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  1. Re:iPhone Ramen Bowl on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    That's just a slot in a regular bowl. And it does something: you could watch a video while eating. The cupholder, you still have to carry both, and you can't use the phone while drinking.

    They're both pretty ridiculous, sure.

    Something has to be done about Dialing While Impaired.

  2. Re:iPhone Ramen Bowl on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    How is this any worse than the Ramen Bowl iPhone Dock? (which is a real product)

    http://www.toxel.com/tech/2013/01/23/ramen-bowl-for-iphone-owners/

    I for one welcome our Ramen powered cup holding overlords.

  3. Re:A joke? on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 2

    Hats go on your head. Jokes, evidently, go right over it.

    Well done.

  4. Re:A joke? on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    I mean what next? Cupholders in hats so you don't need to hold your drinks, maybe with some kind of tubes to drink from whats in them? Na that's stupid.

    I call prior art. Google for beer hats. They are available in hardhat and Stetson.

  5. Re:LTS on LTSI Linux Kernel 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Try telling my dad ununtu isn't linux.

    Ubuntu is a linux distribution, which is more than just linux.

    one could even say it's GNU slash Linux. Or, as I've taken to calling it more recently, GNU plus Linux.

    Then someone will say two slash two equals four.

  6. Re:damn you autocorrect ... on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    The secret to time travel is to faux eat lemons.

    The secret to faux time travel is to faux eat faux lemons.

  7. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    Now you've got an AR15 and I've got a computer. Stop whining.

    Damn, I wish I had a computer too. That would make it easier to whine on slashdot.

    It is now safe to turn your computer on.

  8. Re:Pretty sure we know on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 2

    If the Neanderthals were more peaceful than the Cro-Magnons, the Cro-Mags woulda made short work of them. After all, we're descended from the Cro-Mags, and I sure as hell don't see much of a peaceful nature in us as a species.

    A group of Vikings is getting ready to debark for high profile R and R. The bosun tells them "Now men the only thing you have to worry about is that hidden streak of non violence in your national character."

  9. Re:I've completely lost interest in Literature on Facebook Banter More Memorable Than Lines From Recent Books · · Score: 1

    I used to be a voracious reader, anything really fiction/non-fiction/blahh

    But it's like I hit a quota one day and shifted to reading nothing but stuff online, I'm finding my television and film viewing is also shifting away to YouTube or videos on my computer. Why watch the whole "Daily Show" when I can see all the best bits (in gif form?)

    Is it the narcissistic joy of interacting with an audience that generates tons of new content EVERY DAY that draws me in or something else?

    Or is it just me having a short attention span?

    What is it?

    Bad quota.

  10. Re:A counter-argument... so? on On Second Thought, Polaris Really Does Seem 434 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    I think that last weakness is common to any distributed system. As long as intellectual inquiry must be distributed among many people (because you don't have time to rediscover everything yourself), you have to assume that the journalists are acting in good faith

  11. Re:Any progress on the file system front? on CentOS 5.9 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    We want our servers to spend CPU time on delivering web pages and handling transactions; not recompiling the system. I guess Gentoo is good if you're not actually using your systems for anything.

    If you are installing on a number of machines, Gentoo has quickpkg which makes tarballs with the configure scripts that install rapidly.

  12. Re:Mattel? on Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System · · Score: 2

    Scrabble is Hasbro IP.

    Hasbro and Mattel are two *ENTIRELY* separate companies. Rivals, in fact.

    Saying that Mattel has no plans to change the game is like saying that Microsoft has no plans to change the iPhone.

    Are you sure?

  13. Re:Where was the coercive plea bargain offer? on Nortel Executives Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    The race to the bottom is likely won by the ignorance in your statement.

    The race to the bottom is likely won by steroids.

  14. Re:Awesome! on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that a single crystal diamond wafer would be an ideal medium for semiconductor manufacture due to it's high heat resistance and general durability.

    s/resistance/conductivity/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_properties_of_diamond

  15. Re:No monopoly on Should Microsoft Switch To WebKit? · · Score: 0

    I think it's a bad idea to put all your eggs on the same basket.

    I think it's a bad idea to put all your egos on the same basket.

  16. Re:Real Time on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 2

    Do they even make DVDs of talk shows like Real Time with Bill Maher?

    Not in real time.

  17. Re:Deer deer me on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally .. a killer Linux portable

    Finally .. a killer Linux app

  18. Re:So.. on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Linux is outlawed, only outlaws will have Linux.

  19. Re:The real crime... on Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat · · Score: 1

    But its ok.... every other confession they have gotten was totally legit, as will the next ones.

    I have seen claims that standard LEO questioning techniques have been found to be able to extract confessions in up to 90% of cases, totally independentally of the persons innocence or guilt.

    Yet, confessions continue to be held up as meaning something.

    Low Earth Orbit?

  20. Re:Time to ... on British MPs Warn of 'Fatal' Cyber Warfare Strategy · · Score: 1

    ... bring in Hadrian.

    We shall defend our network, whatever the cost may be, we shall code on the routers, we shall code on the windows landing grounds, we shall code in the coffee houses and in the streets, we shall code in the wifi hills; we shall never surrender.

  21. Re:sigh on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're already making up bullshit to get away with it... what makes you think a SCOTUS ruling will stop it? They may have well charged the guy with poaching polar bears... it would have made as much sense as claiming a HIPAA violation to get him to stop video taping.

    This here poaching a pola bears has to stop. Yo in a heap a troulble heah.

  22. Re:Demise of the English langauge on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 1

    I've re-read both our comments carefully, and I can't find a reasonable plural noun to which "they" might be a back-reference. Could you tell me who you mean?

    I could. And I meant those who use "And" at the beginning of a sentence.

  23. Re:Demise of the English langauge on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 2

    You seem to not understand the idea of colloquial grammar. "And" at the beginning of a sentence can communicate information that isn't necessarily directly dependent on the previous independent clause. It can, for example, represent the notion of building on a previous assertion in the same paragraph. And that is why colloquial grammar should be understood, and not edited for no better reason than "I say so".

    This is because they live in constant terror of comma splices or run on sentences. Bad grammar is a leading cause of slow painful death.

  24. Re:Damit on Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users · · Score: 1

    They know who I am. I will now have to type in random styles.

      Little do you know the AC that posts here is in fact just one person.

    Yes, we know.

  25. Re:One question on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    Are the divorce rates changing or staying the same? That would lend some credence to his arguement that the old, difficult method produces a more beautiful and unexpected match.

    The problem with the old method is that it's often a game of attrition, namely you keep dating until you give up on finding someone that you are lifetime compatible with, and settle whoever's around at the time.

    This is called synthetic annealing.