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  1. Re:Awesome! on Huge Ocean Confirmed Underneath Solar System's Largest Moon · · Score: 1

    ...or get your star cruiser stuck behind a floating piece of Star Cola plastic carrying rings

  2. Re:initiating first post blast on Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, in my day we DoS'd by clicking on slashdot links, and by golly, we liked it!

  3. Re:Glad I am not the only one believing that... on Senators Ask EC To Let Oracle-Sun Deal Go Through · · Score: 1

    Peel the layers off the orange. Sun owns MySQL. Oracle wants to own Sun. :. Oracle owns Sun owns MySQL.

    We can argue the merits, both pro and con, for that inheritance of ownership upon MySQL's future, but I think in the end, the EU should take its time in understanding Mega King Kong Industry like acquisitions and their effect upon creative open source market influences and alternatives.

    The one thing this filthy American pig can appreciate, as I stare at my AT&T bill and ponder how humpty dumpty Ma Bell was put back together again, and why I still can't get FiOS, is that the EU tells King Kong NIMBY - to the benefit of emerging open source service markets there. Besides, Kerry, Hatch, Feinstein, and Boxer are probably the worst consultants we have on American Industry health. If those 4 alone are for it, I say let this merger die a quick and merciful death. Instinct alone from these 4's track record tells me both sides of the pond will be the better for it.

  4. Re:Hrm... on Lost World of Fanged Frogs and Giant Rats · · Score: 1

    Hello, I'm Doug McClure. You may remember me from such films as "The Land that Time Forgot" and "Chupacabra, the 'yo quiero Taco Bell' heir".

  5. Re:Shame they're so paranoid on Sound From Bird Wings Act As a Predator Alarm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who modded you offtopic?

    Squab is a pigeon dish best served cold on a plate with chicken liver, fava beans, and a tall glass of chianti. ffft! ffft! ffft!

  6. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    trust me, you don't want to be a carpenter.

    Maybe you should try rough framing instead; spitting worm dirt, jalapeno eating contests con sus amigo Mexicanos, nail gun fights, and the satisfaction of throwing up a house in one day from a bare slab. Now, that's living brother. That right there will put some lead in your pencil.

  7. Re:Obviously it's a good thing. on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    George Soros, Al Gore, and Harry Reid

    Moe, Larry, and Curly? Nancy Pelosi would be Shemp, but I don't remember Shemp having a mustache.

  8. Re:West, Texas, not West Texas on Meteorite Hunters Find the West Texas Fireball · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To all my fellow Cezhs in Texas also reared off Gerber kolaches and Shiner from a plastic nipple, you'll want to make these pilgramiges somtime in your lifetime; Schulenberg, Caldwell, Ennis, and West (downtown), in that order, all in Texas. And perchance you happen upon a store carrying "sausage kolaches"; that is an abomination to any pure blooded Czech. Flee for your life, and your heritage. "sausage kolaches" are a myth, much like "stimulus spending" or "Crisco light". True Czechs call "sausage kolaches" pigs in a blanket. Politely leave the store, come back, and watch the steam sizzle off the door as you sprinkle holy water upon it. Uz nic, dekuji.

  9. Re:Should that be millisoccer ? on Get Ready For ... Nanosoccer! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me know when they have a 30 x 30 micron playing field. That will be nanosoccer.

    Programming of the new Arena begins in 2009. My user Alan assures me he will do everything he can to save my register from being bitdozed by an old MCP Eminent Domain program.

  10. Re:Hate to break it to you, but... on Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer · · Score: 1

    ...those aren't wings, those are thetans :(

    [ In an Emergency Room far far away ... ]

    Dr. Obi Wand: Wing?! That's no wing. It's a face lesion.
    Dr. Hans Soso: Chewy, quick. Turn this lip around.
    Chewy: RrrrrHhHhhHHHHHh!

    Clone Wars, 2009
    Rated R for Violence

  11. Re:I had a lot of questions... on Photonic Switching to Boost Internet Speeds · · Score: 1

    Take 2 red and white Dixie straws, pinch one end on each, and tie them together with a very fast switching device. Now, imagine sucking banana bits from your milk shake along each red rail, versus one big banana chunk along a single white straw. Assuming the switching device between the two Dixie straws doesn't clog, enjoy the benefits of faster brain freeze. Parallel banana bit execution.

    Or, imagine a car as a photon. The car ...

