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  1. So then the smart thing to do would be to ... on Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards · · Score: 1
    keep the phone and switch in new SIM cards every day or so? You'd have to give your "associates" a list of the phone numbers and some sort of schedule of use to keep in contact. And you'd need a similar list from them (assuming they were keeping to the same security protocol).

    Or does the RFID chip already installed in my skull make that a grand waste of time?

  2. ...not just scratching their own itches. on How To Hire Great Open Source Developers? · · Score: 2, Funny
    you need to make sure your open source people are developing things (on company time) that do the company some good, not just scratching their own itches.

    And after I've paid so much money for DVDs of women primarily scratching ...,uh, now that I think about it, that's in a slightly different context. Never mind.

  3. And we all know how assiduously ... on SCO Says They'll Sue A Linux User Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Darl, Dave and Co. have stuck to previous carved in stone, we mean it this time, bet the farm, we're not kidding, STOP LAUGHING AT US, deadlines before.

    I'll just be holding my breath over there, in the corner.

  4. As soon as we figure out how to retrieve ... on Famous Hawking Black Hole Bet Resolved? · · Score: 5, Funny

    the information in the black hole, we'll finally find Amelia Earhart. And Jimmy Hoffa. And hundreds of millions of socks. And Duke Nukem Forever.

  5. Not only do I remember the PS/2, ... on Satellite Celebrates 20 Years Working in Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny
    and not only do I remember the commercials featuring Jamie Farr (of MASH fame), but I even have a PS/2 t-shirt (in great condition).

    I had to explain to my wife that wearing it didn't mean I was old: it meant I was being post-ironic.

  6. I have the TRV22 on Getting Sony TRV-22 Cams Working w/ G5s? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Get the Firewire cable. It's worth it. Leave the USB for the still picture captures.

    I got a six foot 4 pin to 6 pin Firewire cable from B&H Photo for $20. Works great.

  7. By the time Longhorn actually comes out ... on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 2, Funny
    as fully 64 bit compatible, AMD and IBM will be featuring their 512 bit chips.

    Don't you know that Longhorn is waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released to really show all of it's capabilities?

  8. One word on Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life · · Score: 5, Funny
    Crank.

    Once you get rid of that annoying sleep habit, you find the possibilities are limitless. I finished the entire "A la recherche du temps perdu" in 18 hours in the original and I don't even speak French. I think. Except for these damn spiders crawling up my arms, this is great. Just great!

  9. The dental records were ... on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 1
    from 1973, after he'd already moved back to Texas (He went back to Alabama to get his teeth cleaned. What's up with that?) The tax records show he was paid, not that he did anything to be paid. None of the 800 people working at the base have come forward with a plausible story about seeing him (the one who's come forward has the dates all wrong, saying Bush was there before he would have been and working three times as much as he was paid for).

    And he didn't serve his country either. That's the point.

  10. Inches away? on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 1
    Have you looked at the photo? Kerry is not bearded guy immediately behind Jane. He's not the other two guys behind her with sunglasses. He's not the vet in uniform to her right. He's three to four rows back (at least). The shot, taken with a telephoto lens, shows that he wasn't close enough to be in focus in the shot. He's recognizable (barely) because of his teeth and that squint thing.

    And that's the best real photo that you got. Hence, the outright forgery.

  11. Wow! They were both in the same zip code! on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Oh my gosh! Two years before Jane went to Hanoi, she and John Kerry were in physical and temporal proximity.

    Of course, since we have no real clue as to where W was in 1972 (since we know he wasn't at his designated Air Force Base in Alabama), I suggest that W and Jane were in Hanoi together. W was so boozed and coked up (which is why he avoided 42 months worth of required Air Force physicals) that he probably didn't even realize that he was betraying his country.

  12. AG Ashcroft ... on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 3, Funny

    has declared that this investigation has been indefinitely been put on hold for reasons of national security. Furthermore, the original photographer has been relocated for his own protection to Guantanamo Bay, along with representatives of Corbis and anybody else who makes trouble, see!

