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  1. Re:Blah on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're using RCS, and this is at a company that grossed six billion dollars last year (yes, that's a 'b'). At least we have vi though.

  2. Re:Link omitted on Company Announces $30,000 Prize For Solving iPhone Game · · Score: 1

    Fruit.

  3. Re:A perfectly good argument... on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    $7.00/hour is more than federal minimum wage, as well as most states'.

  4. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is a happy medium, where a programs function can be implied by a relevant name:
    Winamp

    [a digital current measuring program]

    Photoshop
    [an ecommerce program for selling Polaroids]

    Yahoo Messenger
    [a yodel-to-text converter for arranging bicycle deliveries].

  5. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 5, Funny

    People keep buying cheap gas

    Really? Where?!

  6. Re:Fake images on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    You have to buy a ticket so you can get in and buy some popcorn!

  7. Re:Clean code? on Clean Code · · Score: 1
    As Damian Conway writes in Perl Best Practices (much like this book, it seems),

    Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

  8. Re:Screw blackness on New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness · · Score: 5, Funny

    Besides, since when is trying to make a game feel realistic considered overrated?

    Yeah, I hate when a game feels unrealistic as I cast chain lightning on a bunch of frog demons.

  9. Re:I'm into cancelling service on AT&T Buries ToS Changes In 2500-Page Guide · · Score: 1

    +1 for Virgin. I bought a $20 phone (which is now TEN), pay $5/month for cell service, get 75 supplemental minutes/month through their silly ad service, and no contract. It's great for the 17 of us in the world who aren't on our phones 40 hours a month.

  10. Re:Character encoding (5:erocS) on Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Appl€

  11. Are on Most Companies Admit Their Data Is At Risk · · Score: 1

    Plural, you monkeys.

  12. Re:Try Reiser's new filesystem on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:What Are You Talking About? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 4, Funny

    640 should be enough for anybody.

  14. Re:Buckets of urine on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Brian Eno drinks his own pee.

  15. Re:Notifications on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's on my list of things that drive me nuts when I boot into Windows (#1 being alt-dragging). There's gotta be add-ons that do this kind of stuff (like mouse focus), but I'm always too lazy to go searching. I'd rather just whine about it forever. :-)

  16. Re:Notifications on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    Not to get into a dickwar, but my current desktop is 3840x1200, and I can't stand big widgets. The more content window I have on my apps, the better. Besides, with keyboard shortcuts, you don't even need a close/maximize/etc. button. 40 more pixels saved! :)

    First-run programs now just tend to remind me of this.

  17. Re:Bzzzzzt! on Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes · · Score: 1

    That got me curious, so I did a little searching, and the winning keywords seem to be utility pole load capacity. The RW Wolfe PDF on www.fpl.fs.fed.us (4th or 5th link) is pretty good.

  18. Re:It isn't "fast internet" or "no internet" on Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes · · Score: 3, Funny

    First of all, it's not a VW sized box, it's a 4 by 4 by 2 foot box, which is the size of a smaller refrigerator.

    ...or a larger VW.

  19. Re:oblig. on Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that a new slashdot meme?

  20. Re:Yeah, haha, you're so funny. on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Jerry Seinfeld on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 1

    Anyway - who will take an ad with Seinfield seriously?

    Nobody, hopefully. That's not the point of ads anymore, is it?

  22. Re:Yeah, haha, you're so funny. on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    They anonymized the emails so we have no idea who sent them in, even if they did it's a username on the internet. I'm not standing in front of the nutbag that typed all of that up and laughing in their faces. I'm chuckling at some anonymous ravings.

    Actually, if you look at this story on Baidu, the names are in there.

  23. Re:Crap on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that'll go over real well. "I swear officer, the Chinese government told me she was sixteen!"

  24. Re:You should have made the sunday yourself on Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews — The Lost Blogs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Six? Why?

    Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...

  25. Re:Totally OT: Chinese youth in Olympics on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What are you talking about?

    Beam scores:
    Liukin - 16.125
    Johnson - 16.050
    Yang - 15.750

    I swear, I've never heard anybody but Americans complain about judging in an event that they WON.