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  1. Re:Practical applications on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Hey man, the heart of gold was like not painted black. The spaceship that they stole at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe was the ultrablack frictionless spaceship.
    -Zaphod.

  2. Re:Hopefully not a result... on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Is Trying To Save a Huge Storage Room of Manuals · · Score: 1

    Yeah google sneakily crowdsourced this ages ago....

  3. Re:Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    Yes, but in gods perfect temple, there are no bugs.

  4. He is right on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 1

    I totally watch bittorrent'd scene eps of Sons of Anarchy..... I didn't google them though.

  5. Re:The motorcycles are for lazy people on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    Actually 8 days and some hours is closer to one week than two! Took me 9 to drive because I stopped in chicago and was drunk for 3 days.

  6. Re:Demonoid clones? on Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs · · Score: 1

    It serves torrents, you can comment on torrents, it tracks bandwidth, whats the big deal? Its probably a pile of messy code anyway...,

  7. Find My Mac / Fuckup My Mac on Wired Writer Hack Shows Need For Tighter Cloud Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow did even realize icloud had the ability to Remote wipe my computer.

    Currently Turning OFF this feature !

  8. Re:36,000 employees? Why? on Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple · · Score: 1

    Portions of the parts manufacture are automated, but Assembly is done by humans. Don't know if you have ever disassembled a laptop or not, but it is definitely delicate work better done by quick dextrous humans.

  9. Re:what is the problem you want to secure against? on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 1

    I'm still surprised that anyone leaves anything of value in their car without the car being in sight, but then again I have had my window smashed out 10 times over the last two decades (hazards of the hood). It was inconvenient, but no laptop or vintage stratocaster was lost.

  10. "The Current Economy" on Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people are willing to throw their money at imagined goods and services now, instead of going to the store and buying something interesting or useful. Case in point: App store, Google, Facebook.

  11. Lulzsec Overdrive on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 1

    They are actually agents of wintermute, recruited in Chiba city, duped into doing the dirty work of an AI on the loose. This is best handled by the Turing authority.

  12. Re:Internet Ban on Megaupload Co-Founder Allowed Bail · · Score: 3, Funny
  13. Northface McMurdo FTW on How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) · · Score: 2

    I have a Northface McMurdo jacket in size xxxl. This thing has an ungodly amount of HUGE pockets, so much so that I lose things in it. It also doubles as a blanket / mattress, and will keep you warm in subantarctic temps (look up Archibald McMurdo, of the HMS Terror, he explored antarctica. I would never need this.

  14. Re:It's not forced on her on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    mod up insightful. In this data leaky day and age, companies are reluctant to share their source code, but this is pretty standard operating procedure. Many big contracts would not have been granted if a looky-loo at the source code wasn't part of the deal.

  15. Re:Question: on Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground · · Score: 2

    add:

    Carlos Helu Slim, worlds richest man, a mexican.

  16. Re:Why Not Android Already? on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 1

    If RIM is going to switch OSes, why wouldn't they go with Android?

    Maybe you guys suggesting RIM "just go android" are living in lala land? Why not just hand over the keys of the castle to Google and be done with it all?

  17. Re:Purely out of curiosity on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    People are still annoyed by obnoxious cell phone users.

    Yeah, that was the point.. It is getting worse and there is no sort of etiquette established by society yet. That Microsoft commercial for the MicroPhone was about this behavior. In metropolitan areas it is really bad. In New York, people are texting on the highway (which is never a straight line) constantly, and in the city people just stop in the middle of a jam packed sidewalk. This morning a guy on a scooter pulled one out at the stoplight, and failed to notice the light had changed.

  18. Re:Purely out of curiosity on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll never forget the day when people walking around gesturing and talking to the air apparently stopped being crazy behavior and began to be perfectly acceptable behavior. It was sometime during 1999, right before the internet bubble burst. I miss those days. Now people don't look up from their smart phones to do the things they need to do, such as cross the street, disembark an elevator, talk to their families, etc.....

  19. Re:Misleading on Judge Says You Can't Know If Google Spies For NSA · · Score: 1

    Does anyone here know how to read government intelligence agency speak? I do, I watch several relevant TV shows. This case is closed, it quite clearly says the following: "Google and the NSA work very closely together, in fact Google was funded from the beginning with intelligence money and VC with this very idea in mind. None of this ever happened. Nothing to see here, please move along."

  20. Re:Interesting fact on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    You are wrong about this. The way that google has decided to unroll this product accomplishes many things. To begin with, it creates hype, and the invitation tree premaps social networks. When you join by invitation, you already have at least one connection seeded, and its not some buster named Tom. Clever, eh?

  21. Re:Leaving the top 10% behind in the initial relea on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    At my (fortune 500) shop, we have several versions deployed, and nobody on Studio 2 is clamoring for an upgrade to X. We have no plans to force them to spend money or force them to upgrade. This is the real world. We just replaced a grass valley deck that had been in use for about 20 years. We only replace stuff that needs replacing, no need to interrupt valuable billable hours to muck about with upgrades.

  22. Re:Nice? on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you want to take out crime - do it at the source or check the cause for the crime first./i?

    Shouldn't be too difficult to rearrange the worlds wealth equally, distribute the workload evenly to the populace, remove humans innate competitiveness, get rid of all people that are insane / have no self control, control the crazy teenagers and rewrite the rules of most societies. Lets get to work on that....

  23. Re:Clueless about PLATO on Gates' Future of Education Straight Out of '60s · · Score: 1

    Where are you from? Plato was insanely ahead of its time, did not suck. Programmed instruction may not be the end all be all, but no need to slander one of my favorite vintage platforms. I played Krozair and the other dungeon games until my fingers hurt !!

  24. Re:"Unconsciously stress?" on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    It didn't come with a manual, but for the obsessive parent, luckily there are hundreds of aftermarket guides, beginning with the ubiquitous Dr. Spock' Guide.

  25. Forgive me Confession App on Confession: There's an iPhone App For That · · Score: 1

    For I have sinned. I jailbroke my iphone, carrier unlocked it to use on TMobile, then I downloaded a cracked version of Confession App through installous. Also Angry Birds.