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  1. There's a reason they're recruiting them... on UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a reason they're recruiting them. And it's perfectly innocent. Honestly. http://earth101.net/?wc

  2. Misleading Title on Min7 Micromouse Robot Solves Maze In 3.921 Seconds · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mouse solves maze in 1 minute and twenty odd seconds, then navigates through its stored map in three seconds. Watch the two linked videos.

  3. Hunter Seeker on Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion · · Score: 1

    Paul Atreides would be able to handle one of these. After a good mouthful of spice, obviously.

  4. VoIP Service And SIP Client? on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? · · Score: 2

    I have a VoIP service contract which provides me with one or more landline numbers (free incoming calls) that route to my SIP client via Wifi or GPRS. Outgoing calls are prepaid to the same VoIP provider and are shown on caller-ID as coming from one of the landlines. Missed calls are taken as messages and e-mailed to me as .WAV's. SIP to SIP calls are free.

    Scout around for a VoIP provider. I use VoipTalk and never had a problem.

  5. Re:Can't Argue on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 2

    I know an organisation that can offer her a free personality test...

  6. Re:A Simple Solution on Interval's Patent Suit Against the World Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I agree absolutely. We don't know. But if it is proven to be frivolous Brother Paul's payment of the fees and having to endure the sanctions will be much sweetened by the bloody removal of one of his fingers on live television, backed by a brass band and dancing girls.

    Ignorant? No, sir. Hilarious!

  7. A Simple Solution on Interval's Patent Suit Against the World Dismissed · · Score: 2

    I still maintain that in addition to the dismissal of such a frivolous case should be the removal of one finger of all those who brought it. That would send the right kind of message.

  8. Re:Well on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    Here's a long, long shot:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwdpNw1FW8

    From 'The Conversation'!

  9. He missed... on Long Takes In the Movies, Antidote To CGI? · · Score: 1

    What?! No Hitchcock's 'Rope'!??!

    And no...

    [Please insert you list of overlooked films in a tone of outrage here.] ... ?!?!!?!???!

  10. Re:Put your money where your mouth is? on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 1

    I hate what mankind's overpopulation and destruction of the environment has inspired in our benevolent masters, a subtle plan to reduce pollution by ruining the airport/airplane experience. So much so that I am on a personal boycott of all sex (unless forced to for pleasure, not reproduction). I know it will be awesome but I do it on Wednesdays.

    I agree.

    Me too.

    What she said.

  11. Re:There is an app for that. on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the time wasted of my life can never be recovered, a punitive fine of ten times that wasted time removed from the telemarketing company CEO's life should be perfectly reasonable.

    'Did you resent that waste of your time? Press *1 to remove one minute fifteen seconds from Mr M Sandon's life now.'

    I understand it's an option on the latest Asterisk build.

  12. Re:How I Learned to Start Thinking and Hate the Je on BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll say it again, I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.

  13. Re:Fuck Allah!!! on BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans · · Score: 3, Funny

    I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.

  14. This Is Good on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am writing this from within the maximum security wing of the New British National Defence Forces detention island.

    I was absolutely delighted to share all of my views about laws I felt needed repealing in the UK. My IP address was in no way used to trace my identity and when my new friends from the NBNDF came to talk to me I felt I was completely fulfilled by their probing and vigorous questions.

    I have not been added to any lists of registered subversives.

    My stay at the security wing has been fulfilling. I feel refreshed, invigorated and entirely supportive of the NBNDF. No electro-pain equipment was used upon me at all during this week.

    Signed,
    Mr Bottles.

  15. Re:Open communication? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the FU-

    That's why Tom from MySpace is auto-added to everyone who signs up.

    And that explains the grin in his avatar picture.

    Son of a bitch.

  16. Great! on Google Adds OCR To PDF and Images · · Score: 0

    th15 i5 $o1zg to nnVke d0(unnenct 5cam1ng a rea| t1me sAver fr0m novv on!

  17. Re:NASA's Symphonies - Real space recordings on "Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers · · Score: 1

    I phrased it wrong. This is not music, it's recorded deep space EM activity.

    I guess I should have said 'excellently recorded from the electromagnetic signals detected and beamed back by Voyager I and II, consisting of charged particle emissions, solar winds and the electromagnetic field noise of space itself - will provoke in all along the autistic spectrum a rational observation of the logical necessity for awe.'

  18. NASA's Symphonies - Real space recordings on "Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers · · Score: 1

    I'm more of a fan of NASA's Symphonies Of The Planets: http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/09/15/symphonies-of-the-planets/

    Beautiful, haunting, ethereal and contemplative.

  19. Re:Only the funding model for this is new.... on Made-For-Torrents Sci-Fi Drama "Pioneer One" Debuts · · Score: 2, Informative

    This seems to be the model for a lot of independent producers now - which is to say that they offer their production for free as a preview and judge whether to continue based on feedback from the audience.

    Projects like Earth 101 (http://www.earth101.net/) which seems to be a transmedia combination of video and old fashioned radio style comedy (think Hitchhikers Guide - even down to the scheduled broadcasts) are out there without any fanfare just waiting for an audience to pick them up.

    The Pioneer One crowd have managed to capitalise on the publicity of their Kickstarter campaign. Other producers have done it off their own backs. It could be argued that the real benefit of crowdfunding campaigns is not the revenue generated but the audience created and the publicity that follows.

  20. Re:Not just for Linux on Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except for actual, living pythons. To be fair, though, they are less a platform and more a series of tubes.

  21. Re:simple answer on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're a programmer, give your stuff away for free. If you're good enough, people will make donations. If not, then what's the point of being a programmer?
    If you give it away for free, then people are free to make .js/.pkg/.exe or whatever, that can be passed around with no problems.

  22. Become, you say? on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    Publisher/corporations have been corporations/publishers for a long time now and this sort of censorship is neither new nor limited to literature.

    The internet gives everyone the option to publish without censorship; you want to publish through a corporation though, because you want their lovely money.

    But it's true, their timing is impeccably poor.

  23. Re:Goodness, Who To Believe... on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    *In* it. Those Finnish pilots are badass.

  24. Goodness, Who To Believe... on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So we can choose between the findings of a massive corporation intent on re-establishing its cashflow as soon as possible or a military entity performing a post-mortem on its equipment which sustained damage just prior to flight restrictions.

    You decide!

  25. Re:Damn You, Science! on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 1

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