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  1. Re:Blackmail? on Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    Silly person! Haven't you learned anything from Darl McBride?

    Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with.

  2. Re:Normally they drink from a bag with a straw, bu on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 1

    No. More like drinking out of a Klein Bottle.

  3. Re:Glad someone's fighting on Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed · · Score: 1

    The Cybermen?

  4. Re:Frightening the cattle on SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster · · Score: 1

    Dude, you were in Chatsworth? I lived in Chatsworth for 12 years -- now in West Hills.

  5. Re:And then it becomes self-aware on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    Can you guys read? CAT BRAIN.

    This is bad for us. Very bad. Remember, the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats like they were gods. Cats have never forgotten this fact.

  6. Re:better than... on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing! NARF! POIT!!!

    The problem is that the IBM network will continually ask "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

  7. Re:Chapter 7? on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 1

    BSF's contract covers appeals. However, I don't know if SCOXQ will be able to pry the $$$ for the appeal bond loose from the BK judge.

  8. Re:I for one on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This ain't it.

    Novell is done (modulo appeals and the arbitration -- see below).

    Still pending

    * Bankruptcy
    * SuSE UnitedLinux arbitration (stayed pending resolution of BK)
    * IBM's counterclaims (stayed pending resolution of BK)
    * RedHat (stayed pending IBM)
    * AutoZone (technically still alive, don't believe anyone's ever going to finish it. Stayed pending IBM, I believe).

  9. Re:You LOSE! on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent: +1, Willy Wonka

  10. Re:Pretty cool on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 1

    Well, my textbook *was* written in the late '70s, and it's been 30 years since my last quantum course.

  11. Re:Pretty cool on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 1

    Yep. Electron spin is a purely relativistic phenomenon. It can't be derived from "classical" QM.

  12. Re:Dark matter on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 0

    I don't normally go for scatological humor here, but....

    Since the missing mass is from the movement, does this mean anything in the search for dark matter?

    You usually find the dark matter from the movement in the toilet.

  13. Re:Devertebrates? on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    What about "devertebrated stewardesses"?

  14. Re:Misleading summary on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Didn't they do that to Worf in a Star Trek episode?

  15. Re:Not necessarily on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammmit, you beat me to it. And with my nick, I should have got to it first. Or maybe not. It's uncertain.

  16. Re:What about ... on American Nerd · · Score: 1

    <NIEMOLLER>
    When they came for the dorks, I said nothing because I was not a dork...
    When they came for the tools, I said nothing because I was not a tool...
    etc...
    </NIEMOLLER>

  17. Re:15 minutes? on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    I subbed to a major aerospace company (which shall remain nameless).

    Their standard PC boot included full updates to everything and anything and took a good 15 minutes before the system was usable. 30-45 if there was a major update in the pipeline.

  18. Alas... on McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is an example of the old saying "The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it".

    Unfortunately, this is happening for the bad guys as well as us.

  19. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    That was my point.

  20. Re:What does it have to show for it ? on The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space · · Score: 1

    Please qualify "We". In this case "We" means the US. The Soviets launched Salyut 1 in 1971.

    The Soyuz 11 depressurization incident was upon departure from Salyut 1.

  21. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 1

    You missed the point. The GP was saying that switching to Linux caused users to go "WTF?". My point was that Vista is sufficiently different from XP for the same thing to be true.

  22. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And when they shift from XP to Vista? What's the difference? Both Vista and Linux (assuming either GNOME or KDE) do things differently from XP. Why does Vista get a pass, while Linux doesn't?

  23. IBM Mainframe Desktop on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    It's been done. Back in '83.

  24. Re:scantily clad people on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    in the 60s, a naked navel wouldn't risk censorship

    Tell that to Barbara Eden (aka Jeannie).

  25. Re:Uneasy on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 2, Informative

    A bigger continuity flaw in the trailer is the fact that Kirk can drive a stick. He had serious problems with it in "Patterns of Force."

    [NERD-ALERT]
    You mean "A Piece of the Action"
    [/NERD-ALERT]