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  1. Thank God on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank God Dell's a private company now. I'm glad I sold when I did.

  2. 14 quarters on Microsoft's Mission To Reignite the PC Sector (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    14 quarters of failing to meet the expectations of their customers.

  3. Station Wagon on Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail · · Score: 1

    What's this station wagon you talk about?

  4. What I did on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    I retired and founded a charity "Kawaza School Fund" that supports a school in Luangwa Valley, Zambia. We are a small charity but everything we can do to help these children is greatly appreciated. It's amazing what just a little help can do for people with so little.

  5. Texas Prayer on Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar · · Score: 1

    Lord, give us one more boom. We promise not to piss it away this time.

  6. Re:Not a slew. Not even statistically significant. on Another Slew of Science Papers Retracted Because of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Is slew the proper collective term? I would think pan-tload would fit better.

  7. Something similar on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    I have something similar. It's called a sail boat. Mine is roomier and moves around.

  8. Don't put it off til the last minute.

  9. Jon Stewart on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 2

    Now that Jon Stewart is gone cable TV can go pound sand.

  10. Re:Open Sauce ? on India Adopts Comprehensive Open Source Policy · · Score: 2

    I wonder if they checked with Redmond before they did this?

  11. Re:wtf? on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    I made a living building DOS menus.

  12. Re:Jumping the Sharknado! on A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Solitaire was originally to give users something to do while waiting for a program to execute.

  13. Inverters on the panel on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    The trend in solar is to put mini inverters on the panel itself giving them an AC output. This makes the setup and wiring of an array much easier and cheaper.

  14. Re:Cops in Ballard on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Bill Nye when he was still famous.

  15. Failsafe on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    How is losing power in an airplane a safe mode?

  16. Re:Agile - like everything else it is good and bad on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 1

    Agile and IBM don't go together. In any sense of either word.

  17. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dell? Ha that's a laugh.

  18. Re:It's quite simple really... on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    I didn't know what "Lem" is so I did a search for it. The first link that came up was for a sausage stuffer. Somehow appropriate.

  19. Say Cheese on Giant Lava Tubes Possible On the Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the moon is made of Swiss cheese.

  20. Pencils on Zuckerberg and Gates-Backed Startup Seeks To Shake Up African Education · · Score: 4, Informative

    The school I support in Zambia is happy just to get pencils and pens. They have no use for anything electronic.We are working to get them enough electricity to have a light on when it gets dark. Sometimes we in the west have no idea the rudimentary conditions some folks live in.

  21. UI on NTP's Fate Hinges On "Father Time" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Someone is dying to put a new UI on it.

  22. Re:Ook? on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 2

    Against one perfect moment the centuries beat in vain.

  23. The Danger of Monoculture on NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack · · Score: 2

    Is Gemalto the only provider of these cards?

  24. Aha on The Search For Neutrons That Leak Into Our World From Other Universes · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that's where my car keys go.

  25. Kick in the Balls on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my last job.