use them directly, i.e the spiderbots of a searchengine)

  23. Nice.. on Palm OS Based Gaming Device Nears Release · · Score: 1

    I lack good controls (and Linux) on my Pocket Loox, so trying to play anything with some action i.e snes games is too tricky.. I'm stuck with pocketscumm :)
    some things that would make this baby interesting:
    syncing with linux (it seems to be running palm os, so syncing doesn't seem impossible)
    a port of mplayer or something in the likings
    a nes/snes emulator
    Activision releases Re-Volt, or maybe Rc revenge for the device :)

  24. what all the scriptkiddies are waiting for.. on U.S. Biometric Passports By Late 2004 · · Score: 2, Informative

    biometric passports following the l337 standard -
    EPROMs with biometrics that you wear in a necklace and access through your GBA

  25. Re:More on the new SCO plan... on How SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise · · Score: 3, Funny

    seems someone is following the rules of acquisition...

    some of the rules that seems to apply to McBride:
    Rule 003 Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
    Rule 042 What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too.
    Rule 189 Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.
    Rule 266 When in doubt, lie.
    Rule 267 If you believe it, they believe it.