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  1. Re:Golden Girls! on Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline · · Score: 1
    Yeah, that's like that old line about the little kid in church singing about an oddly-named large animal with a vision problem, because it was what she thought the congregation was singing:

    "Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear."

  2. Re:Posting private info to a public website on Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy · · Score: 1

    Not right now it won't. They got hacked.

  3. Re:Accuracy? Authority? on Google To Answer Your Questions Directly · · Score: 1

    The Internet is nothing but agreed-upon reality anyway

    Oddly (and, given last week's events, scarily) enough, you've also just described the stock market.

  4. Reuters also reporting this... on Apple May Face Antitrust Inquiry · · Score: 1

    Link.
    i.e., Not coming from just the New York Post.

  5. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 4, Funny

    "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." - George Bernard Shaw.

    Or, as we would say today:
    WHOOSH.

  6. Re:In other news on Facebook Attracting More Visitors Than Google.com · · Score: 1

    Jeez, don't give 'em any more ideas like that. But :-)

  7. Re:Foghorn Leghorn Alert on SolarPHP 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Foghorn Leghorn upon being slashdotted: "Fortunately, Ah keep mah packets numbahed for just such an emuhgency."

  8. Re:the eternal curse of the software developer on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    "DIAF" = "Die in a fire." If you need help with "MBA" and "ROI" -- well, you're probably saner than most of us here. :-)

  9. Re:Not the Death of Journalism ... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a multiple turkey attack survivor and having had my fill of turkey, holidays ago, if they don't drown themselves, let's drop them from helicopters over famine areas to see if they can fly.

    Obligatory ref.: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

  10. Re:Windows 8.. on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 1

    You definitely must NOT be new here. My compliments.

  11. Nostalgia on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bet this stuff takes just like the "mystery meat" in the cafeteria back at my dear ol' alma mater. Yum.

  12. Re:Easier solution: on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 1

    Compare that to the lead scientist in Independence Day. He couldn't even afford decent pants.

    Yeah, but given that he was the great-great-great-great-grandfather of the guy who was gonna build Data (explaining the incredible family resemblance), who cares?

  13. Re:It's times like these... on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Judging by CCTV footage shown on the news, it doesn't seem possible to distinguish face from ass.

    Judging from the appearance of some criminals, it doesn't seem likely that's always the camera's fault.

  14. Re:Define "manage" on Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speaking from personal experience, it's that yu dnt knead as much sleap...for exmpl, I don't need as much sleep ass othres dew...I meen, Ive been up for almstr 3 dys straight, and i;m stll operatig at peak form,,,my mind is stll sharp, and safdgege ewMONKEYS!!#@! Sorry about that, I thnk I blcked out for a secnd...what was I talking abt...oh right, ppl who say yu need to sleep EVERY DAY r full of sht.

    What's really sad is that it would take three tweets to include that.

  15. Re:Obligatory grammar Nazism on First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft · · Score: 1

    Even more onerous -- a grammar-Nazi reply to myself. I should have punctuated that so it would say:

    Several references to "Angel's" in TFA should be "Angels'" -- meaning ...

  16. Obligatory grammar Nazism on First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft · · Score: 3, Informative

    Several references to "Angel's" in TFA should be "Angels'," meaning the possessive form of the plural proper noun Angels.

    So much for my positive karma... [sigh]

  17. Re:In before the morons on Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen · · Score: 1

    Until Microsoft quit making IE for Mac, yes, Apple did bundle IE with OS X.

  18. I'm much less interested in 1,000-year DVDs... on New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage · · Score: 1

    ...than I am in seeing the cool time machine they must have employed to test them.

  19. Re:google IS the borg on Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners · · Score: 1

    I always saw M$ more as the Ferengi, but to each his own...

  20. Yawn on XHTML 2 Cancelled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Combined with this information and the browser manufacturers having whupped the W3C over the codecs stuff, not to mention my continuing requirement to support a large number of slackjawed technophobes who don't know there's something better than IE 6, I can't help but feel I'm gonna be stuck coding "HTML 4.01 strict" for a long, long time.

  21. Re:Software Rental on Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's one of several CSS bugs currently plaguing /. They usually don't occur if you're logged out, FWIW.

  22. Re:Cue the following: on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, it's pure coincidence that Perry is facing a tough re-election challenge from U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in next year's Republican primary. By pushing this proposal, win or lose, it makes him look good to the sector of his party -- hard-right conservatives, particularly in rural areas -- likely to give him the best chance for a third full term.

  23. Oops on Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are at a point where we have more than enough beta testers and feedback coming in to meet our engineering needs...

    Unfortunately, that's what they said about Vista, too.

  24. Re:Obviously a vast Left wing conspiracy on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is payback for the democratic staffers that popped the "W" keys off of keyboards at the White House during Clinton's last days in office.

    Sigh. The myth strikes again...

  25. Re:See prices go up and down in the COMING months? on Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" · · Score: 1

    Or replace 'em.