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  1. Nature's C student? on Bumblebees Used For Targeted Pesticide Deliveries (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    can we really trust bumblebees not to screw it up? try some africanized bees, they get sh!t done.

  2. of course it is two companies on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    H and P

  3. Re:Failing upwards on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    fiorina hasn't been ceo of hp for 10 years

  4. hackers on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    only hackers have true black dye tubs

  5. like tool said on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need it, I just want it.

  6. Re:Let's do the math. on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    it takes two to tango.

  7. twice as many drown per year on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    fyi twice as many drown in a year. No one wants to ban mr bucket, but then mr bucket can't stop THEM from imposing their will upon you.

    http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroo...

  8. the hell you say on Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the guy who makes money from people giving his website all their personal information, wants everyone to have internet access? color me surprised.

  9. bought and paid for... on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 1

    by big oil. You can't trust them they were oil company shills.

  10. couldn't hurt on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 5, Funny

    the long slow death of literacy could not possibly be harmed by more emjois.

  11. wow... on A Look At the World's First Virtual Reality Theme Park · · Score: 3, Funny

    I could swear I was playing virtual skeeball.

  12. white priveldge on FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1, Troll

    of course they followed an old white guy, but where was the FBI when that presbolutheran inuit transgender pansexual furry was writing all that sonic the hedgehog slash fic? It is time for equal rights when it comes to governmental agencies wildly overstepping the bounds of their duties.

  13. $60 wasted on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I saved my allowance for several weeks to buy a 4MB stick of ram to get my 486 up to the 12MB minimum requirement. Then when I went to install it something went wrong. I can no longer remember what, but I do remember that I went back to 3.1 the same day.

  14. in other words... on Epson Is Trying To Kill the Printer Ink Cartridge · · Score: 2

    a laser printer.

  15. the gang ruins it for everybody on Hitchhiking Robot's Cross-Country Trip Ends In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    i guess to robot failed the ocular patdown.

  16. Re:Not my type of company on Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? · · Score: 2

    a firewall appliance costs a few thousand dollars a year; while a labor lawyer to defend a justifiable firing of an incompetent worker in a protected class is many tens of thousands of dollars.

  17. at risk or mature? on Linux Foundation's Census Project Ranks Open Source Software At Risk · · Score: 1

    Are they really at risk or just mature? after 20-30 years I don't see how tools like whois and bzip2 could really need that much development.

  18. need a new one on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    listing these specs makes me realize it is time to upgrade.

    phenom ii 965
    990fx motherboard
    8GB ddr3
    7870
    128GB 840 pro OS
    256GB 850 evo games
    500GB HDD data

  19. what could go wrong? on Ask Slashdot: What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? · · Score: 1

    it didn't kill homer.

    http://www.toonzone.net/forums...

  20. best submission contest on How a Scientist Fooled Millions With Bizarre Chocolate Diet Claims · · Score: 3, Funny

    _roo wins best pun category with "and issued press releases to feed the ever-hungry pool of nutrition journalists."

  21. reopen harrads on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    if people will just keep spending money they will have more money to spend.

  22. I probably would have ejected, but... on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    it is possible to have two phones one for work and one for personal stuff and never the twain shall meet.

  23. Re:You no longer own a car on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    the framers of the constitution could never have foreseen dual clutch transmissions.

  24. 2500 C60 cassette tapes to be exact.

  25. if you "collected" money... on Ask Slashdot: Options Beyond YouTube For An Indie Web Show? · · Score: 1

    you could, gasp, pay for your own bandwidth.