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  1. Re: the solution: on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Nothing in his fucking attitude indicated he was a treat.

    Except his chocolaty skin.

  2. Winnie the Pooh on Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use · · Score: 0

    I just realize "Honey Boo Boo" is probably a reference to Winnie the Pooh.

  3. Re:shhh... on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1, Funny

    Read as Claptrap

  4. Re:Shut up..... on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    There's also his brother, Rickon.

  5. Re:Shut up..... on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    Four, isn't it? Wait... I haven't read the books and am now a little worried, but can pretty easily let two in particular go at this point.

  6. Re:Won't come close to that on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 2

    Are you 20?

  7. Re:Withdrawals on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 1

    On Joe Rogan's podcast he CLAIMED he was trolling. Just throwing that out there.

  8. Re:Oldest Trick in the book on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 1

    Damnit, Jim, I'ma policeman not a doctor.

  9. I found the problem on Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps "no one has managed (bothered?) to crack the code" because "The person who successfully cracks the encryption will win a copy of every published Gibson book." Just speculation, being unfamiliar with his work.

  10. Re:Only healthcare on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Wait, they're not going to force abortions?

  11. Can't Wait on Skype To Feature Giant Ads · · Score: 5, Funny

    "they hope the ads (as large as the picture of the person to whom you are speaking) will 'spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences" Hey, Grandma, what do you think of hot singles near me?

  12. Provoke with defense? But yet they're cool with NK testing their "satellite" rockets. Makes sense.

  13. Re:Let HI internet access go dark on Hawaiian Bill Would Force ISPs to Track Users' Web Histories For 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Now that you bring that up, I'm willing to bet one or more of the lawmakers or their buddies have invested in the company that will be providing the extra equipment/services.

  14. Never Understood on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    why people ever said Bing returned more relevant results. Maybe it's just because I've been using Google forever that I now know what to type in to get the results I want, but running the same searches over at Bing has_never_gotten me as relevant results.

  15. Cant read stories on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    On my browser all the stories are off page to the right. IE7 and don't have a choice.

  16. Re:Concerned about future PSP2 developments on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    Swing and a miss

  17. Re:Let's get this straight on NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle To Congress · · Score: 1

    From Wikipedia: "Hatch's son Scott is a named partner and registered lobbyist at Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC, a Washington lobbying firm. The firm was formed in 2001; the other two partners are Jack Martin, a staff aide to Senator Hatch for six years, and H. Laird Walker, who has been described as a close associate of the senator's.[21] In March 2003, the Los Angeles Times quoted Senator Hatch as saying that the firm was formed with his "personal encouragement" and that he saw no conflict of interest in championing issues that helped his son's clients.[22] Hatch has legislated for dietary supplements to be governed outside of the realm of drugs and food additives. Utah, his constituency, is considered the "Silicon Valley" of the supplement industry. When the FDA was reviewing the adverse effects of ephedra, Hatch defended the supplement industry. At the time, Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC were being paid, by companies with interests in ephedra manufacturing, for lobbying Congress.[22] In March 2009, the Washington Times reported that the pharmaceutical industry, which has "long has benefited from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch's legislative efforts", had previously undisclosed connections to Hatch. Five pharmaceutical companies and the industry's main lobbying group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), wrote checks in 2007 totaling more than $170,000 to the Utah Families Foundation, a tax-exempt charitable foundation which Hatch helped start in the 1990s and had vigorously supported since. Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC was paid $120,000 by PhRMA in 2007 to lobby Congress on pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration legislation." Too bad they won't go after him for things he's already done. They probably just don't want to bring it up as they're waiting for their turn to do the same thing.

  18. Re:Or they flew over a CAFO on Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead · · Score: 1

    Jellyfish are people too...

  19. Re:Survival? on The Tipping Point of Humanness · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia in case anyone is interested.
    "Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage, but recently a congenital form of the disorder has been proposed, which may be inherited by about 2.5% of the population. The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus.
    Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use 'piecemeal' or 'feature by feature' recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, hair color, body shape, and voice. Because the face seems to function as an important identifying feature in memory, it can also be difficult for people with this condition to keep track of information about people, and socialize normally with others."

  20. Re:LOTR on The Tipping Point of Humanness · · Score: 1

    I tried real hard to find flaws in his appearance as I'd heard people complain and came to the same conclusion as you. I found it hardly noticible though. Had it not been pointed out to me that people didn't like the Clu 2 cgi I probably wouldn't have noticed the uncanny valley. Then again, it worked for me in the movie because he WAS a program.

  21. Re:will indy music sites get shut down as well? on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    They do if someone complains. I can think of a couple associations that might do that.

  22. Re:Hell, NO! on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And I shouldn't have to pay $5 every time I see a friend on the sidewalk.

  23. Re:Don't sit down = Immortality on Sit Longer, Die Sooner · · Score: 1

    No matter how much you excersize, you're never safe according to Slashdot... speaking of which, is this not almost the exact same story as http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/011244/Sitting-Down-Too-Long-Is-Bad-Even-If-You-Exercise ?

  24. Re:This is great news! on NCsoft Sued For Making Lineage II 'Too Addictive' · · Score: 1

    Wow, I can see someone making the same joke as someone else because it was burried in the comments, but FIRST POST, modded up to 5, you missed? You must have been trying real hard not to look at comments before posting.

  25. Re:This is pretty much what I've been telling peop on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    Odd. I see road construction through most of every summer, most notably on an overpass (aka bridge) I would very much like to use to get to work in the morning. Do you live somewhere that tax money only goes to somewhere like Afghanistan like, say, Afghanistan? If so, I'm pretty sure if you look hard enough can see US tax money going to bridges there too.