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  1. Re:No Linux Support? on Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home · · Score: 1

    I would assume that the loss of Linux support is likely due to not bothering to accommodate for the large changes in hardware under the hood.

    My theory is that:
    - Sony is/was losing money on each console sold hoping to make it up by selling accessories
    - Some groups bought hundreds of console to make clusters without buying any accessories
    - Sony got tired of financing the deployment of these clusters
    - ???
    - No profit

  2. Re:fairly sure that on Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    I got the memo. I simply forgot to put a cover sheet on my TPS report.

  3. Re:Windows trojans devastate complacent idiots on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 3, Funny

    millions of users who click on any rubbish they see in the hope of pictures of female tennis stars having wardrobe malfunctions

    Link please!

  4. Re:Ugh on Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    My real life is still in BETA.

  5. Re:WTF "Czars" on White House To Appoint "Internet Czar" · · Score: 1

    Rumour has it the U.S. Government started negotiating with George Lucas for the right to use the term "Jedi" to replace "czar" once everyone is fed up.

  6. Re:Attention Pooftahs and Frenchies on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 2, Informative
    From http://www.kvacanada.com/stories_rskap'yong.htm

    About 1 a.m. April 25, a Dog Company platoon was attacked from three sides by large numbers of enemy troops. Two Patricias manning a Vickers machine-gun where killed. Waves of Chinese spilled into the company area. It was hand-to-hand-fight-for-your-life combat. Dog Company was on the verge of being overrun. The company commander, Capt. Wally Mills, requested that artillery be fired on his own positions. The New Zealand gunners obliged. The defenders hugged the bottom of their trenches while artillery shells roared in overhead. The shells scoured everything above ground level, driving off the Chinese. But they returned. More artillery fire followed. 2300 rounds hammered Dog Company positions.

    This web site was cited in the Wikipedia artical posted by the parent.

  7. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.

    Get a better shredder.

  8. Re:Software repository... on Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure I want to know how you take your coffee...


    Actually. I'm sure I don't want to know.

  9. Re:Desktop hibernation support sucks terribly. on Why IT Won't Power Down PCs · · Score: 1

    And the boot time of a PC can be considerable eating man-hours of billable time even for a small company.

    That's why TFA mention having the power management software power on the computers before the employees show up for work and power them off at the end of the day.

  10. Re:Pro-MS press?!?!? on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    For instance, this summer will see the (near) simultaneous introduction of the two biggest OSes, guess who's going to get the most coverage?

    The one with the biggest marketshare?

  11. Re:Biometrics are great on Human Ear Could Be Next Biometric System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because if someone cuts off your head, they end up with your 'unique ear click pattern'. The technet article talks about a case where thieves cut someone's finger to steal his biometrically 'protected' car.

  12. Re:I've been patiently waiting for 35 years. on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 1

    This one could possibly be different, but I'm just not holding my breath.

    You will probably have to hold your breath since the summary says the car can fly up to 460 miles. Sounds more like a shuttle replacement than a flying car.

  13. Re:Original Sources on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd say
    Fully Cracked = Dopey

    Unless you're talking of another type of crack...

  14. Re:Those Finns are dedicated on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    I hear that the Pillsbury guy has dough nuts.

  15. Re:Linux has less than 0.5% share, so does it matt on 'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux has 0.8% market share!

    Though that's counting me and my beard of unusual size, so take it as you wish.

    Stallman, is that you?

    No, he would have said GNU/Linux.

  16. Re:not to worry on Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study · · Score: 1

    42 times to be exact.

  17. Re:Dearth? on Explaining the Dearth of Console MMOGs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's the +1 burn mod when you need it.

  18. Re:Greed and money on Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source · · Score: 1

    What's the equivalent of a grammar nazi for haikus?

    Haiku shogun or haiku Yakuza?

  19. CYA on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    I took me a while to figure out what CYA meant.

    I thought it was a Canadian acronym for "See Why, Eh?"

  20. Re:They should've hired Hillary! on Judge Rules TorrentSpy Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 1

    And Monica Lewinsky couldn't quite swallow all the evidence...

  21. Re:sequel? on Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel · · Score: 1

    My bet is on The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. The movie will consist of a series of music videos based on the poems in the book. :-)

  22. Re:Quit Complaining on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    So proud that the post is anonymous...

  23. I have the same problem on Apple iBook G4 Design Flaw Proven · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a problem with my dårlig lodning, I think it's all skruetvinge.

  24. Accurate? on The Trouble with Physics · · Score: 5, Informative
    In all three scenarios, I will accurately measure the light moving away from me at 3,000,000 km/s and you will accurately measure the light moving toward you at 3,000,000 km/s.

    Not very accurate. It should be 300,000 km/s. Or 299,792.458 km/s to be precise.
  25. Re:Why do we care all that much? on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 1
    Because this extinction can be directly traced to human interference.
    I blame the guy with the huge smile on the picture. He seems awfully happy to see a dying dolphin.