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  1. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It strikes me that a lot of good is being done by this body. Plus there's more to come. So it strikes me that Bill might be in line first, or maybe a shared one with Bill, Linus and Tim Berners-Lee or something.

  2. Re:Would you buy? on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 3, Funny

    The question to anyone considering buying a Unix from MS is

    Would you buy a used horse from a convicted horse-rapist?

    Well, better than buying an *unused horse* from a horse rapist. That would be a sign that something is seriously wrong with it.

  3. Re:Why complain about choice? on Lulu Introduces DRM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Plus they feed the slaves Soylent Green!

  4. That mouse is fat too easy to use on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for an emacs mouse

  5. Re:Good for prototypes, good for tech on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Conductive Inkjet in the UK are going to be doing a prototyping service coming out in a month or so which should be cheaper than normal routes. But not the same as printing a circuit at home.

  6. Re:Running out of juice on LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahhh... to be thirteen agan.

  7. Re:Mac owners more computer literate? on Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    No all it implies is that Mac owners have more *money* than the average Windows user. Which we already know, because they own a Mac.

  8. Re:Nose picking? on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a vegan you insensitive clod!

  9. Re:Is this uncommon? on Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod · · Score: 1

    I don't see where it says they can't say the iPod exploded.

    From TFA:
    âoeIt made a hissing noise,â he said. âoeI could feel it getting hotter in my hand, and I thought I could see vapourâ. Mr Stanborough said he threw the device out of his back door, where âoewithin 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft in the airâ.

  10. Re:Yet Another Chapter of Recession Porn on Nintendo, Sony Take Big Financial Hits · · Score: 1

    Did he drown his sorrows in alchohol at the Sensor Bar?

  11. West African First Post!!! on East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable · · Score: 1

    Well, it will be one day when we get our cable.

  12. Re:Mobile phone + Developing Nations = Opportunity on Mobile Phone Technology and Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    I dare Tata to start manufacturing toothpaste

  13. Re:Do we really need a cloud? on Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now you come to mention it, we do already have all that in Windows.

  14. Re:Only for casual gamers on New Super Mario Bros. Wii To Include Official "Cheat" · · Score: 1

    I would welcome this - as someone who enjoys a good FPS but is not very good at them for example I loved the fact I could make myself invincible for 2 hard parts of Half Life 2, and then continue as normal. This meant I got to enjoy the rest of the game, unlike when I got stuck on Metroid Prime. For an FPS I'd still like to do that, though maybe its a different problem area to the Super Mario Bros jumping around puzzles that you have to defeat. But I'll stick to FPS on PC's over consoles for this reason.

    I would like to see the cheat only become available if you've tried it a number of times though why its a patent.....

  15. Re:No time to change your mind on First Zero-Gravity Wedding Planned · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need the drinking part.

  16. Re:Phenomenal browser on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated · · Score: 1

    I totally agree with this - in fact I started using Opera at version 5 and even paid for it. The BIG feature that made it brilliant above the competition in the year 2000 was the fact that with a single key press image downloads could be turned off, which really really helped when using the Caribbean dial up connection I had to use at the time.

  17. Re:In other news... on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    So I should get one to go with my new South American phone.

  18. Re:A good first step on Netbook-Run Dice Robot Can Rack Up 1.3 Million Rolls a Day · · Score: 1

    Yes, I saw that episode of Lost in Space. The robot self-destructed (or something like that) after losing at the cup game.

    Did that involve Judy and Maureen Robinson?!!!

  19. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think.

    Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.

  20. Re:Agile and all that on How Microsoft Degrades Their Users (In a Good Cause) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always thought that was Spock.

  21. Re:Erm.....What the hell? on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    Humans are HORRIBLE

    there fixed that for you

  22. Making a backup on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 1

    If like me you want to make a backup of your site but only had the free account sans FTP httrack may be useful.

  23. Re:The big question is: on Android 1.5 SDK Is Released · · Score: 1

    My current and previous two Nokia handsets use RealPlayer to watch the embedded flash videos of Youtube. In fact N96 is touted to be able to run Youtube and BBC IPlayer videos.

  24. Industrial usage? on Robot Makes Scientific Discovery (Mostly) On Its Own · · Score: 1

    Long term if it does take off I can see industry going for it big time. It would mean the possibility of having less skilled staff (ie smaller wage outgoing) to come up with new ideas. I feel its no coincidence they throw the C.elegans genome at it to see what sticks, rather than problems from the world of physics.

  25. Re:Why MacRuby Matters? on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 1

    Because it allows people to show how rich they are.