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  1. Re:thinking of the children...... on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Hmm, well, I guess an essay from 30 years ago written on Wordstar, is just as useless as a Vatican document from 1000 years ago... However, nowadays, you can easily ensure that an essay will never be deleted. Just put the words "Al Qaeda Assassination Plan" in it somewhere and the CIA will save it for you.

  2. Re:I still use them... on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    I believe the first thing Mars Pathfinder photographed was an AOL floppy disk.

  3. Re:WTF??? on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    Even simpler than bleach, I'm sure heat will also kill them. Just strike match and burn the city down to kill all viruses...

  4. Lilly the Pink on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    A cure for everything likely doesn't cure anything...

    Let's drink, a drink, a drink,
    to Lilly the Pink, the pink, the pink,
    The saviour of the human race.
    For she invented,
    Medicinal compound,
    which saved the world of misery.

  5. Grosse Bertha on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    A problem with a high speed projectile is that it tends to make a small, deep hole. In WW1, the only thing the big rail mounted German gun did, was to upset an apple cart in Paris.

  6. Roos on Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Australia the rabbits are even bigger - I think they call them 'roos'...

  7. Re:plug n play batteries on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    ...and nobody wants to trade his own new expensive $10,000 battery for someone else's phucked-up battery...

  8. Re:Holy Crap on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    Actually, Airstream RVs have been around since about 1935. Unfortunately, the damn things are indestructable, since they are made of aluminium. Fortunately, the shine does wear off eventually - after 50 years or so...

  9. Re:Who designed it? on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    If you have ever seen an Airstream polished aluminium RV, then you'll understand. Fugly doesn't even begin to describe it.

  10. Re:Questions on that. on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it looks to me like there is a market for converting HTML email to plain text, while keeping some of the formatting (like tables) intact!

    Anyhoo, I don't mind getting HTML email - it makes the SpamAssassin junk filters more accurate, since I never get real email in HTML...

  11. Re:So Did Jesus walk on water using cornstarch? on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 1

    He knew where the rocks were.

  12. Re:Pollution? on The World's Most Powerful Diesel Engine · · Score: 1

    GM, (Detroit Diesel), has built (still does?) 2 stroke diesel engines for buses and trucks.

    One thing to bear in mind, is that these engines run at very low speed, so there is a lot of time for it to burn cleanly.

  13. Re:what, exactly, would you use this for? on MultiSwitch, the First USB Sharing Hub · · Score: 1

    On Windoze, you cannot share a USB scanner as you can do on Linux using SANE for example. So this device is a simple solution for that.

  14. Re:That will keep you fit ... on Get Buff While Geeking Out · · Score: 1

    Use the profit to buy another. You'll finally have a profitable geek business and stay fit too.

  15. Sell it? on Get Buff While Geeking Out · · Score: 1

    "you have to peddle" why would selling the thing give you any exercise? Does that mean you have to try to hawk it door to door? May work that, seeing that nobody would want it...

  16. Re:OLD Repost! on Soft Tissue Discovered In T-Rex Bone · · Score: 1

    Here you go! The release of Windows 95 hyped in the Washington Post:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/long term/microsoft/stories/1995/debut082495.htm

    Woohoo! The future is waiting. Now lets get back to 1995... ;)

  17. Re:Hardware on New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps · · Score: 1

    Not really - just a shift register generating pseudo random crap to measure the error rate.

  18. Woofriggenhoo on New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps · · Score: 0

    "140,000 channels of shit on the TV to choose from." Pardons to Fink Ployed. Just think, now you can click through every show ever produced on the planet, in one afternoon - ugh...

  19. Re:Oh for heaven's sake..... on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1

    Yup, from now on, it will be named DebieAnne Leenoox, the FirePoker browser and OpenOrifice.org... Sorry, couldn't resist it.

  20. FireBollox on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is no big deal. My Mandriva install has a blue earth for a FF logo. Changing the branding in Debian will be easy and the only losers will be the Mozilla corporate moguls. Even the FF project won't lose anything.

  21. Size matters on Dell Launches Free PC Recycling · · Score: 2

    Wow, man, your mainframe has more metal than your SUV?

  22. Where, where? on Dell Launches Free PC Recycling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oooooh, gotta have that. No link to your auction!?

  23. Re:Does it need to be said? on Dell Launches Free PC Recycling · · Score: 1

    Secure erase firmware is built into all new drives:
    http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/SecureErase.html

    This is suitable for military sanitize up to secret level.

  24. Re:The Universe is not a big sphere.... on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1

    No, no, it is a series of tubes, connected together with strings, like a giant, distributed, paper cup telephone. See, that explains everything...

  25. Re:MS eco-system on Microsoft's Masterpiece of FUD? · · Score: 1

    Well, considering how many virus and spyware applications there are, Windows is a teeming, thriving, fertile, swampy, rain forest like ecosystem...