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  1. Pioneer 10 on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 0

    And who will be to blame when Pioneer 10 is shot out of the sky? I highly doubt that the Klingon High Council would allow such a preposterous lawsuit.

  2. Re:weight on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 0

    You can usually tell by how spread out on the ground the away team's remains are after they've been on the surface for a few minutes.

  3. The deep-rooted problem on Open CRS: Free Government Research Reports · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's an inherent problem that lies in politically-sponsored research. Having "research" done on political ideas is a tactic that politions (e.g. Reagan) use to justify their point. If there is a group with sufficient grounds to cause any *possible* roadblock, the politician will have a committee research the issue, and then he is able to freely push his agenda once more because he has "disproven" the group. The bias may be so great that the work is worthless to all but the politicians themselves.

  4. Re:When will this stupidity end? on Amazon Patents User Viewing Histories · · Score: 0

    This isn't democracy.

  5. STILL down. on Keeping a Data Center Cool on the Cheap · · Score: 0

    Some random 12 year old with a web page could have posted the address under his "cool links" (yahoo, nickelodeon, etc.) and it would have gone down after the first click. Shazbot!

  6. Re:So uh.... on 164 Million Broadband Subscribers Worldwide · · Score: 0

    Exactly. The topic is on broadband subscribers.

  7. Re:16000 formats?!? on Archiving Digital History at the NARA · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or this.

  8. Written for the nerds on HOWTO: 0.5TB RAID on a Budget · · Score: 0
    "What self-respecting geek doesn't get the warm fuzzies at the mere mention of the RAID."

    Yep. exactly. Because RAID equates with large and secure storage availability which equates with porn which equates with the best that any "self-respecting geek" (the target audience) will ever get.
  9. What I would do with it on Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card? · · Score: 0

    Etherfabric, aye? I wouldn't even wipe my butt with it.

  10. Microsoft? on Dell We'd Sell Mac OS X · · Score: 0

    What does this mean for Microsoft? Are they going to take their move and switch over to the PowerPC platform? ;)

  11. Re:picture on Dell Axim X50 Running Linux · · Score: 0

    That's just the "handhelds" picture that the kah-razy people at slashdot picked to represent.

  12. Re:Dear Timothy on Zeta Goes Gold · · Score: 0

    It's mechanics, not grammar.

  13. Reminds me of the Borg on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 0

    I'm sure that someone has posted something along these lines already, but with such a small hero sacrificing himself to the Collective, it feels a little shaky. But I'll rest assured...as long as he doesn't point his guns at anyone, he will not be attacked and assimilated.

    It would be like LaForge going in to help them with their transwarp drive or sometihng. Poor LaForge. Be careful, Robbins.

  14. Every two days... on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 0

    Well, it is actually somewhat true, including the whole aging factor: 1. What seems like two days is really a year and makes you feel really old. 2. Now that you have gained all of those years really quickly, you start to feel a little bit heavier...

  15. Mass panic on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now if I had some DV software and a little time, I could do a re-play of the "Martians are attacking us!" program. A re-creation of that 50's-ish alien invasion hysteria to my roommate or next wall neighbor. What advanced alien race wouldn't transmit digital TV?

  16. Dead body on Using an Old Space-Suit as a Satellite · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, at least the spacesuit won't be crammed with a dead Frank Poole.

  17. Credibility on Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux · · Score: 0

    And why does anyone even bother paying attention to him? Just about everything that I have read him saying is wrong. You think that he would lose his credibility after a while.

  18. Just another... on New Shoe Designed to Kick-Start Couch Potatoes · · Score: 0

    Just another product about to go "As Seen on TV!" Ah, the irony.

  19. Re:Well on Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 0

    With all the distros and everything that the courts HAVE approved, I still wouldn't be surprised.

  20. What's next? on MPAA Targets TV Download Sites · · Score: 0

    What about porn sites?

  21. Re:Give it to me in terms I can understand. on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 0

    My athlon64 3000+ can handle it in well under 48 hours. Now 4.8 minutes would be impressive. I think that my world would include every package in Portage that didn't conflict :D

  22. These guys are on to something! on Programmatically Controlled Juicer · · Score: 0

    Finally, someone produces a machine that does one of the four primary functions of a woman. However, it does not run Linux and leaves room to be desired. (The final two are to clean and cook, I'm just waiting for that firmware.)

  23. Re:Once a spyware co always a spyware co... on John Dvorak Hypes Skype · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I agree with this post.

  24. Not an April Fool's joke... on Snails Edge Out ADSL · · Score: 0

    Beats the TCP-like pigeon spec RFC1149.

  25. Re:Until it can connect with multiple IM services. on AOL to Replace AIM with Triton · · Score: 0

    That is, until AOL uses DRM against Trillian et al over the code that decrypts Triton's packets (and that, only if AOL doesn't bother making its client harder to reverse engineer, likely a regret that is probably a driving force in creating a new service).