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  1. Re:No. on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    Do you go to indian restaurants for big macs?

  2. Re:Complaints on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    It depends if the die landed with a higher number...

  3. Re:Intact human brain? on Exceptionally Preserved 2,600-Year-Old Brain Found · · Score: 2

    And anonymous came from the greek term 'anonymos' meaning without a name, and coward came from the french word couard, meaning one with their tail between their legs.

    So you're one with their legs between their legs, who has no name.

  4. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Middle mouse buttons are about like having a 4 button mouse. It's another button to program to do something, and that's about it.

  5. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    You realize what you said is about like saying that you realize that was a cavalier and chevy... right?

  6. Re:Proof at last! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Right... like LFS [linuxfromscratch.org].
    Like the GP said.

  7. Re:Don't come to the US! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Believe me, that area hardly reflects the United States.
    I'm so damned glad I moved away from there back in 2000.

  8. I hate questions like this... there is no "best". on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    I hate questions like this. It always reminds me of people that used to act like the world is trying to obfuscate things and they ask things like what the best beer is, or what the best operating system is, or what the best car is.

    There is no "best"! What you like is not what I like.

  9. Re:Can the U.S. military target it immediately? on Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December · · Score: 1

    If you need a propulsion system to stay in orbit, you're not really in orbit.

    By that very definition, most if not all satellites are not in orbit.
    note: it's not gravity-free, it's micro-gravity. After all, something has to keep it from flying out into space while it's moving.
    Thought I'd simplify it for you.

  10. Re:Can the U.S. military target it immediately? on Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December · · Score: 1

    About the same as the difference between a lifetime of years and lots of years.

  11. Re:Seriously? on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    Because it's easier to not say something, than to spout it out.

  12. Re:I don't believe it on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    Why???
    So you understand what you're talking about...

  13. Re:We'll dance around it like WILD injuns! on Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus · · Score: -1, Troll

    About eight months ago, I was searching around the internet to find
    out why my computer was running so slowly (it normally ran quite fast,
    but had gradually gotten slower over time). After a few minutes, I
    found a piece of software claiming that it could speed up my PC and
    make it run like new again. Being that I was dangerously ignorant
    about technology in general (even more so than I am now), I downloaded
    the software and began the installation. Mere moments after doing so,
    my desktop background image was changed and warnings that appeared to
    originate from Windows appeared all over the screen telling me to buy
    strange software from an unknown company in order to remove a virus it
    claimed I had.

    I may have been ignorant about technology, but I wasn't that naive. I
    immediately concluded that the software I'd downloaded was, in fact, a
    virus. In my rage, I broke numerous objects, punched a hole in the
    wall, and cursed the world at the top of my lungs. I eventually calmed
    down, cleared my head, and realized that the only remedy for this
    problem was a carefully thought out plan. After a few moments of
    pondering about how to handle this situation, I decided that since I
    barely knew how to properly handle a computer, I should turn it over
    to the professionals and let them fix the issue.

    Soon after making the decision, I drove to a local computer repair
    shop and entered the building with my computer in hand. They greeted
    me with a smile and stayed attentive the entire time that I was
    explaining the problem to them. They laughed as if they'd heard it all
    before, told me that I'm not the only one who has trouble operating
    computers, and then gave me a date for when the computer would be
    fixed. Not only had they told me that the computer would be completely
    repaired in at most two days, but the price for their services was
    surprisingly low, and to top it all off, they even gave me advice for
    how to avoid viruses in the future! I left the building feeling
    confident in my decision to seek professional help and satisfied
    knowing that such kind-hearted people were the ones doing the job.

    The very next day, I received a phone call from the computer repair
    shop whilst I was at a local library researching computer viruses. I
    had stumbled upon a piece of software that appeared to be very
    promising, and I was about to do more research on it, but seeing as
    how I required my computer as soon as possible, I decided to put the
    matter on hold. Upon answering the phone and cheerfully greeting the
    person on the other end, I was greeted with a high-pitched shriek.
    Startled, I asked what was wrong. A few moments passed where nothing
    was said, and suddenly, the person on the other end said to me, in a
    low voice oozing with paranoia, "Come pick up your computer." They
    hung up immediately after saying that, and I couldn't help but notice
    that they sounded as if they were on the verge of tears. I briefly
    wondered if it was due to stress from work, and then drove to the
    computer repair shop to acquire my computer.

    I was positively dismayed upon entering the building. The inside of
    the computer repair shop looked nothing like the image from my
    memories. There were broken computer parts scattered throughout the
    room, ceiling tiles all over the floor, blood splattered in every
    direction I looked, and even a human toe on the ground. After
    processing this disturbing information, I began panicking and
    frantically looking around for my computer. I spotted an employee
    covered in blood sitting up against the wall, and noticed that his
    wrists had been slashed open. Thinking quickly, I ran up to him,
    grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, shook him around, and began
    screaming, "Where is it!? Where is my computer!?" After a moment of
    silence, he passed away, completely shattering my expectations. Such a
    thing! "What a meaningless individual," I thought.

    Enraged, I tore t

  14. Re:Test equipment calibration? on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I don't think the measurement of temperature was really off back then since it was dont with what we consider medical style technology. (mercury, etc)

  15. Re:What about the rest of the world? on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's kinda like coming home and before she says anything, instantly telling your wife you didn't touch that woman at all tonight...

  16. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 2, Informative

    The dust bowl was not caused by temperatures, it was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion.

    It kinda was something other than nature that exasperated the situation.

  17. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's because the sun is on a direct collision course with earth.

  18. Re:Think on the children on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 2

    God you sheeple!
    Don't you realize that in order to get into politics you have to first be inaugurated into the grand Illuminati counsel!?
    They're bred from a matrix of DNA sets that are systematically assembled at the proper times for the fore-mapped path of the world. Everything is written, it's just being followed!!!
    You sheeple!!! You're all sheep being counted to the rhythm of the war drums!!!!!!!!@ zOMG!~@!#!@
    rOn PaUl!@ REVOLUTION!@!@###@!~

  19. Re:Priorities on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 1

    The downside to a large-area impact by a hurricane is that more than your business is effected.
    If you're fully operational and everythings working for the whole time, what's to say that the 2-4 providers that connect you to your upstream provider is going to be functional?
    Or they're upstream provider will be functional... or Verizon/AT&T/QWest (CenturyLink, whatever)/etc, etc, are going to be functional in that region... etc.

    Data centers are a small part to think about. The connections are the issue.

  20. Re:... and on this day... on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    Pretty much.. it's like paying a hooker then bragging to your friends the day after that you got laid.

  21. Re:Who-hoo! Time to get that source code cheap;) on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    I've got my buck o'five ready... if you don't give your buck o'five, who will?

  22. Re:Zombie SCO on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    Are you serial?

  23. Re:the cost is in the monitor on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 2

    You're right... it's kinda like people painting their impala with a certain design and saying they have a dale earnhardt sr racecar.

  24. Re:Why? on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 2

    It has a fan...
    You might want to have that looked at... LOL

  25. Re:You can't do that! on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 1

    your right, he meant the EU.