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  1. Re:Let's give a hand to Bill on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but he already took an arm and a leg...

  2. Re:The real question is... on Internet is Killing the Newspaper · · Score: 3, Funny

    They most likely will not report on the misdeeds of major advertisers. Likewise, in America especially, if they question the administration they'll immediately lose their press access.

    Quick, replace your tin foil hat! The foil taped over the window is coming loose! The spy satellites are going for your rectal implants!

  3. And it's already... on Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record · · Score: 1

    Only listed a few minutes ago, and it's already been slashdotted...

  4. Re:Yep on Capitalizing on Melting Polar Ice · · Score: 2, Funny

    If he would just sign it, then we can save the mars ice-caps! They are obviously being destroyed by American SUV's polluting the Martian atmosphere! And by the lack of Pirates! Until the Koyoto protocol includes a method to increase the number of pirates in the world, it will never be able to solve global warming!

  5. Re:Global warming on Capitalizing on Melting Polar Ice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was always told that if the ice caps melt, the oceans would raise 30 feet. Since 1/3 of it has already melted, according to the news reports, shouldn't we be able to measure a 10 foot raise in the water level? What happened to the coasts being submerged? I want to see all those blue states under water now! Why else do you think I've been driving a SUV?

  6. Other planets? on Distant Planet Imaging Project Gets More Funding · · Score: 1

    You know that they are just going to use it to peek at sunbathers. They just "say" that it's to see other planets.

    It's full of Perverts!

  7. Re:I just hope... on Distant Planet Imaging Project Gets More Funding · · Score: 1

    ob: Hitchhikers Guide

    Just make sure that we have plenty of dogs available.

  8. Re:Fundementals on What Makes an OSS Class Work? · · Score: 1

    In addition:

    How to make money off OSS projects.

    a) Developement grants.

    b) Donations.

    c) Maintenance contracts.

    d) Creation of Distributions.

    e) etc...

    Location of several OSS Project servers (freshmeat, sourceforge, etc)

    How to search for existing projects before starting new ones.

    How to get involved in existing projects.

    Branching of existing projects. When should you, and how to do it.

    How to look for libraries of code instead of rebuilding functionality from scratch.

    Why you hate C++, and why everyone else should too. In most OSS projects you will find a "I hate C++" diatribe. Even in the C++ projects.

  9. General Relativity on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 1, Funny

    General Relativity

    I knew that missing mass was my fat brother-in-law!

  10. Re:Shrinking ice? On Earth or Mars? on ESA Cryosat Launch Reported Failure · · Score: 1

    That just shows how bad the pollution must be, if it reaches as far as Mars.

  11. Re:sure buddy on Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump · · Score: 1

    He would have "felt there pane" "for the children", and everything would have been reported as being perfect. And thus he could raise taxes to support the enlarged welfare state, which would be reported as one of the greatest achievements of this century.

  12. Also included on Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support · · Score: 1

    Also included in this release is the MicroSoft Enterprise PDF reader (available seperately for $299.95) which is required to view PDF's created by the new MicroSoft Office 12. The Adobe version is incompatible with the innovative enhancements made to the format by MicroSoft.

  13. Re:Worked for me on Do-Not-Call List, Two Years Later · · Score: 1

    One simple phrase "Please place me on your Do-not-Solicit list." would cure most of it.

    Never worked for me. Not once. The same a**h*** companies would still call me after resuesting this multiple times.

    And you have to do it for the three or four hundred "Spam" calls you get a month, with new companies coming in in every month. So no matter how many times you say it, you still get hammered even if they respect your request, which they don't.

    The State and National Do-Not-Call lists are the first things that have helped. And I'm still getting telemarketer calls, but a lot less than before.

  14. Re:Yeah....but does it run Windows on Updated OQO Model 01+ with USB 2.0 and More RAM · · Score: 1

    Yeah....but does it run Windows

    Just had to ask...

  15. Re:Does It Run Linux? (tm) on Updated OQO Model 01+ with USB 2.0 and More RAM · · Score: 1

    Demand the ability to run TOPS-10 under an emulator too! If the zarius can run TOPS-10, then they should be able to run it on this.

    PS: I'm still waiting for my RSTS watch.

  16. Re:Only controversial if you're in denial on Running out of Hurricane Names · · Score: 1

    Most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations

    Why are there always "weasel-words" used by the Global-Warming lobby?

    The "Scientific" evidence shows us that:

    1. A warmer summer proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    2. A cooler summer proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    3. A normal summer proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    4. A warmer winter proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    5. A cooler winter proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    6. A normal winter proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    7. Beached whales/dolphines proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    8. KFC changed their name because their bio-engineered chickens can no longer be called chickens. Which proves that global warming exists, and is caused by man.

