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  1. I prefer my usual title.... on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    "God".

  2. Concur, especially after 9/11 on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    While watching a recent documentary on the World Trade Center, I finally saw the collapse of WTC 7.

    With that footage and the other images of the Towers collapsing, I want to yell at Hollywood, once and for all:

    "SKYSCRAPERS ARE NOT DOMINOS!!!"

  3. Re:making laws about stuff they don't understand on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 1

    Damn kid. Slacking off on Slashdot again. They're all alike...

  4. ObSimpsons on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1

    "Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the capsule making Starbabies and I saw one of the Starbabies and then the Starbaby looked at me."

  5. Good decision on Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed · · Score: 1

    If it hasn't been done, has there been a civil suit filed? With the lower standard of proof and the exemption of double jeopardy, it should not be difficult to win.

    Then again, what was the point of all this? Pretty troubled girl dies, person does horrendous acts against pretty troubled girl, person must be punished.

  6. Good Morning, Mister Phelps on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Eight hours? The IMF usually needs 10 seconds/

  7. From the article.... on Internet Astroturfer Fined $300,000 · · Score: 1

    Another internal email directed a Lifestyle Lift employee to 'Put your wig and skirt on and tell them about the great experience you had.'

    Wouldn't the deep voice and five-o-clock shadow been a tipoff?

  8. I'm confused..... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    ... what will deter those illegal downloaders who like Prison Rape?

  9. Re:Guest account with Fast User Switching. on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    All of ye have given good technical answers, and they would most-likely work, but I think ye overlooked the most practical solution:

    "No."

    If you are going into technical support, this is good practical experience when your users want the shiniest new toy to add to the network.

    Unless one of your compatriots pays for your room, board, and tuition. Then it is exactly when the Chief Boss wants the shinest new toy, that usually breaks the system.

  10. It's been done before.... on NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station · · Score: 1

    With an entire town...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

    Ralph Edwards frowns on Colbert's shenanigans.

  11. Mouse Stories on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When they first came out, people were picking them up and moving them on the screen, figuring there was some magical property which would move the cursor that way.

    These days, (like at the local Borders) people have to be reminded that a mouse is *still* being used, and that the screen is not a touch screen.

  12. Re:For the uninformed: on Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.

    Paper printout?

  13. Youth: Umm, excuse me sir, but your fly is open.

    Elder: How dare you look at my underwear! You could see my privates if you look hard enough! You should be registered as a Sex Offender!

  14. Andif you listen VERY closely..... on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    You might be able to make out the Fab Four singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

  15. Re:*sigh* on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Werner Von Braun. He used slave labor to build the V2, was an SS officer, etc. But, without his help after the war, the U.S. probably would have never gotten to the moon.

    Only because he beat the prognosticating Kramdens to it.

  16. Re:Typical Microsoft on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm wondering if they'll solve this before XPSp3 gets pushed down via Automatic Update.

    Sound of thousands of rebooting PCs, etc etc.

  17. Yeah, but on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    they only had to deal with drought, not Cylons.

    if 2K can grow to 6B, 40K isn't a bad seed, then.

  18. Re:Three things you need to fix anything on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    The three things you need to fix anything in the universe.
    Duct Tape
    WD-40
    A Hammer


    Foreplay?

  19. Re:RTM? on Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Elephants can't jump.

    I thought it was white men


    Actually, it's white elephants, thanks to a tech by the name of Ahab.

  20. Re:Added "Features" on Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I remember when Win2000 SP2 came out and we deployed it just before a weekend, only to discover the "Added Features"* of BITS and Automatic Update (we're a closed shop), so we had to come in that weekend and disable *manually* the two services on all machines.

    * Through Slashdot, I might add. We'll let, um, others 'discover' the new features.

  21. This predisposes..... on DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested · · Score: 1

    ...that, once the DNA is collect, that it *will* be processed and catalogued. Or not.

    You can't overcome Good Ol' Bureaucracy, no matter how much you shred the Constitution.

  22. Re:Oblig. on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    You know when I heard about this on the news I wondered "is it too early for the cold dead hands joke?", apparently not.

    I read about his death first on Fark. I 'got' the headline as soon as I read it (but I hoped I was wrong).

  23. Re:He was legend on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    The original ending is the zombies win. No producer in Hollywood will ever shoot an ending like that.

    True enough. You have to go to Japanese Horror for endings like that.

  24. I'm not listening to you, Creationists! on Youngest Planet Discovered · · Score: -1, Troll

    LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I can't here you LA LA LA LA LA

  25. Re:analog TV = eliminates this compression crap on Comcast Puts the Screws To HDTV · · Score: 1

    This is why I hate HD. With old analog TV it is technically impossible to do this compressed signal crap. Haven't you noticed now that since the TV stations have gone to digital broadcasts, you get all kinds of weird problems with signals (pixaltion and chunk-outs) and you get nasty pixel-ish compression artifacts. When you had analog this was unheard. Also with the original CRT televisions the phosphors were round which made for a nice smooth picture - not the chunkly looking edges you get with square pixels and limited colour levels.

    THANK YOU! Our local Comcast switched over to more HD and high-end (Channel 100+) channels, and there were some channels forever pixellated (G4, among others) and some with just a tinge of pixelization. It was worst during the day, and subsided at night. Only when it interfered with our paid channels did we break down and get a guy to take a look, and he said that the signal needed to be boosted.

    I asked around here and it looked like I was the only person having the problem.