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  1. Re:40-pound computer system on Robots for No Man's Land · · Score: 1
    You know it's got to be powerful when compute power is measured in pounds...

    Two out of three Americans are overweight...pounds are something most people can relate to.

  2. Re:New Acronym: "A.S.S. Hole" on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 2, Funny
    Another Silly Software Hole.

    A program's "A.S.S. Hole" can be defined as "a point of entry not intended for exploitation", so in this regard it is similar to the human variety.

  3. Re:New Acronym: "A.S.S. Hole" on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 1

    "Another Stupid Software Hole"?

  4. Re:New Acronym: "A.S.S. Hole" on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 1
    Another Silly Software Hole.

    On second thought: "Another Serious Software Hole".

  5. New Acronym: "A.S.S. Hole" on Another Serious MSIE Hole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another Silly Software Hole.

  6. Re:Cheer on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1
    Bruce Perens, a Linux cheerleader and open-source advocate

    So that's why Linux has a mascot!

  7. Re:Asume Yorkshire accent: on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 5, Funny
    I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison...

    Luxury! I have to take my wireless laptop into the bathroom with me and multitask to increase productivity!

  8. Re:Amazingly bad copy on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1
    Thin lifeguard with large breast are as efficient as fat lifeguards.

    Good point(s). My boo-boo!

  9. Re:Amazingly bad copy on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1
    Then the hotter sister (Nicole Eggert) moved on to "Baywatch."

    Ugly people can't swim, so Nicole got the job.

    But why weren't there any fat lifeguards on Baywatch? Fat lifeguards would be much more efficient at floating, if you ask me.

  10. Mars Down Under on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 3, Funny
    A second puzzle is why the soil seems so crusty.

    Wouldn't it be strange to find out that the rover has landed on an ancient pair of giant Martian underwear?

  11. From The Law Firm Of Carly Simon on SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership · · Score: 5, Funny
    You're SCO vain, you probably think System V is about you
    You're so vain, I'll bet you think that OS is about you
    Don't you? Don't You? Don't You?

    SCO had some dreams they were flushed down the toilet, flushed down the toilet, and...

  12. Re:The picture appears composited on News from Mars · · Score: 1
    What gives? That's remarkably annoying -- why not just show us the picture as taken instead of this cutesy mockup?

    Be patient...we're only just now finding out that Mars has a blue sky.

  13. Chocolate Drink Made At Yahoo Labs? on Yahoo! Research Labs · · Score: 1

    Isn't that where the chocolate drink is made? The one that's popular down South?

  14. Artifical Stuff On Mars on How Spirit Takes Pictures · · Score: 1

    But why have only a handful of pictures been released out of the 3,900 that have been taken? And why the scarcity of color images? Maybe it's because of pictures of artificial objects like these.

  15. Re:Can a laptop be too thin? Too small? on Sony X505/SP Notebook Review · · Score: 1
    Ironic...the size of laptops decreases while the average weight of Americans increases.

    Hmmmm...a new theorum is born:

    The size of laptops is inversely proportional to the size of the American consumer.
  16. Re:Savings Account on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1
    You should have been using a checking account all along.

    Actually, with online banking, the way I had it worked out was great because any money I didn't need to spend on bills stayed in the savings account. I would transfer only what I needed to cover checks into my checking account. I never had to reconcile my checking account doing it this way.

    And I respectfully ask you to reconsider telling me what kind of bank account you think I should be using. As far as I'm concerned, this is a private arrangement between me and my bank, not the federal government or you!

  17. Savings Account on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even before this, I was surprised to find out I couldn't have a savings account and do more than six transactions a month on it, because the federal government said so. I had to close it because I had weekly payroll direct deposit going to it, and I was also transferring some funds out of it to a checking account to pay bills from. This added up to more than six transactions per month, so the bank was obligated to send me a warning and then close the account if I didn't change my behavior. So it comes as no surprise to me that this is happening; the feds have had their nose in my banking for quite some time now.

  18. OpenOffice on Microsoft Word Forms Passwords Hacked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would like to see this hack become a feature in OpenOffice.

  19. Yahoo Move on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If this keeps up, Yahoo! is going to be a miserable failure...

  20. Lost Battle on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1
    I wonder if this might be the start of some bigger trend -- maybe 'buy american' could be our new battle cry.

    More like 'bye American' and then we cry.

  21. Re:Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Duder, if yr headed that far out into the boonies, you might as well pawn the damn computers...

    And that raises the age-old question: If a computer is switched on in the middle of the woods, does it consume any power?

  22. Re:Atari! on First Computers · · Score: 1
    I had an Atari 800 that I outfitted with a chip that would interrupt the processor and whatever program was running and dump you into a disassemble-type mode. Very good for cracking copy-protected games! ;)

    Three years ago I was in the right place at the right time and was given a Commodore 128--unused! Someone had bought this thing and went out the next day and got a PC, but never returned or used the 128. I haven't even plugged it in yet...wonder how much it will be worth in a few years?

  23. Re:C'mon you KNOW you were thinking of this.... on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 1
    Hooray for Bollywood
    That screwy, ballyhooey Bollywood!
    Where any office boy
    Or young mechanic
    can be a panic...

    I'll be damned...a Slashmusical!

  24. Getting Tired Of All This on Making Antibubbles in Beer from Belgium · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dr Dorbolo said "We also found that when they die, or burst, they morph into a form of structure which we have nicknamed the jellyfish form because it looks very like a jellyfish swimming through water. It slowly moves and fades away until it disappears altogether."

    Will the Slashdot reporting on SCO ever cease?

  25. Re:hee hee on Appeals Court Rules Against RIAA in DMCA Subpoena Case · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Well, it appears the RIAA will have to focus on a different network layer: they'll start suing the cat-5 and fiber optic manufacturers..

    Why not go to the source--DARPA? They started this damned Internet thing in the first place. Let the federal government deal with these RIAA arseholes...that would be sweet justice, because the feds are the enablers (via DMCA and other stupid laws) of the RIAA anyway.