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  1. Congratulations on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd just like to congratulate anybody who has gotten over 5 years out of a DVD drive.

  2. Re:Please don't... on Today's Average Screen Resolution? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Amen to that.

    I increase the screen resolution so i have more space to move my windows as I please. It's not an open invitation to code a website to take every square cm available.

    Sites that are wider than 1000 pixels rarely find a place in my bookmarks.

  3. spoiler on More Delays for Ender Movie · · Score: 1

    IT WASN'T A GAME

    muahahaha

  4. Re:Australians... on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    Score: -1, New Zealander

  5. Flowers for Algernon on Gene Found That May Affect IQ in Males · · Score: 1

    Better still, let's develop ways to artificially increase everyone's IQ!

  6. Re:Insightfull my ass on Hydrogen-Emitting Microbe Examined · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power in Australia is a political impossibility.

    To put things into perspective, my state government (which ironically sanctioned the expansion of olympic dam) threatened to take the Federal government to the full bench of the High Court because the feds wanted to store low level nuclear waste (think contaminated suits and the like) underground, in a desert town 400km away from the nearest major city.

  7. Re:Insightfull my ass on Hydrogen-Emitting Microbe Examined · · Score: 1

    60% of the world's uranium deposits are in Australia. The majority of which is in my state, South Australia - the driest state on the driest continent on earth (besides Antarctica of course).

    The South Australian government recently moved to double the uranium output of the Olympic Dam uranium mine. Guess how they're getting the water to mine the uranium? Desalination, powered by coal power plants.

  8. Question: on Study Finds Regulation Good For Telecom Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why isn't half of slashdot lining up to attack the report's methodology?

    Answer:

    Because slashdot readers like the conclusions in this one.

  9. Re:Article text sans annoying hyperlink context ad on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for that. I'd read it, but I can't really be bothered.

  10. Re:Err, not VHS? on Why Does Beta Last So Long? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I still can't figure out how ICQ didn't get a mention in the /. article summary! That's been in beta as long as beta has been around.

  11. Re:No "hard" date required... on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 1

    That'll be just as useless as reminding car purchasers that there will come a day when the oil actually runs out.

    These people only start giving a shit when their product stops working.

  12. Re:Depends where you live on The Math Behind the Hybrid Hype · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Meanwhile, you can pretend your car holds 200 passengers.

  13. Re:Wow.. if only we americans didn't spend on defe on Italy To Build World's Longest Suspension Bridge · · Score: 1

    Can you find Italy on a map?

  14. Re:Back when hackers ruled the net on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Since when did the general public know what bit torrent is?

  15. Re:Infected himself? on Nobel Prize Awarded for Stomach Ulcer Discovery · · Score: 0

    Ah slashdot. He feeds me my own joke and gets the karma points for it.

  16. Re:Infected himself? on Nobel Prize Awarded for Stomach Ulcer Discovery · · Score: 1

    One of the doctors is from my home town of Adelaide, so I suspect another motive for the self infection...

  17. Re:Clone it? on 20 Million Year Old Spider Found · · Score: 1

    It's unknown whether Tasmania is a suitable habitat. We'll have to wait for the DNA analysis to determine whether the Spiders had two heads.

  18. Yes but... on Early AJAX Office Applications · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...does it keep my kitchen clean?

  19. Re:Gross on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 1

    Oh awesome, they made a profit. That means I can steal it now, right? You know, get back at the corporate machine and all that.

  20. The world record... on World Solar Challenge Started in Australian Desert · · Score: 1

    ...would be smashed if they raced AWAY from Adelaide.

  21. My idea on Electrical Shielding for the Homeowner? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tin foil hat...

  22. Re:An elevator... on Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance · · Score: 1

    As long as it's not built on top of a monastery we're alright.

  23. Re:You know the drill... on Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More? · · Score: 1

    But wasn't the alleged Star Trek 5 filmed in our dimension?!

  24. Re:Great but.... on Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry · · Score: 1

    Anyone who went to highschool knows all you need is PVC pipe, a sparkplug and a can of hairspray.

  25. Re:Skip TFA on Xbox 360 Launch to Face Several Hurdles · · Score: 0

    What I don't understand is why the title suggests we should piss the NFL off?