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  1. Re:Oh MEINE GOTT! At that rate.. on EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day · · Score: 1

    BTW: it is "Oh mein Gott!" :-P

  2. Re:Ach, mein eyes on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, meine Augen.

    You're right, it is ugly as hell!

  3. Re:to be honest (digg) on The 10 Tech People Who Don't Matter · · Score: 4, Funny
    There's some extremely bright people on here amongst the crap.
    Like me!
  4. Re:Personally on LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition · · Score: 1
    Holy crap! I'm in QA, and this makes so many hassles in my life clear! Now I know why the work for QA never ends. :-)


    Advice: QA has to be drunk too!
  5. What a coincedence on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 1

    Just like my server and my laptop!

  6. Leadership Toll on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1
    Sorry guy, but the expression "leadership toll" is part of the title of the microsoft-watch article. You can easily identify it, because of the upper-case letters in it.
    Slashdot's rumors of Microsoft's impending demise have (once again) been greatly exaggerated...

    Well, then the whole business is exaggerating, I guess? You'll see a lot of journalists and "analysts" talking about the "mass exodus". I hope you also realize that Taylor was Global General Manager Platform Strategy, before he was promoted to be Corporate Vice President! I don't believe that somebody like Taylor would have been called "Ballmers right hand", if his position is like one out of 100 others.
  7. Re:Only two? Here is the third, the real reason: on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I thought it would be obvious: Imagine, Microsoft somehow figured out that the author behind the highly critical blog "minimsft" is Martin Taylor. That is another major HR violation besides "child porn on his computer" and "physical violence".

    I know, it is really far fetched.

    BTW: Here is another really well-written article about Martin Taylor.

  8. Only two? Here is the third, the real reason: on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1
  9. You know why? on Creative Commons Add-In for Office Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is there to get you used to the idea of DRM. It is actually part of the DRM system integrated in Office. Sooner or later, users will be presented with a far more complex DRM tool to choose an appropriate license and protection scheme. Standard users are protective about their ideas, thoughts and works. If they are asked by Office, if they want to share it with the rest of the world or put a restrictive license and protection on their creation, they'll click on "It is mine, my IP, nobody else should reuse it".

    I really think this is only just the beginning of a broader DRM tool.

  10. Seinfeld - The Smelly Car on SCO to Unix developers, We want you back · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is more like the Seinfeld episode The Smelly Car

    "The strong body odor of a valet is left in Jerry's car. Jerry is forced to try to sell the car, because the odor has taken a life of its own and permeated everything. George is turned by Susan's new outlook on life. Susan's friend is swayed to heterosexuality by Kramer, though later turned back off by a whiff of a jacket that Kramer borrowed from Jerry. When the car can't be sold, Jerry winds up leaving it and the keys out on the street."

    IIRC, it was a BMW.

  11. Re:Where can he go? on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1

    SCO?

  12. Re:sinking ship? on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 5, Informative
  13. Too late on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I just submitted the following story:

    Suddenly and unexpected, the corporate vice president of Windows Live and MSN, Martin Taylor has left Microsoft. "We've made the difficult decision to part ways with Martin, but we don't comment on personnel matters," Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday. Taylor, the former Global General Manager of Platform Strategy rose to prominence as the face behind Microsoft's "Get the Facts" anti-Linux campaign. You can read the Slashdot interview with Martin Taylor here.

  14. Re:Your #1 site for quality editorial work! on Manual Writing Tools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hope you realized that this guy is from Brazil. Maybe his first language isn't English and he is writing the documentation in Portuguese?

  15. Re:Big Deal on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 5, Funny
    I reach out to women all the time. It's them letting me touch them that's the hard part.
    Feel free and reach out
  16. Re:Personally on LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition · · Score: 3, Funny
    Actually, I've had an idea - a coding competition where you have to drink eight beers first!
    Erm... I wouldn't even start coding without eight beers first..
  17. Re:Un-American on Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality? · · Score: 1

    It is reverse psychology.

    Very effective.

  18. Re:Un-American on Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality? · · Score: 1
    As I said, the "meaning and purpose" page is gone, but here is a copy:

    ShelleyTheRepublican.com is a satirical entertainment web site. The purpose of this website is to point out political and societal injustice by exaggerating the viewpoint of the party the injustice originates from. Basically it's save to say that almost all information in the articles on this web site are false. The web site is designed to be funny. If you don't find it funny, we kindly ask you to leave. We are committed to Freedom and Justice for all. Please let your friends know about this website. Thanks.
  19. Re:Un-American on Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know that http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/ is satire? If not, you should have read the "meaning and purpose" page. It is gone now, but you can still find a lot of references here.

  20. Re:Besides the utter lameness of the article... on Real Life Spy Gadgets That Anyone Can Buy · · Score: 1

    There's a place down the street from me called "The Spy Store"

    Sunset Plaza?

  21. Re:Time to change banks... on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    I knew I read this comment before.

  22. Re:Typo on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: 1, Troll
  23. Typo on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin.

    she and her

    Mod me offtopic, I deserve it.

  24. Re:Actually... on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note to myself: never mark Vo0k as foe.

  25. Shot in the face on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are clearly some unrelated results from Google search - if you turn off SafeSearch.