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  1. Northern Canada on Wikipedia Edits Around the World · · Score: 2

    The English map shows a significant amount coming from the area of Nunalla, CA, on the western shore of Hudson Bay. But there's nothing there except two historic buildings from the Hudson Bay Company. So either the geolocation algorithm is off, or maybe it's the entrance to a secret underground organization such as Aperture Science.

  2. Next in line to be open source on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    Bob and Clippy.

  3. Cave Johnson speaking on Worm Descendants From Columbia Disaster Relaunched · · Score: 1

    "First we tried breeding spacemen that could survive a crash. Well, that didn't work. So now we're breeding worms that can survive a crash."

  4. Re:How many sysadmins on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 2

    does it take to change the IP address of a lightbulb?

  5. Re:Hmm .. Disney copyrights the name on Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disney copyright lawyers.

  6. Getting close to a mole on World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year · · Score: 1

    This is within a factor of ten to a mole of bits. That's an analogy science geeks can relate to.

  7. Electronically on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    Required: scanner and shredder. Everyone should own a shredder, or take sensitive stuff to one of those commercial shredder services. Otherwise, as some have mentioned, you eventually get hip-deep in paper. A very small number of paper docs need to be kept (auto title, will, e.g.). Use whatever systematic organization you want for scanned documents. You will need good backups including off-site. And a way for selected others to access it if something happens to you. Yes, it's some work to set up, but then it's easy to run and maintain. And if you get everything you can delivered electronically, it saves a lot of paper.

  8. Re:New Name? on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    Since this is version 2 maybe it will be called Poo.

  9. Re:Black Pants on Worlds With Two Suns May Sport Black Plants · · Score: 2

    That's the intergalactical punishment for lying - forced to wear black pants on a world with two suns.

  10. Not the first on World's Smallest Wedding Rings Made of DNA · · Score: 1

    Catenanes have been known for some time. This is just the first made out of DNA. So the others are smaller. Which makes the story doubly-lame.

  11. Portal on Game Genres — Descriptive Or Restrictive? · · Score: 1

    This is why Portal was packaged in the Orange Box - as a genre-breaking game it was too risky to release on its own (beside being too short). Interesting to have this discussion on the eve of the release of Portal 2 as a mainstream game.

  12. Re:Here's a suggestion on Massive SQL Injection Attack Compromises 380K URLs · · Score: 1

    I had the misfortune to run into it yesterday. It continuously runs a fake scan, asks you to download an executable, and doesn't let you navigate away from the page. The only way I got rid of it was by shutting down JavaScript then closing the tab.

  13. Up in the air! on See The Supermoon Tonight · · Score: 1

    It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Superman flying upside down with his pants down!

  14. Re:Not solar sails or thrusters but gravity assist on MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine you're on the lip of a large crater. Near the bottom is a little mound with its own tiny crater. Your objective is to roll a ball down the large crater and land it in the tiny crater. Of course if your ball is moving too fast when it hits the tiny crater it will skip right over. That's the challenge of putting a probe in orbit around Mercury.

  15. Re:your business card is crap. on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That card's as big as a cd. He should just pass out DVDs, containing an hour of him explaining why he's so great.

  16. Must be from Soviet Russia on Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data · · Score: 1, Funny

    Computer with sonar keyboard pings you.

  17. Re:Units? on Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark · · Score: 1

    You can get it now if you're willing to shell out 5 grand.

  18. Stereo display? on Kyocera and Sprint Now Hyping a Dual-Screen Android Smartphone · · Score: 2

    Just put the image for each eye on each screen. Might work well if the distance between the screen centers is close to the interpupillary distance.

  19. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Not really.

  20. Re:Space camp and amusement park on NASA's Commercial Plans for Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    The Vehicle Assembly Building could be turned into a Thunderdome kind of entertainment. If they're really serious about making some big money.

  21. If you thought a high-voltage hybrid was dangerous on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Try working on a vehicle with a 5000 psi tank inside.

  22. Textile professor on Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe · · Score: 2

    He must be fun at parties.

  23. Re:important questions to ask the candidates... on Exoplanet Candidates Revealed · · Score: 1

    Sarah Palin is rumored to be an exoplanet candidate for 2012.

  24. Really? on Adding an Olfactory Dimension To Games · · Score: 1

    Seems a little early for April Fools.

  25. 400 volunteers on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a lot of guys got dumped over the holidays. And now have nothing better to do than read the Journal of Cosmology.