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  1. Re:The true max human 100m time is probably higher on The Physics of the World's Fastest Man · · Score: 3, Informative

    More likely because of the spikes on track shoes that give runners a lot more traction, which is especially useful when accelerating at the start.

    And in high school while running track, I found out the hard way that spikes are also great at increasing your deceleration.

  2. Re:Dick v. the World on CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Our culture has invented the Highlander...

    The car or the Scotsman?

  3. Re:By Thor's Hammer! on New Shrew Has Spine of Steel · · Score: 2

    thor's hammer gets all the credit, no one stops to remember grabthar's hammer...

    You shall be avenged.

  4. Ask a neck-beard... on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Most Painless Intro To GPU Programming? · · Score: 1

    ... to code it in COBOL for you.

  5. "OK Maps" just brings up a map of Oklahoma. What use is that?

    Oh what a beautiful morning...

  6. Re:But... on Book Review: Programming PHP 3rd Edition · · Score: 2

    The goto seems very arbitrary. And since PHP supports exceptions (as far as I understand) what exactly is the point of the goto? Literally the only valid use of goto is for error handling, and that is covered by exceptions. Every single example they have given could be rewritten using standard control flow.

    It used to be worse. Much worse. Cobol used to have this notion of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" whereby X was a paragraph containing a GOTO statement. After the ALTER statement is executed, the paragraph X code was modified to now transfer control to paragraph Y. So you had no idea where the logic flow was going because it depended upon whether or not the ALTER was executed.

    Life was hell.

  7. Just ask the NSA on How Much Is Your Gmail Account Worth To Crooks? · · Score: 1

    They're already in there, anyway.

  8. Re:How much for Ally Sheedy? on Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy · · Score: 2

    1980s Ally Sheedy, or "now" Ally Sheedy?

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Ally_Sheedy.jpg/220px-Ally_Sheedy.jpg

    Stephanie ... change color!

  9. Re:202 ? on New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dare you to take out the battery in your car.

    I did. We went to dinner and a movie.

    What happened afterwards is too shocking to tell.

  10. Re: PHP 6.0 without the stupid? on PHP 5.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Scope by indentation. How retarded is that?

    You haven't played with TCL, have you?

  11. Re:How Complex Can It Be? on Whole Human Brain Mapped In 3D · · Score: 1

    You do realize that people interact with their environment, right?

    Sure, once they leave their mom's basement. So how often is that?

  12. Re:I don't want to be "that guy", however on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 5, Funny

    In closing, C# .NET > Java. Please address .NET hate-responses to /dev/null

    Your windows environment has /dev/null?

    How cool is that?

  13. Re:bad analogy on To Hack Back Or Not To Hack Back? · · Score: 1

    Tommy Sands wrote about this very thing in his song There Were Roses.

    "An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds
    And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind."

  14. Re:And what else did you expect? on Google: BadNews Malware Wasn't Really Bad, After All · · Score: 2

    Now, come on. All Google is saying is that it isn't all BadNews ;-)

    All malware is bad. Sure, it could be catastrophic, but it could also just serve as a trojan for other pieces of malware. This one doesn't turn out to be as bad as the press makes it sound (big surprise), and Google claims it isn't anything much to worry about (another big surprise). So we know that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

    Maybe if we told you the "bad" news in a "good" way...

  15. Re:Why, when I was young . . . on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Young? You call that young?

    We had to wire up these large panels to do the "programming" on the accounting machine
    Interesting factoid: Hollerith card sorters had various speed options. If you paid more on the lease, you could get a faster sorter. The way they sped up the sorter was to change the pulley size on the motor.

  16. I dunno. on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Extracting 0.453592 kilograms of flesh just doesn't have the same ring to it.

  17. Re:Bad guys on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    Who? Who?

    Who do you think? The Libyans!

    Holy shit!

    They wanted me to build them a drone, so I took their plutonium and, in turn, gave them a shoddy drone casing full of used pinball machine parts.

  18. Re:LANPARTY! on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Break out the BNCs and coax.

    BNC? Break out the AUIs!
    10base5 was quite a bit more challenging to install, given that each cable tap had to be at a precise location and required special tools to drill the cable.
    Now get off of my LAN!

  19. Re:um on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 2

    2 words: Dill dough

    For pickle bread?

  20. Re:How about cutting Notes? on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  21. Re:Nothing new on Crowdsourced Network Planning For Connection-Bridging Startup · · Score: 1

    VOIP is a good example of this - RTP packet routing can take various paths. It's up the the receiver and it's jitter buffer to coalesce the packets back into order.

  22. "Adverts will now appear ... on Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs · · Score: 1

    "Adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips," the company said.

    How nice of Nintendo. At least it won't appear in the middle of the clip. I feel much better now.

  23. Re:Another job is lost. on Robotic Bartender Assembles Your Drink, Monitors Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    I was just hoping for robots with tits :)

    Welcome to Stepford!

  24. Re:Another job is lost. on Robotic Bartender Assembles Your Drink, Monitors Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    Come to Boston. At least 75% of the bars I've been to have been the kind you want.

    But does everybody know your name?

  25. Re:Where's the proof? :) on Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil · · Score: 1

    When you hover your mouse over the map it says "oil"

    Only if you have "Tool Tips" enabled.