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  1. Re:TCP/OA on Algae Can Carry Cargo · · Score: 1

    New Hotness: TCP Over Algae!

    This could also solve the country's power grid problem, if we could develop routers and servers that were powered by photosynthesis.

  2. Re:Enabled? What about discoverable? on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've still got mine discoverable.

    Cabbage.

  3. Enabled? What about discoverable? on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    Of course, how many /.'ers actually leave BT enabled on their phones/PDAs?

    Forget enabled - you've got to be a real cabbage to leave it enabled and discoverable! This shows there are 17,000 really stupid people in that city. Or at least 1 really unfortunate guy who happens to live within blasting radius of the Bluetooth antenna.

  4. Re:What's up with his title? on MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill · · Score: 1

    The Departments of Truth, Peace and Love would have been just too much of a give away.

    It would not surprise me if somewhere at Microsoft there were a head of the "department of homepage security".

  5. What's up with his title? on MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ryan Hamlin, head of Microsoft's Technology Care and Safety Group

    Is it just me or does his title sound like the Microsoft equivalent of an airline stewardess? And how come everyone we hear from Microsoft is the head of something? Were they all promised head to come work at Microsoft?

  6. Too meek... on MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Though often criticized as too meek, US anti-spam legislation - which relies on people opting out of spam - has proved effective in supporting prosecutions and deterring spammers

    Well the first draft, which involved a carving knife and a band-aid, would have been more effective.

  7. Define "Acting funny" on Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you arrive to work one morning, you find that your coworker's workstation is acting funny.

    It won't take my coke. The cup holder keeps spitting it out. And I am expecting to be arrested any moment, as it keeps telling me I'm doing something illegal.

  8. Re:Is that so? on RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll? · · Score: 1

    Windows Vista will support all common RSS formats, including: RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3. We will support Atom 1.0 when it's released.

    In an attempt to meet deadline, the revised version now reads:

    Windows Vista will support [snip snip] RSS [snip snip] with a patch made available in Service Pack 1.

  9. Well... on Sun Spearheads Open DRM · · Score: 1

    ...at least this will make cracking it much easier.

  10. You've got mail! on TI Calculators Play Movies · · Score: 1

    What the Hell?!? I thought I uninstalled this crap.

  11. After the bet... on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the article, the Russians believe the world will be cooler in 10 years.

    Unfortunately, $9,999 will have gone towards building a giant air conditioner in the middle of Moscow.

  12. Re:The rapists? on Therapists use Virtual Reality for Veterans · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, Mr. Connery. Just you.

    Crap. Then there goes my Karma (again).

  13. The rapists? on Therapists use Virtual Reality for Veterans · · Score: 2, Funny

    Therapists use Virtual Reality for Veterans

    Did anyone else read this "the rapists use virtual reality for veterans" ?

  14. Re:warp speed on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    Nah, the probability drive was much more fun...makes your hostess' panties jump 1' to the left.

    *Grumble* I never got invited to those sorts of parties.

  15. Re:warp speed on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    That's what I said, but the 'im' was stuck in the SEP field. Now that you're looking for it, I'm quite certain you'll see it's there.

  16. From TFA on Spurned O'Reilly 'Foo' Camp Attendees Create 'Bar' · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to understand the objectives of the event.

    Well sure with names like Foo Camp and Bar Camp, who wouldn't be able to pick up on that.

  17. Re:warp speed on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    More importantly, can they achieve infinite probability drive, or generate an S.E.P (Somebody Else's Problem) Field.

  18. Re:Something doesn't add up. on 2.7 Million VOIP Subscribers in the United States · · Score: 1

    The average VOIP account only is only $6.79 per month? That doesn't seem right. I have one of the cheaper accounts available ($14.99, VoicePulse [voicepulse.com]), so I am a little skeptical of that number.

    Vonage has hired several Bistromathematicians experts to sort out the numbers. It's part of the corporate strategy to give the illusion of being on top.

  19. Re:Becoming a god on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This type of biological research convinces me firmly that the intelligent design (ID) is just another horse crap made up by humans. The base of ID's claim lies on the belief that the design of some rudimentary living organisms are just too complex to be built by accident.

    The fallacy in your statement is in the fact that these organisms weren't merely created by accident - they were intelligently created by scientists in a lab. So the fact that this occurred only reinforces the supposition that it could not, in fact, happen on accident. As far as the supernatural beings requirement, manufacturing simple organisms is one thing, but we are still infinitely far off from being able to manufacture another human (at least without a few beers and some luther vandross). Put simply: they just proved intelligent design could occur.

  20. Re:Before you RTFM take the quiz on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 2, Funny

    [1] Is he glib and superficially charming?

    Wow, just like the GTK library

  21. Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly on Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly · · Score: 1

    Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly

    Something new from Sirius Cybernetics? Hi There!

  22. Re:PHP5! on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does PHP have the equivalent of CPAN?

    Who would want a language that had its own mediocre congressional television station?

  23. Re:Flat Earth. on The Milky Way is Not a Spiral? · · Score: 1

    You've both got it wrong; the Earth is an oblate pheroid.

  24. Re:Here's why on Top Level .xxx Domain Concept Under Scrutiny · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you think your child should be able to see tasteful nudity?

    No. Next question?

  25. Re:Or not... on Top Level .xxx Domain Concept Under Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Let me add to this thought with the statement that the freedom of speech is tempered by the freedom of people to not listen to what you have to say. It's people right to censor themselves on the Internet, and if that's made as easy as movie ratings are, I don't believe this infringes on anyone's rights, except the illusion that porn slimeballs think they have the right to force it on others.