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  1. Re:Question for slashdot on Interviews: Ask Lead Developer Ben Kamens About Khan Academy · · Score: 2

    >> When will we start seeing responses?

    Let me get back to you on that.

  2. Re:Awful Idea on Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship · · Score: 0

    >> you spell something wrong, while writing with a PEN... now what?

    The Russians solved the same problem by sending their astronauts to space with a $0.10 pencil.

  3. Pre-fork OO on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have been using the last pre-fork version of OO. It works fine and mostly does what I want.

    Is there any good reason to switch to the latest Libre?

  4. They must have brought down the averages on Updated Model Puts Earth On the Edge of the Habitable Zone · · Score: 5, Funny

    by deciding to include my neighborhood.

  5. MMMMWwwwwwwaaaHaHaHahaha! on Fight You Own Muscles To Create Force-Feedback On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    My drone army is almost complete!

  6. Re:How the heck is the camera mounted ? on Four At Once: Volcano Quartet Erupts On Kamchatka · · Score: 1

    Dunno, but stuff like this always makes me wish I'd spent more than $9.95 on my video card.

  7. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Judging from some of the roofers I've known, drunk would be exactly the way to "build software as we build houses".

  8. Re:What's the difference... on Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism · · Score: 1

    The beetle's dung is on the outside.

  9. Re:What about contacts graph? on Google Pushing Back On Law Enforcement Requests For Access To Gmail Accounts · · Score: 1

    >> Or I think it does not do it.

    Letters are all machine processed anyhow. Wouldn't this be pretty easy to implement for most letters?

  10. Re:question on Announcing Adafruit Gemma – Miniature Wearable Electronic Platform · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot; your mom will wash it.

  11. Re:Yes, better transparency! on Getting Better Transparency From Oil Refineries · · Score: 1

    Your post doesn't have enough pieces of flair, apparently.

  12. Re:Infant Mortality Rates on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened, it's definitely the US's fault.

  13. Re:Define the spec on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    >> every innocuous phrase

    If you know what I mean, wink, wink.

  14. Re:HP continues its long slow auger on GM CIO Says HP Hiring Probe "Not the Best Use Our Legal System" · · Score: 1

    It's like it's 2005 all over again.

  15. Re: libraries are better than ebooks on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 2

    >> bring home stacks of... vastly interesting reading material

    Binders full of women?

  16. Re: US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    >> Humans in general have 10 fingers.

    And yet we only have two nostrils.

  17. Re:Processed beyond recognition on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    >> lab-grown meat doesn't have a digestive system

    We're working on that currently, in the interests of producing an artificial hot dog from lab grown pork anuses.

  18. Re:Not possible. on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> Chinese generic laptops very cheap here

    Plus they come preloaded with spyware.

  19. Re:Knowing more than parents... on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 1

    All the kids today are consumers of content, not techies. That's why the iPod, iPad, etc. are so popular.

  20. Re:Once upon a time... on Rusty Foster Isn't Dead · · Score: 1

    1. Open mail
    2. Say "Yes" to whatever offer is inside
    3. ???
    4. LULZ

  21. Re:Gas guzzlers should be taxed out of existence. on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 2

    >> Everybody uses the road, so everybody should pay.

    I think what they are trying to achieve is a sort of "fairness".

    Based on this sort of objective, however, childless people should pay less property tax since they aren't a burden on the education system, and fat people should pay higher food taxes since they disproportionately use public medical resources.

    Sounds absurd to me.

  22. Re:Don't you worry... on Peel-and-Stick Solar Cells Created At Stanford University · · Score: 2

    PV Prices (note log scale)

  23. Re:Of course on Researcher Says the Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> the sky is expected to remain blue and scientists predict that water will remain wet

    Your misguided promotion of the radical scientific agenda won't fool Jesus.

  24. Re:It is just me... on Twin Probes Crash Into the Moon · · Score: 1

    If you're plunging your probe into a moon, where the sun don't shine, you could always name the impact crater after my brother-in-law. That would be a bit more appropriate.

  25. Re:rampage killers on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1