  12. Re:Nuts on Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think something is wrong with my lively account.

    The first time I logged in, some funny looking feller who looked like Colonel Sanders greeted me, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the google. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here."

    So, I punched him in the hoohaw with my Papa Smurf avatar and quickly logged off. Is thing still beta?

  13. Re:Cost of transistors on Testing New Transistors In Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you please explain how we're supposed to get process shrinks and new interconnects, allowing higher clock rates and lower power consumption, without investing in new equipment?
    1. Mow out goofy looking hieroglyphics into corn fields at Roswell.
    2. Camouflage Patriot Missles with green and yellow paint.
    3. ???
    4. Profit!
  14. Re:Low watt, high performance? Seg fault on VIA and NVIDIA Working Together For PC Design · · Score: 1

    $250 for mine, and I can power a small submarine using my DVI connector.

  15. Re:Smart move on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    The people that program the UI don't always think like a user - they usually think like a programmer, and that doesn't always work.
    Except for vi. A UI designed by programmers, for programmers, but used by people like myself to cast the illusion they really are.
  16. Re:I clicked too early... on The Return of Ada · · Score: 1

    Take a chance on it.
    Was expecting "take a chance on me" instead, but I got it.

    Overall, well done, sir. Well done.

    Oh, yeah, and by the way, is it any coincidence that they're both anagrams? And, what's really surprising, if you mathematically extract the alphanumerics; ABBA = ADA; where A=1, B=2 [...] Z=26. Coincidence? I think not too.
  17. Re:speeling and gramma on pizza.com Sold For $2.6m · · Score: 1

    neitherhearnortheir

    ?

  18. Lynx, my love. on Google Plans To Sell Part of DoubleClick · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Big black buttons. Grey box lines. No option to toggle off or on. This new slashdot CSS is the pitchfork from hell reaching up through the ether, poking at me bum cheeks.

    Lynx, I want to make sweet snu-snu to you now more than ever.

  19. Re:Interstellar Directions on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 1

    Here is the time-lapse video mentioned in TFA.
    Ahh, sweet memories. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go find my yellow Members Only jacket and relax to some Lionel Richie tunes. Hell, I might just dance with my shadow while I'm at it.
  20. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped · · Score: 1

    Well, just looking at my passport, one might also extrapolate from my itinerary that I was selling secrets to the whole eastern Chinese seabord. Or, at least a political enemy might attempt to do so. Or, might just brute force demagogue me into answering media charged questions at the bare minimum.

    End Transmission. Over?

  21. Re:get over it on Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
    You would think so, wouldn't you. Yet, the moment you accept Mansa Musa's plea to destroy the evil Mongolians, he makes peace with them the very next turn, and you're left standing there with your 1 crappy chariot and your pants wrapped around your ankles.
  22. Re:Too bad! on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop · · Score: 1

    ...or, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

    I happen to be a Bear trader. Our day will soon be upon you! muahaha...

  23. Re:I tried to get more people into it. on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Marketing? I played the Darwinia demo for linux about a year ago I think. Loved it. So, there I was last Saturday standing in front of game titles; ready to plop down a Jackson or a Grant on whatever struck me. I glanced over a few titles and stumbled upon Darwinia. Great, I thought. Another title to add to my linux collection. As I read the back cover, the only operating system listed was Windows. What a shame. What happened from the demo to the shelf? So, a bit disheartened, I grabbed the latest expansion pack to CIV4 instead.

  24. Re:Too late... on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if people took responsibility for their actions. Most of the "terror" is because of our foreign policies.
    The unabomber? Timothy McVeigh? You also seem to forget the beheadings of non muslim citizens in the Phillipines, terrorist attacks against Hindus in Indonesia, mass slaughter of Christians in Darfur, and so on and so forth. If you believe anyone from any country of any faith or from any lifestyle is responsible for the terrorist attacks upon them, well, you've already lost the war on terrorism.
  25. Re:It's a threat to privacy no matter how you look on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 1

    T-Ray will only catch the dumb terrorists anyways. Box cutters don't hijack planes, people do. As a frequent flyer, I'd much rather face the scrutiny practiced by El Al profilers at Ben Gurion International instead; an evasion of privacy, not invasion. Watchful parents practice these techniques daily with their teenage sons and daughters. Traditionally, our neglectful American airport guardians would simply hand you the ticket, "Here's the keys to the Buick. Take the toll gate. Be back home by 2."