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  1. Gravities? on Slashback: Boeing, Fraud, Fundage · · Score: 3, Funny

    [1000 Gravities, not grams]

    For those of you not accustomed to metric, 1 Gravity is equivalent to 35 Pressures, 18 Forces, 340 Micro-lengths, 2 electromagnetisms, or 42 CowboyNeals.

  2. Postman on How The Postman Almost Owned E-Mail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I find it highly unlikely that Costner could have "owned" anything

  3. Re:Do you mean this source code? on HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the truly impressive part of this code is getting past the lameness filter... that's gotta be against some law

  4. NASA "Pinpoints"... on NASA Pinpoints Lightning The Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 3, Funny

    its accuracy - about 15 feet (5 m) within a 1 mile (1.6 km) radius.

    I don't know what kind of pins you're using, but they're probably not very effective at that size...

  5. /. effect on VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quoth the page:
    The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software.

    Other servers have come down like they were Commodore 64's, but this one actually is one!

  6. Paranoia on Black Boxes to Track Driving Habits? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, how long before the insurance companies persuade the states to mandate these devices in every car? Or raise our rates hugely and then give a little of it back if we put in the box?

    Can we stop with the black-helicopters-are-watching-me-through-the-tele phone tin-foil hat paranoia for just a day or two? This kind of sensationalizing gets really old when every single piece of technology is just another tool for The Man to spy on us, regardless of legitimate uses (sound familiar?) it might have.

  7. Just a guess on National Security Cuts Into NASA's Plutonium · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the "undisclosed national security agency" is, in fact, the National Security Agency

  8. Palermo scale on A Rock Moves In Space · · Score: 2

    For those wondering what they're talking about, NASA has a site about it here

  9. The Media and AI on Ask Dr. Richard Wallace, Artificial Intelligence Researcher · · Score: 2

    How do you think the current media treat AI as a science and as a tool for society? Specifically, a lot of stories about AI tend to be sensationalist (i.e. the "escaped" robot story from about a month ago) and don't really concern themselves with the facts. Is the field hurt or helped by media portrayals of AI?

  10. Solutions on Automated OCR for Forms Processing? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone know of something that can handle this?

    High school students? Technology isn't the answer to everything, and if these are handwritten you're not going to have very much success trying to automate the recognition. My name is Fod Na1oyyy, etc

  11. Ask /. on Considerations for an Oversea Move? · · Score: 3, Funny

    While the link that is provided is fairly comprehensive, other sources of information, both referential and anecdotal would be appreciated

    And since this is Ask Slashdot after all, let's just throw "wild speculation and unfounded rumors" in the mix

    Karma.Burn(3);

  12. Dupe! on New Fossil of Early Hominid Precursor · · Score: 2

    Not to be confused with the same thing Here

  13. Re:9 9s on Uptime Realities in the Internet World · · Score: 5, Informative

    TI-89 > all education
    9's ---- time
    1 876 hours
    2 87 hours
    3 8 hours
    4 52 minutes
    5 5 minutes
    6 31 seconds
    7 3 seconds
    8 .3 seconds
    9 you get the idea

  14. Re:Publishers and StarOffice? on Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony · · Score: 2

    With larger documents and the importance of formatiting

    Piers Anthony books...hrmm.. Freudian slip?

  15. Re:Mice modding... on Cryogenic Mouse Mod · · Score: 2

    Nope, surprisingly enough there are no screws underneath that sticker. There's even a little dip where you'd expect to find one, but no screw to be found :(

  16. Mice modding... on Cryogenic Mouse Mod · · Score: 3

    Does anyone have advice on how to open these mice? I have a bunch of the MS Optical mice pictured in the page I'd like to mess with, but I'm not sure how to get the cover off in a non-destructive manner.

  17. Re:Hmm on Review: Men In Black II · · Score: 1

    I got the idea in the first one that they didn't work for the government and were autonomous because it asked too many questions

    I hate plot-holing sci-fi movies, but where would they get their money?

  18. This is odd... on Review: Men In Black II · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who are you, and what did you do with the real JonKatz?

  19. Re:Childish on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 1

    I think what you're more likely to see is zealots trying to sabotage their booth, harass the representatives, etc., and that's what he was referring to

  20. Childish on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 5, Funny

    No doubt this means that the more childish among us will make us all look bad. Sigh.

    Hi pot, this is kettle. You're looking mighty black today!

  21. Measurements on 8128 miles Per (US) Gallon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know some of you are having a tough time with the miles-per-gallon or kilometers-per-liter measurement, so I've taken the liberty of converting this to a useful measurement we can all relate to.

    Simply put, 483km/1L is 1.2425 x 10^-6 earth-moon distances per cubic centimeter of fuel. I think that puts in it perspective

  22. Hacking awards on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    If only I could get $100,000 for breaking into a default Redhat or Win9x install, I'd be a millionaire by now!

  23. Your best chance.. on Ask 'Rocket Guy' Brian Walker · · Score: 2

    launch himself about 35 miles into the air...but now's your chance to ask about the theory and practice of home-brewed rocket travel

    Now is definitely your chance, seeing as how once this launch is complete your odds of being able to ask him something are markedly decreased :) Seriously though, I wish him a good flight and hope he returns to Earth safely. And if he doesn't, I hope he gets some really good video

  24. Typo Alert on LotR Two Towers Trailer Online · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it's the "Two Towers" not "Who Towers", Taco. Way to proofread! At least the link works

  25. Re:Fingers on Doom3 and OpenGL2.0 · · Score: 1

    Moderation Totals: Funny=4, Overrated=3, Total=7

    What the mods giveth, the mods taketh away