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  1. Re:you know... on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe he even hands them his own.

  2. I won't believe it... on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    ... until it runs CherryOS.

  3. Friggin' obligatory on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    I cannot wait to see it head-mounted on sharks.

    What? Oh, those were lasers. Nevermind.

  4. Re:Damn, now I have to wait for longhorn. on Apache Request Smuggling Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    No, I really meant Heisenberg.

    Nonetheless, Hindenburg will also be appropriate when the time is come.
  5. Re:Damn, now I have to wait for longhorn. on Apache Request Smuggling Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    Following this thought line, they could as well rename it Windows Heisenberg. Uncertainty Server would do, also.

    Yes, I know, off topic. Sorry, couldn't resist.

  6. Lucky fishermen on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 1

    Fishermen were lucky enough it was a catfish, and not a babelfish.

    "... When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal..."

    Ouch.

  7. Popularity? on Half Of Businesses Still Use Windows 2000 · · Score: 1

    From TFS:

    Windows XP's slower adoption illustrates Microsoft's difficulty in competing with the popularity of its own software platform

    I think it has more to do with Microsoft's difficulty in showing his new platforms as more secure than its predecessors.

  8. Re:Congratulations are in order! on A Decade of PHP · · Score: 1

    There is PDO for PHP 5.

  9. Re:Way to go! on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > 1. Write complex management interface
    > 2. Shore up security holes over many years of
    > use and testing
    > 3. Ditch for new immature code
    > 4. ?
    > 5. Profit!

    4. Goto 2

  10. Re:Patents? on Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What information do you have that suggests that the XML format will be bloated?

    Not to be a troll, but Microsoft Word's HTML output gives a good idea of how greatly can they bloat XML.

  11. Re:Well great! on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 2, Informative
    .cat is the domain for the Catalan culture. (Not limited to the boundaries of the nation within Spain)

    That was a necessary precision, thanks.

    .cat for the culture, .ct for the country.

    http://www.add-ct.info/ for more.

  12. Re:Well great! on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 1
    Anyone care to tell me what a .cat TLD is for?

    Sure. It is the top level domain Catalunya (Catalonia, a nation within Spain) has requested.

  13. Doh on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 1

    I think I can have .blow.jobs for less than $60

    I mean... er... nevermind.

  14. Duh on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Of course you really need a strong passion for Windows, if you are to meet Bill Gates and do not want to do something that would cost you a huge fine.

    Or some time in jail, perhaps.

  15. Re:Mathematics Out of the Closet on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    > the good guys with Apples and the Bad guys
    > with what appeared to be Dell laptops

    There certainly is some trend about it in most recent films. Last one I watched, Clive Cussler's Sahara, is a good example.

  16. Cars that can't crash... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    ... from the company that brings software that can't crash!

    Oh, wait...

  17. Re:Tigger.. on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Count me in! --- Tiger Woods.

  18. Re:they haven't done anything else right on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe their impossibility to play well with other formats is thier reason to reinvent the wheel.

    I hope they have at least learned Word's bloated HTML lesson and do not repeat it...

  19. Re:errrmmmm... on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: 1

    Also the speed of light is 3E8 km/s

    The speed of light is actually 299,792,458 m/s, approximately 3E5 km/s.

  20. Re:Spyware on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    as their computers would be simultaneously blowing up
    Well, a lot of them are, for sure, blowing up right now. Simultaneously.

    and sending their credit card information to north korea
    Well, that would be very bad. It does not mean that company is not just bad, or their programs are not bad because they do not particularly send your credit card info.

    There are PLENTY of things people can do in windows to protect themselves
    Well, it is more like "there are PLENTY of things people MUST do in Windows to protect themselves".

    See, I actually have no problems with spyware nor virus because I do know what must I do to avoid these plagues, but one cannot really expect everyone of the hundreds of millions of people using Windows to have this knowledge.

    Suggesting moving to another operating system shows your real intentions here
    It is far easier than to try to teach hundreds of millions of people how to secure their machines, or even try to convince them to have their machines secured, and to try to convince thousands of current spyware programmers to use their time for something profitful, instead of being coding those pieces of crap.

    Moving to an operating system/browser/whatever that is secured from the beginning, and where a user would have to conciously open it up, is not a bad advise to give, IMHO.

  21. Re:"Rich" == "Fat" on Slashback: Echo, Lunchbox, Questions · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Flex?

    http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/