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  1. Re:Lol on Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer the original series, "Inspector Spacetime."

  2. Re:Old School on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    When possible, I hand take notes and record the audio. When transcribing back to more legible form, I can listen to the audio if I can't read my handwriting. I'll always annotate the time when major subject changes happen or new topics are started, so if I need just a part of the lecture audio, I don't have to hunt around too much. YMMV as always, I have lousy handwriting but it always helps me remember better having done it.

  3. Re:Recording on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    Dunno about cartoon, but that was also in "Real Genius."

  4. Re:If I remember my Cold War optimism correctly... on Fukushima Soil Contamination Probed · · Score: 1

    Sure, and the rest will die off from an infectious disease contracted from an unsanitized telephone.

  5. Re:Cue Kurzweil... on Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Good thing you got that raise!

  6. Re:Semi-trucks on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 2

    A million trucks would be twenty million tons of mass moving across the surface of the Earth. Easily within a single day we have ten million tons in motion.

    What do you think this is doing to the Earth's rotation?

    Absolutely nothing. Go back to Newtonian mechanics and do some reading, you don't have to report back. Here's a hint: the Earth's mass is over 6.6 sextillion tons.

  7. Re:Make sense. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    I only frack in Oklahoma; I don't love it.

  8. Re:Food myths on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Go ham on 'em soja boy.

  9. Re:Plasma-Filled Bags on Plasma-Filled Bags Could Replace the Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    Ugly bags of mostly plasma?

  10. Re:WTF does that have to do with IQ? on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    "Geek IQ," not regular.

  11. Re:And yet... on French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace · · Score: 1

    Damn, I thought everyone had gone to HD by now. (Memories of watching scrambled Playboy channel shows in the 80s...)

  12. Re:Access to a Computer on Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black Tech Entrepreneurs? · · Score: 1

    A Timex/Sinclair ZX81 was US$99 (at the time) and hooked up to a TV in the early 80s, and that was brand new. Used contemporaneous machines sold for around the same. It's a hollow argument.

  13. Re:shhhh! on 60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops · · Score: 1

    Homeopaths advocate magic to solve medical problems.

  14. Re:The problem isn't equal treatment of all traffi on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Why is voice traffic suddenly a priority over FTP? You want QoS for voice to be higher, do it at your own end.

  15. Re:China on Shanghai Government Proposes 100 Community Hackerspaces · · Score: 1

    When I was in Shanghai a few years ago, they had whole empty towns built outside the main city area, just waiting to be filled.

  16. Re:People also hated... on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    People hate change.

    End of story.

    No. People hate change that doesn't make their lives better.

  17. Re:If it's IKG and therefore no use to the restaur on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    We'll let the Star Chamber figure that one out.

  18. Re:Good riddance on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 1

    Macrovision on VHS is hardly digital now, is it.

  19. Re:I was thinking about motorcycle gear too on Ballistic Clipboard Holds Papers, Stops Bullets · · Score: 1

    At least there's the option of perforated leather to get some air flow, or vented textiles w/armour if you'd rather go that route. Luckily there's tons of different gear for us two wheelers.

  20. Re:or maybe... on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but less Ashley Judd, dang it.

  21. Re:Evil UI on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    So play it sitting down?

  22. Re:Can you say... on Ballistic Clipboard Holds Papers, Stops Bullets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's worse, IMO: a blog copied from a blog copied from a blog copied from a press release. The web is turning into nothing but content farms.

  23. Re:I'm not celebrating on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    Amusingly enough, Lego.com is very Flash-dependent!

  24. Re:They can block all they want on Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK · · Score: 1

    Why do you feel the need to talk during a movie in the first place? Watch it and talk about it after!

  25. Re:It's cultural on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, American companies never do anything dishonest or illegal to boost profits!