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  1. Re:Launching Jan 20, 2012! on Mega Finds New Home, Dotcom Says · · Score: 1

    Where did I leave the keys to the DeLoean??

    Try asking here.

  2. Re:Jack in. on Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes · · Score: 1

    Wasn't me! As usual I've no idea what the Hell is going on.

  3. Re:Jack in. on Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes · · Score: 1

    I'd rather not be used as a puppet and have my memory wiped, thank-you very much.

  4. Re:WTF? on Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site · · Score: 2

    Im confused. If people are sorry, and corporations are people, then what is soylent green again?

    Delicious.

  5. Re:13.75 billion light years on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    The edge of the "box" is billions of light years away and receding at a rate that makes reaching it practically impossible. It gets worse: your great^n grandchildren will look up into the night's sky and see nothing but their own galaxy.

    Sorry.

  6. Re:And... on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Where does one find these "great films that never make it to theaters"?

    The... oh, what's it called?... that thing you're using now... the Internet.

  7. Re:Be ashamed, /.ers on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    Not just kissing ass, there was definitely some tongue involved there.

  8. Re:oh stop it on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    The Universe won't be changed all that much; it's quite large.

  9. Re:Bisected? on EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    Perhaps, if disect is a real word, but dissect means "cut up/apart", not specifically into two parts.

  10. Re:Sounds Like He's Singing on Captive Beluga Was Able To Mimic Speech · · Score: 2

    ... anyone remember SeaQuest DSV? ;)

    Yes, I do now.
    Thanks~

  11. Re:Good on EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo incorrect mod.

  12. Re:What Cox is saying... on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 3, Informative

    For future reference, the word you were looking for is "enjoined". It means being prohibited from doing something by means of an injunction.

  13. Re:Wow on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    For fuck's sake, there is such a thing as being too cynical.

    I doubt that.

  14. Re:Is labor dying? on Will Your Next iPhone Be Built By Robots? · · Score: 2

    What happens as the population grows but jobs dissapear?

    People who flip burgers start to get nervous.

  15. Re:Android built iphones? on Will Your Next iPhone Be Built By Robots? · · Score: 1

    Anything would be better than iRobot.

  16. Re:Defensive play on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Good God, a statement from a CEO unclouded by lawyer speak!

    Kudos to that guy for cutting through the crap!

  17. Re:the message is clear: on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're going to print something illicit, do it quietly and own the printer you're using.

  18. Re:"we have guns" . . . on Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    You get more with the carrot than with the stick, so unless you're employing a group of starving donkeys I suggest cold, hard cash.

  19. Re:The UK FoI Act is weak and toothless on UK Ministers' Private Communications Subject To Freedom of Information Act · · Score: 1

    Which again sounds fine, until you do the math. The £y value often implies they were going to pay someone £60k a year just to do a basic £14k a year office junior job of collating files and scanning them in.

    It's really disgusting and they need to be pulled up on it.

    Devil's advocate time.
    While collecting all the files and posting them out is well within a humble administrative officer's skill, determining what to redact and what to release is well above their pay grade.

  20. Re:What for? on Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 · · Score: 1

    What are some uses of the super-heavy elements?

    They look good on tiaras apparently.

  21. Re:"How did he know I'm gay?" on Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters · · Score: 1

    And as far as the other defintions, well, the happy homosexuals are called gay. The sad ones are just called homosexuals.

    Everyone I know just calls me Jon; it causes a lot less confusion at parties.

  22. Re:"Simple" Solution on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    What sort of magic do you think it will take to get just one helium atom back from the Moon?

    Sufficiently advanced technology.

  23. Re:Incentive on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 2

    Am I wrong in saying H + H => He?

    Yes, 1 + 1 != 4 (or 3).
    It's actually closer to 2H=D (twice) then D+H=He3 (also twice) and finally 2He3 = He4+2H. There are some photons, neutrinos and positrons flying around there too, but that's the general idea.
    See here.

  24. Re:"Simple" Solution on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 2

    Problem with that is that those fancy aneutronic fusion reactors they really want to build are going to need large quantities of helium-3 themselves.

    Or cheap and plentiful boron.

  25. Re:Doesn't surprise me. on 6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    The way passwords are handled in general is appalling - a major supermarket here in the UK emails you your password in plaintext if you say you forgot it. The fact they have it in plaintext is disgusting.

    Out with it then. Name and shame.