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  1. Re:Not a result of Global Warming. on Cracks Signal Massive Iceberg Forming In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    I was wondering where to insert "This isn't rocket science" and I thought this was the most appropriate spot.

  2. Re:I know there will be a lot of jokes... on Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days · · Score: 1

    But where is the 'And how is my newborn test tube offspring doing?' when they came back?

  3. Guns don't kill people on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the line we can always use? The same thing should apply here. Minus the 7-day wait period, of course.

  4. I've always wanted a 3D weather applet on "Holographic" Desk Allows Interaction With Virtual Objects · · Score: 1

    and visualize the thunderstorm right there on the edge of my desktop, as it as it lurches towards Virginia.

  5. And, in related news... on Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM · · Score: 0

    The world ends tomorrow. Details at 11.

  6. Re:Sincerity? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: 1

    Greetings! It's OPPOSITE Day!

  7. Re:It's been more than 3 days...... on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    There wasn't an app for that?

  8. GNOME tosses multitasking out? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Well maybe it's gdm. I have two user profiles that I sign on, GNOME and its Network manager on one, e17 on the other. I play music with xmms on the first, and I switch to the second and the CTL-ALT-Fn switch pauses the music. If I ran multisystem inside of a VM in the first, it actually pauses during the bootup while I'm on the second userprofile. Do I have to watch *everything* now?

  9. Re:Why you do that? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1

    You're making perfect cents, but...this is America!

  10. Hey, scientists, it's *us* ... on Table Salt Could Help Boost HDD Storage Density By a Factor of 5 · · Score: 1

    Hey fellas, it's us. You can tell us that one of you was having his lunch at his desk and spilled some of the salt from his salt packets onto some of your test disks. And actually tried to pass it off as 'more experiments'. He could have put the devices out of the way but naaaa. Anyway, win-win, right? (Oh, could you hand me some of the pepper, while you're publishing your results...)

  11. Re:Good job, wants some cheese for your whine? on Linux Kernel Developer Declares VirtualBox Driver "Crap" · · Score: 1

    yeah, and the 4% decrease was replaced by that dialog that goes 'Uh oh, your app just crashed. Why don't you click on OK to move along, no bluescreen here nosirree...'

  12. Re:Finally, a meta-thread! on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    even in the title

    At least they took out the C in Fukushima as soon as someone pointed it out.

  13. Re:Developers destroyed the start menu on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    you left one item out from #4, 'Uninstall this app by accident.lnk'

  14. Re:Uhmmm, ok, call it a full-price tech demo then? on id Software Releases RAGE · · Score: 1

    I was wondering whether people outside of gamers might be interested in the engine, such as medical people using the first-person POV to wander around a patient's internal organs. Use the railgun to pulverize that blood clot that could lead to his aneurysm, get the gold key. But then they'd ask for more clot...

  15. Re:Side project for some friends, eh? on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like Zuckerberg and the OP actually have friends!

    Uh-oh, if I'm not mistaken, it was a line almost exactly like this that actually started Zuck on the road to billions...

  16. Ridicule is missing the point on Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? · · Score: 1

    Remembering how you type the phone number such as 900-mustb18 is lost when you try to demo phone numbers you remember by keystrokes on the phone. That's why for skype or other phone app on the PC, there being no alphabetic characters ABC/DEF limits the num pad's usefulness. And having that same layout makes it worse. Sure slap on a GUI onscreen, but WTF for? ( Like when I have to use some pin assigned to me, that doesn't make sense, I have to resort to the keystroke/positioning in this day and age of alphanumeric passwords with strange symbols required)

  17. Re:I have to admit on FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers · · Score: 1

    10 questions from slashdotters to Anonymous

    1. What kind of shopping cart do you use? Is it equipped with that gadget to tell you which aisle the beans are at?
    2. Did the Feds hack into that gadget (using VB, etc) to find you?

    (you are invited to add more)

  18. Re:They will be able to if it is fun on An FPS Minus the Shooting · · Score: 1

    Ok, ok, we'll throw in Megan Fox. Happy now?

  19. Re:Better computers than humans on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    I've always wanted to cream the Blue Team in Paintball. From home. I wonder when this tech will be available for toy companies. Especially when the 2012 Geneva Convention on Laws of Armed Robots in Combat declares them unfit, thereby resulting in a blackmarket for jailbroken drones.

  20. Re:Excellent use of crowd-sourcing on Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this approach would bring about the next few waves of major advancements in other fields , such as videogames...

  21. Missing link? on New Skeleton Finds May Revamp History of Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    It' behind a paywall, sadly. We'll never get to it now...

  22. We need Scramble Suits on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    Somebody better give these guys the scramble suits they need.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fac6aHFa_k

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/faq#.2.1.12

  23. Re:Social Engineering on Was This the Phishing E-mail That Took Down RSA? · · Score: 1

    I don't know...to prove that God doesn't exist?

    *POOF!*

  24. Re:It's hard to imagine... on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Retirement = RM + Internet

    Oh, wait...

  25. Currently covered in Rolling Stone as well on SEC Hit With Data Destruction Complaint · · Score: 1

    Full article on their paper edition, appetizer here http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817 but don't eat anything heavy prior to reading.