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  1. obligitory on Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's not my fault!"

  2. Re:shouldn't that be a "smartch"? on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    Only if you're trying to get to the 'meating meyer' website.

  3. Moon Unit Zappa on Quad Lasers Deliver Fast, Earth-Based Internet To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Obviously, they meant Quad "Lasers".

  4. Dear Kid, on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 2

    Welcome to the real world.

  5. Re:why? on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    That's a good point.

    The answer I was looking for was either
    a) as a suit accessory, like cufflinks or a tie clip, or
    b) for fitness reasons (heart monitor, lap timer, diving, etc)

  6. why? on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    who still wears a watch?

  7. Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun on A Mask That Can Give You Superhuman Abilities · · Score: 0

    Will they have a model that doesn't make you look like white Kryten?

  8. Re:What's the point? on Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion · · Score: 1

    "But Google Fiber is uncapped, unmetered, un-fooled-around-with."

    For now..

  9. Looking forward to this on Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data · · Score: 1

    I'd like them to help developers crank out a "Douchebag Detector" sooner than later.

  10. Re:Oracle not worth it on CowboyNeal Reviews Oracle Linux · · Score: 1

    Its just those kids on the lawn again, Dad.

  11. That's easy on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Durker durr!

  12. Marry her first on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    You'll be out of luck once the tribble is out of the bag.

  13. Consider this a learning experience on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 2

    Had you adopted "The Cloud" sooner, this would not have been a problem!

  14. Re:WTF? on Ethiopia Criminalizes VoIP Services · · Score: 1

    Good god, man, get a new ISP.

  15. Re:I like this approach on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    It would be even better if they renamed all the banished to "Zod" "Nom" or "Ursa".

  16. "Teen Gamer craving a job" seems like an oxymoron on Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who was thinking about work when you were a teen? (Let alone IT work)

    When you're a teen,.. playing Xbox 8 hours a day while getting paid for it would seem like a perfectly legitimate career path.

  17. to the cloud on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    Have the customer start using Chrome; Let Google do the 'monitoring' for you.

  18. Yay on Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To the cloud...

  19. Re:turn it off on Congressmen Worried About Amazon Silk Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of Joe "You Lie!" Wilson.

    Joe Barton was the one who apologized to Tony Hayward of BP for having to, god forbid, create an escrow fund to compensate Gulf oil spill victims.

    Either way, they're both fools.

  20. But where on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 3, Funny

    is the Ninja Party?

  21. Re:HSRP on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    You got that backwards.

  22. Since you have money to blow on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    Use what the grown-ups use.

    Go buy yourself a Juniper SSG 20 with the optional xDSL module, and let the firewall take care of the failover for you.

    ~dlb

  23. Re:iRobot cars? on Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere · · Score: 1

    Are referring to the online movie about the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot?

    Or maybe you mean the theatrical movie called I, Robot

  24. Gmail is your problem on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 0

    Stop using an email provider who also specializes in facilitating advertising, data mining, and, oh yeah, search

    ~dlb.

  25. Re:Oh, goody! on NASA's Next Mars Rover · · Score: 2

    Where's the kaboom?