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  1. However ... on Programmer Admits Stealing US Gov't Accounting Software Source Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... it was written in Ada, so nobody knows what to do with it anyway.

  2. Re:Serious use for Siri? on Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Siri exists in the cloud, and everybody knows that when it's cloudy, you can't see the sun.

    This also explains why she is so sure it's raining when Zooey "I'm so Quirky" asks about it.

  3. Follow the money on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1

    "The rally in Citi Field on Sunday was sponsored by a rabbinical group, Ichud Hakehillos Letohar Hamachane, that is linked to a software company that sells Internet filtering software to Orthodox Jews. "

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-hold-rally-on-internet-at-citi-field.html?_r=1

    How conVEEENient.

  4. Prior Art on Mini Mammoth Once Roamed Crete · · Score: 2

    Check out Wilma Flintstone's vacuum cleaner.

    Or perhaps Bedrock was located on Crete?

  5. Re:you know you thought the same thing... on Mini Mammoth Once Roamed Crete · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only that had been mentioned in the summary!

  6. Re:Getting details could be a problem on Verizon To Begin Offering "Text To 911" Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like this one didn't get over the ...

    (sunglasses)

    sar-chasm.

    YEAHHHHHHHHH

  7. Still waiting .... on Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses · · Score: 2

    I signed up for "Human-Computer Interaction" on 29 December. It's been indefinitely on hold since 6 March.

    Can't say I'm terribly impressed with what they've done so far

  8. No iDevice on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 2

    I don't have an iDevice and don't want one, but a couple days ago I had to load iTunes just to get a specific music release that wasn't available anywhere else. Sure I could have scoured TPB, but I wanted to make an effort to be a paying customer. Aside from the music company being dicks and only releasing to iTunes, how would a "PC Free" solution have helped me in any way?

  9. Re:codeacademy.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? · · Score: 2

    Site name is codecademy.com (no first "a" in the "academy" part).

  10. Re:Mark Advertisements as Such on On Slashdot Video, We Hear You Loud and Clear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How could anybody have looked at the Plantronics video and NOT thought it would come across as an advertisement? Paid or not, there was nothing in there but promotion.

    I'd have thought the days or "hey, I just got a video camera, I'm going to shoot videos of everything that crosses my path" would have come and gone in the late 20th century.

    Slashdot TV is not a hammer, and everything you see in the viewfinder is not a nail.

  11. Re:My god!!! on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was thousands of years ago. The Mayans have had plenty of time to work on their anti-aliasing algorithms.

  12. Now's your chance? on The Math of Leap Days · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the math doesn't go anywhere. It's not Brigadoon.

    In fact I'm going to take the URL and put it in my calendar for next June.

    Will report back ....

  13. Re:Illegal in some places on Slashdot Visits the Seattle Pinball Museum (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ordnance is explosives. An ordinance is a law. And what kind of a businessman opens any establishment without checking on local regulations and restrictions?

  14. Re:Gorgar on Slashdot Visits the Seattle Pinball Museum (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a Gorgar. He knows seven words, You Me Beat Got Hurt Gorgar Speaks.

    I even got a Gorgar inspired tattoo - www.flickr.com/photos/larrymac/1593723048/

  15. Re:Of course they back SOPA... on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 2

    Dude, how can you spell out the name of the act and still get the acronym wrong?

    HIPAA. One P, two As.

  16. Re:Nicely played with the statistics... on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 2

    Math is hard! /Barbie.

  17. New Website on iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick, somebody register "damnyouautocombust.com"!

  18. Re:Games on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    > Duel booting is easy

    Perhaps, but all that slapping with gloves, choosing of weapons, arranging for a second, walking ten paces at dawn ... it just takes so much time.

  19. Re:Financing on Ask Florian Kaps of the Impossible Project · · Score: 1

    They already are selling film, as alluded to (and linked from) TFS.

  20. Tone deaf again on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 2

    "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult"

    So he thinks there are people (who want both DVDs and streaming) for whom that wouldn't be the case?

    This guy seriously needs somebody to keep him from attempting to communicate with the public.

  21. Re:Real life measure of 350 grams on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 1, Informative

    Fluid ounces measure volume not weight/mass.

    350 gms = 12.35 oz

  22. Re:Shaking the picture. on 1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    And those pack films produced the types of Polaroid photos that would have benefited from some shaking, since the development was quite a wet process. (Integral film too, but it's all encased in plastic). Older pack films also had to be coated with a fixative that also required drying, so yeah, there was a whole lotta shaking going on.

  23. Re:Why aren't these still available? on 1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    1) That parties thing? Yeah, that was a metaphor. You might want to look that up.

    2) I have a box full of Spectra/Image photos that go back to 1986. They're all clear as the day they were taken.

  24. Re:Why aren't these still available? on 1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback · · Score: 2

    I bet you're a blast at parties.

  25. Re:Why aren't these still available? on 1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback · · Score: 2

    Clearly you've never seen the joy in people's faces when you hand them a photo that you've just taken.

    I take one of my Polaroids with me to street festivals and such. See a person with a cute puppy or a funny hat or whatever's interesting, take a shot, hand it to them, walk away.