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  1. Re:Where do they store 4.5TB off site on Internet Archive Gets 4.5PB Data Center Upgrade · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's simple, the backups are compressed -- they simply remove all those useless zeroes from the binary data.

  2. Re:-Enterprise on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, because you certainly won't find nerds at Microsoft and Apple!

  3. -Enterprise on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could someone re-write this story without the buzzword "enterprise" substituting for the actual requirements?

    Until then, I will have to mod this down.

  4. Re:Good luck on Canadian Court Orders Site To ID Anonymous Posters · · Score: 1

    Uh oh, the meme police are here!

    Thankfully, I'm behind 7 proxies.

  5. Re:Good luck on Canadian Court Orders Site To ID Anonymous Posters · · Score: 0

    Good luck, I'm behind Candleja

  6. Re:who knows on CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they told us that they closed their misinformation department!

  7. Re:This just in on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: -1, Redundant

    moar liek Dead Hat amirite?

  8. Re:Just not interested on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    You could also just turn off your monitor and quit wasting power with bouncing cows.

  9. Trendsourcing on Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Def. trendsource
    -verb: to solve problems using popular buzzwords

    ("The developers trendsourced the project by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")

  10. Re:4th amendment? on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Is that the audacity of hopelessness?

  11. Re:Think of the naked 13 year old on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    "Think of the naked 13 year old"

    Go back to 4chan, Chris Hansen.

  12. Re:One question remains.... on Japanese Astronaut Tests Stink-Free Underwear · · Score: 1

    Or boxer-briefs?

  13. Re:Huh? on Valve Claims New Steamworks Update "Makes DRM Obsolete" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The marketing sense.

  14. SFWScan on HP's Free Adobe Flash Vulnerability Scanner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can they also make SFWScan?

    That would help avoid potentially embarrassing situations at work.

  15. Seed the cloud on Sun's CEO On FOSS and the Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forecast is cloudy with a chance of data loss.

  16. Re:RIP on Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And they say Colbert is a /b/tard...

  17. Re:In a show of global unity in security theater on Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare · · Score: 1

    We forgot all about your needs, we were too busy fulfilling our own.

  18. Bad news on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can download their movie for free, Terrance and Phillip are going to go bankrupt.

  19. A Choruss on TechDirt's Masnick Responds To Warner's Jim Griffin On Choruss · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could almost say there's a Choruss of complaints about this idea.

  20. Success stories on Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects · · Score: 1

    I'm curious -- are there any success stories from the Summer of Code, or do these projects get abandoned after 3 months?

  21. Re:Am I the only one who read the title like on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    I opened this link in a new tab. It said "How To Get High..."

    Too bad TOTSE is dead.

  22. Where does the money go? on Choruss Pitching Bait and Switch On P2P Music Tax · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me guess: the artists don't get a dime.

  23. The future of the past on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flying cars, robot vacuum cleaners... the future of the mid 60's is getting closer every day!

  24. Re:Gimp doesn't need a book on Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional 2nd Ed · · Score: 1

    That's what I do on Linux. But on Windows, that's obviously not an option (at least not without virtual desktop software, which comes with its own set of problems.)

  25. Whoa, this is heavy on ESA Launches GOCE To Map Earth's Gravity · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's that word again; "heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?