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  1. And the sad part on Google Share Loss Amounts to Billions · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sad part of this is it's because investors weren't happy with profits being up "only" 82%. They had expected more. So they sold.

    Is the stock market full of asshats or what?

  2. SRB and Temperature on Moonshot, CEV Modifications · · Score: 1

    The only thing that makes me leery of the manned configuration (J2 ontop of an SRB in a vertical stack): Have they solved the temperature related problems on the SRB yet? Or have they implemented a workaround of only launching in warm weather?

    Of course, without an ET to catch fire and burn on the manned configuration, a Challenger type failure should be survivable due to an escape tower.

  3. Your Shell Script on Bill Gates' Taxes Require Special Computer · · Score: 3, Funny
    And here it is:
    read INCOME ; echo "Your total tax bill is: $INCOME"
  4. Re:And now IE 7.0 is on IE 7.0 Beta 2 Available to the Public · · Score: 1


    But 7.0 is 6 louder than 1.0!
    </SPINAL-TAP;>

  5. Re:speedwise on Fibre Channel Storage? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Say what?

    When I worked at an FC startup, FC was 4Gbps full duplex, and 10Gbps was in the works.

  6. Re:Not it on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1


    If I steal money from a bank and fly to some other state it's essentially the same thing as flying overseas as far as easy apprehension goes.


    And I have to go through the same rigamarole when I fly from L.A. to San Francisco, which does not cross a state line. Where is the federal jurisdiction there? The Commerce Clause doesn't apply, it's within a single state. Your issue of interstate crime and extradition doesn't exist. SF and LA are both in California.

    Care to explain that situation in a bit more detail, then?

  7. Re:Stupid on Airport ID Checks Constitutional · · Score: 1

    No, he lives in the real world where you have rights decided explicitly and inplicitly by the constitution

    And in that world, by definition, any rights not explicitly mentioned are not denied or disparaged. (9th Amendment). Similarly, andy powers not specifically granted to the Feds are reserved to the People or to the States. (10th Amendment).

    What "real world" are you talking about?

  8. Re:Microsoft Vista with a Security Flash Drive on MS Security VP Mike Nash Replies · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I have a CD with SP2 burned onto it. I take it with me when I do some freelance diagnosis.

    He's talking about SP2, not the full windows distro with SP2 skuostreaned,

  9. Re:Filesystems not sexy? on File System Design part 1, XFS · · Score: 1

    Parent must have all his pr0n on an ext3 filesystem. That's why he thinks it's sexy. ;-)

  10. I can't believe nobody's posted this reply yet on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Everytime I give my wife a big bang, she has an afterglow. It's not too hard to account for...

  11. Ob Jack O'Neill on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    "Hey, if you had been listening you would have heard that nintendos pass through everything"

  12. Re:Straight from the Steve Jobs playbook... on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1

    That's Iacocca, not Ford.

    Side note: Richard Riordan also took a $1 annual salary as mayor of L.A. in the '90s. The LA Times once ran a picture of his check.

  13. Re:when i grow up... on How to Do What You Love · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember those monster.com commercials?

  14. We've discussed this on When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? · · Score: 1

    And when I posted this as an Ask Slashdot, I was told not to worry about it.

  15. Re:RE Bad Boss on How to Survive a Bad Boss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was asked by my boss (company owner) if I could take over a management (actually just a group lead) position, that would entail scheduling and other management functions in addition to my technical work.

    I told him that if he really wanted me to, I'd do it, and do my best at it, but that it would most likely be a "disaster of biblical proportions". Yes, I actually used that exact phrase. I told him that I'm well aware of my limitations, and that it would be a good idea for someone else to take the position. Luckily for me and for him, he listened to me then.

  16. Re:Sue the USPTO on Supreme Court spurns RIM · · Score: 1

    Two words: Sovereign Immunity.

  17. Re:Yeah, great, guess what on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think you mean the Tenth, not the Ninth.

    Note: the following is my wording, not our eloquent Founding Fathers':

    The Ninth essentially says, "Even if they're not mention here, you still retain all your rights."

    The Tenth is the one that says, "If we didn't say the Feds can do it, it's a power reserved to the States or the People".

  18. Re:This sounds less like on UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors · · Score: 1

    But if your whole experince is such far-left-leaning loudmouths, your perception of even a moderate leftist, let alone a centerist, will be "to the right of Attila the Hun".

    Sadly, that's exactly how, in retrospect, I describe the way my moderate/centrist politics were viewed back at UCSC in the early '80s.

  19. Re:Dial-up does not make you more secure on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 1

    My brother-in-law's computer is dialup only (A-O-Hell) and I periodically have to wipe the thing due to spyware.

  20. Re:Easy Solution on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    No, no, no!! You have it wrong!

    "If u dont py ur credit card we will own3rz ur car lol!"

  21. Re:Oh, really... on 20 Years of Computer Viruses · · Score: 1

    Remember the old slogan?

    "Practice safe computing. Always wear a write-protect tab".

  22. WAY OT... on 20 Years of Computer Viruses · · Score: 1

    Actually, he did, but it didn't have the proper TPS report cover on it.

  23. Re:Well, since you ask... on Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has an interface like a truck?

    Or did you mean "TINKER TOY INTERFACE"?

  24. Re:Interesting... on Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007 · · Score: 1

    NT4SP3 added some major changes into the NDIS driver stack and NDIS driver model. Namely, deserialized NDIS drivers. This allowed some major performance enhancements in network drivers.

  25. Re:"Get Loooooooooost" on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah, that would be the "post hummus-ly" option.