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  1. Re:http://thepiratebay.org/search/Spore/0/99/0 on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 3, Funny

    May Cthulhu bless you!

    Ahhh ... is that an expression of thanks ... or damnation?

  2. Re:Old news on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 1

    which is the largest underwater cave system in the world and it's actually something that's probably worthy of a Slashdot post in itself, if it weren't also old news.

    Since when has *that* ever been a disqualifying feature for a Slashdot post?

  3. Re:Oops, Oort. on First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah right after I get out of the bath.

    Remember to put on a bathrobe.

    And don't leave your towel behind!

  4. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    The prison industry has to make money somehow.

    "No, seriously your Honor, it wasn't my fault. Big Jail made me do it."

  5. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For anything more serious than a simple inventory, encrypted RFID devices should be the rule.

    Ah, but you must understand that to the "Powers That Be" you are just simple inventory.

  6. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    Amen. Crappy requirements and crappy practices create crappy code. The shape of the hammer plays little role.

  7. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    The advantage of course having a chicken BSOD itself is that you can eat it.

    I dunno ... that solution didn't work out so well with BSE.

  8. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unused organs degenerate.

    Hence the attempts to sell sexual enhancement products to computer users?

  9. Re:I have a toddler, trust me on this. ;) on Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night · · Score: 1

    Ah. What you described is what I've always heard called "septic". I am not familiar with the idea of a "town septic". Thanks

  10. Re:I have a toddler, trust me on this. ;) on Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night · · Score: 1

    We live on acreage, and don't have town water, drainage or septic. So our grey water goes on to the garden, and our septic system nicely greens things up, even though over here we're in the middle of (hopefully the end of) a drought.

    How do you both "don't have town water, drainage or septic" and "our septic system nicely greens things up"?

  11. Re:First ones to the wall when the revolution came on NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    No, but it did appear to me to be "Alderaan-Robotics", which led to a quick double-take.

  12. Re:Dynamic Cloud Services? on The State of R&D At HP, IBM, and Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure it was a ... um ... *private* moment. Let's not pry too closely.

  13. Re:Myth of sufficient plenty on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Now how you get population to level out or even decline is another can of worms.

    Well; wars and diseases are usually quite adept at providing this feedback mechanism; but for some reason we keep trying to minimize them.

  14. Re:agreed with the worst case. on Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm in Alaska, come up and visit. Bring your harpoon.... I tried. TSA was not amused.
  15. Re:To be a fly on a hut wall on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 1

    Totally freaking awesome ...

  16. Re:PR advice on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not that I question this, but do you have a link with more information about this? I'm curious to learn more... The founder's Wiki page has some good info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Lightner
  17. Re:Earth2 on Solar System Look-Alike Found · · Score: 1

    You don't want to be a slave to an alien civilization, do you? Do they look and act like Barbarella? If so, I might have to consider my answer carefully.
  18. Re:Wait a sec. I thought... on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    Way to post what the seven clicks are... - Right-click on My Computer
    - Choose "Explore"
    - Select "Tools" -> "Folder Options"
    - Choose the "View" tab
    - Scroll down and uncheck "Hide extensions for known files types"
    - Click "OK"
  19. Re:dupe first, ask questions later dept on US Cyber Command Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, an offensive measure would be more like destroying the person's computer, thus taking away his ability to attack you. Well ... the Air Force should be quite good at doing that sort of thing.
  20. A countertop with an atitude on Disney Takes Another Stab at the House of the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    countertops that can identify food placed on it and suggest recipes. Great, and probably insult me over my choice of vegetables. Or, chastise me over not buying enough "organic".
  21. Re:Atacama Large Millimeter Array on Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Is size really that important? Approximately half the email in my Inbox insists that it is.
  22. Re:what's the big deal? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    As well they should, since she was not acting grown up.