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  1. Re:RSS on toilet paper? on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 1

    Yeah... It's called podcasting.

  2. Podcasting on Most Home PC Users Lack Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, since they care more about podcasting than rootkits, what did you expect...

  3. Re:Product word? on Podcasting Officially a Word · · Score: 1, Funny
    podcasting

    Ehr... To me it sounds dirty. Like something one would do on a toilet...

  4. Re:What's taking so long? on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    Binary XML standard? The only reason for the mentioned standard (W3C NOTE 24 June 1999) was AFAIK to lower bandwith and memory cost for WAP pages on mobiles.

  5. Re:Einstein's brain was flawed, too... on Study Links Genetic Diseases to Intelligence · · Score: 3, Funny
    The brain is like any other muscle and the brain bearer can develop it, just like any other muscle.

    Eventually your skul will break and your brains pop out if you think often.

  6. Solid logarithms on Linux 3D Input Driver Project Started · · Score: 1

    I'm looking for solid logarithms as well.
    Any suggestions?

  7. what the hell on Application Optimization with Compilers for LOP · · Score: 1, Funny
    I cannot be the only one reading this thinking "What the hell is Linux on POWER?"

    For sure you're not the only one. Almost everybody nowadays starts posting before even reading an article and or related links. Very 'Insightful'.

  8. Re:Quote from the Martian Information Minister on Beagle II Successfully Separates · · Score: 0

    Ak! Ak! Ak!

  9. Re:Big Deal on 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 · · Score: 1

    But most of the time it is.

  10. Re:Tempting. on We're Jammin', Hope You Like Jammin' Too · · Score: 1
    Regardless of how rude it is for people to be talking on cell phones anywhere and everywhere, you have no right to decide for yourself, "They shouldn't be talking, so I'll stop them."

    I think I should have that right. And there is a lot more I'd like to jam. Still waiting for EMP weapons reduced to portable proportions however.

  11. Re:For the love of all that's good and holy on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1
    So in the near future we'll have to choose one of the following operating modes for our harddrives:
    • white male
    • afroamerican
    • single white male
    And if we can choose between male and female connectors we should prefer to use a female one.
    ehm...

    Never mind.
  12. Re:Screw this! on EU Parliament Approves Software Patents · · Score: 0

    You are not.
    I patented "ignition, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, take-off"

  13. Re:This news is great... on Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia · · Score: 2, Insightful
    2. I've never heard of a Windows Beer Hike - guess after spending money for Windoze, there's nothing left.

    It's called a LAN-party.

  14. Re:OS vendor liability on Watch For A New Set Of CyberSecurity Laws · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Operating system vendors who sell, for money, systems which connect to a network are liable for damages to third parties caused by security flaws in their products.

    I like this idea. It would mean that when I write a piece of software that takes advantage of security leaks in product X, the vendor of X should be liable for the damage I do to third parties.

  15. Re:Regular ringtones repel me on Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Have you got a management role?

    I'd like to have a ringtone that makes managers run away from me...

  16. Re:Don't understand the point of IT based HE syste on Best Options for a Home Entertainment Network? · · Score: 1
    Most speaker, cable and amp manufacturers spend a fortune on R&D to develop their products to produce the best quality sound by reducing interference etc. Using cheap (compared to HiFi) R5 cabling or WiFi would negate any of these benefits.

    What interference? I don't think a digital signal can suffer from interference like analog signals do.

  17. Re:Yeah, it only took 5 years. on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    s/sc/c/

  18. Re:Yeah, it only took 5 years ... on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    I should have asked that question before I repsonded, or better, waited for the answer...

  19. Yeah, it only took 5 years. on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, and how long did - or will - it take Microsoft to release a descent operating system?

  20. Grrr! on Web Services Not Always Better · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... We were lucky here: For some other applications we've tested, the performance of the application required the speed of C++. But we are thankful that over the next year, new Windows CE devices will be released that approach the 1-GHz processing barrier (instead of the current 400-MHz processor maximum), and many of these performance issues will simply disappear.

    Hmmmm. So what if people want to build a car using bricks? Well, just wait until the engines are strong enough... That's sick.

    I think there is some misplaced believe that performance has a bad influence on maintainability. Well, so have dependencies on JRE's, application servers and IDE's. I have seen enough trouble when upgrading from e.g. WebSphere X to WebSphere Y, or developers who are dependant on an IDE, or etc...

    IMHO the will to spoil CPU speed and memory to technologies such as Java, XML, SOAP, .NET coming with very heavy runtintime environments, application servers and feature rich IDE's will leave real developers with skill and brains - like you - unemployed.

  21. Re:PC! on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 1

    Toolbelt? Hispanic lesbian? No, you can't attend wearing a strap-on.

  22. Videodrome on Digital Celebrities · · Score: 1

    For a movie dated 1983 it contained some very interesting and or prophetic ideas. Some of them similar to Max Headroom. A few:

    • The image on the screen will become reality for the viewers and people will live their lifes in this reality. Today think of all sorts of media as soaps, forums, chats, online games...
    • People will have digital names. For example chats, forums, domainnames.
    • The television broadcasts of videodrome contain an invisible 'signal' sending messages to its viewers. Yes, videodrome of course was after total world domination.
  23. Blipverts? on Digital Celebrities · · Score: 1

    Blipverts? Exploding heads? Makes me think of stuff like David Cronenberg's Videodrome...

  24. BeOS? on Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Duh
  25. mailbox of GW Bush on Aggressive Email Filtering Blocks Political Debate · · Score: 1
    George's INBOX (250k)

    Yes, the guy really needs a better spam filter.