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  1. Simple on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    If you had done your research on the subject just in the last few days on these very pages, you would know to apply to Google

  2. Virtually all of the comments miss the OP's Query on A Different Approach To Making Alternative Fuels Practical · · Score: 2

    " Leads me to wonder what other nominally-green technologies that would otherwise be slow if not impossible to scale to workable businesses might have 'niche' applications, with high perceived marginal value, that could be used to boost capital, rather than relying on donations, grants, or nebulous save-the-planet goodwill.""

    The answer is yes, there are many. I am willing to consult on this subject, at my usual substantial but eminently reasonable rates.

  3. WARNING: on Reversible Male Contraception With Gold Nanorods · · Score: 1

    If you experience Glowing Red Ball lasting more than four hours, seek medical help immediately as permanent injury may result.

  4. It takes Time on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 3, Funny

    to get all the moves right. Start with the very basic head rotations: begin with just 3 positions each side of center. Practice until moving your head in jerky increments becomes second nature. Add other moves cautiously, perfecting each in turn.

    You can easily add verisimilitude by only answering to 'Robby'.

  5. Re:The final Link on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dinosaurs adapted - they grew wings and trained humans to build them houses and bags of high quality food.

  6. I recommend on Ask Slashdot: Portable High-Resolution External Displays? · · Score: 2

    A larger basket for the bike

  7. This is Great! on Small Black Holes: Cloudy With a Chance of Better Visibility · · Score: 2

    I have been trying to convince my wife that the dust around the house is an experiment and now I have something to show her!

  8. Let me be the First on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to say I have no idea what this is about, nor do I care

  9. Re:So then ... on Electric Car Startup 'Better Place' Liquidating After $850 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    Not yet - curve still peaking! Hold on...pretty soon now, just wait a little longer....

  10. For My Generation on Narrowing Down When Humans Began Hurling Spears · · Score: 1

    I believe it was about third grade

  11. I am Confused..and want to Do It Right on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 2

    Should I report Mike Holmes alone, or do I need to name each member of his crew

  12. about on (Highly Divided) Federal Circuit Opinion Finds Many Software Patents Ineligible · · Score: 4, Insightful

    time

  13. Double Benefit on Plug Into a Plant: a New Approach To Clean Energy Harvesting · · Score: 1

    So my lawn can power my house, and I won't need to mow since it has no energy to grow?

  14. Berlin Wall on 2014: Planetary Resources To Launch Their First Satellites · · Score: 2

    I have a small piece in a plastic case, with a certificate.

    It looks like concrete rubble from, oh, anywhere.

    Fortunately I got it at a discount.

  15. Does this mean on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I keep on smacking my kids, their arms will get shorter?

  16. "Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Natural Gas" on Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Frozen Methane Hydrate · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...

  17. Can it read on Kinect Can Detect Clenched Fist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ASL? That might be useful

  18. Re:Wrong Analysis on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    It is early in the day, not much has gone wrong yet :)

  19. Wrong Analysis on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is remarkable about this exchange is not that bike riders are enhanced CO2 producers, but that a republican legislator has acknowledged the CO2 needs to be recognized as a greenhouse gas, which in excess is bad.

    It is a start...

  20. Re:Huh on Controversy Over Violet Blue's Harm Reduction Talk · · Score: 1

    I was just about to write the same comment. I have no idea what this is about, or why I should care

  21. One Word on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    STOP LEAK

    OK, maybe that is two words, but it works in my car radiator. I would imagine Bardahl would donate a few thousand gallons just for the publicity.

  22. Re:I say cut the F-35 on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    SS has never been a 'paid for' plan. It was always predicated on more and more current workers paying for the retiree benefits. Sometimes a surplus to be sure, but never 'fully funded' for an individual by that individual's contributions. People living longer after retirement ( indeed, too many actually reaching 65 in the first place) and a slowing in the employed population growth rate have totally vacated the initial concept.

    Not an argument pro or con, just a suggestion that you get over the idea that you are paying into your retirement account as you work. FICA is a tax to pay current obligations, no more, no less.

  23. Typical french on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 0

    Give up as soon as it gets hard

  24. New testing opportunity on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps Broder would like to test drive --- A ROCKET SHIP!!!

    Maybe he would refrain from screwing around with the fuel tanks; and if not, problem solved.

  25. Re:It's official on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    We know it, we just don't want to.