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  1. Re:Accenture? on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    At any rate, plumbers can actually make decent money because their skills are pretty damn useful.

    don't forget half of their work has them up to their elbows in shit too. and not the kind of 'shit' you see in IT, actual literal shit.

  2. Re:Bike helmet? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Not so fast ! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Not so sure about 'slightly fewer' but 'slightly slower' might work.

  4. Re:Excellent! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Issue has been resolved, please verify once.

  5. Re:We need to make an example of him. on LulzSec's Sabu To Be Sentenced In New York · · Score: 1

    sorry, it is now called 'Mantrol' http://www.bestadsontv.com/ad/32738/NZTA-Mantrol

  6. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    do you realise that scroll lock works in excel?

  7. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    ME crashed extremely frequently compared to 98.

  8. Re:Cheap architecture + short cuts = DOOM on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 1

    so could a customer plug in a device to the POS system which provides a confirmation no matter what data it's given?

  9. Re:Obligatory Tom Swifty: on Using Nanotechnology To Build Thinner, Stronger Condoms · · Score: 2

    did you hear the other one about the homosexual necrophiliac? he was upset with his boyfriend, the rotten bum split on him.

  10. Re:Reduced Friction? on Using Nanotechnology To Build Thinner, Stronger Condoms · · Score: 5, Funny

    you'll need an outlet store with a computerised fitting system by the sounds of it. here, poke your member in this hole while we 3d scan it. oh, and watch this porn.

  11. Re: FTFY on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    the 'internal combustion' part was a FTFY, OP said all engines and I corrected to internal combustion engines while giving examples of non-IC engines which dont suffer from carbon build up.

  12. Re: Current PCs are good enough. on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    Ugh, what kind of sucker for punishment uses IE? why would you want to run IE9?

  13. Re: not exactly a troll. IA made similar, met Nint on Nintendo Defeats and Assumes Control of 'Patent Troll's' Portfolio After Victory · · Score: 1

    I think you're meant to be on www.hackaday.com

  14. Re:Don't make an email account with your name in i on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    Firing squad

  15. Re:Get a real mail account on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    I haven't been slaughtered... not even once... I receive some tailored ads but I feel that is a fair price to pay for an email service. I don't even get spam with this one like I did back in the hotmail days.

  16. Re:really? on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    go on, High voltage wont kill you, it's the current that will.

  17. Re:Solution on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    the US wouldn't know what to do with a 'metric shit-TON' you might want to drop the 'metric' if you want acceptance from the US.

  18. Re:Aren't there any lessons learned from prohibiti on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    Some years back there was a tobacco bootlegging operation in full force in the south island of New Zealand, they were even selling the stuff from the local stores. when they were finally busted and put out of business, the locals were PISSED that they couldn't get good quality tobacco anymore, only the crap that big tobacco pedals which is full of additives http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10335841

  19. Re:Hudreds of Thousands US jobs depend on cartels on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    it's called an electronic cigarette.

  20. Re:Nice idea but... on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Nice idea but... on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    do NOX users fart nitro-methane?

  22. FTFY on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 1

    Eventually, all Internal Combustion engines suffer some form of carbon build-up

    compressed air and steam engines just to name a couple don't suffer from carbon build-up in the cylinders

  23. Re:Works for me on TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    so move out and pay for your own internets

  24. Re:systemd on The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm a linux user but haven't got to the depths of these systemd issues people are crying about all the time, some factual information would go a long way.

  25. Re:Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    I heard about the broomstick from an old timer, not the rag though, you would walk around your leaking steam vessel waving the broomstick around in front of you, when it snapped in half you had found your leak.