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  1. Re:Can we please stop quoting "Analysts"?? on Analyst Predicts Android Overtaking iPhone In 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    i.e: "Dude thinks Android will overtake the iPhone by 2012". ...Yeah, and?

    The Analyst abides.

  2. Too many varibles, too little incentive on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 1
    FTA:

    But businessman Tony Morgan, a former restaurant owner, said it would give local businesses protection against petty criminals, and act as a deterrent once 'Internet Eyes patrol here' signs are prominently displayed... ...He said: 'This could turn out to be the best crime prevention weapon there's ever been.

    Or alternately, this could turn out to be a short-lived failure. He sort of missed the proof of concept phase of his planning.

  3. Clever? on Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-tech Buzz

    said robotic bees also generate horribly obvious story title pun on /.

  4. Re:Where are the details? on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1

    Your advice is not helpful. What percentage of fools think they are fools?

    Approximately 12345 out of 123456.

  5. Re:Screen rotation problem? on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netbook. That leaves the tricky textbook rotation puzzle...

  6. Anybody know how to reach... on Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut · · Score: 3, Funny

    Star Wars Kid
    I, for one, would absolutely love to see him flail around with a lightsaber...

  7. Direct Link to DOW on Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dow Solar

    FTA

    "This is just one example of how Dow's $1.5 billion annual R&D investment is allowing us to deliver practical solutions for some of the world's most critical challenges," said Dow Chairman and CEO Andrew N. Liveris.

    They might have hit this one out of the park if the projected $20 billion by 2020 is remotely close.

  8. Re:i'm not trying to be a troll on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 5, Funny

    but while you're teaching high school students science fiction, kids in other high schools are learning actual science

    In other high schools, kids are learning about mutual exclusivity.

  9. Cost Analysis on Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Recovery funds paid out: $85,977,000,000
    Recovery.gov overhaul cost: $9,500,000
    Recovery.gov maintenance cost: $8,500,000
    Hindering market self-correction: Priceless

  10. Really? on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 2, Insightful
    FTA:

    It is nearly impossible to imagine a deluge of pebbles falling from the sky, or turning on the morning forecast to hear reports of âoerockingâ instead of âoeraining.â

    Does this seem difficult to imagine, let alone nearly impossible?
    Imagine, if you can, something somewhere else very similar to something standard here!

  11. Re:i wish there is a map for laptops or computers. on Google Wants to Map Indoors, Too · · Score: 1

    i wish there is a map for laptops or computers for non-high-tech people. That would be awesome :)

    Your Map:
    Move the arrow thing to the place at the top of your internet. Backspace the letters and stuff with slashdot.org in it. Type in anything else, and click enter.

  12. Re:pffffttt.. on Growing Power Gap Could Force Smartphone Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    I don't spend more than 10 minutes between any one of those things. And yet, you still refer to it as a "wireless" phone?!?

    I think the reference was to a cellular phone. Wireless phone options are typically more along the line of intercom to built in charger/answering machine unit, adjustable ringer volume, and caller ID. These wireless phones are not considered "smartphones" by most.

  13. Re:I don't understand? on How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because really, what coder wouldn't want to strum a guitar and have code flow from his awesome chords?

    This guy. Right here.

  14. I'd Prefer to Bank via MySpace on Banking Via Twitter? · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as Iâ(TM)m throwing caution to the wind, Iâ(TM)d like to hear some embedded MIDI while I bank.

  15. I understand where you are going, but... on Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States · · Score: 5, Insightful
    FTA:

    MessageLabs unveiled a list of the top U.S. spammed states, with surprising results - the spam capital of the US is Idaho with 93.8 percent of spam, far exceeding the global spam rate for September 2009 of 86.4 percent.

    ...what sort of poorly-stated metric is "percent of spam"

  16. No Thanks. on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cluttered browser window + Wiki nonsense != desirable plug-in

  17. In Related News... on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

    Many To Replace Firefox With Opera

  18. Can't Wait... on Early Details On Courier, Microsoft's Take On a Tablet · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...dual blue screens of death

  19. Re:Wonder how this will cost on FDA OKs First Human Trial of Neural Stem Cell Therapy · · Score: 1

    When itemizing the cost of one's sandwich, one should subcategories sandwich accompaniments. Said accompaniments, while worthy of note, tend to overestimate sandwich-specific cost.

  20. Creepy thought... on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some anti-Yankees (North Korea) could detonate a warhead to set off Perimeter, and wipe us off the map. Maximum return on investment.

  21. Re:Yikes, what an article! on Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon · · Score: 1
    No numbers, but they managed to sneak in an exclamation point.

    Researchers across the world have attempted to create cells from silicon, plastic and even human hair!

    Lacking substance...long on hippy drivel.

  22. Re:Ocean's Thirteen that a system like that. on Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ocean's Thirteen that a system like that.

    Brad Pitt that an actor in that.

  23. Re:what a horseship contract on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 2, Funny

    conclusion: put them all in a room, with their laywers. on the titanic. hit an iceberg. it's a start.

    Unfortunately, the Titanic sank in 1912. A chubby red-haired woman survived, but a floppy haired blonde guy froze in the water. There was a movie about it a few years ago.

  24. Audit the current system first? on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA:

    "We make 9.1 cents off a song sale and that means a whole lot of pennies have to add up before it becomes a bunch of money," said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters' Guild of America. "Yesterday, I received a check for 2 cents. I'm not kidding.

    Who in the hell has Rick's other 7.1 cents?

  25. Re:Where is the controversy? on Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Call me a troll, but I'd like to remind everyone that what W started, the O is continuing...

    I won't call you a troll, but I'll remind you that neither Bush nor Obama had any hand in composing the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, which spelled out what was considered unreasonable search and seizure. The appointing of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court members is also completely independant of the Executive Branch.