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  1. Re:what i'd like on BlackBerry Devices May Run Android Apps · · Score: 0

    Jobs will stay at Apple.

  2. Re:"hour and a half a day"? on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    It's called a block schedule. It can work really well if you have a skilled teacher who knows how to change activities effectively. Of course, if you don't, it can be deadly.

  3. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Being an asshole is often a prerequisite to getting things accomplished.

    Certainly true if you mean "getting shit done."

  4. Re:Slashdot's Trusty Time Machine at work! on Tethered, Water-Powered Jetpack Provides Two Hours of Flight Time · · Score: 1

    they're taking orders now at $130,000 each.

    Perhaps the news peg is the $30,000 price cut since then?

  5. Re:It's not driven by real estate prices on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Also, as with ladybugs, it's an effective strategy for overwintering.

  6. Re:Installment payments? on Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 · · Score: 2

    Would the Borings allow interest?

  7. Re:Retrieval? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    Holey insulation, Batman!

  8. Re:Not to mention, what's the reward? on College Application Inflation — Marketing Meets Admissions · · Score: 2, Funny

    We've run all the call centers out of the United States and into places like India and Mexico :)

  9. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Thanks, my first Godwin on slashdot!

  10. opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now if someone would just rear-mount that in a cute little chassis, maybe one that looked kind of like a bug or something...

  11. Re:Why anything else? on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    First they came for the music and fine arts teachers, but I was not a music or fine arts teacher so I did not speak out.
    (Full disclosure: I really am a math teacher!)

  12. Re:Social games on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 1

    I guess "target democratic" is an understandable Freudian slip for "target demographic" and "dumb people."

  13. Re:Austrian Wildlife to Blame on Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then it will be hell!

  14. Re:Austrian Wildlife to Blame on Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was trying to escape with his family over the Alps to Switzerland. We can only hope that the nuns removed the distributors from Herr Zeller's cars.
    (I'm going to hell for making these lame jokes about the poor guy.)

  15. Re:No one cares on Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    I agree with your last points there, but not enough to stop me from creating a Facebook account. If my Facebook account gets sold out, well, I didn't reveal anything really private there anyway. But if my Slashdot ID were outed and linked by some app to my Facebook account, hrmmm, that wouldn't be pretty. I wonder if it could be done?

  16. This is slashdot on Study Shows Brain Responds More To Close Friends · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are these "friends" you speak of?

  17. Re:Sting operation? on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 1

    We can only hope the operation was a total vocal cordectomy.

  18. Sigh on Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess you could use an online version to play the Dictionary game , but nothing says "family fun for everyone" like passing a giant dead-tree-edition dictionary around the living room.

  19. Re:Piss poor planning on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's all water under the bridge now.

  20. Re:It's good enough.. on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your wife is a CS major with cryptology in her repertoire. She just hasn't told you because you'd blow her cover.

  21. Re:Great, instead of peak oil ... on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    Well, that's kind of how things go here on slashdot...

  22. Re:The Seinfeld formula on Scientists Create Equation For a Perfect Handshake · · Score: 1

    Hey, that was my move!

  23. Re:Weird title on Sen. Bond Disses Internet 'Kill Switch' Bill · · Score: 1

    Bond is licensed to kill. Did you expect Bond to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.

  24. Re:Great idea! on Google Urged To Let Personal Data Fade Away · · Score: 3, Insightful

    take a huge pile of cash and slowly burn it to the ground

    Ah, the '90's. It's hard to believe they've been gone for a whole decade already.

  25. Re:He has a point on New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" · · Score: 1

    Phil Corbett, is that you?