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  1. Re:This is silly on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    Yetis are probably Whopper virgins.

  2. bitsadmin on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    bitsadmin, to create jobs for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) in Windows.

  3. Wrong headline on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. Should talk about how IBM is withdrawing Linux on POWER from the desktop.

  4. Re:Unfortunate name on AMD Launches First 45nm Shanghai CPUs · · Score: 1

    I still find it funny that Intel Core 2 Extreme processors have 4 cores.

  5. Name? on China's First Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    What are Chinese astronauts called? Chinonauts?

  6. Al Gore to the rescue on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years

    No worries. They'll just buy SLA credits. Like carbon credits, but for uptime.

  7. Re:Its a sign on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1

    They should really make the Luxor into a Stargate-themed hotel.

  8. Re:and Yet... on Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    The most important part, did they finally make it non CPU intensive?

    Not a problem. You just plug in your USB x64 quad-core chip.

    (Will USB3 have enough power for a 140W AMD Phenom 9950?)

  9. Re:Cyrix did it. on Nvidia Rumored To Be Readying X86 Chip Release · · Score: 1

    Anyways, all of the speculation is meaningless, if Nvidia is actually doing this they've got the legal parts taken care of.

    Exactly. Just like they took care of thermal issues.

  10. The best rule on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1
  11. Required-viewing movie list on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 1

    Now all aides to the UK PM have another movie added to the required-viewing list.

  12. Don't think of your laptop as "infected"... on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    ...think of it as "DNA-encoded".

  13. It is... on A Video Tour of the MSI Wind and Other Netbooks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A mighty Wind.

  14. Pizza Hut technology on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 2, Funny

    like hearing that Pizza Hut had developed a new generation of microprocessor

    You didn't see that commercial yet? It's the one where they also introduced the Extreme Cheesy-Cheesy Extreme Pepperoni Pizza. The microprocessor is in the crust!

  15. Quick, someone tell Bill the answer... on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Google: moviemaker +site:microsoft.com

  16. VS 2008 on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 1

    Any priority to making sure VS 2008 runs on WINE, so that I can run VS 2008 on WINE in order to develop apps for Windows that I can then run under WINE?

  17. Real Filibusterers... on Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    Remember the good ol' days, when you had to actually worry about bodily functions during a filibuster?

  18. A new condition grade... on Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History · · Score: 1

    LEGO GEM Mint.

  19. More horrors... on Real Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    And I thought they couldn't make backscatter any more horrible.

  20. Or... on Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field · · Score: 1

    The author developed a program to snapshot memory usage per process every 3 seconds on Windows.

    Could have used perfmon.

  21. IN3D on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    How about doing this to this?

  22. OK... on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    But what does the oven tell us?

  23. Theater events? on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 1

    I do believe that the theatrical experience will not go away but will become more of an event marketing experience.

    It's hard to enjoy a theater event when there are sticky floors, trash in seats, lousy projection, and commercials.

  24. Payment on N-Prize Founder Paul Dear Talks Prizes For Nanosat Race · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, payment of the prize money is in nano-sized dollar bills.

    And they're in orbit.

  25. Rover on Groundbreaking Solar Mission Faces Chilly Death · · Score: 1

    The mainstream press will inevitably call this a rover.