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  1. Re:WTF?! Not the Anarchist's Cookbook! on Chemistry Sets for Adults? · · Score: 1

    fuming red nitric acid, of 98% pure concentration...fuming sulferic [sic] acid

    I hope you have a hood to do this in. Fuming acids and lungs do not go well together.

    a mercury-operated thermometer

    Mercury-operated thermometer? Does this mean that the guy with wings on his hat and shoes operates the thermometer?

    The sodium is an alkalai and will nuetralize [sic] much of the acid remaining.

    It's the bicarbonate that neutralizes the acid, not the sodium.

    Whoever wrote the original shouldn't be trusted to make ice water.

    Instead of trying this, just put a big "I'm a dumbass" sign around your neck.

  2. Re:good point on Red Hat Linux 8 Bible · · Score: 2, Funny

    At my school, student's carry around all 4 years' worth of textbooks in every class.

    So how are things at Hunchback U?

  3. Re:MS is responsive: that's why they're #1 on Microsoft Next Generation Shell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Responsive? How long has windows been around? And they're just now planning to have a full-featured shell...I'm glad the fire department isn't that responsive.

  4. Re:clearly direct marketing works on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 1

    Clearly, as consumers we should be able to opt out of receiving spam without having our email address validated and resold

    Why should I have to opt out? If I want that crap I should have to opt in.

  5. Re:Google on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 1

    Jump [google.com] with Google.

    And I still get the frigging questionaire!!

  6. Re:Link to non-reg-req version on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 1

    Or, you could just use the WP's suggested entries: born in 1965 and zip code 20171 :-p

    I didn't get any suggested values, so I entered 1776 and 02134 (yes, I watched Zoom). Then after submitting that, they complained that I wasn't accepting cookies. So I said "osculate my gluteus maximus" and went to MSNBC.

  7. This is the one! on Vote for 2002's "Best" Vaporware · · Score: 1

    The MS Office 97 "paperclip" for Linux and BSD.

  8. Re:processor prices Re:gah! on Build Your Own Mac · · Score: 1

    i'd take a 399 pc over a processor, though. I've found lone processors to be kinda useless except as combs.

    Glue the CPU to a piece of wood. It makes a great backscratcher.

  9. Re:Why it died on OS/2 Going, Going... Gone · · Score: 1

    Here's an OS/2 (2.1 I think) installation story. Boot from the install disk. The installation starts. It hangs up part way through. I tried rebooting with the floppy several times with no success.

    Call IBM tech support. After about 2 hours on hold, I finally talk to a human. I describe the problem, and he asks what BIOS the machine had. I told him that it was a Phoenix BIOS and gave him the version number.

    He said to make a copy of the boot floopy. Copy file "X" to another floppy. Delete file "X" from the copy of the boot floppy. Copy file "X" from my floppy back to the copy of the boot floppy. Reboot the machine.

    I was about to tell him he was a complete loon when the machine prompted for the second disc. He said the BIOS couldn't find the file in it's original position on the floppy. Whatever the reason, it worked.

    I never had any installation problems with versions 3 or 4 though.

  10. Re:In other news... on The Heretofore Unpublished Letters of Ernest Glitch · · Score: 1

    And he couldn't find an open Wi-Fi network so he could tell Slashdot of his discovery.

  11. Re:Probably a fake on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1
    So, what might they change it do? "Attack of the Clowns"?

    Yes. And have the clowns from "Killer Clowns from Outer Space". (They deserve a better movie.) And a theme song by the Dickies. Then we'll have something worth hearing at least.

  12. Re:Confessions of a spammer on Microsoft: The Biggest Web Bugger · · Score: 1

    Instead of spamming, try a respectable career. For example, hitman, serial killer, etc.

  13. Re:Where *do* the reviewers get these ideas?? on The UNIX Systems Administration Handbook · · Score: 3
    and the writing has a light touch which makes it extremely readable both as a desk reference and as bedtime reading.

    He didn't want to say "it's readable when you're on the crapper".

  14. Re:An even cheaper alternative for any system. on New 3D Cards On Slower PCs · · Score: 1
    Bah. I spent $0.75 and bought me a pair of 3D glasses. My computing experience has never been the same since.

    Here's a sure sign I need sleep: I read that as commuting experience. I've seen drivers do strange things, but no 3D glasses yet.

  15. Re:Creation of the Universe on Why Does The Universe Exist? · · Score: 1
    I'm going to get flamed for this, of course, because the vast majority of atheists get unbelievably upset when they're told that they take things on faith. But that's too bad, because it's one hundred percent true.

    If it's 100% true, then that proves there are multiple universes because it sure isn't true in mine.