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  1. Re:Scheme for Microsoft spyware on MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users · · Score: 1

    Hey Bill, why don't you STFU and concentrate on giving away your ill-gotten gains? kthxbye.

  2. Re:Now is about the time... on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    You had enough spare time to get a frosty piss ... don't knock it.

  3. Of course the moon once had water. on Moon May Have Once Had Water · · Score: 1

    next they'll be telling us that Amy Winehouse, Oliver Reid and Dean Martin did too.

  4. Re:Choose them all under one. on Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? · · Score: 1

    He's porting it to the Hurd, you insenstive clod!

  5. Re:Choose them all under one. on Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or some excel printouts, with graphs. Vaguely scribble and circle bits of them at random. And make it so the lines are always trending up.

  6. Re:Ok, first off: on 9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But do you think they'd notice?

  7. Re:Oymoron anyone? on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    In other news, after the world's biggest flashgun (with a guide number of 47 gazillion) reaches completion, scientists begin the search for 3.2 squillion AA cells.

  8. Re:CIO of the year on 9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless · · Score: 3, Funny

    My CIO just got voted "CIO of the year" and we all went "WTF!?" because he seems so clueless.

    Voted by whom? Other CIOs, perchance?

  9. Age 50 years old on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    In other news their average height is over five and a half feet tall, their average car goes at 95 mph speed, and their average weight is over 150 pounds heavy.

  10. Holy guacamole! on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    an international team called the Avogadro Project

    Avogadros aren't even remotely spherical, more sort of pear shaped.

  11. Anyone else on Microsoft Applies For "Digital Manners" Patent · · Score: 1

    Anyone else see that as "Digital Manure"? I guess that would be vista they're referring to.

  12. The Anastasia mail order bride ad on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else consider the Anastasia advert to be in bad taste, given the context of the story?

  13. Re:Convergance on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it that the price will drop, but you're missing the point. People won't buy a $399 game console. But they may well buy a $399 device that's a phone, and a text messager, and an email and internet browser, and camera, and music player, and movie player, AND a game player.
    The words 'Jack' and 'trades' spring to mind. See also: Fred
  14. Dept of redundancy department on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    anything which has required an additional add-on
    I agree, one is bad enough!
  15. Re:WOW - get a load of that obscurity on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 1

    Your logic, reasoning and sense of proportion are not welcome here.

  16. Re:tools on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    If it's taught from basics - the circle with the rotating line - they'll also know why the sign is what it is. It also shows what the different functions mean or represent.

  17. Re:Blame? Look at the No Child Left Behind Act on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    We also use Saxon Math
    If ye village hath XX maidens and is attacked by L Vikinges and C Normans, calculate ye average pillagisation coefficient (show workinge).
  18. Re:(Anecdotal) Proof of Impact? on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    you should have seen the look on the kids face; would have thought I'd just asked him to land a hampster on the moon w/ just pencil and paper.
    Well I'd pull a face too - I mean, WTF is a hampster? A rodent made of wickerwork, perhaps?
  19. Re:Weak on H-1B Foes Challenge Bush Administration In Court · · Score: 1

    If your daughter was to graduate and not be able to read her diploma, would you still think it is a waist of time?
    I'd consider it a bust. But then I am quite hip...
  20. Re:Doesn't Make Sense To Start New Trends on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that's the answer, right there. Can we close this pointless discussion now?

  21. Re:Big Brother(s) on Twitter Not Rocket Science, but Still a Work in Progress · · Score: 1

    For Pete's sake, learn how to use commas. Reading that penultimate paragraph makes me think of William Shatner.

  22. Re:Surbey on Smart Phones "Bigger Security Risk" Than Laptops · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what happens if you use voice recognition software when you have a colATCHOOO! DELETE no I meant to delete it not write the word delete you dumb machine aww fekkit
    no carrier.

  23. Re:well on Space Station Toilets Poop Out · · Score: 1

    Lucky it's in Earth orbit, rather than a probe aiming at Uranus.

  24. Re:My employer on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    But they probably still found the budget to upgrade to Vista and Orifice 2007.

  25. Re:Is It Really A Poor Economy? on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Just look at the debt levels - personal and government. The US has been living beyond its means for a long time, and that's going to catch up sooner or later. We'll discuss it in a year, if you still have a computer.