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  1. Re:Less repetition in the USELESS subject line on Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function · · Score: 1

    Well, my wacky-parser returned, "Brown Shattered Wave Function", end thought they were talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

  2. Re:Funny on LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name · · Score: 1

    just about had an asthma attack from laughing.

    Maybe that was the intent of the terrorists . . . !?!? They are now going at us using "Joke Warfare": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

    I think the NSA needs to hire more Joke Analysts to carefully monitor this danger on the Internet!

  3. Re:What on Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients · · Score: 2

    "The Pentagon says it does not expect ..."

    Haha, what? That line cracks me up.

    No one expects . . . the Ebola Inquisition!

  4. Slashdotism . . . on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 2
    1. Declare your abode to be a Royal Temple of the Seriously Slashdotted
    2. Slip through the same tax loopholes that other religions do
    3. Profit!
  5. "Ballmer's World" on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ballmer said on the Charlie Rose Show. "In my world

    That fires an NMI for me right there. I'm not particularly fond of "Ballmer's World".

    I would be quite pleased if he would do us all a favor, and keep his world to himself.

  6. Re:Drafted prior? on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    cancel their passport

    Yes! What are we trying to set up in the free world . . . another East Germany, where people were not allowed to leave the country?

    Take away their passports when they enter the Islamic States. But let them out! They can get new passports when entering the Islamic States.

  7. Re:It's a trap! on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    Never mind that I could bring my city to it's knees with $100 and a trip to Home Depot.

    Oh, just please tell the truth . . . you have just "shorted" Home Depot stock this morning, and are now profiting because the Home Depot stock is now tanking! :-)

  8. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Or turn around an swear/yell at it until it goes away ;)

    10,000 years ago, while I was younger . . . I was at a place in Canada named Kananaskis. I got up early on a Sunday morning to enjoy a walk and a Cuban cigar. A deer just so happened to sit down next to me. It was kind of strange . . . I just wanted a bit of peace and quiet . . . and the deer seemed to have the same opinion of the situation.

    The gag was that we left each other alone, without any problems. Of course, when the tourists got up with their cameras . . . the poor deer critter decided that it was time to go.

  9. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    What weapon do you think they should carry on a long sovereignty patrol?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  10. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Moose have terrible eye sight, if you're up wind of them they get curious as to what you are . . .

    . . . and what tasty food that you were carrying with you . . . ? Was it well packed? The moose was not interested in you, but in the food that you were carrying!

    the park ranger who scared it away

    Did the park ranger at least give you a pamphlet on how to deal with wild animals?

    Sorry to get all PETA about this, but the park is where the moose lives. If you don't know how to deal with wildlife . . . stay at home, and leave them alone!

  11. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In international law all that is needed is presence.

    Tell that to Putin and the folks in the Ukraine . . .

    Did you even do a search on moose attacks? They happen year around.

    . . . and what is the cause . . . ? Are these attacks the fault of the moose . . . or the tourists . . .!

    A starving bear in the high arctic will not be scared off by a shotgun.

    You don't "scare off" bears. If you feel that your life is in danger you need to shoot it . . . and kill it. Otherwise, you will be the bear's lunch.

    There is plenty of food around Churchill.

    Trash. Bears love it. It is their Atlantic City Casino free all you can eat buffet for senior citizens!

    When the authorities catch a polar bear that has been pestering the neighborhoods in Churchill, they throw the poor critter in a prison cell, and give it water . . . but no food! The intent is that the bear learns that contact with humans is a rather unpleasant experience for it.

    A tactical shotgun would freeze solid if carried around outdoors for a while.

    Which is why folks up there just don't "go out for a walk" for a long time.

    You know more than the Inuit who live in the high arctic how?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  12. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    So a moose is quite harmless but an Elk is not?

    Elk taste yummy. Ask to moose and bear meat . . . ? Well, as a friend of mine quipped, "It's tastes OK, if you don't mind the taste of smelly gym socks."

    Darwin has taught elk to stay away from people . . . because they taste yummy! If you think an elk is just going to trot up to you to say, "Hello!" . . . well then, ich glaube, es knuscht mich ein Elch"

    If you bag a big elk . . . you had better have a good sized freezer . . . and you will have enough meet to last you until summer!

    Is that your message?

    No, that's your message. I didn't write anything like that. The first thing hunters learn, is to treat their firearms with respect. The second thing is, to treat wild animals with respect.

    Take a trot out your front door and talk to some elk hunters, and ask, "Y'all been having problems with too many elk coming up to you . . . ?

    Can recommend a "tactical shotgun"

    http://www.remington.com/produ...

    http://www.mossberg.com/produc...

    But if was just me . . . and a bear . . . this is would I would like to have:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

    However, I would not recommend this for ordinary folks. This is a serious firearm.

    Shooting a polar bear with with pellet ammunition sounds retarded to me.

    You misspelled slug

    . Try googling on "rat shot" or "bird shot", if those the varmints that you are hunting.

  13. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    ..sorry. Shooting a polar bear with with pellet ammunition sounds retarded to me.

    Sorry, but ever looked at shotgun slug ammo?

    Yes, thanks, that was what I wanted to reply.

  14. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 0

    RTFA.

    Reading the article is completely superfluous on Slashdot. We're not here to read the news. We're here to read what other nerds think about the "Nudes for Nerds." Someone could post a story about Justin Bieber breaking his leg while falling into Kim Kardashian's ass crack, and I'm sure, some nerd would post a comment that would be rated +5, Funny. And some nerd would even post a comment that would get a +5, Insightful:

    "I am currently working on a postdoc on celebrity ass crack spelunking . . ."

