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  1. catch-22 on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    You make a good point. This will be really embarassing for his memoirs: "I learned everything about leadership from my un--... uh, my dad." Of course he could spin this as having gifts from his deity since he can't admit his uncle existed and schooled him.

    Also, whatever the North Korean version of Thanksgiving will be pretty awkward from henceforth.
    "Auntie, you look good..."
    "Eat shit, you little bastard."

  2. what steroids do to 'the little man' on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    More like a banana republic with nukes than the USSR, but we can presume Kim has taken some historical tips.

  3. Hong Kong Phooey on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't someone karate chop his goofy ass out of the country?

    That may have been what his uncle was trying to do.

  4. giving new meaning to the phrase on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You have disappointed me. From hereon: You're dead to me."

  5. obligatory statement to the NK noobs on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    "That's not how the Internet works."

    Oh sure, the locals (not having ample Internet, and being fed the story by speakers across the countryside) might think his uncle that taught him his tricks was a traitor scumdog etcetera because that's the story Kim Jong-Un has concocted recently, but the rest of the world hasn't lost their copies of the newspaper, the stories that are on the websites, and other proofs of concept that Photoshop or a text editor aren't going to negate from the other 99% of the world's media.

  6. but the bigger question is on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    Have any radiation-scorched-flesh Mexican men's bodies been found to date?

    Because really, I can't believe in the danger we've been told about until the headlines of "them banditos are doomed, they opened the capsule" are proven true.

  7. Crecendo on A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? · · Score: 3

    Here's what happens at my house at commercial breaks on Comcast: The program is fairly quiet, the beginning of the advertisement is just as quiet (CALM in effect) but in the last 10-20 seconds you sense that the volume is going up to just below a shout... then the show resumes and it's quiet again.

  8. anyone else remember the 1980 movie 'Virus'? on US Navy Launches Drone From Submerged Submarine · · Score: 1

    [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768/]
    Launching a drone out of a submarine (in the movie's case, to gather air samples and get video of major cities) has been done before, in movie form anyhow.

  9. rechargable battery decay on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 2

    Batteries discharge when doing nothing. What if the 1.1kWh is the normal for just sitting there like if it wasn't even in the car, plus some trickle for things like the clock and other persistant items? This might say more about the batteries' charge decay rate than the rest of the system causing a drain (though I do figure, fairly, there's a little more than just the clock and expected no-load decay at issue here).

  10. drain on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole battery had to be replaced at cost to the owner and the Honda CEO was nowhere to be seen.

    This would be because people will buy a Honda regardless of whether the dealer or company or CEO is a prick or not, where Tesla is trying to get itself a foothold in the market and Elon feels personally responsible if there's a defective product because it reflects badly upon the company. A hundred million Hondas Thousands of Teslas.

  11. so it goes with many v1.0 products on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 2

    The learning curve gets climbed.

  12. ahh yess, ahh yess on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 1

    I started to write this as a joke, but now I'm not so sure. For all we glorify perseverance, sometimes it's idiotic.

    I just think of the old phrase, "why does man climb a mountain? because it's there"... really, is that a valid reason?
    Granted, I spent most of a day getting a WiFi card to work with Linux on a circa-2000 notebook and will likely erase the hard drive in the near future. It's the challenge or the adventure or... well, ego, okay?... even if there's really no point in an endeavor. The more dangerous without a tangible reward, the better.

  13. it's alive... ALIVE on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 1

    I have mod points but I already posted so I can merely suggest this get my proxy +1.

  14. This has existed a long time on Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a) I recall there being experiments in the 1980s where rodent brains were wired to where the mouse would press a bar to get a jolt to its pleasure center, and it would procede to bang that bar until it passed out.
    b) The news and hospitals are filled with people who have already proven that psychoactive drugs such as PCP and angel dust, and of late methamphetamins, will have a "will to perservere" at whatever they're doing (be it tweaking with the heat sinks on a stereo or trying to release demons from one's brain with a hand drill and a piece of metal coat hanger) that lasts for days or until incidental death, whichever comes first.

  15. but there is hope on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 2

    There is, outside the city of Seattle, a certain company with a legendary history in the world of tech support. It has been known as... ACS, now a Xerox company.

    Considering the turnover rate for ACS employment, there's always space answering phones for Verizon Wireless through them.

    And half of the people I've worked with in the Internet industry ten years ago passed through their doors in the last five.

  16. Re:Change your name to a foreign name on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 2

    But as for "Mujib Gandaharik", he goes to the top of the list.

  17. Re:Captured at the end of the War on Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii · · Score: 1

    I'm betting the 'losing' end of the situation didn't discuss this with the 'finding' end.

    Former OSS: "Shh, we don't know about that. YOU don't know about that. It doesn't exist."

  18. The true definition of personhood on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    is not merely sentience, but whether one is paying taxes. Taxpayers are paying the salaries of those who decide cases like this.

    Also: "right turn, Clyde." *whack*

  19. and for those of we IN the chain... on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    I'm a Washington resident so I'm in the statistical minority that do pay tax on Amazon's goods. The ruling doesn't help those who live in the place where the business is located, understandably, only those who do not -- and in the case of Amazon, since the source can be anywhere, that list of "nots" is rather subjective or narrow in light of 'substantial nexus'.

  20. To clarify to the non-Northwesters: on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 2

    Washington has sales tax paid at purchase. (Local to me it's 9.2%)
    Oregon has a state income tax -- so save those receipts.

    Thus both states tax their goods, just one more delayed than others, with the benefit that Washingtoninans love shopping in Oregon since they don't pay sales tax and Oregonians (like Alaskans) say "no tax" when purchasing stuff in Oregon.

  21. The squeaky wheel on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 1

    gets replaced.

  22. This situation gives me hope on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 1

    It proves people still read, and not just the tossoff-of-the-day about vampires. I've never read Catcher despite my English minor, but I'd be more apt to read these three stories not only because they're p1r4t3d but as silent testimony that people still value literature.

  23. mine lacks his but bless him he tries on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    Cats do lick their harblz if they still have them intact. ;-)

  24. cat turds are dogfood, according to many dogs on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1, Funny

    Next analogy down the pike: Marissa in the corner, licking her own balls.

  25. What the hell is IN that dogfood? on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 4, Funny

    when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl.

    I think that dogfood's gone bad and grown some mushrooms. Also, how does a T-Rex imitate a Pterodactyl... flapping its little arms vainly?

    Rawr.