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  1. All for marketing on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He wants to know who you are for marketing and advertising purposes to increase corporate profits. The rest is the usual FUD. That is all.

  2. Jerry... on Transitioning From Developer To Management? · · Score: 1

    Is that you? who else left mmmppph mmppphh mpphhital?

  3. Ask someone who's there... on Durable Laptop Suggestions for the Desert? · · Score: 1

    You might want to ask someone who is there already. SGT Kobus is chronicling his deployment through Kuwait and Iraq at Lost In Iraq. I know he's gone through several digital cameras but all he's had to replace on his laptop was the power supply.

  4. Not at all... on Pre-Employment Skill Set and Aptitude Tests? · · Score: 1

    because the damn PHB hired the ones that failed anyway.

  5. browser cam on Helping the Apple Web Community w/o an Apple Computer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    try the browser cam. CSS-D inhabitants swear by it.

  6. Suggested reading on Spider Robinson And The State Of Science Fiction · · Score: 1
    Try Catherine Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire series.. She writes great character-driven stories, so good in fact that I couldn't put them down. Start with Catch the Lightning, it is the first book in the series.

    Also try C.S. Friedman's In Conquest Born and The Madness Season.

  7. Re:Yeah but... on Intel Shipped 1 Billionth Computer Chip · · Score: 1

    That would be 1 Sagan of transistors.

  8. Re:I disagree, Mr. Editor on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, many programmers get paid to write in VB. That amounts to getting paid to fuck things up.

  9. microbes? on Photos from the Surface of Venus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thing these craft weren't designed to return. If they had brought back new diseases, we'd be in trouble...we'd have veneral disease.

    *sigh*

    It seemed to be a good pun before I submitted it...

  10. Managing the mountians of data on IT Spending in Life Sciences · · Score: 1
    All you need is NuGenesis Technologies' Scientific Data Management System, or SDMS for short (don't you love acronyms?) to manage all of your analytical data. It won Best In Show at Bio-ITWorld this spring.

    Disclaimer: I work there.

  11. obligatory pun on Broadband Barrage Balloons · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is this on the horizon

    No, it's overhead.

  12. Re:nice troll. on Memory Timings Analysis · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, people do read the posts. I found the following:

    • VA Software is DEAD.
    • Slashdot really licks my nads.

    Now if you really had a sense of humor, you would have changed the technical details. But then again, you're only an AC, right? Perhaps I'm expecting too much.

  13. Re:Gaming? try something else on Gaming Suggestions For A Non-Gamer? · · Score: 1

    I *was* trying to help him. A suprised and happpy spouse contributes much to your quality of life. I know that gaming is large part of /., I just don't spend much time thinking about it or doing it (I did enjoy Red Alert and StarFleet Command though)....

  14. Gaming? try something else on Gaming Suggestions For A Non-Gamer? · · Score: 0, Troll
    Unless your internal clock stopped in your youth, why not try something that enhances your skills, or helps some one else? Do those minor home fixups the missus has always wanted. Make some bookshelves, organize the garage, et cetera... or get caught up on your tech journals that you can never find time to read.

    If helping yourself isn't motivating enough, volunteer with your local Habitat for Humanity and help someone else.

    If you insist on playing through your wife's vacation...try your local strip clup. The games are *much* more realistic! Look at those bezier's on HER!"

  15. Re:I am doing this right now... on Experiences When Transitioning to Low-End Workstations? · · Score: 2, Funny
    ) Big/Little endian issue, and this is one of the worst problems u will meet in your life :).

    Aside from the daily erosion of the English language?

    Main Entry: u
    Pronunciation: 'yü
    Function: noun
    Inflected Form(s): plural u's or us /'yüz/
    Usage: often capitalized, often attributive
    Date: before 12th century
    1 a : the 21st letter of the English alphabet b : a graphic representation of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic u
    2 : a graphic device for reproducing the letter u
    3 : one designated u especially as the 21st in order or class
    4 [abbreviation for unsatisfactory] a : a grade rating a student's work as unsatisfactory b : one graded or rated with a U
    5 : something shaped like the letter U
  16. browsing and documentation on EiffelStudio 5.3 for Linux · · Score: 4, Funny
    browsing and documentation facilities that even your dog would find easy use

    Not my dog -- he's still using Windows, even though it smells.

  17. next up ... on NPR Drops QuickTime Support · · Score: 0, Redundant
    on slashdupe.org:

    Apple: NPR Drops QuickTime Support

    oh, wait...

  18. What I can't figure out ... on Open Source Web Development With LAMP · · Score: 1
    Open Source Web Development with LAMP (henceforth OSWB)

    is what the 'B' stands for.

  19. which brand was that ? on Open Source Web Development With LAMP · · Score: 3, Funny
    (Descriptions are based on their Bios, intuition, and unsubstantiated rumors.)

    Phoenix, Award, or AMI ?

  20. You're kidding, right? on Contractors on Salary? · · Score: 1
    Obviously it is not ok to just leave at the end of an 8 hour shift if there is still lots to be done

    Of course it's ok... you have a family, don't you? Or was that YOU on that carton of milk?

  21. The Holodeck... on Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... for all the fantasies that the PHB will want you to create for him?

  22. Nasa on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    "Now if only computer manufacturers^W^W Nasa could make equipment even remotely this sturdy.

  23. Justification? on More on Longhorn · · Score: 1

    "This could bring a higher level of security than anything we've ever seen. It will almost completely prevent the platform from being compromised."
    Uh...could we please have some justification for this statement? MS coders can't write secure software today. This just gives us insecure software that's tied to a particular hardware platform.

  24. quality television news service? on Are Internet News Sites Ready for Major World News? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Surely you jest!

  25. Heck, I' justy trying to figure out... on Halloween Costumes for 2002? · · Score: 1
    how to stop all those little beggars from ringing the doorbell and asking for a handout all night long.

    Halloween Every Day: George Bush's new welfare policy.