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  1. Re:Sign me up, Scotty! on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A funeral isn't for the person who has died, it's for the family which has lost him.

  2. Re:Send my #$*&ing boss!! on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    Oh, someone can be sent. Just post your name, address, employer, employee ID, and SSN, and forward the link to NASA, CC your boss. I'm sure someone will go up.

  3. Re:First, learn to spell and write properly. on Texting Toddlers, How Young is Too Young? · · Score: 1

    I had trouble reading it when I tried to read it word-for-word, letter-for-letter. Then I tried reading it the way people actually read, skimming over the text, looking for familiar shapes and sounds, and it read just fine.

  4. Re:I don't get it.. on The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Oh really? I had no idea it went downhill too!

    I'm comparing it with other cars on the same hill. With the same uphill parts, and the same downhill parts.

  5. Re:I don't get it.. on The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Allow me to clarify: the gas mileage doesn't actually improve (all cars do worse on hills), but other cars' mileages become much worse.

  6. Re:I don't get it.. on The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Then enlighten me, where is that extra gas mileage coming from? Or are the gas meter and odometer lying to me? I know how to do simple arithmetic. I realize normally it would get worse mileage (trust me, I don't dare take it on the highway...), but it does get better mileage when driven only on the hill and around town. It isn't wasting so much energy as heat from having to open the throttle so much farther. It is pretty thirsty on normal roads though.

  7. Re:I don't get it.. on The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    The gas mileage depends. I live on top of a hill, and my Jeep Liberty actually gets better gas mileage on the hill than regular cars, simply because it is more able to make it up the hill.

  8. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    Whoa, troll? What? How is this a troll? Note that there exists a difference between "troll" and "I disagree". Disagreeing is what comments are for.

  9. Re:Autonomous Soaring on Robotic Glider Set To Break Autonomous Flight Records · · Score: 1

    Those steps might *find* a thermal, but they won't get you any altitude. Let me guess: You've never actually flown a glider?

  10. Unwind on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    You just have to unwind every once in a while. I am a licensed sailplane pilot, and on a good weekend, I take my problems five or six thousand feet into the sky. I tell myself I'll think about them, but I'm always too busy trying to find thermals. Somehow it always helps though.

    Find something you like to do and do it. Programming doesn't count.

  11. Re:Poor naming on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Less than dual core? You mean single?

  12. Re:que the porn comments in ..... on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: 1

    Sorry... #28302585 beat you 16 minutes earlier...

  13. Re:More recent ones on Ten Applications That Changed Computing · · Score: 1

    No. No it would not.

  14. Re:Validation on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    YOU seem TO like BOLD text. May I introduce YOU to a NEW way OF typing? Let your WORDS speak FOR themSELVES; bold text JUST makes you SOUND annoying.

  15. Re:I run Debian, and I run FreeBSD. on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 1

    Don't most people just sleep or hibernate their computer these days anyway?

    Oh, I've heard that one so many times. Care to come over and see if you can get my Presario C751NR to sleep more than once without panicking? Trust me, if I could afford better hardware, I would.

  16. Re:Required reading on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    *holds up a glass of distilled water*

    BEHOLD! The Resurrection!

    Fixed that for you.

  17. Re:System Clock on Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date · · Score: 1

    (Disclaimer: I do a lot of C coding, but I don't often get as low-level as hex-editing a binary)

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it's on an isolated network for examination, couldn't you generate your own key pair and embed the new public key into the binary?

  18. Re:And then? on New Laser System Targets Mosquitoes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mathematically, yes, but non-mathematically, fraction implies fracture, i.e. breakage. You can't break something into only one piece.

  19. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX on IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Yes. My dad has me put icons on the desktop for him, because he can't find them in the menu (even on XP with a button clearly labelled "Start"). No matter how many times I show him, he just can't get it.

  20. Re:Heard of this thing called google? on A Real Bill Gates Rant · · Score: 1

    Two problems:

    1. The existence of a third-party service to make one's product usable does not excuse its own intrinsic unusability.
    2. He doesn't want to risk getting a chair thrown at him.

    Sorry. It was wide open.

  21. Re:Hurray? on LinuxDefenders.org Launches To Fight Patent Trolls · · Score: 4, Funny

    Methink$ y0u are having pr0blem$ with y0ur key mapping$. Y0u can rea$$ign key$ with xm0dmap, 0r try 0ther keyb0ard lay0ut$.

  22. Re:So, why should I care? on NetBSD 5.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    No, but emacs runs it.

    M-x os RET netbsd RET

  23. Re:Tablet using Ninnle Linux! on Second Prototype of the $200 Open Source Tablet · · Score: 1

    Maybe I haven't been following Slashdot memes closely enough (I've only seen this a few times), but what the fuck is Ninnle Linux?

  24. Re:That's odd... on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 1

    Yup. It's called Insightful.

  25. Re:3 bit years should be enough for anyone. on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Whoosh...