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  1. Re:Sloppy on Safety Commission To Rule On Safety of Rulers In Science Kits · · Score: 1

    They haven't, for example, considered the considerable harms posed by the science kits manual itself. The risk of a paper cut is considerable.

    That's nothing compared to the dangers of paper inhalation. Or rapid oxidation, don't even get me started on that. That can take out a whole neighborhood.

  2. Re:48 cores? on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    I swear I once heard Linus Torvalds mutter under his breath, "48 cores should be enough for anyone." Probably just my imagination though.

  3. Re:Attach parachutes.... on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also this will only work for some time until the stupid snakes die off, only the wise snakes will remain and then they will breed smarter snakes.

    Then they can drop smarter dead frozen mice to kill them as well. Er, well, or something like that.

  4. Re:I guess they'll die on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 1

    I knew I could count on someone to deliver the parent post. Exactly what I came here for. Thanks.

  5. Re:Power user? on Most Readers Don't Like Customized News · · Score: 1

    It's really simple: a power user is someone who can figure out what the difference between user customization and user personalization is. I can't, therefore I am not a power user.

  6. Simpler approach on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 1

    She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen

    They could have just put the thermometer in the bag. Would have kept her temperature warm just fine.

  7. Re:Well duh....but.... on NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    The only thing that these guys listen to is the dollars rolling in or not rolling in. Choose what products you buy to support the types of governments that you want in power. It is the most powerful thing you can do.

    Come on, that's too much sacrifice. Can't we criticize them while still buying their products, and just buy some carbon credits or something?

  8. Re:Photocopying machines on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their thinking was that the secretaries would be swapping recipes via photocopies and not buying cookbooks as a Good Citizen should.

    Who would fund the creation of new recipes if everyone shared them freely? Without copyright protection, we'd all be eating gray sludge fortified with nutrients.

  9. Re:must've fallen for the hype on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe he thought it levitated?

    It was, until he looked down. Maybe that threw off its gyroscopes or something.

  10. Re:I will show them... on Malware Running On Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Yes, because I always display all private data as a bunch of asterisks. Passwords aren't the only private thing.

  11. Re:Wait a second on Apple Patents Directional Flash Tech For Cameras · · Score: 1

    That's what this is designed to fix. They had a problem with Flash battery life, so they found out how to make it directional, so that it uses less. Adobe should be thankful.

  12. Re:Unions on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An organization is initially created for a specific purpose, but once met, it keeps on living, with its primary goal to justify its continued existence.

  13. Re:digital copies of vinyl on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your entertaining and informative post (and link).

  14. Sony entertaining even non-PS3 owners on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't even own a PS3 and yet Sony has been thoughtful enough to entertain me lately with all these stories of them cutting off various appendages in order to spite their face.

    <leans back in easy chair and sips drink>

  15. Re:Stolen? on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    If this was about any other data, like mp3, it would be called a copyright infringement.

    I understood the headline to mean he stole a physical piece/stack of paper with the details printed on it. So it really was theft. I agree, if it were merely information, then unelss he was an idiot and deleted it from the bank's system, then he merely made a copy.

  16. Just further proves it's piracy on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just further proves it's piracy as the cause. Every audiophile knows that vinyl records are far higher quality than CDs. Pirates can only make inferior digital recordings of vinyl, so they don't bother. Thus, they are forced to buy the vinyl records. Since we see many-fold increase in vinyl sales, we have a glimpse of what CD sales would be like without piracy. So, vinyl is literally a natural DRM that both protects the artists and ensures superior sound quality. Now, would you like to buy some Monster USB cables? Guaranteed to improve your typing and mouse speed.

  17. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    Immediately cancel your service and explain that your conscience requires that you refrain from paying them for any further service you may have agreed to previously, even if you're in a 6-month agreement or whatever.

  18. Re:time ot sue vacuum makers on Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes · · Score: 1

    Maybe France needs a three sucks and you're out law. They could have an anonymous way to report infringing uses of your vacuum cleaner.

  19. I don't have a problem with this; do you? on In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra · · Score: 1

    In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra

    I don't have a problem with this, not at all. Now, to find the nearest fire alarm...

  20. Delivering interface, rather than content on Mozilla Labs Presents Seabird Concept Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Seabird, on just a flat surface, enables netbook-quality interaction by working with the projector's angular distortion to deliver interface, rather than content.

    <slowly steps back and avoids eye contact>

  21. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has reached a point where it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to buy

    [...]
    a hot water heater

    I just now found a very cheap device which accepts raw hot water and produces heated hot water.

  22. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    BTW, I figured the drive for these self-checkout machines was a rising minimum wage. If you're faced with employing someone at a cost far above the services they provide, or buying a machine with fits your budget, you choose the machine. Minimum wage: forcing you to jack your labor's price well above its market value.

  23. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    FEWER staff, not less.

    I guess you never heard of the incident where the self-checkout machine got fed up and removed one of the employee's arms in a fit of machine rage. Less staff in that case.

  24. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    I have to imagine that it would be more efficient to have one loss prevention/old lady helper dude watching over 4 or 5 checkouts that focus on efficiency, rather than paranoia, instead of having zero humans watching a bank of paranoid but ineffectual self-checkout units...

    That's how they work at grocery stores I've visited, though they also have the paranoid machines as well. I gave them a try, but they drove me nuts. I already have enough computers acting stupid every day; I don't need another one.

  25. Re:Well, that's clueless for you on Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules · · Score: 1
    And the light isn't generated via black body radiation either, I believe, which is what white-hot refers to. And why would anyone on Slashdot think of them as hot things that cut through stuff, given that we've all played with laser pointers and are familar with optical drives?

    Also, what's with the summary written like it was for the average person rather than a Slashdot reader? "temperatures near what's known as absolute zero"