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  1. Daisy 50th Anniversary Pellet Rifle on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a Daisy 50th Anniversary Pellet Rifle. It has a rifled barrel, and is very accurate at a range suitable for a gun of this type. It is not that difficult to hit a dime at 25 yards with this gun. It is actually surprising how fast BB/pellet come out of the barrel with a simple air pump.

  2. Medical devices will be wireless soon too... on Irrigation Controller Stolen, Wirelessly Rescues Itself · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say for instance your grandfather has a pacemaker with wireless.

    $>ping grandpa
    No Host Found.

    Oh no, GRANDPA!!!!

  3. Old man and the 486 running Win3.1 on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Back at the uni, we had one really old comp, running Win3.1 and it had the bare minimum mem to boot. It was so slow, it had lag in the command line.

    This one old man insisted on using that computer for all his lessons because, "..this one doesn't get away from me like the rest of them."

    He did well on the lessons, he just took his time doing it.

  4. Retirement Age - Social Security? on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    So, I could theoretically get partial retirement at say 300 years, and not be considered a complete slacker?

  5. .. but if it breaks the build on Visualizing Open Source Contributions · · Score: 1

    .. the wings get torn off and a dead kitten is stuffed in the crippled angel's mouth. Then and all the other developers throw their empty Dew/Engery Drink cans at the offending developer shouting "NAY NAY!".

    Or so one could wish.

  6. Doh! on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Damn it, your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me, even if you are right!

  7. They ough to hire Tariq Aziz! on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they can get the US to let him go, Tariq Aziz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz would make the perfect spokesperson for the Chinese denial of attacks.

  8. Re:Social Apps vs Opinion Based Security on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. They could be relevant now, but x months later, your opinion has changed and you have to guess what you used to like. So my favorite author may have been Josh Grisham before, but now is Dean Koontz. (*Note: I am lying about my favorite authors here too :) *)

  9. Social Apps vs Opinion Based Security on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    When asked "What is your favorite food?" or "Who is your favorite author?", do you have to choose to either lie to the Social apps like MySpace or do you lie to your bank which uses the same questions for password reset "security"?

  10. Double Plus Ungood on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    The people who will want to read George Orwell will still read George Orwell. They may choose to do so online in Google's library. People who do not like to read at all, will still not like to read. And they may choose to not read on Google's entertainment portal for the functionally illiterate.

  11. What's Next? on Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am sure after all these years, this bacteria is either:

    A) Eager to evolve into an organism capable of having sex.

    B) Eager to start posting regularly on Slashdot.

    Yes, these options are mutually exclusive.

  12. RE: poprocks ambushed the coke tribe on A Home Lab/Shop For Kids? · · Score: 1

    While the common belief goes:
    "A long time a ago son, the poprocks ambushed the coke tribe at the Valley of the Overflowing Beaker, since then..."

    In reality, both sides fearing an ambush from the other actually retreated unknowingly into each other, thus for the first time both sides effectively ambushed each other!

    Thus began the Poprocks vs Coke animosity that lingers to this day.

    Apologies to Terry Pratchett!

  13. Re:Internet in Maine? - Wireless on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 1

    Forget plain old wired internet, you wouldn't believe their wireless capability.
    Do you have any idea how many "pringle cantenna" you can hang on a single moose?

    Don't forget, Cavemen were "all wireless" way back in the day!

  14. No Mod Up for Vague Reference on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    Don't expected to get modded up for such a vague reference. Even though the movie was quite popular, few people ever really watched it that far. Unfortunately, I actually saw the ending once, and it pretty much ruined the whole thing!

  15. Ever been attacked by a Hydra? on Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles · · Score: 1

    I had the misfortune to be attacked by a hydra:
    100% hp
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    Hydra strikes you with its head dealing massive damage!
    2% hp

    Lucky it didn't have any more heads!

  16. Summary in Laymen's terms... on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    Pardon my somewhat crude translation, but all I got from the summary is that they all agree they are full of shit, but haven't quite agreed on the definition for a toilet yet.

  17. Old Movie - Krull on Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I had this strange idea that this was one of the greatest movies of all time. Unfortunately, I completely ruined my memory of it by watching it again 15+ years after the original viewing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/

  18. Why busted? on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    If Jamie modeled his "holy communication device" after the Ark of the Covenant, he just might actually make contact.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant

    At the least, it may well be a "shocking" experience.

  19. Not if I can help it! on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    My wife is expecting our first, and possibly only, child next Tuesday! A girl!

    While I might enjoy the caveman life, modern society is not all that bad. What would life be like after a Steven King The Stand sort of plague that wiped out about 90+% of the people on the planet? Would you really want to be a survivor of that, or any other ecological disaster?

    You know, having a kid makes thinking about wild and crazy scenarios no where near as interesting.

  20. Thawteweft? on Choosing an SSL Provider? · · Score: 1

    What is this, some kind of Thawteweft? http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=145799

  21. 1-900-Nerd-Girl on D&D 4th Edition Game System License Announced · · Score: 1

    Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmRSuYIL1zc

    It will answer all your questions about D&D and girls!

  22. Speaking of furniture... on Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell · · Score: 1

    Shortly after Clinton left office, I was tempted to post for sale on E-bay, one slightly stained oval office desk. It is a nice desk, but I did a horrible job refinishing it. We all got to learn sometime.

  23. Re: Your .sig on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Genesis 1:32 And God typed :wq!

    Your .sig made me really think. Then when that hurt too much, this came to mind:

    And God thought, surely there must be a better editor than this. So He summarized some options:
    A. Intelligently design Richard Stallman so he can write Emacs.
    B. Just start a process of evolution that leads to greedy parasitic organism that like to control and manipulate everything around them. Richard Stallman should naturally evolve in opposition to such an environment.

    Perhaps God didn't want to take direct responsibility for option A, and option B gives better deniable plausibility.

  24. Political Appointment?? on Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell · · Score: 1

    What are you trying to do get a John McCain cabinet position?

  25. Jack come back... on Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic · · Score: 1

    ... come back and mod this troll down Jack!

    PS. My wife gets mad when I replay this scene and imply that Kate Winslet is actually prying his fingers up, not holding on to him.