User: Stanistani

Re:What is "Spim"?

On: AOL Files First Spim Lawsuit

Next Fox and Bill O'Reilly will be suing them for breaching their "No Spim Zone" Trademark...

Re:a small nit to pick

On: Spitzer Takes On Record Industry Payola

I thought Dharma was Greg's wife...

Re:15 bucks

On: Bootlegged Music in Russia

Then again, when I went to my last Comic-Con in San Diego (a huge show, hundreds and hundreds of vendors), at least 50% of the DVDs and CDs were bootleg... my son pointed this out to the security folks... and they almost threw HIM out... what's OUR excuse in the US?

Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for...

On: Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years

Does he have a brother named Hari?

Re:Design to construction in less than a year...

On: Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

These satellites are not "simple" and some failures should be expected... see: NASA

Roland the Whammer

On: Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

Roland Piquepaille ? Isn't that the guy who posts summaries to drive traffic up to his website?

Re:Good.

On: Cybersecurity Chief Resigns

>nslookup 66.35.250.150

Name: slashdot.org
Address: 66.35.250.150
Aliases: 150.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa

Nice inside joke...

Re:It did it's job, now let's move on

On: Missed Opportunities in U.S. v. Microsoft

...be more civilized and cooperative if we win, than the barbarians were when they took down the Roman Empire.

Why? I'm going to sack Redmond and carry off their ill-gotten loot - and then burn it!

VisioGoth

Best Vehicle is No Vehicle

On: Vehicles of Tomorrow?

I'm not anti-car, but decided long ago to live near where I work, and haven't owned a car in ten years.

I'm now $60K US richer than I would have been, calmer, and twenty-five pounds lighter.

That's advanced enough for me...

Re:No

On: IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron

Schrodinger's Quandary:
Open the box and there is no cat.
(Damn Cats!)

I for one

On: Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard

Plan to welcome our new DRM-overlords with empty pockets.

Formicidae

On: Dave Barry on Electronic Voting

Actually, the best thing about the article was visualizing all three of the candidates standing on lawns with biting ants. Hmmm... wonder if I can get some
Jason Feeblehonker 2004
bumperstickers printed up?

Xbox F5

On: Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked?

The bottom one - (next to the F5 logo) looks like a higher-tech version of a tape degausser we used in the 1980's to wipe round tapes for the old Burroughs and Univac mainframes.

I'd kick that one to the curb.

Re:"Once rockets go up, who cares vere they come d

On: 60 Years Later: The V2 And The Space Race

*Sigh* You beat me to the Tom Lehrer ref... by seven d@mn minutes...
Now I will have to go listen to "Poisoning the Pigeons in The Park" to drown my sorrows...

Where did I leave those "peanuts all coated in cyanide?"
I do love the Ansari X prize, tho...
Wish NASA had prizes for -
Orbit
Moon pass-by
Moon landing

Tom Lehrer said it best...

On: 60 Years Later: The V2 And The Space Race

From Tom Lehrer's satirical song
Wernher Von Braun ...
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
...

Rendered with Pride

On: Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors?

If you can't come up with a solution, I suggest donating the equipment to PETA...

Saga, Saga

On: Extended RotK Expected December 14

Please, Mr. Jackson - don't make Gollum fire first!

mmKay... now on to The Hobbit?

Re:Yes, but money is the almighty metric

On: Paul Samuelson Challenges Outsourcing

All this talk, and still no Oreo...

Greed is the bottom-line metric