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  1. Re:how many more before we address the on Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar · · Score: 0

    Is it just one employee who gets drunk and keeps losing the phones, or is it a company wide issue? They could just not give Jobs an experimental phone to play with when he goes bar hopping.

  2. Re:Can't those employees get bungee cords? on Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar · · Score: 0

    I mean if they dummy corded the phones to them with like a coiled bungee cord I'm sure the phones are very less likely to get lost unless someone cut the cord on them.

    If they did that, then they would have to buy back their employees on Craigs list.

  3. Re:To all anti-vaxxers on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 0

    I hope the guy who wrote that bullshit report, as well as every journalist who proliferated it, dies in a very painful death.

    He (Andrew Wakefield) apparently lost his medical license because of this, but is still earning money (donations) from his loyal fans, although it's probably less than the $43 million per year he expected to earn from his scheme. Wikipedia has an article on him.

  4. Re:hmm on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 0

    Well, I always thought that Google sounded like something to do with being underwater than it does searching. Unless you are searching for naughty bits.

    Can I come up to your place and google you?

  5. Re:Not Dead Yet? on Novell Wins Against SCO Again · · Score: 0

    Because Johnny Carson pays their gas bills.

    Look for larry darryl and darryl (mcbride?)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart

  6. Re:This is patently false. on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 0

    I have listened to this speech at work on the internet every year on the anniversary of MLK's death.

    And the anniversary of his birth, and the date he gave the speech, and Martin Luther King day, and ...

    The news reporters usually find a reason to run it at least once a month.

  7. Re:"So why aren't we doing it?" on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 0

    So, what you're saying is that the U.S. government controls your clocks by beaming invisible rays into them?

    That's what they want you to think. What they really do is send mind control rays out there that force you to manually reset the clock, then forget that you did it. You think they are going to set up a separate network just to change your clock, when they already have this other one up and running?

  8. Re:My first post on Linus' First Linux Post, 20 Years Ago Today · · Score: 0

    It's going to be some Canadian who invents a new memory expander for MS-DOS, reviving that as the premier Operating System.

  9. Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 0

    Nope, no burning bush.

    Obama's been in office for almost three years, and you're still burning Bush in effegy?

  10. Dup on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 0

    After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted,

    Too bad that it was the same story, duped 15,000 times.

  11. Re:Yay on NASA Tries To Save Hubble's Successor · · Score: -1

    For this administration to build it, it will need to be called something like "Global Warming Explorer", "Rich People Killer", or "Bush's Fault".

  12. Re:HOW THE HELL? on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: -1

    The Earth, why does it hate us?

    Depends on who you talk to

    Obama: It's all George W Bushes fault.
    Al Gore: It's Global Warming. Please buy carbon credits from me.
    Reverend Wright: God Damn Americans!
    Nancy Polosi: Tea baggers
    Creationists: Those damn evolutionists.
    Evolutionists: Will you quit putting those religious fables in textbooks.

  13. Re:probably wasn't a beach... on World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach · · Score: -1

    The Earth couldn't have been warmer than it is today. There weren't any SUV's back then, so no Global Warming. The only thing that can affect the Global temperature is Carbon released into the atmosphere by human means, and since there were no humans that far back, the Earth could not have been warmer.

  14. Ceapskates on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 0

    They probably tried to get by with just one shark for every two lasers. Cheapskates.

  15. Why bother on Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why bother. According to Global Warming, it's all going to be melted in the next 10 years. Just like the Arctic completely melted in September 2008.

  16. Re:Books stores have a great use, if they'll do it on Bookstores May Boycott New Amazon-Published Books · · Score: 1

    I sure hope you don't use Kindle for environmental reasons. If you do, you should do more research on what it takes to make a single unit.

    Lets compare

    Kindle with 500 books:
    plastic, metal, electronics.
    Weight is somewhere around a pound.
    Volume less than a cubic foot.

    500 Printed Books
    Toxic chemicals in ink, whitening the paper, glue, binding material, colored ink for covers, ...
    Weight around 500+ pounds
    Volume 50 cubic feet

    I hate to be the one to tell you that publishing books actually requires environmental resources. Paper manufacturing has historically been a very nasty process, with lots of dead fish, and actual burning rivers. A lot of the inks used are hazardous. Then you have the glue, thread, cloth, leather, foil, etc. used in the final product. After that, you also have the packaging (more materials), and shipping of the final products.

  17. Re:It's Bush's fault!! on Sun May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades · · Score: 1

    If they would all just quit driving those SUV's, and switch to using two large $1.2M Canadian Buses instead, then all this GW stuff would stop.

  18. Re:At a Minimum...It is going to be colder...Al Go on Sun May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades · · Score: 0

    The sun has absolutely no effect on Global Warming. This is one of the Global Warming tenets. Just google all the articles about this. Only man can effect Global Warming. Volcanoes, sunspots, comet strikes, and atomic Godzilla attacks will have a miniscule effect compared to one SUV.

  19. Re:It is time for electromagnetic shielding then. on Sun May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades · · Score: 1

    You just need to reverse the polarity of the neocronic (or whatever the particle of the week is) shield. At least that's the way it works in the Star Trek universe.

  20. Re:San Diego smell? on Alaskan Village's Orange Goo Was Fungal Spores · · Score: 1

    Sheesh... You burn one hamburger on your barbeque, and the whole neighborhood complains. Damn vegetarians.

  21. Re:Only One Way To Find Out on Alaskan Village's Orange Goo Was Fungal Spores · · Score: 1

    If you eat it, it will turn you into a pirate. It was dropped by the flying spaghetti monster. It's trying to fix global warming.

  22. Re:It's our own damn fault on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    A large chunk of the subsidies goes to tobacco farmers. How would a shortage of cigarettes cause a famine?

  23. Re:The nerd won the second world war ! on How Volunteers Rebuilt WW2 Computers · · Score: 1

    But if we run after them, grab them around the waist, squeeze hard, and say "I feel your pain", they should all die of embarrassment.

    Maybe if we run them through a TSA screening, that would do them in, too.

  24. Re:First digital computer instead of Eniac? on How Volunteers Rebuilt WW2 Computers · · Score: 1

    The Tunny wasn't really a computer. It was hard coded logic for one single problem, solving the Lorentz crypto. You could not change it's function without re-engineering the hardware. All it did was to try all possible keys on a given message, and report anything that looked like a possible key. It was more a simple front end to a series of Lorentz machines, which it cranked until something interesting happened. As interesting as it was, it wasn't really what you could classify as a computer.

    The Eniac was a plug-programmable computer. You changed it's programming by rewiring it. And it wasn't the first, just more commonly known. The English Baby was the first that stored its program in memory, so it could be reprogrammed without rewiring. And it had a very small memory, it was a test machine after all.

  25. Re:meanwhile... on DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe we need to stop spending money on this crap that doesn't even work.

    Like the two $500 Billion "economic stimulus" packages, working on "shovel ready" projects that "haa haa" didn't actually exist, where they spent over $280,000 for each job created or saved. They're planning for another round, even bigger this time! Or the unconstitutional Obamacare, whose costs are increasing rapidly, and they are discovering that it will supply even worse care than was originally stated, even before any major part is actually implemented.