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  1. Re:Here's an idea on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Jesus, what is the obsession with running broadband over every goddamn media we can think of"

    TCP/IP over Bongo Drums

  2. Next: on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 1

    "This is slightly worse than wiretapping w/o a warrant on the constitutional level"

    Makes you wonder what the right wing nut job's next move will be after this!

  3. Microsoft Assistance on Microsoft and Mozilla To Collaborate for Vista · · Score: 1

    With Microsoft as a friend, what could possibly go wrong?

    IE8 now works better, and can be configured through
    about:

  4. Contempt of Court? on SCO Lawyers Ambush IBM Witness · · Score: 1

    Hmm, let me see.
    The Utah judge said "No".
    The SCO group said "Yes we will anyway".

    How is this not "Contempt" of the Utah court?

  5. Whack Mac with Rubber Chicken on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    We had Mac 6840AVs with NuBus slots.
    The cards needed to be reseated from time to time.
    My manager would simply smack the outside of case with a rubber chicken (while off)
    This seemed to reseat the cards very well.

    Also, putting a hard drive in the freezer for 20 minutes to recover data, but everyone has done that.

  6. Re:Does it use on The Military Aims to Develop 'Smart' & Secure WiFi · · Score: 1

    They won't kill you, it will be suicide.
    And they can prove it!

  7. Dark Matter on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't this what a light bulb absorbs till it's full, and then you must throw it away?

  8. First to file questions on Patent Reform Act Proposes Sweeping Changes · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is great; I will patent the process of sucking air to live.
    Or fire, the wheel, the screw, the inclined plane and the wing.
    Hey, how about a patent on stealing the election through Diebold voting machines?

  9. Hmmmm, if this is a crime on Wiretapping Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    So a bank robbery on security video; A mugging at an ATM; A murder on national television?
    Interesting law, if you happen to be a criminal cop.

  10. Relatives; I swear this is true. on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    I got a hushed phone call from my Brother-in-Law who had just started using Windows 95 for the first time.

    "I think I am going to be in trouble over my computer, it did something bad"

    What happend?

    (very quite reply) "My computer did something illegal, it has a blue message telling me so"

  11. NAS support on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    I won't name companies, but I support NAS boxes;

    I got a call on a NAS server that was down, the user could not reach the shares on her NAS.
    I asked them to go to our support website, the reply almost made me laugh out loud:

    "I can't get on the Internet now, our network is down"

    I asked for them to call for suppport on the NAS after the network was back up!

  12. Caller ID logs? on DefectiveByDesign Supporters to Call on RIAA Execs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The RIAA will simply forward the caller ID logs to the lawyers for future lawsuit prospects.
    If you call, you must be a pirate!

  13. Go China on China Getting 'Serious' About Spam? · · Score: 1

    Fight SPAM, and send a bill to the (ex)spammers family for the bullet!

  14. Of course it's secure on Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever · · Score: 1

    If it does not run, it can't be exploited!

    We have given up on the last two vaporware released alphas my work was given "to create drivers"
    You can't get it to run on any hardware we found.

    So yes, Vista is very "secure"; as in an non-running system is safe!

  15. Re:The NSA should take aim at Qwest. on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 3, Funny

    "But then you m0r0ns re-elected Dubya...you get no sympathy..."

    I am from Florida, we never really voted for him to start with!

  16. Already here: on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Ride a motorcycle, no one ever sees me.
    (when driving their SUV, eating, chatting on a cell phone, and checking on their kids in the back seat)

  17. I think this will turn out for the better. on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    I will no longer download any trial music, will never again purchase music of any sort (I can't try the MP3 first)
    I believe most people are disgusted enough to do without music, at this point.
    In short, this will hasten the demise of the RIAA, that will be great.

  18. Re:You must. on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 1

    Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

    Benjamin Franklin

  19. Um; One question: on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 1

    Would these be the same "Drones" that carry Air to Surface Missiles?
    Like we use in Afganistan and Iraq?
    But we might need a court order to load live rounds, right?

    This may be how the Republicans plan on winning this next election:
    They can link the electronic voting booths to these "unarmed" drones.

    "Press here to vote against Bush" (Swish, Boom) "Next voter please"

  20. The rain is from the space plane on Alien Rain Over India · · Score: 1

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11691989/

    Another skeptical expert referred to the boron-based "fuel breakthrough."
    "Boron-based fuels were the white hope of the 1950s because they have about 140 percent the energy/weight ratio of kerosene," the expert advised MSNBC.com by e-mail. "The B-70 and F-108 were designed to use them, and production plants were built. But when they actually tested the stuff, it turned out to produce combustion products that were liquid and destroyed the engines. Also, borane compounds are so poisonous they have been considered
    as CW [chemical weapon] agents! The whole program collapsed, and B-70 went back to kerosene."

  21. Marvin; is that you? (old one....) on NASA Detects Nearby Mystery Explosion · · Score: 1

    That creature has stolen the space modulator...

  22. Re:In other news..... on IBM Subpoenas HP, Baystar, Sun & Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It was really Illudium; Used for Explosive Space Modulators, and blacking the sky over Lindon

  23. Eye Candy? on Fedora's OpenGL Composite Desktop · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.foobies.com

  24. Dupe... from 1906? on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 0

    Didn't Tesla do this in 1906; somewhere in Siberia?
    Of course he did up the amperage and frequency ....

    No this is not a "Soviet Russia joke"

  25. But yet: on Limited Email Surveillance Approved · · Score: 1

    Our congress is not allowed to ask questions of people involved in the Katrina response due to the current White House administration's need for private communications.

    Our congress is not allowed to know about the meetings between the Vice President and Oil/Energy (read Enron) Executives, due to their need for private communications.

    This sounds(sadly)like a Slashdot "in Soviet Russia" joke!