  13. ..megawumpus improvements.. on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    There has also been megawumpus improvements int the text tool

    Wake when there are gigawumpus improvements.

    (Did I use that properly? Should I be ashamed?)

  14. Paraphrase of Dr. Johnny Fever on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    [panic]
    It's the beer police, man!
    [/panic]

  15. Let's just say ... on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 4, Funny
    nitrous-oxide powered nose hair clippers and leave it at that (and way over there against the wall if you know what's good for you).

    Is it staring at me?

  16. Because the power companies ... on Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Funny

    have got the maintenance of their lines down to a science. They've got all this slack time and it's not like the power lines are unduly taxed, stressed, in risk of imminent collapse. That's so ...2003.

  17. Read the ...article? on MS and Sendmail work together on Spam Solution · · Score: 4, Funny
    You must be new here to /.

    What is this ...article you speak of?

  18. I saw this one last week! on Ars Technica: Deep Inside KDE 3.2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Deep Inside Katey Pt 3" had some of the hottest...oh, wait, I misheard. Never mind.

  19. Using the RFID chips implanted ... on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 1, Interesting
    in each of our skulls over the last 30 years, they'll be able to instantly track us and view our interactions, private moments, etc.

    When they later place us into the pods, there will only be a brief moment in time lost as we switch to a virtual existance.

  20. ..the time spent reading anything by Piers Anthony on Singularity Sky · · Score: 1
    I look back on the time spent reading anything by Piers Anthony and know I'm going to be wishing I had those hours back when I'm older.

    Groan.[embarrassed shudder]
    Proust and Joyce? No, don't have the time. I'm reading another Xanth book, thank you.

    I'll be skulking over there, for now.

  21. ..ruled by an insane Computer.. on Paranoia RPG Returns in New Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there any other type?

  22. ..its own crawler, called "Yahoo! Slurp".. on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, that has to be the dirtiest sentence I've read on /. this morning.

    But the morning is young.

  23. Neither one of your "factchecks" ... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1
    addressed where W's 1973-1974 Officer Effectiveness Report is. The fact that this file is missing alone is huge. It was incredibly important that commanders fill these things out. And these reports had every dot line and dash scrutinized.

    Neither of them addressed why W went 42 months without taking an Air Force Physical (which had to be done by Air Force personnel, not personal doctors like a W surrogate implied at one point). That's more than half his term of service.

    Neither one addresses why, considering the fact that he stopped getting physicals and lost his flight status, there is no evidence of the disciplinary review that should have automatically occurred.

    And finally, neither discusses why Pilot W made his first request to transfer service to Alabama to a Postal Unit where there was no flying at all.

    So how the hell are either of those supposed to be replies to my grandparent post?

  24. Where is his ... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 3, Informative
    1973-1974 Officer Effectiveness Report? Commanders are required to fill one out for every officer who serves. The last OER on record for Bush was completed on May 2, 1973, and covered the period from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973. But according to Bush's payroll and retirement records, he was credited for serving 38 days after May 2, 1973, which means he should have been evaluated. Yet his officer rating seems to have simply disappeared.

    And why did he stop taking physical exams 3 years before the end of his service? He was supposed to take one every year to coincide with his birthday. Bush passed an exam May 15, 1971, but in the summer of 1972 he refused to take one, and lost his flying status because of it. In the summer of 1973 Bush was still serving in the Guard, but no records exists to prove he ever took a physical. In fact, there's no evidence that in the 42 months between May 1971 and the time he officially discharged on Nov. 21, 1974, Bush ever took an Air Force physical.

    His failure to take the physical in 1972, and his subsequent loss of his flying status, should have triggered a disciplinary review, copies of which would be contained in Bush's military file. But none exists. Where are they?

    And why, after the government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach him how to fly, did he apply to be transferred to an Alabama postal unit?

    What's that sound? That's the sound of AWOL.

  25. At a minimum ... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 0, Troll
    Once.

    But since he was AWOL, that's a bit unlikely.

    Of course, he had to go AWOL because of all of that inconvenient drug testing. He knew he couldn't beat that (and keep partying like he was).