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  1. Re:AARGH on Google Signs $900m MySpace Deal · · Score: 1
    It's like the dinosaurs realizing that they should grow fur and nurse their young.

    Or build really, really strong umbrellas.

  2. Re:Then wait on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1
    In my spare cycles I think about what it would take to reconstitute civilization from scratch.

    No problem. As long as you've got a Settler, you can build your first town in one turn. Just hit "B".

  3. Re:in 31 years... on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 1

    We can have 13/3/7 way sooner over here in the UK!

  4. Re:Ubuntu in the server room? on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 1

    The Ubuntu "server" install is pretty much the same as a Debian base install. It drops you to a command prompt and you just apt-get what you want from there. It doesn't hold your hand any more than any other distro. Anyway, just because things are complex doesn't mean they have to be painful.

    I look after a bunch of RHEL servers and workstations, and I would much rather have a Debian based distro instead. Ubuntu 6.06 as a server, with its Long Term Support, looks pretty attractive to me. I'll have to start dropping some hints.

  5. Re:stacks of money on In-Game Advertising Comes to Board Games · · Score: 1
    damn, one of the best things of monopoly is about having big stacks of money in front of you.

    ...then throwing away the board and playing poker with the money, which is what we always ended up doing. :)

  6. Re:Preview Release on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December · · Score: 1
    My Linux install started life as Slackware 10.2 (2.4 kernel), but it sure doesn't look like it anymore.

    Hah, that's what I loved about Slackware. When I used it for a few years, people would ask me what distro I used, and I would say "Well, it used to be Slackware..."

  7. Number 18: on Microsoft's 12-Step Program · · Score: 1

    18. We promise to never, EVER invade Poland.

  8. Holly on Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System · · Score: 1

    I'll get one of these when it can show Holly from Red Dwarf's floating head.

    Holly: Alright, dude.
    Me: What is it? I'm busy.
    Holly: I can't remember now, I've gone blank.
    (A few seconds pass...)
    *KABLAMMO*
    Holly: Oh yeah, that was it. Brace yourself, a meteor's about to hit the house.

  9. Re:Outrage! on Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code · · Score: 1

    Don't worry too much. Vista is to XP what the Deeper Dungeons add-on was to Gauntlet.

    You know how the game works, but here's some new levels to explore. Just remember not to shoot the food!

  10. Re:Only one hand available on The Multi-Pointer X server · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could operate both the mice with your feet and free up both hands.

  11. NEWS UPDATE: on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    After spending 10 minutes sitting up in bed reading a 2006 newspaper, the patient was seen to be trying to beat himself back into a coma by repeatedly striking himself over the head with an oxygen tank.

  12. Re:Optimus Prime works for Microsoft? on Planning the Future of Privacy at Microsoft · · Score: 1
    So, is Steve Ballmer Galvatron, Cyclonus, or perhaps more of a Grimlock?

    Definitely a Grimlock.

    "ME BALLMER THROW CHAIR"

  13. No! on YouTube Killer (Media Portal w/ Revenue Sharing) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't kill YouTube. Everyone knows that the internet won't work without tubes!

  14. Re:Subliterate Legislators on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 4, Funny

    That explains why it took so long to turn up in his inbox too. Doesn't he realise that Internets are fucking huge.

    No wonder his tubes got all clogged up.

  15. Re:Design on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 1

    At least the answer to "Are you coming, or what?" can be: "No, I'm going this other way instead." :)

  16. Re:Slashdot moderation on The 10 Tech People Who Don't Matter · · Score: 2

    How about keeping under/overrated, but not having them affect the score of a comment. They could be available to all users, with or without proper mod points, and they could be used to suggest future moderation.

    For example, a comment could have the footer: "37 people think that this comment is underrated"

    Or the subject line could read: "(Score:-1, Troll) (20, Overrated) (189, Underrated)"

    Or something like that. You get the idea. :)

  17. Re:Yeah, but.... on Updating the Computer, Circa 1969 · · Score: 1

    Balls. Morning, plus Stupid Spongy Mac Keyboard, minus Coffee, equals Stupid Typo.

  18. Re:Yeah, but.... on Updating the Computer, Circa 1969 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but it'll probaby run NetBSD.

  19. Poor Robots on Microsoft Developing Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    And C3PO thinks being built by Darth Vader was bad.

  20. Re:Web 2.0 Browser Eh... on Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser? · · Score: 1

    I'm still using Web 0.8-beta. This was the last release before support for retards was added.

  21. You use magnets? on Making an Argument Against Using Visual-Basic? · · Score: 1

    Pfff! Real Men will the binary onto the disk with only their minds.

  22. Re:I, for one... on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only old people run Linux on a Beowulf cluster of Alex Bendikens.

  23. Re:My eyes! The goggles do nothing! on Treasures or Trash, 5 PC Cases for Gamers · · Score: 1

    Seriously. And what's with the damn fan speed controller knobs on the front panels? Come on guys, admit it, you just want to be able to rev your computers don't you?

    It makes me want to use one of these as my desktop out of spite.

  24. Black MacBook on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, it's really not that great value for the black ones. It's quite an expensive price bump for the black finish and an extra few gigs of hard dr....OH GOD I WANT A BLACK MACBOOK!

  25. Re:*whew* I totally misread that headline. ^^;;; on Women Get Lots of Info From Male Faces · · Score: 1

    I had exactly the same reaction. I thought "Oh GOD! Is there something else that I didn't know and couldn't possibly understand about women! They're looking at my feces now!"

    So women get info about men from feces now, do they?

    "Hey Agnes! It looks like your Frank's been eating sweetcorn again!"