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  1. Re: Or White Noise on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    pink (as opposed to p!nk) noise makes some people queesy

  2. Re:I smell a rat on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    depends, if you think of it as a 'weapon' (e.g. a semi-automatic rifle) then never, but if you think of it as a device to spy on the rich then it'll get banned pretty quickly

  3. Re:Jetwash? on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    the recovery is probably automated too

  4. you infringe my copyright (but I don't care) on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    what happens if I post one of my photos on t'net, you copy it and display it on your site, I claim copyright infringement (but I don't sue or anything because I don't care) - you get a strike, we repeat this with 5 other people, you get stuck out. Now you've got / we've all got 6 strikes but no one cares, what then?

  5. because geohot on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    my ps1 got replaced with my ps2, which got replaced with my ps3 which will get replaced by something other than a ps4 because... geohot

  6. Re:Or they could just increase gas tax on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    my old 20yo knackered Mk1 Golf GTi after eating a ring and thus having no compression on one of the cylinders got better mileage than that. I get 60mpg out of its replacement.

  7. Re:This should be interesting... on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    yeah but heroin is soft and squishy and can be made into small eas... il... y fitted blobs, smart phones on the other hand are getting larger and larger

  8. captain birdseye... on Scientists Make Fish Grow "Hands" In Experiment Revealing How Fins Became Limbs · · Score: 1

    captain birdseye what have you done you monster

  9. how is changing an attribute in a config file 'pirating'? for that matter if he'd patched a binary instead would that have been pirating?

  10. not fully autonomous then? on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 1

    "but one of them has suffered damage and has been diverted to Hawaii for repair" thus it can be remotely controlled?

  11. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 5, Funny

    where as crushing them to death with only one *really* huge diamond would be much cheaper

  12. Re:Reminded of a line from a movie... on Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete · · Score: 1, Funny

    well there's an 8-bit processor in minecraft... http://boingboing.net/2010/11/12/working-8-bit-cpu-in.html

  13. Re:News for nerds on Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete · · Score: 1

    make: *** No rule to make target `baby'. Stop.

  14. Re:On a philosophical level its just bits on Rick Falkvinge On Child Porn and Freedom Of the Press · · Score: 1

    I read here (but ages ago, so no link sorry) that roughly half of the photos in a CP's stash don't show abuse, they're snaps of someone's kids at-the-beach/in-the-bath etc.

  15. Re:SCORPION STARE on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    thanks, I was just about to call shenanigans

  16. webcam on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    use my old android phone as a wireless webcam

  17. mass murder! on Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus · · Score: 1

    quick, someone call the... pollo-ice

  18. Re:Is that a man or a woman? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 1

    but what about my comboboxes?

  19. Re:0xB16B00B5 on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    kertish...

  20. Re:Synonyms on Bye ACTA, Hello CETA · · Score: 1

    rule 34

  21. Re:I suppose the ultimate solution is... on FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    I'd like to be able to use my netflix account on my PS3 whilst refusing to agree to the latest erosion of my ToS rights by Sony, that doesn't sound like too much to ask.

  22. Re:lightning to stop cars ? on Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon · · Score: 1

    steel tracked tank?

  23. Re:Prison on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    and eclipse etc., I make a special point of using BT whenever I can for legitimate porpoises

  24. Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 2

    wrong. the right to information and to be represented on tinternet is more important that your ability to get from A-B without taking a bus. using the car analogy tho', you tend to lose your licence (for a finite amount of time) for endangering other people's lives whereas this shambles wants to take away the internet for something as unimportant as copyright infringement.

  25. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    I think they're (trying to) position themselves as the only openid type service, so if you left how would you (eventually) access stackoverflow?