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  1. Re:This is interesting? How about inaccurate? on Building a Better Motorized Bicycle · · Score: 1

    And how about the top of the range polluter the 12 cylinder 2-stroke diesel locomotive.

  2. Does it come with a neckbrace? on Building a Better Motorized Bicycle · · Score: 1

    As a result, the starter allows users to work up to a couple of miles an hour before the engine kicks on

    That must be one hulava jolt.

  3. Someone please explain to me how on WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects · · Score: 1, Funny

    this works:
    It consists of 192 Dual Pentium 1 GHz and 448 Dual 2.2 GHz processors. A total of 1280 processors running at approximately 2,355 GHz.... Mmmmm.....

    Is it just really cold in NZ or is it something to do with the water going down the plug hole the wrong way?

  4. Re:90% Loss? on Microsoft Writes Off Corel · · Score: 1

    "every other division of Microsoft loses money"

    Every lunchtime overweight division execs can be seen waddling along to McDonalds with large bills fluttering away from every cash stuffed pocket.

  5. I don't get it on Tcl Core Team Interview · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Emacs or Vi? What platforms do you use?"

    How come this one did'nt get the -1 Flamebait treatment?

  6. Re:Cue Bill G and Bee Gee harmony..... on MA Dept. of Revenue consider Linux · · Score: 1

    Typos in the subject suck the most.

  7. Cue Biil G and Bee Gee harmony..... on MA Dept. of Revenue consider Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the lights all went out in Massachusetts.

  8. Free Software? on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I prefer a proprietary UNIX because they generally tend to come with a better quality free lunch, 'free as in beer' wins over 'free as in speech' for me. Who cares, as long you're not paying?

  9. Re:I would like to offer the Buddhist perspective on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 1

    You can play paint ball in the nude, but it's not wise.

  10. Re:Mod parent up ! on Lead Scientist Responds to Questions on Root Server Queries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Deep inside I am cying for your soul.

  11. Re:98% of... on Lead Scientist Responds to Questions on Root Server Queries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Should you be concerned?"

    Not in an earthly way no, but spiritually, yeah it makes my sack wrinkle. How many of them are yours?

  12. Re:Privacy on Slashback: Stupidity, Telebastardy, Fast Search · · Score: 1

    The difference is whether you're hiding something purely to protect your privacy, or to perpetrate a crime, there's the rub. One must assume the former lest be condemnatory of the whole race.

  13. Re:I always knew the day would come... on Slashback: Stupidity, Telebastardy, Fast Search · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about active or passive devices?

  14. Re:This call is from POTUS. on Slashback: Stupidity, Telebastardy, Fast Search · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've already had to block "President Bush", "Saddam Hussein" and "Michael Jackson", they just don't have anything interesting to say anymore.

  15. Get your illegal modchips here... on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 1

    Well here actually.

  16. /.ed on Anticipatory Scheduler in Kernel 2.5+ Benchmarked · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're not using an IIS server are they? Naughty, naughty.

  17. Mission statement. on Trustworthy Computing At One Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Trustworthy Computing is a vision of the future in five, 10 or 15 years

    But in the meantime we shall vigorously pedal all the buggy shit we can, and still claim: "It's the most secure yet"

  18. Re:So... on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Unless the registry is actually encrypted, I don't see any real advantage to having it in a non-human-readable format."

    It does stop users opening it up in notepad and falsifying their Minesweeper high scores.

  19. Sounds like a really useful tool, on SecurityFocus On MS Security "Hole" · · Score: 5, Funny

    does XP Recovery Console run on Linux?

  20. Erm, is this thinking new? on Swarm Intelligence · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is open source after all? Don't think the system would quite work a business model, but for like minded volunteers it's already up & running.

  21. A precedent. on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    From:Dictionary.com
    hoover

    n
    1: 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964) [syn: Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover]
    2: (trademark) a kind of vacuum cleaner [syn: Hoover] v : clean with a vacuum cleaner [syn: vacuum, vacuum-clean]

    Google would be on sticky ground here then.

  22. Incidentally on NYT on RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a tad on the ironic side that this story is carried by a site to which you have to log on?

  23. Does this mean on Overture Buys Fast Search · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the longer term the trend will be that as well as having to sort through the normal dross thrown up by search engines, you will also have to swim through a pages stagnated by dodgy companies paying for the privilege to force their unwanted products onto your screen?

  24. Sensitive? on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 2, Funny

    "a laptop crushed beneath the wheel of a MacWorld shuttle bus or a PowerBook that spent two days at the bottom of the Amazon River"

    Perhaps its that Mac users are just more sensitive.

  25. Hey! on 10 Techno-Cool Cars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm a motorcyclist you insensitive clod.