Posts by Steve Smith 2

Humanity evolved to cope with 30°C+ heat, says prof

I feel special now!

Gee whiz! "Scorchingly... cruelly... terrifically hot". 30°C+!

I freaking wish! It's only 39°C outside now because it's not Summer yet. I'm going out for a smoke and expect I'll live to see another day.

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Glendale+AZ+85302

I think I'll do the Superior Dance while I'm out there, ye pale-complected pussies! ;-)

Obama to promote RIAA's favourite lawyer

Re: At the rate Obama's going...

Everybody *knows* that the next Republican ticket is going to be Sarah Palin / David Duke. Duh!

Chinese schools deny Google cyber-attack links

Google and at least 100 other companies...

This story has really grown stale.

"Google and at least 100 other companies", from now on, please. If we're not going to get company names, at least keep it dramatic.

"Google, Tiger Woods, and at least 100 other companies". Yes? Yes?

You're very welcome.

Scots unleash world's strongest beer

Golly...

FFS: more than $100 for a bottle of eisbock? I suppose it's good that they prey on the gullible. It _should_ hurt to be stupid.

Novell forces customers to pay for maintenance

Oh Noes!

What? Novell committed an enormous marketing blunder? I can't BELIEVE it! Alert The Media!! Oh, wait.

We're "just about" to finally turn off the last of our old-timey Netware servers where I live. I put up with them for years - since 3.10 in fact. I stopped defending them to management and the local 'softies when they stopped developing the (then) still-decent Netware kernel and tried to strong-arm customers onto their SUSE Frankensteinian creation. F' em - right in the ear...