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  1. OH NOES on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    You can only find porn on limewire, unless of course you are looking for porn. The incoming search feature is pretty funny though

  2. Re:i LOL on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Ironically their tag line is "Beyond Petroleum".

  3. Ahhh watching grass grow on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: 1

    I have spent many an engineering lesson on watching-grass-grow.com. Maybe I need to go outside more?

  4. Re:He should be careful what he wishes for... on Should the Gov't Pay For Injured Man's Wii? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I would mind.

  5. HP still around? on HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    HP, the world's largest computer maker.

    HP are still that big? I haven't seen one of their products in years.

  6. Fix it yourself? on McAfee To Pay For PC Repairs After Patch Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I know not everyone knows as much about computers as the average slashdot reader but it's pretty simple to boot into safe mode and kill McAfee (although it takes a lot to completely remove it, it's basically malware)

  7. Lack of sales? on The End of the 3.5-inch Floppy Continues · · Score: 1

    Floppy disks are so reliable that the kind of people who still use them are using ones they bought ages ago, I have never had one fail.

    They are great for installing drivers during windows installation. It will be sad when they are gone.

  8. Re:Dade Murphy? on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    In my school I doubt anyone knows what a command prompt it. I have been using
    mkdir C:\HACKERSONSTEROIDS
    for ages to annoy them and no one even seems to have noticed.

  9. Soul you say? on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 1

    What if I don't believe we have a soul?

  10. Re:Hopefully they aren't too effective.. on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water · · Score: 1

    I can just see it now. Some of these get dropped into an ocean, multiply, and eventually deconstruct the majority of the world's water into oxygen and hydrogen. It's the end of the world!!

    Couldn't somebody just light a match?

  11. Epic? on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    The intern will literally be on the front-lines of the epic battle against pirated content

    I'm not sure court cases can be described as epic...

  12. Cyberbullying. on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    (I hate that word)
    Obviously her friends and family have my deepest sympathies but cyberbullying is easily preventable in most mediums (ability to block and report abuse) and if not then contacting the service provider should sort things out.
    I don't think 'Cyberbullying' is really the problem, its 'real life' bullying which does the most harm. Normally it's easy to do things that aren't really punishable (no teacher will have a serious problem with someone knocking books out of some ones hands) or on there own don't really matter but if these things are happening over a long period of time then there is a problem.

    I tend to find with bullies (verbal at least) a good shout of "NO YOU!" at the top of your voice tends to shut them up.

  13. Re:Filters? What filters? on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 1

    It's not that they cannot tell its a proxy, they just can't block it because all I have to do is reboot the router.

  14. Filters? What filters? on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 1

    This is what proxies are for. Set one up on a dynamic IP and they have no way to block it.

  15. Re:Or could it be the way they're taught on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    This. I remember being told that "we would learn about negative numbers next year" even though we all already knew of their existence and the basics of them. The teacher would simply refuse to teach them to us.

  16. Service monkeys? on How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey · · Score: 1

    These sound cool, where can I get one. And most importantly; will it make me sammiches?

  17. More weapons? on Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" · · Score: 1

    First supersonic manoeuvrable cruise missiles, now world's hottest chilli bombs? Why does India need all these weapons?

  18. Sounds good. on Scientists "Print" Human Vein With 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    But I bet the ink refills are really expensive.

  19. hmmmm on India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    What could India want with a manoeuvrable supersonic cruise missile?

  20. Ringtone? on Japanese Turning To "Therapeutic Ringtones" · · Score: 1

    I admit I only scan read the article but are these for playing when you get a call or just audio on the phone to play? Ringtones are for informing you that you have a call, if my phone rings (I admit that doesn't happen very often) I answer it straight away. Sitting and listening to a tone is a precise art; if you leave it too long the call times out and you are left with a very nice memory of the tone but no purpose for your phone other than 'therapy'.

  21. But it's repairable? on Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox's Suffering RROD · · Score: 1

    My friend got his repaired for free when it died.

  22. Rapture? on Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now · · Score: 1

    I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow?
    No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
    No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God.
    No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.
    I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...
    Rapture!
    A city where the artist would not fear the censors.
    Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality.
    Where the great would not be constrained by the small.
    With the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well.

  23. OH NOES! on Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System · · Score: 1

    the gravitational effects of Gliese's passing could send a shower of comets into the inner Solar System, threatening Earth.

    Its in 1.5 million years. We will have lazors (Firefox spell check couldn't figure out it's lasers) to shoot the comets by then.

  24. Re:No iPad for me on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    my grandma uses Ubuntu on her netbook and thinks Apple is for fags. She's a tough old bird and member of The Greatest Generation. And when she found out that she couldn't run anything but Apple-approved apps on the iPad, her exact response was "fuck alla that noise".

    Why can't all grandmas be like this?

  25. Sue the Daily Mail eh? on UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button · · Score: 1

    though Facebook is still considering suing the paper

    Facebook, please sue the Daily Mail. Sue them 'till they can't afford to print any more.