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  1. Re:Don't forget to buy the plexiglass cover... on The Top Ten Off Switches · · Score: 1

    That's known as a .

  2. Re:frGnnnpsot on Where Are the Flying Cars? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too right. Helen Keller in a flying car is only marginally more dangerous than your average soccer mom in a SUV on her cell phone with two kids squalling in the back seat.

  3. Re:Linux?!? on One SimCity Per Child · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aw, don't be rude. He's a headkase.

  4. Re:They still can't do this? on A Panoramic View of Your Insides · · Score: 1

    What? You've never written mush software?

  5. They still can't do this? on A Panoramic View of Your Insides · · Score: 1

    I interviewed with a doctor at Northwestern University Hospital in 1989 or so for an ultrasonic catheter to look at plaques/heart valves and such. There was come California based company who had the hardware, but not mush software, hence my interview.

  6. Re:I've always wondered on Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Canventional theory (and TFA) suggest that the explosion was an air-burst about 6 miles above the ground. So the "center" of the blast region is still pretty large.

  7. Re:If you work in IT, you shouldn't support OLPC on Mass OLPC Production Begins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OLPC is a thinly-veiled attempt by corporations to create the next generation of IT "professionals" they can ship in to work for a third of what you charge. They're really laughing it up that they can do this is under the guise of a humanitarian gesture and get all the tax breaks to boot. There will be no Americans in IT in 20 years.
    Not with an attitude like that. You're not entitled to a high-paying job, you have to compete for it. The way to compete is to stay educated. Provide more value than "someone working for a third of what you do now".

    But a nice troll, nonetheless.
  8. Re:flakey architects on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    But soon after its completion in spring 2004, the center's outdoor amphitheater began to crack due to drainage problems, the suit says. Snow and ice cascaded dangerously from window boxes and other projecting roof areas, blocking emergency exits and damaging other parts of the building, according to the suit. Mold grew on the center's brick exterior, the suit says, and there were persistent leaks throughout the building.

    You have no reason to claim this...
    Riiiiiiight
  9. Re:flakey architects on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll take a competent architect over a famous one any day.
    Or at least one who understands the local weather. it's pretty obvious from the description of the buildings faults that Gehry never planned on it getting snowed and rained on, or that there could be temperature extremes that don't happen in Los Angeles.
  10. In the interest of fairness on Sun To Seek Injunction, Damages Against NetApp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's NetApps CEO's blog post about this.

  11. Re:Hey! on Deconstructing the PC Revolution · · Score: 1

    Truth be told, I'm not sure which I object to more, being of the "gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety", or being referred to as "of the gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety".

  12. Re:Hey! on Deconstructing the PC Revolution · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't read that little bitty light grey blockquote font, but I bet I know what you're objecting to.

  13. Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? on Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's even funnier than that! It's Microsoft employees bewailing the notion that people don't follow standards!

  14. Re:Postcard/envelope analogy on US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fun fact: What you write on a post card can't be used against you in a court of law.
    Really? I suggest you write "I'm gonna fly a plane into the Sears Tower" on a postcard and see how much hilarity ensues.
  15. Re:"Think about it" on US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps you and the GP should read TFA and become aware of some of the issues here.
    Oh, and for the "it's the Register, pooh pooh" crowd, the original FA was frist psoted on Security Focus.

  16. THRUSH making inroads on ICANN Elects Peter Dengate-Thrush as New Chairman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who you gonna call?

  17. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    Sad that the story was posted for over an hour before a "Mighty Mouse" (from the old tv cartoons) reference was made.
    The story was posted at 10:15. My post was at 10:21. First thing I thought of when I saw it.
  18. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here I come to save the day!

  19. Re:YES! on FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority · · Score: 1

    Probably so. It's OK for the government to spy on its citizens, but it can't allow the citizens to be spying on each other.

  20. Re:Here is the case file online on Blogger Wins 1.5 Year Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    "... the court finds that based on Elwell's grossly improper conduct, he should be sanctioned"
    Sanctioned? Woopteedoo. This should cost him money. Maybe then "other attorneys" would get the message.
  21. Hello world on AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language · · Score: 4, Funny

    update Users set Status = 'suspicious' where Username in (SELECT Username, ipAddress, MissleAddress from IncomingCalls ic, OutgoinCalls oc where Volume = 'whispering' and Username not in (select Username from RepublicanDonors));

  22. Re:if he was so smart on The Khaki Bandit Strikes At IT - 130 Stolen Laptops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...after taunting his victim from a payphone, the victim dialed *69, and Almly was arrested...
    Yeah, smart.
  23. Re:NBC/Universal gets a cut of every Zune sold. on NBC Chief Slamming Apple · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the oxcart is the #2 4-wheeled mode of transportation..

  24. Re:Long live.. on Intel's 45nm Patch Machinery Exposed · · Score: 1

    Oh stop it. The Grandparent Troll is right. The "CISC instructions running from the instruction cache into a RISC core runs really really fast" crowd always conveniently neglects to mention that the half-assed, non-orthagonal, non aligned instructions required a bus cycle to do the instruction fetch. All those pipeline stages are there to cover for the lame instructin set.

  25. Re:Have you mooed today? on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember: To err is human, to moo is bovine.