User: Britney

Why the South Pole

On: Wearable Computer Expedition Reaches South Pole

And not the North Pole?

Is it because they wanted some Penguins?

Don't joke

On: Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready

Larry Ellison is live on CNN now, explaining how he will selflessly engineer the infrastructure to provide a national id T-shirt program.

Re:Have you forgotten...

On: The Drone War

And of course, the zeroth Law:

0. No robot may harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Probably because we don't want to lose the monopoly on that aim.

Re:George Lucas actually listened to his fans?

On: Slashback: Squashing, N'Synch, Yopy

Does that mean he'll add a five minute spot to the film where Jar-Jar gets brutally murdered?

What's the matter with you?

As if anyone's going to agree with that!

I mean, five minutes! Now if it could be 15-20...

Re:Bah

On: The Drone War

Hey, I saw "War Games"

Just get the drones to play each other at tic-tac-toe and the futility of war will dawn on them after a few draws.

We've (humans) had thousands of years of evidence, but we still don't get it.

Then again, how many presidents/kings/generals fight in the front line these days?

Which anagram of your name do you like best?

On: Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva'

Which anagram of your name do you like best?

Codes are open
An opcode seer
A code reopens
A creed so open
As code opener
A score opened
Redo open case
CEO dares open
Ease porn code?
or for /. AC does reopen

Re:Lawsuits

On: SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling

SuSE is settling out of court with a German company called "Crayon" that claims that the KDE app Krayon violates their trademark

Really? Who will Crayon be after next?

German footballer Stefan Kuntz?

I don't get it

On: Name The MySql Dolphin

What's the Porpoise of this?

Re:Music was my first love, and it will be my last

On: Future of Music Summit

How's Washington?

D.C. al Fine!

Re:Bureaucrats

On: W3C Launches Technical Architecture Group

I'm a developer and I don't know "XHML".

But I do know "XHTML.

Validator re-write required?

On: W3C Launches Technical Architecture Group

W3C has chartered and assembled a Technical Architecture Group - the TAG for short

Let's hope they never have to conform to the standards - by having an end-TAG.

Re:Fsck! Why not a Hex Watch

On: Binary Watch

Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
to feed at least one child in Africa...

Hey, I'm a secretary, and have enough resources to feed 2 children (African or not) at a time: One on the left, one on the right.

Re:Slashdot Boardgame

On: Geek Gift Ideas 2001

I want the "Karma cap remover" TM

January 28, 1986

On: The Real Mission to Mars

face it nasa hasn't sent people to another "world" since the late 70s

January 28, 1986 (so mid-eighties)

Space shuttle Challenger

Seven crew members "sent to another world".

We still don't know whether Nasa or Morton-Thiokol caused the accident (through neglect, or otherwise), but is was definitely Nasa who sent them.

Loads of info here

Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54

On: Would You Pay A Penny Per Page?

That just cost you four pennies!

Can you say 'I have been Trolled' ?

Talking of sizes for paper...

On: Light Emitting Pictures On Standard Inkjet Printer

Dictionary.com informs me:

size
n.
Any of several gelatinous or glutinous substances usually made from glue, wax, or clay and used as a glaze or filler for porous materials such as paper, cloth, or wall surfaces.

Cool!

Re:Now all I need to do is print my own processor

On: Light Emitting Pictures On Standard Inkjet Printer

onto a sheet of legal-sized paper

Pardon me, are there illegal sizes for paper?

Re:No carrier?

On: Dump Broadband, Dig Out Your Modem!

RFC is here

Re:In the Plex?

On: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter

Sure - I've been in the news (on the BBC).

Take a look

Now I've shown you mine, you show me yours.

In the Plex?

On: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter

it looks like the new filter is going to be ipf-compatible

Maybe Google would be interested in this.

Wait - that's IPO-compatible.

Re:Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

On: IBM Develops Transistor Capable of 210GHz

No.

What is a Beowulf cluster?

It's gotta be either a breakfast cereal, or a chocolate bar, right?

Re:Is it the hardware or the microcode?

On: Microchips That Evolve

I've got some silicone that seems to have a life of its own!

Re:is this for real?

On: Open Source Help-Desk Software?

He's asking for software. Any idiot could find it but he didn't.

I disagree. If it had been hardware, then it would be easy, I agree. You just go to the local hardware store, and ask for the nails or rope or whatever.
But I've never even seen a software store in my town, or the next one.

Last time

On: Eat Lots; Digest Little

Last time I got pumped full of grease, I put on 25 pounds.

Then the doctor told me I was pregnant.

Re:Cool

On: Commercial Digital Imaging of the Earth

Why, is your house sun-synchronous?