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  1. browncoat on Avatars Help Schizophrenics Gain Control of Voices In Their Heads · · Score: 1

    "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"

  2. Oh, No! I've fallen ... on Pavel Vinogradov, At 59, Sets New Record As Oldest Spacewalker · · Score: 1

    Oh, no! I've fallen and I'll never get up!

  3. Windows 9 hardware on Ballmer Tells the BBC There's More MS Hardware On the Way · · Score: 1

    Windows 9! Soon to incorporate User Interface with wooden mallet and trombone.

  4. Not worry about after crash, but AVOID CRASH on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    I spend most of my time driving NOT crashing. I'd worry less about where my hands are after a crash and more on where to place my hands to give me the best control of the vehicle so as to AVOID crashing. That might easily be tested in simulators. If I were a betting man, I'd place money more on 10-2 than 6:30-5:30.

  5. Research on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 1

    Professional writers spend a lot of time doing research. Lots of research. This means reading material about the subject matter. Use Google and see what's online, but also read a few dozen books from a good library. That being said, you don't need a lot of technical detail; you're going to write a story. That involves realistic characters, dialog, and relationships. This is what will make you succeed (or fail) as a writer.

  6. They would have on What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like · · Score: 1

    They would have Carbone breast implants.

  7. Re:Can't have your cake and eat it too. on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true Yugo owner.

  8. Difficult field on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Studies in this field are really difficult to do. A rigorously defensible experimental regime is nearly impossible to establish. Inferences made from Factor Analysis and Correlation matrices are nearly shaky as Ouija boards and Yarrow sticks. Low numbers of casual observations made from a preselected class of people does not constitute good random sampling. The best conclusions in the field would barely serve as hypotheses in a true science. The "softer" sciences are extremely difficult to work with.

  9. New Law and Order on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 1

    They will move from Sharia Law to Kirchoff's Laws.

  10. Sad on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    While information does want to be free, this is going to get some very good people killed. You know, there are some really evil people out there and it is up to someone to keep track of them. Sometimes that function falls on the people being exposed here.

  11. I go with my gut feeling about this on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 1

    dyspepsia makes me frown, diarrhea makes me run. low blood sugar gets me down, full stomach, well, I'm done.

  12. Think of the poor computers! on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Ha. We humans should go to a non-intuitive time reckoning simply to make it easier for computers to work? You obviously never worked for Apple.

  13. Back to the Past? on Acer CEO Declares a Tablets Bubble · · Score: 1

    Who wants to go back the the past with stodgy, old-fashioned GUI driven by a 2x2 finger pad? The form of the platform may change, but intelligent users will demands for their computers the ease of use of a modern interface such as that provided by the best tablets. Out with the buggy whips and hand cranks.

  14. "What is Toronto?????" on IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers · · Score: 1

    Customer: "My cable modem keeps dropping sessions." Watson: "What is Toronto?????"

  15. So What? on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 2

    So What? We are the average of the various quantum states of our constituent particles, at least in THIS universe.

  16. Never had battery die on Alaska Airlines Jettisons Paper Manuals For iPads · · Score: 1

    I've never had the battery run down on a paper map.

  17. Shredder, Incinerator on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Not much better than sending CD through a shredder or through the incinerator in the burn-bags. Of course, not as fun to watch.

  18. Re:Useless place on Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon · · Score: 1

    If you are going to build a 1700 mile pipeline then why not build a habitat closer to the poles?

  19. Santorum on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    Manipulated results example: Google search for Santorum

  20. Aerial Dispersant on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 1

    One pound of anthrax spores ... (OTOH a bicycle mount would be easier to control)

  21. RULE 34 on Microsoft Patents Shape-Shifting Display · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ultimately Rule 34 will prove true.

  22. Re:I can say now: faulty on Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day · · Score: 1

    What is a "Cambridge?"

  23. Whaaaat? on USCG Sues Copyright Defense Lawyer · · Score: 1

    I read that as U.S. Coast Guard Sues... and I'm like ????

  24. All those monopolies on The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet · · Score: 1

    All those monopolies competing one against the other!

  25. Don't get in a pissing match ... on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Don't get in a pissing match with an entity that is full of it.