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  1. Somehow.... on Parasites That Can Control Insect Minds · · Score: 1
    Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would - causing them to seek out and plunge into water.

    Just like a rabid dog behaves in the unusual way of biting everyone so that the disease can spread? The mechanism in grasshopers is just unknown, but this isn't *amazing* at all.

    Hell, just as a parasitic amoeba makes me shit like I never before, so that they can leave my body and spread to another host... Slashdot news!!!

  2. John.... on New Mad Cow Test on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    See..? John Titor was right...

  3. We'll take those extra 40 years, thanks a lot.. on Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene · · Score: 1

    The long-lived mice in the new experiments tend to be less fertile. Hell, this is Slashdot. If this is the only catch ... we'de be getting something for nothing... bring them on...

  4. Re:Larger house on smaller salary, huh? on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if all I want is proper HTML, maybe some bullets here and there??? couldn't resist, sorry.

  5. Re:Obscure unit on Carmack's Throatless Rocket Engine · · Score: 1
    As a scientist I think in SI these days though it took years to unlearn the training of my youth, and I still vascillate between F and C for my preferred temperature unit.

    Just compromise and settle on K

  6. No STOP button... on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 1

    see, there's no stop button... I guess thay don't want you trying to stop their beloved browser from downloading a page, given that after SP2, lots of machines had IE crash miserably when hitting the stop button. I guess the easiest solution is just remove the button..

  7. Menu bar on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 1

    In related news, seeing the menu bar, Microsoft has finally discovered Fitt's Law. Only ten years too late....

  8. Re:discount on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1
    Can I get a discount if I lose a few pounds?

    At current rates, that will be 57,370.0011 pounds.

  9. Re:How much do you want to bet... on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    Maybe run the tape to a DAC and then use GnuRadio to digitally demodulate the signal according to the protocol used. No more need to have the actual tapes lying around...

    Hugo

  10. Re:Preemptive strike... on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Lindows was something created after Windows, and was meant to use the name to draw customers. There is a clear diference here. Vista is an existing company with (as I understand) an entirely different product in a non-competing market.

    In that case, it sounds a lot more like the Phoenix-the-BIOS vs. Phoenix-the-browser case, which was also handled by a cease and desist letter...

  11. Re:They want for us to hate them, it must be on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1
    Having the patent doesn't mean they're going to go sue AOL, Yahoo, etc. if their messengers have custom emoticons. Clue in, guys.

    But it means they can do it.

    And it means they will wield this patent when they need it, even if everyone considers it not legit.

    So I'm assuming you're trusting if you, say, find a clause in your employment contract saying they can rape you, because that does not mean they will...

    Clue in, guy!

  12. Re:Freon isn't used in new cars! on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    If you had read my post carefully, you would have noticed that nowhere I mentioned the air conditioning knowledge. Guess I'll have to explain the joke: the syntax error is between "geek" and "MSN".

  13. Re:Oh please on Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy · · Score: 1
    I simply download the executable, run it, less than 5 mins, viola.

    I guess you wanted to say "voilá". As "viola" mean "rape" in Spanish, I think the whole SW updating thing makes sense now.=)

  14. Alarmist? on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    We can just say they pulled a Slackware....

  15. Re:Freon isn't used in new cars! on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 5, Funny
    In addition to being a MCSE, A+, etc. certified geek

    Syntax error.

  16. Grammar... on Sun's CIO Talks Internal Experiences · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...who sometimes demand Indian help desk support knows kernel details

    I, for one, welcome our new Indian poor grammar kernel hacker overloards...

  17. Re:New Format on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    Actually what was phased out way before the floppy you talk about is DOS. Somehow manufacturers take for granted one should have access to DOS. The only reasonable accessible version of DOS today (if you don't want to illegally copy an old DOS version, not that it will boot from USB or CD anyway) is FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/, hell... there's even an ISO.

  18. Re:Naming thread on Firefox Faces Trademark Issues · · Score: 1

    And then it will be "that Prince-themed browser"

  19. Naming thread on Firefox Faces Trademark Issues · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, this is the official thread for suggesting new names for the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Mozillight or whatever you suggest, browser:

  20. Re:No kidding. on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 1
    Real geeks program their computers with 8 switches and leds, the ALTAIR way. Like real men.

    You mean like Bill?

  21. Re:It's a BS experiment. on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 1
    You can invent a pill to help people trust but theres no pill on earth which will make a person stupid.

    Ever heard of the *blue* pill?

  22. Re:stupid. on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    I believe they're not emphasizing the competitiveness if they're comparing its performance to that of a Ferrari.

  23. Wow! on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    Now THIS is what I call "innovation"...

  24. Re:Chortle... on McVoy Strikes Back · · Score: 1
    McVoy will stop the give-away, saying it has been costing him nearly $500,000 per year to support Torvalds and his programmers.

    It is understandable, since surely they don't know their way around computers and need a lot of guiding....

  25. Re:Who's Financing This? on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. They will be stolen from a group of Libyans