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  1. Re: Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Sense of humour fail.

  2. Re:Yawn. on Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery · · Score: 1

    Well, in the name of all that is holy, don't watch I Robot.
    It was terrible.

  3. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Money can't buy you lungs that convert CO2 to oxygen

    No, but I bet I could buy a shitload of trees with $18B and trees are pretty good at converting CO2 in O2

  4. Re:Finally on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1

    Killer app... Awesome, now we can all feel better about being spied on, and/or killed because the drone doing it is running open source software. I know I feel better already. :)
    What a time we live in.

  5. Re:Really? on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 1

    Running IE is like kids playing with a loaded gun?

    You are right. IE is far more dangerous, than mere children with a loaded gun. :)
    I don't have any kids... That is probably for the best.

  6. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    you can "ignore" passengers in person more politely than someone over the phone.

    To words, "Hold on."
    That said. Put the Damn phone down and drive!

  7. Re:Be there for him... on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    Good idea.
    The last time I took a week off, 2 days in my phone started ringing off the hook. I was in a museum at the time.
    I correctly diagnosed the problem over the phone and told them what to do to fix it, but when I got to work the following Monday. The problem still had not been fixed. I don't think anyone did any work that week.
    Sadly, they learned nothing.

  8. Re:Be there for him... on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I took over my current position, I leaned heavily on my predecessor. It wasn't until he took a months vacation that I finally had to make the job my own.
    So be there for the new SA, but make sure that after a certain point it all becomes his responsibility.
    Something along the line of:
    First month, training
    Second month, I will help
    Third month, I will answer questions. If I remember
    Past third month, Moral support.

  9. Re:Consumers will choose the best option on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    then you are cast iron evidence of what a non-digital watch is - jewellery.

    I have about 30 watches and you are partly right. Watches are definitely jewellery.
    I have worn a watch since my grandfather gave me my first watch almost 40 years ago. So habit is a strong influence for me.
    They are also a brilliant piece of mechanical engineering. I have never been able to resist a brilliant piece of mechanical engineering.

    I doubt very much that I will buy a smart watch.

  10. Re:I remember that show! on Group Wants To Recover 36-Year-Old Historic Spacecraft From Deep Space · · Score: 1

    God I loved that show! I found a torrent of the movie a few years ago, but I have never been able to find the series.
    Hell, at this point I would even pay for it.

  11. Re:Hackers? on The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos · · Score: 2

    I agree with you, but you and I don't get a vote. The next time someone convinces someones grandmother to give out their bank password there will be one more story in the media about evil hackers.
    Perhaps it is time to surrender. I gave in when they started calling this "." a dot. It hurt, but I got over it... Mostly.

  12. Re:If you want a time machine go to Bing Maps... on Google Opens Up Street View Archives From 2007 To Today · · Score: 1

    I eat lunch near that convention centre almost every day. But there is still no excuse for using Bing.

  13. Re:Nope, it's the homeless on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 1

    The homeless I see often near my work.
    Crying baglady. (Always on the same corner, amd always crying.)
    Shirtless birthday guy. (It is always his birthday, and he moves corners.)
    Homeless HIV+ guy. (He is so unflaggingly upbeat and positive, [pun intended], that I have given him a few bucks once in a while.)
    I need to get to $PLACE to see my daughter. (I fell for it the first time I saw him. Now I loudly call him on his BS.)

  14. Re:Are we so in thrall to our fossil fuel overlord on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    Just think about how it will be if you are drinking your starbucks that was heated by burning cow dung..

    Well, it might taste better. :)
    I love good coffee. Therefore I can't stand Starbucks.

  15. Re:Why in the FUCK on Google Buys Drone Maker Titan Aerospace · · Score: 2

    It would be great if people could request an update on a specific location. Possible way to monetize that would be that a person could pay to climb the queue.

  16. Re:Are you sure? on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but I was producing 'spaghetti code' long before windows 95 came out.
    Perhaps I should sue. :)

  17. Re:A possum playing possum on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

  18. Re:#7 Be Appriopriately Lazy on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Unix Admins · · Score: 1

    I have always said, "Anything you are going to do more than three times. Script it."
    Also Cron is your best friend. :)

  19. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    What do you have against the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes?

  20. Re:The noise problem is not just a TV one. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I want the flubber powered car sound.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
    The original, not that horrible remake.

  21. Re:Are these the same editors who.. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    the propeller noises to the jet in "Airplane!" ?

    I am quite sure that was done on purpose. You know, that was the joke...
    Perhaps they should have just used a whooshing sound instead.
    (For the humour impaired, the whooshing sound is the sound of the joke passing right over someones head.) :)

  22. Re:April First????? on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    I am hoping you are right. Because otherwise it is a stupid idea.

  23. Re:Too soon on Darth Vader Runs For President of Ukraine · · Score: 1

    OMG Ponies!!!

  24. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    You are a disgrace to all man kind. Your man card is hereby revoked.
    Damn it! The only thing men have over women is the ability to kill spiders!

  25. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    There is a problem with your plan.
    What if two spiders somehow gets on the ship to mars? With no men to kill the spiders, the women would be over run in no time. :)