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  1. "Stifling pillow talk"? on How Apple Kept the iPhone Secret · · Score: 1

    What's pillow talk, some kind of wireless pillow phone?

  2. Re:what in the world... on The Home Server Cometh · · Score: 1
    IT Guy: But will it run Linux?
    Yes
  3. Re:Ah ha! on Pillars of Creation Destroyed · · Score: 4, Funny

    They weren't destroyed, just modded down. Set your telescopes to view -1.

  4. "In the last quarter century..." on Is the One-Size-Fits-All Database Dead? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well it's about time we had some change around here!

  5. Re:I'm excited on SCO Bankruptcy "Imminent, Inevitable" · · Score: 1
    But I feel bad for SCO's real employees.
    I don't waste much sympathy on mythological beings.
    Anyone who hasn't left must be chained to their desk.
  6. Re:Every Romanian castle is "Dracula's Castle" on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 1

    And every graveyard has a plaque: Vlad Slept Here

  7. Re:Roommates? on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 1
    So, if you are handy, with a strong back, you might make a good roommate/co-investor. Speaking Romanian probably wouldn't hurt.
    Preference to anyone named Igor.
  8. Re:Choices, choices! on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 1

    Or do you want give those up and take what's in .. the missle silo?

    Go for the silo, the silo!
  9. Re:Choices, choices! on "Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania · · Score: 1

    But Sealand rarely gets mobs of villagers with pitchforks and torches.

  10. Re:wouldn't it be nice? on Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't see the problem.

    For the same money as you paid for your hard drive 10 years ago, you get a drive with 500 to 1000 times more storage.
    For the same money as you paid for Windows 10 years ago, you get a product that uses up 500 to 1000 times more storage.

  11. Re:Geolocation with WiFi on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1

    I got into the habit of scanning wifi on my Palm to see where I was on a long bus commute. ("Damn, are we passing the corner of linksys and default again?!") They now have a display sign and are planning (hoping?) to add wifi access in the bus. They could do some interesting geospatial projects with that.

  12. Re:Congratulations: on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1

    "You are standing in a twisty flash mob, all of whom are different in the same way."

  13. Re:I can graphiti the WORLD! on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Predictions:
    • The Cthurch of Scientology will sue after critics add the story of Xenu and other material to their buildings.
    • In Texas, property owners will be able to shoot cyberspace "taggers".
    • Red light areas will be interesting
    • Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam!
  14. Re:WHO CARES what Apple intends to use it for... on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1

    Maybe it could also check the traffic/transit schedules between where you are now and where you have to be so that it can tell you when you really-really-no-fooling-now! have to leave to make it on time.

  15. Re:Work around? on YouTube Blocked in Brazil · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, the Intarnet was designed to route pr0n around a nuclear war--it has special tubes for that!

  16. Re:So let the flame wars begin! on The Birth of vi · · Score: 2

    Relatively recent? Compared to what, an ASR-33? :)

  17. Re:Dead sheeps on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 1
    Carnivores are more expensive to raise in terms of calories than herbivores.
    And it costs a bit more in farmhands too!
  18. Re:Dead sheeps on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 1

    Ummm... I think there are a few more practical problems with trying to keep herds of carnivores. :)

  19. Re:A better idea on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the Bible, Abel was a peaceful animal-herder, and Cain was the homicidal vegetarian. What's up with that, huh?

  20. Re:Because the ones we have suck? on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    That's not a language, that's an implementation of a language.

  21. Re:Dead sheeps on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why yes, they should have been feeding live sheep to cows...

  22. Re:Natural floater? on Birth of an Island · · Score: 1

    Does it look like a .. Piece of Pie?

  23. Re:I'm convinced... on Birth of an Island · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the city of R'lyeh arising from the slumbering depths!

    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
  24. Re:Something missing on China Heralds Year of the Fluorescent Green Pig · · Score: 1

    Genetically Modified Animal Farm. Four legs and glowing good, two legs bad.

  25. Call Marvel Comics on China Heralds Year of the Fluorescent Green Pig · · Score: 1

    It might make a good Superhero TM origin-story.
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Pigs, the X-Pigs...