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  1. SQL Jokes on Inside UC Berkeley's High Tech Joke Recommender · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Invalid query: Table 'jester5_emptyjokeclusters' is marked as crashed and should be repaired"
    Hahahahaha that's HILARIOUS! ...err, wait, I don't quite get it.

  2. Lies... on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The car won't start and the I-Key cannot be reprogrammed."

    Obviously it CAN be reprogrammed, or else they wouldn't have this problem to begin with.

  3. Re:GOD BLESS AMERICAN EQUALITY! on Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you even talking about? If you were trying to make a point, you failed. All I got out of it was that you have some kind of dead sheep fetish...

  4. Re:Number 1 on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 1

    Personally, spelling my pet peeve.

  5. Appearances are decieving... on Erroneous HD DVD Report Gets Tongues Wagging · · Score: 1

    "... Blu-ray-affiliated studios will release a total of 43 titles in 2007. This number also appears to be incorrect, given that 160 titles have already been announced..."

    Sure the number APPEARS to be incorrect, but in actuality...

  6. Re:As much as I dislike the RIAA on Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like the Horse and Buggy, the RIAA and the music stores were pretty much doomed the second that the internet was created, it just took some time for it to happen.

    Sorry to break it to you, but the horse and buggy was pretty much doomed by the time the internet came around...

  7. Re:Do not understand this new word "mashup" on Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome · · Score: 1

    I think it's mash as in, 'mashing on the keyboard'. The keyboard doesn't end up in bits, you're just slamming it or pushing it real hard. I always saw a 'mash-up' as, say, two things heading towards each other at high speed and then slamming together to create one object... but maybe that's just me...

    First definition on http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mash is crush anyways.

  8. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Try not to plan your MC runs during maintenance times then.

  9. Re:I'm slow but... on New Research Could Lead to Transparent Displays · · Score: 1

    Well... the inaudible music IS pretty stupid IMHO, and the Cold Heat thing isn't really cold heat, it's rapidly cooling heat. But yeah, invisible ink isn't stupid.

  10. Re:Invisibility cloak? on Material With Negative Refractive Index Created · · Score: 3, Funny

    You've never seen a hamster ball, have you?

  11. Re:The motorcycle.... on The 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time · · Score: 1

    Same here. Funny thing is, about 7 years later, while I was begging my mom to let me have her car when I got my license, my cousins were arguing over which of their families five cars they would get. Some things never change...

  12. Re:Grandma's Boy has unrealistic game testers... on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    Gee, thanks, there goes my hopes and dreams... Hope it's not too late to change my major =/

  13. Re:Just Plain Stupid on Bruce Schneier On Perceived and Real Risks · · Score: 1

    "I didn't read the article, but jeez, what a moron..."

    So... what you're saying is, "I don't really care what this guy has to say, and I'm not going to listen to him, therefore he is a moron". Nice. But next time you go sticking your head in a hole, make sure to keep it there so you don't go around being an idiot on the internet.

  14. Re:how about making Ubuntu Gorgeous on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    Like baby-shit orange is any better... That just indicates some kind of disease.

  15. Re:Well, how many UNINSTALLED IT? on Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    And it's a shame you can't use it. That spellchecker seems like it would really come in handy for you. =/

  16. Side effects these days... on Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors · · Score: 1

    Man, I thought anal leakage was a bad side effect, but I'll take that over brain cancer any day!

  17. Re:Tic-Tac-Toe? on Researchers Debut DNA-Powered Computer · · Score: 0

    In that case, I'd like to announce my feces-powered computer that can always win at Tic Tac Toe as well!

  18. Re:Just great on Battlefield 2142 to Bundle Spyware? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe he was referring to the fact that it advertises for the things you browse to, and hinting that most of his internet time is spent browsing 18+ sites. Just maybe.

  19. Re:So? on Shiny Acquisition Leaves Earthworm Jim Wriggling? · · Score: 0

    The news makes ME sad, and I'd hardly say I'm a rabid fan boy. It's just a nice bit of nostalgia for me, Earthworm Jim was one of the first games I played.

  20. Questionable Legality on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 0

    Wow, a topic on Slashdot that directly affects me for once. I attend a private Christian University with very strict and conservative rules. The 1AM curfew, not being able to check out overnight to a friends house if they are the opposite sex, and extremely stringent rules about never ever ever being able to say anything bad at all about any of the clubs or fraternities on campus for example, are bad enough, and I can deal with them, but the web censorship is crazy. All instant messengers are filtered and logged, and you can't use webcams. Even one of the most harmless phrases, which I USED to use quite often, "Check this out," is blocked because it might be used to spread malware. When browsing the Wikipedia page on Public Domain music, several of the downloads pages were blocked under reasoning of "OH NOES HE'S DOWNLOADING MP3S OFF THE INTERNETS!!!11" (to paraphrase...). All of this seems to me to be a very blatant disregard of my right to free speech, and it is a shocking invasion of my privacy. But, it's legal. I'm on their network, they can watch whatever I do. Right? I certainly don't think so. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if their were ways around these things, like stopping them from watching my IRC conversations by using a shell, but SSL is blocked on everything but port 8080. So the first thing I thought is, "Why use their network if they are going to censor and watch everything I do? Surely they will let me buy my own internet connection to the dorms as I have seen others do at different universities!" But no, they don't even allow that. So why is this legal? One might argue that they pay for and maintain the network so they have a right to listen in on it, but telephone companies can't listen in on our conversations and UPS can't open our packages whenever they feel like it (unless the President tells them to of course...). Is there no way to defend our right to secure and uncensored communications?

  21. Re:Slashdot users=closet homosexuals on 64% of Online Gamers Are Female · · Score: 0

    You obviously don't understand people as well as you think you do if you think there aren't any people who pretend to be the opposite sex online.

  22. Re:A common problem on U.S. Government Crippled by Sex, Gaming Sites · · Score: 0

    "As far as spying on users and getting them fired goes, that wasn't my department."

    Then how come you went so far as to get someone fired after tracing them from your forums? I've seen jackasses before, but you sir top them all.

  23. Two Words... on Invisible Unmanned Aircraft · · Score: 0

    Nude. Beaches.

  24. Re:whew!! on Build a Better Netflix, Win a Million Dollars? · · Score: 0

    I can't even say "is is that that is" out loud when reading the whole sentence... my tongue just gives up...

  25. Re:Orkut Policy .vs. ongoing enterprise on Google Denies Data In Brazil Orkut Case · · Score: 0

    So is/are Google singular or plural?