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  1. Axvp;utte;y N;oit on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 0

    Whpo ne3243eds toppph tyyyyp3 top usee a PPPPPPPPPPPPPPC?

  2. Let Me Explain... on Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back! · · Score: 0



    This is all so easily sorted out. Let me explain.

    Sal had a tough start in life because he was his own father, a tradition he carried on with his newborn son, who is, thus, actually his grandfather, and secretly the owner of eBay.

    Worse, he's hooked up with that Heinlein gal, who is the distant unrelated daughter of Robert Heinlein, who, like Sal, is also dead -- but because he didn't own a Lexus (Robert Heinlein, the science fiction writer, that is), was unable to be suddenly brought back to life to collect the bereavement contributions for his own death. This saddened Sal, so, like anyone else naturally would, he took to writing bad checks.

    Now, Sal had to get around, of course, so he also took to selling laptops on eBay (which his grandfather who is really his son secretly owns) in order to buy himself a mess of motor scooters from some guy named Vince Messina who, unlike Robert Heinlein, is apparently either not dead or undead.

    But Vince Messina didn't know how to ride a laptop, and worse, he had Windows XP installed on his motor scooters (without Service Pack 2, no less), so, of course, this caused Sal's father, who is secretly his son, to begin speaking in Italian -- which, of course, is how you can tell he isn't himself in his emails.

    Finally, the reporter from Philly Channel 10 News came along, and, a pleasant and intelligent fellow, he decided to clear everything up by sticking a motor scooter in Heinlein's pants (Michelle's, not Robert's) and claiming that he had $43,000,000,000 in a Swiss account that you, too, could have 80% of if you'd just chip in a few thousand dollars to help Sal make the refunds on the merchandise Vince made him sell on eBay because Sal's son (actually his grandfather), presumably in diapers due to his grandfatherly prostate condition, was in hock to the Lexus dealer.

    There.

    Everyone understand now?

  3. Honey, I've Got VD on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 0



    All the secrecy is surely due to embarrassment.

    Nonetheless, we should be told.

    I propose that social service and local health departments be given the task of informing those infected.

    After all, they've got the appropriate experience...

  4. Bush Needs No Editing on Remixing News Video On The Fly · · Score: 0, Troll



    Mr. Bush doesn't need editorial aid to sound like a moron. This is a skill he has mastered all on his own.

  5. Directionality-Challenged on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 0



    I'm unclear on one point about all this.

    Does this mean I shove the disk drive in backwards -- or should it be put in upside down?

    Or... can I just face the system unit toward the wall, instead? Would that work?

  6. Re:That does it! on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 0



    I've just set Spam Ass to a negative number...

    That'll teach 'em a thing or two.

  7. BABY CODER WANTED on Parenting and a Career in Coding? · · Score: 1, Funny



    The worst problem I have with our new infant is figuring out how to program it.

    No matter what I try, it initiates functions apparently at random. (I suspect it may have a faulty timing crystal.)

    Worse, it appears to have a both a defective interpreter and a memory leak. Most of what I tell it, it doesn't seem to parse correctly; and what it does parse correctly, it appears to forget almost immediately.

    I'm thinking maybe it's time to call in a consultant...

  8. Newbie Question... on What Would You Do With a 92 TBps Router? · · Score: 1, Funny


    All this router stuff really confuses me.

    Could somebody please tell me how to hook this thing up to my PDA?

  9. Re:Unexpected Consequences on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 0



    Yes.

    But only 50% of the time.

  10. Re:But... on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 0



    No.

    But your bank would have a 50-50 chance of declaring you dead.

  11. Unexpected Consequences on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but... what will I now need to decode my bank statements?

  12. Re:The approach is *really* simple... on New Polymer Ideal For Secure Data Storage · · Score: 0



    I observe nothing meritoriously delegated to truly consequential implementation of clandestinely fundamental characterization of the underlying integumentary stipulation of excessively or inordinately elaborate insinuation of excessive complexity -- at least, not that warrants an inculcation of indisputably derogatory and plainly inexculpable innuendo!

  13. Re:"Water"-cooling on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 0



    I dunno about that one -- I think you could anneal horseshoes on top of mine...

  14. Shit For Brains... on You're Watching Less TV · · Score: 0



    All these marketing geniuses need to go smell their own backsides.

    It clearly never has occurred to them that the problem is --

    The programming is sheer CRAP.

  15. The Ultimate Solution on .mail Domain To Eliminate Spam? · · Score: 0



    This has all become far too complex, with the usual confusion of more TLD's, where a much simpler solution is warranted and readily apparent.

    I propose a single new top level domain that will solve the problem:

    .evilcrap

  16. Re:This is HUGE NEWS. on NASA Says Mars Rocks Formed in a Salty Sea · · Score: 1, Funny



    Of course it's true!

    And forget mere bacterial fossils.

    Why -- an entire fat lady has been found on Mars.

  17. Re:Dueling Challenges on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: 0



    Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier for Bill to just call Charlie on the phone?

  18. Re:At last! on Yarn Spun from Nanotubes · · Score: 0



    I want me a pair a under-drawers made a this stuff.

    I keep blowing the backside off'n mine...

  19. Re:Thirsty? on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 0



    Making glass is one of the most water-intensive manufacturing processes of all.

    Next time, suck it straight out of the tap.

  20. Re:nah, probably not. on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 1, Funny



    I can barely begin to imagine the error messages.

  21. Re:Wow... on Courts Overturn FCC - Return of the Monopoly? · · Score: 0



    I believe AT&T now has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning this.

  22. What happens when... on Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? · · Score: 0



    What happens when they run out of letters for the variants?

    I think we need to establish a committee to explore this, and then another one to oversee that committee -- and, of course, a complicated protocol no one can understand.

    As is, this naming convention is much too simple to be used with anything Internet-related.

  23. Re:Energy on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The *real* problem is forgetting to hide the little battery in the bottom of the apparatus.

    Without that, they usually don't work very well.

  24. Re:Largest ISP? on UUNet Is The Number 1 Spam Host · · Score: 0

    Because they're the largest ISP?
    No.
    Because they'd host Jack The Ripper and throw in a free Ginsu knife, as long as the bill is paid.


    Bush wants gay marriages banned because he thinks it will stop homosexuals from breeding.

  25. Re:Huh??? on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unobtanium? I believe that's what Paris Hilton calls virginity...