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  1. Re:raise your hand... on Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    if you had to google chirality

    You know, it's when you open the door for ladies.

  2. One problem on Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if the aliens are ambidextrous?

  3. Re:Slashdot brainstorm here on Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter · · Score: 1

    That may not be the case as it may be too computationally intensive to process the whole five minute video that is uploaded.

  4. Slashdot brainstorm here on Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's an idea. Start out the video with a useless narrative for the first thirty seconds "blah blah blah skip until :30 and ignore this intro blah blah" then start the music. That way everybody is happy. All google employees are too elitist to read slashdot, right?

  5. Oblig. Slashdot Response on CSIRO Settles With Tech Giants Over WiFi Patent Spat · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am going to patent the air that the radio waves travel through. That way they will owe me money.

  6. or to put it another way on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 1

    Will you be able to obtain warranty service at 9,573 years from now?

  7. Re:Rewards on YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall · · Score: 1

    It also warms the heart knowing that the mother was able to take the college money and use it on herself.

  8. Re:Nice trick by the mom on YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall · · Score: 0

    Dude, we've been to the moon already. We're trying to get to Mars now.

    Maybe a lip piercing could get us to the nearest star system even.

  9. Re:This is so arrogant on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 0

    Please go away and do not spread ANYTHING in the world, thank you.

    Yes, but then you would not be able to eat at *our* McDonalds. Or smoke *our* fine cigarettes. And you would have to stop pirating all of our movies. The price is just to steep for you.

  10. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like Elbonia?

  11. Re:RTFA - I did and it's depressing on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Folks, this is what many of us voted for and this is the conclusion of the EFF;

    Again, the gulf between Candidate Obama and President Obama is striking. As a candidate, Obama ran promising a new era of government transparency and accountability, an end to the Bush DOJ's radical theories of executive power, and reform of the PATRIOT Act. But, this week, Obama's own Department Of Justice has argued that, under the PATRIOT Act, the government shall be entirely unaccountable for surveilling Americans in violation of its own laws.

    This isn't change we can believe in. This is change for the worse.

    Tyranny we can believe in.

  12. Re:It's always the same 90% on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 2

    Cable and dsl no matter how fantastic is still a dirt road compared to 100 Mb/s coming from fiber.

  13. Is this news?? on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All it would take is the right cables to be cut for the internet to go down. Perhaps with a rented backhoe even.

  14. Not a bad thing maybe on Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suggest that the google programmers bring up a small dialogue when they filter which may help;

    We here at google have decided to filter some images that you were about to view. We do this in recognition that some things cannot be "unseen". This is one of those times. This is not about hot porn which does not usually sting the brain with lasting effect. These images will gross you out so bad that no amount of unicorns dancing under rainbows will help. Trust us. Sending these images along will violate our mission statement of not doing evil. Regards, google.

  15. Not total abandonment on No More OpenMoko Phone · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you RTPT (read the poor translation) they are laying off some employees and putting the ones that are left to work on a different electronic device (it didn't say what) that has been under development. They will continue to sell the freerunner and that they eventually want to return to mobile phone development. They hope that independent developers will continue to work on the phone in the meantime.

  16. Wow on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    If the computer can detect and spin up a cdrom drive, what's wrong with doing the same thing for a floppy? This would be a great feature to add to Linux. Yes, everything is moving away from floppies, but there is a *ton* of legacy systems that still require a floppy for one reason or another.

  17. Parent is true on Investigative Journalism Being Reborn Through the Web? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Parent is not flamebait as the Huffington Post actively works to censor comments it doesn't like and then outright bans the user.

    So yes, the Huffington Post does appear to be be a shill site and this attempt at investigative journalism should not be taken seriously.

  18. What is it with these guys? on Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet · · Score: 1

    It's time to switch to a DVORAK keyboard. Let them sniff that.

  19. What I think on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 1

    My very favorite moment of the recent Battlestar Galactica finale was when Adama said "frakk this" and walked out of the polygraph test.

  20. Actually fourth explanation on Battlestar Galactica Comes To an End · · Score: 1

    It was Bob Cylon that did it all. Even though BSG is gone now, at least we still have Bob to explain things.

  21. Suggestion on Higgs Territory Continues To Shrink · · Score: 1

    Unplug the microwave in the break room.

  22. Re:Inevitable.... on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 1

    Actually most property taxes goes to pay for schools to educate children. Nobody believes in socialism until it is possible to get someone else to pay for your own bills.

  23. Well that means on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 1

    Currently the world's most powerful operating particle accelerator

    And that means the most powerful non-operating particle accelerator is in my basement. I have a nonworking zed-pm, the one in Switzerland doesn't. The one Switzerland cracked their magnet. My magnet is fine. The one in Switzerland has massive problems with cooling, mine doesn't as it operates at room temperature.

  24. Amazing on The 300 Million Year Old Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    That it escaped all the zombies from back then. Dinosaur zombies.

  25. How flexible? on First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it blend?