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  1. Puny humans! on Strange Mini Solar System Found · · Score: 1

    Always labeling things.

  2. Focus! on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 1
    What do you want?

    Answer carefully.

  3. Re:depressing. on Atari 2600 Mac Mod · · Score: 2, Funny

    I get depressed because it makes me wonder where my life went wrong so I don't have time to do dumb, pointless stuff like this.

  4. Have to agree on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    with some of the posts. I like the Economist (my dad has a subscription and he gives them to me when he's done), but, geez, get a room already. They've had their share of flakey opinions.

  5. Re:What's more disturbing? on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 1
    The 83 year old woman wasn't smittenedkitten you moron. That's the entire point.

    Swing and a miss!

    No shit, dumbass. I was just funnin'. Lighten up, asshat, it's Friday.

  6. What's more disturbing? on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 4, Funny
    That they are trying to sue a dead person, or an 83 year old woman called herself "smittenedkitten"?

    *shudder* The horror... the horror...

    I guess she was "smittened" with something terminal.

    Ha hee heh hee... computers... terminal... I crack me up. :-)

  7. Re:Let's pick on the Linux community today! on The State of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I thought of that right after I posted. :-\

    Oh, well, it's Friday.

    I can't believe it got modded as interesting. My silly posts get modded interesting. My serious posts get modded flamebait. My flamebait gets modded insightful. Go figure.

  8. Let's pick on the Linux community today! on The State of Linux Gaming · · Score: 5, Interesting
    GAME PROGRAMMER: How about we do a version for Linux?

    GAME COMPANY CEO: That's that OS used by those people who are rabid about not paying for anything involving software, right?

    GP: Yeah.

    GCC: Get back to work, dumbass, or I'll cut your balls off.

    Hey! I tease!

  9. Re:I can't tell you how many times on Password Security Panned · · Score: 1

    I have put passwords on Post-Its, but I encode it in a weird way so that only I can really read it. Oddly, I can rememeber the encoding better than the passwords.

  10. Warning! on Sony Announces PSP Launch Date · · Score: 1
    Meta Gear Acid is a card battle game.

    Beware! :-o

  11. I had a Palm Pilot on PDA Sales Fall for Third Year in Row · · Score: 1
    But I eventually went back to a paper based system. The Palms just seemed to be more of a pain to use. I was actually really good at Graffiti, and made fun of and put dirt in the hair of all the whiners who said it was too hard to learn. Cripes, 95% of the letters were what you'd naturally expect them to be. What pussies!.

    But I just found myself going to paper more often. I think the main problem was the need to sometimes sketch a small picture of something along with some text, and there was no easy way to do that. The PDA was always a solution looking for a problem.

  12. It's way geek! on Amazon Offers 2-Day Shipping For $79/Year · · Score: 1

    Amazon Prime = Amazon' = d Amazon / d ShippingCost as d ShippingCost -> 0

  13. Re:Amazing that corp security allows them on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    Heck, I work in aerospace and I can have my iPod (after I fill out a form). I'll be instantly shot dead by cybernetic killdroids if I take it into a classified area, but in the open areas it's cool.

  14. Another anecdote signifying nothing on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1
    A friend of mine called me from the road two years ago. In the middle of the conversation, I heard what sounded like his phone hit the floor of the car, and the call ended.

    He called back a few minutes later, and I finally got him to admit that he turned the wrong way down a one way street, and dropped the phone to deal with it. Luckily, the nearest oncoming car was two blocks away.

  15. I work in R&D on Top 10 Apple Flops · · Score: 1

    We have a mantra. If you don't occasionally fail, you aren't pushing the envelope.

  16. Re:Who cares how old it is? on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 1

    I went to the page you linked, but I the guy is placing the chin line too low and the top of head line too high.

  17. The non-issue that will not die... on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we sacrifice a goat and perform and exorcism or something...

  18. Re:So? on Mobil SpeedPass, Various Car RFID Car Keys Cracked · · Score: 1
    What do you want, a retinal scan? ... Get over it, life has risks.

    Sweet bouncing feathery Jesus, what got up your ass? I just made a fucking observation that Mobil has added a layer of security. I wasn't complaining about anything.

  19. Mobil on Mobil SpeedPass, Various Car RFID Car Keys Cracked · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think Mobil anticipated this. They started requiring you to enter your ZIP code at the pump a few months back.

  20. Re:More fucking politics on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1
    A country just got flattened. Please show some respect for those of us that are still human enough to care.

    So do you want? A medal? Don't you get tired of reading the politics EVERYWHERE? And Iraq hasn't been flattened, you utter dumbass. Ah, I wish the lot of you, Left and Right, would all just drop dead of brain aneurysms.

  21. More fucking politics on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The WMDs that the UN inspectors that Iraq charged were spies failed to find were a figment of Bush's mind.

    Is it possible AT ALL to escape people's dumbass politics? I did not vote for Bush, and I did not support a full invasion of Iraq, but every intelligence agency in the Universe thought the WMDs were there, INCLUDING the French. The debate was over letting the UN inspectors work some more.

    I remember when I used to be able to read a technical article without the authors personal brand of ideo-illogical mental illness polluting the writing. It can't be done anymore. Everyone has to be a little activist now. Oooo! All trendy! And, yes, it matters. If he's that dumbass on history he actually lived through, why should I trust his opinion on anything else?

  22. Re:Uh... ReplayTV "extinct"? on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, some of us bought Tivo because we wanted dual tuners and integration with DirecTV. We laugh at people who have to pick High, Medium, or Low (oops, excuse me, "Extended") quality recordings instead of having a unit that just records the original digital data stream from the satellite so that recording suffer no quality loss at all.

  23. Can I sue? on MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement · · Score: 2, Funny
    I want to sue movie studios for all those 2 hour blocks of my life wasted on dumbass movies that I had to take dates to see. Gawds, the tripe I have been dragged to in the pursuit of a fuck.

    Troy. I was made to sit through Troy.

    *shudder*

    I had to watch Lawrence Of Arabia *and* The Quiet Man the next day as an antidote.

  24. Two coalitions enter! One coalition leaves! on A House Divided: UWB's Double Standards · · Score: 4, Funny
    What happens when two coalitions within a standard come into conflict, and it doesn't get resolved quickly?

    Bloodshed? Radiological bombs? Thunderdome? Dogs and cat sleeping together? Befuddled Slashdot posts? Snow in California? More Star Wars prequels? The Battle Of Hastings? The Magna Carta? The Cotton Gin? I dunno, man! I wasn't expecting a quiz! You're harshing my buzz!

  25. RSOD on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be the RED Screen Of Death in China? :-) I hear it's a special localization by MS.