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  1. Re:Ninth, mofo. on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    They certainly never post anything.

  2. Re:Timeline on Ancient Tools May Shed Light On the Mysterious 'Hobbit' (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Was island-hopping even necessary? What were the sea levels like then, and were those places islands 200,000 years ago?

  3. Re:Testicluar? on German Carpenter's Testicluar Valve Could Mean An On/Off Switch For Sperm · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether this device contains a nozel.

  4. Re:The first thing I think of on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    We need a new tag for stories like this: ohnoitsethan

  5. Re:Godwin Exceptions? on Interviews: Ask Attorney and Author Mike Godwin a Question · · Score: 1

    He's already mentioned exceptions in these two interviews.

  6. Re:"Never" is a very long time on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    'We know it well,' said Aragorn, 'and never shall it be forgotten in Minas Tirith or in Edoras.'

    'Never is too long a word even for me,' said Treebeard. 'Not while your kingdoms last, you mean; but they will have to last long indeed to seem long to Ents.'

    --J. R. R. Tolkien

  7. Re:Evolution is an optimization algorithm on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:50 years on Europe and Russia Are Headed Back To the Moon Together (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Forgetting Skylab, now are we? Mir was bigger and modular (Skylab was monolithic), but it wasn't the first space station - construction started over a decade after Skylab was launched.

    The GP isn't talking about Mir; the first space station was Salyut 1.

  9. Re:Learnt? on Looking At the Hardware and Software of NASA's New Horizons (imgtec.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Cats ... on How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "How are you gentlemen? All of your Internet are belong to us." --Cats

  11. Re:Wah wah... on LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million (lastpass.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Unix port is called KeePassX, and it works quite well under Linux, MacOS, the BSDs, etc.

  12. Re:When you didn't ask to install it. on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    "Consent" is in the mind of the person who consents. The whole deal about asking for permission and getting an affirmative response is merely a tool for establishing that consent exists, and like most tools, it only works when it is used properly.

    IOW there must be a meeting of the minds.

  13. ABBYY FineReader on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    I've tried open source OCR software, but found nothing with anything like the same accuracy.

  14. Re:Older browsers on Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016 · · Score: 1

    nobody really writes web browsers for DOS anymore

    As a matter of fact, a gopher browser(!) for DOS just got a new version.

  15. Re:systemd is the best init system for FreeBSD. on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 0

    Linux is dying; Netcraft confirms it!

  16. Re:Hasn't even begun to begin yet on Sun Tzu 2.0: The Future of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 1

    Like many other, I abhor and reject all terms including "cyber" except "cyberspace" in its proper meaning

    What about "cybernetics"?

  17. Re:Redirecting 127.0.0.1 on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you by any chance the city manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma?

  18. Re:Birds are not living dinosaurs, on Researchers Discover Largest Ever Dinosaur With Birdlike Wings and Feathers · · Score: 1

    Thank you for finding a topic other than "Pluto is/isn't a planet" for Slashdot to uselessly quibble about!

  19. That would be Thunderbird.

  20. Re:Because titan has ice, pluto isn't even a plane on Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto? · · Score: 2

    Actually, James Christy named it after his wife, Charlene. The family called her Char, and he realized he could name it after her under the pretext of using a name from Classical mythology which was conveniently associated with Pluto/Hades.

  21. Re:Please explain a passage from the article on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    Actually, that point is rather closely analogous to a theological argument made by St. Augustine.

  22. Re:Old topic on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    Sounds like "The Height of Up", which was reprinted in both View from a Height and Asimov on Physics.

  23. Re:Oh, God, not again! on NASA Probe Reveals More Detail In Pluto's Complex Surface · · Score: 1

    I suspect the GP is meant as a nitpick about the use of the word "careen" rather than "career".

  24. Re:Carl who? on Planetary Society Wants To Launch a Crowd-Funded Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    Carl Saga was a legend in his own time...

  25. Re:name your bad employers, name them all on Is This the Death of the Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    That was rather mild, compared to this acrostic, which a poet managed to sneak into a highbrow poetry magazine.