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  1. Re:It's in all those funny looking headlights on Where Has All the Xenon Gone? · · Score: 1

    I thought it went into all those disco strobe lights in the '70s...

  2. Re:simple things on US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" · · Score: 1

    And, this gave way to the Fourth Age, the Age of Man...

  3. Re:Predictions ... on US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" · · Score: 2

    The mark of a truly great Pizza is one that still tastes good cold the next day! After the flavors have had overnight (hopefully in the fridge) to ameliorate, the true flavor of the pizza comes out (either great or not so much). Just like Potato Salad, it tastes much better on the 2nd day after it's made (again, refrigerate to avoid food poisoning!).

    As for reviving it, try using "defrost" on the microwave. Micros explode the cells of the food and give things an odd flavor, by using "defrost" you don't let it get so hot so fast and cause as much cellular destruction that full "cook" gives. Otherwise the toaster oven suggestions are good, but they are too small to reheat a pizza conveniently, you have to reheat it 1-2 pieces at a time.

  4. Bench and Irons on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 1

    My first suggestion would be to get a really good quality commercial grade bench with drawers and equipment shelves. Good ones will set you back 1000-2000 per workstation/seat. Also get a comfortable high chair the right height for the bench and you.

    As for soldering irons, Metcal is the shit... They are owned by OK now, but you can pick up a nice used MX500 setup for about $200-300 or so. They are absolutely wonderful - you can solder a penny to a doorknob with a TINY pencil iron! The design is RF pumped and you practically can't swamp it - it will do ceramic substrates which no normal iron can touch, and stuff you would normally need a torch to do, yet the same tiny tip won't wreck a SOT-23 SMT transistor... Super deluxe.

    If you have the luxury, shop air is also very handy to have (basement remote compressor or the like) for desoldering and cleaning up stuff it is REALLY nice and you can buy air-powered tools like screwdrivers and cutoff saws instead of electric cordless screwdrivers or Dremel tools, etc.

    I have all this but shop air on my bench at home and I LOVE working there!

  5. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    Really?

    Downmod me and another AC for correcting your stupid fucking trolling grammar Nazi ass? Fuckwit.

    Using your real account's modpoint stash for a retributive lashing out is a very small, cowardly act by a very small, cowardly person with a very small, cowardly penis.

    Oh, and Fuck You Very Much for attempting to correct me (incorrectly) in the first place.

  6. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 0

    No, I don't think I have ever used that word in my life. "Supposedly" is exactly what I meant, thank you.

  7. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know it had a distinct "internet rumor" quality to it - that's why I qualified my comment with "supposedly"...

  8. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems they have taken a clue from Albert Einstein, who supposedly owned 6 or 7 of the exact same brown suits for the same reason - so he wouldn't waste any mental energy with such useless minutiae such as what to wear that day.

  9. Re:Harm to consumers on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Those who don't object in all likelihood are people who don't pay much attention to tech news, because they use their computers as tools and for social networking. They don't object because they aren't aware they can.

    THIS.

    You hit it on the head. When DNT came out all the advertisers figured great - maybe 5% of the audience is skilled enough or informed enough to a) even know it exists, and b) able to find it in the browser config panel, so we'll lose them, oh well. We'll agree to this, AS LONG AS EVERYONE KEPT IT OFF BY DEFAULT.

    Now that MS is going to/threatening to make it ON by default, they see a much more significant market share disappearing - instead of say 5% it will go up to 40% or whatever MS's market share is these days. The advertisers are now shitting bricks, and/or reconsidering their decision.

    My guess is if any other browsers switch to ON by default, the DNT may completely disintegrate because no one will honor it without legislation forcing them to. Perhaps the damage is already done...

  10. Re:That seems quite out of character for... on Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically · · Score: 2

    The Ministry of Information Retrieval would like to speak with you sir...

  11. Please Please Please on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 1

    Tell me it was that god damn MyFuckingCleanPC (a.k.a. MySlowPieceOfShitPC) company that got busted...

    PULLEEEZZZZEE!

  12. Hmm. on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is what great art has come to in our time: Michaelangelo's "Broken Link"

  13. Re:Resistance is futile. on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget to send in the Marines!

    This gives a whole new meaning to "Jarhead"!

  14. Re:Like the saying goes.. on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    Ugh. Great, a Brit Hot-Pocket.

    Thanks, I feel instilled with knowledge now.

    Trust me, mine were more fun!

  15. Re:Is it Symbiotic? on A Look Inside Oak Ridge Lab's Supercomputing Facility · · Score: 1

    No, the final version will be called Colossus!

  16. Re:Like the saying goes.. on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    Why, do they have boomerang-shaped tits?

    Oh, you meant pastries! That's very different, then.

    Never mind.

  17. Re:Like the saying goes.. on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it takes skills to deal with the trapezoidal apple cobbler.

  18. Re:Like the saying goes.. on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    So is celery.

  19. Re:Not really about Bitcoin on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 1

    I think it's an extension of radius->radii.

  20. Re:I gotta say it.... on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fucking idiot. Don't you have a birth certificate to find or something?

  21. Re: gulation on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 1

    After passing this through the bullshit filter, here's what comes out:

    Due to Google's efforts, part of the FCC's ruling on the new 4G networks is that they MUST have net neutrality. This means that providers cannot favor their content, nor charge customers extra for accessing other people's content, they must explain variable speeds, and they can't limit anyone's access.

    The telecoms HATE this. They are pushing for "less government controls" because they want the "freedom" to screw their customers.

    This is what the whole AT&T and Face Time thing is about currently. AT&T can't charge extra for bandwidth-eating app, it eats too much bandwidth to run on 3G where they could charge extra for it, so they are restricting it's use - .which some claim violates the 4g net neutrality rules.

  22. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Role-Playing Games To the Uninitiated? · · Score: 1

    Lake Geneva, WI.

    Yes, I'm ashamed I know this.

  23. Corona? on Facebook's Project Prism, Corona Could Ease Data Crunch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't the Facebook dept. of the NSA know that they already used the "operation" codeword Corona for the first spy satellites?

  24. Re:Um, duh? on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 2

    No, but you do "jones" - being filled with the overwhelming desire to do more coke/crack to get back that high.

    Or, as I used call it, the "I ain't got no more fuckin' coke blues"... Usually lasts from 15-20 min to 3-4 hours after the last line/rock is gone, depending on how high you are/were and how badly you are/were addicted.

  25. Re:Yes, it has been done on Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? · · Score: 1

    Either that or the insufferable douchebags at the MCPC marketing arm finally figured out that Google doesn't crawl the forums here... Fucking twits.