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  1. I think Icahn on Dell Signs Agreement To Cap Icahn's Share Ownership · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think Icahn
    But maybe not
    Like shaving through
    A cranial pot*.
    Burma Shave

    *In the book, the full pot went over his head.

  2. Brevity on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Good

  3. Re:Seems like..... on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can specify a subdirectory at install-time.

  4. Emacs on XP on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    If I was any more retro, I'd use MS-DOS.
    OK, I'm really in Chrome under OSX.

  5. Re:How about Python or something? on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    I live in the South and teach Sunday School. So I guess I fall under some double-negative clause.

  6. Re:The spell book looks INCREDIBLE: on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    No way. I'm waiting for the Bob interface. Just as soon as Godot finishes the coding.

  7. Slew on LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams · · Score: 0

    [rant about /.'s non-command of editing]

  8. Back in the Days of the Square Wheel on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: -1

    We called this "war dialing". I guess that if you still use words, you sound amateurish.
    Although, you can't spell "TDoS" without the letters in "o STD". *clap*

  9. Invest in shaving soap instead on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mobile app bubble
    Professional stubble
    For who will browse jack
    Amid the economic rubble?
    Burma Shave

  10. Re:In all fairness with this economy. on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1, Troll
    Well, we'll just have to pass a few thousand more pages of legislation, so that companies need to take on compliance staff just to figure out how to stay out of jail.
    Wash, rinse, repeat. Call it "the homo bureaucratus full employment plan".
    Al Gore:

    "From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption."

    Preach it, #ManBearPig!

  11. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a lot of that gear is. Even if you can refresh the hardware, you don't go yanking all that noise without affecting the ship's trim.

  12. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    But it built character, eventually arriving at UTF-32, no?

  13. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the market "responded back."

  14. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 2

    "Everything's easy when you know how to do it."--me

  15. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 4, Funny

    My supervisor held the hickory switch while I was manning the AN/UYK-7. Manfully.

  16. What I'd like to see on Video Games and Literature · · Score: 1

    More games that accurately simulate historical events. Wars, certainly, but something that helps experience, say, trading in the ancient Mediterranean could be both educational and immersive.
    Keep those history profs off the streets.

  17. The point is largely missed on Live Tweeting the Symphony? · · Score: 1
    TFA:

    arts organizations who are scrambling to make their productions more interactive

    That's all swell and spiffy, but consider that popular culture has been given a general dumbing-down, for decades.
    You can blame a lot of people, e.g. Godless Commies, and the Semi-Conscious Liberation Army, the Tri-Labial Commission, and so forth, but the bottom line is with the individual. We all have to spend time finding useful bits of culture, and preserve them.
    By the time my little guy is a teen, we'll go enjoy that symphony. I myself have been mostly a slacker in this regard, but the occasion of being a father and understanding the importance of passing the torch to the next generation cannot be understated.
    It's about our Precious Bodily Fluids.

  18. Re:planned generated furor as a PR stunt on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    You've got a 7-11 doubling as a brothel? I guess diversification is key to survival in these tough economic times.

  19. Re:planned generated furor as a PR stunt on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    You can still find cane sugar soft drinks at, for example, World Market.

  20. Re:Fucking sleazebags on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    I contend that if you light off the VBA editor and browse the object models across the apps, you'll notice that the APIs are relatively constant, despite the alteration of storage format.
    I'll check to see if my pet Word bug, where you turn on Track Changes, select some text, and use SHIFT+F3 to cycle the case, and Track Changes is oblivious, is still kicking. Because I think that one is as old as Word for DOS.

  21. Re:Fucking sleazebags on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Unless an ugly license, and the generated furor, is a low-budget advertising campaign. How else would I know that MS is out peddling the same codebase since Office95, with whatever fresh UI cock-ups this version will bring?

  22. Re:Nothing to see here on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Not disputing you without more understanding, but I think the idea here is to make a Big Data problem and tackle it stochastically.

  23. Re:Nothing to see here on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    The point of the article was to trade quality of information for quantity, and thus minimize the effect of the UP.

  24. Re:Nothing to see here on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    You seem strangely certain of that, young Jedi.

  25. Re:Schrodinger would be happy. on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 2

    OK, sometimes.