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  1. A New Movement on Woz OK's Apple I Resurrection · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Besides, Woz continued, he freely distributed the Apple I's schematics and ROM code at the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975..

    Do we call this OpenHard movement? Is there a GNA (Gna is Not Apple) or Free Hardware Foundation behind this?

  2. In other news on Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks...

    In other news, Bob Vila will be demonstrating how to build a solar system from scrap in his series This Old House. Also, a hotel chain in Sweden has threatened to sue God for patent infringement citing illegal use of icy blocks for construction.

  3. Re:New exciting business investment!-even better on More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darl McBride
    SCO GROUP INC
    355 South 520 West, Suite 100
    Lindon, UT 84042

    My Dear Friend,

    I hope this letter finds you in good health. This is the letter of the Unix past. It will bring you great fortune. All you have to do is pay the party mentioned above, a small sum ff $699. Then immediately send this letter to six other friends. If you do so, you will have great luck.

    Mr. Scott McNealy of Santa Clara, CA immediately paid the above mentioned money and sent the letter to his friends. Great luck came to him. The sun will always shine in his little kingdom

    William Gates of Redmond, WA paid the sum immediately. All his legal troubles melted away. He became extremely rich and powerful.

    Samuel Palmisano of Armonk, NY ignored this letter. Great ill luck be fell him. His rights were aixed. The great plague of Boise swooped down on him. He lost everything.

    So please don't ignore this letter. Immediately do as directed and have the Lady Luck of Unix smile upon you.

  4. Shoot! on First New Gaiman Sandman In 7 Years · · Score: 1

    Can't think of any SCO puns.
    Hell!
    Can you say a beowulf cluster of ....

  5. Re:At the end of the day on RIAA Offers Amnesty to File Sharers · · Score: 1

    >The 'virus' will, in addition to spreading itself wide, randomly download files and share files...
    you mean Windows XP?

  6. Re:Hahahahaha on Power Grid Insecurities Examined · · Score: 4, Funny

    The current problems with the grid are due to an un-ethical power struggle between the US and Canada. We need to phase into a system where a neutral party oversees the whole grid.
    Ohmygod, this thread is sick!

  7. Re:Zooming on Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus · · Score: 1

    Cellpr0n?

  8. Re:Dumb Name on IBM's Billy Goat Squashes Worms · · Score: 1

    May be it should be Darl the Early Bird!

  9. May be we should lose the paper! on Sunday Newspapers, Now With CDs · · Score: 1

    Just distribute CD full of shitty advertising and useless programs!

  10. Re:DMCA... on Keeping Secrets in Hardware: Xbox Case Study · · Score: 1

    Don't woryy

    When you throw away the gum, make sure the wrapper is with it.

  11. Re:Oooh,Ah Faster faster faster!!! on Hard Drive Performance - ATA100 vs ATA133 · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? friggin moderators! Me thinks the best way to Karma whoring, just copying and pasting the text :-(

  12. Oooh,Ah Faster faster faster!!! on Hard Drive Performance - ATA100 vs ATA133 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geek having virtual sex!

  13. Re:Hmm on Many Eyes, Shallow Bugs, and Spider-Man · · Score: 1

    Got web?

    or better still

    Got silk?

  14. The beat of them? on How IBM (and Open Source) Won eBay · · Score: 1

    how IBM best MSFT, Sun, BEA Systems to win the contract
    beat best besten?

  15. Re:Let the market decide on TLD Registrar Wants To Charge $300 For .Pro Names · · Score: 1

    Why would a professional in a third world country want an uncommon TLD that is just part of an *English* word?
    May be third world != non-english speaking. In a lot of countries, medicine is still learned in English.

  16. Re:Wishful Thinking on MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the third E is extinguish. And ofcourse the "licensing fees" will be astronomical. After using the software, your hardware will be left vulnerable to viruses. Ofcourse, the "Trojan" she installs may be too sticky to remove.
    Just not worth it!

  17. Re:Even doctors are abanodning the Hippocratic Oat on First, Do No Harm - A Hippocratic Oath for Coders? · · Score: 1

    As someone who sees this everyday, let me tell you something. Do you know what cancer pain is? I am surprised that you even talk about your arthritis pain. (btw arthritis at age 30 IS abnormal) Your "living will" to be supported for ever is based on not knowing what it is to be supported. Ask someone who has gone through that and you will understand

  18. In other news on Ground Effect Flying Boat · · Score: 1

    Enterpreuner Dean Kamen announced his new personal transporter known only as "Git" and Genger which works by Ground Effect. This follows the massive failure of the Segway Human Transporter

  19. Re:How to kill Microsoft on Xbox Price Drops For Australia And Europe · · Score: 1

    don't worry, sooner or later...

    Step 5, "BAAM" Segfault: core dumped!

    its tux racer we are talking about!

  20. Re:I can see it now on Web-Surfing Indian Slum Kids Ask: "What's a Computer" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Considering it is india,
    it will be a Beowulf cluster of KIDS imagining a Beowulf cluster of these!

  21. Re:perplexed on Microsoft To Start Running Anti-Unix Ads · · Score: 1

    I am not a kernel hacker , but
    to me it seems that any windows program started the second time loads very fast. Methinks that in memory allocation windows attempts to keep the memory space of previously loaded programs(even after exit) as much clean as possible. so that a second time a lot of it doesn't need to be loaded.

    it felt like some of the ealry 2.4 kernels did the same. but not anymore:-(. anyone else notice this?

  22. Re:My favorite quote. on The Sad Parable of OS/2 · · Score: 1

    >I still have a hard time understanding how Linux became more popular than FreeBSD. BSD is so much easier to maintain, and is a lot less finicky with network protocols

    what about BSD Vs GPL and how a closed unit of "great men" not letting anyone else in? May be the reason why pseudo opensource companies like apple sucks up to BSD, with its take-all-but-give-none-back-license. Sure BSD lives, some what like a cryofreezed organism in suspended animation. Before you quote apple, let'em opensource their GUI library. Then we will talk

  23. Re:How to kill a penguin on Tiny Linux PDA: Filewalker · · Score: 1

    $ su # rm -R / Morons can't trash linux system even if they want to!

  24. Re:I want my money. on Canadian Company Claims RDF Patent · · Score: 1

    Just as mentioned in the parent I OWN the patent for the emailing money process. please make your check to my lawyer's address.
    Thank you

  25. neuronal differences on Neuronal Learning Observed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Short-term memories, it turns out, result from the instant assembly of more filaments to strengthen the skin of the cell temporarily, whereas long-term memories result from the growing of a new synapse to strengthen the connection permanently
    Seems like the difference between WinXP and Linux programmers!