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  1. Re:If you want a good laugh, go into repair on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 1
    'Why they don't make lug nuts with tapers on both sides ...'

    Cost. At least one tapering end will have to be machined or stamped as it cannot be part of the mould.

  2. Hmmm, floppy. on Postal Service Surcharge Could Slash Netflix Profit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess they need V14gR4!

  3. Re:Don't kid yourselves, it's all about costs on Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle · · Score: 5, Interesting
    'Productivity also is up, said Larry Matarazzi, ...'

    I wonder how much of this is due to the Hawthorne Effect?

  4. In other words... on The Secret to Raising Smart Kids · · Score: 0

    Consistently telling a kid that (s)he is stupid will cause the kid to believe he is stupid. Wow! such insight!

  5. Re:Why it probably won't work on Intel Considering Portable Data Centers · · Score: 1

    And don't forget having to run outside every hour, 24 hours a day, to put more coins into the parking meter!

  6. Re:oblig on South Korea to Build Robot Theme Parks · · Score: 1

    Why would we even programme robots to want to go to a theme park?

  7. Re:Numbers or numerals? on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there is a difference among '1' (one), 'l' (miniscle L), 'I' (majiscule i), '/' (virgule), '/' (solidus), and '\' (backslash)?

  8. Re:have we learned nothing from our leaders? on Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist · · Score: 1

    You mean that he should continue lying?

  9. Re:What's your wife like in bed? on Ask Rob Malda · · Score: 5, Funny

    If she's like most women I know, breakfast.

  10. Re:I love this guy. on Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While including materials irrelevant to the case in court documents may be worthy of censure, I am curious as to how the future review or study of a case will be done based on "A simple reference to the website and its alleged links" in place of hard documents (e.g.: paper or a CD) given the ephemeral nature of many web sites.

  11. Re:How many... on Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded Windows · · Score: 1

    Both are correct and mean the same. Compare with 'cleave'.

  12. Riggghhhht! on Microsoft No Longer a 'Laughingstock' of Security? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we just snicker and giggle!

  13. Re:This links to a *STORE*, people... on Heinlein Archives Put Online · · Score: 1
    'For most of the history of the human race, artists made a living by patronage, and no one had any moral objections to people copying their works.'

    So how many artists have you patronised and arranged for their works to be given away?

  14. Re:Cricket Rules on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here you go:

    You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are all out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.


    (Floating around the net :^)

  15. Re:For the sight-impaired. on IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Their Own Code · · Score: 1
    '...I could probably make a blind joke or two and ...'

    Or maybe a lame joke?

  16. Re:Good story on RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial · · Score: 1
    'Whats really cool is if they get a group of "Peers" like they are supposed to do ...'

    I thought the peerage had been eliminated in the USA!

  17. Re:Pascal is so '80s on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Heck, we're still writing software for the AN/UYK-10 (UNIVAC 1832) and AN/UYK-7 computers, although in assembly and CMS.

  18. Re:Possibly the greatest programming book I've rea on Programming Erlang · · Score: 1

    How to Design Programs is available online.

  19. Re:Reductio ad absurdum (OT) on Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1
    '... most excellent Theophillus ...'

    So, the first OpenBSD fan?

  20. Re:usenet on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Garth Johnson, Darboux Transformations of the Wave Equation ( only partial Google cached html of pdf as the site no longer seems to exist.)

    (Google cache of Mr Johnson's cv)

  21. Re:It's not really surprising.. on Anonymous Programmers Reveal iPhone Unlocking Software · · Score: 1

    But, is it still an iPhone if it's running different software?

  22. Re:Why the adjective? on Nmap From an Ethical Hacker's Point of View · · Score: 1

    It doubly doesn't make sense as the article is not about hacking at all.

  23. Re:Think of the children!! on Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "'Sex has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low ... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to sexual descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.'"

    So why the hypocrisy with respect to pornography and other sexual or erotic descriptions.

  24. Re:1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 10? Huh? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 1
    Not quite; the elementary particles are simply hyper-dense travelling wavelet packets in the aether.

    (This and my previous comment are meant to be humerus!)

  25. Re:1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 10? Huh? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's probably related to the Banach-Tarski paradox!