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  1. Re:Locks keep out honest people... on Why Laws Won't Save Banks From DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    When DOS is outlawed, only outlaws will have C:\

    oh wait, this is about DDOS?

    never mind

  2. Re:The Only Surprising portion of the revelation.. on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the time I didn't care for Carter. he botched a few things.

    Here and now, we would be lucky to have someone of his character.

  3. Re:Human Nature on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1, Insightful

    creativity like elon musk?

    remember the standard the media held him and his car to?
    guilty until proven inocient.

  4. Re:Queue the ... on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 2

    would you consider a Douglas Adams?

    “Anything that happens, happens.
    Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
    Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
    It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.”

  5. Re:Past performance... on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    maybe they should read more Asimov as well.
    there was a second Foundation who's job it was to make sure the predictions came true.

  6. Apple Hardware on IronKey Releases Windows 8 Certified Bootable Flash Drive · · Score: 2

    and by using Apple hardware you don't have to worry about Secure Boot!

    that just makes my head hurt

  7. Re:Surprise on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 1

    just saying,

    http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change

    "James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.
    Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared."

    everybody chill.

  8. Up in the sky! on Warner Bros Secures Commercial Control of Superman · · Score: 1

    Up in the sky!
    it's a bird!
    it's a plane!
    No it's WarnerMan!

    Making the world a safer place for Large Media Conglomerates everywhere!

  9. Windows 8 on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 5, Funny

    researcher: we should try installing Windows 8

    watson: Bullshit!

  10. Re:Slashdot on Microsoft R&D Burgled: Only Apple Products Stolen · · Score: 1

    background audio taken the theft:

    "It’s got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yess. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess.”

  11. Re:Microsoft is finished on Microsoft R&D Burgled: Only Apple Products Stolen · · Score: 1

    it's all part of the new Movie.

    Hobbit, 2013

  12. Dream team on NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon · · Score: 2

    points to sky

    Billy: You see those two rocks? Asteroids. I was an engineer working on them. First they just wanted to put one but I said, "Fellas, we're here. What the hell, throw the other one up". Turned out pretty well, didn't it?
    Henry: Fantasy.

  13. Very cool on Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives · · Score: 1

    The whole series is cool.

    loved it.

  14. mud room on New NASA Spacesuit Looks Like Buzz Lightyear's · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The suit hooks up to the outside of the spacecraft using the "space port" open"

    what always worried me about this is leaving the suits out exposed and then needing to trust them.
    I hope they atleast use some form of a mud room. unpressurized, but not constantly exposed to radiation and micro metorites.

    just my .2061 USD

  15. Beta Testers on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    so they all were paying to be beta testers?

  16. 13 posts and already /.ed on Golden Spike Working On Private Moon Flights · · Score: 1

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  17. RTG on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    just saying

  18. Disruptive Tech on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 0

    it's ok.

    let MS kill the PC.

    there will always be other new hardware.

  19. less perfect on Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    You are not less perfect than Lore

  20. Awesome on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting polititians in the front lines?

  21. Re:No matter what the outcome actually is.... on Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    did Steve Jobs have kids?

  22. Re:History on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was an iphone user.
    I didn't leave for Android, i left because of itunes.

    i have a Galaxy S. it's not perfect, but it's close enough i won't go back.

  23. Re:Over my dead body on Pixar Demos Newly Open-Sourced OpenSubdiv Graphics Tech · · Score: 1

    Will they give back BMRT now?

  24. Re:Wow you still don't get it on SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer · · Score: 2

    agreed, when they say, " Most countries in the world already have this option at their disposal ".

    those are dictatorships

  25. Re:Interesting on How the Moon Affects LHC Operations · · Score: 1

    or possibly passing asteroids.