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  1. 3rd Reich on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The head of Microsoft Windows client division claimed there will be 1 billion Windows users by 2010

    The 3rd reich lasted 1000 years too....

  2. Re:Bravado on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 1, Funny

    As they say, predictions are difficult, especially about the future.

    Concur. Predictions about the past are cake by comparison....

  3. Hulk: The End on NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AKA, "The Last Titan." It is hands down the best comic I've ever read. It is dated 2002, but it must have been a series. I've not seen any others in it (if it is), but the one concerning The Hulk sucked me in like no other:

    The End: The chronicles of the final days of earth's mightiest heroes and villains. Marvel comics and the creators who defend the characters tell the stories that were never meant to be told.

    If you're a comic book fan/marvel fan/hulk fan then you gotta run, not walk, and get this one....

  4. Priceline? on More on Inflatable Space Hotels · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what sorta deals priceline.com will offer?

    1-Star Space Orbital
    4-Star Deluxe
    3-Star Upscale
    2½-Star Moderate-Plus
    2-Star Moderate
    1-Star Economy

    Name Your Own Price $ .00

  5. Let me explain.... on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    No, there is too much. Let me sum up....

    From what I'm seeing, two schools are puddling on this: one that claims Moz isn't responsible for handing off a protocol to the OS that it doesn't know what to do with (i.e., MS's fault) and the other claiming Moz should know better to do exactly that -- that if it doesn't know what a protocol is doing it has no business passing it on to the OS (i.e., Moz's fault). From the sound of the upcoming fix, it appears Moz feels the latter to be true, since in the future fix it's going to do exactly that: not just hand off something to the OS unless it meets a specific "white list" instead of what it was doing which was handing off anything to the OS unless it met a specific "black list."

    Please forgive my lack of gray matter. They said only the weak cells would die....

  6. BFG on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1, Funny

    What? No BFG?... This is the part where I get an "overrated" or "offtopic...."

  7. What about marijuana? on Open Source Life? · · Score: 1

    Pot is open source wheat....

  8. Smell? on The Sound of Your Firewall · · Score: 1

    Hey, Bob, you smell something burning?

  9. Re:I don't get it? on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 0

    Whoever that is in the picture, they have never been a member of any armed service and it shows.

    You saw that OshKosh B'Gosh tag too eh?

  10. Jerry Lewis on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    Or, how 'bout, a DVD that, after 8 hours, fades into an old Jerry Lewis movie -- worse, by far, than just going black....

  11. Finally on Collaborative Online Textbook Project · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, I can cut out that bothersome part where I actually have to type what I plagiarize....

  12. Been done.... on Matsushita Designed Sleep Room · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Matsushita Electric Works has developed a room that helps people sleep...."

    That's been done already. It was at my insurance company's place in the salesman's office when I asked him the difference between term and whole life....

  13. Business model on SCO posts Q2 Loss, Gets $11k from Linux · · Score: 1

    So, like, explain their business model again? That's right, they ain't got one ... unless you count litigation....

  14. Re:Gey Goo on Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gey Goo

    Gey goo? Don't be so closed-minded. Just because it doesn't apply to you doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it. Gey goo is just as much goo as any other goo....

  15. Trypo!!! on More on the Swedish Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    Trypo!!!

    'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system'

    Corrected:
    'state-of-the-art computers using not-so-state-of-the-art operating system'

  16. In-fighting on set on TechTV.com RIP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I once watched Leo Laporte explain Quake internet/multiplayer play as if it were Doom multiplayer. He said, "the entire server can only run as fast as the player with the slowest connection." And went on in an elaborate description of all online, internet games as if they were built on Doom multiplayer. I changed the channel.

    For the most part though, I did enjoy the reviews and tech tips, and picked up lots of info on technology from TSS.

    More than anything, I enjoyed watching the blaring interpersonal battles that the hosts shamelessly let slip on to camera day after day. Sometimes, the hosts obviously battled with producers as they were being reprimanded via their ear pieces, and Leo one time even bucked that (cuz I guess he was high and mighty). Watching Dvorack and Laporte go at it was fun too until Dvorack got axed.

    It's too bad we can't watch the /. crew hate each other....

  17. Wife version.... on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 1

    While other systems place a microphone and speakers in the center of a room, he places four miniature speakers and microphones around the noise source itself.

    Will the wife version require something worn around the next and will it have a remote control?...

  18. Re:So... on Teaching History In Schools With Video Games · · Score: 1

    So, like, the Nazis really made zombie monsters?

    Of course not silly. They only brought hellboy outta hell....

  19. Use the tossed salad man on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    Chris Rock taught us that all societal crime is resolved by proper implementation of the "Tossed Salad Man" concept....

  20. Re:Time on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Some people have too much time on their hands. I guess kind of like people who post to /. this early in the morning....

    Funny that. One of the top ten posts on /. has to be the "some people have too much time on their hands." Reference pot/kettle. Or, my more favorite reference is after Lloyd tells Harry he got fired and then when Harry does the same Lloyd replies,

    "Man, you are such a pathetic loser!..."

    From Dumb and Dumber for those that are dumb....

  21. Re:For the *BSD nay sayers on FreeBSD 4.10 Released · · Score: 1

    Just take a look at "Sites with longest running systems by average uptime"

    That site is biased. There's no windows servers there....

    /duck
    /dodge
    /hide

  22. Listen on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    Area 51 is a hoax by the goverment

    Hast thou learned nothing from the x-files?...

  23. Re:Ringer is god.... on Kill Bill, IBM vs Microsoft · · Score: 1

    AKA Objectivism: The "it's okay to be an asshole because everyone is" philosophy.
    Congrats on being such a tool.


    Despite the fact you called me a tool, you make a very good point.

  24. No clippy? on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Avoid the use of Microsoft Windows operating systems,"

    Too bad. I guess that means no MS Word either. I guess that means no clippy, and I guess that means no:

    It looks like you're killing people. Would you like help?

  25. "Who trained the specs on me?!?!?" on The Future of Cars According to Toyota · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...so that drivers could surrender control to another human-driven PM and relax as someone else drives them to work.

    This takes the concept in everquest of mob/newb training to a whole 'nother level....