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  1. what no ice-nine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
     

  2. it's dead jim ... on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    the shark jumped years ago ....

  3. the final soulution (7%) on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    yes .. give everybody free money, then free drug of their choice ...
    then find it's not profitable .. out source drug making to [third world country]

    millions are overdosed/poisoned in weeks

    problem solved

  4. alt -uses .. on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    can we train it to weed out politicians ?

  5. would you like some cheese with your whine.... on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 2

    yes its fun - Arduinos, Rpi, fpga with fricken Arms embedded ..
      thinks we only dreamed of 30 years ago ...
        don't like an 'app' build it ,..

      don't like a platform move

    -- get off my lawn sonny --

  6. new revenue stream .. on Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    ya that is ads delivered directly to the eye ball
        -- won't start that way
            hijacking your focal distance at active ad length --

      but eventually direct to the eye ..

  7. Rodney Dangerfield .... on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "We will also be bringing intelligence into real-time video."
        you haven't met my ex wife ...

  8. nah ... on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    North Korean ICBM ..
            effective range world wide / blast area 1 meter

  9. can we turn off some of the crap ?? on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    been reading here for 15 years or more ..
    i like simple low bandwidth screens - aka text
    your beta isn't ..

  10. Re:They need a better PR firm. on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 0

    I am sure the Ministry of Truth is working hard at it.
    The memory hole will take care of the details.
    after all, thought crime is against the American way
      The proles don't need to worry, go back watching the latest "idol", "reality tv" ...

    It will be taken care of ...

  11. 404 errors on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 0

    change the wp-login.php name to wp-ThwartSupidScriptBotts-login.php or whatever variant you like
    (and one other place in the code, if i remember correctly)
    I'm getting 3000+ 404 errors a month from seemingly random IP

    scripts cant deal with various names (though you may want to remember what the log in is )

  12. but ... on How Scientists Know An Idea Is a Good One · · Score: 0

    mathematicians only need chalk
    (apropos: http://xkcd.com/435/ )

  13. 200km/hr on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    maybe 200km/hr in the atmosphere
    but that is only necessary for a half hour - once your past "the skys the limit" as far as speed goes ...

  14. ha ha.... on Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced · · Score: 1

    I think that I have just gained a reason to shop at home
      Cross border shopping has been going down hill as it is (free trade / political BS)

  15. THATS IT! on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm leaving ...

  16. grants ... on Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria · · Score: 1

    probably took this long for the grant money to come though ...

  17. gosh on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 0

    and a infra-red filter (hot mirror) wouldn't stop this ? .. helloooooo...

  18. seen it before on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks had it first....

  19. pervasive on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    on the plus side ...
    it is likely humans can't make it extinct

  20. its ok really on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    i plan on being dead by then...

  21. getting better on Anathem · · Score: 1

    I just finished Anathem this past weekend as well..
    I understand the views of the reviewer / though i thought it was a better read (after getting through the first 200pages) than the Baroque Cycle or Cryptonomicon

    there much of angst buried in there & i thought the ending was rushed ..
      so it was a good question .. where was the editor .. ??

  22. % of tripe ? on SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University · · Score: 1

    my collection 1200+ books contains 20-30% of really bad writting, poor story line or just crappy books
    -the kindof what the hell am i reading this for type of book ...-

    i wonder what percent of 35000 is low quailty ?

    does it come down to quanity vs quality ??
    (REF: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

  23. Re:Where to get rack pieces? on LEGO Mindstorms: The Master's Technique · · Score: 2, Informative

    best place to get parts mindstorms/technic/ or just plain brick

    http://www.bricklink.com/

    as an old fart who got back into lego recently
    this is by far the best place to get parts

  24. Re:to the rescue!!! on Y2K: Fuel the Panic, the NBC Movie · · Score: 1

    power cords? nah .. he's going to rewrite the worlds banking/missile/IRS systems COBOL using his trusty teletype punchcard connected to his OSBORNE powerd by a windmill ... he will accomplish this amazing feat by writing a benign virus the will "magicly" infiltrate all computers attached to the power grid .....

    of course, he will ship before it has been tested ...

  25. good vs evil on Feature: Good vs. Evil on the World Wide Web · · Score: 1

    to much time on your hands perhapps??