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  1. There will be no lawyers on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry, but if this ones goes through, all lawyers will be busy for a couple of months.

    They too get spam, you know (or they'll make sure they'll get it.)

  2. Re:they're quite intelligent (already) on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 1

    Uhm, even elephants have burials. Really.

  3. Re:I/O Speed Please on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 1
    "is very exiting"

    I meant, NOT very exiting...

  4. I/O Speed Please on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a fellow /.'er has already indicated, processor speed improvements is very exiting. What I wanna see is a yearly increase of 30% on I/O speed. I'd rather have a super-fast bus and a new 50-ns-access-time storage technology than a 10 GHz processor.

  5. Re:phew that's a relief... on Computers and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Studied · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've heard that women can have the very same problem. For them, the syndom also appears to apply to jaws.

  6. For geeks like us... on Computers and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Studied · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the wrist can hurt for many reason.

  7. Story? on Red Hat License Challenged · · Score: 0

    OK, so this guy was McNut. Sooooo...?

  8. There is a place called... on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1
    ...Zion. No wonder they banned it.

    Some other muslim countries let it through. For them, "ignorance is bliss".

  9. Re:No floppy drive :-( on FreeBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I know, I know. It was a joke from my side because of the stupid, ambigious formulation on the front page.

  10. Re:As SIMPLE as that on Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia · · Score: 1

    OK, so it's less proprietary. Implementations? Why not visit SIMPLEt?

  11. As SIMPLE as that on Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Jabber is, well, technically superior. But history is a good teacher (Beta vs. VHS, etc, etc, etc)

    SIMPLE is simple and standard; a recipe for success.

  12. Makes sense... on Hype Vaporware, Go To Jail? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...now that Enron itself turned out to be a vaporfirm.

  13. No floppy drive :-( on FreeBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1, Insightful
    From the home page:

    "Easy to install
    FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, floppy disk, magnetic tape, a MS-DOS partition, or if you have a network connection, you can install it directly over anonymous FTP or NFS. All you need is a pair of blank, 1.44MB floppies and these directions."

    Oh, well. I have a ultra-modern portable that doesn't ship with a floppy drive. Easy? Not for me.

  14. Honestly, What's Best? on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Free Beer or Free Software?

  15. No free programmers on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    "It's hard to know where it will all end. Is there a country were people will work for free?'"

    Sorry. A google search for "programmer from afghanistan" turned out blank, so there is no hope.

  16. Renaming on More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried various tricks too. Oddly, renaming it to Outlook.exe made it crash.

  17. Re:Fruitcakes on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ · · Score: 0

    Yes ;-)

  18. Fruitcakes on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ · · Score: 3, Informative
    Apple isn't the only fruit company:

    The first digital computer was a berry: Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

    Not to forget the The Banana Computer.

  19. Why Marsbots? on NASA Launching Two Mars Rovers in June · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of 400 000 000 USD Marsbots, why not 400 000 000 worth of research into more economic spacecrafts?

  20. Cluster this and cluster that on SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer · · Score: 1
    When did a cluster become a supercomputer? It may be a powerful cluster, but that doesn't make it a computer. In singularis, see?

    Put Apache on it and we'll /. it in mere seconds.

  21. Re:How many on Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    How many Anonymous Cowards does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    Six. One coward to screw and five to hold the shivering chair.

  22. I wonder on Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder who wins this case. NOT.

  23. Re:The solution? on Universal Ebook Format Debated · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the enlightment. Now I wanna be a PDF tagger.

  24. Vulgar Slang on Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium · · Score: 3, Interesting
    palÂlaÂdiÂum2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (p-ld-m)

    1) A safeguard, especially one viewed as a guarantee of the integrity of social institutions: the Bill of Rights, palladium of American civil liberties.

    2) A sacred object that was believed to have the power to preserve a city or state possessing it.

    I believe that city is called Microsoft.
    "Bill of Rights"... whaaaahahaha.
    ---
    At any rate, I have only one more word to say about Palladium. You can read all about that word here

  25. Re:The solution? on Universal Ebook Format Debated · · Score: 1

    No - it's a wordplay (nock means putting an arrow on the bowstring.)