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  1. What if on Excerpt from Kessler's 'The End of Medicine' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Avoid any surgeon run by Windows, it might BSoD while working on your heart!

  2. Re:Seems an obvious patent on Talking iPods · · Score: 1

    My MS Smartphone reads things off to me when I use it with my bluetooth headset, so I'd say it's already there

  3. Re:Distilled water on Fully Internal Water-cooled Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Water (H2O) will spontainiously create Hydronium (H3O+) ions and Hydroxide (HO-) ions

  4. Re:flexible screens..? on Nanotubes Start to Show their Promise · · Score: 1

    No, OLEDs can be rollable. It all depends on the matrial used as the substrate. right now, it's glass, but plastic and this nanotube tech can also be used. Then you may think "well, why can't LCDs do this" just remember that LCDs are filters for light, and do not filter uniformly in all directions. also remember those ripples you see when you touch an LCD. OLEDs are not so subseptible to that

  5. It slices, it dices... on The NetBSD Toaster · · Score: 1

    It toasts, it plays mp3s and for a limited time only... you too can use this toaster to host your very own web page! see how your bread is toasting for your office, or even on the onther end of the planet! Next week: the Linux controlled kitchen sink!

  6. errr on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't .11g have WPA TKIP, I know my computer and router support it

  7. Re:Short on Details on Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    MSH was originally slated to be shipped with Windows Vista, but has since assumed its own release schedule. Microsoft sources have confirmed MSH's first public release will most likely precede the release of Vista and be part of the next edition of Microsoft Exchange, due in the second half of 2006.

    If MSH preceds Vista, it will most likely be in it.
    (I also have the Beta 1 of MSH on my WinXP machine)

  8. Re:Where's the real news? on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    From what I know, Indigo and Avalon are still there, Avalon would have to be to support the Aero interface

  9. It used to be... on Meet Web Hypochondriacs · · Score: 1

    I saw it on the TV, so it has to be true, Now it's: nIt was on the internet, so it's got to be true! Ah, societal Darwinism

  10. In the future... on How Computers Work -- Circa 1979 · · Score: 1

    Computers with touch screens, Woooo!

    Must get into that feild!

  11. Re:Not all that new on Last Year's Gadgets Get New Life As... Jewelry · · Score: 1

    I have a keychain made from a GF4 TI 4200 GPU (cut from the board)

  12. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Not to mention ObjectDesktop for windows
    Way nicer widgets, IMO

  13. Re:More famous sayings... on First Picture of new Motorola iTunes Phone? · · Score: 1

    "640k ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates.
    Bill never said that, according to wikiquote

  14. Re:I've been waiting... on Kernel 2.6.12 Released · · Score: 1

    The Penguin has landed!

  15. Re:Invalid Opinion on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    Because of MS's market position, any such action that would allow users with a free MS solution built in that wasn't at best haf asses, there would be a flood of antitrust lawsuits, remember when MS included IE with win95?

  16. Re:Jack of All Trades, Master of None on Longhorn Beta is Disappointing · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, this is the first beta, all that came before were alphas From the MS roadmap, there will be one more beta before the two release candidates

  17. More malware, slower computer and net connection.. on NETI@home Data Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm, must be time for a new computer and a better ISP

  18. Re:Better Option on Music Industry Drafts Code of Conduct for ISPs · · Score: 1

    Shaw service outages are due to a system upgrade. We now have 5Mbit connections, Woo!

  19. Re:Scary Stuff on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 1

    Meh, I am pretty safe, the University I am in is made up of nothing but reinforced concrete, I live 8 levels below the top, I'm good

  20. Yes, but... on Ask Jeeves to Introduce Jeeves9000 · · Score: 1

    Can he do my homework for me?

  21. If info does not exist, then logically.... on Information Does Not Exist? · · Score: 2, Funny

    there is no spoon

  22. Monkeys on Monkeys Don't Like Macs · · Score: 5, Funny

    An infinite amount of monkeys could also come up with the mess that is windows source code

  23. WOW! on **No Title** · · Score: 1

    This could change the whole of humanity! It's purely revolutionary!

  24. Re:April *fool* on U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently · · Score: 1

    This is still one of the better stories today, though

  25. Re:April *fool* on U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently · · Score: 1

    Or when there have been no believable stories today