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  1. Re:How did microsoft get around the embargo? on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: -1, Redundant
    "Not very long ago, Cuba targeted the United States with armed nuclear missiles. The people who have been in power in the United States since that time, still carry quite a grudge over that incident. It is of course open to debate, but the status quo most certainly does hold Cuba as a very serious threat."

    Let's not forget Red Dawn! Meh-seemed plausible at the time.

  2. Re:I hope they aren't planing to follow M$ office on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 1

    oops - rewind. And spanning sessions. PD.

  3. Re:I hope they aren't planing to follow M$ office on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 1

    Mozilla can have this idea for a "fast-forward" thumbnail button - all tabs included, and/or just history and/or by category: I declare this idea PD (Public Domain). Unless Apple's already done it.

  4. Re:I hope they aren't planing to follow M$ office on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 2, Informative
    Additional info from Mozilla

    Overview of Test Pilot We can provide a much more satisfying experience all around by putting in place some basic infrastructure. Here's the idea: * We develop and promote a formal Test Pilot program with a Firefox add-on at its core.
    * The first time the Test Pilot add-on is run, it asks a few simple non-personally-identifiable questions in order to put the user into a demographic bucket, e.g. technical level, locale, etc., and to let them opt in to additional anonymous instrumentation.
    * Test Pilot will then notify its users when a new experiment is available for testing. If the user opts in, it will download the required software (if any) and load any information required to get started with the new experiment, e.g. overview, use cases, etc.
    * After either a specified amount of time or upon completion of a specific action, Test Pilot will prompt the user for feedback. The feedback form will only ask a few questions selected from a much larger set. A link will be provided to provided more comprehensive unstructured feedback or bug reports.
    * The set of questions posed for feedback will be randomly distributed within each demographic bucket to ensure statistical significance of the results.
    * Anonymized aggregate results and analysis will then be posted automatically to the Test Pilot site.
    * * All participants will receive a "flight badge" displayed in their Test Pilot profile and available to embed on blogs, social networks, etc.
    The idea is that by reducing the amount of required feedback to only a few clicks we can increase overall rates of participation.

    If they give me a physical flight badge to wear on my hat, I might do it.

  5. Re:dream on on PowerBeam Demos Wireless Electricity At CES · · Score: 2, Funny
    The whole notion of usable wireless electricity smells to me of perpetual motion.

    Especially if the 100 watt beam gets up your nose: You'll be in motion for at least a little while.

  6. Re:Really that big deal? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    When FM Stereo came out, did the AM stations have to shut down? If a local television station has the revenue to continue broadcasting analog (& maybe get additional revenue from the analog), I say let them do it. All (?) the bigger stations do both right now, & there doesn't seem to be any interference or technical reason that would seem to contraindicate their continuing to do so. Eventually the old sets will simply wear out.

  7. Re:Can you hear me now? on FBI Vaguely Warns of Asterisk Vishing Vulnerability · · Score: 1
    "I am Mr. Dramane Yadi, I work in the Accounts/ Operations Department of a Prime banks here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire. I actually have an urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. I got your contact from Internet and decided to contact you immediately."

    "This is Mr Smith. I would be delighted to do business with you, and you called at the ideal time! I have a choice portfolio of mortgage-backed securities and would like to offer you the opportunity...

    *CLICK**DIALTONE*

    A "Real Genius" moment strikes again:}

  8. Re:Powerful telescope on Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Mis

  9. Re:Silly Humans! Clone an EINSTEIN !! on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1
    "Hmm.. a neanderthal zombie.. now that'd be scary."

    Sounds like a Sci-Fi channel Saturday night movie-you should copyright that idea.

  10. Re:Same thing but for 7 year olds on Gadgets For a Budding Geek? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I begged my parents for a rock tumbler, when I was 11-12. Biggest mistake they ever made, as we were all not serenaded to sleep by that incessant rumbling, coming from the utility room. But I still have pretty much every rock I tumbled, & will never get rid of them - what are memories worth (and the discipline to add the grits when needed)?

  11. Re:For those that don't get the joke on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 1
    "Journey to the Center of the Earth to the Moon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in Eighty Days"

    I'm intrigued -that sounds like an excellent mashup!

  12. Re:For those that don't get the joke on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One could say the same thing about Jules Verne: Protagonists embark on a fantastic journey (center of the earth; submarine; airborn), encounter fantastic things (new environments with: giant lizards; giant squids; dinosaurs), then escape at the last minute following some cataclysm and have a great story to regale to their peers. Although a bit formulaic, that doesn't make the stories any less compelling or romantic to read.

  13. Re:Electric Gas Cans? on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1
    "When my batteries go flat a couple miles from home, what will I do?"

    Carry a spare battery shaped liked a gas can, to the nearest "gas" station. Good news is, the battery won't be any heavier on the way back to your car. Or carry hybrid jumper cables, whatever those would be.

  14. Re:This is fucking cool on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1
    One of the first things I did, & redirected to archive.org, to be greeted by:

    "We're sorry, access to http://www.frontiersman.com/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.".

    I wanted the old stuff!

  15. Re:drat...... on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1
    "aww man, http://www.eternalambition.com/ is gone now... /me jumps out of a window"

    No wait, come back in

  16. Re:wishful thinking? on Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer · · Score: 1

    Or: "Drink from the Yeasty Beasties! Drink Beer Weevil!"

  17. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    We called that slugbug.

  18. Re:Craziness on Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber · · Score: 3, Informative

    And disengenous to say that they are saving the city from themselves. After 10 years, Here's how some citizens get their choices, to the chagrin of Charter.

  19. Re:Negative Reinforcement Education on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 1

    RogerRoger.

  20. Re:What Are You Talking About? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    Worst. Ad. Ever. I mean, it caused me physical pain as I spun around on the couch.

  21. Re:This is awesome. on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    "Closed For the Season"? Nah, sounds like a chick flick.

  22. Re:This is awesome. on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    I tried to download their new game, "Page Not Found" but so far - unsuccessful.

  23. Re:Time Tunnel! on Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1
    "Have you never seen an episode of Time Tunnel?"

    That's how I got my handle (read the closing credits vertically--or maybe it was "Land of the Giants"...).

  24. Re:Cheesy Joke Thread, and life on Saturn on Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Well, let's send out a robo-sub & find out.

  25. Re:Amazing picture on NASA Opens Space Image Library · · Score: 1
    "I know I'm going to hate myself for asking, but where's Uranus?"

    On the flip side of your venis.