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  1. Re:Todays Presidental Race... Would that be on on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    a...

    'Victrola'?

    http://www.victor-victrola.com/

    http://www.besmark.com/

    If so, he goes waaaayyyy back.

  2. Re:Can't listen, Flash only I didn't listen to it, on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 2, Funny

    but...

    When i was waiting for my train, three people were coming down the escalator. I heard one kinda laughingly tell the other two, "Palin said, 'John McCain already *tapped me*'." There there was more laughter. I couldn't *help* but wonder what kind of "tapping" McCain did....

  3. Re:Trying to avoid funny remarks... Heath? on No Space Porn (For Now) · · Score: 1

    "Underwater is apperantly hazardous to women's heath."

    I suppose you meant "health".

    But, one could substitute "hearth", in which, given the topic now, could be her "oven".

    Now, thinking of Alien, can we now say of Virgin Galactic's move, "In SPACE, no one will see you STREAM" (stream being whatever you want in the context here...).

    As for dealing with the possibility of an actor coming down sick, plan ahead. Sex flights could be expensive, and messes (human discharge of various types) would be an onerous thing to clean up. So, contract out a job to design durable, ultra transparent bubbles. They can have vacuum hoses, intermittent water-washdown/wash-in, and air recycling. This could keep the air clean in the bubble, such the fluids out of the bubble, and keep it clean for the camera.

    I remember listening to NPR a few weeks back, with two producers who are popular (damn me for i cannot recall the tv production of theirs that is VERY popular...), and both of whom started out in the porn industry, filming porn, that is.

    One of them said, "If TV delivered the sense of smell as part of the product, no one would go watch another porn video again." He said that because he once had a shoot which lasted like 11 hours, and the set was FILLED with odors and messes of various sorts. Didn't say whether or not they considered or actually used fans to blow the farts and other odors off-set...

  4. Re:Whiskey? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    "Sounds like magic."

    But, is it an ultrasound decision, or merely a sound decision?

    Also, doesn't a microwave antenna or over "agitate" the molecules in a piece of food, meat, or person? Would such materials be "aged", agitated, or merely cooked?

  5. Re:Whiskey? How about "Gutstripper"? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    Will drinking it kill one? Is it as useful ass the colon-cleansing treatments?

    Or, will it be near-fatal rot-gut//gut-rot?

  6. Re:More likely ex-military spec WHen I temped at on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    an accounting firm in San Jose in 2006, i was told how about part of the upgrade/replacement process. At this firm, which has thousands of employees globally dispersed, new employees getting laptops got new laptops. Existing employees who got new laptops on their own new-hire dates got jealous, because, after all, better laptop models come out almost weekly, and a guy with almost 3 years in the company could get upset because for accounting reasons they had to wait 3 years before being granted an upgrade. One *probably did* get jealous and "forgot" his laptop was behind his vehicle in his garage, and he "ran it over". It was in a U-shape. He probably thought he'd be forgiven, then given a NEW laptop. But, the company had disk images, built a new drive, and gave him the EXACT SAME MODEL from spares in the IT inventory. NOTHING left the company without having an active assignment logged. Even senior people were subjected to the upgrade/replacement policy. The company ensured the "fairness" of it by retaining a sufficient stock of spares of given, prevalent models to combat deliberate losing or deliberate destruction by those hoping to "cheat" or defeat the upgrade policy.

  7. Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    He saved the government GSA/OMB/other agencies from having to set up an auction.... They'd have probably SPENT $80,000 to dispose of nearly worthless stuff (unless the drives/media contain secrets....)

  8. That's what chu git fo tryin' to be NUMBA ONE, on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    ALL the time, motha-humpas.... SOMEbody's gonna captcha yo flag...

  9. And if the battery known as on Toshiba Battery Charges In 10 Minutes · · Score: 1

    "The Super Charge Ion Battery (SCIB)" blows up on/in your lap, you will have what will be called:

    SCAB-- Super-Charged Area Burn

    and be known as:

    SCAB-- Super-ComBobulating Alpha, Burning

    (Class A fires include anything that leaves an ash after complete burning: paper, wood, mattresses, clothing, and people. Live people running around on fire, as I was taught in the USN, are affectionately known as "Screaming Alphas"...

  10. Re:Weird And if you belive in REVolution/DEVo on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    WHY am i suddenly reminded of Whamo-O's "Slip 'n Slide"?

  11. Re:Weird And if you belive in REVolution/DEVo on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    lution, it could be the creation of homo-whormo-sapien 2.0.0.3.5-36-xbz

    But, if you believe in creationism, you'd be remiss to not ask why free will was granted if HIV/AIDS were to be created as a punishment for what "God" apparently doesn't like. Sounds kinda stupid, to me. Sort like deliberately creating cars that WILL fail at the slightest operator whim, only to punish the car AND driver for transgressions that were known to be likely to happen.

