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  1. THIS IS TEH INTERWEB! 5P34K 3N9\15h, D4mm1t!!!! on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1
    " The moon belongs to America, and eagerly awaits the arrival of our Astro-men! "

    Face it Frenchie, google is an innovative, American company. If the country that has a institute created expressly to hamstring the evolution of its language wants to play, they can come up with some backing money to hire google to do the same thing for Frenchland.

    Or get off your asses and do it yourselves.

  2. Re:this is nothing new on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 1
    Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of inept jackasses.

    Oh, wait, you think the municipally served electric and water give poor service / cost?!!!

  3. Mr Yuck! a mountain! on American View On Korean Broadband Leadership · · Score: 1

    I thing you're thinking about North Korea in a few months.

  4. Hi! I'm Ted. Ted.DEATH! on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 1

    Why exactly is hiding part of the filename considered helpful?!!!

  5. When the going gets weird... on Review: Halo 2 And The MagicBox XFPS · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hunter S Thompson is off the spoke!!!!


    Nobody can save you now, beeeotches!

  6. just can't do it... on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    SP2 hosed up my system so bad that copying to the clipboard from any application bluescreened the computer.
    (Granted, this is a trailing edge machine - VIA VA-503 / K6-III, but still daaaaamn!)

    neato!

  7. Trust us! on ChoicePoint Identity Theft Fallout Widens · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does someone determine if Choicepoint had data on them?

  8. No, it's not an oxymoron, it's just a regular one on 42nd Mersenne Prime Probably Discovered · · Score: 0, Troll

    In chicken sexing, a Mersenine prime is a hermaphroditic chick.

  9. Sheesh! on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do these people compile and install trojan software? Don't they do a code review before installation?

  10. Have you seen Lydia? on Google Gets Away With What Microsoft Couldn't · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they could clean up with a webcam and a Amazon wishlist!

  11. Re:It is simple on Google Gets Away With What Microsoft Couldn't · · Score: 1
    It's a simple calculus -

    NAZIs -> Commies -> (terrorists ->) Chinese -> Saucer people

    likewise,

    IBM -> Microsoft -> Google -> ???

  12. yuck! on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1
  13. Sorry, can't post as AC this morning... on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Don't look at nuclear flash with remaining good eye."

  14. Consume. Obey. Sleep. on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1
    BOO!
    Stay scared.


    You notice how we never had these kind of problems during the cold war? I guess wee needed a new boogie man to fear so they could pick our pockets in the name of staatssicherheit.


    Were's that damn "peace dividend" they were talking about when the wall came down? Where's my flying car? Where's my moon city? Where's my pony?!!!!

  15. As May West said: on Richard Clarke on Microsoft security · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Anyone who harshly criticizes Microsoft is ok by me."

  16. Re:Same thing happened with Enron stocks on SCO Possibly Delisted from NASDAQ · · Score: 1
    scripophily.com

    I paid $20 good American money on ebay for my Atari stock certificate.

  17. No, Americans are just irresponsible assholes. on Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet those notoriously drunken canucks seem perfectly capable of not shooting themselves, or each other. Go figure.

  18. What if... on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 1

    If the critical component of this is the holographic film, couldn't they apply it to a curved piece of glass? (Curved perpendicullarly to the grating. ?) Seems like that would make for some cool psuedo-3D effects.

  19. That's MR Skinflint McPinchpenny to you, bub! on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 1
    "You can buy your own one cheap here: http://www.av-sales.com/html/svs_holoscreen.html"

    What a strange new usage of the word "cheap"!

  20. That's better! on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 1

    The link in the parent page as a more sensible configuration that looks like it's about as deep as a conventional projection TV.

  21. WTF, were's the beef on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 1

    I see ~$1200 for the projector, $800 for the nifty rear-projection screen (ok, maybe some $$$ to license the patent...), $500 for the speakers. So how do they justify the £9,999 price? (Oh wait, this is Harrod's, the Hammacher Schlemmer of Britain.

  22. It's obvious! on Will New Apps Keep TiVo Afloat? · · Score: 1

    We all know that the killer TiVo app is playing Tic Tac Toe against a chicken, on the internet, on your TV!

  23. Re:About time on ACM to Honor TCP/IP Creators with Turing Award · · Score: 1

    These guys should be put up against the wall and shot for facilitating spam!

  24. MOD PARENT UP!!!! on VoIP for Deployed Soldiers? · · Score: 0

    Show those boys what they're fighting to defend!!!!

  25. Those who forget history are doomed to reimplement on Open Source Code Maintainability Analyzed · · Score: 2, Funny

    You lazy young whippersnappers and your precious Perl! You probably think you INVENTED write-only code. In my day, we wrote APL, and nobody liked it!!!!