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  1. Re:yep. and bumble bees don't fly on Dinosaurs Never Held Heads High · · Score: 1

    Rubbish! This is a well-known urban myth: what has been proved is that, according to the extremely well-known equations governing fixed-wing craft, bumblebees cannot fly. But (dur!) bumblebees aren't fixed-wing craft. This demonstrates how wildy different the rules for moving-wing flight are - and no-one really knows what they are, 'cos they're massively non-linear.

  2. Re:Erm... on Microsoft Cracked again? · · Score: 1
    -How do you afford your Slashdot Troll Lifestyle?-

    During work hours, I'm an upstanding member of the kuro5hin community.

  3. Re:Patches and Absolute Certainty on Microsoft Cracked again? · · Score: 1

    script kiddies don't find buffer overflows --- they exploit buffer overflows found by the truly 1337. they are called "script kiddies" for precisely the reason that they work by running scripts others have written.

  4. Re:Slashdot on Help Bush and Gore Answer Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1
    No one has said what they think the canidate they like would say

    He'd say: "I answered these questions yesterday"

  5. Re:Not likely on Last Day of Terrestrial Humans · · Score: 1
    Will the Guinness Book of records go out of business?

    No, but guinness-book-of-records-sucks.com's going out of business tomorrow

  6. Re:Only 9 questions? on Presidential Answers, Round One · · Score: 1

    ...none of them answered "First post?"

  7. Re:Libertarians: Huh? on Presidential Answers, Round One · · Score: 1

    Isn't that money the proceeds of crime? So surely the government doesn't get to keep it?

  8. Re:There is no such thing as correct on "e-mail" vs "email" · · Score: 1

    Sure: but if you use "e-mail" people will understand that you're a marketroid; "check" and Merkin; "neun" and immigrant; "h4kr" and lamer. Language, speeling; punctuation and the grammar say an awful lot more than you're giving them credit for: after all, this isn't C!

  9. Re:What about the fungus? on Mir To Crash Into Pacific · · Score: 1
    Anyone willing to bet it isn't like that Ringworld version that eats room-temp superconductor for lunch?

    So what if it is? It'll just starve to death.

  10. Yeah, but.. on Gathering Requirements In Open Source Projects · · Score: 1

    ...is it "requirements" or "re-quirements"? I think we should be told.

  11. Re:Religion vs Cult (for real) on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1
    You silly twisted boy, you. Have a gorilla.

    No thanks, I'm trying to give up.

  12. Re:If I get one of these, on UNC Researchers Demonstrate Tele-Immersion · · Score: 1

    One of our moderators speaks!

  13. Re:good idea on Federally Mandated Censorware Up For Vote · · Score: 1
    I don't want my kids seeing crap on a school computer.

    So support uncensored Net access.

  14. Re:my late entry on Death Of The Obfuscated C Code Contest? · · Score: 1

    OK, it's been ages now...will you give us a hint? The major problem I have is that I don't know many algorithms for calculating pi, so I'm kinda stuck before I've got off the ground...

  15. Re:Virtual Violence on Uncensored Media Considered Harmless · · Score: 1
    True, we have had Dunblane, but that was due to a lunatic with several unregistered firearms.

    Just a quick point: according to the Cullen report, Thomas Hamilton held his firearms entirely legally --- they were registered.

  16. Re:The Real Issue on Uncensored Media Considered Harmless · · Score: 1

    How can you be (satirically) funny without being insightful?

  17. Re:What I need Nanotech for on Univ. of Washington Announces First Nanotech Ph.D. · · Score: 1
    the Office coffee pot
    /---\
    ||I see you're making coffee!
    |o o|
    ||||Would you like me to:
    ||||- put too much sugar in?
    |\-/|- use the green milk from the back of the fridge?
    \----/- get the grounds into your cup?
  18. Re:Learning? on Is Extinction Only Temporary? · · Score: 1
    An interesting novel

    As they say - YMMV. Personally, I think it's the demented ravings of a mad fascist. I certainly don't think the biology (stroke sociology or psychology --- which science does behavioural characteristics of alien-raised people who return to earth and start religious movements fall under?) in it is anything to write home about, or has any bearing on this story (or anything else in the Real World).

  19. Re:And then there's Singapore... on Banning Arcades in Malaysia? · · Score: 1
    the worst laws are the ones that change the constant

    Errr...then it's not very constant, is it? Perhaps there are some great laws that would increase the security without decreasing the freedom, or whatever.

  20. Re:Metalication on The Scientific Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course you can. If you do it too much, the community will notice and start being rude to you, though. Nothing to stop you but that.

  21. Wouldn't like to be Masie... on IT Stress In The Workplace · · Score: 1
    "We've changed our definition of what busy is," says Masie. "Now it's hyper-busy. Everyone's got a pager, a beeper, and 25 E-mails a day."

    Wow - that's busy city. I mean, 25 mails seriously cuts into the surf time.

  22. Re:Ummm. Yeah.. on Justin Frankel of Nullsoft Hacks AIM · · Score: 1

    A lot of the time, I think that ads don't have power over me. Then I get scared when I want a new pair of trainers and I don't like anything but the big-brand names. Ditto with soft-drinks: I will always buy the red one in preference to the one starting with "P" - even though I don't think they taste particularly different.

    All I'm trying to say is that ads are weird - really weird. They've tinkered with my mind a little. That doesn't make me immediately scream "horrible global capitalism!", but it does make me just a little wary.

    Of course, if you want real bug-eyed paranoia, read The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War by Pohl (& Kornbluth for the first). That's a recommendation BTW...

  23. Re:Gimme a real DJ any day. on Lego Mindstorms DJ · · Score: 1

    Wow, cheese-tastic! The ambience of a pound-a-pint-a-lager club in your very own home!

  24. Re:Puhlease on Kuro5hin Returns · · Score: 1
    If Kuro5hin can't handle the traffic, they shouldn't be in the business.

    Damn straight. And if they've got a crappy story submission procedure that can be pushed over by anyone who wants to, they deserve to die, just like certain bits of Outlook deserve vilification and some of RedHat's default policies are not exactly the best.

  25. Who cares? on MSNBC Accused of Rigging OS Poll · · Score: 3

    No-one ever believes these polls. People with vested interests always try to rig them (note that Linux Today asked all its readers to go vote for Linux, which is the sole reason why Linux was ever ahead). Grow up, and move along - there's nothing to see here.