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  1. Refresh my memory on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    Who is our favorite Redmond, WA based software giant again and will they be our favourite all week or just until the next security alert?

  2. Re:Quantum is still not fast enough on Quantum Cryptography Gets Nanotube Boost · · Score: 1

    They already did. It happened so fast you probably missed it

  3. Re:Who said we took it lightly? on Cybersyn And Early Uniminds · · Score: 2, Informative

    And the US Administration has so obviously learned their lesson that they would never dare interfere with another South American country ever again. Yeah Right!!!

  4. Re:creation of the solar system on Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are sending one to have a look around in 2006 but it will take a few years to get there.

  5. Question on Google Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    How do Google make money ? Is it purely from advertising or do they ofer other services as well ?

  6. Re:a correction on Google Turns 5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kudos to them though. 200 million queries a day is still a staggering amount. This must rank Google as the most useful free service in the world, I know I'd be lost without it now.

  7. Re:200,000 Million? on Google Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Its true, although 45% of all searches are people googling to find out what so hard about writing 200 Billion

  8. Damn on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Lamo's hacked Excite@Home, Yahoo, Blogger, and other companies, usually using nothing more than an ordinary Web browser

    Is this hacking functionality part of the kitchen sink in Mozilla ?

  9. Is it just me on The Last Days Of Atari - In Full Color · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or does Marble man look like Pac man's illegitimate love child on serious amount of drugs

  10. Re:Reminds me of the story on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bit like the one about the guy in Dublin walked into a bar/offie just before Chrismas with two kids. Sits the kids at the bar, buy them coke and the prodeeds to order his christmas drinks list. He as asks the barman to keep an eye on his kids while he puts the two crates of spirits in the boot of his car. 5 min later the barman asks the kid where their dad is.

    "He's not our dad. He just asked us if we wanted to come in and have a coke"

  11. Relax on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was the just RIAA removing a couple of infringing servers

  12. PC on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance

    Thats PC for terrorist isnt it ?

  13. Re:Congestion Charging on Amphibious Car Beats Urban Congestion · · Score: 1

    Yeah but at 150,000 Stg I reckon you could buy a more than decent 50,000 Stg car and pay the 5 quid daily charge every day for more than 50 years. This car does not seem a very practical solution as far as congestion avoidance is concerned.

  14. Depends on How Much Does A Cloud Weigh? · · Score: 4, Funny

    On whether it has a silver lining on not

  15. Re:I upgraded... on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Add a Hotmail account and you will suddenly find your popularity with sex crazed nymphettes has increased tremendously.

  16. Why? on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why were they not a bit more aggresive with version numbers ? Its not like its a totally new code base so I'm wondering why they did not start at .4 or higher and work towards version parity (hopefully a 1.0 release in the very very near future) with Firebird so the Mozilla tools can be offered as a suite rather than a hodgepodge of different versions. I ask because telling your PHB you want to run 0.2 software in many cases is like telling him you have volunteered his services for clinical trials of a new protological device. Not something hes going to be happy about.

  17. Astonishing on Halley's Comet Imaged As Transneptunian Object · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They can pick out such a small dark object at that distance. Makes me hope that maybe one day the Star Trek scenes where Picard asks Data for range to object and then has it on screen in living colour at 50 million Kilometres may one day become a reality.

  18. Re:I can't give up windows yet but have been... on MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. Re:PIM? Groupware? Exchange servers? on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The main purpose of PIM and groupware is to give PHB types something to occupy themselves with so they can 'justify' their employment by playing with things that have 'management aide' in their description. Fortunately Slashdot has thoughtfully provided advise on how to deal with your PHB, thus saving the company from total management induced destruction.

  20. They named it correctly on Aethera 1.0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The webserver has already disappeared into the ether

  21. Re:Hopefully they will write it in a better langua on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 5, Funny

    They will probably write it in Engrish

  22. Re:I'd compare this article with the head on top. on Distro Taste Test - Linux and Beer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those of us who have been students in Ireland can confirm that the head of a Guinness does indeed have substance and in fact Guinness in sufficent quantity can form the staple of an almost healthy and nutritious diet for the average student.

  23. What Dot Com boom ? on Dotcom Era Fads · · Score: 1

    Did I miss something ?

  24. Re:Cringely Math on Microsoft vs. Burst.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    Whats wrong with his math? The messagesceases one week before negotiations began, the seven meetings were over a 30 week period and the messages resume 4 weeks later.

  25. In other news from the future on Microsoft vs. Burst.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seattle Firefighters will tomorrow be engaged in a struggle to supress a fire after a large explosion at a data center used by Microsoft to store their offsite backups. I cant understand it the Fire Chief will state, the building seems to have flooded with acid and the 2 tons of explosives which were being stored there for some reason exploded, very unusual.

    A spokesman for Microsoft will say "its unfortunate" without a hint of irony.