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  1. Re:BULL CRAP! on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the problem is. My ex has an implant. The external processor most certainly had an on/off switch.

  2. Re:Stupid media bait on Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone · · Score: 2

    An African or a European octocopter?

  3. Re:Jerry Was A Man on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Jerry was a bullfrog.

    Was a good friend of mine.

  4. Re:Damn on Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just yesterday I put in $10. Now I have one year to use it.

    Shachar

    Math isn't your strong suit isn't it... the shutdown date of January 31, 2014 is less than two months from now.

    I don't care who you are, 2014-2013 is 1. As in one year.

    Kids these days and their 'new math'.

  5. Re:Huh? on Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 · · Score: 1

    I thought slashvertisements were supposed to be about companies that were growing, not companies that were closing down?

    It's a psych out. I think the commenters are supposed to post alternatives that the customers can switch to. So it's a slashvertisement, but slightly more subtle.

  6. Re:Cool Story Bro Time on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Well, justice is supposed to be blind...

    But how is justice supposed to consider my twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
    of each one if he's blind?

  7. Re:So what? on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Coding requires brains -- lots of them.
    Women who have those brains figure out quickly that there are enough boorish misogynist geeks that they leave at a higher rate than men. And quietly snicker at the complaints of skills shortages.

    They probably also figured that the grapes they turned up were pretty sour.

  8. Re:So what? on Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Why is there an imperative to increase the number?

    There probably is some reason as the issue comes up every now and then.

    Give me a reason more real than 'clickbait'.

  9. Re:People are bad on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    It wasn't due to hard cornering, it was due to quick transitions, turns in one direction to turns in another direction. The term you'll want to google is 'Swing arm suspension', common in cheap cars of the time. This includes the VWs you mention as well as the Fiat 500/600 of the time.

  10. Re:Irrelevant on 1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info · · Score: 1

    Because the only way to find an app on the iShit interface is by name, a name your friend told you, then you can't find it because the search doesn't actually give any relevancy points for exactly matching what you typed.

    Just plain wrong. You are either a liar or inept.

    Not mutually exclusive.

  11. Re:That explains the spike on US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency · · Score: 0

    Took me way too long to realize what four-digit ID you were talking about. *sigh*

    noob :p

    oldfag

  12. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Bullets are easy to make with simple steel casting molds. Available cheaply. Casings are reusable many, many times over.

  13. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    There is no de jure ban. DC v. Heller took care of that. Bureaucratic nonsense means there is a de facto ban. Still.

  14. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Emily Miller. And I thought she worked for the Moonie Times?

  15. Re:Joke all you want on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    Good old Slashdot.. providing a home for jokes that are too tired even for reddit.

    Would you like some hot grits to go with your whine?

  16. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Oh, and also because the autopsy revealing Duncan's sarcoidosis came out right before I was hospitalized for what sarcoids did to the nerves surrounding and controlling my own heart. I always liked him as a person and actor, and the probability that he died of something that almost killed me struck a nerve (no pun intended).

  17. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Why would you complicate an easy answer with facts?

    That's the way I (t)roll.

    A better example would have been Jim Fix, but there's probably more to that story as well.

  18. Re:Calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    BMI correlates well with heart disease. People like Michael Clark Duncan don't look fat, but still drop dead from heart disease.

    That's probably a result of his sarcoidosis (something the wikipedia article doesn't mention, but is easily googleable). The sarcoidosis can result in problems with many bodily systems. I've got the pacemaker/defibrilator to prove it :D

  19. Re:name that tune! on Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites · · Score: 1

    The lyrics sites in question have already consulted with their lawyers, and released the following statement which clarifies their positions on the issue:

    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
    Motherfucker!

    (fuck you slashdot junk text filter)

    Oh man, dude, that's utter genius! Now what song are those the lyrics to, again?

    Vera Lynn.

  20. Re:Useless study on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 1

    Since you apparently already have the statistics, why do you need theirs?

    To determine whether they support his preconceived notions or that they are morons.

  21. Re:More flair on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Ya know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear.

  22. Re:From the not las Malvinas dept on GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands · · Score: 1, Troll

    Was that you Margaret?

    Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!

  23. Re:Seven Years on WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The irony is that while the readership complains about the lack of editing of submissions, as your story and others illustrate, those editors do far more harm than good when they bother to read/alter submissions.

  24. Re:Yay! on IE Zero-Day Exploit Disappears On Reboot · · Score: 1

    Of course it has removable batteries. Take this hammer, and hit this edge sharply. Now that edge. Wedge a knife under there, and pry up. See that? That's your battery!

    You're a genius. Want an apple?

  25. Re:can we say sting op on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    and this doesn't scream Sting or front to anyone?. not to mention its just a bad idea in the first place

    Dream of the Blue Turtles, or are we going back to Message in a Bottle?