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  1. Re:What the law should really be doing on Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve · · Score: 1

    Actually, PCI is fairly stringent. But a lot of merchants aren't there yet.

  2. Re:Last Week... on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales · · Score: 1

    Can't be. IBM never made an 8086 box. The 8MHz IBM box was the PC-AT 339. It had a 8MHz 286 and the famous Model M keyboard.

  3. Re:Wrong Decision on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales · · Score: 1

    I had a vasectomy years ago, You Insensitive Clod!!!

  4. Re:Last Week... on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales · · Score: 1

    8086 PC AT

    Thank you for playing. The AT was a '286 class machine. There were a few XT class 8086 machines, but most of them were 8088s.

  5. Re:K&R2 on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Add a vote for K&R2, and one that may seem off the wall:

    "Oh! Pascal", by Cooper and Clancy. It's probably out of print, but it had the most lucid, understandable explanation of pointers that I have ever seen in my life.

  6. Re:She's gone from suck to blow! on Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a coincidence! I have that same combination on my luggage!

  7. Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, in other words, they're just like most slashdotters?

  8. Re:oscillococcinum on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point is that 1 gram contains .85g sucrose and .15g lactose. In base 10, .85 + .15 = 1.0, therefore the entire 1g contains nothing but sugar. Where is the "Anas barbaria hepatis" to fit?

  9. Re:Standard Slashdot libertarian troll on CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Damn... need to preview. "provide for the common defence"

  10. Re:Standard Slashdot libertarian troll on CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Preamble: "provide for the common def"

  11. Re:Film and TV producers also call for action on RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, and you could get William Shatner to star in a big movie production for it!

  12. Re:Yep. We're vulnerable. on Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps · · Score: 1

    "Damn you Tommy Tutone!"

  13. Re:Environment? on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which is bigger... a metric assload or an imperial assload?

  14. From the Win2K EULA on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    The product may contain support for programs written in java. Java
    Technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or
    Resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe
    Performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or
    Communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems

    Emphasis is mine. The original was in all caps, I have removed them to defeat the lameness filter.

    Seems to me that a nuke sub is a nuclear facility and a weapons system.

  15. Re:Hope one ends up close by on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    Never flown -- in space. It was used for glide testing.

  16. Re:Do the math... on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    Plus two unmanned launches (GT-1 and GT-2).

  17. Re:Do the math... on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    Titan II was sufficient to launch a manned Gemini into orbit -- 10 times.

  18. Re:Antikythera on 2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form · · Score: 1, Funny

    Best. Antikythera. Post. Ever.

  19. Just like the Sprint commercial on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    It's just my way of sticking it to The Man.

    But... you *are* The Man.

    I know.

    So... you're sticking it to yourself?

    Maybe...

  20. Re:Good on A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 · · Score: 1

    If you're on Win2K (and many users will only drop it when someone pries it out of their cold dead hands), you *can't* use IE7 or later.

  21. Re:But.... on Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Except that ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US. So if you put a false name in before the fraud act was passed, you're not breaking any laws.

  22. Re:Nothing went wrong on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Exactly. It's the "You CAN-SPAM with no consequences" Act.

  23. Re:I remember our planning in DND on Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress · · Score: 1

    Isn't that just a fireball? Back when I played, we used to refer to them as nukes.

  24. Re:Is any browser safe? on Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    By Stallman's Beard! I never thought I'd see the day when Lynx had a vulnerability!

  25. Re:Faint hope at end of article on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 4, Funny

    You misunderstand. The "artists" are defined by the RIAA as "those who have made an art of suing people."