User: rossdee

Only for smooth surfaces

On: Japanese Engineer Develops 'WalkCar,' a Mini-Segway

It ain't gonna work on the sidewalks in this town.

How do we know?

On: FBI: Retweeting a Terrorist's Tweet Could Land You In Trouble

How do we know if someone is a terrorist?

They could be just pretending...

Re:Enough

On: Certifi-gate: Another Huge Android Vulnerability

agreed
Watergate was a hotel, thats no reason to have the -gate suffix to mean a scandal

And while we are at it, Marathon was a place as well, so theres no need for the charitable -athons

Frogs

On: Amid Agony, Scientists Discover World's First Venomous Frog

Meanwhile some Amazon tribes have been using frog venom on their arrows and blowpipe darts for thousands of years...

And theres probably some joke about Jeff Bezos patenting it...

Re:Incompetent contracting

On: U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle

"There's also enterprise licensing"

This is the UK - they don't have Enterprise
They have Ark Royal and Invincible

Evaporative cooling

On: Data Center Standard Proposal Adds WEE To PUE

Evaporative cooling doesn't work where or when it is humid.

Here in the summer its mostly humid.
 

Re:No one knows who you are on the internet

On: Ada Initiative Organization To End, But Its Work Will Continue

I always thought Trinity was Terrance Hill

Tiny black holes

On: Tiny Black Holes Could Trigger Collapse of Universe—Except That They Don't

Tiny black holes don't stick around for long due to the quantum uncertainty around the event horizon
See Hawking Radiation

Less noise

On: JAXA Successfully Tests Its D-SEND Low-Noise Supersonic Aircraft

"falling back to earth and breaking the sound barrier in the process."

So it wasn't powered by a jet engine, meaning less noise to begin with.

Windows versions

On: Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer

Given that even numbers suck, I am sure they will be skipping odd numbers from now on.

I'll stick with Win 7

Back in the day...

On: Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards?

Back in the day the CAPSLock key used to have a red LED on it that was lit when it was on.
Of course that made the keyboards more expensive to produce - they cost 10 x what they do today.
And the key next to the A key was the control key

Re:Copyright?

On: Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud

By the time it gets to where aliens are going to pick it up and listen to it, the copyright will have expired

so long and thanks for all the fish

On: Computer Science Enrollments Match NASDAQ's Rises and Fall

"I'd like to see a breakdancing porpoise."

I'd rather not - the thing that comes next is a Vogon fleet to build an interstellar bypass

Does this work for any phone?

On: Samsung Unveils the First Monitor That Can Wirelessly Charge Your Phone

or just for some yet to be released model from Samsung

And does the 27in monitor do 1920*1200

Did you know

On: Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required

that radio controlled vehicles were invented before cellphones, or even before the internet

Just like Belgium

On: Belgian Government Phishing Test Goes Off-Track

Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change
And your sweet madame makes it seem just like Belgium

Old tech

On: What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment?

I live in a country thats so old-fashioned they measure things in feet and inches...

Re:Taxi company

On: Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company

Maybe its a typo, and should be spelled brayage
mules bray don't they?

so does she

On: Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits

weigh the same as a duck?

Re:Why are yo not drunk?

On: A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email

"Serionsly, it's Feiday night! Why are you reading this?"

It may surprise you to learn that not everybody works 9 to 5 Monday to Friday

Sounds like the best idea

On: Windows 10 Home Updates To Be Automatic and Mandatory

Is not to "upgrade" to Win 10 in the first place

four government astronauts?

On: NASA Names Its Astronauts For the First Dragon and CST-100 Flights

four government astronauts?

So will there be non-goverment astronuts?

Re:Question: With Computer Science being 90% male.

On: The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other

I guess you missed the memo from SCOTUS - same sex marriage is legal now.

and I think its gonna be a long long time

On: Interviews: Ask Shaun Moss About Mars and Colonizing Space

And there's no one there to raise them if you didn't
And all this science, I don't understand
It's just my job, five days a week

Re: The job of the press is accountability

On: Microsoft Offers Washington a Bargain: More State Taxes, For More Education

"What..like MSNBC?"

I think Microsoft sold their share of MSNBC to NBC (Universal)