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  1. Sheesh... on Amazon's Patent-Pending Price Checks · · Score: 1

    > System and method for obtaining information relating to an item of commerce using a portable imaging device.

    What, they patented taking pictures of stuff that's for sale?

    I guess eBay is sunk, now.

  2. Newsflash! on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    FEMA Found To Be Incompetent!

    Film at 11...

  3. How much energy on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1

    ...does it take to get the hydrogen from wherever they get it, and then bind it into pellets, then extract it back out for actual use?

    I'm betting it's more than the amount of energy the hydrogen itself will provide.

    OK, so they didn't say it was *cheap* energy, just safe energy...

  4. Re:Low tech solution on Rebuilding New Orleans With Science · · Score: 1

    Good idea. Then they should tear down the levees and let the silt return and fill in underneath. Of course, that would make it kinda hard to drive around the city, unless thay also built elevated roadways...

    The "Big Easy" is now the "Big Gumbo".

  5. Bzzzzt! on Rebuilding New Orleans With Science · · Score: 1

    ...but for a heroic captain who plugged a breach in a dike with his ship.

    Wha?
    It was a little boy (Hans Brinker?) and his finger that saved the dike! Everybody knows that..

  6. Re:In General, when speaking of /. on How I Failed the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Heh. Not to worry. Because of Slashdot, you can't read anything at all...

  7. Re:And the answer, unsurprisingly, depends. on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1

    Ummm... Hurricane Andrew was in 1992, not 1922.

    Hurricanes didn't even have names in 1922, and from 1953 until 1979, named huuricanes always had female names....

  8. Re:I need to know, I have a right to know! on Cost of Secrecy Continues to Increase · · Score: 1

    > The entire administration is based on lies. They stole two elections.

    *PLONK*

  9. Wha...? on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    I thought Windows NT was a "better Unix than Unix"... I'm sure I remember Bill telling me that.

  10. Oh, no! on King Kong vs. Movie Pirates · · Score: 1

    Pirating making movies unprofitable?

    Crap. I guess we'll never get to see the next remake of "Brewster's Millions" or the movie versions of "underdog" or Go Go Gophers"...

  11. Re:Hampster Theory on Earth's Core Spins Faster than Earth · · Score: 1

    Not to worry.
    The turtles will still hold us up...

  12. Re:memories... on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm..
    I lived in California at the time, I can't remember actually paying for any operating systems, either....

  13. Nero is burning Rome on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    .. and blaming it on the Christians.

    I just can't bring myself to believe that it's the Religious Right that has turned our public school system into the crap that it is these days.

  14. Re:OT: what is your signature from? on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 1
  15. But did they do it legally? on Idaho Companies Tout New Wireless Record · · Score: 1

    The more antenna gain you use on these part 15 devices, the less power you are allowed to use.

    Did they reduce power as required?
    I'll bet not.

  16. Dupe! on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has already reported on a new periodic table!

  17. Re:It's missing a couple elements on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    Unobtainium

  18. Bah, spirals suck on Revamping The Periodic Table? · · Score: 1

    Here's a periodic table that kids might be interested in.

  19. Pottery? on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    You had pottery?

    Here is where we had to store *our* data...

  20. Free iTunes downloads! on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1



    Unused Pepsi codes:

    ZKBEN E36K3,
    N4CRN EHOGL,
    R4R3X KM3JN, and
    LQ3OY H9MXL.

    Be the first to cash these in! Maybe you'll win free Coldplay tickets to boot!

  21. Re:Grammar Nazi Alert on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait.

    You can mode me troll...

  22. Grammar Nazi Alert on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1

    It's, "whoever purchases...", not "whomever.."

    Tip: the difference between who and whom is like the difference between he and him, or she and her.

  23. A disturbance in The Force on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    .. as if the souls of 39 Heaven's Gate Cultists were suddenly snuffed out...

  24. Hi, I'm from the government... on Government To Fix Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    ... and I'm here to help you.

  25. Re:Mr. lameness filter says it's junk on Morse Code on Cell Phones? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the dot is pronounced "di", except when it's the at the end of the sequence.

    So,

    di di dah, => U
    di di dit, => S
    dit, => E
    di dah di dit, => L
    dit, => E
    di di dit, => S
    di di dit. => S