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  1. Re:Hmmm... on Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    That's what I'd do if I had a million dollars.

  2. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    You think you've got data recovery problems?!! At least your disks weren't hidden away under a chicken coop for 20 years!!!

  3. BT,DT,GtT on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    After an incident over Christmas when our kittens got bored and chewed up 15 cables, we went with split flexible corrugated tubing. It comes in 3/4" and 1 1/4" diameters and we got ours at Lowes.
    I had considered using a short piece of pvc gutter to build a cable tray, but decided not to in my case.
    For the computer desk, I ended up pulling the equipment on the floor out about 6" from the wall and cut some Masonite panels to create a gap along the wall with no kitten access.

    Apparently iPod charger cables are specially formulated to be extra tasty.

  4. schweet! on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is fantastic! A thing of beauty is a joy forever. And I'm not using that in the ironic sense in this case.

  5. or, if you really want to be rude: on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1
  6. penny-pincher tip on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    You can find rolls of cheap double-sided velcro in the garden center of many big box hardware stores that is used for plant ties. Much cheaper than the pre-cut color coded ones. Any color you want as long as it's green.

  7. sick, sad world on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    if you are rich and looking to do something that's a bit outside the laws of your native country, you can always count on Switzerland

    Or Thailand. Or Cambodia. Or India. Or Brazil. Or Mexico.

  8. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    Actually, there were some videos of pipe bending robots that made the rounds on the web recently that make Mr. Rodriquez look like a look like a incompetent toddler. Downright fluid and graceful.

  9. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    Obviously this problem would be best served by two cooperating systems.
    Feedstock would be cement for the concrete extrusion robot. The other feedstock would would be rebar which would be formed by some sort of bending robot.

  10. yo dawg, I heard you like memes... on Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout · · Score: 1

    Proof that Richard Nixon was a Sirian fifth-columnist.

  11. and Dr. Suess, too! on Printing a Building · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The shades of Antoni Gaudi and Nader Khalili approve of this research.

  12. I can solve the problem for half the population: on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hire only attractive female screeners, two drink minimum.
    Turn this around into a profit center. As a bonus, flyers are less stressed. winning all around.

  13. Re:Next - Ray-Traced Nethack on Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p · · Score: 1

    ok, I'll give you that the cat tornado would be awsome.
    Almost as much as pirates on flying sharks that are on fire that shoot fireballs.

    The the real market for this is for server farms for Progress Quest.

  14. I'm a better trader than this guy. on UBS Rogue Trader Loses $2 Billion In Unauthorized Trades · · Score: 1

    I would just like to say that I have never lost any company I work for 2 billion dollars.
    Not even 2 million.

  15. also found on The Space Review site: on NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech · · Score: 1

    heh.

  16. Re:How do I delete my /. account? on Bejeweled Yields Cognitive Benefit In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    Jesus Christ, what a horrible thought. Taco was holding this place together?
    I always assumed he was the head troll.

  17. you've corrupted the googles! on Bejeweled Yields Cognitive Benefit In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    I just felt a terrible disturbance in the googles, like thousands of furries cried out in joy and started flocking to slashdot.
    imagine their disappointment at being thwarted. Delicious.

  18. guilty of crimes against robots on The Rise of Robotic Labor · · Score: 1

    Huge Pacman has a lot to answer for.

  19. robots built my hotrod on The Rise of Robotic Labor · · Score: 2

    So there was only one thing that I could do. Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.

  20. DTV ? WTF ? on Eben Upton Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Why aren't there any single-chip computer to DTV solutions instead of this retarded WiDi crap? Seems like that would be an ideal display solution for a myriad of devices. Is there a licensing issue preventing these?

  21. I find you lack of faith refreshing. on Cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter · · Score: 1

    obviously we're just not shoveling enough money and special privileges at the "Job Creators".

    maybe it's time to go into the guillotine business.

  22. Re:Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Superman took away Richard Pryor's red stapler for just that kind of misbehavior.

  23. excuse me... on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    but destroying the market for bitcoins has a quantifiable societal benefit. Burn down bitcoin's house while you burn in your hardware!

  24. send from my bannana6000phone on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1

    What's a desktop, grandpa?!

  25. Re:What constitutes membership? on Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    Similarly, it's quite obvious to those that bother to look that Prof Moriarty pulls the strings at The Phone Company. Exact same kind of obsolete reasoning at work.