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  1. Re:Updates for this quote on Microsoft to Require 64-bit Processors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Longhorn: noun. A 64-bit clone of a collection of 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor. Written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

  2. Re:Has to be said on Google Base Launches · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot says: You know what you doing.

  3. Re:Another reason on UK To Passively Monitor Every Vehicle · · Score: 1
  4. But... on Linux Claims 4 of the Top 5 Supercomputer Spots · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it run....

    D'oh.

    Image a Beowolf cluster...

    D'oh.

  5. Excerpt from program... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    #!/usr/bin/python

    import sys
    import random
    import analyze

    # Starting Definitions

    # Take this garbage from stdin...
    music = sys.stdin.read()
    musicPart = music.split()

    # Run it through that quick hack I wrote last night at 2.
    musicAnalyzed = analyze.music(musicPart)

    # Good thing the PHB doesn't know that python is human-readable.
    score = random.randrange(1, 50)

    # The sad truth.
    if pop in musicAnalyzed:
          mediaScore = score * 100
    elif major_labels in musicAnalyzed:
          mediaScore = score * major_labels.moneyspent(music)
    else:
          mediaScore = score / 10

    # Time out output our results; then I'll make a quick stop
    # for my masters degree.

    # This may be bullsh*t, butthe media will buy it :)

    sys.stdout.write(str(score))

  6. Better question? on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long does it take the police to figure out that my drive is not corrupted, it just isn't running Windows.

  7. Don't on Creative Commons for Software? · · Score: 2

    Go look up the OSI listing. Theres a license for just about ANYTHING anyone would want.

    Please do not make a new license for no good reason. It is just adding to the problem.

  8. Online Remix Community? on EA To Sell Game Music on iTunes · · Score: 1

    But the question is, how will this affect the online remix community, (ocremix.org, vgmix.com, etc)?

  9. RMS says... on How to Go About Team Building? · · Score: 1

    Technically, thats GNU/CPU-XMark.

  10. UnBOOlievable on Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    Its UnBOOlievable that Sony would pull the trick of letting a vampire company suck the life-blood of out a normal villagers computer, instead of treating the users to a safe use of their music.. They should be helping to prevent zombies on the web. I might just use google's spider to carve out my solution to this proverbial black cat move of the industry. But, witch query should I do!?!

  11. @~~~~~~S on /dev/null NetHack Tournament 2005 Starts Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Funny

    You see here the corpse of a server.

          ##--------
          ##........+
          #`|.........|
          ##.........|
          #@|......./|
          ##|........|
          ##--------

    Slashdot the Slashdotter St:13 Dx:9 Co:12 In:15 Wi:18 Ch:8 Lawful
    Dlvl:87 $:0 HP:13(13) Pw:2(2) AC:9 Exp:1

    (damn its hard to avoid lameness filter)

  12. Woot! on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 1, Funny

    Another virus to try to run with Wine on my linux box :D

  13. rsync? on Software for a Virtual Office? · · Score: 1

    Sync a folder on the hdd, and it will solve alot of menial tasks.

  14. Re:I Switched and Switched Back on Why Do People Switch To Linux? · · Score: 1

    A free version of VMware perhaps?

    vmplayer.com

  15. Better places to ask: on Is a CS Deg Needed to Make Game Soundtracks? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ocremix.org
    vgmix.com
    etc?

    Seems they would know better than /. :)

  16. Re:Constitutional protections.... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    You know what else the constitution states?

    It is the supreme law of the land.

    Read: You can't usurp its laws with your own.

    Federal laws can modify that, so that you can do what you want on private property, but on public property, its laws are supreme.

  17. Re:To preempt some of the more useless comments on Behind the Fight to Control the Internet · · Score: 1

    This is how much stands in the way of most people from changing the dns servers to outside of the US:

    # echo "nameserver X.Y.Z.A" > /etc/resolv.conf

    heh. DNS isn't hard to change. :)

  18. Article Text on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using our factory prooven VapoMax technology, we use common metals to generate hydrogen to power your car on! Our PATENTED fission-fusion transduction method uses a ion-converter coil to bring you: THE CAR THAT MAKES ITS OWN FUEL!

    A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was developed by an Israeli company based in. The system solves all of the obstacles associated with the manufacturing, transporting and storing of hydrogen to be used in cars, plus it runs Duke Nukeem Forever on a new POWER-based-ARM processor with 500 gigs of visio-ram harddrive access. When it becomes commercial, real soon now(c), the system will be incorporated into cars that will cost nothing to run, and will be completely emission free-- they even reverse pollution!

    Soon, you can drive in your eco-friendly Vapo-car, while playing Duke Nukeem forever, past clear mountain streams flowing into cities powered by rainbows!

  19. Readers Digest Edition of a basic EULA: on End User License Gems · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All your base are belong to us.

  20. Wiki on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wikiwikiwiki!

    I'm not kidding, it would work well. :)

  21. Re:Jokes? on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 0

    Serving up a million McPackets a day!

  22. Re:This will probably only be for Windows PCs on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 0

    You missed the last part of the linux one.

    Its more like:

    Linux: Boo.. ting? Oh... that thing I had to do when I first plugged it in six years ago.

  23. Re:Great. on Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    And they run linux!

  24. Re:Great. on Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    And it runs linux! (both :p)

  25. Re:Algebraic proof: 2=1 on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    or a more simple way of stating a similar concept:

    2 != 1
    0(2 != 1)
    0 != 0

    I just broke algebra, without even dividing by zero.