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  1. Not at all! on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 1
    We are completely alone in the universe. We are the only sentient life-forms anywhere. We should stop even looking up to the stars, and should turn off all space-pointed detection devices. There is no armada massing just beyond our solar system. And even if there were aliens, they certainly wouldn't travel all this way just to probe humans. And if they did, so what anyway? It's not like a lot of you wouldn't enjoy it. So what's the problem? Everyone needs a hobby. Get off my glifdore, carbon water sack!

    I didn't write that last part. And you certainly didn't read it. So it never happened. Just keep walking.

  2. I didn't realize that ... on Ready, Aim, HACK! · · Score: 2, Funny
    Microsoft's security division designed bluetooth phones.

    Learn something new every day.

  3. As a self-appointed representative of ... on 70% Of 2004 Virus Activity Down To One Man · · Score: 3, Funny
    the top virii writers of the world, we strongly dispute the figures underlying this study. Jaschan, who, by the way, is not certified, has released virii that make up 70% of the recognizable infections. However, the truly top infections released this year have been stealth mutating virii that, to this day, own over 62.7% of the world's Windows computers (including an impressive 71.9% of the Pentagon's Windows laptops). When SP2 is released, they will SPRING into action, finally and gloriously proclaiming their true intent: to get Yahoo Serious a write-in Academy Award. Doesn't have to be for acting. Writing will do.

    I, for one, welcome my Yahoo Serious Overlord.

  4. Great, great news! on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 1
    Now we accuse Microsoft of being insecure as foreign saboteurs slip destructive code snippets into the programs they're working on.

    Of course, what was their excuse before this?

  5. Should have kept the initials, but ... on SCO Playing Name Games · · Score: 3, Funny
    changed the name to Santa Claus Organization.

    Who wouldn't pay the licensing fee to Santa?

    Pay me $699 for the children.

  6. Say what you will about DES, but please ... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 2, Funny
    don't cast aspersions on the practice of putting on more and more duct tape over a hole. Not only is this a sound, well-respected engineering practice (as is evidenced by my saying it), but America's Duct Tape Manufacturers need your every effort to keep our business on steady financial ground.

    Whenever this is any doubt about the structural integrity of any item (from little glass figurine to 18 wheeler transporting corrosive chemicals), slap some duct tape on it. And then a little bit more. You'll be glad you did.

  7. As a self-appointed representative of ... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 4, Funny
    America's LSD Manufacturers, I'd like to point out that at it's worst (as regards quality control), no US produced acid would ever have created colors like this.

    I'm not one to point fingers, but if they do have to be pointed, they should be pointed at Mushrooms or toad licking. Not acid.

  8. Now I'm going to have to go back to ... on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 4, Funny
    social engineering, keystroke capturing and torture to get information, instead of relying on key exhaustion.

    Wait, ...ugh..., I didn't write that and more importantly, you didn't read it. It never happened. Nothing to see here. Just move on now.

  9. Have the former members of the ADTI ... on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    already found new places to spread their FUD, now that everybody just starts laughing when they open their mouths?

  10. It isn't exactly an urban legend on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 2, Funny
    As was seen in "The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments" and was discussed here at snopes.com, a 1977 episode did feature a woman responding to the query about the strangest place she'd ever had the urge to make whoopee with the question: Is it in the ass?

    The snopes.com article discusses various issues concerning the whole case.

  11. How soon before we can get pictures ... on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1
    of MaryBeth Peters without the human-like shell she uses in her mission of deception, revealing her boundlessly evil true form?

    I recognize that it might scar the young and faint of heart, but staring into the heart of darkness is necessary sometimes.

    Or does that seem a bit over the top? I can never tell.

  12. They know what this case is about: on Groklaw Debunks SCO's ELF Heist · · Score: 1
    This case is about taking a company with very little value, creating a media firestorm, stoking it periodically, using the media attention to insider sell the inflated stock and use the rest of the stock in various manipulations to leech off value to the parent corporation, and desperately abuse the legal system to stave off any final legal judgement that would destroy the scheme.

