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  1. Re:April Fools on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 0

    No it's true, the screams were those of /. readers everywhere at the collapse of their news blog.

  2. Re:Duh on MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x · · Score: 1

    Yeah and I don't see exactly how this is suppose to scale. If they're tall that means they will block light to the other cells in their shadow.

    I mean it's not like they made the cell more efficient. The surface area is the same, just stacked vertically.

    This just in: increased surface area increases efficiency!

  3. Re:First on Microsoft Leads Sting Operation Against Zeus Botnets · · Score: 1

    First

    Your botnet proxy was surely seized for your post to be so not first.

  4. Re:Search warrants not needed... on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Skyware, the new threat.

  5. Re:I've seen that movie... on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who would have thought Skynet would first be created in the sky

  6. too late on Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote · · Score: 5, Funny

    I skipped this article.

  7. loophole on Netflix Terms of Service Invalidates Your Right To Sue · · Score: 1

    Sue them for changing the terms.

  8. Re:in my minds eye on Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments · · Score: 0

    I viewed it first, but posted in the future.

  9. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    It's all kosher as long as we say it's kosher

    The Kosher Guy

  10. Re:Use forums instead on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 1

    Actually online comments do serve a subtext. When a source puts up a paywall you can get enough info out of the comments section to figure out what the full content is.

  11. Re:Available at GOG on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 2

    wumpus!

  12. Re:Moron on Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? · · Score: 4, Funny

    No this is totally undiscovered country. You need to hire 20 kids at $20 per hour and tell them to make the game. Have them work like two months, tell them it is okay to rip off other games. Brand your company Winga, or Singa or something unique. Copyright the game before it is done, sue everyone who tries to release anything which remotely resembles your game. Profit. Go Public. Profit more. Wait for Facebook IPO. Sell, sell, sell!

  13. Re:"iterative prisoner's dilemma" on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    Frank: Here's to Ben!
    Everyone; Here's to Ben!
    Frank walks over to Jeffrey and punches him in the face.
    Frank grabs Jeffrey by the collar and repeats himself
    Frank: Here's to Ben!
    Jeffrey: Here's to Ben.
    Frank: Be Polite!
    Jeffrey: Here's to Ben!

    Politeness in Action!

  14. Re:Smith & Farmer on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Send this novel to where it cannot be reborn.

    Muad'dib can handle that for a small fee.

  15. Re:Homie Opethie on Growth of Pseudoscience Harming Australian Universities · · Score: 1

    And why do you mention Pink Floyd? Did they do a cover or something?

    Pink Floyd does covers?

  16. Absolutely Dumb Premise on Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst · · Score: 1

    Almost half the world is using Chrome. So almost half the world is better at numbers than the other half?

  17. Re:Why... on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 1

    All voting systems need human monitors. Just ask Andrew Brietfart.

    I think the fellow you refer to has passed.

  18. Re:Eggs? on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 1

    Never outsource your core functionality

    Or more specifically, don't cloud your reasons for using it. Know what you are getting before you go there.

  19. Re:Your link goes to a Go Daddy parking page on Smithsonian Aims To Make Objects In Museum Collection 3D-Printable · · Score: 2

    Architectural works are just as subject to copyright as sculptural works.

    Do architects count as corporations? Because those have "people rights" which are uber.

  20. Re:Simple, don't walk behind cars backing up on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 4, Funny

    most times I can't see you when using my mirrors. I'll look behind me in parking lots but idiots like to walk in the street in NYC

    The article failed to mention that at least 12 pedophiles and 27 terrorist suspects will be saved each year by rear view cameras. Good laws put into action to save the peoples!

  21. Re:They did not target startups and small business on Harris Exits Cloud Hosting, Citing Fed Server Hugging · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Harris targeted the wrong audience and/or they could not compete with Amazon.

    You've nailed the main talking point. Cloud was where you went as an enterprise to get your data stored globally with access from anywhere. But as the internet has evolved, attacks on hosted solutions, both illegal (anonymous) and legal (feds, riaa, etc), have made jurisdiction and prudence competing factors.

    If you're a startup you have none of these concerns - you're probably happy if you can find enough money to buy your best client lunch. Once you evolve from the penniless framework you, like every other growth business, will reinvest into locally stored/colocated data inside your infrastructure and outside prying fingers.

  22. Re:Every time a bell rings on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which is why scifi is generally accepted and tolerated to have elements of fantasy rather than be chained to actual science.

    We tolerate nothing!

    Signed,
    the Zombie Apocalypse
    P.S. - No we aren't sci-fi either but we occasionally eat Bladerunner enthusiasts

  23. Every time a bell rings on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Avatar was about as sci-fi as Lord of the Rings which won the Oscar. Just because we geeks love sci-fi/fantasy/gore/zombies/pizza doesn't mean they all need categories. If you want to change the over-65 AA voters, become one of them. Get Cameron in there, Lucas, Spielberg, etc. You will have your own category and they will destroy it like everything else. Then of course we'll all be complaining that we need a true sci-fi category while we watch Forbidden Planet for the 40th time.

  24. Innovative on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a great way to avoid snooping by pesky authorities. Until 5 years from now when Sweden receives the largest request for unfettered access to its systems by all those liberal, invasive governments.

  25. Re:Define e-mail? on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 1

    Booooring. I so invented Token-Ring and RIP way before all your silly email preponderances.