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  1. Re:Asia on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 0

    If chewing gum is outlawed, then only outlaws will chew gum.

    If gums are outlawed, then only outlaws will have gums.

    FTFY

  2. Re:Thed saying holds true... on WikiLeaks Sues the Guardian Over Leak · · Score: 1

    There is no honor amongst thieves.

    Either you support leaks or you do not. Selective leaking is simply propaganda dressed up to look pretty.

    Of course there is; they honor each other by stealing from each other.

  3. Re:First we need to know ... on Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar · · Score: 1

    Two iPhones walk into a bar...

    Have you seen the iLostIt II?

    --

    In Soviet Russia, the phone is not lost.

  4. Re:Question on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    By checking the "encrypted" bit in the TCP/IP packet header. It's right next to the "evil" bit.

    I say, that's an ingenious bit of protocol design! In other news, the Entscheidungsproblem has been solved. Turns out you just check for the "__does_program_halt__" flag that's present in all ELF binaries.

    Right next to the bit much.

  5. Re:Well on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think these are more like innerlords.

    This too shall pass away.

    --

    Never let a computer or a cat know that you are in a hurry.

  6. Re:Only 27 more years until public domain on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 1

    Right...? Or is Disney going to get another copyright extension passed?

    As I understand it it's now 95 years after the creator's death so we have 52 years left.

    Mickey Mouse?

  7. At last on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Terrific! What would be the effects of a 20% fuel savings in town?

  8. Re:Slow news day? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was [f]irst time accepted submitter hairyfish, though Timothy did post it, so he clearly thought that this held some sort of merit.

    "Hairyfish", seems like we are on the way to Sea Kittens after all.

  9. Re:Well that was neat. on Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty · · Score: 1

    Look at the greenhouse-gas emissions from a shuttle launch sometime

    ... The shuttle's main propulsion is liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. Its exhaust product is water vapor.

    OTOH the solid rocket boosters (SRB) burn ammonium perchloride NH3ClO4 known as AP and Al powder.

  10. Re:$35 computer - dream come true on Raspberry Pi Running Quake 3 · · Score: 1

    And people barely notice.

    Average consumer: "What good is a $35 PC if I have to buy a $1000 Monster(R) HDMI cable to connect it to my TV?"

    Back in the day, that was known as terminal face (the expression a customer made when told that his $200 computer would require a $1200 terminal to run).

  11. Re:I "guess" it's "probably" it on New Oil Slick In Gulf Waters Linked To BP Well · · Score: 2

    The definition of a "dead ringer" is something that looks a lot like something else, but isn't.

    A deceased Avon lady.

  12. Re:Steve "taco" Jobs on So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts · · Score: 2

    makes you wonder what will happen next week... /. without Rob is like...
    someone please come up with a car analogy

    Its like lifting the bonnet of your Jag 150, and discovering that it is powered by Sir Peter Ustinov.

  13. Re:Sheesh on So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts · · Score: 1

    He's not dead, Jim.

  14. Re:Oxidizers == Death on Imaging the Molecular Orbitals of Pentacene · · Score: 1

    You're loosing your touch. Many of your earlier posts sounded like something you might actually believe. However this one is far to insane.

    Yrore trying to hard to use the word "Frankenstein molecule" for one, and also talking about subluxation as if they are a physical thing " wrapped around nerves, almost like cancers" while also claiming they can't be removed and studied.

    What happened to you Bob? you used to be cool.

    Global uncooling.

  15. Re:What about driving? on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 1

    How many of those words evolved when "the facilities" involved an outhouse, or a bucket to be emptied into the street?

    Gardyloo.

  16. Re:Russian Railroads vs. California on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    California's high-speed rail project didn't involve any radical engineering like building a tunnel under the Bering Straits or building railroads across frozen parts of Alaska, just a simple system upgrade from San Francisco to Los Angeles and San Diego along existing rights of way, and the price has already gone from the $30B low-ball price sold to the voters ($10B in bonds and $20B in magic money falling from the sky) to somewhere around $40-50B.

    There are other differences - it's possible that this is being proposed for the purposes of actually building a railroad and shipping goods on it rather than for spending money and paying off every rich community along the way, by I'm skeptical about claims that you can build a tunnel under the Bering Straits for less than you can build a surface railroad from LA to Bakersfield, or that Russian corruption is any less than the polite Californian version.

    Do you mean drug sales?

  17. Re:Good News Everyone, on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 1

    If you didn't read that in Professor Farnsworth's voice, you lose.

    Good news everybody; there is Hawking radiation coming from the lab.

  18. Re:Statistical fluctuations are where the magic is on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 2

    A butterfly fart is enough to screw with them.

    Butterflies don't fart; air tunnels through their gut.

  19. Re:Worst description ever on Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Most birds are amazingly stupid and (forgive the pun) flighty. You could, possibly, train a crow or raven to be a useful service animal, but even they lack the degree of control over their defecatory functions that we expect service animals to display.

    Use a tray. If that is too hard, wear white.

  20. Re:Worst description ever on Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Isn't one ear slightly higher than the other for this reason? Or am I thinking of owls?

    By the same logic we shouldn't be able to distinguish between things directly ahead or directly behind. I think it's to do with how the shape of the ear affects the frequencies of different sounds, innit?

    Is that why some heads get tilted? I am not thinking of owls.

  21. Obligatory on Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Another blind side aide: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/

  22. Re:saw light spot on opposite wall on Human Brain Is Sensitive To Light In Ears · · Score: 2

    When they shined a light in my ear :-)

    When I turn the volume up, there is no noise coming out of my mouth.

  23. Re:Have they checked yesterday? on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    At those speeds, it's gone before you look up. Mach 20 is about 3.6 miles/second, so you have maybe two seconds to see it and it's not going to make sound until it's already over the horizon.

    Its like a Corvette in western Kansas. Its out of sight in thirty minutes.

  24. Re:April Fool's? on Gamification — Valid Term or Marketing-Speak? · · Score: 1

    Is this submission a late April Fools joke? If there's one thing worse than symposiums where they debate the meaning of the word 'gamification', it's an online discussion about such symposiums on Slashdot.

    It is the Eponymous Maximus entry of the Procrastinator's Club.

  25. Re:Good.. on Patent Troll Lawyer Sanctioned Over Extortion Tactics · · Score: 1

    ... Now, start shooting the patent trolls.

    Fifty points Gryffindor, for sheer dumb luck.