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  1. Re:Very Scarey on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Hi! I'm your AutoPilot. It seems you are about to experience a mid-air collision. Would you like me to:
    • move the airplane out of danger?
    • search for music on the flight recorder?
    • help you write a letter to your loved ones?
    • do a trick?"
  2. Re:Poor pilots on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    They'll be left hanging around the gymnasium, watching films about gladiators, and languishing in Turkish prisons.

  3. Re:The Dark Side of Social Networking on Illumio to Launch Social Network Advice Software · · Score: 1

    This is great! "Where can I buy a pair of giant walking hammers?"

  4. Re:Another odd note... on Illumio to Launch Social Network Advice Software · · Score: 1

    Most Linux and BSD users seem to know a lot more about Windows that Windows users (and "trained" admins and programmers) do.

  5. Re:"Who is..." on Illumio to Launch Social Network Advice Software · · Score: 1

    Never mind "John Galt", just who the fuck is Pearly Spencer?!

  6. Teh Ultimate Expert Filter Test on Illumio to Launch Social Network Advice Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    In our Computing classes, we were taught that a system should also be fed garbage data to see how well it really coped.

    Now, have any of you around here heard of a guy called John C. Dvorak?

  7. "British are particularly good at hacking..." on Oracle Exec Strikes Out At 'Patch' Mentality · · Score: 1
    as they have "the perfect temperament to be hackers--technically skilled, slightly disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."
    Rule Britannia!
    Britannia's pwnz0rs r0x.
    British h4xx0r5 r so l33t they
    pwn3d t3h b0x.
  8. Lattice QCD people: on The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor · · Score: 1

    Isn't Cell similar to things like QCDOC (from what my LQCD colleagues tell me, it's based on PowerPC, but are there similarities in the wider architecture, interconnects, etc.)? Have any plans to use it here?

  9. Which came first: on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    the source code or the editor?

  10. So, will these Flash jackasses be paying me on Google to Distribute Online Video Ads · · Score: -1, Redundant

    for the extra electricity and CPU time they're wasting? Isn't this kind of advertising bad for the environment?!

  11. Simple safety options for IM: on New IM Worm Installs Own Web Browser · · Score: 2, Insightful
    • Don't ever give received files execute permissions on UNIX and Windows systems with NTFS
    • On Windows systems, rename .exe files to .exe.unsafe. Refuse to run such files and pop up a stern warning message. If they just rename it, well they get what they deserve.
  12. Get your hands off me on Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you damn dirty ape!

  13. Re:Can We Get the NSA involved in F/OSS? on NSA Chose Invasive Phone Analysis Option · · Score: 1
    In projects like, um, SELinux, perhaps? And you missed an obvious emphasis:
    beautiful actresses dressed in black LaTeX
    Ooh, \matron!
  14. Re:Flirting with open source on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 1

    Much less OpenBDSM, with its mascot the pufferfish-shaped enema.

  15. Re:Is this, like, Sleepless in Seattle on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What do you have against Meg Ryan?
    Nothing, and that's precisely the trouble.
  16. Is this, like, Sleepless in Seattle on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    less one annoying person?

  17. Re:Flirting with open source on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    More like FreeBDSM.

  18. Re:Vegemite on Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media · · Score: 1

    He might've had better luck with the new squeezy Marmite...

  19. Youtube! on London 2006, Meet London 1984 · · Score: 4, Funny
    cool vid of some bloke getting mugged outside victoria station. lol!!!!111!! *****
  20. UKgov, are you listening? on Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media · · Score: 1

    Come on UK Government! Enact something similar! And while you're at it, please make "Cliff's Law" banning crusty and offsenively-dressed performers in their late 60s from receiving royalties lest they ever think to abuse a microphone again.

  21. Re:Vegemite on Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media · · Score: 1
    And [Vegemite's] inherent nastiness could be construed as a form of DRM.
    Someone hand this dude a jar of Marmite. That'll teach him.
  22. Re:What Word 2007 really needs. on Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging · · Score: 1
    "It looks like you are whining about your life. Would you like me to..."
    Oh, the tasteless emo-clippy jokes I could make here!
  23. Re:Kludgiest acronym ever? on Day of the Robotic Tentacle · · Score: 1

    Digital Intelligent Logical Dextrous Operator. Oh, I love this game!

  24. Re:simple math on Day of the Robotic Tentacle · · Score: 1
    Tenticle Robot + Tenticle Pr0n = Tenticle Robot Pr0n.

    Yes, I've always wondered what the sound of a hundred pencil-jockeys simultaneously hitting deviantART sounded like.

    Now I know.

  25. Seven more of those on Day of the Robotic Tentacle · · Score: 1

    and you've got a God-damned Sentinel. Destroy the bloody thing!