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  1. Re:What does decimate mean? on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1, Funny
    Car *does* still mean 'two-wheeled Celtic chariot'

    Well yes, everyone knows that the Woad Warrior drives a car...

  2. Re:"In other news..." on DNA, Fifty Years To the Day · · Score: 1
    You find a spot further up the page, and reply to someone with basically the same post. (Try to have it vaguely be in response.) Then when people read yours first, you get the karma, the original get redundant.

    I don't do this. It's been done to me (without the redundant, enough people check posting times). I'm sure that there are also people who reply as an AC to their own posts with "MOD PARENT UP" posts. It must be a tough life being a karma whore. Me, I just try to be funny, interesting and informative. (And in this case, off-topic, D'OH!)

  3. Re:"In other news..." on DNA, Fifty Years To the Day · · Score: 1
    You forgot:
    6. Skim posts looking for something good, then insert it further up the page (where it doesn't fit either) with minor rewording to intercept karma. (But I don't need karma, so who cares?)

    There, happy now? :^P

  4. Addendum on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1
    I got a note from Arnie Lerma who runs that site. (Yes, he noticed the sudden pounding and thinks it's great.) He said that there's a picture that he didn't provide a link to. It's here Take a look, and see what you think of it. (Zoom in a bit) Looks .. weird. In Arnie's words:

    You might want to provide a pointer in that thread to a photo I havent linked to...

    This was from the very lower right hand corner of the same image with the man with no head. The clams had pasted in a black girl wearing red ( so you would notice the black girl in the sea or white power-esque faces...) at it appears to be what looks like a "dick-head" in front of her.

    The same black girl appears in a number of locations in the original, though this one view seems to be an expression of the disgust of the photo-editor team at having to do what they had been asked to do to editing the event pictures...and trying to "MAKE IT GO RIGHT"...

  5. Re:He could probably get a job with the Enquirer on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    It looks like they use cut'n'paste. No--I mean literally cut'n'paste.

  6. Re:You are all missing the bigger picture on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    Bloody frames! Let's try that again. (D'OH!)

  7. Re:You are all missing the bigger picture on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    There is no war in Iraq. They're just faking all on Hollywood sets and on location somewhere near where they did the Moon landings. Don't you know anything? :^)

  8. Re:What do you mean playboy airbrushes? on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1
    Playboy sells fantasies. The news is supposed to be facts. (Granted the facts can be given different weight depending on who's reporting.)

    Oh, and you know what? Those life-story blubs in Playboy beside the pictures are probably made up too.

  9. Scientology paved the way! on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 4, Informative
    Granted it certainly was "journalism", but remember the infamous Scientology event were they released photos which had been clumsily doctored to make the crowd look larger. This is the one where they grew hair on a bald guy, and had an appearance of the Man With No Head.

    Scientology has been caught retro-doctoring photos Stalin style to remove people after they've fallen out of favour, like Reed Slatkin who's in big trouble for a long-running investment ponzi scam.

    I hope the press has better ethics than Scientology.

  10. Re:Standards? on Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0 · · Score: 1

    And don't forget a few patents are in the works. (Slashdot story a little while back about those.)

  11. Re:Power Source.. on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1
    this weapon is an invitation for radioactive contamination disaster

    Reminds me of the scene in Ghostbusters when they switch on the packs and one makes a remark about unlicenced proton accelerators, and they edge about from each other. (I could find the exact dialog, but this is Slashdot. Someone else will automatically do it. :^)

  12. Re:They could try this: on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, why don't we just say fscking bright! and leave it at that?

  13. Re:They could try this: on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1

    Maybe they go wonky at a billion? I wasn't sure, so I added the comment. (The historical reason for the difference is that no one had any use for numbers that large before NA was colonized, so two standards developed. Americans aren't *always* wrong. :^)

  14. They could try this: on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1
    Extraordinarily powerful light research gets government funding

    The next phase of major research project designed to produce very short pulses of light over a million, million, million times brighter than a household bulb has been given the go-ahead. [snip]

    (Keep in mind that those are British millions.)

  15. No problem! on Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military · · Score: 1
    unless the evil ones are really evils

    If they're really evil lasers will come out of both ends of the weapon. Duh!

  16. Re:wow...... on Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of the part of Cuba at Guatanimo Bay that the US government is renting a naval base on. You know, the place where they ship alledged terrorists and hold them without any rights or trial because they aren't POWs and not on US soil. Not a very nice place to be!

  17. Re:That'll teach him! on Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Peter Tork's locker. (Let's see who's old enough to get that without goole-diving.)

  18. Re:Retrial points on Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges · · Score: 1
    perhaps that's why the appeal has been scheduled so far into the future?

    [Mork] Ah! Time-travel the hard way!

  19. Re:wow...... on Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges · · Score: 1

    He wrote a VB front-end. Obviously VB is a terrorist tool. (And from the number of GIBE.B worms hitting my mailbox [written in VB] a very dangerous one.) The people behind VB should be tracked down and sent to Cuba!

  20. Re:Slashdotted? Hmmm... on BSDs to be Merged · · Score: 1

    Ahh! Not my tax form. I guess they were slashdotted.

  21. Slashdotted? Hmmm... on BSDs to be Merged · · Score: 1
    Both pages return a 1040 DB error, too many connections.

    Okay, maybe they're slashdotted, but a "1040" error on April 1st? (US income tax form 1040, due today.)

  22. The Dupe of Amontillado on IPv4 Headers Investigated · · Score: 1

    "For the love of God, Montressor!"

  23. Re:Once again I have become obsolete... on George Foreman USB iGrill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why use cables? Get the WiFri version.

  24. Obligatory on George Foreman USB iGrill · · Score: 2, Funny

    #include "monty_python_bruces_sketch.txt"

  25. Re:It must run some exotic OS on George Foreman USB iGrill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, you have to get the heated iCup for that.