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  1. Re:Loaded question/statement. on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    Now if we can get the spelling squared up...

  2. Re:Reasoning on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Big Bang Theory uses a studio audience.

    They record the audience laughter during taping.

    They use that recorded laughter as a laugh track in post, to fill in places where several re-takes meant less audience laughter.

    Also the show is f-in brilliant, laugh track or no.

  3. Re:Remarkably fast my ass on 30 Years of the BBC Micro · · Score: 0

    Elite FTW!!!

    Oolite too!

  4. Re:Not the best model for radiation on How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    That's what I fucking said.

  5. Re:Not the best model for radiation on How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    tl;dr

    Yes, because Earth has fucking magnets all over it.

  6. Re:Yes, it should be published on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    WOW! Eleven different scenarios!

    But you left a few out.

  7. Re:The Truth on Legend: Tabletop Gaming For a Good Cause · · Score: 1

    I want to see "Wesnoth: The Tabletop Game"

  8. Re:The Truth on Legend: Tabletop Gaming For a Good Cause · · Score: 1

    AD&D 1st Edition FTW!

    Everything else is sloppy seconds.

  9. Re:how to say YaCy? on Free Software Activists Take On Google Search · · Score: 1

    So it is "Yah-Sy"?

    As in "Lee-Nooks"?

  10. Re:A simple formula: on The Science of Humor · · Score: 1

    Funniest joke ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtVK-xaR0U

    Warning: this is NOT a rickroll.

  11. Re:Typical on Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion · · Score: 1

    Entrapment in the US law sense happens when someone persuades you to commit a crime that otherwise you wouldn't have committed. US authorities are not allowed to do that...

    Wait, what?

    https://encrypted.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=fbi+entrapment+cases

  12. Re:Is it that bad? on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    Been there. It was voluntary though.

    In the late 90's I found out about BSD and Linux. Had always wanted a "real OS' machine, but at the time a Solaris box cost too much.

    Went from working 50-60 hours per week down to 2 or 3 days per week at a temp service, making just enough to cover the bills with a little money left over.

    Most days were spent in front of the computer. Nights too. Had a cot in the computer room where I slept so I could hear the drives clicking when someone logged into my FTP server from IRC. Each click would wake me up so I could look and make sure they had uploaded the appropriate amount before downloading.

    Any time I left was either to go to a friends house to play Warcraft 2 on his LAN, buy food, dumpster dive for parts behind the computer stores, or comb through thrift shops for useable hardware.

    At the end of it I had a network of 4 machines (even though they were all 386 and low-end 486) and a command of UNIX that made my friends nervous, as well as a list of website logins and passwords that took up all of a 320k floppy.

    It was one of the best times of my life.

    Now I am married with children, mortgage, etc., which is a different sort of happiness. :P

  13. Re:Is it that bad? on China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay · · Score: 1

    Seems like most of our banksters follow the Alfred E. Neuman philosophy which says that the best way to win any game is to cheat.

  14. Re:Practical use on Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but "anal sis" in a website name totally sets off my filtering software.

  15. Re:saved! on Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    The U.S. pretends that oil is "dirty" in order to stymie domestic production and thus retain their own reserves.

    It is completely "made of win" for oil interests in the U.S. for the following reason:

    When the price of foreign oil gets so high as to be untenable, our domestic oil from those same reserves will sell at a higher price than the same oil would command today.

  16. Re:It's only a matter of time. on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1

    It's all about the Pentiums, baby!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

  17. Re:why "medical devices"? on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately so, my friend :(

  18. Re:why "medical devices"? on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    ... When I go into a hospital and see signs saying to turn off cell phones and don't use computer wifi, all I can think of is why...

    In order to disclaim any liability arising from suspicions of RFI from a phone or other device possibly affecting medical equipment.

  19. Re:What is this doing on Slashdot? on Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club · · Score: 1

    When you say things like that... it makes baby Jesus cry :(

  20. Re:Not just meth on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    In related news, gasoline distribution was brought to a halt yesterday.

    Law-abiding citizens complained, but were told by the DEA that gasoline is used in automobiles which can be used to transport illicit substances.

    A DEA spokesman describes this as 'collateral damage' not resulting from lazy DEA agents but from the selfish actions of criminals.

  21. Re:Am I the only one? on Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set · · Score: 1

    And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

  22. Re:So what? on Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy · · Score: 0

    "Most criminals are not professional..."

    Based on what sample size of criminals?

    Was your information source peer reviewed?

    You DO have an information source, yes?

    Or are you using the "common belief" fallacy?

  23. Re:Leaking Secret documents... not OK on Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set · · Score: 2

    Reporting murder of civilians... not O.K.?

    Wait, what?!

  24. Re:Pot meet Kettle on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 1

    http://www.theholocaustneverhappened.de/

    Would Germany remove the entire domain from the Internet, or would they simply block access to it from clients in their own address space?

  25. Re:US, get out on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 2

    Land of the Flea, Home of the Slave?

    To the tune of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.":

    I was born in America,
    Where I'm often told I'm free.

    I voted for the piece of shit
    who told that lie to me.

    And I'll gladly stand up next to you
    At the all-you-can-eat buffet.

    I can't afford
    To move abroad...

    Trapped in the U.S.A.

    I can't afford
    To move abroad...

    Trapped in the U.S.A.