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  1. Re:ahh on Paranoia RPG Returns in New Edition · · Score: 2, Funny
    Mmm, hot fun.

    With or without hormone supressant therepy? Bzzt! Wrong answer, citizen! (*splat*).

    Long live Death Leopards!

  2. Re:Even the oldest tech manual isn't readable.. on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 5, Funny
    astrolabe for dummies

    I hadde the beste teke supporte calle in the last of dayes. A ladde declared hes Astrolabie thus broken, and coudde notte tell of the altitude.

    "Didst thou putten thyn thombe in the ring" I didst ask.

    "I gaze upon no such ring" he replieth.

    "What of this thinge by thy right hond." I enquireith.

    "Ah! Doest thou mean the holder onto which I hath placed my cuppe of beer?"

  3. Re:three strikes, no balls on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 1
    True, Spielberg calls it his least favorite, but that's mainly because it was so different from the other two...

    Heh, to each their own. When I saw that part of the commentary my reaction was "yes! Spielberg thinks the same way I do!"

  4. Re:three strikes, no balls on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 1
    I personally think Lucas' creativity took a turn for the worse around 1993.

    According to the recent DVD, the Indianna Jones that Lucas had the most input into (as opposed to Spielberg) was Temple of Doom. Enough Said.

  5. Re:Orkut? on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 2, Funny
    I read that as "Buy You Cock Ten"

    Since the first part (Buyuk) is "big" in Turkish you could be righter than you know.

  6. United Linux Dead? on United Linux Dead · · Score: 4, Funny


    Is this a support group for vampire geekheads?
    Not to be confused with Linux Dead United, the zombie penguin football team.

  7. Getting Real?? on Open Source in Government: Newport News, Va. · · Score: 1
    Open source in government is getting real. Tom Adelstein, in this penetrating interview with Andy Stein, the CIO of Newport News, Virginia...

    So when the entire country of Peru goes for it, it's not real, but when some little town in Virginny does, well then!

    You insensitive Americlods!

  8. Re:Copyrights and "proof of prior method" on USPS Providing Electronic Postmarks · · Score: 1
    My boss's boss, a lawyer, wants to know if authentication proves beyond any legal doubt that my e-signature is really me.

    In other words, is an e-signature the equivalent of a handwritten signature (weak) or the equivalent of a witnessed/notarized signature (strong)?

  9. Re:collection on Lost Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 1
    Doctor Who started in 1963.

    (Which was rather late for me) -
    Between the end of the Chatterly ban
    And the Beatles' first LP.
  10. Re:H2G2 on LaserMonks Offer Prayer, Printer Cartridges · · Score: 1
    With a name like that, they've got to be electric!

    I don't believe so.

  11. Re:And, if you are from the south... on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe that's why I've always known it as 'gun tape'.

    You got the letters wrong again! It's gnu/duc[tk]tape!

  12. Re:an academic speaks on Engineer Deconstructs Literary Criticism · · Score: 1
    90% of bridges aren't crap. 90% of combustion engines aren't crap. 90% of rockets aren't crap.

    90% of bridges all built on the same design aren't crap. But 90% of the articles in theoretical journals describing "new and exciting types of bridges" are crap.

  13. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Funny
    PIN number is quite a mouthful. I usually abbreviate it `PINN'.

    That's not very descriptive to me though. To help, why not make it PINN Number?

  14. Re:Exactly on We Are All Nerds Now · · Score: 1
    When the nintendo came out, all the kids wanted one not just the nerds.

    Not nerd: Had a 2600 and a cartridge library.

    Nerd: Most cherished game was first self-programmed paddle-controlled sprite collision, with a poke to make it beep.

    Got it?

  15. Re:realism on Return of the Space Invaders · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Who the HELL is going to pay 50 cents to play this thing.

    True story: So I wandered into Gameworks (Seattle) a few months back. Among the multi-player driving games and VR stuff, at the back in a corner was a row of classics.

    There was a 13-year old shooting away on Galaga. I watched him for a moment, and in a pause he noticed me and said "Man, this is the most awesome game ever!"

    Man did that restore faith in the youth of today.

  16. Re: earning it's hype on Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown · · Score: 1
    The House of Stewards was one of the noblest families...

    True geek fodder: The seeds of the struggle are older that ROTK. They stem from Denethor's jealosy of Gandalf, who was a friend of the popular Aragorn-in-disguise, fighting alongside young, less-popular Prince Denethor, 60 years before ROTK.

    Denethor may have even then sensed the power of the king and transferred the jealosy of Gandalf to Boromir. Faramir was a failure because he listened to Gandalf too much.

  17. Re:Advantages over normal glider on Robotic Gliders Soar Underwater · · Score: 1
    The question I had is that, are water currents more predictable than air currents?

    High-altitude balloonists/weather scientists know how to use the jetstream. Major water currents are similar though slower, but there are many unpredictable eddies on scales of 200+ km. So adaptive steering/bouyancy control is needed.

    Come to think of it - these would be of no use Land-locked countries !

    Tell it to the Swiss Navy.

  18. Re:RTFA... it's about references in scientific pap on Web Pages Are Weak Links in the Chain of Knowledge · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This sort of thing is absolutely essential to the scientific process and makes science self-correcting.

    Recently a colleague of mine published a paper in an online peer-reviewed journal which contained a trivial error (transposition typo) that however would change, in fact reverse, the interpretation results. They were permitted to fix this, months after the article had first been posted. Does this aid Progress, or is it Revisionist?

  19. Re:OMG! Google got slashdoted! on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 4, Funny
    So,

    Is it better to slashdot google or google slashdot?

  20. Re:Obvious Questions... on Hands-On With The Nokia N-Gage · · Score: 1
    Does it run Linux?

    No, but it runs through this nice little scale model I built of the B&O switchyards...

  21. Re:applicability to the real world on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1
    .

    Ahem, $30k/year...can buy a lot of beer.

  22. Re:Not such a bad idea on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 1
    how often do MS patches actually break things?

    I lost Apache twice. Holy conspiracies, Batman!

  23. Re:What about... on Palm Reveals New Name · · Score: 1
    it is a division of the Formula racing series, in which there is F1, F2, and F3.

    But I just pressed F1, and I'm still going the same speed...

  24. Re:The complete ring poem on Writing with Elvish Fonts · · Score: 1
    Ash nazg durbatuluuk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatuluuk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul,

    No one has ever dared utter those words in Slashdot, you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:Bad assumption on Linux Security Cookbook · · Score: 1
    While this may have been true 5 or so years ago,

    It wasn't even true 5 years ago. Then I was running RH4 and NT boxen with "security through obscurity" (eg. trusting defaults) and the first thing hacked was Apache on Red Hat. My NT never was.