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  1. ahem on Lindows CEO Funds XBox Hacking Contest · · Score: 2

    Then where has my 200,000 dollars gone?

  2. Re:buy some isotoners! on Listen to Webpages While Driving · · Score: 2

    Kinky.

    Good thing your parents didn't name you 'the' like they'd planned.
    ;)

  3. buy some isotoners! on Listen to Webpages While Driving · · Score: 2

    That's a fricken gardening glove!

    Is this really the most convenient thing to have wires coming out of that are strapped to an expensive laptop?

    Somebody must not drive a manual.

  4. bar codes, eh? on Robot Pharmacists · · Score: 2

    some work from a sharpie and I'm rolling in crack for life.

    wait...

    I'm rolling in legal prescription narcotics for life.

  5. and if you love this... on "Decasia": The Beauty of Film Decay · · Score: 2

    You might also like Koyaanisqatsi, which is pretty damn cool.

    Don't go for the sequels or the DVD interview w/ the director, though -- you've been warned.

  6. You almost had me there. on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 2

    ...crap being shilled by Oprah. Twain, O Henry, GBS, Thoreau, Kipling...

    What a difference a period makes.

    I got to lay off the speedreading.

  7. unfortunately named... on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 2

    C:\> clit.exe

    Bad command or file name.


    Guess you're right.

  8. I'll tell you where you can point your back button on Redesigning The "Back" Button · · Score: 2

    and I think we'll both agree to call it innovative.

  9. What is the sound of one flamer flaming? on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 2

    If I criticize this post, and then someone criticizes me, then can I recriticize them?

    What if I criticize myself pre-emptively by saying "recriticize" isn't a word?

    Then am I not myself?

    For all the soviet russia posts, I sure don't hear the "what a country!" punchline...

  10. ^sigh^ on Top Ten Shameful Games · · Score: 2

    Everyone else that wants to comment on it but not make it any better, get on board...

    I'm glad this post was followed by some actual site suggestions.

    But what's this?
    A premonition?

  11. Re:TOP SECRET FACT! on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 2

    I can't mod you down and reply, pal.

    Get as vituperative as you like, I still say this sounds way too wacky for me to take as 100% informative and factual.

    I do not need to spell out US Gov national secrets just for your goddamn pleasure. And I don't need to believe you. And that's my opinion. I never said any different.

    So I'm hard to convince. Why does that freak you out?

    If I'm an FBI shill, I'm certainly not getting paid enough.

  12. TOP SECRET FACT! on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 2

    I don't believe you!

    From the site:
    SOKYMAT® has developed special epoxy transponders which, already at an early production stage ...

    When exactly did they start chipping? Why hasn't all that business gotten these chips past the early production phase?

    Informative? I'll go huff some solvents and this will still read like weekly world news.

    C'mon.

  13. Serious collector on Waterproof Books · · Score: 2

    You mean they have things inside them?

    How do you cut through the Lucite shell?

    Comics too?

    Amazing!

  14. soaked in the blood of humans... on How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls · · Score: 2

    The corner of Happy Sunshine Way and Plush Blue Bunny Lane...

    A Day We Can Not Forget

  15. Re:Europa Exploration? on Melting Away Ice Hazards · · Score: 2

    ...a drill and this electric field effect...

    And stun every fish in the pond? At what cost progress!?

  16. Neglected to mention... on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 2

    Scuffing feet new trend in tablet-pc users

  17. Snarky! on EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game · · Score: 2

    Double bonus points!

    Yet, my unemployment rages on. There's a good definition of irony.

    More to the point, I meant "what other people call work, but I'd call doing a wicked job on a device driver of some sort"

  18. The main advantages of diamond on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...include... higher electrical resistance.

    Is that all it takes? I have lots of stuff here that might be groundbreaking...

    World awed by carpet-based semiconductor

  19. Re:What A Joke on EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game · · Score: 2

    Truth. Victimhood is rampant. When was the last time you heard someone not blame something. Just say "Yeah, I guess that's just me" or "I was wrong"? Awhile? No shit.

    "I really wasted a few months on that online game. I feel as if I'm wasting my life. Live and learn. How about doing something productive with my time?"

    Also:

    Couching this in the second-person passive voice does not fool anyone.

    will absorb your life if you let it

    Stop speaking for me. I'm old enough to think for myself. I think you need to get "addicted" to something like work.

  20. Re:Duracell DL2025? on Customer Service for Cell Phones? · · Score: 2

    ...soldering info...

    Or get some good spring clips.

    Has he verified that the battery is the thing? Applied correct voltage to the leads and dropped main power to see if the memory stays?

    If you know how to use a multimeter, you should know how to solder - and that most batteries have an analog if you're willing to page through digikey.

    ^sigh^

  21. Re:Hmm... Perhaps the whole thing should go out... on Open Source vs. Academic Dishonesty? · · Score: 2

    Your professor should be encouraging the best solutions possible given the resources available

    And thereby need to make one lesson plan per student.

    I don't like lazy profs as much as the next /.er, but I don't want to see them killed trying to come up with 400 ways of teaching about indirect pointers.

    It's hard to think up brilliant lesson plans - hard enough to scare people into needing to use DMCA-style tactics so they can re-use them.

  22. Re:Got a Rio Volt MP3-CD player for christmas... on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 2

    I hope so. The thing is schweet.

    I corresponded w/ a tech through email all thanksgiving (granted, he was in the UK...) and he helped a LINUX operator through some scary firmware re-flashing.

    Good folk -- my experience.

    Thank you, H. Fiennes!

  23. Re:There *is* a safe career choice! on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 2

    And when you get in one of those BOFH moods, you can pop their spleen with a trochar and suck it out with a 4hp vacuum.

  24. Idly thinking... on Machines That Emulate The Human Brain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there an inverse Turing test?

    Maybe we can make machines that fail it.

  25. We're not making quota today. on MAME for SonyEricsson's P800 Smartphone · · Score: 2

    Four hundred non-hackers need to comment as to "Why is this necessary?".

    And the Ask Slashdot hasn't been properly mocked, we need some optical techs over there, please.

    C'mon - we will NEVER catch up once the stories about all the christmas XP computers exploding start pouring in.

    Someone go over to the Disney makes dinosaurs story and get them off their asses.