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  1. Re:When did Slashdot becom Digg? on ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Yesterday. We do complain about the stories not belonging here—now, it's our fault because we didn't vote hard enough. Or maybe they're integrating the firehose.

  2. Re:Tin FOIL ALERT on Bees Communicate With Electric Fields · · Score: 1

    Was your hat really tin? Or aluminum? Was it properly grounded?

  3. Re:Where will they be located? on Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service · · Score: 1

    Free Store Pickup Today items can be ordered online just before you drive over and you can often save $5-10 compared to lifting it off the shelf yourself. I wonder if that annoys any of the workers.

  4. Re:So on Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging by the time it took to get E17 out, I'm not so sure that any of us will still be alive by then.

  5. Re:Magnitude of effectiveness on Washington's Exploding Manholes Explained? · · Score: 1

    You mean like the dinosaurs could've avoided it? I guess they didn't have enough money.

    They were too busy sinking their money and technology into expensive ways to slapfight each other in the back seat while arguing over who's the bigger liar. Oh wait; they didn't have technology. Maybe if they did...

  6. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    Assuming somebody is willing to pull it out.

  7. Re:Excel? What? on Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements · · Score: 2
    You slept through his previous sentence:

    I'm not seeing anyone, not even Microsoft, demanding that the workplace convert over to touch-screen UIs, even in a distant future.

    A touchscreen, and there for 8 would be terrible for office work.

  8. Re:Online only lies on EA CEO's Departure Might Be Good For the Company · · Score: 2

    The reason they gave for being online was that they were running parts of the simulation your computer couldn't handle. That was a lie.

    Well, duh. If that was the case then they'd need compute power greater than that of all the expected thousands of users combined (well, minus whatever processing can be shared).

  9. Re:This week on... SAN ANDREAS GOLD! on Earthquakes Deposit Gold In Fault Zones · · Score: 1

    I think you mean plural. There'll be two shows each on at least Discovery, History and probably TLC. Maybe even National Geologic. Now, one show will consist of people going out to find the gold, while the second will have other people bringing it in. And they'll have stupid punny names like Goldie Luck's and AU Gratin.

  10. Re:They're certainly free to do this... on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uncheck your browser's equivalent of "Allow scripts to detect context menu events", which has almost no legitimate use outside of Web Apps®.

  11. Re:The cynic in me... on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 2

    He thought you were referring to the Nicolas Cage movie.

  12. Re:What? on Windows 7 RTM Support Ending Soon · · Score: 1

    Pirates get updates for 7, too.

  13. Re:Funny Story... on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Some systems have a symlink to editor and/or an environment variable for other programs to check if they feel the need to start a 'default' editor.

  14. Re:Um, why? on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and the vi-curious.

  15. Re:Justice on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    97% of rapists never spend a day in jail.

    Putting away the wrong guy would only distort the numbers. How accurate is that statistic, anyway?

    And this contributes to a culture where rape is ignored and the victims are blamed.

    So do false rape accusations.

    It contributes to a culture where women feel unsafe in their communities.

    Imprisoning innocents produces a false sense of security because it makes the people feel safer.

  16. Re:GE doesn't make weapons on Comcast Buys Out GE's Remaining 49% Stake In NBC · · Score: 1

    BASF.

  17. Re:one word on Pepsi To Release New Breakfast Mountain Dew · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bonus if you hit a ramp of some sort and manage a barrel roll while pouring the Breakfast Diet Double Dew 8 inches from your face. X-TREME, my good sir.

  18. Re:Or... on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    They probably used molasses values in their fluid sims.

  19. Re: Atleast it is better than an unfixed Windows b on Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he meant Propeciatory—as in, "Linux makes you grow a beard".

  20. Re:They should read their own front page on Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    That's what Dennis Miller said about NetZero.

  21. Re:no love for mutt? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That just means Mutt was ahead of its time.

  22. Re:How about on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 5, Funny

    all the magic compiler is going to do is increase the speed of the System Idle Thread.

    Have you seen how much processing power that thing consumes? Usually 90% and up. On all cores. It really needs some serious optimization.

  23. Re:About time on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    Is that like Hypopharmaceutica?

  24. Re:This is a step back on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 1

    Right but we're talking about food, here.

  25. Re:I Wonder? on Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% · · Score: 1

    Pinned applications become task buttons when opened, as in the Apple dock but less pretty.