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  1. Re:Ah, the war on drugs... on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why does Amerikuh hates the holy Free Market?!!!

  2. Re:Towns all over the US get the same complaint on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    I could support a phalanx formation of stormtroopers wearing santa hats in the "holiday parade". But if you try to slip lord Vader in as Santa, I'm calling the ACLU.

  3. holy gravity's rainbow, Bataman! on Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft · · Score: 2

    Check out their first attempt, the Tycho Brahe-1 . I wonder where they sourced the Imipolex G needed to construct the S-GerÃt .

  4. Re:The US military had a plan to recover it... on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Wait, I thought that was Barry's plan to ensure a second term -- start a war with Iran, get all the hawks behind him, and keep all those troops being demobbed in Afghanistan from coming home and joining OWS when they all can't find jobs.

  5. good grief on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    It probably should have a flag in the nav program that indicates whether it is in hostile territory or not.
    Then, if it loses control and GPS signals, go into safe mode, and once fuel gets low, attempts either a soft landing or self-destruct depending on whether it thinks it's in danger of capture.

    Also, couldn't it generate a return to home heading at each waypoint? Hell, simply reversing course might be enough to head away from jamming until it can re-establish control.

  6. whoops, parsed that wrong on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 3, Funny

    my first though was "naturally Big Brother is in the Home Office, where else would he be"?

  7. Re:Oblig XKCD on HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's dumber than that. This guy's been spamming the same xkcd to what appears every story.
    He should at least show enough initiative to write a bot to pick a xkcd relevant to the story. And then post the corresponding goatkcd (W:G).

  8. MEG! on HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th · · Score: 2

    "HP's ebay store" == HP's garage sale.
    Maybe this is a good sign that HP's returning to their roots.
    At least ebay has a chance of keeping up with the load, as opposed to HP's shopping site. oh, how embarrassing for a wannabe "services" company...

  9. those damn kids on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hell, Journalists aren't reporters these days.
    Reporters aren't reporters.

    They just regurgitate corporate press releases without any critical analysis. Since it no longer pays to report in the public interest, we're left with PR whores chasing $$$, opponents with an axe to grind and obsessed amateur sleuths on the web.

  10. hello, good samaritan on Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware · · Score: 1

    Hey, you found my virus collection! I've been looking for that.
    Don't worry about returning the thumbdrive, I'll just download a copy of your computer.

  11. LOL, WUT? on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    I thought they were shooting a cannon ball.

  12. sick sad world on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Is this enough to satisfy your need to feed off of the misfortune of others?

    If not, you can read about : Massive Japanese crash claims eight Ferraris, three Benzes, and a Lamborghini.
    And if that's not enough for ya, you can read about the pretty young woman who's not so pretty any more after walking into a active airplane propeller.

  13. Not On My Mini Van! on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikimapia says the bomb range is here

  14. There Might Be Giants, Again. on AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier · · Score: 1

    So you're saying they're no longer run by Prof Moriarty, but by people who are much worse?

  15. the "don't spam me, bro" party! on Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians · · Score: 1
  16. factually correct, yet of no use at all... on Graphene Spun Into Meter-Long Fibers · · Score: 1

    The science is there, it's just a simple matter of engineering.

  17. "A Statue for Father" on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I got me a hankerin' for some mammoth shortribs.
    YABBA DABBA DOO!

  18. centipeds? in my vagina? on Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    eww, Mesklinite pr0n!

    really, really, really think long and hard before GIS'ing that one, mate. I'm not kidding.

  19. Re:600 light years... on Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    But still constrained by the Periodic Table of Elements and the properties of matter. Unless you think it's different out there?

    Well, obviously, for such a nearby region.


    But new data suggests Stanislaw Lem might have been on to something. ("A Perfect Vacuum", "The New Cosmogony")

  20. and use ancient memes on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only old people still watch television.

  21. not saying it's the propper attitude.. on Ask Greg Leyh of The Lightning Foundry What Charges Him Up? · · Score: 1

    The hilarious part is watching IT guys, who never get credit for their work when IT stuff doesn't blow up, trash talk the work of lightning protection guys, who also never get credit for their work when stuff doesn't blow up. "Stuff still blows up sometimes anyway" "Its just a wasted expense" "Lightning never hits the same place twice / you never catch the same virus twice" blah blah blah. The ham radio guys are just as bad, ten thousand nearby strikes and no effect on system performance, one strike finally takes it out and "all that stuff is worthless no point even installing it, stuff just blows up anyway". Idiots.

    It's no "unscheduled downtime", it's a "upgrade opportunity".

  22. tl;dr - wtf? on Ask Greg Leyh of The Lightning Foundry What Charges Him Up? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "Voltage Economy Effect of Lightning"?!!

  23. idle hands... on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 2
    This man traffics in weapons-grade boredom, lock him up!


    Actually, the typical slashdotter's interest in the following topics would probably be regarded with suspicion and get them put on some list:
    • cryptography
    • chemistry
    • non-corporate software
    • aeronautics
    • microbiology
    • libertarianism
    • model rocketry
    • trainspotting
    • privacy
    • tinfoil hats
    • mocking people who wear tinfoil hats
    • fashion
    • animal husbandry
    • crystallography
    • bathhouses
  24. Re:I remember ... on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix · · Score: 1

    do I smell a whiff of Gentoo in here?

  25. I'm too old to keep up with this crap... on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 2

    wait, Tebowing is out then?