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  1. Re:wow on The Origins of Video Game Names · · Score: 2, Insightful

    professional gaming

    twittering

    blogging

    arguing over who gets to love whom

    discussing how the US president swats a fly

    That reads a lot like the "extracurricular activities" section of resumes of recent college grads that pass over my desk at work these days.

  2. Re:can Americans tell me.. on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Are you just left to die?

    No, you begin a new career as an "Organ Donor."

    Where do you think all those livers come from?

  3. Was this just a puplicity stunt . . . ? on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . well, the world now knows that there is a place called Bozeman, Montana.

    "Come visit Bozeman this summer for vactation . . ."

    "See the lovely lakes . . . "

    "Please leave your passwords at the door . . ."

    "What out for the moose . . ."

  4. Developing for Cell Processors . . . on Activision CEO Warns Sony That the PS3 Needs a Price Cut · · Score: 5, Interesting

    . . . is probably a royal pain in the ass. Any /. Cell developers care to comment?

    Kotick said, "It's expensive to develop for the console." Read that as time, people and money, when compared to other platforms.

    I would think that Sony would be bending over backwards to support developers.

    OS/2 was a better OS than Windows, but there were not enough applications for it, so folks flocked to Windows.

    I'm curious to hear how the Cell development environment is: "Great, Challenging, or Run Away!"

  5. Send in NASA rockets, looking for water there ... on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    . . . that should do the trick real quick. And we could finally have an answer to that baffling scientific question, is there water in Camden, New Jersey?

    If there is, you can bet that it belongs to some other city.

  6. Fish tripping their balls off? on Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm glad I misunderstood that title. I thought that all those fish in the ocean would get spaced out, and then start eating each other at an alarming rate. Then when they had depleted their own reserves, they would evolve and climb out onto land, looking for alternative food sources, like us!

    I was also concerned that I'd better not enjoy a FishMac on my way back from work on my bicycle in Basel, Switzerland. The ride might have turned out to look like something out of "Yellow Submarine," being that FishMac ingredients are all acidificated, and all.

  7. Um, like General Motors . . . ? on SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm · · Score: 1

    And how a management team can fly the plane into the side of a mountain and keep their jobs.

    . . . when the board and the executive management are cronies and in cahoots, nothing is impossible or unimaginable . . .

  8. Better than: Controlled Nuclear Explosion Facility on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    Smart naming, you can go a long way under such a guise and receive steady government funding.

    Would any Congressman vote for spending for a "Controlled Nuclear Explosion Facility?"

    With "National Ignition Facility," they probably think that it has something to do with NASCAR, spark plugs or better fuel efficiency.

  9. . . .and in stores in bordering countries . . . ? on German Interior Ministers Seek Ban On Violent Games · · Score: 1

    . . . like Poland or the Czech Republic, where Germans flock for bargains? What about buying something online in another country?

    How will you really know that kids don't have ultra-violent games on their PCs? Maybe allow the Federal Police (Kripo) to plant trojans that snoop around on kids' computers?

    I guess they'll need a federal department to decide what's ultra-violent, and what's not. And the Border Police and Customs will need to check travelers for this as well. What if you enter the country with a title that they have not rated yet?

    This is just politicians abusing a tragic shooting incident, and trying to spin some political capital by trying to look like they are doing something about a complicated problem that has no trivial solutions.

  10. At least it's not Vista . . . on Cybercriminals Refine ATM Data-Sniffing Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Are you sure you want to withdraw this money?"

    "Will you spend it wisely?"

    "You don't seem to have much left, have you planned for an emergency?"

    . . . etc. . . .

  11. If lawyers needed to sign off on RFCs . . . on Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street · · Score: 1

    In order to change this, laws should be written at least as unambiguous as RFC's, for starters.

    . . . we would have no Internet today; we would still be waiting.

    IETF: "We plan to have ARP through legal by 2012. TCP and UDP might make it sometime around 2050."

  12. . . . Ricardo Montalban sells HumVees . . . on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    So no, the Chinese are not getting military information out of it, other than perhaps how to add leather seats and cupholders to an existing H1.

    . . .and rich Corinthian Leather . . .

    . . . if the Chinese get that technology, we're all toast . . .

  13. Another pissing contest . . . ? on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    In every field which was once exclusively male, but is now no longer, it's been claimed first, that no woman can perform alongside men; second, when the first claim is disproven, that hardly any woman can; and third, when the second claim is disproven, that maybe a few women can, but a majority lack the ability or the inclination.

    . . . so which one applies to pissing contests?

  14. Ah, there is a standard Slashdot answer . . on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    . . . and doesn't solve the problem of what happens to your daughter when she's standing around in a strange neighborhood.

    . . . give her a shark, with lasers.

    Forget that wimpy GPS stuff.

  15. Ditch the school district . . . on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    So you have a high tech way of locating your daughter. Do you feel like going on a wild goose chase for here once a week?

    Forget the high tech, change your school, that's where the problem is.

  16. Tian-who-men . . . ? on 20 Years After Tiananmen, China Stifles Online Dissent · · Score: 1

    . . . never heard of that place. I'd better check the Internet . . .

    Ah, here it is: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tiananmen_Square

    It's worth a peek for Slashdotters just for the photo of Li Peng using his laser eyes . . . sharks are up next.

  17. Scientists growing scientists in petri dishes ... on Scientists Can Grow Stem Cells In a Petri Dish · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . now *that* will be cool!

    . . . or, maybe not?

  18. Dumbasses didn't read Milton Friedman . . . on EU Wants Multiple Browser Bundling On New PCs · · Score: 1

    . . . forcing Windows users to choose . . .

    How about saying, or believing, "Free to Choose" . . . ?

  19. Bruce . . . on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . Schneier and Campbell . . .

    . . . Schneier can lecture us on, "What is Cybersecurity?" . . . Campbell can cut 'em up with chainsaws, and blow their brains out with his shotgun.

    How could we lose?

  20. Then, instead of calling it French Fusion, . . . on French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond · · Score: 1

    . . . it should be called Freedom Fusion???

  21. Well, how about a Chameleon Car . . . ? on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It turns white in the summer in California, and black in the winter in Vermont?

    A great use for those new, flexible displays . . . wallpaper your car with 'em!

  22. If I owe a bank $250 K, I have a problem . . . on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    . . . if I owe a bank $250 million, the bank has a problem.

  23. Re:They are trolling the planet on North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Interesting analogy. So how should Japan react? China? Russia? United States? The European Union?

    Like a troll, you could say of North Korea that: "most of the time they are somebody else's problem."

  24. Re:Isn't it probably just a prank? on Smile! Urine Candid Camera! · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks this is just some prank pulled by some kid with an inkjet printer and some label paper?

    My printers and label paper were not involved with this prank.

    It would take 2 minutes to make that sticker and just slap it on a few urinals for giggles.

    I would prefer to buy them in bulk, on eBay.

    And I think that all the gents who got the joke and pissed on the stickers, had a hell of a laugh.

    Like, I realize some ridiculous crap has happened in the past few years, but are we all so jaded we just automatically assume that this sort of thing is real?

    Let's just hope that the security folks don't read Slashdot. This prank might give them so ideas.

    Is it illegal now to shake it more than three times?

  25. Watch out while storing on the 8th Dimension . . . on Researchers Store Optical Data In Five Dimensions · · Score: 1

    . . . you might hit Buckaroo Banzai on the road.