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  1. Re:New version of Clippy on Burst.com and Microsoft Settle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know you are trying to be funny but I have worked on exchange/outlook solutions where the ability to permanently delete all email, copies backups etc from/to an employee or on a certain topic at the click of a button has been highly desirable. So much communication is electronic these days that if it 'disappears' then its a case of he said she said and your legal team are already up and running with a major head start.

  2. TK away on Got Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you grew up with games, you can use this book to teach your boss how to appreciate your gaming abilities in the workplace.

    My TK'ing skills came in really handy last time we had a cutback, saving a substantial amount in redundancy payments for the company and my boss occasionally gets me to TW anyone he feels in not pulling their weight on the team.

  3. We must rename the milky way on Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared · · Score: 3, Funny

    If these are really powerful galaxies then they will think the milky way is a girly sounding name and beat it up. I propose 'the hard as coffin nails' galaxy be adopted.

  4. wheres the update process? on Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded · · Score: 1

    or do I take a chance and mangle my current stuff? hello 2005 calling!!!

  5. Imagine on Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% · · Score: 1

    The figure if Linux was up that much on the desktop

  6. Re:sleepy? on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly, not trying to flame but this is not as hard as most people think and has obviously been taken into cosideration before they take off. i'm not saying its a doddle but the normal military thing is 2 on 2 off and you can go for a surprisingly long time.

  7. Drivers on LinuxWorld Response to 'How to Kill Linux' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    are not the problem they were, but they are still a problem and are severe enough to put a lot of people off. That said driver issues will never be the death of Linux. Dvorak was talking complete horse pucky there.

  8. Microsoft are not pondering anything on Microsoft Ponders Shared-Sourcing SQL Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They said they would consider it if they received sufficient requests from customers. Thats like me saying I would consider it if I received enough request for me to wear a tutu while on site with clients. At the end of the day consideration is not action.

  9. Onece again the OSS is out manouvered on Wireless Shopping Carts Run Windows CE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    react ..... again, lets her a how fantastic it all is to have missed this and how innovative FOSS. s

  10. Re:Question for the /,'ers on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: 3, Insightful

    well obviously the nasty terrorist polluter countries would require regime change.

  11. Thats rich on Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words · · Score: 1

    I knew how to rule the world in 1991 but unfortunately it changed. For the better.

  12. Get ready on Gates tried to Blackmail Danish Government · · Score: 1

    for a lawsuit.

  13. Old news on A Model Railroad That Computes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thomas the tank engine has been solving problems for ages now, and in multi task more he keeps the kids amused while he does it.

  14. Re:what? WHAT? on Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion · · Score: 0, Troll

    Excellent, we are about to start a ditch digging project shortly and a pragmatic guide to ditch digging would be invaluable.

  15. What a surprise on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    If I was budding tyrant bossing a country, developing or getting nukes would not just have gone top of my agenda, it would have become my sole agenda after the US showed they would ignore international opinion and act unilaterally based either or real or trumped up allegations.

  16. The old does not have to supplant the new on Can Microsoft Beat Google? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just provide a viable alternative to google as hopefully others such as Yahoo will also do. It's really not in our interests for Google to monopolize searching.

  17. Does this mean on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can expect to see a massive farting extravaganza as Terence and Philip sort out the US?

  18. Yet again on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    It takes commercial, formerly spyware company to bring a useful too to the masses based on little other then word of mouth. Where is the FOSS tooling to save us from this evil?

  19. Re:Coke? on Apple, Google World's Top Brands · · Score: 1

    Well Coca Cola did themselves no end of damage in the UK and a lot of Europe with the Dasani furore.

  20. The robot wont overtake real soccer players on Build Your Own Soccer-Playing Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until they build a robot that obsesses about its appearance and is embarassingly caught shagging the nanny robot.

    They build an expensive robot that indulges in some high frequency snorting to improve its 'off the field' performance.

    They build another expensive robot that 'forgets' to turn up for mandatory checks and goes shopping instead.

    A robot admits it tried to deliberately damage another robot in a revenge tackle.

    Slapper robots are developed which can be 'roasted' by the football robots.

    One of the new generation super robots is photographed leaving a brothel populated by pvc wearing granny robots (probably the current robots recycled a few times).

  21. Re:I await the day on Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous · · Score: 1

    I am DC

    (But I really dont see what electric current has to do with this subject and I hope I don't look stupid)

  22. Re:Urm on Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you need reassurace from stories about non stories on slashdot then its way too late for you my friend.

  23. Re:This could be dangerous! on Windows XP Starter Edition Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you reckon thats why windows update and security center is configured to do this sort of thing automatically for the user now? And what exactly is this huge risk you are talking about? Does the world end if more than 2 million computer illiterates access the internet or something? Try being a little less patronising.

  24. Re:Repeat after me, everyone on Sleep Less, Eat More? · · Score: 1

    netrat you usurping rodent. Stop trying to make everyone part of some group consciousness by repeating things. Leave that for my sig.

    And while i'm at it, you forget this is /. where the fact that as you correctly point out, Correlation =! Causation, has no bearing whatsoever and posters are free to concoct implausible theories based on the most spurious speculation.

    As an ex girlfriend used to wonder how she put on weight becase she ate like a bird, "Yes" I would agree, "a pterodactyl"

  25. Do they sleep less on Sleep Less, Eat More? · · Score: 1

    because they are up getting midnight snacks while the rest of us are snoring?