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  1. Re:Hey - a new Ask Slashdot idea is born! on Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You might as well ask why peacocks display their plumage.

  2. Re:Repeat after me, slowly. on FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews · · Score: 1

    and should I have my Lawyer present?

    Well, who do you think writes these rules?

  3. Re:Nobel Ignoble on 2009 Ig Nobels Awarded, For Gas-Mask Bras and More · · Score: 1

    Obviously, a full bottle, with its added weight, is better for blunt-force trauma, while an empty bottle is easier to shatter against the bar for shivving purposes.

  4. Re:Same goes for GPL software on Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Because there are generally other options for getting it?

  5. If college graduation rates are so low ... on New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... wouldn't their advanced education put the few and far between college grads at the forefront of our already-too-tight job market? (I better hit "submit" before my boss catches me and I lose my minimum-wage temp job.)

  6. fp on Barry White Music Gets Sharks in a Frenzy · · Score: 1

    Hell, given that he drew in snakes that didn't even have ears, is it any wonder that sharks, which are nature's most efficiently designed loving machine, would be affected?

  7. Odd amounts of money? on Man Accused of Really Liking Piggy Back Rides · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, were all the bills wadded with a prime number of bills and seventeen cents taped to each wad?

  8. Re:not to be stereotypical here but... on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 4, Funny

    (lifelong acme sufferer)

    Ah, but how often do coyotes normally shower?

  9. Re:Any word on battery life? on Motorola Introduces Android Phones, Social Software · · Score: 1
    It is simply not realistic to obtain facebook, twitter, weather, email, text message and mms updates, on 3G and/or WIFI, every every couple of minutes on any smart phone and expect it to last more than a day.

    If you're so ego-obsessed that your tweeting sessions go on for more than a day without sleeping, the battery life of your phone is the least of your worries.

  10. Re:Me too. on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 1

    But where the government fails, private industry flourishes: registration, plates, et al. can be done quickly and cheaply at any AAA or notary service in the Commonwealth.

  11. Nice Going, Japan! on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If "Having other students answer roll call for them" is an indetectible method of circumventing the rollcall procedures, then Japanese professors are just playing into the West's "All Asians Look Exactly Alike" stereotype. Way to go, Nihon.

  12. Re:And... on Draft Stem Cell Guidelines Threaten Research · · Score: 1

    But you'll find the average Slashdotter much more heavily invested in Doritos and Bawls than in sex (at least, the varieties that involve other persons).

  13. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wrong. Klingon is an artificial or "constructed" language, like Esperanto or Ido (or Quenya), but with an actual grammar and vocabulary, it is every bit as real as any natural human language. On the other hand, Star Wars, which makes up languages as it goes, is full of fake languages.

  14. So in essence ... on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 1

    ... this will allow me to watch cartoons on my TV?

    Hooray! we're finally up to the 1950s technologically!

  15. Obama won't let it happen! on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." - Barack Obama, Dover, N.H. campaign stop, 12 September 2008.

  16. Well, it would be hypocritical not to defend on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    ... after all, Obama voted FOR the FISA amendments last year -- DURING the campaign season. How could his administration do any other?

  17. Re:Retract the pods! Prepare to jump. on 95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was for legs, but arms were "close enough".

  18. Re:How many ways are there to tie your shoelaces? on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: 1, Funny

    And there goes another perfectly good universe down the tubes.

  19. Re:I hope they made the freedom choice. on BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or you could pay good money for a cable or satellite provider to deliver BBC America directly to your telly, and then only have to wait anywhere from four months (Doctor Who) to nine years (Spaced) to see them. Gotta be faster and easier than either BitTorrent or the Beeb just using Flash, right?

  20. Re:Yahoo still matters? on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: 3, Informative

    But that's only among the subset of browsers with their toolbar installed. If we look at Netcraft's take on the subject, Google is 14 of the top 16 Most-Visited, (Yahoo! #23) Hitwise also counts Google the best. Among my friends, nobody under thirty still uses Yahoo! except those who're still clinging to their fifteen year-old mail accounts, which again, Google does better.

  21. The Obvious Solution on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    I have discovered a miraculous solution to this problem, but this comment is too short to accommodate it.

  22. Re:Applications are more important than the OS on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    But this is Slashdot, where if you're not compatible with yourself, you're pretty much out of luck.

  23. Re:Compatibility pack for 2007 on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 1

    But can they modify the files, or just see them?

  24. Obligatory Homer Simpson Quote: on Jon Stewart, Lorne Michaels Come Out In Favour of YouTube · · Score: 1

    "Ohhhhhh ... an inteview with Lorne Michaels ..."

  25. Re:In firefox... on Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what happened to me with Opera.