    I can only think of Depeche Mode's "Blasphemous Rumours" ....

    Why in the HELLS create something, give it a free will, make it's immune system *relatively* robust, then create a disease/malfunction SPECIFICALLY to punish beings for same-gender emotional/recreational sex activities? Sure, reckless-abandon sex should not be rewarded when STDs can be passed all to easily. But, the logic of the "God's punishment for Gay sex" is absolutely, mind-bogglingly, immeasurably idiot. Why? Well, those who practice SAFE/monogamous or protected same-sex sex are ONLY going to contract HIV/AIDS by means OTHER than penile-anal/penile-vaginal congress.

    If you believe in KARMA, then said people will come down with HIV/AIDS via random assault bitings or needle-jabs in crowded places where the attackers intentionally are infecting the public. But, such attackers can't possibly KNOW who IS and IS NOT gay/swinging sexual beings. Also, such people would get HIV/AIDS via botched/reckless blood transfusion. Yet, why is "God" punishing those who are newborns or toddlers or kids or young adults and other adults who DO NOT use recreational/addiction-based needle-transferred drugs? Is it then KARMA, which some religions will prefer to displace with God theory?

    If "God" wanted, s/he/it could have created a universe (for us) in which our trials and travails didn't have HIV/AIDS, polio, herpes, and Hitler, Stalins, and other things and people to "make life on Earth interesting". Our sphere/bubble/microcosm could have been "MORE INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED" with less bullshit, less bloodshed, and less God-damning, senseless, discombobulating forms of inanity and violence. We wouldn't have to be More Intelligently Designed as sheep, but things could have been DIFFERENT.

    So, maybe Blasphemous Rumors is quite apropos a song, despite the RCC decrying the song. After all, what in Blasphemous Rumors can be challenged? What in the song is false or libelous or mis-representative of the world in which we live? Especially when "God" gave us many abilities to be "Flexible", and make us relatively stronger than a "Fly on the Windscreen"?

    There's too much "God" in our daily lives and not enough compassion, humility, honesty, and sharing. Greed abounds, intermixed with wondrous and scary things, especially SCARY so-called God-driveling and God-driven leaders and wannabe leaders.

    I think i rest my case.

  12. Re:Don't hold your breath So hazy i can't see... on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clouds ARE insensitive, you clo .... (struck by lightening, vaporized...)

  13. Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Miss Cleo? Hell, she couldn't even see the IRS coming to pat(ra) her ass down... So much for her predictions.

    Now, if janjaweed is a cure for drug-related pains or pangs...

  14. Re:Also known as /.itis Not something we'd want on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    to say "Happy Birthday" to.

    As for "Crossing Over" I... I.. I.. can SENSE a ... FEELING... (tilting head back, eyelids fluttering, arms up Kirk/Jesus/Charleton Heston-like) Where ARE YOU NOW?! I.. i.. i sense you there... you're ... you're shaped like a STRAND.... Yes, like a helix... sinewing through my system, coursing through my mortal veins... I... i.. i.. think we've met before...

  15. Re:Management Would it SUCK or... on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Depending upon the Universe, then according to a character in "The Spy Who Shagged Me" who responded to Dr. Evil, "THAT KIND OF MONEY DOESN'T EVEN *EXIST*"...hehhehe.

    But, if have our own lens/bubble distortion, NO amount of money would matter...

    Butt, I'D like to know, since there is a possible bubble, is there a possible tent and string of coconut being pulled between the heavenly bodies?

  16. Re:Don't hold your breath So hazy i can't see... on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Project/Code Name?

    Candidates:

    Tacoma
    Wincoma
    GLAUcoma

    Cloudy
    Misty
    TearDrop
    Charmin

  17. Re:And the reason is... "They've locked onto my.." on Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor) · · Score: 1

    "Let me check my business for non published interfaces: Lotus notes, check; MS office, check; MS Windows, check; Cisco phone system, check; non standards VPN, check;"

    Then, Spock-like, he says, "Gorn tele-bomb? THEY'VE *LOCKED ONTO* MY *TRICORDER*" (Hurls tricorder to what he hopes is a safe blast radius while ducking behind low berm...)... "FASCInating in their methodology, those illogica fasci..."

    (effects) PEEEJUUUUU (Gorn wide-field disruptor blast)

    Fade/wipe-out/lost communicator signal/lost visual/lost subcutaneous transponder/lost bio-signatures.....

