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  1. Darn! on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    I guess I'd better go buy a Zune!!!!

  2. Re:Get out the violin on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Emerge from Chapter 11? I can't see how, unless somehow there was a reversal of court decisions and they're doing nothing to grow their product market.

    Duh! Haven't you listened to Darl? Their mobile SCO Me scam is going to make BILLIONS!!! It's to teh moon!

  3. w00t!!!! on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think PJ needs to send the red dress to the cleaners, so it will be ready when she needs it!

  4. Re:Create the platform???? BWAHAHAHAHAHA on Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alas, that's a canard that people tend to use.

    There was a Law&Order episode, for example where Fred Thomson's character says, "Somehow I don't think this is what Bill Gates had in mind when he invented the Internet".

    And unfortunately, many people will see that sort of thing on TV and believe it's true.

  5. Microsoft's fault? on Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    With the default behavior of hiding the extension, XP leaves non-technically proficient users vulnerable to this.

  6. Re:Pascal is so '80s on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I believe it.

    Some idiot had specified that the pseudocode was a deliverable, so there was a frantic reverse engineering effort.

    If I recall correctly, I generated a 6 foot tall stack of listings, with pseudocode of the quality:

    "Set Register 1 to the contents of Register 2"

    Of course, I did do some analysis to generate better if statements, and I did incorporate source comments as pseudocode comments.

    The customer was very happy with a 6 foot tall stack.

  7. Re:Pascal is so '80s on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    I once wrote a AN/UYK-20 assembly to pseudocode generator in Pascal. This was done on a TOPS-20 system, and I didn't have access to shells/scripting or C, so I wrote it in Pascal.

    Ugh.

  8. Re:Wow! on What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You · · Score: 1

    No, no. Lists of what we like tell stuff about us, but only if the Earth is shaped like a banana.

  9. Begin Infinite Recursion on What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever happened to the recognition that stereotypes are usually wrong?

    That's a stereotypical response.

  10. More Acrobat crap on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    In addition, Acrobat leaves AcroRead32 processes hanging around, especially when used as a browser plugin.

  11. Re:Whiny little whatever on Open Letter to ISO Calls For Standardization of Process · · Score: 1

    Try 41.

    2007 - 1966 = 41

  12. Re:Just another SCO wanabe? on Sun CEO Says NetApp Lied in Fear of Open Source · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sun paid SCO as part of the effort to open source Solaris.

    See here.

  13. Re:Annoying, but they usually work for me.... on 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster · · Score: 1

    So you're the guy who forced them out of business!

  14. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 1

    [AOL] Me Too! [/AOL]

    It started ticking off my nephews (whom I had taken to see the films).

  15. Re:VMWare to the rescue! on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? · · Score: 1
    Six rounds, actually.


    $ base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d
    Vm0xMFYxWXhTWGhWYms1VVlrWktWRlpyVWtKUFVUMDk=
    LAME!

  16. Re:Why limit to one audience? on Sys Admin Magazine Ceases Publication · · Score: 1

    D@mn, you stole my line. But to play the straight man...

    That's still how they handle it, but you don't care about it.

  17. Re:Why limit to one audience? on Sys Admin Magazine Ceases Publication · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're a bridge player, that's exactly how ACBL handles the Bridge Bulletin.

  18. Re:Well... on Study: Martian Soil Has Signs of Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I doubt that it's Kathy Ireland posting on Slashdot.

  19. You want NFL on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    I *need* FSN West... At least between April and October. That's where 90% of the Angels games are on.

    Go Halos!

  20. Re:Unless on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Oh, sorry, forgot the Zimmerman Telegram (re WWI).

  21. Re:Unless on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Just about every other nation looks at the U.S. in a bad light these days because we're prudish, invasive, annoying, and hipocritical. Hate to break it to you, champ, but it's been that ways since 1789. It ain't going to change anytime soon.

    If I parse your response correctly, you appear to be acknowledging that the US has been prudish, invasive, annoying and hypocritical since 1789, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

    Actually, until the end of WWII, the US was militantly isolationist. Had the Lusitania not been sunk, it's quite possible that the US might have sat out WWI. And it took a direct attack on US territories (Pearl Harbor) to get the US to formally intervene in WWII. Note the term "formally". The US had been giving informal assistance (see Lend-Lease) to Great Britain prior to that.
  22. Re:Lawsuits? Aren't they forgetting... on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Wrong source. That's Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine the Phone Operator" from Laugh-In.

  23. Re:Unless on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    You mean the place where they have cameras on every corner, throw you in jail for anti social behavior (google for ASBO), and can throw you in jail if you forget your encryption keys?

  24. Re:Averting disaster on Crew Ends 100 Day Mars Simulation in Arctic · · Score: 1

    They should have clubbed Phyllis and pushed her out the airlock.

  25. Re:Whats next on New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM · · Score: 1

    Whats next? Quantum Hard Drives?

    I used to own one of them.