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  1. Re:Cue Microsoft bashing... on Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards" · · Score: 1

    >In fact, Microsoft Evangelism is documented in many locations by Microsoft employees themselves Please post links to them. It would enhance your credibility and be hugely informative.

  2. Monoculture on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is one more example of a successful monoculture. History has shown that these attract infection. And so we have Dutch Elm disease, HIV/AIDS, whatever is causing honeybee colonies to collapse, and WinDoze hAck0rz. So, Apple, good luck keeping the condom on your thingy.

  3. Give it a telescope and hi-res ground imaging on NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 · · Score: 1

    A steady stream of pretty pictures seems to keep satellites aloft.

  4. Clark Kent's paper? on Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As so many papers seem to be doing lately, the Daily Planet went under and merged with the Universe Gazette to form UniverseToday. No longer available in a pulp-based life-form.

  5. Re:hmm... on Researchers Discover That Sand Behaves Like Water · · Score: 1

    Aerodynamics, perhaps. In the first video, we clearly see small "droplets" falling more slowly than larger blobs, indicating the sand is not falling in a vacuum. The minimum energy state for a trail of non-spherical particles could easily be a series of ovoid blobs whose shape is carved out by turbulence in the airstream.

  6. You can't make this pi$$ up on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps this is a stress test for the urine separator in microgravity. Ridiculous, you say? Last year 8 gallons of urine / day were collected for reclaim tests. (Honestly, how many astronauts does it take to install a "front porch" for the Kibo module? Certainly not 13.) NASA needs to know how to deal with large volumes of human waste on an extended mission.

  7. As usual, SciFi on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    ... is way ahead on this. (Hmm. Didn't know there was a Wookieepedia.)

  8. I knew it! on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    The beryllium sphere featured here and here is real!

  9. Buddhist Hot Dog Vendor on Japan Launches 'Buddha Phone' · · Score: 1

    Sure, but can it make me one with everything? (nod to Robin Williams)

  10. Re:Computers with opinions?! on Computers With Opinions On Visual Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    Zounds! You've explained it.

  11. Re:The Giving Plague on Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" · · Score: 1

    What a legacy. You might think he had invented dynamite or such.

  12. Big Bang post on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let's get them all over at once:

    In Soviet Russia, space-time warps you.

    Is this how Natalie Portman got here?

    Moving blobs of space-time: What could possibly go wrong?

    TFA explains why I read this /. post yesterday.

    How to leave Mom's basement.

    It's working in the next Linux kernel.

    If it already happened isn't that prior art?

    Samzenpus can't spell "achieve". Editors must have beamed up.

    and last but not least ... IANAL but isn't traveling faster than light illegal?

  13. Re:Unprintable expletive? on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must be related to the unpronounceable symbol

  14. Re:Backfired! on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to TFA, "Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe signed the search warrant." Judge Donahoe 's qualifications are described here. His contact information (including phone and email address) is here.

  15. Re:Sunshine on Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports · · Score: 1

    "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore

  16. Re:Still it's awesome. on Students Call Space Station With Home-Built Radio · · Score: 1

    "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

  17. Re:i don't see any problem on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the majority of vanilla Excel users ... the road is clear. But not for those of us who work a bit deeper in Finance there are some valid problems. My biggest concerns are availability of add-ins for and interoperability with PeopleSoft, Oracle applications, QuickBooks, Peachtree accounting, SAP, Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management ... Second would be availability of statistical toolkits and other extended function sets.

  18. The Beatles called ... on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 0

    How many holes does it take to fill "the Albert Hall"?

  19. I'll tell you what's the matter ... on Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore · · Score: 0

    We in the movement for the right to self-annihilate prefer to call it pro-nothing, not anti-matter.

  20. Re:Knee-jerk /. on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 0
    Hey, this is slashdot. We all expect kneejerk reactions to any of the classic 'snake oil' topics:

    1) Fuel economy

    2) Baldness / hair restoration

    3) Breast or penis enlargement

    4) Wrinkle reduction

    5) Weight loss / fitness / nutrition

    6) Extra-sensory perception

    7) Cancer cures

    8) Microsoft

    9) Linux for the masses

    10) Duke Nukem Forever

  21. Re:Not patent-worthy on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the bottle was a picture of company founder Henry John Heinz, and a quote:

    "To do a common thing uncommonly well, brings success."

    Punctuation, commonly, is not one of those.

  22. Reprieve from the Governor? on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 1

    in 2 days time we'll all be dead anyway

    "the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for 10 September 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on 21 October 2008."

    I guess I have six weeks to work on my tinfoil hat.

  23. Obligatories on MIT Secretly Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) What could possibly go wrong?

    2) Grow virus, Stir in cobalt oxide and gold, Add electrolyte, Invent cathode, ..., PROFIT!

    3) I for one welcome our new secretly developed, Army-funded, virus-based, electricity producing overlords.

    4) But will it run Natalie Portman's vibrator?

  24. And in other news ... on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    ... Sanskrit is making a comeback.

  25. Re:Two problems on Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete · · Score: 1

    Is washing the surface a necessary step? If so, this might not be a great solution for L.A., Phoenix, and other cities in arid locations.