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  1. Re:He's going international next. on Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency · · Score: 1

    Israel shouldn't be too bad but I believe it's illegal to import pork products into Iran like most middle eastern predominantly Muslim countries except Turkey.

  2. Re:Sounds really great on Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they are trying to elbow into Oracle territory. As for Google ditching it I doubt they'd be so lackadaisical about peoples mission critical data as they are about a glorified rss aggregate (IGoogle).

  3. Re:In a laptop performance isn't the only issue on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    Are they lighter as that would be a big issue for any engineers who have to lug tools with them too.

  4. Re:It will have a certain cool factor at first on Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging? · · Score: 1

    If you can forgo the headphone jack, microphone, etc -- like a on tablet

    Bluetooth anyone?

  5. Re:Hope it's not IMPORTANT documentation on FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight" · · Score: 1

    Thats ok just wait for the new Airbus A390 that enables fly by USB :)

  6. Re:Other games? on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 0

    Are you kidding IE's a roller-coaster Ride :)

  7. Re:Why? on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    Guild Websites, How To guides etc

  8. Re:That's no watermark... on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    No it's a sail boat!

  9. Re:Doesn't matter in the end on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1
    Or there's the sloppy git who comes to update your code but doesn't change the comments to reflect his changes so you end with code doing one thing and comments describing something different!

    On the other hand though I did like the ideas about having hyper-links in your comments just from the perspective of I can link in the original requirements from whatever ALM system they make me use and then anyone coming along could see the whole change history and hopefully identify & castrate the fucknugget who didn't update the comments to match his code :)

  10. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Obviously not a pro camera man they are usually very careful about Reflections & Shadows

  11. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 1

    That's just good old quantum entanglement what the article is describing is taking one of the entangled particles and teleporting it 143km which could put the particle into orbit (just). More info >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

  12. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Depends how you are defining false I mean if you include tidying up an image with PhotoShop then I think you'll be hard pressed to find an honnest advert. What about commercials for razors where they pre shave the guy and lather him up before filming?

    Basically lying in adverts is rife and always will be and I'm kinda surprised Nokia is being dragged through the mud for this when most times advertisers don't even get caught.

  13. Re:No option to resupply? on NASA Working on Mars Menu · · Score: 2
    OMG It all comes down to supply chain management again

    For gods sake don't let them use JIT!!!

  14. Wont it make them sick?? on NASA Working on Mars Menu · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Will they attempt this in the EU as well? on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    Aggro short for Aggravation you can look it up in the dictionary

  16. Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Definitely telnet. It's the most secure.

    Putty Putty Putty

    Green Green Putty

    I found in my armpitty

    One midsummers morning

  17. Ahem!! on The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? · · Score: 1
    > and are less likely to surf the net

    Funny we are both reading this at the moment :)

  18. Re:graphene vs post-silicon on High-Performance Monolithic Graphene Transistors Created · · Score: 4, Funny
    A mod point

    A mod point

    My [Insert cloud provider] for a mod point :b

  19. Re:Stupid question on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    Corporate culture at many firms bans Open Source Software.

  20. Re:Leave my keyboard alone! on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    For the love of all that is holy, stop wasting time trying to 'fix' something that is not broken!

    I for one support our new non qwerty overlords :)

  21. Re:Someone might want to tell HTC on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    Can't HTC counter sue over frivolous litigation?

  22. Count yourself lucky on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance? · · Score: 1

    My firm does evaluations by making you take of your shirt you are then rated by the number of stripes on your back :(

  23. Re:That's sad. on SETI Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    If they are really short of money couldn't they donate some of the Seti@home processor time to generate bicoins :)

  24. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Keyboard covers have been around for a while the only thing that's special about this is it comes with one as standard.