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  1. Re:I have always wondered... on Time to End Microsoft's Patch Tuesday? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's your fault that you didn't learn how to configure your system to meet your needs. :)

  2. Re:I have always wondered... on Time to End Microsoft's Patch Tuesday? · · Score: 1

    You just didn't have it configured the way you needed it to be, your error, not Microsofts.

    Configure it to inform you but not automaticly download them & quit blaming your mistakes on Microsoft.

  3. Curveball on Fast Navigating Guessing Robots · · Score: 1

    "You could have two robots building their own maps," he says, "which then share them when they meet." This will allow a robot to make predictions based on data collected by its teammate.

    Let's throw them a curveball, make one of them white & the other black, see what happens.
  4. Re:Goodbye, Photobucket on News Corp to Purchase Photobucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can keep the ring. It's not real, it's just some piece of glass I found on the sidewalk.

    They know, someone uploaded a photo of you picking it up.
  5. Forgetfullness on News Corp to Purchase Photobucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    has signed up 41 million registered users, up from 32 million at the end of last year

    Ok, that's a little hard to believe, there's no way 9 million people forgot their passwords last year.
  6. Anti-drug on Boredom Drives Open-Source Developers? · · Score: 1

    Open source is my Anti-drug.

    Seriously...

  7. Never late for work ! on Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Joebert ! you're late !
    No I'm not sir, I got an early start cleaning up inside the tube.

  8. What's the point ? on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    What's the point of including insurance in this bill ?

    Insurance was invented during a time when things really were left to chance, if genetics become usefull enough that insurance companies could use them to screen policicy applicants, couldn't that mean that insurance policies themselves would be obsolete ?

  9. Re:So what is the problem? on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    You need to be hit with the clue stick about how the insurance industry works.

    But first, you might want to get some more life insurance, you know, in case they hit you a little too hard.
  10. Re:Let me get this straight on Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop" · · Score: 1

    Remember, this is a state with shirts that read "Utah, but I'm taller.".

  11. Re:Not alone on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're all fired, we're switching back to Microsoft.
    There, problem solved.

  12. Re:Authority on Harvard Law Professor Urges University to Fight RIAA · · Score: 1

    What gave it away ?
    Was it the fact that there's humor in the statement ? :)

  13. Re:Authority on Harvard Law Professor Urges University to Fight RIAA · · Score: 4, Funny

    so they do it for all the wrong reasons and they learn nothing from it?

    Not really, they learn why they should have went to Harvard.
  14. Pirating on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 1

    But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune

    Well, in all fairness, I don't think the number of 85 year olds using pirated software is all that high.
    Then again, I guess the number of 85 year olds who know what software actually is, isn't very high either.
  15. Re:Emergencies? on Buildings Could Save Energy By Spying On Workers · · Score: 1

    Blinking the most-appropriate exit path would be appropriate, so long as in the worst-case they failsafe to steady On.

    Unless it's Friday, then there's a good chance someone's going to mistake the smoke, blinking lights, & people screaming, for Casual Friday.
  16. Re:Exactly on Buildings Could Save Energy By Spying On Workers · · Score: 1

    How much safe could a failsafe safe if a failsafe could fail safe ?

  17. Re:obsolete? on Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX · · Score: 1

    We all know about -froot don't we?

    Is that anything like "-froot loop" ?
  18. Re:Emergencies? on Buildings Could Save Energy By Spying On Workers · · Score: 1

    Which is why you don't work at MERL. In large, complex buildings, having only the signs that lead you out of the building in the quickest possible way would definitely be a benefit.

    Well, I don't work at MERL either, but uh, wouldn't be more efficient just to get rid of the wild-goose-chase exit signs all together ?

    Maybe I'm missing somthing here, but I thought for sure that the whole purpose of exit signs was to illuminate the quickest way out of whatever room you're in to begin with.
  19. Re:obsolete? on Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX · · Score: 1

    Not many people will know how to hack into it.

  20. Hold that wall up buddy on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling everyone employed by the RIAA used to be one of thoose kids who held up the walls & did other oh-so-important tasks when they were kids ?

  21. Re:Vista ready? on OLPC to Run Windows, Come to the US · · Score: 1

    Awesome, now it'll match my left arm.

  22. Stagnant Stock on Vista Sales Strong, Higher Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Finally.
    Maybe the people who have been holding Microsoft stock for a year longer than anticipated now will get a chance to dump it at some sort of profit.

  23. Re:Chicks dig soap on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 1

    Off topic ?
    Damn, I thought you guys were joking about the whole girl situation around here, it seems I was wrong.

  24. Chicks dig soap on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 2, Funny

    This explains why my nympho girlfriend has 5 billion bottles of soap in her bathroom.

  25. Re:Tsunami? on Russia's Floating Nuclear Plants Under Fire From Greens · · Score: 1

    Why throw our money away on nuclear weapons to shoot over there when we can just send a few influential people to talk them into building one in their back yard with their own money ?