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  1. Re:Honey, I shrunk the MacBook! on A Video Tour of the MSI Wind and Other Netbooks · · Score: 2, Funny

    HP Vacuum - since Vacuum is lighter than Wind or Air.

  2. Re:At what point on Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame · · Score: 1

    Welcome The Money Grubbing Corporate Overlords. Resistance Is Futile.

  3. Re:Fabulous on US To Get EU Private Citizen Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The terrorists have won.

  4. Re:This isn't a bad thing.. on US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    We get winter here in Canada. Once a year even.

    For about 9 months of the year.

  5. Re:January 2010 on No XP Reprieve; Windows 7 Release Set · · Score: 1

    AKA The Pile of Poop Known as Vista

  6. Re:Vista? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vista-needs-uber-comp jokes are getting extremely old. Get some new material. How many super-computer clusters will Windows 7 need to run as fast as Vista?
  7. Re:Well, many IT jobs ARE boring on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hate to piddle in your soup, but most jobs in the world are "pretty fucking boring". Welcome to reality.

  8. Re:Insightful on Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    That reads like marketing pablum...

  9. Re:Bright idea on Light-Emitting Particles Yield Faster Computing · · Score: 1

    Just which clan of Transformers are the Excitons?

  10. Clay Tablets on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    Time proven long term storage:

    Clay Tablets.

    Simply chisel your 1s and 0s onto sun-baked clay tablets. They will be readable 1000s of years from now...

  11. Re:Game over man, game over! on FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity · · Score: 1

    Won't do much good, but I want to peck it out on my keyboard anyway:

    "Heil The Bushtard!"

  12. Re:Java can be performant server side on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 1

    Until the GC kicks in and causes your server side Java code to freeze for 10s of seconds (or even minutes) at a time while it does its thing.

  13. Re:who is Bob Winsom on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 1

    "Bob Lostsom" doesn't Google either...

  14. Re:1394 For Life on Clash of the Titans Over USB 3.0 Specification Process · · Score: 1

    USB =

    Universal Silly Bus
    Universal Stupid Bus
    Universal Sucky Bus
    Universal Shite Bus ...

    Even today, plugging USB devices into machines is a gamble as whether it will work or not.

  15. Re:You say: "Defense"... on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    How in the world can you 'safely stop' and aircraft in flight?! Duh. Ask the Real Aliens in Area 51.
  16. Re:Objective C on Analyzing Apple's iPhone Strategy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? Because it's not Java?
  17. Re:I for one.... on HP Introduces First-Ever 30-bit, 1 Billion Color Display · · Score: 0

    You forgot the proverbial "Imagine a beowulf cluster of 30-bit, 1 billion color displays".

  18. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 3, Funny

    enlightened That's a new definition of "having your head up your arse" that we haven't heard before...
  19. Re:World's Greatest Detective on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 5, Funny

    OJ did it!

  20. Re:This thing is definitely going to happen. NOT. on Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that it is some of the most hostile dessert in the US.

    $45 million is a penny in the bucket compared to what it would cost to build it.

  21. Re:Stupid americans on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    5.5% Not only was the 'intelligence' faked to enable the travesty in Iraq, and successive and massive profit taking , but the US gooberment also fakes other 'facts'. The true unemployment rate is around the 11% mark in the land of the 'brave' and 'free'.
  22. One begs the question on Software Update Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was it running a Microsoft by-product or not?

  23. Re:Sonera moved their email servers because of thi on Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    fix: frankly change from my own domain to GMail The naivety of that statement is profound. Give the US and an evil mega-corp. easy access to your email? No thanks.
  24. Re:I... on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, whatever. It might be able to 'print' itself, but it still needs a human brain and hands to assemble it and actually make it work. :-p

  25. Re:obligatory on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    Farewell Jackass Thompson!