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  1. Re:MAC users who want to run Vista Home on Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax · · Score: 1

    Some folk think that the best editor ever was the original vi.

    ed is the standard text editor.
    no, the original text editor was:
    echo "..." > file.txt
    Just don't make any mistakes... or changes.
  2. Re:Battery life? on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    5 hours talk/video time
    16 hours of just audio

  3. Re:How is this news? on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    Relation does not imply causality.

  4. Re:A little late on Wii Pre-Orders at EB Games and Gamestop · · Score: 1

    I remember going to a Best Buy the day before the XBox 360 was released. There were about 15 people camped out in sleeping bags and anything to keep them warm through a cold November Minnesota night. I swear, you can save hundreds of dollars and the risk of hypothermia if you can just wait a few weeks.

  5. SSNs to verify passwords. on Does Your Employer Still Use SSNs? · · Score: 1

    I used to work for a Help Desk for a large military contractor. When people locked their account or needed a password reset, we had to ask for the last four digits of their SSN to verify their identity. For the most part that worked fine, and nobody complained. However, someone in HR decided that we cannot get the SSNs of any contractors that we hired so for the last four digits field, they put the last four digits of their badge number. They forgot to tell us that, and we had lots of contractors who had to physically go to the security office and verify their identity because they fat-fingered their password. This also caused problems, as HR's software required the last four digits to be unique, which pretty much limited us to 10,000 contractors ever.

  6. Re:At which point we can all say... on Our Moon Could Become a Planet · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the moon becomes you!

  7. Re:Paging Strunk and White on Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors · · Score: 1

    am on pins and needles while I'm holding my breath

    That usually mean's you're holding your breath too long...

  8. Re:Chocolate luuuuvvv.... on Love Under a Microscope · · Score: 0

    Drink 3 Jolts and go right to sleep

    That means you drink Jolt for the taste?

  9. Re:Does this mean... on Toshiba to Pay $5.4 Billion for Westinghouse · · Score: 0

    Nuclear Powered Laptops?

    I heard that to avoid lawsuits around people burning the tops of their legs on a hot laptop, the manufacturers are trying to shift towards the use of the word "notebook". Just in time, too. I wouldn't want that thing next to my... cell phone.

  10. Re:That's pretty shocking. on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 0

    I am sure there are lots of people like that out there, just that us geeks are not aways aware of them.

    Next you're going to tell us about that "Sun" thing again!

  11. Re:Explains alot on MacWorld MacBook Only a Prototype? · · Score: 5, Funny

    And at least my shiny new (1 year old) power book doesn't quite feel outdated just yet ...

    Wait for it... wait for it... Ok, now it's outdated.

    It takes less and less time these days.

  12. Re:Sneak PEEK on Sneak Peek at IBM 'Viper' DB2 Release · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had a sneak peak once in high school. Very embarrasing.

  13. RSA SecurIDs on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 1

    Does this mean I don't have to have my SecurID with me to log into the VPN at work?

  14. Re:Finally... on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 1
    Being able to vote with our wallets instead of our Neilsen boxes can correct the fundamental flaws of existing ratings methods
    Well, it shifts it to a different demographic, that of those who use iTunes.
  15. Re:Borazon on New Material Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love playing Diablo II with one of those, but I got bored because all she does it shoot arrows at stuff. Oh, Borazon... Nevermind.

  16. Re:Forget R2 on Heliodisplay In Production · · Score: 2, Informative

    Couldn't you use this projection technology to make a REAL (at least looking) light saber??

    As long as you don't want to move the lightsaber, then yes.

  17. Re:I don't want to be metered! on Jerk-O-Meter to Meter Jerks · · Score: 1

    Ok, we'll inch you instead.

    I was furlonged once. That wasn't pleasant.

  18. Re:Taxes? on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1

    If Starbucks gives me a free lifetime supply of coffee, do I owe them 20% of $infinity?

    we all should know that 20% of $Infinity is $NaN...

  19. Re:Um on Alternatives To Office For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    has anyone had good success with Pages, or the iWork suite for that matter? I have been reluctant to give it a try for the lack of a spreadsheet program, but the rumor mills say that's coming soon.

  20. Re:babies sex can be influenced. on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    Or they will continually rotate. If we could harness this power, we would have a perpetual motion machine, and we could give the cats and the buttered toast a rest.

  21. Re:Come again? on Apple To Patch Dashboard Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Why Atlanta?

    My guess is that it's close to the Coke Museum. Coding up 10.4.1 probably took a few coke-filled nights...

  22. Re:Did they try the store? on Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    At first glance I read the title as:

    "Mars Express Begins Search for Women on Mars"

  23. Re:Why complicate things so much? on The Future of Databases · · Score: 1

    if anyone knows and cares about reliability it's Microsoft I would say the majority of slashdotters know and care about sex, but they aren't really experts on the subject.

  24. Re:Personal experience on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1
    • Windows: Checks watch for a new uptime record
    • Mac: Makes sure that no PC users saw the crash
    • Linux: Checks the temperature of Hell
  25. Future of architecture? on Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only the old live in cardboard houses.