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  1. Re:WTF is this about metal objects? on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 1

    The best way to insulate oneself from lightning is to be _inside_ a metal object, such as an automobile.

    Isn't it the rubber in the tires that does the good though? Not so much the metal frame?

    3. Don't lay flat on the ground if you are at a golf course or open field. Crouch.

    Why's that?

  2. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... on Wii-mote In Action · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you watch the videos? The movements look pretty fluid and definitely not overcompensated.

  3. Don't forget DHL! on Rumormongering - Apple Could Buy Nintendo? · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the Apple-Nintendo-DHL merger so I can focus all my fanboyism at one entity.

  4. Re:missing link. on Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply · · Score: 5, Funny
  5. Re:Oy vey. on CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man · · Score: 1

    About as long as it takes to figure out roughly the number of words in a post. (It's ~70)

  6. Oblig Futurama quote on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    Fry: Can you translate it?

    Farnsworth: Of course. But only into Beta Crypt 3, a language so complex there's even less chance of understanding it.

    Fry: I didn't ask for a completely reasonable excuse. I asked you to get busy.

  7. Re:Set dressing on Apple And The Boob Tube · · Score: 1

    ... I'd bet you my neck on a block it's because XServes just don't have big enough blue LEDs and blinky lights - and because Dell's servers are, oddly enough, among their best looking products.

    Have you ever seen an Xserve? They account for about 90% of the LED's in the server room where I work (:

    Front view (27 LED's)
    Rear view (7 LED's .. I think)

    The front LED's in the dark (:

  8. Obligatory (?) Arrested Development reference on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 1

    I'm no scar! I'm no scar!

    ... dot com

  9. This is a comment? on The Man Behind Online Porn's 'Steve Lightspeed' · · Score: 1

    I am unsure as to why this is a comment. User X remarks about Slashdot story Y, an blog not looked upon with great respect by a majority of the public. Because of this X does not want his family to know he remarks about Y blog and generally associates with people from the Y blog so as to avoid embarassment due to his profession.

  10. Re:From the Article on Microsoft turns to U.S. for EU Antitrust Help · · Score: 1

    "Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying, 'I'm gonna fuckin' kill(R) Europe!' It's the final countdown!"

    Ballmer can't even throw his own chair! I mean COME ON!

  11. Re:Tripe on Why Everyone Loves Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple's customer service is certainly not what is used to be. But I became a loyal customer originally years ago because of their customer service at that time. I was among many Apple users I know who would call their customer service, get a real person every time, and often times end up shooting the shit with these people for hours. I had a friend who actually called them quite often just to talk about tuning/upgrading his PowerMac.

    That has definitely changed over the years, but if their customer service is still on-par with everyone else (in my case it is still the best customer service anyway), than why go anywhere else?

    Have you ever actually dealt with iPod customer service? My original iPod had problems requiring me to send it back to them twice and each time they waived the fee (my original year had another month left) and always shipped overnight.

  12. Re:Why? on Facebook On The Block · · Score: 1

    All my college friends incurred serious debt in college - in fact most of their debt was acquired in school.

    You ended this sentence a little early: All my college friends incurred serious debt in college - in fact most of their debt was acquired in school tuition and outfuckingrageous fees.

    (:

  13. Re:Google cache on Australian PM Has Parody Site Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the gov't ever would have even noticed the site if every link except for the speeches didn't point to the official pages.

  14. Re:Fastest damn browser on the Mac on Mozilla Camino 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like most of the dev being done on Bug 111230 is by all the guys from the Camino team.

    There are some nice extra features (like the ability to easily edit the search field) in an addon called CaminTools.

  15. Re:I was a subscriber, happened to me... on Netflix Throttling Heavy Renters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Holy shit mods!

    THIS IS NOT INSIGHTFUL!

    I'd get 3 DVD's in the mail, I'd rip them to my HD for encoding and backup (to watch later), and send them out the next day. The day after I sent them Netflix would confirm that they had them and send out the next ones

    YOU are exacly why Netflix is inclined to put something like this in place. You are not "backing up" these as you don't own them. Seriously mods, what are you thinking moding this insighful? I would vote with my points, but they won't matter with the sea of idoits who seem to get them.

  16. Yay futurama! on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 1

    Professor: "Start the ship, Leela! Let's just steal the damn radar dish, and get back to our own time."
    Fry: "But, but, won't that change history?"
    Professor: "Oooh... A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa! Let's get the hell out of here already. Screw history!"

    http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSound s/3ACV19/27.mp3

  17. Re:"Quick Tab" on Microsoft IE 7 Goes (More) Beta · · Score: 3, Informative

    A shot from OminWeb's website: http://www.omnigroup.com/images/images-5/features/ tabs.png

    And Shiira on OS X has a similar feature called tab exposé: http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/screenshot/en#tabExpose

  18. Re:The guy on the left on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    Dead on, I immediately thought Strange Brew when thet guy started talking.

  19. Re:Is it good news or bad news? on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 0

    ... world series basketball results.

    In the words of the common gamer, ROFLMAO.

  20. Re:Text of the Letter on The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Fry: Can you translate it?
    Farnsworth: Of course. But only into Beta Crypt 3, a language so complex, there's even less chance of understanding it.

  21. Sober making the rounds here for a while on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For about the past month my mail server virus scanner has been getting a large number of hits from Sober, pretty much entirely from Hotmail. It's not an incredibly busy mail server, but the amount of Sober vs other viruses is hard to miss.

    Some stats from the past week:

    11/28 - 57 hits (2.7% of received emails)
    11/29 - 81 hits (3.6%)
    11/30 - 64 hits (2.9%)
    12/01 - 128 hits (2.2%)
    12/02 - 72 hits (3.6%)

    It seemed to take a break over Thanksgiving, there were zero hits between 11/23 and 11/28, which is the longest span since I first started seeing a lot of them.

  22. Re:Slashdot Lessons on A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Your job isn't to inform, but to generate the highest number of page-views for your advertisers.

    People who don't like ads can be fooled by hiding ads inside so-called news stories.


    Heh, I wish those points were Slashdot-specific.

  23. Re:new problems introduced on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    It certainly does lack a lot of the nice features that Firefox has. I primarily use it for the speed and *bites tongue* prettines over Firefox (:

  24. Re:new problems introduced on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    If you're on OS X, use Camino. Same core, native development.

  25. Re:eBay on Xbox 360 Launches In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Haha, from the short description for this one:

    Microsoft Xbox 360 - Game console NO RESERVE!!! L@@K!!!
    GET IT NOW SOLD OUT!!PERFECT FOR THE RICH SPOILED KID!