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  1. Re:Dates on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I'm in yourope.
    I don't use yyyy/mm/dd. Nobody does. Unless in SQL.

  2. *sigh* on Comment Profanity by Language · · Score: 1

    I am the sole responsible for:

    1. "Foda-se mais esta merda! Desisto! Quem é que fez este XML?" (Fuck this shit! I give up! Who made this xml feed?" for two hours on the homepage of a major info site.
    2. "A merda do webservice fodeu-se" (The shitty webservice fucked up!) for 4 or 5 days on teletext.

    I now only curse on safe places. Like on places I *know* will never be seen. err....

  3. Re:Tests, Manual, Support by programmer. on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    PHB: specifications??!!? We don't need no stinking specifications!
    Me/you/anonymous programmer forced to work with said PHB (MYAPFWWSPHB): so we're supposed to work without a net, hu? Again, hu? You do remember last project and what you said could never happen again, right?
    PHB: this time it's different! See? It's just a simple web app for just a few thousand users!!! What could possibly go wrong?
    MYAPFWWSPHB: *sigh*

  4. Re:Could be a problem on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut!

  5. Re:Alien vs AlienScientist.... ALIEN WINS on Destroy Entire Websites With Asteroids Bookmarklet · · Score: 1

    Great. You've single handed slashdotted his site. or something like that.

  6. Re:It's made of magic on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 5, Funny

    That reason is inconceivable.

  7. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    The digits of pi do not repeat?
    That's stoopid. There's only like 10 digits in the universe! They have to repeat at least some of them. Look: just in 3.1415 you can find two ones!
    What!?

  8. Re:I am not surprised. on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    "hundreds of millions of eye witness accounts"

    bnurp?

  9. Re:Pirates? on Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Why confused? It's a valid question!!!! There has to exist such a mechanism!

  10. I am lost... on Implantable Eye Telescope Finally FDA Approved · · Score: 1

    This is not the /. I have grown to know and love...
    Where are all the "And I, for one, welcome our new [insert cleaver word] overlords" jokes!?

  11. *sigh* on Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    Look here, son.
    I've dealt with myriads of printing problems over the years on every fu****g imaginable browser.
    I'm having a hard time believing you're having a hard time because of firefox.
    Give examples or be laughed at.

    now... if you can correctly diagnose why a PHP script gives "Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent" with a one liner <?session_start()?;>, I'll give you some credit.

  12. Re:And 1/2... on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    Who's protecting the innocenti?

  13. Re:Non story on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's just something a loyal minion would say to cover his/her/its boss evil doings.
    I'm stockpiling twinkies.

  14. Re:Headline wrong, as is the article on India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    You have a typo. It's (beta)U*tan(Meh).

    My work here is done.

  15. bah on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 1

    It is NOT "like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons". No Marine would be so clumsy.

    Stupidest video. Ever.

  16. Re:Mama always told me... on Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun · · Score: 1

    What are you? Some sort of monarch of physical suffering?

  17. Don't buy it. on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 1

    My Asus A6VA had ~2 hours of battery with win 2003 Server or XP. Two months after I installed Win 7 all I get is roughly 20~30 minutes.
    Bastards!

  18. Re:My battery died on Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Failures · · Score: 1

    Same thing here on my Asus A6Va. The battery now holds ~37%.

  19. Don't Call Me... on Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shirley!

    Sorry. I am so sorry. I'll leave now. So sorry.

  20. Re:This is good science on US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast · · Score: 1

    Are implying M&M's are Mars droppings?
    That was totally uncalled for.

  21. Pffft on Android Phone Turned Into Virtual Reality Goggles · · Score: 1

    They do close to nothing.

    I...I am so... sorry. I'll leave now.

  22. Re:Just to get it out of the way ... on Caves of the Moon · · Score: 1

    And it took you 1200 parsecs to figure that out?

    *sigh*

  23. Re:Don't blame me, on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    To the non Portuguese-speaking:
    Parent made a typo on the "how much money" link. Correct link is: here

  24. Re:Live Blogging from the North Pole on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1

    Bookmarked! :)
    godspeed!

  25. Re:Original on NASA Contest To Name ISS Module · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware of this kind of open real time satellite tracking. (I'll promptly forfeit my geek privileges on my way out).
    Assuming it's dependable and that it is a comprehensible and complete Database, how did the recent satellite collision was allowed to take place in the...er... first place? IANARS but I'm guessing you could code some kind of early-warning-collision-system with that kind of data.

    OR... the cutty sark is has me done me wrong after dinner without ice no ice? the pain.