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  1. And I don't see an escape key. :(

  2. Good luck on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good luck finding me in my mom's basement!

  3. Re:The solution is easy on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't get much more reliable than an old Volvo wagon...that said I'd be buying a newer (though not necessarily new) car too.

  4. Re:Trading one set of problems for another on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    SHHHHH don't let the secret out! Traffic is bad enough as it is!

  5. Re:Why use income? Why not total wealth? on $56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income · · Score: 1

    Me too. I drive a 2004 Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG. It's got a supercharged 5.5L V8 that makes 491 horsepower and will go from 0-60 in 4.7 seconds, with an electronically-limited top speed of 155 mph. It's scary fast and I fall in love with it every time I drive it.

    Kelley Blue Book value in very good condition? $8,941

  6. Do you have a blog? That sounds very interesting.

  7. Re:The Truth is Never Libelous on British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims · · Score: 1

    Penicillin is bogus. It was just some fungi growing in uncleaned lab equipment. Any success it may have in treating infection is accidental.

    Only quacks say chiropractic care can heal anything, and only quacks believe them. The rest of us have found that happy medium that says, "my back hurts, and this makes it feel better."

  8. This isn't gambling. on How To Bet Money On Your Future Success · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If someone is so confident in their startup idea, why not try to get actual investors instead of an "investment" you have to pay back?

    This is just the next step up from student loans.

  9. In my state... on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    It's against federal law to make a machine gun. In Tennessee, as long as he doesn't break any federal laws, he can do whatever he wants without the federal license, but he cannot he doesn't sell what he produces. If he keeps it personally, he isn't even required to put a serial number on the receiver. If he wants to sell it at a later time, however, he's required put a serial on it, and he also may invoke the wrath of the ATF. It's said that you can sell a reasonable number of homemade firearms per year without requiring the manufacturer's license, but I believe that reasonable number is arbitrarily set by the ATF agents.

    Disclaimer: I've never made my own firearm, and if I did, I certainly wouldn't sell it; between the risk of federal prison and liability if it blows up, if I had to get rid of the thing, it would be destroyed.

  10. Sounds like... on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    They're playing hardball.

  11. Re:So...what's the answer? on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 1

    "Rich" and "Poor" are relative.

  12. Re:Bird Flu on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    You're assuming you'll be one of the lucky few to survive your pandemic.

  13. 50km? on FCC To Test Opening White Spaces Up To Public · · Score: 1

    I'd love to be able to reach my home connection from that distance, but do we really want 10,000 "linksys" APs showing up when doing a scan?

  14. Re:I am all for it. on .XXX Domain Registrations Begins · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, if you're not into shoving stuff down peoples' throats there's someone who is. ;)

  15. Re:More importantly on Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar? · · Score: 1
    Oops, meant to put:

    is not a simile because there are no "likes."

  16. Re:More importantly on Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar? · · Score: 2

    Google+ is an analogy because there are no "likes."

  17. Re:Still don't see what it has to do with teleprin on Telex Would Work, But Is It Overkill? · · Score: 1

    It would be like someone say I have a great idea for a computer. We shall name it UNIVAC...

    Great idea!

  18. Sounds like a good idea... on Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft · · Score: 2

    How do they plan to keep radiation from frying the chips?

  19. Which one? on Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve · · Score: 0

    The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole....

    Which ocean?

  20. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    Lithium Ion batteries are inherently unstable and have to be charged and discharged very carefully. Unlike the old school batteries you'd think of, these batteries have a controller to manage them built in.

    Sounds like an explanation to me.

  21. Re:Units on HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA · · Score: 1

    syntax error at ./#36686422 line 10, near "{"
    Execution of ./#36686422 aborted due to compilation errors.

  22. Re:Do this in the US as well! on EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science · · Score: 1

    Say you drive to work 10 miles one way, in a car that gets 10mpg (roll with it).
    That's 100mi/week, or 10gal/week.

    Driving the same distance in a car that gets 13mpg uses 7.69 gal/week, or ~23% less gas.

    Assuming my math is correct (I'll be the first to admit I'm no math genius), it seems viable to me.

  23. Re:Do this in the US as well! on EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science · · Score: 1

    He's got a point on wasting money on ethanol subsidies though. That crap needs to stop. I found a station near me that sells pure gasoline and my fuel economy jumped about 3% after switching. Not much, I know, but over the course of a work week that's worked out to an extra day of driving before I have to fill up.

  24. Re:path 2 perdition on Groupon Deal of the Day: 300,000 Customer Accounts · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how smart kids are these days. This 5-year-old is already on Slashdot!

  25. Re:wrong tau on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    Haha my first thought too.