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  1. Re:How does this effect the OTHER companies? on Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling · · Score: 1

    In order to avoid further confusion, We have already replaced the word "affect" with "impact". We do, however, value your contributions and hopefully one of your future ideas will produce the desired favorable impact.

    Sincerely,
    They

  2. Re:It's time! on AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media · · Score: 1

    I'll drive that process by prioritizing the solutioning of geek cards to the front of my action items.

    Next.

  3. Derrrr on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nicotine sharpens the mind while simultaneously relaxing the muscles. That's why it's so addictive. Duh.

    In fact, personally, I blame the lack of smoking by people for the general dumbing-down of everyone and everything including Slashdot. Oh? You doubt me? Ha! Just go read some of the threads on Slashdot from back in the 40s and 50s and compare it to the drivel of today. Notice, in particular, the civility of discourse and the lack of Linux/Apple/Microsoft fanbois. You'll see.

  4. Re:But what about.... on World's Oldest Tattoo Written In Soot · · Score: 1

    We male techies are endeavoring to increase the number of women on Slashdot by taking all female techies seriously and respectfully. Your opinions are a vital and necessary part of the Slashdot commmunity.

    BTW, whatcha wearin?

  5. You Guyz Just Don't Understand on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    With this lawsuit, Wells has evolved their business into a quantum state of simultaneous sue and be-sued ... uh ... ness. This state of legal "entanglement" allows a powerful paradigm to emerge: the instantaneous transmission of money to lawyers with no need to perform the usual classical intermediate steps.

    Wells should be applauded for realizing that, in the actual macrocosmic world, corporate intelligence is less than h-bar/2 (in pounds, dollars, yen units) and that the Hamiltonian of their financial assets is an unbounded quantity now that the US government is included in the function.

    Well done, Wells.

  6. Inquiring Minds Want To Know on Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females · · Score: 1

    The first part of the FA says that my sperm will go faster if I think the woman is attractive. Ok. But then they say that smoking marijuana will slow my sperm down! Now wait! If I think the woman is attractive after I've smoked because she looks like a Frito ... which effect is stronger?? Did they test for that?? Does one does one effect cancel the other?? C'mon guys!

    This is sloppy research. We are not impressed.

  7. Don't Cross The Streams on New Router Manages Flows, Not Packets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why?
    It would be bad.
    I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
    Try to imagine all the packets on your network stopping instantaneously and every router on the Internet exploding at the speed of light.
    Total TCP reversal!!
    Right, that's bad. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

  8. Re:Bedtime Story on US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications · · Score: 1

    So sorry. I assumed a shared cultural knowledge that may or may not be there. My bad.

    This was a rip of the story "The Little Red Hen"
    http://www.bres.boothbay.k12.me.us/wq/nnash/WebQuest/little_red_hen.htm

  9. Bedtime Story on US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Who will help me approve these broadband requests?", said the Big Red Government.

    "I will! I will!", said the Comcast manager.
    "I will! I will!", said the Time Warner CEO's wife.
    "I will! I will!", said Rupert Murdoch's 2nd cousin.

    And they did.

  10. Re:never heard of hudsons bay company eh? on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 1

    Never heard of Beretta, eh?

    Got an order for arquebusquequebus... gun barrels in 1526! Still going strong.

    http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Fabbrica-D-Armi-Pietro-Beretta-SpA-Company-History.html

  11. Oh Come On on Computer Reveals Stone Tablet "Handwriting" · · Score: 1

    You need the old inscription read? Big deal. Give it here.
    You just gotta say the words, dood. Piece of cake.

    Klaatu, verada, ... ah ... verada, ... ah ... necktie!
    No, nickel!
    Nectar!!
    damn

  12. Now Just A Darn Minute Here on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    First I read a Slashdot story about flesh eating robots and then one about some NASA guy who wants to make SELF-REPLICATING robots?? Hello?? Self-replicating flesh eating robots?? I mean! These things will live by The Three Laws: Kill em, Chop em up, Eat em!! I mean! Dood!! I know we have a population problem and all but! Dood!!!

  13. Re:Not mine on Your Browser History Is Showing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I fourth it. I never work. I browse.

  14. Re:Grenada on US Sets Up Emergency Multi-Band Radio Project · · Score: 1

    The story as told to me (at various times):

    During the Grenada invasion, a team from the 82nd Airborne (Army) got pinned down inside a house by unarmed Cuban construction workers. When they tried to call for air support they found that they couldn't contact the command center (Marines). The officer on the spot used his AT&T calling card to place a long distance call to his commanding officer in Ft. Bragg, NC to explain the situation and request that things get expedited. The commander in Ft. Bragg then lit somebody up somewhere and a C-130 gunship eventually arrived at the Grenada house to drive off the Cubans.

