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  1. Re:And facebook has how many on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    In what country do they use apostrophes for the unit grouping?

    Apapuastrophe New Guinea.

  2. Hardest part may yet to come on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    I just went though a strikingly similar situation. The old company provided a counter offer that was higher than the new company's offer when I put in my notice. My decision to make the move boiled down to weighing the less obvious options...commute has turned out to be way more valuable than I had thought. I have better growth potential and a better job in general at the new place, but I really underestimated how lousy commuting was until mine became sub-five minutes. Don't disregard your time.

  3. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    The clandestine nature of the whole thing leads me to believe Rossi has Atlas Shrugged on his mind. Be on the lookout for dollar sign cigarettes...

  4. Re:Of course.... on US Military To Field Test "Throwable" Robots · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hawaii begs to differ.

  5. Re:CERN on Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' · · Score: 1

    Indeed it is. Bigger than Tevatron, which was bigger than the Cyclotron, and so forth. The technology in question has been *slowly marching ahead incrementally since the 1960s, which is what Stephenson is pointing out.

  6. Re:God damn Republicans on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    You have my vote.

  7. Re:"Rhapsody will acquire all Napster subscribers" on Rhapsody To Acquire Napster · · Score: 1

    Or, rather the end user. Pesky agreements...

  8. Re:Uh oh. on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 1

    Not on a Kindle Fire. That much is certain.

  9. Re:Here's one: on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Product Review Website? · · Score: -1, Troll

    +1 Informative

  10. Re:88 mph on World's Oldest Running Car Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    2015.

  11. Re:Close them all on Fukushima: Myth of Safety, Reality of Geoscience · · Score: 1

    Well this confirms it.

    Big waves are bad for nuke plants;

    All must be shut down.

    FT(haiku)FY

  12. Re:NASA on NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge · · Score: 0

    Right. Because Earth has been free of major issues from 1961 until now...

  13. Re:I'll just be skipping cyberspace then... on Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse · · Score: 2

    I'll continue to fill my free time working on personal projects or having sex or playing with my kids.

    -1 questionable usage of "or"

  14. Re:What the hell on How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming · · Score: 1

    I heard the devs are finding the bugs on iPhone killers and the bounties are paid in Bitcoins...

  15. Re:And it begins... on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    Ask Sony how well that works out...

  16. Re:Alternative on Did HP Bilk Its Shareholders? · · Score: 1

    Bingo. The issue is with timing / vs / incentive. The decision makers themselves would have been 'blacked out' regarding their stock holdings, so the legal issue would be with the announcement's timing, not with the decision itself. That said...HP's legal team was, without doubt, well involved. Good luck proving anything nefarious went down in court.

  17. Re:You know what would be cool? on Dinosaur Feathers Found In Amber · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a unix system, I know this! This is a unix system, I know this! Oh god! Nooo!

  18. Re:"locked in a mutual dance"??? on First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars · · Score: 1
    FWIW, the summary is sort of spot on...FTA

    As the stars slipped toward the horizon, they would change places in the sky, like partners in a square dance.

    and

    You would not need to be Luke Skywalker visiting his home planet of Tatooine in the movie "Star Wars" to watch the twin sunset.

    ...poor science reporting, but apt science reporting summarizing.

  19. Re:It's nice to know stuff 60 years after it matte on NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech · · Score: 1

    +1 incoherent

  20. Re:Cell Phones on Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth · · Score: 1

    I can't find any fault with your line of reasoning. Disclaimer: I am wearing a giant horseshoe magnet as a hat.

  21. Re:Kinect? on NYT Working On 'Magic Mirror' For Bathroom Surfing · · Score: 1

    You forgot the microphones, and laser/CMOS depth sensor. Troll harder.

  22. Re:Shoot in the foot on Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remove of the toe?

  23. Re:Glad to hear on Mars Rover Opportunity Set To Roll Into Its Ultimate Crater · · Score: 1

    A few gaseous, gigantic planets may render your conclusion invalid.

  24. Re:Yes you finally made a monkey out of meeeee on Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate every ape I see...from chimp-an-A...to chimp-an-Z

  25. Re:Discovery....Blah on Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia · · Score: 2

    Hypothesis: Americans would watch a program about logging.
    Prediction: They will.
    Experiment: (see Discovery Channel lineup)
    Outcome: Americans will watch a program about logging. There exist several.