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  1. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    It's called Economode on HP printers, it uses less toner on every page printed through the printer. Similar settings are also available on most other printers. Although to be honest I never see anyone using this, unless it's as a trouble call that something is wrong with the printer.

  2. Red Tape on World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Researchers needed about 10 months to cut red tape barring the transfer of the cannabis to England from China, Russo said." This is an obscene amount of time for research related materials to have to wait...they should have just stuffed it into some teething rings and imported them through normal distribution channels.

  3. age? on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    I'd be real careful posing the question with a mention of age in it like..I can just see some applicant that doesn't make the grade crying foul and ruining you month.

  4. How many? on Fewer Shuffles Suffice · · Score: 1

    ok 4 shuffles? But how many rounds of 52 card pickup. Just one methinks.

  5. Re:doh on AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's Why I moved to Linux....oh wait...nevermind.

  6. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    If this method actually turns out to work..the recipient of the therapy should be REQUIRED as a condition of receiving the treatment to be a donator.

  7. Re:I'm loving all the redundant mods on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in related news.......the slashdot community commented with. "ummm ....DUHHHHH".

  8. I know I have the key here somewhere on David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where does one go to try out for the part?

  9. it's the end of the world as we know it on Food Shop Closed Down Because Of Corpse · · Score: 1

    /. meets rotten.com who would have predicted?

  10. Controlled my a click of a wireless mouse on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    Meh..Any gamer will tell you that to fly you need a good joystick. I wonder what the flight attendants would think if they say me setting up a wireless gaming joystick on the tray in front of me. http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=74920&om_keycode=4

  11. Just Beware on How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? · · Score: 1

    That you don't end up getting shown up by some kid in the class. It's amazing savy kids are about computers, just remember that if some smart kids starts making you look stupid it's acceptable to ask if you did'nt see him/her on your lawn yesterday.

  12. Oh Good on Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh what a relief...

  13. Re:This is fucking cool on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1

    I thought I would check out where Slashdot was then... http://web.archive.org/web/20011105114617/slashdot.org/ a user posts a link to the guts of the gamecube exposed (while looking around for dreamcast controller hacks) and ohhh the wolfenstein II beta was released...

  14. And My question was rejected? on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    Seriously you can't afford AC for your Servers? And I wanted to get suggestions for a robot pigeon deterent for my pool...how was that worse? I jest...Kinda.

  15. Notice ...theres no comment for the stock rising. on Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Jobs' Obituary On News Wire · · Score: 1

    Strange I notice that there is a paragraph marked for inclusion if the stock falls upon his death...but none for if the stock rises. grim? Yes. Unilikely? probably but it seems like they are interested in having the bases covered.

  16. Re:Plain old English anyone? on Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one am just glad he did not decide to write his newest novel in "leetspeak" or "lolcat".

  17. I handle mine on Software Logging Schemes? · · Score: 1

    with guru meditation errors of course!

  18. Games games everywhere... on Sega's Game Archive · · Score: 1

    I see stackes of games, cd's joysticks, develpoments consoles, drawers full of cables and and controllers... seems like a great place to end up locked in for the night....but wait.... what's this not a single monitor or TV? DOH!!!!

  19. Re:Not impressed by my trial. on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Redbox is a really good service. Recently We've canceled out netflix and gone to useing redbox exclusivly...HOWEVER we did this for one main reasons. - We were'nt returning movies to netflx fast enough to make it worthwhile...we'd get the movie and delay watching it until at least the weekened...sometimes the next. If you turn over your movies fast enough netflix is still a better deal. Redbox is nice if all your looking to see is fairly new releases...but you can't beat netflix when it comes to talking with someone and reliseing they've never seen $clasiccult_movie , you log in put it on your list and soon you be edjumacating them on some fine point of movie history they have missed out on. Also the ability to rent series and have them send you the next episode disks is kinda nice. My wife had always wanted to watch the show farscape, but neither of us had really follwed it. for the next two monthes or so we had netflix send them all to us and we watched it from begining to end. -You can't do that with redbox.

  20. Re:Devil is in the details on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great...NASA just chimed in.

  21. Laptop found on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    According to a radio burb I heard about 15 mins ago the laptop has been located. They also mentioned that it had acually been missing for a week. Strange we only heard about it just before they located it.

  22. Re:so which is it ? on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    Acually the catholics in particular have been making a point of going on record not only that life may exist elsewhere, but that it probably does and that catholics should be ready to accept that. Here's a litte sample from Wired a bit back. http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/06/alien_religion?currentPage=all Most poeple I've met that belive in God view the exisitance of life elsewhere as further proof. After all God would have created it too.

  23. Re:A fair shake? on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the deathpenalty for bad students would be more usefull. It would cut down on class room size..encourage the completion of homework in a timely manner AND solve many of the no child left behind issues as well.

  24. Re:A fair shake? on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure this has been done, Perhaps in some regions pay scales may be closer to fair, but for instance here in the silicon valley I doubt very much it has. Competitive wiht what exactly? Good question off the top of my head I would say take the median income for the parents of the studants of the richest say...25% of the distict. And pay the teachers around that much. Personally I would rather see students taught by teachers who love what they do and can afford to do it, than by teachers who love what they do, but have to treat it as almost a part time gig because in order to make their mortgage payments they need to take a second job stocking isles at Walmart at night.

  25. A fair shake? on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "from bureaucrats who like education the way it is ".. really? do they? I have yet to meet one that does. However there seems to be a lot of argueing going on about what paperwork needs to be filed to get it changed, how that will documented, judged and administrated. Seriously one of the first things that needs to be done is to pay teachers a living wage so we can attract better talent to change the way the teaching is done. Don't get me wrong there are some GREAT teachers out there, who god bless them manage to hang in there despite everything. But take a look at the budget someday and ask yourself if schools are really getting a fair shake. You can change anything you want but unless teachers can be paid competative wages with other avenues they could take their talents to are our kids getting the best?