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  1. Finally!, No more moments away ... on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    from the beloved T.V.. No more depriving my children of the advertising messages and targetted programming. No more time away from that soothing glow. As we're driven through this great country of ours, we don't EVER have to look at anything but the beautiful, wonderful T.V.. Look, I'm drooling. I'm going to sell a kidney to ensure having enough money for this.

  2. Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo ... on CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame · · Score: 1

    are the only robots that truly matter. They worked tirelessly with first Joel Robinson and then Mike Nelson to watch really, really cheesy movies and comment on them in a hilarious manner. And the world is a better place for it.

  3. Both sides seem to be handling it well on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 5, Insightful
    JBoss has noticed similarities and has raised the issue (a second time) with Geronimo.

    Geronimo has requested that all developers confirm that either a) they didn't just submit JBoss code or b) they had the right as the original creators of the JBoss code section to also submit it to Geronimo.

    No FUD. No hyperbole in extremis. No crazed threats. Oh, wait: No SCO. Of course. What a breath of fresh air.

  4. A whole 8 viewers complained on Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK · · Score: 0

    I would have thought that Intel had more UK employees then that. Or am I conspiracy-mongering again?

  5. It's now official: on Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK · · Score: 0
    Intel owns it's own government.

    Obviously, their jealously over Microsoft's recent (2000) purchase of the US Government has gotten the better of them. Always having to keep up with the Gates.

  6. Does this mean that they'll ... on 20th Anniversary Of Computer Viruses Commemorated · · Score: 5, Funny
    finally leave home and get a job?

    Their mother and I have put up with enough!

  7. What about Quicken? on Longhorn's Flash Killer? · · Score: 1

    Even thought they put it a lot of effort to shoot themselves in the foot last year, they've still survived a MS onslaught.

  8. You mean in only 3 to 4 years, Microsoft will ... on Longhorn's Flash Killer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    have an astonishingly buggy piece of software tied intrinsically to their newly released incredibly buggy operating system that will have about 10% of the functionality that Macromedia Flash has now? One that only by the 3rd or 4th version (in another 3 years) might be adequate? Damn, I'm selling my Macromedia stock right now!

  9. No, iTunes has gift certificates on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 1

    That was all part of the version 2.0 ITMS that was released with the Windows version. I'm assuming that these give-aways would be of the gift certificate form.

  10. So far, Apple and McDonalds haven't confirmed on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not saying this isn't going through. I'd be very happy if it did. I'm just saying that having the NY Post as the sole source of your business news piece isn't confidence inspiring.

  11. Why yes, non-affiliated research company, ... on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    I have deleted all music files on my computer. Therefore, I should not be sued by the RIAA. Not that my answers to you would directly effect their decision as to whether to sue me or not, because you are an independent research company, not corporate flunkies who'd narc me out the second I get off the phone.

  12. I find it highly unlikely ... on What the Candidates are Running · · Score: 3, Funny

    that W can even spell IIS, no less explain what it is. Look at how much trouble he had with WMD.

  13. But they're not JUST digital on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1
    Robots also have unique engineering issues. Creators have to develop synthetic skins, realistic eyepieces, convincing and well designed musculature (to hold up the impossibly perfect bodies that they designers always want). And, as is ususally the case, they've got to design them to withstand heavy, sweaty, (usually brief), repeated "stresses" from their owners/users.

    Designers of the digital creations have none of these pressures/concerns.

  14. Stepford wives? on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1

    Of course they wouldn't qualify. They're real, live robots. That's a totally different contest. Plus, Cherry 2000 would win over all of the Stepford wives from the original film anyway (I haven't seen who they've gotten for the remake so I'll reserve judgement.)

  15. When the rights to microsoft.com expire, ... on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 1

    can we all agree that whoever snaps it up just keeps it for as long as we can? Put up a big Bill the Borg picture. I'd like that.

  16. Oh, great. If thoughts of this subject ... on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1

    in general weren't bad enough, now they're competing with mental images of Conor MacLeod in his kilt. You couldn't have used a different phrase? That's just mean.

  17. Problem with one of the requirements on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 2
    If by any chance your electronic Emmanuel has previously appeared ...

    Spelled that way, Emmanuel is a male name.
    Emmanuelle is the female form of the name.

    Unless of course they are suggesting that we have virtual cross-dressing/transexual entrants.

  18. And there in the background, you can just hear ... on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 5, Funny
    the sound of civilization finally collapsing into a giant, bottomless pit of despair and self-loathing.

    Oh, the pain. The pain.

  19. I'm more of a consistent contributor to ... on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1, Funny
    the Busby, Porkpie, Toque and Bowler Projects.

    I feel they give better all-around coverage, and match my moods better.

  20. Someone ought to write this down now, ... on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    so that when V'ger comes back, we'll know what it is. I'm uncomfortable placing the fate of the Earth in the hands of James T. Kirk again.

  21. ..."non-pathogenic virus"... on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 0, Funny
    "It is a non-pathogenic virus, meaning that it is not usually associated with any illness."

    Sure, that's what it WANTS us to think. Friendly, helpful virus. Easy to get along with virus. "I'll help save 2/3 of all cancer victims" virus.

    Then when we're licking reovirus lollipops and gulping down reovirus power shakes, that's when it reveals it's true agenda: World domination.

    I, for one, do NOT welcome our new reovirus overlords. Who's with me?

  22. Just what we need on DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too Popular? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Autonomous vehicles roaming the countryside, tracking down the stray humans who haven't been corraled into the pod camps so our bodies can be used as batteries. Like we haven't seen THAT before.

  23. That isn't Jack's machine on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    That was the palm-print recognition machine at the prison where the evil terrorist/drug-lord is housed.

    Jack (and the good guys at CTU) have Macs.

  24. In the 24 universe,... on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 1
    the good guys (like Jack Bauer) use Macs. Note the Powerbook he has at this desk and the G4 behind him. The fact that they're running KDE on them is not the important issue. The hardware is Apple.

    From the first season on, bad guys/gals on 24 have used Windows as their OS (this was how we were tipped off that Nina was evil. She suddenly switched computers). The specific hardware (Intel, AMD, etc.) is never noted (for obvious reasons)

  25. You mean that now I'll be forced to ... on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    choose from amongst the 50-60 free Linux distributions that are left? And also choose whether to go to OpenBSD, FreeBSD or NetBSD? That's just too much pressure, man.