    Why, wasn't that obvious?

  13. The word "misunderestimate" is ... on Groklaw Debunks SCO's ELF Heist · · Score: 3, Funny

    perfectly cromulent.

  14. Only 144 hours to transfer a football game .. on Hollywood and NFL Fight TiVo · · Score: 3, Funny

    to another registered machine in a different time zone where the game is blacked out? It's like they're just opening the barn doors and letting the horses run free? Where's the concern for the poor copyright holders rights? This will bankrupt the NFL and Hollywood in short order (if we assume that a over 50 decades qualifies as short order).

  15. Should we describe the site as hacked ... on Consumer Database Company Hacked Again · · Score: 1

    if there are six employees making 8.2 GB of backup tapes/CDs/DVDs/floppies and passing them on for envelopes of cash? Convincing insiders to criminally conspire with you for money doesn't even qualify as social engineering.

  16. Modifying your clothes? on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house or your clothes!

    You modify your clothes?!? You kids today. In my day, that was a hanging offense. Why the whole Vietnam conflict can be traced to it's root clothing modification basis, essentially.

    And as for this house modification notion, I understand that you kids hang out at that "Home Depot" head shop. There are still some people who respect the original conception of the builders and wouldn't think of altering it. I'm proud to be one of them.

    Modifying a car? How would one even do that, what with the hood welded shut at the factory, like it is? That's just nonsense.

  17. I'll finally be able to finish my ... on From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    oscillation overthruster and get off this rock full of monkeyboys.

    Home... home is where you wear your hat... I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. Barney, I'm going home... with my overthruster. History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

  18. Even the new v4 iPods lack ... on Birth of the iPod · · Score: 1
    basic Tardis functionality. How exactly am I supposed to use my iPod for time/space travel without this? Is this some sort of pro-Dalek gesture?

    The Doctor is not pleased.

  19. Let me get this straight: on Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk · · Score: 5, Funny
    I got this tattoo for nothing?

    Okay, this time I mean it: No more product-based body modification.

  20. As a self-appointed representative of RSS, ... on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1
    I'd like to dispute the characterization of my client as stupid.

    I'd really, really like to.

    Obviously, I can't, but boy would I like to.

    Stupid RSS.

  21. As a self-appointed representative of ... on Black Hat · · Score: 3, Funny
    misfits, criminals, and scammers, I'd like to formally protest the association this book makes between my clients and spammers. My clients might not have ethics, decency, limits or any sense of right and wrong, ...umm,...I've lost my train of thought.

    Those sending $49.95 will receive a full, detailed rebuttal to these scurrilous attacks against my clients. Or better yet, send your credit card number and we'll just bill you.

  22. I see that it's a catchy headline, but ... on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    how exactly is this a problem for Apple?

  23. Only the beginning on Apollo 11's 35th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    While it is important to recognize the Liberal Myth of the "Moon", it is even more important to pay attention to the stupendous fabrication of the so called "Earth". The notion that a collection of rocks and water could float willy-nilly through space around a so-called "Sun", somehow holding people onto it's surface, and keeping an atmosphere around it in just enough quantity that we all didn't suffocate is asinine. Those of us who recognize and accept our place here on the Ark find comfort in it's explicit limits.

  24. That's because they've all been eliminated ... on Apollo 11's 35th Anniversary · · Score: 1
    by the Illuminati and the Knights Templar, overseen by Opus Dei and the TriLateral Commission.

    Of course, if you're reading this, we'll have to eliminate you too.

    Probably shouldn't have posted it, then. Rather thoughtless, really. Oh, well.

  25. I personally always ignore the ... on Apollo 11's 35th Anniversary · · Score: 4, Funny
    yellow warning lights and it's never hurt m Aaaghhhhh!!!!, I'm on FIRE! Help me!!

    (Impressive how I can keep typing while on fire, isn't it? Now where was I? Oh yeah.)

    Aaaghhhhh!!!!!!! Help ME!!!!