  18. Re:And the reason is... Doesn't it just BURN you on Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    UP how people who talk about Lotus products just say "Lotus", and say it as if ONLY Lotus 1-2-3 is Lotus' only product. These same types of people do the SAME thing with Notes. Even though IBM/Lotus has a very diminutive place in the market, there (according to IBM) still are some 10 millions licensed clients of SmartSuite out there. That alone means these submitters and these moderator/admins need to get it in their heads that it would really be helpful to correct summaries.

    RESEARCH the SUMMARY content to ensure that there is not any ambiguity. Why? Well, I'm someone who is ALWAYS on the lookout for new word about Lotus Smart Suite being updated, made Open Source/GPL-friendly or ported/rebuilt for Linux native running. I KNOW the Lotus car won't be on the iPhone. But it's plausible that Symphony (the SmartSuite wannabe that has a long way to go to catch up to the comfort and feel of SmartSuite as we S/S users would like it to be...) could be released for iPhone use. Pessimists could feel "Lotus on iPhone? Oh, then *probably* mean Notes". But, why can't the admins (who are vaunted/revered but subject to being reviled) just stop or filter the trash-ass summaries and story titles? Is it laziness, or is it for sensationalism? Or, is it both?

  19. Re:incongruous ...I KNEW there was a reason on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 1

    all these years i referred to ms excel as "HEXEDcell"...

    Others referred to ms office as ms orifice.

    Now, if OO.o fails to at least equal mso, and if OO.o crashes Wall Street 2.0, would we call OO.o "OpenOrifice", in the name of "fairness"?

  20. Re:Management Would it SUCK or... on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Would it BLOW if someone burst our bubble? (Trying to reduce the techno-babble of the cosmo-bubble...)

    It might be funny if our bubble had to pass through a cosmic blow ring. Things could REALLY be up for (Social) distortion.

  21. The Cloud is the New WMD on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    It's to distract us from the impending dust cloud that will puff up the letters "w.a.l.l. s.t.r.e.e.t. w.a.s. h.e.r.e."

  22. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    "Uh, laptops have sleep mode and suspend. I can't imagine why anybody would ever shutdown a laptop unless they were going on vacation and not bringing it along. Or selling it, maybe."

    Well, he is smart to shut it down before bagging it. After all, depending upon the components in the hardware, it may be VERY undesirable to have the OS or suspend/hibernate software decide to poll things or wake up, only to fail to resume suspend/hibernate, and thus end up VERY hot in the bag. I had that happen to me, and it was worrisome for a while. Could be DEADLY to the hardware, not unlike staying in a hot room with a heater one, and and failing to drink water, crack the window...

  23. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there a pre-.... position missing here?

    I'm trying to figure:

    Some people hibernate IN their computers at night.

    Some people hibernate ON their computers at night.

    Some people hibernate UNDER their computers at night.

    Some people hibernate WITH their computers at night.

    Is there a Borg in the house?

  24. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    "Real Dolls don't need any power."

    Sez who? Sez you?

    Butt, the reBOUND at the power of the HIPS of the source doing the thrusting. But, if you want the doll with glowing eyes, get the model with regenerative humping module. Whirring/purring motor sold separately. The gel-leaking model has variable flow...

    I imagine these make great sexercising machines. Avoid the MechWarrior model. She's a THRILLER and a KILLER!

  25. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    What i find interesting about USB and other hardware is that on my Gateway Laptop running Mandriva PowerPack 2008.0 (yep, .0, not .1), and Sun xVM (Virtual Box 2.0.2) is that ***vista* sees the audio slider (LED's on a sensor strip that i run my finger over to increase or decrease the audio level) input and also sees the mute button event.

    Yet, Mandriva doesn't and xVM doesn't intercept these event codes and pipe them over to the kernel or audio related code.

    To be fair, though, a later version of Mdva (maybe Free /Spring 2008.1) DOES. I tried it, but didn't like the package and other settings so I rolled back to PCLlinuxOS 2007 on my other hard drive. But, since that drive died (is dying with some 5,000 errors the last time i ran S.M.A.R.T. drive utility), i pressed into service another disk, with a fresh install of the magazine-based Mandriva PowerPack. Maybe i have to run one or two of those for-Linux key/led binaries?

    But, for any who are still not convinced, xVM is great. I did have to (in my case) uninstall the older stuff, and I am not sure that that Add-Ons are supposed to show as 2.0.0 (which is what i see, vice my expectation of 2.0.2), but the desktop auto-resolution changes as i stretch the window containerizing vista.

    As for pre-loading the desktop in the background, i would have thought that idea would have been tried, oh, like 4 years ago. After all, IIRC, that was what windows was doing, and IIRC, there was boo and hiss right here on /. about that, with some comments talking about security risks of preloading a desktop, not knowing which account to preload, etc...