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  1. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    You mean like Senator Edward Kennedy???

  2. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Dead's dead.

  3. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    Slashdot regulars in g-strings and flip-flops - now that's a terror attack!

  4. Re:Say goodbye for XML on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 2, Funny

    1897, but then that A.Einstein quit and got a real job.

  5. Re:Not a new warning on Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's not a choice. We're going to get increased government *and* climate change. (See, I get really cynical when I don't get my coffee. Oh, wait...)

  6. Re:insanity on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warning: may contain nuts.

  7. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    The Freedom of Information Act only applies to public authorities as defined in the Act and includes companies that are wholly owned by public authorities. Oh, and even then, if it'll take more than 10 hours to prepare, they don't have to. That's NuLabor(TM) for you.

  8. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Dollars to donuts. Will we still use that when a donut costs $1.50???

  9. Re:Unexpected error? on Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out · · Score: 1
  10. Re:What. The. Funk? on ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actual murder would get, what, 10 years, tops?

  11. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    So ever since Newton we've relied on his gravity data and no one has gone and got their own???

  12. Re:gone on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    Gather your own.

  13. Premature. on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 1

    It's only about 30,000 once you discount the dupes.

  14. Re:Documentation is very lacking on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $ man ls
    ...
    SEE ALSO The full documentation for ls is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ls programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils ’ls invocation’ should give you access to the complete manual.


    And now we're into a whole new world or "how the hell do I quit this???" Can info just die now, please?

  15. Re:I for one welcome this on Google May Limit Free News Access · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oi! Back of the queue!

  16. Re:Javascript is actually a great language on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    So javascript is a great language, but few people notice because all but the most recent implementations are resource hogs, and the most used API (the DOM) is hideous and causes aneurisms for multiplatform deployment. But it'a a great language.

  17. Re:Eh on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    Water? Ah, maybe not.

  18. Re:You've failed to understand the real world on Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware? · · Score: 1, Funny
    Malware can exist for any platform.

    Damit! I knew there was a reason it took so long to get to the login screen on my sliderule!

  19. Re:My A*& will be sore on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is that if the scientific community subjected the CRU to even the most basic scrutiny they would either be forced to prove their conclusions or sent packing. The fact that they haven't been sent packing would indicate that either the entire scientific community has been asleep/hoodwinked, or that the conclusions are proven to the satisfaction of the community.

  20. Re:Just another day on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    But they've only confirmed a handful.

  21. Re:Just another day on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    "the data should be made available on the basis that public money paid for it" I agree, and so does the Guardian. Unfortunately the UK government tends to see it as: "The public paid for it, so we have a duty to get the public back the most money for it we can, none of this socialist giving it away for free!" This is why the maps of the UK cost so much, unlike in the US. So it's not so much CRU as all the UK.

  22. Re:Oh wow on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    Black and white will seamlessly team together. And pick on green, 'coz why settle for racism when you've got specism! (Misquoted from Pratchett.)

  23. Interpretive dance? on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't know about interpretive dance, but I'm guessing that the MFC was written in abstract pottery.

  24. Re:Misleading Conclusion. on What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy · · Score: 1

    Borrow. Lots.

  25. Re:Actually this is about *policy*, not science on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Nah. We can deny that too - abiotic oil.