User: scuzzlebutt

Re:Why?

On: Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist

Mod this up. +5 Informative.

Re:Earth Ejaculates?

On: Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa

More like "Earth gets its rocks off"...

Re:Sort of valid, I suppose

On: 27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple

Liar. You can't both be posting on Slashdot AND have a girlfriend.

House

On: Cancer Cured By HIV

This sounds like an episode of House. Didn't he treat cancer by infecting a patient with Malaria on a dare, or some such thing?

Re:Well...

On: Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away

Her. Zuckerberg's sister.

Re:What can you do?

On: Ask Slashdot: Geeky Volunteer Work?

FWIW, Syria is not in Africa.

Re:Why iPhone?

On: Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans

Hah! I see what you did there! :)

In Soviet Russia...

On: Vintage Soviet Space Capsule Sold For Record $2.9M

Meh. Write your own damn joke!

Re:How many people will this actually affect?

On: Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards

I smell a rat. There's no way you can both have a girlfriend AND be posting on Slashdot. :p

Re:first, nuclear waste, now, exhaust gases

On: Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars

We'll just get the convicts we'll be sending there on the one-way trip to clean up the mess...

Oh, Gee.

On: New Facebook Messaging System Announced

Where, oh, where do I sign up to have all of my private communications routed through an entity that has zero respect for my privacy?

Re:Sithspawn!

On: The Empire Strikes Back Vader Costume For Sale

I find their lack of marketing savvy disturbing.

Re:I abstain

On: Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates

What language is your Driver's License in? The deed to your house? How about your state constitution? Languages other than English are afforded as a courtesy to those who do not speak it. English is our de facto national language, like it or not...

Re:I abstain

On: Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates

"To be eligible for naturalization under section 316(a) of the INA, an applicant must ... Be able to read, write, and speak English..."

What if you're a blind, deaf mute amputee? What then?

Re:The Mythbusters have already covered this myth.

On: President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters

That's why the summary says "revisit".

Re:Thank God, but it is too late

On: Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials

Makes no sense. DSL comes into the home on the same copper pair that POTS does.

Sexual Histories?

On: JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court

I don't know about anyone else, but I can't hear the phrase "sexual histories" and "JPL" in the same breath and not think of Amy Mainzer. She's on Wikipedia.

Re:Trialling?

On: Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy

I suppose you can verb any noun you want to, if you trial hard enough.

Re:Worth watching

On: Steve Wiebe is the King of Kong Again

You didn't need fancy editing to know Billy's a douche bag. Just look at his haircut.

Re:Patch 3.43. bye bye USB.

On: Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released

I guess "will be was" is the future perfect tense of "to be".

Re:Maximum HD resolution is 720p

On: Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV

720P ought to be enough for anybody.

Re:HD screen/

On: Samsung Galaxy Tablet Coming In September

Last I looked, 480p was considered HD.

Re:you lost me at

On: Bacteria From Beer Lasts 553 Days In Space

Wikipedia is your friend, sometimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_(disambiguation)#Places

Re:in soviet china

On: China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles

Just to be pedantic, "soviet" is a Russian word meaning "council", so it doesn't apply to China.

Re:Dumb coins

On: Why the US Keeps Minting Coins People Hate

I have a feeling that we don't get rid of the dollar note because it has George Washington's face on it. We can't get rid of George!