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  1. Burns and Smithers on The Simpsons Come to Life · · Score: 0

    Just wondering if anyone else noticed Mr Burns and Smithers in Homer's first scene?

  2. Touch Screen ey? on 'True' Video iPod Coming Soon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It will be nice to watch a video with somebody's grubby fingerprints all over the screen.

  3. Re:Hopefully in the future I'll still be able to s on What Will The Future Desktop Interface Look Like? · · Score: 0

    That's the funniest thing I've ever read on here. It's a punch line I waited 11 years for.

  4. Re:A chain of airplanes has more throughput on Bandwidth Challenge Results · · Score: 0

    If you want improved latency upgrade to an F-111.

  5. Sounds like... on OpenOffice.Org in a Corporate Environment? · · Score: 0

    You want to put too many constraints on the deployment. You need to realise that it's not a Microsoft so you'll have to accept OOo the way it is.

  6. I'm stunned on Used Microsoft Licenses For Sale · · Score: 0

    What??? You mean the guy in Kazakhstan selling me licenses of MS products on eBay isn't endorsed by Microsoft.

  7. s-twig on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 0

    Does that mean Penthouse might start carrying Hentai?

  8. My understanding... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: -1, Troll

    I understand the subject of Intelligent Design, stopping short of naming/inferring an actual creator. In this sense, I fell it detaches itself from an particular religion at all, and attempts to go beyond Darwinism and explain how we arrived in the first place.

    I don't see it as unscientfic, who's to say Aliens didn't create us.

  9. Shame... on Inmarsat Brings 3G Broadband to North America · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Being from Australia, I remember when I used to envy the US and it's broadband ways. We've had 3G for the last 2 years.

    It's a pity to see a country that initially led the broadband charge fall back as far as it has.

  10. Cedega increases the cost of gaming. on Cedega 5.0 Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In terms of Linux, Cedega increases the cost of gaming, not only indirectly by having to own a better system to counteract the performance loss in comparison to Windows, but also because of their subscription fee. It's just doesn't seem right, you have to pay two companies to have your software work. There are plenty of other end user friendly ways of making money.

  11. Vista on Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans · · Score: 0

    Doesn't including Anti-spyware with an OS, scream that there is something wrong with the OS. Why doesn't MS address the shortcomings of the OS that allow Spyware.

  12. Pure Profit on Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    $100,000 isn't bad for your first website.

  13. Anywhere else... on YouTube Receives $3.5M Funding from Sequoia · · Score: 0

    if those names were used in the same paragraph as $3.5M, you'd swear it was a money laundering operation.

  14. Arrgghhh, you make me sick Microsoft. on Open Source Not That Open? · · Score: 0

    It's a shame that no one will ever consider anything Microsoft wants to say about an industry, it has no experience in. I'm sure they hired Jason to provide reassurance.

    "Let's get a UNIX and open source expert and have him proclaim our business model is so much better." Steve whispered as he rolled over to take a share of Bill's bedsheet.

  15. Re:Suckers, suckers everywhere on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're a moron. You spelt due diligence incorrectly. Dill! :)

  16. Why? on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 1

    Why would you bother, everyone knows ET runs the show on the moon.

  17. Mateeeeeyyy on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They'll have more users when the piracy thing catches on. Hell, I wouldn't use Windows if it wasn't free...

  18. Ooooo yeah. on Build Your Own Linux-Based Satellite · · Score: 0

    I want some frickin' lasers on mine.

  19. Re:We need deadlier cigarettes on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 0

    "and I don't mind trading off a few years of my life for it."

    I'm sure when you're lying on your death bed, coughing spluttering, etc. A cigarette won't be your last request.

  20. Good thing... on IBM Slows the Speed of Light · · Score: 0

    Microsoft didn't come up with this one, or we'd end up paying for new versions light every three years to make it go slower.

  21. Re:Disappeared? No... on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    All jest aside. That's pretty sad to see. Watching from Australia, I was pretty disappointed to see that happening in the "always there to help" US.

  22. Disappeared? No... on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    They didn't disappear, they moved into management roles.

  23. Information? on Hawking Gracefully, Formally Loses Black Hole Bet · · Score: 1

    I don't pretend to understand things I don't... "He now believes that black holes may allow information to get out." What does information mean in that context?

  24. Re:He's predicting what already exists! on DNS Inventor Predicts Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think you're wrong mate. He's not refering to phone books, he's talking about using a fully qualified domain name instead of a phone number, phones can resolve domain names to phone numbers yet.

    Instead of someone giving me a number I enter a domain name, someperson.id.au, this way if their number changes they don't need to let everyone know, they just update the PHONE record of their zone ;-).