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  1. Pink Slime on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    There'll be a stock pile of it soon. Send it over.

  2. Re:Office for Mac? on MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    Embrace, Penetrate, Ejaculate.

    The upcoming Microsoft memo.

  3. Re:Does fine print supercede large print? on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 1

    Actually, Australia runs common 4G frequencies inline with every other country outside of the US. Turns out it's the US which doesn't comply to 'normal' 4G.

  4. Re:Enjoy your delusion on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 2

    Put them all in a coconut and you could transport them by swallow.

  5. Upon closer inspection on Amateur Astronomer Spots Strange Cloud Formations On Mars · · Score: 2

    It looks like a weather balloon filled with swamp gas...

  6. Re:Fuck GizMag on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    It uses crantab

  7. Re:Long term update support on Why Linux Can't 'Sell' On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    No repro here. I've reinstalled my Desktop system (Ubuntu) multiple times from scratch, all I needed to do afterwards was to reinstall the software (that's point and click in synaptic).

    Before the re-install:

    sudo dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

    After the re-install:

    sudo dpkg --clear-selections
    sudo dpkg --set-selections packages.txt
    sudo aptitude install

  8. Time And Space on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Tips For Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    That's it. Make time, make space. Been doing this on and off for over 15 years. Everything else you get suggested is nice and helps, but the biggest two are these.

    Recently watched a talk by John Cleese who basically came up with the same two things for his working process.

  9. Guess who just bought a new iPad(N-2)? on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 3, Funny

    The head of the FAA of course!

  10. Re:Well, there it is: on Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed · · Score: 1

    That IE can't detect what Chome extensions you have installed? I'm sure given time and the history of IE it probably doesn't need an extension to tell if you're pregnant...

  11. Re:Chrome on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Firefoxe's "free" is only made possible by revenue from Google. Opera's primary revenue also comes from the same company, used as the default search.

    Getting away from Google involves either using IE or Lynx.

  12. Re:Hey on The Inside Story of Virgin Oceanic's Mission To the Mariana Trench · · Score: 2

    They'll be under the pile of dead lawyers.

  13. Re:News to me on Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign · · Score: 1

    It does, but they tend to be embedded Youtube videos.

  14. Re:LOL! on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mastering vinyl is a pain in the ass, you can't just send music to a vinyl factory and get it pressed. You have to get test pressings (white pressing) done first. The reason for this is that average vinyl can't reproduce everything flawlessly. Vinyl comes in different grades, highest grade (audiophile) costs $$$'s and can produce low frequencies quite well, but the stuff you get at the vinyl store will buckle badly in the white pressing stage if you're not careful. Low frequencies reduce the groove gap and if you push it too far the grooves will collide and cause the needle to skip. Not good.

    Mastering to CD is much easier. Producing things like downloadable FLAC is the easiest and best method.

  15. Re:Uh....slashdot? on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 2

    I expect Apple to announce its new leader to be Sir Clive Sinclair this year. The next product line would be the iC5 followed by white touch screen transistor radios.

  16. Re:jaded on 30 Years of the BBC Micro · · Score: 1

    Wait, you're talking ZX81. Mine was the ZX80...

  17. Re:jaded on 30 Years of the BBC Micro · · Score: 1

    I remember building my ZX81.

    Then ringing them up when it didn't work. Got a replacement CPU.

    Only after that was I shown the magic screen refresh and the true power of Sir Clive Sinclair.

  18. Re:And so comes the market... on Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been fishing for over 30 years and I can taste the difference between Whiting caught off the Brisbane Bar and Whiting caught further up the sunshine coast. It's subtle, but environment always plays a major role.

    Just on a side note, most Australian Cod don't belong to the Gadus genus, they're closer to perciformes. So they're not really Cod. From memory, they collectively get called Cod, like Murray Cod. You're right though, terrible eating.

  19. Re:who wants to work for google? on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    Ninemsn is a company formed in Australia between Microsoft's MSN and Channel 9, a free to air Australian TV station.

    And yes, it happens like that. Not by LinkedIn, but certainly by other sources of information with which the employers can rely on. It would be naive to think the employers are gullible.

  20. Re:who wants to work for google? on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    There's an element of truth to this statement, a friend of mine went through the interview process with Google in Sydney and around the third interview the word somehow got around that Google were maybe interested in her. Ninemsn rang her, gave two rushed interviews and hired.

  21. Great on Generating Text From Functional Brain Images · · Score: 1

    Neuroposting on Slashdot. Mental.

  22. Re:A Tablet on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 2

    The tablet in their patent looks more like the one in the film than it does the actual iPad. Stanley Kubrick will be turning in his friction free space grave for ever.

  23. Re:This is just... on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    Somewhere between Bronzeman and Ironman...

  24. Hi, this is a Facebook message on Researcher Predicts Your Next Facebook Friend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We've added these friends to your profile automatically. You were going to add them anyway. You're welcome, because I knew you were going to thank me.

    Love Mark.

  25. Re:The difference is size on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    Does it have doors that blow off near landing?