    That's the story as I heard it. The reason the Airborne guys couldn't contact the Marines varies from "incompatible radios" to "the contact frequencies changed hourly for security and they didn't get the new ones" depending on who told me the story.

    I've never found a primary source for this story but have seen off-hand references to "command and control issues" that were "addressed" after the Grenada invasion. Anyone got a primary source for this story? You know. Something official like a US Army report or an article in Aviation Week?

  15. Re:Nothing to do with sex... on Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility · · Score: 1

    Wherein we specify the causes of the experimentally verified effect: "Slashdotters Don't Get Any" :
    Exhibit:
    What about the decrease in ejaculatory volume? ... What I want is the formula which specifies average increases in motility with decreases in volume.

    THESIS REJECTED
    Not double-spaced, not submitted on correct brand of paper, used wrong font, ink colors incorrect

  16. Just Askin' on Toyota Demonstrates Brain Control of Wheelchair · · Score: 2, Funny

    Toyota researchers in Japan have built a brain/machine interface (BMI)...

    Is it an EVIL brain/machine interface?

    ... that has been demonstrated to control a wheelchair ...

    Is it an EVIL wheelchair?

    ...using a person's thoughts.

    Are they EVIL thoughts?

  17. I Will Be Impressed/Unimpressed on First Electronic Quantum Processor Created · · Score: 1

    Until you read this message.

  18. Personal View on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh man. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dead on the same day. What a sad day for humanity. How will we cope? I keep checking the news outlets to see what Angelina Jolie has to say about all this.

    Hey! What ever happened to that Ir-whatever thing? You know. Irast or Irag or something. You know. People marching about something somewhere. Whatever happened to that? Did Angelina Jolie ever comment?

  19. Doing It Now on Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran? · · Score: 1

    In answer to the reporter's question, yes, we CAN beam The Internet into Iran.

    If we re-route The Internet signal carrier using multi-nodal reflection sorting to feed the main dish, we can create an anomaly that would allow a inverted tachyon field to penetrate the Iranian government's censorship thereby allowing Iranians to access The Internet or at least print it out.

    And on a related note, I'd like to point out that without traditional media news outlets, penetrating questions like this would never be asked of government officials. No "blogger" would ever had thought to ask a question like that.

  20. The Golden Age Of Ballooning on Weather Balloons To Provide Broadband In Africa · · Score: 1

    There is also a book called 'The Golden Age of Ballooning' published by the BBC. It's in an attractive hand-tooled binding, is priced £5 and failure to buy it will make you liable to a £50 fine or three months' imprisonment.

    And now ...

  21. Re:Face Value vs Ore Value on Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case · · Score: 1

    'course, those people don't understand the dangers of a fixed (or very slow growing) money supply in the world of expanding economies: deflation.

    For those of you who don't understand the above sentence or question the real disaster of a too small money supply, ask yourself "How much CASH does it take for WalMart and/or McDonald's to open their doors in the morning?". You gotta start out with $50.00 or so of change in each register, ya know. Just to start. Just to open.

    Now put that into Troy ounces of gold (or Mycenae ounces if you're a bandwagon jumper). Is there that much gold around? Hell, there might not be enough gold just to get the USA open in the morning much less beknighted backwaters like UK!

    (car analogy ... need car analogy ...)

    Money is what we say it is and it's the oil that lubricates the engine of the economy.

    (sits back, pleased)

  22. Mein Herr! on A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before you get on ze net, ve neet to zee your papers. Your papers, bitte.

    First, switch to Open DNS, second, vote the bastards out. Keep voting the bastards out until you get your bastards in there.

  23. Stating The Obvious on Is China Creating the World's Largest Botnet Army? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the FA:
    Conceivably, everything from hospitals to electrical power grids could be targets.

    Here's a thought! Make sure hospitals and electrical power grids AREN'T ON THE INTERNET! This is hard? VPNs and darknets are hard??

    Choir, consider yourself preached to.

  24. Re:Shoot them on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, any thoughts on how much said sniping job would pay?

  25. Re:Hmmm... on Collateral Damage From Cyber Warfare? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it is time to end this man-made idiocy of nations and borders?

    I called Princess Peach, My Little Pony and The Care Bears and they're on it.

    Consider it done.