    Rangers aren't there to fight another army.

    The Rangers are there to convince Russia not to claim all the oil rights to the Arctic.

    They use the rifle for protection from large animals like bears and moose, plus meat hunting.

    What . . . ? Did a moose bite your sister, or something . . .? Bull moose are only dangerous for about two weeks during the rut . . . and only if you try to get near them . . . like Japanese tourists, who want to play "Bambi". Otherwise, a moose is just a big, dumb cow. You can walk up to one and kick it in the ass to get it off your front lawn, and it won't budge. Just like all those kids on my front lawn.

    Polar bears . . . ? You don't want a rifle, but rather a tactical shotgun. Take a trot around the neighborhoods in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Every household has a tactical shotgun by the door.

    Don't go out without it!

  15. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that the Royal Canadian Mounted Geese aren't using these critters:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

    Rather than a traditional wooden or polymer rifle stock, the AW is based on an aluminium chassis which extends the entire length of the stock. This chassis system is marketed as the Accuracy International Chassis System (AICS) and can be used for all Accuracy International rifles. All other components, including the receiver, are bolted directly to this chassis. Two hollow polymer "half thumb-hole stock panels", usually coloured green, dark earth or black, are in turn bolted to the chassis, creating a rugged, yet for its sturdiness comparatively light, weapon. The Accuracy International receiver is bolted with 4 screws and permanently bonded with epoxy material to the aluminium chassis, and was designed for ruggedness, simplicity and ease of operation. To this end the heavy-walled, flat-bottomed, flat-sided receiver is a stressed part, machined in-house by AI from a solid piece of forged carbon steel. AW rifles are supplied in two action lengths—standard AW (short) and long SM (magnum). The six bolt lugs, arranged in two rows of three, engage a heat-treated steel locking ring insert pinned inside the front bridge of the action. The ring can be removed and replaced to refresh headspace control on older actions. The AW system cast steel bolt has a 0.75-inch (19 mm) diameter combined with gas relief holes in a 0.785 in (19.9 mm) diameter bolt body and front action bridge allowing high-pressure gases a channel of escape in the event of a cartridge-case head failure. Against penetrating water or dirt the bolt has milled slots, which also prevent freezing or similar disturbances. Unlike conventional bolt-action rifles, the bolt handle is bent to the rear, which eases the repeating procedure for the operator and reduces the contour of the weapon. The action cocks on opening with a short, 60 degree bolt throw and has a non-rotating (fixed) external extractor and an internal ejector. Firing pin travel is 0.26 in (6.6 mm) to keep lock times to a minimum. Finally, an 11 mm (0.43 in) integral dovetail rail located above the receiver is designed to accommodate different types of optical or electro-optical sights. As an option a MIL-STD-1913 rail (Picatinny rail) can be permanently pinned, bonded and bolted to the action, providing a standard interface for many optical systems.

  16. Re:Your Federal Tax Dollars At Work on Chemists Grow Soil Fungus On Cheerios, Discover New Antifungal Compounds · · Score: 1

    My scientific scam sense is tingling. I suspect that the scientists were just looking for a way to charge their munchies bill on a project account.

    Next up: New anti-fungal compounds can be grown on pizza, cocaine and whores!

  17. Re:Sheesh. Five cases of Ebola and on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 1

    Yes, but by the time anyone reads your post, that number will be up to six cases.

    And by the time anyone reads this post, that number will be up to seven cases.

    So if the White House is building a rocket in Area 57 to take mine shaft gap folks into outer space, to, um, "re-spawn" civilization . . . maybe they know something about Ebola that we don't . . . ?

  18. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Mess with the Big Three.

    Big Three used to mean the Big Three American auto companies. But Chrysler is owned by Fiat now. It's an Italian company.

    So when bailout time comes around again in a few years . . . Italy will bail out Chrysler, right . . . ?

    The positive side of Chrysler being Italian, is maybe politicians will be a bit hesitant to take bribes from a foreign country . . . you know, like treason . . . ?

  19. Re:as the birds go on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I'd wager that coal - - kills birds, too.

    Coal doesn't kill birds. People with coal kill birds . . .

    . . . or should that be birds with coal kill birds . . . or people . . . ?

  20. A serious academic study of this topic . . . on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    . . . can be found here: http://www.amazon.de/gp/produc...

    This is really a topic for psychologists and not statisticians, because, well . . . people tend to lie on questionnaires. And there is a lot more going on in marital processes than simple numbers can reveal.

  21. If passengers are lying about having contact with Ebola infected people . . . they will just pop a couple of aspirin to bring down their temperature before landing.

    Very un-PC, but it will help them avoid yet even more delays while trying to catch a connecting flight.

  22. Re:what do you expect? on Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the US's friends have also noticed this.

    I don't think the US has any "friends" any more.

  23. So much for the patient that we knew about . . . on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    . . . what about the patient with Ebola, who came to the US from Africa . . . and didn't go to the hospital . . . ?

  24. Re:Random musing on First Teleportation of Multiple Quantum Properties of a Single Photon · · Score: 1

    Can you elaborate?

    Depending on when and how you look at the photo afterwards, you would either see Schrödinger's Cat in it blowing a raspberry and flipping a bird . . .

    . . . or you wouldn't.

  25. Re:Slash 2? on Internet Explorer Implements HTTP/2 Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    HTTP/2 runs best on a PS/2 running OS/2.

    Because then the Microkernel can take full advantage of the Microchannel.