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  1. Wait a minute on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Did he start to believe all those In Soviet Russia jokes??

  2. Re:Look up "Window" from WWII RAF tactics on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    They called it West Ford since they thought that the original project name Can we just throw crap out the window of a spaceship, was too long, and maybe not easy to classify as Top Secret

  3. Re:Spellchecker on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 2

    He thinks he's being smart or something.

    Think again: that's his costume.

  4. This place in Miami on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    They always get creative. They got tall coconut trees about 6 or 8 in a line near the diamond-link fence. One time, there was a huge spider web strung up between 2 of them, and a simulated 'copter caught in that web, with the pilot lying there on the ground, against a tree, legs splayed (really a dummy all suited up) with a reflectorized visor on his helmet.

  5. Re:"Impact on self-driving cars?" - None on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    This changes nothing.

    Oh it does -- they've been renamed self-blaming cars. 3 Laws of Robotics never saw this coming.

  6. Re:What is wrong with Timothy? on Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop · · Score: 1

    Underneath that skin is a hyper alloy combat chassis: fully armored, very tough.

    And finds editing quite a chore.

  7. Re:Pay coders to create on Interview: Jason Calacanis On How His Hackathon Is Helping Create Companies · · Score: 1

    I was about to ask what angel investor was. At least the security hackathons are more direct: break this application to earn a prize e.g.hardware, prize money.

  8. Re:Liability on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1, Funny

    a new dashboard display that his group has developed to help people understand what an autonomous car is doing and when they might want to take over

    How come you left out the next two words "the world"?

  9. Re:"Almost Awesome"? on Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" · · Score: 1

    Since it is aimed solely for the geek/develpoper crowd, it might as well be Tablet Schmablet, and not after an animal.

  10. Undocumented? on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm there, dude.

    Oh, wait...

  11. For those not selected for the rollout on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here is the MAD Magazine fold-out version

    Windows 8 |-------| .1 ---(fold until the two bars meet)

    Result

    Windows 3.1

  12. Re:Let's hope this security hole is not fixed. on Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? · · Score: 3, Funny

    your government is mostly comprised of evil and twisted power and money grubbing people

    Whew! I am glad they've shut down for the moment!

  13. So? Somebody else would have done it on Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? · · Score: 1

    If that guy was successful against Snowden, some other guy would eventually do what Snowden has done. It would only be a matter of time.

  14. Boston? on No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway · · Score: 1

    So you musta ment Hubbotha univers , then

  15. Re:bbc? on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it's that hole in the ground.

    Actually that's their after-their-first-lab-test photo.

  16. Maybe we should NOT be outsourcing this on China's Web Surveillance System Employs More Than 2 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know; just sayin'

  17. Done once before on Engineers Design Tornado Proof Home · · Score: 1

    ...and the engineers said almost the same thing but their design was a strucutr that looked like a pyramid

    Well, the pharaoh's still there sleeping, isn't he?

  18. Re:Quit whining. on Security Researchers Rewarded With $12.50 Voucher To Buy Yahoo T-Shirt · · Score: 2

    The vouchers are traceable. The REAL reward is coming AFTER the winner or researcher tries to claim it or use it at the store. Supply your own ending e.g. Congratulations, here's your new office...

  19. This just in on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 1

    Government shuts down at midnight on Monday, but Obamacare will be open online (and open with phonelines as well).

  20. Re:Why do people want to survive the end of the wo on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Good, because my neighbors are stocking up on the incandescent (60W, 75W mostly) lightbulbs before companies stop making them and switch over to them 'green' energy-saving lightbulbs

  21. Re:Good grief. on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Posted on /. because there is absolutely no mention of zombie-time cupholders.

  22. Re:Right. on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    The submitter must be from a parallel dimension. The last middle-click will send these supposed 'GNOME devs'/impostors back

  23. Re:Sure on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    And some of us emeriti subscribe to Playboy for their pictures, as well.
     
    /me adjusts bowtie

  24. THIS is the stuff that MATTERS on Robotic Bartender Programmed To Recognize When You Are Ready For a Drink · · Score: 1

    There is hope for /. after all... ...and for all mankind. Programming Skynet for Happy Hour, imagine that.

    I want these guys on the Mars team. Don't tell them about the one way part, not yet. They'll all be smiling when they land, or pregnant.

  25. Re:Beer bellies not related to beer on Extreme Microbe Brewing: the Curse of Auto-Brewery Syndrome · · Score: 1

    People should keep urban myths like this out of "scientific" oriented texts

    I should break this out of its glass case marked In case of emergency

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