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  1. /. worthy? on Is This Rembrandt a Real One? · · Score: 0

    Hmm...

    Digital Cameras? Check.
    College Scientists? Check
    The number 42? Check

    Ok, post it.

  2. Wait a minute... on Review of WidowPC Sting 917 Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    ... were is the 8/10 rating?

  3. Obligatory Dilbert reference on Top 10 System Administrator Truths · · Score: 1

    Change there password to the entire text of the Da Vinci Code, except for the parts you don't beleive, and make the system lock itself after 2 seconds of idle time.

  4. Re:Another one on Top 10 System Administrator Truths · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of a story I once heard. A friend of mine was lamenting the incompetence of the campus tech support crew, mostly because he got called for help after they had already done their thing and failed. He offered this story as evidence:

    There was a person who was having trouble connecting to the Internet. She tried everything, but couldn't establish a connection. She called campus tech support crew. They arrived and did everything, they checked everything on her computer, they reinstalled all of the software required to access the campus network, everything. To no avail. They left and suggested that she get a new modem and ethernet card, because the ones she had were obviously broken. She called my friend over, he went down into the LAN room of her townhouse, and discovered that the Internet cable was unplugged.

    I laughed when I heard this, until I remembered that my tuition pays the tech support crew's salary.

  5. Old News on The Earliest Documented Video Game · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This was in David Kushner's "Masters of Doom"

  6. A friend of my roommate... on Consumer Strikes Back at Crooked Online Retailer · · Score: 0

    A friend of my roommate wants to get back an online company that was supposed to sell him marajuana seeds. He paid them fifty bucks but all he got was a blank floppy disk.

  7. hmm... on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 0

    *checks date* Not April first... WTF?!?

  8. Re:Sure it did... on Harnessing the Power of P2P, Looking Back · · Score: 0

    and it made a major impact on how people, used the Internet.

    And how people use commas.

  9. Re:Pictures attached to the book on Jack Thompson vs Amazon? · · Score: 0

    When I searched "Jack Thompson" on amazon to see his book and it's reviews it was the first result. The second result was a book of advanced sex positions and techniques. Another is a book about gay sex.

    My personal favorite, however, is further down the page: Penny Acrade, Volume 1 Attack of the Bacon Robots. Sweet irony...

    Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-fo rm/102-0901216-1666549

  10. Re:OMG!!! on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 0

    Nobody's done it yet so I guess I have to.

    KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!

  11. Re:I can just hear it now on Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City · · Score: 0

    Is there a "Watch AC" option?

  12. It's all in the timing on VPN Flaw Allows Denial of Service · · Score: 0

    It's funny, the instant I saw this headline, I got booted from my wireless network. It uses, you guessed it, the Cisco VPN Client!

    And then, not two minutes later, I got booted again while trying to preview the first half of this message.

  13. Re:How sure? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 0

    I saw an interesting special on PBS once about HIV, AIDS, and the Black Death. Apparently, there was a village in Britain called Eyam where it was common for residents to have a genetic mutation that made them either completely immune to Black Death, or able to fight it off. Many years later, during the 1980s, there was a gay man who's partners were all dying of AIDS, but he never became ill. After quite a bit of testing and geneology research, they found that his ancestors went back to Eyam and that the genetic mutation which had protected the villagers from Black Death was protecting him from HIV and AIDS.

    Check it out: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/

  14. Re:Don't pay for CD from these guys on Sony's EULA Worse Than Its Rootkit? · · Score: 0

    anyone willing to work a minimum wage job and live in their parent's basement.

    So why haven't more /.ers made independent films?

  15. Re:prophetic? on Bill Gates' Doom Video From 1995 · · Score: 1, Funny

    You want prophetic? How about a Doom player with a shotgun and a trenchcoat killing over a minor infraction?

  16. Re:Forced? on Korean Lab Worker Forced to Donate Her Own Eggs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or an intern?

  17. Ah, M$... on Walk-Ins Get 360 In April? · · Score: 1

    One of two things is happening here:

    1) Microsoft deliberately sent out limited units so that they could get media attention for selling out everywhere on the first day.

    OR...

    2) Microsoft dropped the ball and actually didn't make enough, resulting in the shortage.

    Knowing M$, the former seems far more likely than the latter.

  18. Re:Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6 on Watching All Six Star Wars Movies Simultaneously · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just finished watching The Empire Strikes Back. Then The Last Temptation of Christ. Then Donnie Darko. Then some episodes of "Titus"

    Man, I'm gonna have weird dreams tonight...

  19. Re:Deus Ex, anyone? on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Deus Ex article from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex

  20. Deus Ex, anyone? on State Department Developing Cyber Toolkit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like the Aquinas Protocol to me.

  21. Obligatory Donnie Darko Quote on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 0

    FUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!

  22. Re:Who's paying this? on Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case · · Score: 0

    That's a lot of chicken nuggets and little milk cartons...

    It's OK, the food sucked to begin with. Trust me, I went to high school in New Jersey.

  23. Re:Attack the messenger (please) on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 0

    One part of ID says that humans are creatures of "irriducible complexity" and therefore must have been created by a supreme being. However, a paradox appears. If we are so complex that a supreme being had to create us, then that supreme being would have to be so complex that some other, even more superior being had to create it, and so on and so forth.

  24. Re:standard on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 0

    Yes, but can it power my frickin' shark lasers?

  25. I can just hear it now... on German IT Outfit Bans Whining · · Score: 0

    "Sie sind glücklich!!!" rougly translated, "YOU VILL BE HAPPY!!!"