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  1. Re:Had This Problem Myself on AVG Update Breaks iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "The workaround is to disable the real-time scanner."

    Or switch to a better AV product. For a while I was satisfied with AVG, but gave up after other false positive problems with it. Avira does a better job (check out http://www.av-comparatives.org/) and still has a free version.

  2. Re:Legal CYA on UK ISP Disconnects Customers For File Sharing · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...hire a team of lawyers"

    [looks at wallet, then dials phone] - "Hello, Lionel Hutz?"

  3. Re:Surprising? on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    "$7.25/hr isn't a sane amount of money for a computer technician in the US."

    That's why you need a tip jar.

  4. Re:this wasn't a suicide on Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self · · Score: 1

    ...a bunch of company goons

    Montgomery Burns: "I prefer the personal touch you only get with hired goons."

  5. Re:What about... on US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I can drink an iced coffee, roll a cigarette, and smoke pot at the same time whilst driving."

    Tobacco is bad for you.

  6. Re:God hates censorship. on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    No, because they have more power and guns than you do.

  7. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuck God!

    ...and receive a divine orgasm. Amen.

  8. Re:Wording on Company Denies Its Robots Feed On the Dead · · Score: 1

    I'm voting for Bender (voice now played by Patrick Stewart).

  9. Re:Loved the BASIC version of LL's preamble on Forty Years of Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Then Apple borrowed some Xerox ideas and came out with iLander with only one button.

  10. Re:Hole in the wall on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    You end up with frozen turds in the same orbit as the ISS.
    Astronaut looks out the window: "Somebody likes corn."

  11. Re:The reason the keyboard is popular is simple on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    i used Q/A for up/down...

    As an emacs user, I prefer to write movements as elisp expressions which I then evaluate with Ctrl-x Ctrl-e.

  12. Re:Larsen != Larson on Danish Expert Declares Vinland Map Genuine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Larzon is a swede who's in the sleazier part of the entertainment industry.

    From the same people who gave us Zed from Zardoz?

  13. Re:It is a dumb idea on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 4, Funny

    why do you need your air conditioner on at all when you're on vacation?

    To keep your home's server rack cool. This is /. isn't it?

  14. Re:Dumb on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    ...they may delay your ac 20' at peak times

    How long will your AC 'be allowed' to run after that 20 minute delay? Right now in Austin the temps are 102+ during peak times. A 20 minute delay at peak hours means a rise of a couple of degrees F, after which the AC runs longer trying to return the target temp. If not allowed to run long enough the cumulative rise would get bad quick.

    Either you are going to be uncomfortable with a steadily rising temperature or you are not going to save much. People with the means will choose comfort over minor savings.

  15. Re:Sometimes /. is so fatalistic on Early Abort of Ares I Rocket Would Kill Crew · · Score: 1

    Or train some backup astronauts.
    Are they doing a cost analysis of this?

  16. Re:Well... on Security Threats 3 Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you have already set noscript to allow your bank's site (required for most banks), and that site has been hacked, how does that protect you?

  17. Re:Why is this on Slashdot ? on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 1

    Oh stop complaining, what the hell else are you going to do?
    Go outside and get some exercise?

  18. Re:Why is this on Slashdot ? on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like clockwork.

  19. Re:Let's Put Belgium To Sleep on Belgium Tries to Fine Yahoo for Protecting US User Privacy · · Score: 1

    And Waffles! mmmm... beer and waffles, little squares filled with delicious beer.

  20. Re:Correction on Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 2, Funny

    -1 Inappropriately Literal Interpretation

  21. Re:Summary? on Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    mode != mean

    first post getting -1 redundant mod == mean

  22. Static Electricity on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 1

    Bring out the carpet and sneakers, then *pop*.
    Combine the exercise with theory.

    1) Is fun
    For the aggressor

    2) Teaches about circuits that are relevant to their life.
    Everyday relevance

    3) Doesn't rely too heavily on a black box microcontroller.
    Done

    4)It must be as cheap as possible
    It does not get any cheaper.

  23. Re:At least it wasn't EBCDIC on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would be a really large abacus run by a team of shackled slaves being whipped by a leather clad master.
    So pretty much like any IT shop.

  24. Wrong Currency? on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The number seems about right for Zimbabwe dollars.

  25. Re:Only skimmed it, but... on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    He had to have some brains somewhere.

    In a jar marked Abby something...