    All this proves that Global-Warming exists, and will soon cause the planet to freeze solid! It will also release the wolves from the parks, which will then hunt us down, and kill us all!

    Global-Warming seems to me to be mostly media-hype and bad-science. The main rallying cry seems to be "but what if it could be true". You might as well worry about the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I feel like I am listing to a used snake-oil salesman whenever I hear another "report".

  17. Re:BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS!!!11 on Bill Gates Speaks Out · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it was awfull. people were dyeing in the streets.

    Messy. I hope it wasn't tie-dye.

  18. Re:Comparable?! on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 1

    Global warming, while still a topic of debate among a certain fringe, is as scientific in its predictions and foundations as any environmental science can be.

    Yup. I've seen the news reports. If it gets warmer, then global warming is proven. If it gets cooler, that proves that global warming is real. If the temp stays the same, it's obviously because of global warming.

    And it's all because of those evil SUV's.

  19. Re:ADA? on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    Bush sat on his ass, on vacation, while people died and his incompetent, nepotistic administration did nothing, then too little too late, and turned around and blamed state and local officials who were reduced to using the media to get their pleas for help to the president because, as democrats, they weren't allowed by the president's handlers to talk to the man personally (for a number of days).

    Someone ought to invent something that would allow the president to give orders from wherever he happens to be. I even have a great name for this invention. I think I'll call it the "telephone". ...

    What the hell could the President do from the White House that he couldn't do with a cell phone from a car in the middle of the Navada desert? You are obviously more concerned about "looks" than "action".

    This is just another idiotic complaint from the normal stupid brainless liberal. Look at who he probably voted for: Algore--a man who flunked out of divinity school; Bill--who can't keep his penis in his pants long enough to save his job, then gets away with purjury (then claims Bush is a liar); Hillary--who invests in the stock market one time and makes over $100,000 and never invests again; Kerry--who marries women for their money and then complains about rich republicans.

    The Governor and Mayors sat on their asses, ignored the existing plans for what to do in case of hurricane/disaster, refused to use school buses to move people out of the area because they wanted luxory Greyhound buses, did not demand a mandatory evacuation, and did not get the national guard, which is under state control, into action afterwards.

    No, they waited for the feds to get pissed off with their inaction, and take over.

    They live under an entitlement mentality: they expect the federal government to do everything for them; to give them money like a grandmother gives candy; and then complain that all the free stuff they get isn't good enough for them.

    Listen to the news reports. They complain that the food they get (for free) isn't heated, they smeared everything with their feces, and threw trash everywhere. If they cared even a little bit, the superbowl would not now be a stinking mess of sewage and garbage.

  20. Re:Bring it on. on Blu Ray Drive Will Cost $100 Per PlayStation 3 · · Score: 1

    Or are tits and violence the only things you want from an experience?

    Yes!

  21. Secondhand Smoke on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    It was second hand smoke that killed them off. According to the news reports I've heard, that stuff is much more deadly than the first hand stuff.

    Seeing how cigaretts killed off the dinosaurs (see FarSide), they wouldn't have stood a chance.

  22. Re:We can't even agree on global warming on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since they weren't even looking for the "ozone hole" until just recently, they don't have much historical record of it. I believe it's much less than 10 years. They really don't know if it is normal to have a hole at the poles or not, because they don't have any historical evidence.

    It's like measuring the water level in a bay over a two minute period, and assuming that the water level change when the tide comes in is a disaster caused by SUV drivers. Same thing for "global warming".

    It's bad science. They are taking their cause, and trying to assign whatever "disasters" thay can find. If the ozone thing doesn't pan out, they will just move on to something else.

  23. Re:makes no sense.. on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What happens when you want to open an old Word document with the current version? You are probably going to have problems doing that. OpenOffice deals with older versions of Word documents better than Word does.

    You will never find any import options in Word for OO documents. That would help enable competition for the market, and MicroSoft is against that. Word is their current cash cow, and they are not going to do anything to harm their lock-down of users.

  24. Re:Reason 5 on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Given that Windows is already installed, I've already paid for it, and I've got it configured to use restricted user accounts to reduce my exposure to malware (just like I would on Linux), why would I want to replace it?

    Maybe, because 30 seconds after you connect it to the net, it is completely reprogrammed: with virus, key logging software, adware, spyware, worms, trojans, mailbots, ...

    Less if you haven't done the updates, which you need to connect to the net to get, and less than 30 seconds after you connect ...

  25. Re:Movie Theaters are Obsolete on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1

    Your theaters allow you to bring your own feed?

    Around here, you go to jail if you do that. Two women here went to one show (and bought popcorn), decided they didn't like the show, and went to another theater (taking their popcorn with them). Result: jail.

    Still wonder why people aren't going to movie theaters? Besides the obvious that most movies are now based on old, cancelled, TV shows.