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  1. Slight Omission: on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The first is the United States' position that profit -- or even the potential for profit -- is more important than the goals of the WSIS.

    should have read:

    The first is the United States' position that profit -- or even the potential for profit -- by major corporate donors to the current administration is more important than anything else.

  2. As opposed to ... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: -1, Troll

    George "AWOL Deserter Don't I Look Good In This Flight Suit" Bush?

  3. Good thing I only get paid in ... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 4, Funny
    pancakes. Let'em try to track them. Let'em try to tax them. I dare them.

    Now where the hell is the syrup?!?

  4. Now where am I supposed to get ... on Canadian Recording Industry Goes After P2P Users · · Score: -1, Troll

    my P2P copies of Rush, and .. Celine Dion and ...Anne Murray, and ...umm,...Barenaked Ladies ...and ...oh, never mind.

  5. One editing change needed in story on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 5, Funny
    long-time Redmond partner Mainsoft.

    formerly long-time Redmond partner Mainsoft.

  6. One quibble: on Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point? · · Score: 5, Funny
    By the time Mono is anywhere near 90 percent of the current functionality of .NET, Microsoft will have released Whidbey, Yukon and probably Longhorn.

    Right after we see the releases of Duke Nukem Forever and Doom III.

  7. Mark/Space is already doing that on PalmSource Drops Mac Synchronization in Cobalt · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to the article (I know, this is /., but I couldn't help myself):

    "Fortunately, a third party company, Mark/Space, has pledged to make a version of their Missing Sync client for Cobalt. It will be released later this year in anticipation of the first Palm OS Cobalt devices. Missing Sync for Cobalt will enable users to connect and synchronize information between Palm OS Cobalt devices and Macs running Mac OS X via USB, network, WiFi or Bluetooth."

  8. I thought that Doomjuice was from the ... on New Worms Feed on MyDoom Infections · · Score: 4, Interesting

    creator of the original MyDoom and was leaving a copy of the source of MyDoom on the hard disk. The thoughts were that: a) only the creator of the original would have the source to include as part of Doomjuice's payload and b) if "everyone" had a copy of the source on their hard disk, it would be difficult to prove that any one person was responsible for originally writing it (assuming their computer was found/confiscated/examined).

  9. Sorry AC: 4 year term is the playing field on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Every President (Republican and Democrat) since Herbert Hoover has had a net gain of jobs over their 4 year terms of office. W is set to be the first one since then to fail this test.

    And let me get this straight: 4 years of being in charge and you're still trying to blame it on Clinton? Seems W isn't the only delusional one.

  10. You mean recession? on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ..throughout the recent cyclical downturn

    It's called a recession. And it's led to a loss of 2.6 million jobs (which makes W the first Pres since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs during his term). And despite the uncertain signs of economic upturn and the ridiculous projections of job growth from the White House, jobs continue to be lost.

    And the W solution: permanent tax cuts for those making more than $200,000. And since the Congressional Budget Office says that 36% of the record deficit comes from the Bush tax cuts, 31% from spending on defense and security and the rest from economic slowdown, there are reasons why people might be ...irked, shall we say.

  11. That's nothing on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 4, Funny
    Dolce and Gabbana bring favored clients complementary champagne as they enter the store. In the changing room, the drugs in the champagne take effect. While unconscious, the clients have RFID tags implanted at the back of the skull under the hairline.

    And at Barney's, they just knock you over, slip a collar around your neck, pick you up and let you continue shopping. No "Excuse me, it's store policy" or anything.

  12. I'm not a trepanner on SCOoby Snacks · · Score: 1
    Personally, I've got enough holes in my head with the nose/ears/mouth/eyes things, thank you very much.

    But the people at http://www.trepan.com ARE serious. They have videos and photos of people who have been trepanned (and have trepanned themselves).

    The epithet "Loony" comes to mind. Let's get the tar.

  13. Trepanning on SCOoby Snacks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cutting a hole in one's skull is called trepanning. And it makes a lot more sense than SCO ever will.

  14. If I hadn't stopped and ... on Whose Prior Art Filing Triggered Eolas Reexam? · · Score: 2, Funny
    followed the link to "read the story" and "know what I was writing about" I'd have been the first.

    This is /. What was I thinking?!?!

  15. Mine! on Whose Prior Art Filing Triggered Eolas Reexam? · · Score: -1, Redundant
    It was mine! I confess!

    My prior art. Now Microsoft has to pay ME!!!!

    That felt good.

  16. You talk about eEye, ... on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months · · Score: 1
    you're talking about holes

    Well, that's taking a bug report to whole new place.

  17. ..they could have hooked up with ... on Integrated Pocket PC, GPS and Laser Range Finder · · Score: 2, Funny
    They can take pictures of all the girls they could have hooked up with.

    You mean, all the girls they could have hooked up with if they weren't carrying the combined GPS, electronic compass, laser distance meter, inclinometer, digital camera, Pocket PC 2003 handheld? Come on, even then it's unlikely.

  18. You were lucky on Integrated Pocket PC, GPS and Laser Range Finder · · Score: 1

    In my day, we didn't have flashy things up in the air at night. Every morning, three hours before we went to sleep, our da would wake us up. We'd have warm gravel for breakfast and then we'd have to crawl over broken glass to draw all of the stars up in the sky for us to navigate by. Then we'd have to blink our eyes rapidly to make them seem like they were flashing. And we lucky to have them.

  19. Good? GOOD?!? on Integrated Pocket PC, GPS and Laser Range Finder · · Score: 1
    Oh, come on. This is some sort of turbo-charged slide-rule/pocket protector for the 22nd Century (it's that advanced).

    Here's a thought: step away from the IKE and start walking towards the member of the appropriate gender of desire.

  20. I've always felt the explanation lay in ... on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    protomatter.

    Saavik: "Protomatter. An unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable."
    David: "But it was the only way to solve certain problems."

  21. Bad step on New Microscope Shows Nano-Fibre Formation · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is the first step to nanobots successfully self-replicating, overrunning our feeble flesh and blood bodies in the quest for total world domination.

    I'm glad I moved my family up here to the hills.

  22. You've misspelled that on Disney Licenses MS Windows Media DRM · · Score: 1
    It's spelled "Knights Templar".

    Common mistake.

  23. ...giant silver bolognas... on From Silicon To Microprocessors · · Score: 5, Funny
    Raw silicon is grown into crystal ingots, which look like giant silver bolognas.

    That, my friends, is a really unpleasant image.

    Then it's sliced into exceptionally thin wafers about 6 to 8 inches (200 to 300mm) across, depending on the diameter of the ingot.

    Owwww!!!!

  24. But if G5 boxes were shown to be ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful
    superior for running linux then the best and brightest in the x86 world (including on price) then perhaps more linux users would build their own with a different class of processor.

    But we won't know if we don't look.

  25. Why did they leave out ... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the G5? It can run linux too, you know.