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  1. Re:Windows 8 on Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the proper nomencalture "ME2"? All it needs is Bob and Clippy "integrated" so you cat remove them to make it the ideal OS.

  2. Re:Cyber Monday at IDC! on Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012? · · Score: 2

    Irregardless we know what he mean's

    Cromulently put.

  3. radioactive plutonium on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 2

    Is there a kind of plutonium that isn't radioactive?

  4. Re:A sad world. on Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy · · Score: 1

    You live in a crowed city

    Far more likely s/he lives in a pigeoned city.

  5. We need a Bezos demo on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: 1

    Showing that the whingers are holding it wrong.

  6. Re:Looser? on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Does this mean they Mohammed-off?

  7. Re:AHA! I know what this is! on The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I started to vent a little there.

    Distinct aroma of hydrogen sulfide noted.

  8. Re:Hope it doesn't affect me. on Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior · · Score: 1

    Only if the face is all black except for a little bit of white around the mouth... That could get you sent to sensitivity training...

    Why? Is there some kind of unreported anesthetic quality to blackface?

  9. Re:I'm all for it - start at Microsoft HQ! on Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior · · Score: 2

    The FICA commitments when putting attention on the payroll are way too burdensome.

  10. Re:Secure boot is UEFI on Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated · · Score: 5, Funny

    a security flaw in either the UEFI firmware or the Windows code could render it ineffective.

    Let's get real, what are the odds of a flaw in Windows code?

  11. Re:Little Intel has growed up on Intel Announces Xeon E5 and Knights Corner HPC Chip · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing its an incurable condition brought on by exposure to Apple iDevices

  12. downloads truncate on OpenSUSE 12.1 Released · · Score: 1

    the anl, tds mirrors the and direct link downloads all truncate at ~325MB of 4.3G

  13. Re:Is there: +4, Informative on New Malware Signed With Stolen Government Certificate · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr. Trout,
    "Life is no way to treat an animal." would make an excellent epitaph.

  14. Re:Great form factor but where are the cases? on Via Launches a New Mini-ITX System · · Score: 1

    For those that don't follow links, its $40, pretty reasonable in that niche.

  15. Re:The music industry is tiny on Universal Buys EMI's Recorded Music Unit For $1.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    It aint backs that's getting anatomical attention, though it probably is tiny, and it aint scratching that's being performed,.

  16. Re:Sorry Dave I can't let you do that on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 1

    You can borrow my robe and wizards' hat.

  17. O Boy! on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 1

    determine identity through the activities the user normally performs

    Authentication thru masturbation.

  18. Re:I'm assuming by evolving the TV paradigm... on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Draconian Rights Manipulation for all those "must have" Sony movies and TV shows intended to prevent you from time or format shifting their steaming pile of streaming.

  19. Re:Completely different design mentalities on Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' · · Score: 1

    Finally, yelling at the TV and calling it an ass (Siri translates as a homonym of butt in Japanese) will make sense and achieve an objective.
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20116165-71/apples-siri-is-apples-buttocks-in-japan/

  20. Re:Two Simple Solutions on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    we may have to start shooting people

    Lets start with the politicians and lawyers (kinda redundant as most politicians are lawyers, but what can it hurt to shoot 'em twice, just to be sure. Cutting off their heads, filling the mouth with garlic, and driving a wooden stake through their heart might be going too far, or just might be called being thorough.

  21. Re:Take a long view on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Well said. Wish I had mod points.

  22. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 0

    I don't know who said it but - It's like seeing a truck coming at you from a distance, do you start calmly taking one step at a time towards the cliff edge, or do you wait until the last minute and then dive over the cliff?

    FTFY

  23. Does this mean on Windows OS Coming To the Mainframe · · Score: 1

    you get a Big Blue Screen of Death?

  24. Re:Do Nothing, let Spamgourmet take care of it. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 1

    Another Thumbs up for SPAMGOURMET, every vendor gets their own, count limited, email address. (alternatively, an unlimited exclusive sender so discship@netflix always comes through and I don't have to keep resetting the count) This lets me know when and to whom they sell the address. Good Stuff. You can even download the code and set up your own relay if you are a corporation and want to provide a similar server for your users under your own control.

  25. Re:Department of Security Theater on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Theater gives it far too much legitimacy. Department of Security Vaudeville and Keystone Koppery. Official music theme is Yakety-Sax from Benny Hill end credits. Que video of Pistole chasing the prophet Mohammed with upraised Billy Club.