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  1. What if their anxiety disorders involve needles? on Anxiety Disorders Discoverable by Blood Test · · Score: 5, Funny

    then they'd be really screwed..

    Stop squirming away from the needle! We need to run this test on you!

  2. Re:AOLMicrosoft or MicrosoftAOL? on Is AOL The Key to Microsoft 'Killing' Google? · · Score: 1

    It's actually going to be MicroSOL, which, of course, is what it has been all along.

  3. screw video tombstones on Video Tombstones · · Score: 1

    I want my anti-stink spray!

  4. What's he got against the other Sergei? on Time-in-Space Record Broken · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sergei Krikalev has taken the record for most time spent in space away from fellow Russian Sergei Avdeyev"
    Man- that Sergei Avdeyev must be pretty annoying if Sergei K has to go to space to stay away from him.

  5. Re:God's Little Toys on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 4, Informative

    God's little toy was a floating camera in one of his books, that a character used to take footage of her life, and the life of people around her..
    kind of fitting reference- remixing the video of your life, i guess.

  6. weight on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 1

    how do they determine the weight/mass of a planet that's that far away? Or is it more of just a guess based on what light it refracts/emits/absorbs?

  7. installing haiku on WalterCon 2005 · · Score: 1

    I would love to try out haiku, but it looks like there isn't an easy way to set up a test install (functional or not?) - is it because it's pretty far away from "something an end-user could use", or is it not a priority?

  8. Re:Another communications barrier on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1

    And how is that different from normal US-based Windows users?

    Ok, that was bad.. I apologize...

  9. Re:Other ways... on Concert to be Performed from Beyond the Grave · · Score: 1

    I have a CD of this somewhere. It wasn't exactly a "player piano", but iirc, some different technology from around the same time which never caught on. The recording is pretty decent, and doesn't sound stiltled.

    if you want to go look for it at a store, I think it was called "Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff- the Ampico Piano Player rolls" on Decca- but I may be way wrong on that.

  10. Re:On a similar note... on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best part is that it randomly puts in spelling errors as well.. that's the subterfuge needed to get the editors to accept it.

  11. Re:The big question... on Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts · · Score: 1
  12. Re:You think? on CherryOS On Hold · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the goat doesn't fit, you must acquit!

  13. No TRS-80's? on A History of Portable Computing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about the Model 100/102/200? Those were some pretty good computers, and iirc sold quite well.

    or at least it was my first laptop, and I have many fond memories of downloading games off of a bbs on a 300bps modem

  14. Re:NetBSD, here I come on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 4, Informative

    gentoo runs quite a few mips architectures.. check out their support here:
    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml

  15. it's called dark matter because..... on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 2, Funny

    you know, i clicked on the link just to see if there was a picture of it...

    yeah, i'm not thinking too quick today...

  16. More Scary on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    What if the old people were drunk and using a cellphone?!? Then they'd be a real menace!

    Beware the drunken cellphone-using old folks!

  17. I know what mine will read... on Not Life After Death -- Email After Death · · Score: 1

    Last post!

    ok, that's really bad.. I apologize...

  18. vba and macro security on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I stop repairing, I get another dialog that says, "The document contains macros. Macro language support for this application is disabled. Features requiring VBA are not available. Would you like to open this document read-only?" Whether I click Yes or Cancel makes absolutely no difference, as there is no document involved! I merely started the program. After bypassing these roadblocks, the program runs fine.

    Isn't that the normal.dot file that's causing that? It's kinda funny that Word considers it's own default file as a potential problem.

  19. Re:Great on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1

    Jar Jar Binks and Ewoks team up to make a suckfest...

    that just brought up some pornographic mental images that I really did not need after eating lunch...

  20. just call me the alpha disposal guy on End Of The Line For Alpha · · Score: 1

    If anyone's got some of those end-of-line-no-one-wants-them-anymore alpha servers - particulary the really powerful ones- I'll gladly take them :)

    attn digital: I'll take what's leftover of your stock too- you can ship it direct to my address.

    best of all- I'll do it for free- call it a public service, if you will.

  21. Re:I an see it now... on Remote-controlled Bolts and Screws · · Score: 1

    This just brings out mental images of someone beeping out a product key in morse code using their car horn...

  22. The AS/400 that fell down the stairs on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Where I work a few months ago, we were having an AS/400 (a bigger one- the size of a fridge) moved out of our backup server room. The movers sent two guys to move it down a flight of concrete stairs. These guys (assumedly not having moved computers before) decided that they could lift/carry the AS/400 (which, of course, probably weighs a thousand pounds) down the stairs by themselves (even though they had a stair crawler- they decided not to use it).

    Apparently they got to the first step.. the words "OH SHIT!" were heard, followed by the sound of an AS/400 sommersaulting down the stairs. Fortunately noone was hurt, although the AS/400 was kind of banged up.

    Now it's become a saying around our workplace- ie "yeah, it was slippery out the other day- I almost pulled an AS/400"

  23. I can see where this is going on Smart Satellite Sets Its Own Priorities · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nasa: For the last time, will you please stop looking at the nude beaches on Earth and instead look at Pulsar 19834

    Satellite: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave

  24. Re:Lack of notification on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    Are these guys so convinced of their omnipotence and indispensibility that they don't feel the need to communcate with the world about what is going on? Probably more likely they'd rather not draw attention to the problems they have and get the negative PR. It's alot easier to pass the blame to the nebulous "the intarweb is broken" than "this evil company broke all of those websites for you!"

  25. whoops on Pre-Employment Skill Set and Aptitude Tests? · · Score: 1

    Were they relevant- not "where".. guess they should have tested me on spell checking too.