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  1. Revenge on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    You see Mr. Lyons, revenge is a dish best served cold.

  2. Re:UMR on Explosives Camp · · Score: 1

    Hell, when I went there back in the 90s, the ratio of guys to girls was 5 to 1. I say they are improving.

    They used to be called The Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, then they switched to University of Missouri-Rolla as they integrated with the Missouri University system and to deemphasize mining engineering and emphasize other engineering specialties.

    In any case, I'd like a vacation where I did nothing but blow stuff up. I'd pay that $450 or a slightly higher fee and get it out of my system. I'd like to learn to rig an old bridge or dilapidated building that needs to come down.

  3. Re:ZYB works in the US as well on What are the Best Cell Phone Services in the US? · · Score: 1

    Sprint charges something like $10-15 for an online backup. I signed up with Zyb this morning, but the SMS confirm message never came thru. I imagine Sprint blocks this free service to be pricks. Only reason I have Sprint is because my g/f works there and got me a friends and family deal. There are perks, but also limitations.

  4. Don't forget... on Wednesday Is Pi Day · · Score: 1

    March 14th is also Steak and BJ Day!!

    Exactly one month after Valentine's Day where the ladies get just what they want, they created a day for us guys. I told the g/f and she is down with it. She just said that as long as she is involved, she's game.

    Oh, and I once recited Pi to something like 45 digits. Not too impressive, but I memorized it just a couple of hours before a competition and came in 3rd. Ah, college.

  5. If I were an AI on Marvin Minsky On AI · · Score: 1

    Hell, I don't want to do anything now!! I think I can relate. It's times like this that I like to refer back to the classics, like Office Space.

    Lawrence: Well, what about you now? what would you do?
    Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
    Lawrence: Well, yeah.
    Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
    Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
    Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.
    Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do shit.

    Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
    Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
    Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
    Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
    Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
    Bob Slydell: Eight?
    Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

  6. Re:vmware on Launch of OSS For Mobile Phones · · Score: 2, Informative
  7. Re:hwah? on ISECOM's Top 10 Real Computer Crimes · · Score: 1

    "Said "sweet girl" fingered (the implication is "falsely") our protaganist as the source..." We know what you meant by "fingered," and that's just dirty.
  8. Re:Movie OS is a lie? on Open Source Spying · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the drowning of one terrorist is always a good start. If only they were drowned at birth or left in the woods for the wolves to raise. We would then have a bunch of Mowglis running around in the sand and not a bunch of human bomb triggers.

  9. Re:Surprised? on Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property" · · Score: 1

    After this deal Mirosoft and Novell can both lick my balls.

  10. Ted Turner wannabe? on Mark Cuban Declares War on GooTube · · Score: 1

    Does that mean he will also be the next Captain Planet? (ref. RobotChicken, avail. on YouTube, for now)

  11. Spider's Callahan books on Variable Star By Heinlein and Robinson · · Score: 1

    I think these are the only books of his I've read and I have to say they were tons of fun. He could've easily written these comedies and based them in the old west. I think the Star Trek Captain's Table series plays off these books of his. Anyway, I discovered Callahan's while in college and it was a great distraction from all the homework and required reading.

  12. Re:299 Laptop on AMD Cuts Personal Internet Communicator · · Score: 1

    Go cheap labor!!

  13. hey on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1

    You can flog the dolphin while you are waiting on the reindexing. So get yer hands back to the keyboard til that job is running.

    Carry on.

  14. why is roland a problem? on Networking For Overconvenience · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it also be Zonk's fault for posting the story to the front page of /. ?
    Roland writes his same 'ol crap on his blog and probably has an RSS feed to Zonk's inbox.
    I fixed my problem with Jon Katz stories long ago, by blocking them in my /. settings. I don't even know if he still writes stories for /.

  15. I have a problem on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    I have a problem with the GIMP logo. He's watching me man. I can see his eyes move as I move around my cube. Lookin at me with one eye bulging out and that evil smile. He's freakin me out man. Make him stop!!!

  16. her "disappearance" on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone else find it strange that she dropped off the kids and THEN disapears? The kids are little. I doubt that Hans would or could leave little kids alone long enough to follow her, kill her and dispose of the body. Even if he grabbed her at the door, the kids would see it. You can't have witnesses to something like this and expect to stay out of jail. And for him to do something like this requires planning (premeditation). From my experience as a divorced dad, dropp-offs are too unpredictable. Even a few minutes different in planned drop-off time, which happens frequently, can throw off a plan. He'd have to get rid of a body, murder weapon, CAR, remove evidence from his house of altercation and al kinds of stuff.

    Hell, Scott Peterson had his wife alone in the house, no kids, no relatives around, no one knew of his affair at the time and he had a holiday weekend and no work to go to. He was also way to dumb to get away with it.

    Just theorizing here, but suppose she is into something else (bondage, drugs, cheating, what ever), it is more likely that someone from that world committed the act of violence against her. She just got caught in the downward spiral of that lifestyle. I'd be looking at Hans' old business partner to start with and questioning Hans' kids for confirmation of getting dropped off, etc.

  17. Re:Iceweasel? on Mozilla vs Debian Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Sounds a little like you are explaining the difference between good-touch and bad-touch in relation to software. Sorry, too many pedophiles in the news lately for my taste.

  18. JJ Abrams on Star Trek XI - What We Know · · Score: 1

    So Enterprise will crash on a mysterious island and no one will know what is going on for the first hour of the show. I will have left before the second half because I just can't buy invisible monsters. Predator notwithstanding.

  19. Re:Stupid? or MSFT? on P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults · · Score: 1

    How do they know it wasn't just a failure of Winders XP? It happens to people I know all the time. Poof, it's all gone. Time to reboot and reload or restore. Nothing strange to see here.

  20. Re:Shouldn't these basic domains be non-profit? on ICANN OKs Tiered Pricing for .org/.biz/.info · · Score: 1

    fags. CEOs are fags, plain and simple. Put that up your pipe and smoke it.

  21. new thing on Video Projector on a Chip? · · Score: 1

    Two words, flash porn. Like a flash mob, but you show up to watch some porn.

    Today, Jenna Does Everybody, at the mall food court, 2pm. Be there.

  22. Gas vs Diesel on Computer Designed Car Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Well, you drop off the trailer to save weight and the truck bounces around so much, you feel like you are going to lose a kidney. And that is only at about 40-50mph. I can't imagine a Peterbuilt or a Mac at over 300. Then again, they probably have air-ride and that must help.

    The old yard switchers I drove would bounce you all to hell. And during two winters in Iowa, I had to drive one with chains on to go get fuel. I thought I was gonna puke.

  23. Move the CAPS LOCK on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    Move the key up to the top of the keyboard, by the Esc key or the big empty area on the right, above the Number pad.

  24. Somebody is offering "porches"? on School Software Licenses Under Review · · Score: 1

    I would love it if someone would build me a new porch. New porches in my area are all the rage. Concrete with a cover and some hanging baskets, possibly screened-in or glassed in so you can injoy the outdoors, without the heat and bugs.

  25. But.... on Athens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" · · Score: 1

    Will this be as bad as ... Mansquito?