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  1. How much MSFT cash will I get for... on Microsoft To Pay People To Search · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... buying Yahoo stock?

    A linux distribution / service contract?

    A copy of OSX on a shiny new MacBookAir?

    A throwproof chair?

  2. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    they wouldn't misspell such a simple word (BASE), ... (hence looking at "BASSE" for a clue as to some other meaning).

    Clearly,
    All your Basse are belong to us.

    Sorry.

  3. This law goes overboard, but yet... on Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... does absolutely nothing to stop the scourge that is Celine Dion for acts, "likely to expose a person... to hatred or contempt."

  4. For those of you who don't like stop & go traf on Asetek LCLC Takes Liquid Cooling Mainstream · · Score: 5, Informative
  5. Re:Bastards on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    I guess I will have to drive faster to make those yellow lights, You know, lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

    But Your Honor, my car's internal frequency was still at 35 MPH, I was merely overclocking to 105. And I took precautions - my rig is an engineering sample, properly water cooled, and I've only ever crashed at 140.

  6. image of Earth's curvature from Lynx's cockpit on Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/celestal.htm#earth

    And here's the shot of Mars:
                      .

  7. Re:realistic specs?? on New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced · · Score: 1

    . You'd need 6 seconds to do that. How far would you travel in those 6 seconds?

    I'm in agreement that 0-60 over 12 seconds makes for unsafe (or at least nervous) merging, but your math is off.

    Linear acceleration from 30 to 60 implies an average speed of 45 mph, or 80 seconds per mile.

    Six seconds of this would be 6 / 80 = 0.075 = 396 feet.

    Ten seconds of this is an eighth of a mile, or 660 feet.

    On flat ground this is marginal, but an uphill onramp on to The 710 freeway here in Los Angeles would be a white knuckle experience.

  8. Mine's being ornery on Hacking the Tux Droid · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I told it to get the Gentoo wireless drivers to work properly on my old laptop, it ran across my desk, and flipped me off as it started humping my Opus doll.

  9. Fixed the summary on Facebook Scrabble Rip-off Capitalizes on Mattel's Lethargy · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the summary:
    Hasbro's partner RealNetworks is 'working closely' with the piratical brothers, but some douchebag lawyers at Mattel says that 'settling with the [brothers] would set a bad precedent' for other board games going online."

    Not everybody at Mattel is a strategic idiot. But why should some douchebag lawyer let increased profits stand in the way of a good old fashioned pointless lawsuit?

  10. Utah, eh? on Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: Darl and his wife found their next big frivolous lawsuit.

  11. Whoah! Don't taint me bro! on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1

    Keep my pills away from your taint!

  12. Re:Capacity Isn't The iPhone's Problem on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    i've only had one problem, and that's lockup at a pub i visit often. unfortunately, every iphone user locks up there as well.

    Well, stop going to pubs that serve pints to underaged iPhones.

  13. Re:Hmm... on Messenger Discovers "Spider" Crater on Mercury · · Score: 1

    How do you say "hello.jpg" in Martian?

  14. BSOD tradeoff. on Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems · · Score: 5, Funny

    So by avoiding Windows, no BSOD on the battlefield. But instead we risk a Colonel Panic? (sorry)

  15. "How will ray tracing for games hit the market?" on Ray Tracing for Gaming Explored · · Score: 5, Funny

    That completely depends on your point of view.

  16. Running gag on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    At first they told him he could race, but they were just pulling his leg.

    He was kicking himself. Went to appeal to his congressman. Got the runaround. Couldn't even get his foot in the door. Had his legs completely cut out from under him. What a heel. Felt the agony of defeat. He didn't tiptoe around that. He would have played the race card, but he didn't have a leg to stand on.

    Eventually he just took it in stride.

    These are some lame jokes.

  17. Re:man... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet he's kicking himself now

    Nah - he's taking it in stride.

  18. Prior art. on Corkscrew Cups Could Keep Space Drinks Flowing · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe it's called a Silly Straw. I have one sitting right next to my Tang.

  19. Not to worry... on News Of SETI Signal Just Bad Reporting · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should the reporter get fired, he has a great future as a Slashdot editor.

  20. Re:Apple version on Mac Version of NaturallySpeaking Launched · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it recognize metrosexual accents?

    Yes, select the check box: preferences/language settings/accent/Fanboi/Apple

    This is the Mac equivalent to your current setting:

    options/language setings/accent/Troll/WindowsME

  21. Phisher's Delight on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 4, Informative

    In an updated post:
    http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/12/whats_with_adob.html
    the Adobe guy says:
    the objections seem to center not so much on whether Adobe apps are contacting a server, but rather that the server is named "192.168.112.2O7.net,"

    Note the letter O instead of a zero. 2o7.net is registered to Omniture.

    WTF? If Little Snitch told me that some app was trying to connect to 192.168.112.2O7.net I would assume it was compromised, and would be debating a complete clean system reinstall of OSX.

    192.168.112.2O7.net? Masquerading as an IP from my home DHCP server? Are they serious? From Nigeria? Romania?

    Again, WTF?

    P.S. for those of you who have not set up a LAN, 192.168.xxx.xxx is typically an IP address for an internal LAN, not something out on the Web.

  22. YouTube worthy. on Eat, Drink, and be Monitored · · Score: 1

    At least on the day that the scientists unleash Flatulent Frank on the unsuspecting diners.

  23. Bogus comparison on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's comparing Apples to Orangutans.

    Except that Apple users are not so humor impaired as to feel compelled to point out that gibbons aren't orangutans.

  24. So it took a bunch of evolutionists... on Recent Human Evolution May Have Been Driven By Self-Selection · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... to tell us that to some degree, we are... intelligently designed.

  25. More reliable sources. on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Take my word for it--no one is going to make any such claims about Yahoo! Answers any time soon.

    I prefer to get my answers from a more reliable source:
    a more reliable source