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  1. Re:I'm not... on Causes of Death Linked To Weight · · Score: 1

    Isn't your argument a little like that of a smoker who says they have increased lung capacity because of all the extra exercise their lungs get?

  2. Re:Par for the course? on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 1

    Yawn.

  3. Re:Your best bet. on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I picked 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42 just be on the safe side.

  4. Re:Sure, Comcast. on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Nothing is ever easy is it. Who'd have thought there'd be so many if's, but's and but if's about writing a stupid date on a crappy check.

  5. Re:"Patience is your alley" on Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK · · Score: 1

    I think they were referring to Kirstie Alley, but for what reason I shudder to think

  6. Re:Good grief on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    I'd have thought there'd be less chance of being caught by just killing the person manually instead of by remote control. Less chance of the trail being followed back to you that way.

  7. Re:Finally! on Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK · · Score: 1

    I think the message I found in a fortune cookie only yesterday says it all in regard to waiting for SDK's (and other things):

    Patience is your alley. Don't Worry!

    Deep.

  8. Re:pot.kettle.black on Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist · · Score: 1

    Nice one. I didn't even notice anything was amiss until you did the right thing and busted your ass. IMHO it was a lot easier to check these things before submitting when they had the Preview button in a more obvious place.

  9. Re:How many final cuts are there? on Blade Runner, The Final Cut · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm wondering whether it will even sync up with the original Vangelis soundtrack. They had some new music accompanying the trailer I saw on youtube. I'd bet that without Vangelis the film wouldn't have become the classic it has.

    I finally buckled last year and bought the Gongo Records version of the soundtrack on Ebay and it was glorious to hear the original soundtrack although I do hope that Vangelis can one day release an "official" pristine remastered version from the master.

    In the meantime there are a few versions to choose from here.

  10. Re:Not the first time on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    After the torture sessions one sets fire to the spammer, then its clothes and then spends all its money on fresh mailing lists.

  11. Re:Not the first time on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, and then you set fire to them when they're done.

  12. Re:WWJF? on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't feel lonely, many christians love killing things.

  13. Re:Not just what, but when? on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm guessing some time in the future.

  14. Re:Too Little Too Late on New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' · · Score: 1

    There should be EMI lite, where lots of artist can get a modicum of promotion in the right places to make a name for themselves. Instead those same artists unable to even get in the door of a major label (because they don't like licking asses or write totally crap songs) go to DIY Records and start making a name for themselves that way.

    The bottom line is if a piece of music kicks ass enough it'll rise through all the shit and become a shining star, but unfortunately a lot of this awesome music never even makes if off the hard drive.

  15. Re:timing on Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers · · Score: 2, Funny

    FWIW I was camping out in the desert around the time this event occurred and didn't hear a thing, not one thing I tell you.

  16. Re:A perfect example of patents destroying innovat on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I meant to type "if you you" instead of "it for you" btw.

  17. Re:A perfect example of patents destroying innovat on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a perfect example of how bad patent laws and poor bureaucratic administration utterly destroy innovation.

    Fixed if you you.

  18. Re:Why the License on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 1

    Even older saying: Two lawyers are a company, three are a corporation.

  19. Re:Don't look! Can't you hear the strange music? on New Cave Entrances Seen on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    The edges do look as if they were dug away by a machine of some kind. And is it just a coincidence that most UFO's are circular objects, albeit not as wide as these holes are. Maybe the mother ships use these ports and there are smaller ones for the scouting ships. Either way, you wouldn't catch me going down into one of these on my own.

  20. Re:The metre must be shrinking then... on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was a kid I thought a foot was the length of Julias Ceasars foot and a metre was the length of Napoleon Bonapartes foot. When I found out later that a metre was considerably longer than a foot I deducted that Napoleon must have had really long feet. I later found out that Napoleon was also a very short fellow which made my mental image even more ridiculous. To this day whenever I hear the name I think of this short guy with three foot long feet.

  21. Re:First read on Opportunity Takes a Dip Into Victoria Crater · · Score: 1

    If it turns out to be that kind of crater we can expect to find fleets of ships, light aircraft, hamburger stands but no hamburgers, just the stands. A disco in a cruise ship with a pool filled with shit. That would be soo cool:

    Derek & Clive

  22. Re:The other side on Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments · · Score: 5, Funny

    FWIW seeing IE7 and web 2.0 in the same sentence makes me want to drink Draino. Good luck.

  23. Re:It's called UCSD or on U of CA Constructs 220 Million Pixel Display · · Score: 1

    The best way to present a joke which could be taken the "wrong way" is like so:

    "We're also aware that /. is run by Americans, and that Americans aren't aware that there are any Universities in Canada. BTW I just trashed all my wma, aac and MP3 files and am going exclusively Ogg from now on. I'm also a Linux coder and just bought Biowulf Clusters for Dummies."

  24. Re:No, but yes on U of CA Constructs 220 Million Pixel Display · · Score: 1

    No. Oh wait, Yes.

  25. Re:not a big deal? seems like a double standard to on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Microsoft did the same thing at encoding.com in the 90's. Customers were ordering primarily Real Video so Microsoft paid a bunch of cash (a truck full of loose change in this case) to have a Windows Media Video version made of every file (or something like that - I wasn't privy to the exact conditions of the deal - hell I may still be under NDA on that one but I'll be damned if that'll turn me into a coward).