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  1. Re:The typical things Slashdot users will say: on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    "I disabled the snooze button on my clock so I always have to get up"

    I actually did this! Just not on purpose.

    Once upon a time, the on/off switch wasn't working. An alarm is not so useful if doesn't buzz. Worse than simply failing, it was intermittent. So I would sometimes go to bed with it on, and wake up much too late with it off. I noticed the soft/loud switch was similar and worked fine (though I didn't use it), so I decided to open that sucker and see if I could make a replacement. I'm no good with hardware, so after I was done the snooze button no longer worked.

    But hey, the on/off switch works again :)

  2. Re:Another option on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    I also was wasted for the first 2-3 hours of every day.

    I don't want to sound like a killjoy, but maybe it would help if you didn't reach for a beer first thing in the morning. :)

  3. Re:"Open Standards" != software freedom on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 1

    Massachusetts program (which was recently interpreted to allow in Microsoft's proprietary formats)

    Crap! Do you have more information?

  4. Re:I remember .. on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    I have a newfound respect for Yahoo after seeing they made him player 666 :)

  5. Re:Ok, this is just a little wierd... on USA National Memory Championships · · Score: 1

    Funny, I also think of Adriana Lima when I see a card. Ok, and when I don't see a card.

  6. Re:What do the GPL thugs look like? on GPL Violators On The Prowl · · Score: 1

    /me slaps British around a few times

    You must be drunk to count like that. Snap out of it!

  7. Re:Here's more about the girl on Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl · · Score: 1

    Correct.

  8. Re:MiniMo? on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    Hold the phone! No need to change your worldview! Thanks to Firesomething, you can run SteakKnife Gun Browser and no one need know you're running that gay pansy homeosekshul Minimo.

    ...assuming Firesomething works in Minimo

  9. Re:Here's more about the girl on Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl · · Score: 1

    I knew one girl (EE) who was very cute and in a number of my classes. Every time there was a test, she would wear a dress and look really sexy.

    It's a dirty trick: using your curves to mess up the curve.

  10. Re:Retooled jokes on Too Darned Big to Test? · · Score: 1

    Joel is an insightful guy, but he approaches software exclusively as a deliverable intended to Get The Job Done Now

    That is a good point, and Joel himself touches on this in Five Worlds of Software.

    (I am a Joel but not that Joel)

  11. Re:Mathematics on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    I am curious - how useful do you find your MS-CS to be? I ask because I'm going to have one soon :)

  12. Re:C# may take over this market on Windows Cluster Edition · · Score: 1

    C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
    For a community that still uses Fortran? I don't think that's their biggest concern.

    C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
    For a community that still uses Fortran? Not my biggest concern.

    Damn! Now even the comments have dupes.

  13. Re:sgiws? on Webcam Jigsaw Solver in 200 Lines of Python · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy shit, it solves Welsh?

  14. Re:The sound of silence on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 1

    I hope you went to BC so Paul got what he deserved :)

  15. Re:Mozilla still good on Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing · · Score: 1

    I'm curious... what makes you say Firefox looks out of place in Linux? I can see you like it, because you use it in Windows. The question "why would someone still use the whole suite" has been asked here a few times, so I'd like to hear your reasoning :)

  16. How ever did I get in this nutshell? on Solar Power Put to Good Use · · Score: 1

    In a nutshell, an ever present large mass of air under an expansive transparent collector (seven kilometres in diameter)

    So the nutshell must also be at least seven kilometres in diameter. Imagine the size of the tree!

  17. Re:Firefox is slowly winning the war on Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what have the zealots ever done for us?

  18. The link next to the text... on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 1

    The link next to the text... Find out more about what is going on in south east Wales

    This galaxy is in south east Wales? Why did it take so long to find it?! Oh right, cause it's dark.

  19. Re:Economical? on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    Michael Jackson agrees with your physics professor.

  20. Re:Soylent Oil is(n't always) Turkey! on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    a tire dump ... used automobile tyres

    I don't think I've ever seen someone use American AND British spelling standards :)

  21. Re:Bah. on PGP Moving To Stronger SHA Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Man, this joke has been done. Stop beating a dead wombat.

  22. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    Right. I know.

    I was trying to be funny there. *sob*

  23. Re:Malfunction, Will Robinson! on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    hotties like ... Barbara Bush

    I dunno, she looks pretty cute to me.

    Oh, did you mean Dubya's mother or his daughter? :)

  24. Re:what makes it better are the plugins, my top 5 on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    You're right.

    I wrote it that way to mock sites that display such a message. Yeah, it's not strictly true. I'll get rid of it when FF 1.1 comes out and I don't have the problem anymore :)

  25. Re:what makes it better are the plugins, my top 5 on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Not only that but I'm still getting dupes and spleling errors.