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  1. Send me one M-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars now on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    ...or else I release my bad code.

  2. Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls on Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls · · Score: 1

    I have programs that stall all the time. Just run it under a debugger and you'll see why almost immediately.

  3. Please don't... on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    ...wire the nuclear plant directly into Homer's brain.

  4. Re:Simple countermeasure: Fly low on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    No no no...There has to be an expensive countermeasure that the Defense Dept can sell to 'the other side'.

  5. Re:That's easy on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    I agree war will never be eliminated entirely, but I bet that if you made a rule that war could only be declared by people with children actively serving in the military, it would probably become a lot less 'necessary'.

  6. Slashdotted? on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently they capture the heat generated by the server as it gets slashdotted to recharge the laser. Keep clicking the links lads, it's your patriotic duty.

  7. Re:Easy strawmen to knock off?.. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Taxpayers' money is spent on religion all the time. I don't see why this is any different. It's all fiction.

  8. Re:Have they played the mission? on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    What happens if you shoot your buddies? Do you 'die' with the friendly-fire message like in previous CoDs?

  9. Re:Why build this monstrosity? on 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the answer though. They're building this thing to find out what the question was.

  10. Re:30 seconds on Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired · · Score: 2, Informative

    But that's only for n=1 though. For larger values of n (approaching 250) the time comes down to around 7.2 seconds per page.

    That's according to the summary. Which might be wrong.

  11. Re:Lifestyle Change on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    The biggest mistake the majority of people who go on a diet is...

    I think that expressing weight loss intent with the words "go on a diet" are completely the wrong approach. The subject says it all. You have to make the lifestyle change so that you are not "on" a diet, but that your diet (which is what you eat) is different. People who "go on a diet" are telling themselves that they'll soon be able to come "off the diet" and eat anything they want to, which is patently not the case.
    It's all about making healthier choices for your body. Stand in line at any supermarket checkout and you can see what the difference in diet is between fat and fit people.

  12. Re:Good name on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    Oh...my...god...

    Get the Bill O'Reilly bikini

  13. Re:Meh Lame-oh on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 1

    You haven't driven in Florida recently, have you.

  14. Context people, context on Leaked Modern Warfare 2 Footage Causes Outrage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Before jumping to conclusions I'd like to see the context for this scene. Infinity Ward have done a bang-up job with the franchise so far so I'll cut them some slack by not taking things out of context thank you very much.

  15. Re:No point running desktop Windows on this monste on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    To be fair though, the drivers do sometimes lag behind the newest kernel release, but this is easily mitigated by reverting back to the last kernel where the drivers were working properly, or by waiting a while before installing new kernels.

  16. Re:I guess... on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    And watch Google Suggest give you some popular torrents to browse.

  17. I hope they send a swat team on Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy · · Score: 1

    When they find the guy who stole my bike.

  18. Re:Great on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 1

    Hey!!!

  19. Re:Great on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 1

    The little white collar on 4Gen Shuffles doesn't go all the way up now, the controller gets in the way.

  20. Great on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now maybe Apple could apply this structure to my iPod earphones. They're _always_ getting tangled.

  21. Re:the magic ingredient on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..and if they had McGuyver it'd be sorted in 10 minutes with his bootlaces.

  22. When slashdotters get their hands on this program on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tubgirl and goatse.cs are gonna crash.

  23. Summary is wrong on IBM Researchers Working Toward Cheap, Fast DNA Reader · · Score: 2, Funny

    the first-ever sequencing done for the Human Genome Project, which cost $3 billion.

    It cost a lot more than that. I mean first we had to evolve from amoeba and create a civilization.

  24. Actually, the telegraph should read on De Icaza Responds To Stallman · · Score: 1

    that is, if I translate what is in the article to a telegraph:

    "business opportunity stop stop stop they have no shoes stop"

    thank you stop

  25. Re:One more thing to break indeed! on Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they'll have the kinks sorted out when I need a new roof in twenty years!